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I loved it. The only reason that I’ve given it a 4 rather than a 5 is that almost all the stories are well-known – the difference [...]
February 8, 2024
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Dumbledore: “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and [...]
February 1, 2024
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“I got the feeling Poseidon really didn’t know what to think of me. He didn’t know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not.” [...]
November 1, 2022
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“Having no knowledge of models other than what they meet within their own tongue, the standard they have formed of purity and taste in [...]
August 4, 2020
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“Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.” ― Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave [...]
January 9, 2020
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“If ever you are lucky enough to visit the beautiful land of Greece you will find a country haunted by more than three thousand years of [...]
November 4, 2019
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“Have you heard any of the Anansi stories?” asked Albin as he settled in for our next story session. “Hmm… I think so…,” I said. [...]
October 3, 2019
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“Mongolia has a lot of ‘mosts’ and ‘firsts’ to its name,” said Albin as he settled down in a patch of sunlight on my roof. “Do you [...]
October 3, 2019
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“The Greek legends of the Phoenix come from the stories of the Egyptian Bennu bird,” began Albin. “I know what phoenixes are,” I said, [...]
October 3, 2019
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“The original inhabitants of the snow-covered world of the far north – northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska – are called [...]
October 3, 2019