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Ray's Blog: April 2011

English Grammar Explained To A Foreigner

Dear Mel, it's FP here.

I hope you had a good Easter. I know I did.

I wonder if you could please enlighten me about this thing that has been nagging me for quite some time now:

Is it "started" or "startled"?

For...

Posted at 21:15pm on 28th April 2011

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God On Mute - The Problem Of Unanswered Prayers: Mel's Online Book Club

As book club questions were included in the book, I did not compile any for my real-time reading group, who met last week.

A book on unanswered prayer is never going to be an exhilarating read, but God On Mute, by Pete Greig, surpassed expectation for all but two of...

Posted at 14:31pm on 17th April 2011

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Rights

I have just read a report in The Guardian newspaper which In 1993 I was commissioned by Hodder & Stoughton to write the posthumous story of a man named Phil Godfrey. Phil had been a research scientist in Geneva, where I went to meet his widow, an American whom he'd...

Posted at 08:07am on 12th April 2011

A Painful Post Mortem: Review

No matter how long you've been an author, nor how many books you've written and had published, it is always very humbling to receive a positive review of your work from someone who is a stranger to you. The process of creative writing opens you up in a manner which...

Posted at 22:32pm on 4th April 2011