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MELANIE ROUSSEL FICTION
Melanie Roussel
Oct 104 min read
Iago and other manipulative bastards
How can you tell if your favourite character is, in fact, a manipulative bastard?
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Melanie Roussel
Jul 92 min read
My quest to read all of Agatha Christie
A while ago, I decided I was going to read all of Christie’s works. I knew I already read the vast majority of them done - or so I thought.
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Melanie Roussel
Jun 162 min read
Are you engaging in Tsundoku?
I can only speak for myself, but I know that I've never bought a book I hadn't intended to read.
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Melanie Roussel
Dec 1, 20235 min read
Watsons
I recently finished reading The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah. If you don't know, this is Sophie Hannah taking on the continuation...
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Melanie Roussel
Sep 21, 20223 min read
Rules are fun! Rules help CONTROL the fun.
The phrase ‘writing rules’ is pretty broad. Advice is welcomed. Directives are troublesome.
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Melanie Roussel
Feb 19, 20213 min read
Review: We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
This is a book I've put off reading for a long time. In fact, I saw the movie with Tilda Swinton before I was brave enough to read the...
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Melanie Roussel
Oct 5, 20204 min read
The First Ghost Story
This is an ancient mould for ghost stories future writers will use for many and various hauntings.
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Melanie Roussel
Aug 28, 20205 min read
The Mentor
We likely get the narrative concept of the mentor from the Greek mythological character called, surprise surprise, Mentor.
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Melanie Roussel
Jun 19, 20203 min read
Review: Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf
If you’re like me, your first experience with this story was with the 1988 Disney adaption Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Melanie Roussel
Jun 15, 20204 min read
Creating Your Own Villain
It’s difficult to say where this trope originated from, given, as far as I can see, it’s been part of Western culture since literature began
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Melanie Roussel
May 31, 20203 min read
Weird and Wonderful Discworld Characters - Honourable Mentions
There are well over 1100 named characters in the Discworld series, far more than I ever have a hope of covering in a month-long series.
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Melanie Roussel
May 30, 20204 min read
Cheery Littlebottom - Forensic Alchemist & Openly Female Dwarf
Cheery is a dwarf from Überwald (basically the Discworld's version of Transylvania) who moves to Ankh-Morpork as many dwarfs to.
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Melanie Roussel
May 29, 20203 min read
Sea Dragon Radio Hoax
Mothra, Gamera, Godzilla and giant ants, these constantly rampaging kaijū seemingly never give Toyoko a break.
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Melanie Roussel
May 25, 20205 min read
Moist von Lipwig - Forger, Con-Artist, Postmaster General
If you're interested in character alignments, Moist is perhaps the best example of a Chaotic Natural character.
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Melanie Roussel
May 22, 20203 min read
The Librarian - Ook
Being a librarian isn't an easy job by any means. But in the Discworld, it can be lethal.
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Melanie Roussel
May 18, 20204 min read
Susan Sto Helit - Death's Granddaughter, a Goth Mary Poppins
Susan Sto Helit is the granddaughter of Death. She's the child of Mort (Death's apprentice) and Ysabell (Death's adopted daughter).
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Melanie Roussel
May 15, 20204 min read
Detritus - Husband, Father Watchman & Troll
I fervently believe, Detritus - my favourite Troll of the Discworld - has the the most transformational arc of the series.
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Melanie Roussel
May 13, 20204 min read
Dee - a villain that I wish could be redeemed
By the way, if any of you are thinking - hang on, this sounds very much like the real-world issue of X, Y or Z then, yeah
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Melanie Roussel
May 11, 20204 min read
Lord Havelock Vetinari - Patrician of Ankh-Morpork
When all is said and done, there is a lot about Vetinari that seems scarily inhuman (in a good way).
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Melanie Roussel
May 8, 20204 min read
Death - CATS ARE NICE
IT IS THE THINGS YOU BELIEVE WHICH MAKE YOU HUMAN. GOOD THINGS AND BAD THINGS, IT’S ALL THE SAME. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett When one...
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