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Blair is Currently Reading

Blair Hodgkinson is currently reading

Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England, The Rise and Fall of a Remarkable Jewish Businesswoman

by Rebecca Abrams

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Jan 15, 2026 11:18AM

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Strange Tales of Scotland (Jack's Strange Tales #1)

by Jack Strange

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Jun 19, 2025 07:30PM

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Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw

by Lesley Coote

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Blair’s Quotes

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland

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“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

555 likes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

tags: control, media, thinking

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“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: religion, sobriety

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A group for people interested in the Anglo Saxon period.

Middle English Literature — 49 members — last activity Jan 09, 2018 12:30PM
Collection of anything that has been written in Middle English. Romances, hagiography, doctrines, scientific work. A forum to recommend books to likem ...more

Robin Hood Fans — 53 members — last activity Jun 07, 2023 12:09PM
This is a group for anyone who like, or loves Robin Hood. We discuss everything Robin Hood and the different styles of his story, or what ever you wan ...more

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Book group for the fans of author Sharon Kay Penman. Author of "The Sunne in Splendour", The Welsh Trilogy, and others. ...more

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