{"id":6056,"date":"2020-09-26T01:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2020-09-26T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:00:14","slug":"memoranda-turns-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/memoranda-turns-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Memoranda Turns Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today, I started this blog with a post about how I learned to hate poetry<\/a>. Three hundred and twenty-one posts and about two hundred thousand words later, here I am, still blogging, although far less frequently than at the start. <\/p>\n

Here’s a selection of Memoranda posts from the past decade. <\/p>\n

\"'Friday's<\/p>\n

First, ten discussions about children\u2019s books<\/strong>, in no particular order:<\/p>\n

Swallows and Amazons<\/em> by Arthur Ransome<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s Tunnel<\/em> by John Verney<\/a><\/p>\n

Howl\u2019s Moving Castle<\/em> by Diana Wynne Jones<\/a><\/p>\n

Saffy\u2019s Angel<\/em> by Hilary McKay<\/a><\/p>\n

Autumn Term<\/em> by Antonia Forest<\/a><\/p>\n

The Years of Grace<\/em><\/a> and Growing Up Gracefully<\/em><\/a> by Noel Streatfeild<\/p>\n

Peter\u2019s Room<\/em> by Antonia Forest<\/a><\/p>\n

Emil and the Detectives<\/em> by Erich K\u00e4stner<\/a><\/p>\n

End of Term<\/em> by Antonia Forest<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

And ten discussions about favourite novels and novelists<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The Cazalet Chronicles<\/em> by Elizabeth Jane Howard<\/a><\/p>\n

Anne Tyler And Her Novels<\/a><\/p>\n

Cold Comfort Farm<\/em> by Stella Gibbons<\/a><\/p>\n

The Mapp and Lucia Novels by E. F. Benson<\/a><\/p>\n

The Leopard<\/em> by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa<\/a><\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve Been Reading: Muriel Spark<\/a><\/p>\n

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead<\/em> by Paula Byrne<\/a><\/p>\n

Careful, He Might Hear You<\/em> by Sumner Locke Elliott<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith<\/em> by Valerie Grove<\/a><\/p>\n

Love in a Cold Climate<\/em> by Nancy Mitford<\/a> and Meet the Mitfords<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Here are ten posts about writing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

How To Write a Novel<\/a>, about writing advice<\/p>\n

Same Book, But Different<\/a>, on editing books for different countries<\/p>\n

Book Banned, Author Bemused<\/a> – my book got banned in the US!<\/p>\n

Five Ways in Which Writing a Novel is Like Making a Quilt<\/a><\/p>\n

Writing About Place<\/a><\/p>\n

The Creative Vision Versus the Marketing Department<\/a><\/p>\n

Goatbusters, or How The Writerly Mind Works<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u2018Aha!\u2019 Moment and Three Things That Didn\u2019t Happen In The Montmaray Journals<\/a><\/p>\n

Adventures in Self-Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n

Mrs Hawkins Provides Some Advice For Writers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"William-Adolphe<\/p>\n

And ten rants about book-related topics<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Just a Girls\u2019 Book<\/a>, followed by Just A Girls\u2019 Book, Redux<\/a> and Girls and Boys and Books, Yet Again<\/a><\/p>\n

That Gay YA Thing<\/a><\/p>\n

Some Thoughts On Reading<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking for a Good, Clean Book<\/a><\/p>\n

I Hate Your Characters, So Your Book Stinks<\/a><\/p>\n

Regarding Internet Piracy<\/a><\/p>\n

ARCs<\/a><\/p>\n

A Public Service Announcement: Smoking Is Bad For You<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to another ten years of Memoranda. Hopefully I\u2019ll be blogging a bit more from now on, because I\u2019ve just deleted my Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today, I started this blog with a post about how I learned to hate poetry. Three hundred and twenty-one posts and about two hundred thousand words later, here I am, still blogging, although far less frequently than at the start. Here’s a selection of Memoranda posts from the past decade. First, ten … Continue reading Memoranda Turns Ten<\/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":[6,18,17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-my-favourite-books","category-rant","category-this-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056","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=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}