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Hi Everyone and Happy New Year to you all! I’m thrilled to have just discovered another 5★★★★★ review for Falcon Boy and Bewilder Bird versus Dr Don’t Know in a Battle for all the Life of all the Planets has just been posted on Amazon and thought I would share it with you. The book is currently FREE to download in all digital formats at Amazon and Smashwords so why not pop along and see what all the fuss is about?As we all know only too well, positive feedback is such an amazing thing to receive so many many thanks need to go to Marie O Neill Maher for her very kindly reading and then reviewing Falcon Boy and Bewilder Bird versus Dr Don’t Know in a Battle for all the Life of all the Planets.
★★★★★ A wonderful book for both children and adults
This book is beautifully written. It’s highly imaginative and richly descriptive. It takes children and adults on a wild and exciting literary adventure, inviting the reader to insert some ideas along the way. Falcon Boy even displays a little existential angst; is he a hero or simply no-one at all? The book is humorous and clever, drawing on modern day societal and corporate issues. In addition to finding the book funny and interesting, I found the book poignant and touching. You desperately root for Falcon Boy and his companions to vanquish Dr Don’t Know and the Troublebots (the Troublebots are shoddy and angry) so that we may find answers to some of the big questions as opposed to a scenario where for example one would have to lodge a ticket to a giant help desk where the answer to the question is invariably don’t know. Brilliant! I think that we can all identify with some of the messages of this book. People with the least amount of knowledge often have the most power and authority. They thwart access to knowledge and the answers to questions. Falcon Boy (who is a hero) dares to take them on. This is an uplifting book. I highly recommend it.
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Many thanks to everyone for the year of follows, reads, shares, likes, kind words and greetings from all around the world.
Happy New Year and may 2016 be everything you all want it to be and much much more!
Athbhliain Shona agus tá súil agam go bhfuil 2016 gach mian leat é a bheith agus níos mó!
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When we are confronted by an insect, our natural reaction is to use our hands to wipe and swipe and flick and push away and squash the thing annoying you. Or hit it with a rolled-up newspaper. At the very least we would wave something in a bid to get the insect to go and bother someone else.
A single fly, perhaps?
A cloud of midges?
An ant in your lunchbox?
A wasp attracted to your fizzy drink?
A descending ocean of cockroaches?
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Bara Cailín Chapter 4
Advanced Examination Paper
Instructions for Candidates
Write your answers to the following questions in the space provided.
All questions carry equal marks.
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What would it feel like to have a billion billion cockroaches the size of pebbles fall from the ceiling of a cave beneath a mountain and land upon your head?
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What would it sound like?
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How would you feel if it happened to you?
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Where are the words?
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Click. Spark. Glow. Blow. Blow. Glow. Dark. Click. Spark. Glow. Blow. Again. Gentle. Glow. Dark. Click. Spark. Glow. Blow. Longer. Still gentle. Glow. Blow. Longer still. Blow. Glow. Dark. Click. Spark. Glow. Blow. Gentle. Glow. Blow. Glow. Blow. Flame. Blow. Flame. Blow. Longer. Gentle. Flame. Flames. Red. Glow. Blow. Smile. Blow. Flame. Catch. Spread. Blow. Spread. Red. Light. Glow. Flame. Lick. Curl. Light. More light. Red. Orange. Crack. Smoke. Spread. Lick. Curl. Red. Orange.
Fire.
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Picture the version of this story that is the film and here the editor cuts from an extreme close shot of the flint’s flicker to an impossible wide shot of the space as the camera is held high on high and looking down as if from a celestial point of view.
There is no next cut and this wide shot remains in place. We begin to read the darkness as an apocalyptic one, ceremental in the way in which it covers everything with its cling from the grave.
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We
have all panicked. All of us. Trying to stay calm. Collected. Unaffected. Trying not to let something bother us. But the bothersome normally beats us. And begins to transform the rhythm of our lives and as we fail to stay calm everything about our experience begins to accelerate and what we thought was once sensible and normal now becomes none of these things and our breaths get shorter and we find that thing take longer and we try harder and they take longer again and the more we try the more we don’t succeed and the more we don’t succeed the faster the feeling of panic fills up and begins to overflow now spilling into our ears and making it to hard to hear and our eyes and we struggle to focus and our mouths and we find breathing hard and our limbs so the light becomes heavy becomes impossible and our finely boned and jointed hands and feet and legs eventually behave like the many splintered branches on
a tiny broken tree.
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The Four of TheFive now appears to the world as a new symbol simultaneously added to every language in the world both lost and known spoken and no longer heard the strikethrough lemniscate signalling not-only-infinity-but-final-end-to-come-also as represented here
and also deliberately ensuring that every sentence ever typed on every screen of every shape and size across the globe from now on is struck through as both a default matter of course and bothersome nuisance as well as a cruel and wearying commentary on the encroaching erasure of civilisation itself.#kidlit #scifi #horror #mystery Bara Cailín – Daily adventures published at http://t.co/KxyB9BNVIN TRAILER https://t.co/79PM3B1STT
— Barnaby Taylor (@BTDublin2012) September 13, 2015
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