![]() ![]() ![]() Hooray for Fish! – Shipwrecked Play activity Plus I always get a kiss from her at the end of the story – but you’ll have to read it yourself to find out why! M loves looking at the pictures and pointing out her favourites. My favourite thing about this book is how beautifully illustrated it is. Hooray for Fish!* follows Little Fish as he swims through the sea, encountering his many and varied fishy friends along the way, until he finds his best friend of all. I’ve also got a rather exciting giveaway to go with it, too! Hooray for Fish! – What’s the Story? ![]() This week, I’ve chosen Hooray for Fish! by Lucy Cousins. Welcome to Pondering Playtime, my new fortnightly series where I share a favourite picture book and a craft or play activity to go with it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sometimes you discover a new author and know you’re going to be friends for life. Empty cadences of sea-water licking it’s own wounds,sulking along the mouths of the delta, boiling upon those deserted beaches– empty under the gulls: white scribble on the grey, munched by clouds." - Lawrence Durrell, Justine It’s dim momentum in the mind is the fugue upon which this writing is made. “In the great quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea. The time Lawrence spent with his family, mother Louisa, siblings Leslie, Margaret Durrell, and Gerald Durrell, on the island of Corfu were the subject of Gerald's memoirs and have been filmed numerous times for TV. Durrell corresponded with author Henry Miller for forty-five years, and Miller influenced much of his early work, including a provocative and controversial novel, The Black Book (1938). He also penned the celebrated travel memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. A passionate and dedicated writer from an early age, Durrell’s prolific career also included the groundbreaking Avignon Quintet, whose first novel, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and whose third novel, Constance (1982), was nominated for the Booker Prize. Lawrence George Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for The Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() Think of them like apartment buildings the size of a small city. (Some of these terms may be inaccurate since we all picture something different in all of our heads, so let me know if you find anything.)Īrcology / Geodesic / Fuller Dome: HUMUNGOUS geodesic domes in the middle of cities that contain small societies and ecosystems that are entirely self-sufficient and can survive without any interaction with the outside world (they grow their own food, generate their own power, and produces their own water). There may be some terms from the later books in the Sprawl Trilogy as well, but it never hurts to know those too. If you’d rather just get into Neuromancer or finished the short stories and still don’t understand some of the vocabulary, here’s a list of everything I can think of that’s relative to Neuromancer. This is a little of William Gibson’s style, but this is also due to the fact that he wrote three short stories set earlier in the timeline that had already defined some of the terms (Johnny Mnemonic, Burning Chrome, and New Rose Hotel). ![]() ![]() Neuromancer can be a bit of a shock to new readers, the amount of words it suddenly throws at you without any explanation whatsoever or enough context to work out what they mean. ![]() |