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February 27, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola
Audrey Hart is on the Isle of Skye to collect the word-of-mouth folk tales of the people and communities around her. It is 1857, the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and the crofters are suspicious and hostile, claiming they no longer know their stories [...]
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February 25, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons [...]
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February 24, 2020
The Story Behind the Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales
Once upon a time there were two brothers who lived in a small kingdom in the middle of a crazy patchwork of other small kingdoms, each […]
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Wilhelm Grimm: the quintessential romantic hero?
One of the problems of writing historical fiction which draws on the lives of real people is that, well, they’re real people. And if you are […]
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February 23, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: Gone By Midnight by Candice Fox
On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young boys are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when one of the parents checks on the children at midnight, they discover one of them is missing. The boys swear they stayed in their room. CCTV confirms that none of them [...]
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February 22, 2020
Writing Lessons I learned from Charles Dickens
Writing Lessons I Learned From Charles Dickens Research deeply, and read only ‘books (that have) the air of the time in them.’ Plan slowly & carefully […]
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February 20, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Passengers by Eleanor Limprecht
Sarah and Hannah are on a cruise from San Diego, California to Sydney Australia. Sarah, Hannah’s grandmother, is returning to the country of her birth, a place she hasn’t seen since boarding the USS Mariposa in 1945. She, along with countless other war brides, sailed across the Pacific to join the American Servicemen they’d married during World War II [...]
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February 18, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: Black Spring by Alison Croggon
In a savage land sustained by wizardry and ruled by vendetta, Lina is the enchanting but willful daughter of a village lord. She and her childhood companion, Damek, have grown up privileged and spoiled, and they’re devoted to each other to the point of obsession. But Lina’s violet eyes
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February 16, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon [...]
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February 15, 2020
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities was Charles Dickens’s twelfth novel, and was written and published at a tumultuous time of his life. He was at that time in his mid-40s, unhappily married with ten children aged between 20 and 5. He was already famous, having written such great classics [...]
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