classics
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The Nutcracker
The nutcracker doll that mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer gives to little Marie for Christmas is no ordinary toy. –GoodReads My Review I am admittedly a Dumas slut so I may be a smidgen bias in my four cup rating but hear me out! I’m also a huge fan of classic novels…
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Mini-Review Day!
GoodReads: When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees – immediately, irrationally, inexplicably – for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert’s…
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One Year Blogiversary & INTL. Giveaway
Guess what January 3rd was? My Blogiversary Guess who had no clue until I looked it up on January 3rd? This girl. So, I did a Twitter poll, and a few people did it, so it’s been decided that today I’ll do my blogiversary post and celebrate by… Giving…
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The Penelopiad Review
GoodReads: Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left…
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Charity Shop Finds!
Hey all It’s Sunday, I’m picking my daughter up from her Brownies trip and yesterday we had an unexpected charity shop spree. We went to one but it was just choc-full of amazing books. So. We did it. That was our adventurous thing to do while the daughter is away,…
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Charity Shop Finds!
It’s time for another Charity Shop Fiiiiiinds! I know it probably seems like these are weekly, the truth of the matter is that it probably is a regular occurrence for us, but, when you have a family of three and are trying to save but still want to be able…
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Charity Shop Finds!
I swear this will not be every Sunday, in fact, we’re swearing off the High Street until next pay period and even then we’re not going crazy again. [Or so we say pahaha] So what did we grab this past Saturday?? Mini-Spawn also got two books of her own,…