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Showing posts with label Elizabeth Goudge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Goudge. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 March 2026

A few more words about books versus real life

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S everal reasons for extensive reading have been given on here. For example, what some people get from books seems much better to them than ...
Saturday, 20 July 2024

The reader's dilemma: so many books, so little time

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T he article about L. M. Montgomery's compulsion to read and write  contains this quotation from one of her journals: “ I doubt if I sha...
Wednesday, 11 November 2020

John Christopher’s Guardians: Part II

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J ust like Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets and Valerians , John Christopher’s Guardians is a slender little children’s paperback that at first s...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018

The Maharishi Yogi and some fictional characters

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T his article will highlight a few special connections I noticed while reading Joyce Collin-Smith’s account of the time she spent with the M...
Thursday, 20 September 2018

Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets and Valerians: Part IV

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T his final article in the series contains some miscellaneous thoughts about Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets and Valerians (aka T he Runaways ) ...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets and Valerians: Part III

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S ome of the material in Elizabeth Goudge’s book Linnets and Valerian is related to topics featured in other articles. These articles were w...
Saturday, 15 September 2018

Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets and Valerians: Part II

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T he first part of this article introduced the witch Emma Cobley and her black magic. There is a lot more to say about her, her magic and he...
Thursday, 13 September 2018

Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets and Valerians: Part I

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B est-selling novelist Elizabeth Goudge is not one of my favourite authors, although I do like some aspects of some of her books. I  hea...