Anna Smaill

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Anna Smaill

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Anna Smaill lives in Wellington with her husband, novelist Carl Shuker, and her daughter. She studied performance violin at Canterbury University and creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at the University of Victoria, and has a PhD in English Literature from University College London. She is the author of one book of poetry (The Violinist in Spring, VUP 2005) and her poems have been published and anthologised in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Her first novel The Chimes will be published by Sceptre in Feburary 2015.

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Touring

I am (as the kids say) doing a blog tour. Several lovely book bloggers have agreed to host me on their sites to coincide with the paperback release of The Chimes. There will be assorted reviews, articles, Q & As, and book giveaways. Please drop in and say hello, then stick around for tea and cake and book discussion.

Here are the stops for the tour,  with links:

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Published on January 21, 2016 01:19
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“But some memories are more important than others,' she says. 'Because some memories belong to more than just one other person...Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so that things can change for all of us”
Anna Smaill, The Chimes

“Deep in the drilled-in mud of the fields behind me, our bulbs are wrapped in their brittle skins with their messages of color stored inside. Blue iris, yellow crocus, tulips of all colors.”
Anna Smaill, The Chimes

“How without mercy and without blame we have all of us been. And how careless to have misplaced so much.”
Anna Smaill, The Chimes

Polls

We have had reports that The Chimes by Anna Smaill, which is set to be discussed in February is hard to get hold of for American members. Other members have requested that we have a discussion of Authority by Jeff Vandermeer as soon as possible. We want to move the Chimes out until later and Authority in sooner. Please vote to let us know how you feel about this. Write-in suggestions are enabled.

Discuss Authority in February and the Chimes in June.
 
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Move The Chimes out until later, but rearrange the schedule to have the Authority discussion later than February.
 
  1 vote, 25.0%

discuss Authority in February - not interested in The Chimes (write-in)
 
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“Its some kynd of thing it aint us but yet its in us. Its looking out thru our eye hoals. May be you dont take no noatis of it only some times. Say you get woak up suddn in the middl of the nite. 1 minim youre a sleap and the nex youre on your feet with a spear in your han. Wel it werent you put that spear in your han it wer that other thing whats looking out thru your eye hoals. It aint you nor it dont even know your name. Its in us lorn and loan and sheltering how it can.”
Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

“If it is in any case most difficult to choose a life work - since upon the choice, whether it be right or wrong, will depend the good or bad fortune of the rest of one's life - how much care and foresight must he who would enter upon this art employ before he dares to decide. For musicians and poets are born such. You must try to remember whether even in childhood you felt a strong natural inclination to this art and whether you were deeply moved by the beauty of concords”
Fux, Johann Joseph

“How without mercy and without blame we have all of us been. And how careless to have misplaced so much.”
Anna Smaill, The Chimes

“Dischord lives with us, even in the harmony of the Order. You can see the fallen buildings of Allbreaking if you look to the other side of the river. The bridge between Bankside and Paul’s shakes and stirs. The people run but never fast enough. There is no bridge between Bankside and Paul’s now, but in the streets and markets, the kids sing the old forecast, like it is still taking place, like it is always taking place. London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, my fair Lady.
Anna Smaill, The Chimes




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