Dickens novel?
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it was as magical for us readers as much as the students and parents who came along.
Maybe I should give it a go again at our local library ?
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he wrote.
Today’s ‘Way-Back Wednedsay’, from February 2018, tells it like it is about 'Love’s Labour’s Lost', with a little help from 'Hamlet', Matt Haig, and a nod to my favourite comedy, 'Frasier'.
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either - she didn't appreciate being labelled a 'feminist'.
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banned in the UK and USA for obscenity) was written with such attention to detail that Joyce claimed Dublin could be rebuilt with the information he'd included in it.
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Frost explored deep existential ideas, disguised by colloquial language and themes of rural simplicity.
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Their meetings must have been fascinating (or possibly hilariously dull) ...
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fighting in Europe.
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work it is ...
You might not know that she set up and ran a printing company from her living room, using a hand-operated printing press. Her house must have been such a lively, exciting, and noisy place to visit!
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everyone!
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2 - The Dispossessed (1974)
3 - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973 - incidentally, my second favourite short story, after Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', which I mentioned earlier this week)
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relevant today.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."
Be careful out there, everyone.
(And read the Huxley and the Postman if you haven't already)
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every year I read a bunch of short story collections, with nothing coming close. If you think you know of one which is better, PLEASE tell me! 🤪
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released hundreds during a dinner party!
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like to read something different by Milne, try The Red House Mystery (1922), a delicious parody of Golden Age detective fiction.
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which differs from the more widely-read works her siblings produced.
Should we make anything of the fact that she was buried in Scarborough, and not with her sisters in Howarth?
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🎶 if we could talk with the animals 🎶
I wonder what they'd tell us ...
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Nile. I think we know whose books I'll be taking with me.
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multi-narrator story (great example? Dracula!)
Question is - which of his two great novels is the better?
Go on, persuade me that 'The Woman In White' is better than 'The Moonstone', my favourite of the two ...
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something cosy to accompany the hot drinks and extended stay under the duvet.
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