As a small extra offering for today, you can find the ramblings of a proud mother here. (They never shut up.)
Tiresome, I know. But I can, so I did.
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- Pure Debi Gliori Magic – ‘Thank heavens I can draw’
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- Ruta Sepetys – ‘I pretty much killed everyone’
- Sally Gardner – ‘down the U-bend of history’
- Sara Paretsky – “Head first in hot fudge sauce”
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- Tim Bowler – ‘I’m very lucky indeed’
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Wow. I missed this post and am VERY impressed. VERY.
It sort of makes up for being addressed in English for the first seven years.