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Susan Skylark
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Influences
Jane Austen, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, L.M. Montgomery
Member Since
August 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/susanskylark
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The Serpent and the Unicorn: Book I and II
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2012
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2 editions
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On Princesses: A Foible
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2013
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2 editions
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The Greylands: Volume I
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2013
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2 editions
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Over the Hills and Far Away
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2014
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2 editions
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Legends of Shadow
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Shadow of the Unicorn (In Shadow Book 1)
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2015
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3 editions
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To Shadow Bound (In Shadow Book 2)
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2015
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2 editions
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The Serpent and the Unicorn: Book III
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2012
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2 editions
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Legends of the Brethren: The Sampler
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2012
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The Greylands: The Complete Series
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2014
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2 editions
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A couple good articles
You should read these articles, why bother writing subpar stuff when others can do it far better for you? Enjoy! A bit about Tolkien and Creation (why I now need to read the Silmarillion). A note about our modern 'trampled' faith, and why that really isn't the case and should make you doubters very nervous.
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| I read this some years ago but reread it this summer, wondering what a second perusal would reveal. My first impression was a complex book with intriguing characters but not exactly sure how I felt about it. Upon second reading, I feel much the same ...more | |
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| What is a good book? I think that is highly subjective, but there are a few classics that have emerged from the ocean of lesser literature to remain beloved throughout generations. The writing is excellent, the characters are diverse, mostly believab ...more | |
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| This is a decent book, but it gets a bit repetitive in its narration and simplistic in its ideals. Think Anne of Green Gables written by an NPR correspondent whose heroine has no imagination, metaphor, poetry, or impish spunk. Or if My Antonia had a ...more | |
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| I really tried to like this book, it’s trying to be a modern geek’s wisdom literature (job, psalms, proverbs, Ecclesiastes et al), but it’s mostly just a collection of random quotes, post modern philosophy, and modern politically correct social mores ...more | |
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| I’m only going to review one book but I’ve read 9 or ten of them. My only quibble with any of them is way too many analogies in the first book, poor Flavia sounds like she swallowed a cheap poetical thesaurus and speaks too much in metaphor for eithe ...more | |
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| ‘A Thrilling new adventure?’ Found this on my library app, gave it a try as I grew up on the original Star Wars novels and wondered if the new books had fared better than the movies, still haven’t watched number 9. The original books (now merely lege ...more | |
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| Though only a century old it reads like something far older, perhaps medieval perhaps something born of Ancient Greece, it’s language and style are that of Homeric epic but many of its vital underpinnings are unwittingly sung from classic western tho ...more | |
“I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
