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Duncan Shields

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Duncan Shields is a computer games animator, spoken-word poet, and flash-fiction writer. He is a staff writer at 365tomorrows.com. He made it to the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize long list. He is also a two-time Vancouver Haiku, Ghost Story, and Nerd Poetry Champion. He has five small volumes of poetry in print but he’s happy to present this first book of flash fiction. He lives in Vancouver, BC, with his wife and daughter and their cat.

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The Castle of Llyr (The Chronicles of Prydain, #3)

by Lloyd Alexander

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I'd always heard that Disney's The Black Cauldron was loosely based on book 2 of a hugely-loved and highly-regarded series of children's fantasy from the seventies. I get it now. If I had read these as a child, I'd have loooved them. Heck, even as an ...more
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To be clear, I'm giving this book five stars because hot damn, Arkady really did create and inhabit an entire and very detailed civilization here. I gave part one four stars because I wasn't completely immersed for some reason but I got all the way i ...more
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