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August 29, 2019
Thursday Quotables – Spellbound
SPELLBOUND by Allie Therin (book excerpt and review) There's magic in the world - even if very few people know it. But for Arthur, meating Rory is more that magic. It's a new life and a new love.
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August 23, 2019
Offer (Barbara Kingsolver)
"Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. "
~ Barbara Kingsolver
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August 17, 2019
A 1920s Bookish Lineup
A lineup of novels set in the 1920s (but also 1910s and 1930s) to spice up our summer... and also our fall and winter. Which one will you read?
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August 15, 2019
Thursday Quotables – The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic spy story written before WWI. It has that paritucla flavour of adventure and surrealism that is tipical of that age
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August 5, 2019
Gang Roundup – August 2019
My Gang Roundup (links collection) is mostly about photos this time. A few ar efrom everyday life in the 1920s, but there is also some odd things
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August 1, 2019
Thurdsday Quotables – Gilgi, One of Us
GILGI, ONE OF US by Irmgard Keun is the story of a tough New Woman in 1920s Germany, a woman that looks life hard in the face and act with her own head and heart
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July 25, 2019
Thursday Quotables – In Search of a Witch’s Soul
1920s. In America Prohibition tries to separate humans from the dangerous business of witches. The experiment is only partially successful
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July 24, 2019
Bad Guys (Rutger Hauer)
"Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns"
- Rutger Hauer
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July 18, 2019
Reading Tolkien as a Reader and a Writer
A toast to my awesome Tolkien Reading Group, to our second year of reading tolkien (almost) every day, and to our favourite professor
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July 8, 2019
Gang Roundup – July 2019
I love era material! This month I'm showcasing James Joyce reading his Ulysses in 1929, the letters from one of Tolkien's friends and a special Twitter account
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