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Saturday Night Fever – Jonathan K Benton
I always have good intentions surrounding my blog. Big ideas. Global peace and the betterment of humankind. Then Saturday rocks around and I’m staring at an empty page. Thank goodness for Saturday night television and the plethora of movies that …
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Tagged fantasy, Jonathan K Benton, young adult
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And some people with whom I shared the theatre
I saw the latest instalment of Captain America on Easter Friday and boy did I love it. He’s not the most powerful superhero in the Marvel universe but he’s one of the coolest – in a geeky kind of way. …
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Queensland’s largest newspaper The Courier-Mail reviews A Wicked Kind of Dark
I truly love it here in Queensland. The support given to me by the people of this justifiably proud and beautiful State has been overwhelming. Councillor for the Deagon Ward, the amazing Victoria Newton, read and recommended A Wicked …
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A Wicked Kind of Dark – what is literary fantasy? Jonathan K Benton
I think the best explanation I’ve found for the genre in which my writing sits goes something like this: Books that are written to entertain with words as much as plot. Books like Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Christopher …
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Top Ten Reasons I Write: It’s all about the books!
1) The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings was always going to be on this list. However, why number one? The writing is not as rich as Something Wicked this Way Comes, and not as clever (in …
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Jonathan K Benton – On books
Life is chaotic, which is not a bad thing. It just means there are infinite possibilities, lots of potential. It also means don’t ever give up. There might be something incredible waiting for you centimetres (or inches) down your timeline. …
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Jonathan K Benton – Ranking Movies
Time wasters: these films owe us all an apology. The only good thing about time wasters, is that they are utterly forgettable. They fill up the empty spaces in DVD stores, preying on the indecisive (and occasionally adventurous) consumer. …
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