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The Scottish Novel – book launch & seminar
5 Sept, Edinburgh – free, ticketed

Are novelists from Scotland merely contributors to English literature, or is there a separate & distinctive tradition of the Scottish novel?

This seminar presents papers by contributors to The International Companion to the Scottish Novel (ed. Cairns Craig) with a focus on literature from the 20th & 21st centuries.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scottish-novel-tickets-1541851020909

#Scottish #literature #novel #novels

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I AM ready for words (b*tch)! So I'm taking suggestions for book book books 😂

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Message by Lord Penis:
Two pictures of Dune by Frank Herbert and a message saying, You assholes didn’t tell me this is like a book book
Reply by your fantasy dad;
hope you like words bitch

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64d

Sure, but does anyone start reading the classics? Reading on any level should be encouraged 😊

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Post by @MATCHAURA
‘reading classics doesn’t make you any better than wattpad readers’ okay it does a little come on now

Reply by @l_ou_r_de s
As a society, we need to stop pretending that YA is a decent genre when it's the literary equivalent of a marvel movie.

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42d

Luckily Bert is right, you don't HAVE to read Dostoyevsky 😂 But you can if you want 😊

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Picture of a blackboard sign with colourful chalk writing:
Bert's Books
Don't cry for me Dostoyevsky
The truth is I never read you
All through your chapters
Your epic fiction
You kept on writing
I kept my distance

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66d

What does Balrog taste like? Inquiring minds need to know... 😁
Also, are the Elves an allegory for the diffrent ages of Brittish royalty? 🤔

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Elves in Tolkien's legendarium
From THE HOBBIT:
-Wine from warm lands
-Fire-roasted meat
-Likes dancing in the meadows and making flower wreaths
-Spends time singing and feasting
THE LORD OF THE RINGS:
-Minwvor, Lembas (mysterious and magical elven food)
-Ages-old wisdom in the eyes
-Totally mysterious
THE SILMARILLION:
-Blood of the slain kin
-Flesh of a Balrog killed with bare hands
-Starts each day with new war
-Covered in scars from fighting and being tortured by Orcs
-Killed at least 10 family members

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88d

We NEED more sci-fi like Firefly in the shelves... 😁 If you have recommendations I'm looking 😊

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Caption: I was excited until I realized these are three separate categories.
A Picture of a library sign:
INSPIRATIONAL
SCIENCE FICTION
WESTERNS
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86d

Ham-fisted construction is my favourite 😂

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abridged fairy tales by John Atkinson, Wrong Hands
Goldilocks: Home invader has ceral, breaks stuff, then falls asleep.
Hansel and Gretel: Some kids eat an old lady's house. Also cannibalism.
Beauty and the beast: Stockholm syndrome girl falls for ugly guy. Except he isn't.
Princess and the pea: Mattresses piled on a vegetable determine fitness to govern.
Cinderella: Wardrobe malfunction prompts strange footwear mating ritual.
Three little pigs: Ham-fisted construction keeps wolf at the door.

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74d

If a book hasn't been banned somewhere is it even worth reading? 🤔😁

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Picutre of a bookshelf with a sign saying,
Banned Books: Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
-Isaac Asimov
The shelf features books and has signs explaining what each one was banned for.

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68d

Instead we're still busy exploring the depths of human cruelty... 😒

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Post by ghostdrama

I love old science fiction because it's all like “IT'S THE DISTANT YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND THREE AND MAN IS EXPLORING THE DEEP CORNERS OF THE UNIVERSE" like god bless you old sci-fi you had such high hopes for us...

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62d

I'm going to request having all books featruing humans banned, on the grounds that humans are boring 😜😂

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A cartoon of three dogs at a library desk looking expectant as the librarian speaks to them saying, "The library rejected your request to ban all books on cats and squirrels. But, to be fair, it was no dumber than all the other book ban requests we get."

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80d

Mostly, I avoid people, but yes 😂

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Cartoon of a sleepy owl, with a bg book under one wing, a cup of something hot in the other, and wearing a nightcap.
Caption:
That's what I do, I read books, I avoid people, and I known things.

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15d

Maps are great, but this is greaterest 😊

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Picture of a book where the map folds out so at to stay on the side of the text while you read.
Captioned: Every book should have its maps set up like this...

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56d

Traffic makes beasts of us all, but that's too far, way too far 😂

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Post by lindsey

I hope the guy who just cut me off in traffic has his fav book made into a movie & the characters are nothing like he imagined them.

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52d

That's my favorite part of the holidays! 😂

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Post by Fran
Two paintings of women in nice dresses reading books.
Caption: My favourite category of painting is “portrait of an introvert who snuck out of the party she was forced to attend to go read in a quiet room somewhere” also known as me every holiday season.

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27d

Nonspecific editions > Specific editions 😂

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Nonspecific Editions by John Atkinson, Wrong Hands
Some Musketeers, Dumas
Roughly The Mid Nineteen Eighties, Orwell
An Unsightly Property on the Yorkshire Moons, Bronte
The Approximate temperature Paper Catches Fire, Bradbury
Around the World Eventualy, Verne
One of the Henrys, Shakespeare

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48d

This is the kind of math we like around here 😜

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Picture if a pink sign standing on a table covered in books saying,
BOOK MATH:
Buying the series means you really only bought one book.

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44d

Story structure can be good, it can also make it painfully obvious. Personally I prefer not being able to guess the ending after the first chapter... 🤔😁

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One panel comic by Tom Gauld showing a tall man and a short elf walking over a mountain.
The elf reading a book says, "We've had our "inciting incident" and we're on the "journey" so it seems like we'll be having a "crisis" any minute now..."
The man looking annoyed replies, "This quest was a lot more fun before you got that book on story structure."

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6d

All good choices, but one is clearly better than the others 😁

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I could write that, but it would be called:
"Suck it, I do what I want! And other stories about the time I f*cked around and found out." 😜😂
An instant peguin classic!

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Picture of a satirical penguin classic:
PENGUIN BOOKS
Suck It: A Defense of my Life Choices
J. M. Howard
COMPLETE UNABRIDGED

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