The House of Misrule
Judith RidgeChildren's and young adult literature, my PhD (maybe), my move to a new home in Tasmania, education and libraries, books and other cultural stuff, my cats, and whatever else takes my fancy.
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On advocating for books you don't actually read yourself
I wasn’t planning on making this a whole post, but Notes don’t appear to allow you to post links, so here I am.
I’m really thrilled today, because I have had my first ever piece published in The Conversation (Australian Edition). I co-wrot...
On not fast forwarding through the awkward bits.
On Thursday morning, I woke up to the news that James Valentine had died.
If you know who James was, you will almost certainly also have heard this news, and will know of the extraordinary outpouring of grief and love that followed this an...
Happy New Year! May We All Have Our Hopes, Our Will To Try
I love my little faux Christmas village.
New Year’s songs are increedibly melancholy, have you noted? If it’s not this little piece of nihilism from the usually pretty bloody cheerful ABBA (from which the title and subtitle of this Substac...
Borrowed Words 26 November 2025
Yeah, so this regular Substack thing isn’t quite on track yet. Still getting my head, and what I suspect might be a kind of ADHD brain (hey, the ads on my phone games would have it so!) around an entirely non-regular routine of Not Having A...
Borrowed Words 26 October 2025
I’ve been pretty quiet here the last couple of weeks. Partly it’s because I’ve been busy — I needed to focus on my PhD, plus I have picked up some sessional work at a university (just marking at this stage) and some other bits and pieces as...
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Reader, writer, critic, editor, teacher, student, cat-wrangler. Children’s and youth literature advocate. Once made Diana Wynne Jones and Andrew O’Hagan laugh (not at the same time). Kitten and book avatar by Yusuke Yonezu.
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