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Friday, 27 June 2014

What I've been Reading: The Princess Bride, The Count of Monte Cristo

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Inconceivable! I suppose after last week's little rant about idiot abridgements, it was only natural I returned my attention to the ...
Friday, 20 June 2014

What I've been reading: The Count of Monte Cristo and Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers

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They... They killed... Okay, I'm not writing this just now. Let's do the other book I've been reading, because that makes me...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

The Earl Method: how to read a 19th Century novel

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Eep. As the undefeated champion of Varney, The Vampyre, as the mad, Twitter advocate for a faithful film adaptation of The Three Musket...
Friday, 13 June 2014

What I've been reading: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, To Kill a Mockingbird, Preacher: Until the End of the World

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I finished Gone With the Wind this week. My review is that the last chapter had my hands involuntarily clenching into fists so often that my...
Friday, 6 June 2014

What I've been reading: The Severed Streets, Good Omens and, *sigh* Gone with the Wind

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YAY! Yay! I've been waiting for this! So. The Severed Streets, by Paul Cornell, is the sequel to 2012's London Falling and is ...
Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Won't Somebody Think of the Children? Problems of gender in vampire fiction, part 3:

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This is the third in a series of posts about 19th and early 20th Century vampire fiction, the first and second can be found here and here . ...
Friday, 30 May 2014

What I've been reading: Deaf Sentence, Gone With the Wind, and make it stop, please, make it stop.

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Insert witty comment here Did you know that if a man tells you any variation of, "You're gorgeous when you're mad", he...