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estara ([personal profile] estara) wrote2012-02-09 09:17 pm

Code Name Verity - LinksUpdate 2

A shout-out to all the people I'd been trying (by leaving mysterious hints about female friendship, female pilot in WWII and lots of tissues needed) to convince to eventually read Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity - on a thread of Rachel Manija's, I remember, and wherever else...

Code Name Verity

And may I just give you a further impulse to buy it - especially if you want to know my real life name ^^ - Elizabeth Wein was kind enough to mention my checking her German in the Afterword of the book (and very graciously overlooked the ages it took me to nerve myself up to read a book where Nazi Gestapo tortures one of the heroines: I'm very grateful that they weren't turned into caricature monsters, but remained humans - having made/making some very bad choices and perpetrating horrors onto others).
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2012-02-10 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been famous since last year ^^ - just not with my real life name!

Sartorias was kind enough to give a shout-out to Estara Swanberg in her Acknowledgements for the second Dobrenica novel Blood Spirits (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11949708-blood-spirits) - also a very good book!! ^^

I should make a career out of giving feedback on German for genre writers ^^ - it gives me a lot of satisfaction that is sometimes difficult to get as a teacher (yes, today was one of THOSE days...).

K names are good names, indeed!

[identity profile] salimbol.livejournal.com 2012-02-12 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
That's so very cool! You're providing an invaluable service to writers, and giving yourself a bit of excitement to tide you over the lower points in everyday life (commiserations for one of THOSE days :-).
BTW, my "K name" in real life is Kylie - I don't think I've mentioned that on LJ very often. (A very popular name in NZ and Australia!)
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2012-02-12 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
No, you're right I don't think I knew that. Having lived in the UK in 1988/89 I associate Kylie with Kylie Minogue from Neighbours (and just starting out with Stock/Aitken & Waterman doing the "Locomotion" and "I should be so lucky") *grins*

She certainly managed to become a cult idol though. Do you get lots of Kylie Minogue associations or is it a very everyday name over in NZ?

[identity profile] salimbol.livejournal.com 2012-02-13 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, good old Kylie Minogue - I think the name was most popular in the Antipodes in the 60s and 70s, so there are lots and lots of us out there (she's the most famous, of course). There are four other Kylies in the place where I work!