
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Book Alert: 壁のなかの時計
File under:
books - publishing (jp),
house with a clock in its walls

Monday, January 29, 2001
There, Then, That Izard!
Donna recently shared this bit of trivia with us after stumbling upon a particular – and most peculiar – name:
I had assumed that Bellairs had invented the name Izard for his villains Isaac and Serena in The House with a Clock in its Walls, but today I ran across the name Izzard in The Guinness Book of Names by Leslie Dunkling (6th edition). It's in the chapter on the history of surnames, under the section "Henry Guppy's 'Peculiar' Names" [118-21].
Here's Dunkling's explanation:
Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Saturday, January 20, 2001
In The Many Eyes Of Fans
File under:
compleatbellairs,
fandom

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