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The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
We had magic before the crows came. Joseph Boyden begins The Orenda with an allusion to the lost world of Huronia that is suggestive of a certain insight proposed in John Crowley's Aegypt sequence: the world was not always what it has since become. Huronia, the land of the Wendat nation, has since vanished, along …
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Feel disconnected from your childhood lately? Although I am not a licensed psychiatrist, or a doctor of any sort, let me recommend to you The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Never fear: it is not a pill that is bitter to the taste, although it is certainly not sugar coated. …
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
It's an entire world just under your feet, in the vast underground networks that form the urban environment, where people who've fallen through the cracks of society vanish from our everyday reality. Such is the setting of Neil Gaiman's urban quest fantasy Neverwhere. One of his older novels, it was originally based on a 1996 …
Vision: Evening Prayer
The date was Sunday 6 August 2012. I had entered the chapel of the monastery in Taizé, France, late at night during the service of evening prayer. I had scarcely slept since arriving in Paris and after two days in the City of Lights, I was exhausted. I was in the state of waking in …
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