#monica furlong

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(The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Wise Child by Monica Furlong, An Cailín Ciúin dir. Colm Bairéad)

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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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How the Soul Speaks to God

Lord you are my lover,

My longing,

My flowing stream,

My sun,

And I am your reflection.

— Mechthild of Magdeburg, as quoted in Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics by Monica Furlong

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from wise child by monica furlong

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Title: Colman | Author: Monica Furlong | Publisher: Random House (2005)

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || June 24 || Outdoors:  Wise Child by Monica Furlong

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Fictional women to aspire to #1

Juniper (Ninnoc)

From Wise Child by Monica Furlong

Heals the people in the village even though they scorn her.

Is patient with Wise Child.

Takes Wise Child to church even though she doesn’t follow the same beliefs.

Is kind to Cormac, who is also rejected by the villagers.

Doesn’t wish ill on people who hurt her.

Thinks before she says anything.

Is a witch

Has cats

Makes her own butter and cheese

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Books with “F” Authors I Own and and Need to Read Part 3

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The Schlocktoberfest - Day 26: Night of the Demons

The Schlocktoberfest – Day 26: Night of the Demons

  Night of the Demons (2010) Read my review of the original here. Trailer:  *Spoilers Throughout* What’s This About: Partygoers of wildly varying ages awaken an ancient evil: Edward Furlong. Here are some of my observations as I watched the film: Wow this movie has the precise exact same opening New Orleans party scene as the New Orleans party scene in Hatchet, complete with shots that come…

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Night of the Demons Remake

I always feel the need to preface one of these articles with a disclaimer; I am not reflexively negative towards remakes. For a lot of people, the knee-jerk response to any remake is to trash it and complain. The thing is, I’ve seen a lot of good remakes. I seen a lot of bad ones too, that’s neither here nor there. But especially remakes of films like Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, films…

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After Beltane I was full of questions. "When the man in the gold cloak summoned me to the stone and I spoke the words..." I began, "I wondered...does it mean that I am special?" "How do you mean?" asked Juniper. "There were lots of other children there, but he didn't summon them. Why did he summon me?" "Somebody had to do it. Why not you?" She was being very dense. "But I felt as if I was the right person." "Yes, you were the right person. Then. At other times other people are the right person for something." "So it doesn't mean I'm special?" "Everyone is special." "It doesn't mean that I'm bound to become a doran or anything?" Juniper didn't answer this time, but went on stirring the soup as if I hadn't spoken. "I want to be special," I said obstinately at last. "So does everyone else. So we have to take turns." "But some people are more special than others, aren't they?" Juniper suddenly got extremely irritated. "The really special ones are the ones who don't ever think about it," she said.

Monica Furlong, Wise Child

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9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Thank you for tagging me @yletylyf!

3 ships you like: I'm going to go general rather than specific here - competent by nature, codependent by choice x (n>=2) - obviously we're not in love this is just an arranged marriage I just happen to refuse to abandon no matter what - a: oh no, b is hot. i must keep this realisation a secret and take it to my grave

First ship ever: Eowyn/Faramir (from the books! I still haven't seen the movies! Miranda Otto and David Wenham are unbearably hot and I love them but I am very committed to the balcony scene I reenacted in my head hundreds of times as a young teen)

Last song you heard: Scenes from a Separation, Darren Hanlon, because it was an earworm and then because I found it on YT for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3M9fetmao

Favourite childhood book: (only one? no no no. books plural, a curated selection, in roughly chronological order) The Hobbit A Year and a Day by Monica Furlong The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis The Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy in five parts) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

Currently reading: Just finished Still Life With Woodpecker, and before that Faro's Daughter. Haven't picked up another book yet (currently studying: the HSK1 word list)

Currently watching: Rising Feather (dubcon! abs! revenge!) The Romance of Tiger and Rose (the plot workshopping is coming from inside the narrative!)

Currently consuming: Decaf instant coffee, fruit bread and butter with cherry jam

Current craving: roof insulation

Hmm drama enjoyers to tag, let's see: @golgafrincham @heyyo-heyyo @stayg6ld @planb-is-in-effect @cairthe-deactivated @invisiblerhythmcat @tockamybeloved @dannysbian @shan190811 and you, the tumblr user who is looking at this right now and in the mood to do a meme, yes you, do the meme. tell 'em I tagged you xxoo

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The Power of Love

Sometimes it happens that love is sweetly awoken the soul and joyfully arises and moves in the heart of itself without doing anything at all. And then the heart is so powerfully touched by love, so keenly drawn into love and so strongly seized by love, and so utterly mastered by love and so tenderly embraced by love, that it entirely yields itself to love. And in this it experiences a great proximity to God, a spiritual radiance, a marvelous bliss, a noble freedom, an ecstatic sweetness, a great overpowering by the strength of love, and an overwhelming abundance of immense delight. And then she [the soul] feels that all her senses are sanctified by love and her will has become love, and that she is so deeply immersed and so engulfed in the abyss of love that she herself has turned entirely into love. Then the beauty of love has bedecked her, the power of love has devoured her, the sweetness of love has submerged her, the grandeur of love has consumed her, the nobility of love has enveloped her, the purity of love has adorned her, and the sublimity of love has drawn her upward and so united herself [love] with her [the soul] that she must always be love and do nothing but the deeds of love.

— Beatrijs of Nazareth, as quoted in Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics by Monica Furlong

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Episode 176 - Fantasy

This episode we’re talking about the genre of Fantasy! We discuss whether fantasy needs magic, clam powers, forklore, Tears of the Kingdom, worksonas, It’s Always My First Day at Wizard School, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse

Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras, translated by Rhonda Mullins

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, narrated by Kirt Graves

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Chill by Scott Carson

Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

Big Machine by Victor LaValle

Other Media We Mentioned

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Wikipedia)

Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini (Wikipedia)

Read it online free!

Steven Universe (Wikipedia)

Sailor Moon (Wikipedia)

Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Golden Compass / Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Redwall (Wikipedia) Brian Jacques

The Discworld Mapp: Being the Onlie True and Mostlie Accurate Mappe of the Fantastyk and Magical Dyscworlde by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs

Discworld (Wikipedia)

The Chronicles of Narnia (Wikipedia) by C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Wise Child by Monica Furlong

Juniper by Monica Furlong

The Sandman (comic book) (Wikipedia)

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wikipedia)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)

Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)

A Song of Ice and Fire (Wikipedia) by George R. R. Martin

The series of novels on which the television series Game of Thrones is based

The Wheel of Time (Wikipedia) by Robert Jordan

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games by Lizzie Stark

Links, Articles, and Things

X-Men (Wikipedia)

Scarlet Witch

Magik (Illyana Rasputina) (though her magic powers are separate from her mutation)

Magical girl (Wikipedia)

Alebrije (Wikipedia)

Dungeons & Dragons (Wikipedia)

Independence Day (1996 film) (Wikipedia)

30 Fantasy fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Road of the Lost by Nafiza Azad

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair

A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai 

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Björkan Sagas by Harold R. Johnson

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

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Title: Juniper | Author: Monica Furlong | Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library (1992)