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09 Monday Dec 2013

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‘It’s Rosie, Rose Cotton,’ said Sam. ‘It seems she didn’t like my going abroad at all, poor lass; but as I hadn’t spoken, she couldn’t say so. And I didn’t speak, because I had a job to do first. But now I have spoken, and she says: “Well, you’ve wasted a year, so why wait longer?”

Jane Eyre

05 Saturday Oct 2013

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If ever you think that women are not strong, watch Jane Eyre.

If ever you think that life will never get better, watch Jane Eyre.

If ever you think that personality counts for nothing, watch Jane Eyre.

If ever you think that you are talentless and cannot be taught, watch Jane Eyre.

If ever you think that those who have wronged you will not be punished, watch Jane Eyre.

If ever you think that you are not cherished, watch Jane Eyre.

 

30 Monday Sep 2013

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Is Draco alive? Is he in the castle?” The whisper was barely audible; her lips were an inch from his ear, her head bent so low that her long hair shielded his face from the onlookers. “Yes,” he breathed back. He felt the hand on his chest contract; her nails pierced him. Then it was withdrawn. She had sat up. “He is dead!” Narcissa Malfoy called to the watchers.
Harry Potter as a series repeatedly tells us never to underestimate a mother’s love. Lilly’s love for Harry would have been the end of Voldemort had his soul not been attached to the horcruxes. Narcissa’s love for Draco put her in a dangerous position when she lied about Harry being alive, but she is a mother and did so because it was right (Harry had spared Draco on countless occasions, she was repaying the favour). Voldemort’s greatest general was killed by Molly, a mother who loved all of her children and feared losing any more to the magical war.

On Books

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

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In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.

She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”

American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever read.