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7 ♦ Hansel and Gretel
I have memories of sitting in a computer science lecture and viewing a graph of what looked to be white noise. “You may think it looks random, but a truly random pattern wouldn’t look so evenly distributed.” This Deal Me In challenge is confirming it in every respect – my thorough shuffling may have been… Read more >>
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Q ♦ The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen byElena Ringo http://www.elena-ringo.com[CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons ” His stuff always makes me cry. 😦 ” That was my summary note, on finishing “The Snow Queen.” It’s true; either his stories have aged well, or I have aged hardly, but Andersen always gets to me. I shouldn’t have put this one… Read more >>
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J ♦ The Prince Who Feared Nothing
Using my Lighthouses deck this time! The Prince Who Feared Nothing is another strange tale from the Grimm Brothers’ collection. It is about a young prince who, “sick of living in his father’s house,” goes off into the world to end his boredom by having adventures. As is usually the case in the world of… Read more >>
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Deal Me In 2016
In 2015, I was on a roll with this challenge, then, eight stories in, failed as gloriously as I had begun. On the bright side, I still have my list and eight new stories to replace the “read” ones. I’m going to ace it this time (pun intended)! 🙂 Challenge hosted by Jay at Bibliophilica.… Read more >>
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