Hey, it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Couldn’t resist noting the day, and reminding you that no one talks like a pirate better than Pirate Jenny singing about the Black Freighter. Here’s Nina Simone in a live performance:
And here’s Lotte Lenya:
Sleep well, me hearties!
Because life is better served with a good book and a cup of tea. Book reviews and general bookish writings. I love many genres, so all manner of books may appear on my blog.
and other truths we learn from literature
A blog on books and other things literary
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Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts
writer * editor * publisher * teacher
The Babbington Press and all its publications are pieces of one fiction: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy.
More little things in life
Classic Literature and Other Bookish Adventures
Stories and photos from Scotland
blank pages & scarlet letters
A word after a word after a word is power. --Margaret Atwood
A writer and her reading.
Self-discovery through self-reflection.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver
A quest for the magic in life, language, and literature
Author of Young Adult Fantasy
"She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers" - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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An annual lecture on fantasy literature held at Pembroke College, Oxford
Essays on the Arthurian legends
Milly Schmidt
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The art of designing your life
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The Ramblings of a Mad Woman
A blog about reading and writing children's books
The general journal of a normal nutter playing with words (in awful rhyme a lot of the time), music and pictures, and having the occasional rant.
ELA Teachers Reading YA Lit
Where History & Literature Meet
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All is not quiet in the countryside
and finding...
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Scholar of Old English, Tolkien and Early Medieval England
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Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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