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Elizabeth Russell

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in The United States

Website

https://thefairytaleblog.com/

Genre

Fantasy, Fiction, Classics

Influences

Jane Austen; C.S. Lewis; J.R.R. Tolkien; G. K. Chesterton; Elizabeth G ...more

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January 2018

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I am a classics expert verging on the fanatic, and never smile more than when you ask me a literary question! I've been writing since I could first put words together, and am honored to have two novels published.

In the spring of 2016, I polished and edited my very first book, a fantasy novel called Halfbreeds, and sent it hopefully into the world of publishing. To my astonishment, Clean Reads scooped it up and published it in June of 2017. I couldn’t believe it – I was a published author!

I have just self-published my second novel, Trinian, about three people who struggle to overcome their own faults in order to save the world from malicious gods.

While working on my many other novels in progress, I also write about the literary classics on m ...more

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Quick Answer: Is Toy Story 4 The Last One?

Is Sid a sociopath?

OK, so we all know the story of Sid from Toy Story.

He’s the little kid who tortured and experimented on toys like a deranged sociopath.

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He was scared s–tless by the very toys he loved to torture: After he ran screaming from Woody’s warning to “play nice,” we never heard from him again..

Is Sid from Toy Story evil?

Sid is not a true villain, being that he didn’t realize that the to

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The Glories of Mary (The Ascetical Works, #7-8)

by Alfonso María de Liguori

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The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss & Body Confidence: A Woman's Guide to Stressing Less, Weighing Less, and Loving More

by Jessica Ortner (Goodreads Author)

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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring

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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden