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Happy Blogging Birthday, Lily Wight!

Posted in Writing, tagged 2014, All News, Arts, Award-winning, Birthday, Blog, Cake, Culture, Entertainment, humor, Humour, Inspiration, Life, Lily Wight, Patrick Valenza, Top Stories, Writers, Writing on February 28, 2014| 8 Comments »

Lily Wight

Updated 28/02/2014

Would you believe that Lily Wight ~ The Arcade of Arts & Arcana is two years old today or 2,344 comments, 411 posts and over 10,500 subscribers old today!

If you are already a blog author or reader, or you are thinking about becoming one, a glance below – at this site’s very first technophobic and mildly apologetic post – will prove that award-winning, international blogs can evolve from humble origins and perseverance to recommendations by best-selling authors.

Would you like to re-share the moment you lost your blog virginity? Lily Wight will show you hers if you show her yours 😉

“Virgin Blogger

Dear Blogsprites,

I always thought that keyboards were for making music and that hard-drives were arduous road-trips.

As soon as I…

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Where The Wild Things Are ~ Movies You Might Have Missed

Posted in Movies, Movies You Might Have Missed, tagged Arts, books, Fantasy, Fiction, film, Literature, Maurice Sendak, Movies, Spike Jonze, trailers, Watch & Listen, Where The Wild Things Are on February 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Let the wild rumpus start!

Click for more recommended MOVIES YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 🙂

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Make Your Blog Posts Go Further

Posted in Writing, tagged Bigger Audience, Blog, Facebook, Marketing, media, More Readers, Networking, Share Your Articles, Share Your Posts, WordPress, Writers, Writing on February 20, 2014| 2 Comments »

WordPress bloggers can head over to Facebook and join the following groups to share their posts with a wider audience. Just click the pics to start…

Share Your Blog Group

WordPress Co-Bloggers Group

Share Your Articles Group

Happy sharing 🙂

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Lego Shakespeare

Posted in Books, Lego, tagged Art, Arts, Culture, Drama, History, Lego, Literature, Poetry, The Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare on February 18, 2014| 6 Comments »

When two great cultural icons collide…

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Amazing Lego Picks Every Month!!! Click To See Them All.

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Dirty Nails (2013) ~ Dangers of Air Weapons Short Film

Posted in Hull: City of Culture, Videos, tagged City of Culture, Crime, Dirty Nails, Education, Gun Crime, Hull, Life, Local, media, National, News, Short Film, South Yorkshire Police, video, Videos, Watch & Listen on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Directed by Paul Leeson Taylor in association with FLUXOne20 for South Yorkshire Police, UK. Featuring young actors from Hull, City of Culture 2017.

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Pirates Of Page & Sky

Posted in Books, Reviews, tagged 2014, Arts, books, Chris Wooding, Fiction, Pirates, Retribution Falls, Review, Reviews, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, Tales of The Ketty Jay, Writers, Writing on February 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Updated 11/02/2014

A recent quest to the local library led to this booty; Retribution Falls: Tales of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding. Space Piracy is a darned tricky genre to master. Get it right and you have Han Solo and the Falcon, get it wrong and it’s Disney’s Treasure Planet all over again.

Wooding succeeds in delivering an entertaining, if simple and linear romp with some excellent characters. Captain Frey owes much to Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow and his ship and crew will be familiar to fans of Joss Whedon’s Firefly.

The Science Fiction and Steampunk elements are sketchy and rather ill-conceived. Airships and the odd cyber-limb do not make a fully realised Secondary World.

The Fantasy elements are better integrated and more intriguing with Wooding doing a fine job of…

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Shocked Owl ~ Gratuitous Gif Of The Month

Posted in Gifs, tagged cute, Fluffy, gif, gifs, Hedwig, humor, Humour, Nature, Owl, Owls, Shocked, Snowy Owl, Surprised, video, Videos on February 8, 2014| 4 Comments »

The perfect response for just about everything…

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The Tarot According To Kate Mosse

Posted in Books, Reviews, Tarot, tagged 2014, Arts, books, Dan Brown, Fiction, History, Kate Mosse, Labyrinth, Review, Reviews, Sepulchre, Writers, Writing on February 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Updated 06/02/2014

Kate Mosse’s début novel, Labyrinth was much-loved and promoted by Richard and Judy’s TV book club allowing Mosse to swiftly and decisively establish herself as the female answer to blockbusting airport favourite Dan Brown.

Sepulchre, Mosse’s second standalone novel, combines folklore and history to weave a simple yet compelling treasure-hunt mystery with Tarot magic and the lush French countryside thrown in for good measure.

As with Labyrinth the past and present intertwine around the comparable adventures of two female protagonists but the Nineteenth Century heroine easily trumps her modern-day counterpart whilst secondary characters are frustratingly underwritten for a novel with such a hefty word count.

It is Mosse’s descriptive and lyrical prose which prevents accusations of peddling pulp and Sepulchre stays the right side of sentiment; emerging as the thinking woman’s…

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