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Montaigne started making notes on books and then published and realised he had an audience, and changed again

Bothers are an unsuspected area for spiritual growth. Excellent survey.

Hilarious

Cuchulain becomes a warrior

Probably the best survey of the Anglo experience of mental health conditions available today

Super smooth read.

Tolkien revealed!

Chapter 1 stands alone as a perfect little novel of Crystal clear visual power. Genuinely frightening and beautiful.

Incredibly relevant to adult social skills as well as dealing with children

This book desperately needs an editor. The whole first chapter says his theme is human nature and compares his writing to a MasterChef that starts with bland food and escalates to more rich food overtime.

I can’t read this slowly enough. The hero decides to live fast and die young and proves it with broken spears and smashed chariots and chasing the unattainable hot girl Emer, who tells him to kill a mountain of people before she will marry him. Brutal rejection.

The hound of Cullen and how Senteta got his name

Lugh and Bectera from the fairy hill with Fergus Mac Roy. Exquisite writing…

The lady author dreams of the mill and the tedious Tulliver elders introduce their dull children.

Drama: Ambrosio in post nut clarity wants to turf Mathilda out but suddenly he goes mad and four strong monks must hold him down.

This book has more solid drama per paragraph than any other single book I have ever read.

“In the great days long past, there was a King of Ulster whose name was Ross the Red, and Maga his Queen was a woman of the Sidhe, the Lordly Ones, whose home is in Tir-Nan-Og, the Land of Youth.”

Good lord this is a fine book!

Excellent humane nuanced discussion of terms and ideas in the context of exquisitely crafted narratives

Justly considered a masterpiece, the opening epigraph casts a magic spell and the introduction of the characters confirms it.

Fielding promises his book will be decent and admirable.

He says it is easier to make good men wise than to make bad men good, since only indiscretion can injure innocence. He wants to laugh us out of vice.

That’s his preface and the 1st hundredth of the novel.

First line sentence fragment followed by lame poetic general description. Amateurish.

Rosario has a frantic discussion with his friar Ambrosio on the dread of hermitage in a grotto and the death of his sister Mathilda from love of the pure and cruel Julian. Draaaama! Then the big reveal!

Rereading 3rd time

Remarkable book that promises a tremendous change in emotional capacity

Um, wow.