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Category Archives: Animal tales
ULYSSES+ Quarterly Report
NYC has had its usual share of rainy weather since the start of the year, which means that I’ve been making good progress on my ULYSSES+ project. In just 3 months, I’ve read 5 of the 12 books-published-in-1922 chosen as … Continue reading
Posted in Am reading, Animal tales, Castles and towers, Classic, Fantasy, Humorous, Newbery Award, Poetry, ULYSSES+
Tagged E. F. Benson, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Hugh Lofting, James Joyce, Joan Aiken, Margery Williams, T S Eliot
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Quiet Backwaters
The novels featured in today’s brief post (another for my Melville bicentennial celebration) are set on rivers. Two are classics, and the third deserves to be. I’ve read all three before, but they fit so neatly into my on-the-water theme … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Am reading, Animal tales, Humorous, Seafaring
Tagged Connie Willis, Jerome K Jerome, Kenneth Grahame
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Welcome the story-tellers
A new year, a new chance to tell you about books you might love. Today, a set of three books that weave folktales and myths into the journeys of three children and their fellow travelers. Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets … Continue reading
Doggie heroes
Here is the last of my recent library stumble-upons, but it was no unknown treasure that I found, simply a book I’ve been curious about ever since finding out that the author of I Capture the Castle had also written a book … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Animal tales, Fantasy
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Tall tales and just-so stories
Karel Čapek’s Nine Fairy Tales (1932, tr. 1990 by D. Herrmann) is another treasure found while wandering my school library’s stacks. There are actually ten tales here (And One More Thrown in for Good Measure is the subtitle), most short enough for a … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 Reading Challenge, Animal tales, Fantasy, Read-aloud book
Tagged Karel Čapek
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