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The Bitterwood Posts: Terrible As An Army with Banners

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Kathleen’s final cover art

This is the story that always make me cry, so I can never read it out anywhere or I’ll end up as a snotty, blubbering mess. It’s a mix of letters and diary entries; it
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Terrible As An Army with Banners

Library at Melk Abbey http://musicarchive.sdsmt.edu/travel/images/Melk/Library.JPG

Library at Melk Abbey http://musicarchive.sdsmt.edu/travel/images/Melk/Library.JPG

And so, I have almost finished the second last story in The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Huzzah! A bit exciting. I’ve been really lucky with the last two
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This week I am still struggling with … (contains spoilers)

… this book, which I really wanted to like.

I really wanted to like it because I have such wonderfully terrifying memories of the first time I read the original Dracula. I remember waking in a cold sweat from a dream
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