{"id":4763,"date":"2016-04-30T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T12:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2016-12-16T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:58:44","slug":"miscellaneous-memoranda-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/miscellaneous-memoranda-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Memoranda"},"content":{"rendered":"

–<\/strong> Rivers of London<\/a><\/em> fans, here\u2019s a good interview with Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> at Radio National (although, beware, it contains big plot spoilers for the whole series). Also at Radio National, there\u2019s an interview with Leanne Hall<\/a> about Iris and the Tiger<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> I liked this article<\/a> about Mary Gernat\u2019s lovely cover art for the 1960s editions of the Famous Five<\/em> books \u2013 the artist used her four sons and the family dog, Patch, as models for her sketches and watercolours.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Here\u2019s an interesting attempt<\/a> to sort into Hogwarts Houses by asking two questions: Are you governed by morality or ethics, and do you derive satisfaction from internal or external validation? (As always, I get thrown straight into Ravenclaw.)<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> A recent BBC poll of non-British critics about the greatest British novels of all time<\/a> came up with a list in which women writers dominated<\/a> the top ten and made up half of the top fifty. As I\u2019d only read fifty-five of the books, I\u2019ve added a few titles to my To Read list, although I think I can live quite happily without Lucky Jim<\/em> and the two listed D H Lawrence novels.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> I feel I\u2019ve read a few too many of these type of novels<\/a> lately (\u201cI\u2019m going to write a story about a character who feels the way I<\/strong> feel! Middle class, educated, with seemingly every advantage, but who still feels aimless and dissatisfied \u2026 Someone with my<\/strong> lived experience will be able to shine a penetrating dramatic light on the problems that arise when you don\u2019t really have other problems.\u201d)<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> In happier news, the new(ish) Australian children\u2019s laureate<\/a> is Leigh Hobbs, and hooray, he has a new Mr Chicken book out \u2013 Mr Chicken Lands on London<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n

–<\/em> If you happen to be in London (with Mr Chicken) and are worried about air quality \u2013 fear not, the Pigeon Air Patrol<\/a> is on the case. The pigeons, equipped with tiny backpacks, measure nitrogen dioxide, ozone and other volatile compounds and send the results to Plume Labs for analysis. Londoners can request a reading for their particular location (by sending a tweet, of course). The patrol team includes \u201cCoco, the \u2018maverick\u2019, Julius, the \u2018hipster\u2019, and Norbert \u2014 the \u2018intellectual\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Finally, in important cephalopod news, a previously unknown species<\/a> of milky-white octopus has been spotted four kilometres below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The octopus is currently nicknamed \u2018Caspar the Friendly Ghost\u2019. It joins another a new species, a tiny orange octopus<\/a> discovered last year that scientists would like to name Opisthoteuthis adorabilis<\/em> because it is just so adorable<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Rivers of London fans, here\u2019s a good interview with Ben Aaronovitch at Radio National (although, beware, it contains big plot spoilers for the whole series). Also at Radio National, there\u2019s an interview with Leanne Hall about Iris and the Tiger. – I liked this article about Mary Gernat\u2019s lovely cover art for the 1960s … Continue reading Miscellaneous Memoranda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,20],"tags":[23,26,41,42],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-books","category-science","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-enid-blyton","tag-leanne-hall","tag-leigh-hobbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}