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Fanny Jean Jones

Samwise Gamgee

“Unless you are like little children, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” This is a well-known quote, yet very few people put it

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Fanny Jean Jones

Gríma Wormtongue

It’s funny how often in history or books, the manipulative character with so much power is either small, in the background, or even unnoticed. One

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Guest Writer

Book Review: Black Bottle Man

Guest post by Karen Ullo. Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell Great Plains Teen Fiction, 2010; 176 pages Gold Medal, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, Young

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A Tale of Two Cities
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Jean Elizabeth Seah

What Makes a Book Great?

(Warning: spoiler alert for A Tale of Two Cities after the image.) ___ Franz Kafka, author of the highly disturbing The Metamorphosis, wrote: “If the

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Bethanie Ryan

Thérèse by Dorothy Day

I adore Dorothy Day. That’s the reason why I picked up this book. Like Dorothy Day, when I first met Thérèse of Lisieux, I wasn’t very

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Edmund Dulac - Cinderella
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Jean Elizabeth Seah

Formation in Faery

Imagination is twofold, retentive (reproductive) and creative (productive). The object of the first is a sensible reality, which we have previously perceived as such. The

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