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Dead Winter's Night (Formally Bright Eyes)
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On one of my Anne McCaffrey books, I noticed a price hike for New Zealand and Australia on the pricing - it was published in 1989, so it has 1989 prices on it - in the UK, it was £3.99, in New Zealand, it was $14.99, and in Australia it was $10.99. It was a paperback. So it made me curious to see what the exchange rate is now and looking on a New Zealand website, paperbacks are $28 - $36, hardbacks are a whopping $65
Pern looks like two maps of Mars joined together, with one turned upside down.
I'm enjoying reading Echoes of the Runes. It's not your regular romance story since there is a lot of archeology in it (but not too much description for people who don't know much about the field.) If I didn't have a load of other books lined up already, I would read the others in the series. I'll probably read the rest when I have a slow down with other
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cdje9nz7ll1o - We are getting closer and closer to Simon R. Green's Deathstalker universe.
One thing I have noticed with art (and this is from the perspective of someone who hasn't gone through art college/university, etc) is that your drawing 'style' becomes fixed and you can't change it easily. I have always wanted to draw animals, plants, mushrooms, and landscapes in the same way you find in traditional natural history and scientific illustration books but can't. I put inverted commas around the word -
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bright-eyes
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'style' because to not use them implies something that you choose and I find it's not.
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For Inktober, I was going to work my way through some animals again, but I came across this prompt list on youtube - https://www.instagram.com/mabgraves?igsh=azdmcHpxYWNsamd1 , so I'll be doing that one instead. I've been wanting to do a spooky/Halloween themed challenge for some time, so this will do. I'm using
bright-eyes
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an old sketchbook which I bought back in 2014, but never actually drew in it. The paper is not that brilliant, so I'm going to be using pencil, graphite and charcoal on it (I don't tend to use those as I prefer colour drawings.) I also have some grey scale brush makers, some cheap fine-liners and some old pens from Scrawlrbox from a couple of years ago that I want to use up. (I'm sure that the scrawlrbox markers are
I was hoping that the new James Butcher book would be coming out next month so that it could be my 'Halloween' read, but it won't be out until March next year... (No idea why), so I might read The Wolf's Hour instead, but there are some books from the library that are on my reading list that I need to get through, so we'll see.
bright-eyes
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I did read The Wolf's hour in the early 2000's (2004 - 2005 ish) but I've long since forgotten most of the book. The only thing I remember about it was that female werewolves sometimes lose their babies when they change and that the main character was fighting the Nazi's, but it was a good book for the time and it was published before the urban fantasy boom of the mid 2000's.
I've just finished The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison. A lovely book that's quite different to the usual fantasy that I read. I'm hoping to get the next book in the series, soon.
and bear in mind, these are fiction books, not academic textbooks. The exchange rate is currently $2.11 to every £1, so a New Zealander is paying three times the cost that a book does here.