Status Updates From The Princess and Curdie (Pr...

This book is poetry. The entire first chapter was so so lovely. I am, again, impressed and surprised by how much the kids are able to glean

I loved The Princess and The Goblin so I’m excited to read this book!

The whole thing about mountains? 🥹😭

Ya know may as well.

This book is bizarre and I love it.

“Indeed there was one sect of philosophers […] which taught that it works be better to forget all the past history of the city, were it not that its former imperfections taught is present inhabitants how superior they and their times were, and enabled them to glory over their ancestors. […] Indeed, the general theme of discourse when they met was, how much wiser they were than they fathers.”

Wow. I could have commonplaced the entirety of chapter 3. 💜

“There is a difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.”

I’ve exceeded the word count so see the the comment below for the rest👇