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Tolkien & The Silmarillion by Clyde S. Kilby Format/source: Hardcover/Purchased secondhandPublished: 1976Publisher: Harold Shaw PublishersLength: 89 pages Genre: Biography★★★★ Yes, this delightful little volume is ‘outdated’, having been published in1976, a year before The Silmarillion. But it remains a valuable read as author Clyde S. Kilby, an Inklings […]
November was a better month than October – I did lots of steady work for uni. I’m taking a quick break from my final assignments to write this post. I’m almost done one paper (a report on eliminating overdue fines on […]
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Tom and Hatty in Tom’s Midnight Garden – I recently read this book because I needed a classic for my children’s literature course (it won the Carnegie in 1958). I was pleasantly surprised by the development of Tom and Hatty’s relationships. […]
September’s Result Nevermind that this post is two months late😬Though I don’t remember how many votes it got, The Map Thief by Michael Blanding was the winner. The subtitle on the front of the book purports it to be “the […]
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Princess and the Peas by Rachel Himes In Princess and the Peas, Rachel Himes puts her own twist on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea”. This book is #ownvoices for African-American representation. It’s the 1950s in South Carolina, […]