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C.S. Lewis Retreat 2026
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If you think you might be interested in attending this year's C.S. Lewis Retreat on The Magician's Nephew with me, know that the Early Registration Discount ($30 off) is available through Monday.
Also, there's a live online info session about the Retreat happening today at 5:30pm US Pacific Time; register here.
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If you think you might be interested in attending this year's C.S. Lewis Retreat on The Magician's Nephew with me, know that the Early Registration Discount ($30 off) is available through Monday.
Also, there's a live online info session about the Retreat happening today at 5:30pm US Pacific Time; register here.
Cheers! Hope to meet many of you there :) Read more of this blog post »
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Got this collection because it contained The Little Sisters of Eluria and since I had the whole thing, why not read it all? I liked it better than Nightmares and Dreamscapes; the stories didn't seem to vary as much in quality or style, and each was en ...more |
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| A very strange book, firmly of the earliest "Pulp Era" sci-fi. A lengthy travelogue, both geographic and developmental, or spiritual; I found myself thinking about The Worm Ouroboros (Arcturus is better) and Hesse's Demian while reading. Manny Rayner ...more | |
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| Diana Wynne Jones won me over with Chrestomanci, but if it weren't for remembering the pure charm of Miyazaki's film adaptation I am not sure I would have enjoyed Howl's Moving Castle as much as I did. The story needs Miyazaki's deliberate, contempla ...more | |
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| Very enjoyable and well-balanced prose retelling of The Odyssey and contemporaneous associated stories. Thorough, dramatic, personable--Fry's voice is inescapable and enjoyable throughout--and, interestingly, keeps its eye on several of the same them ...more | |
“Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.”
― Her Unwelcome Inheritance
― Her Unwelcome Inheritance
“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.”
― The Eighth Square
― The Eighth Square
“Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?”
― Her Unwelcome Inheritance
― Her Unwelcome Inheritance
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“The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.”
― War in Heaven
― War in Heaven
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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Sørina wrote: "I'm looking for a recommendation: I'd like a lovely little collection of poetry celebrating the beauties of the body. A sweet little hardback (like the Everyman's Pocket Poetry editions) would be n..."Ooh - I wish I did! When you find it, let me know; and if you don't, let's put that in the project queue to issue a CFS for.
I'm looking for a recommendation: I'd like a lovely little collection of poetry celebrating the beauties of the body. A sweet little hardback (like the Everyman's Pocket Poetry editions) would be nice, and I'd prefer an anthology rather than a single-authored collection. Do you have any suggestions?
Hello, J. Aleksandr! Thanks for the Friend Request--I accept! Congratulations on your publishing success! I like your definition of 'bookworm,' er, 'bookdragon,' and your quote by Carol Shields! I can't believe I've never seen that before, it's so perfect--thank you for having it among your quotes for me to find! I hope you're having a good weekend and will have a good week ahead.Best wishes from Majenta
Hello J. Aleksandr,Thank you for accepting my friend request. Have a great day and good luck to your writing endeavors!
Richard