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things mean a lot
http://www.thingsmeanalot.com/
A book blog with a focus on fantasy, fairy tales, children's lit, YA, comics and graphic novels and general fiction.
- Author: Nymeth
- Listed in: Books
- Tags: books comics fantasy ya children's lit general fiction
Recent Posts
"Young Adult Friction"
Dear blog of mine: I promise I have not forsaken you. I'm having a rather busy week at work (not with the letters, which wait for me ever-patient, but because we're hosting an event), so I think the wisest course of action is to take a mini-blogging ...
Giovanni\'s Room by James Baldwin
First published in 1956, Giovanni’s Room is a classic of lgbtq literature. It’s the story of a young man called David who, in Paris, meets and falls in love with an Italian waiter named Giovanni. The story is set during the night before Giovanni ...
Underground by Haruki Murakami
…I wanted, if at all possible, to get away from any formula; to recognize that each person on the subway that morning had a face, a life, a family, hopes and fear, contradictions and dilemmas – and that all these factors had a place in the drama....
The Sunday Salon - Midwinter Reads
I've been trying to decide which book to read for Christmas this year since mid-November, but I haven't been able to come up with anything that feels right. I only started this whole Christmas Book tradition a few years ago, but it's only that has b...
Virtual Advent: A Child\'s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days an...
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
And so it is that what you find in these pages are not the Mirabal sisters of fact, or even the Mirabal sisters of legend. The actual sisters I never knew, nor did I have access to enough information or the talents and inclinations of a biographer to...
