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Heather Mallick
Canadian author
and journalist

Doris Lessing’s
2007 Nobel Speech 

“In Defence of Books”
I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in 1956, there was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all now destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires.
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heathers_blog.gifI can’t say how often I will post here. There are times when I have nothing to say, and times when I have so much to say that it would be unwise. Please tell me if there are subjects that it would interest you to read about, or books you think I should read and review.

 

An English death
It still doesn't seem possible that Alan Coren, one of the writers I most admired all my adult life, is dead.  For one thing, he was a humorist and when they die ... that's not funny.
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Let's get started
For all that I write for a living, the idea of writing on my own website without an editor is strange. And yes, this is a website, not a blog. I love the blogosphere which is why I won’t enter it.
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