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thingsmeanalot.com - 22 hours ago
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One Christmas was so much like another, in
those years around the sea-town corner now and out...
of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether ...
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Virtual Advent: A Child's Chrisrmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
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thingsmeanalot.com - 46 hours ago
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And so it is that what you find
in these pages are not the Mirabal sisters of...
fact, or even the Mirabal sisters of legend. The actual sisters I never knew, nor did I have access to enough information or the talents and inclinations of a biographer to be able to adequately record them. As for ...
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In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
thingsmeanalot.com - 3 days ago
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(I read these books a few weeks ago
and haven't been able to tell you about them...
yet. So before even more time passes and I forget the details, here's a catching up post.) Scheherazade: Comics About Love, Treachery, Mothers and Monsters is an anthology of comics by women edited by Megan ...
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Three Comics: Scheherazade, Dolltopia and Re-Gifters
thingsmeanalot.com - 4 days ago
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Hello Sunday Saloners. Today I'm going to refrain
from apologizing for not having been around more lately....
First because you've heard it all before, and secondly because I know everyone has busy lives as well, and that nobody is paying as much attention to the amount of blogging and ...
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The Sunday Salon - Life, Work, Letters & Everything
thingsmeanalot.com - 5 days ago
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I'll be forever grateful to Anastasia at Bird
Brain(ed) Book Blog , who reminded me the other...
day that I'm scheduled to host the 43rd edition of the Bookworms Carnival . The Bookworms Carnival was one of Dewey's many contributions to the book blogging community, so it means a lot to me that ...
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43rd Bookworms Carnival - Looking for Submissions
thingsmeanalot.com - 8 days ago
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Back in 2008, Dewey and I co-reviewed The
Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty. We were both doing...
the Pulitzer Project, and when she noticed that we both planned to read it next, she suggested we discuss it and post the results. This was my very first buddy review with another blogger, but I ...
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - A Tribute to Dewey
thingsmeanalot.com - 9 days ago
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Tales of Mystery & the Macabre collects nine
Gothic short stories and novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell, most...
of which were originally published in Charles Dickens’ weekly Household Words , and then collected in Curious, If True and The Grey Woman and Other Tales . Let’s get this out of the ...
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Tales of Mystery & the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell
thingsmeanalot.com - 10 days ago
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Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep collects three slightly surreal novellas,
all narrated by young women, and all connected with...
sleep—and loss. The first is called “Night and Night’s Travellers”, and it was my favourite of the three. It's narrated by Shibami, who is mourning her brother’s death. But ...
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Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
thingsmeanalot.com - 13 days ago
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“On the morning of August the twelfth, eighteen
hundred and fifty something” (I just love this opening...
line), Pell Ridley decides to run away from home. What she's leaving behind is not just her home and family, but also her village, her outlined future, and the only life she’s ever known. One ...
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The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
thingsmeanalot.com - 14 days ago
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(I read this book back in June for
the Once Upon a Time Challenge, wrote this post,...
saved the draft, and completely forgot about it until last week - oops.) And he took up a long sword that lay there and broke it before the eyes of Húrin, and a splinter wounded his face; but Húrin did not ...
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The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
thingsmeanalot.com - 16 days ago
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Most of you know the story, right? Published
in 1911 (but set in the late nineteenth-century), The...
Phantom of the Opera is the story of, well—should I worry about spoiling it? Just to be on the safe side, I'll be vague: it’s the story of the Paris Opera, let’s say, and of a series of strange ...
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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
thingsmeanalot.com - 17 days ago
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To restore the human subject at the centre—the
suffering, afflicted, fighting, human subject—we must deepen a case...
history to a narrative or tale; only then do we have a “who” as well as a “what”, a real person, a patience, in relation to disease—in relation to the physical. .. The Man Who ...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
thingsmeanalot.com - 18 days ago
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Book lists - aren't they fun? They're actually
the reason why I keep joining reading challenges even...
though I keep saying I'm more or less over them. And because I want to have my cake and eat it too, I decided to make a list for the Women Unbound challenge that I'm not going to be forced to ...
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The Sunday Salon - A Women Unbound Wishlist
thingsmeanalot.com - 20 days ago
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'Foul deeds have been done under the most
hospitable roofs; terrible crimes have been committed amid the...
fairest scenes, and have left no trace upon the spot where they were done. I do not believe in mandrake, or in bloodstains that no time can efface. I believe rather that we may walk ...
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Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
thingsmeanalot.com - 21 days ago
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Edgar's Great Uncle (or is it Great Great?
Or Great Great Great?) Montague lives in a cold,...
lonely house in the woods. It's a scary and desolate place, but there's a reason why Edgar visits him regularly: he's hooked on Uncle Montague's spooky stories. Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror takes ...
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Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley














