“Her true nature reasserted itself during the course of the game, however, and many a doll was stabbed to the heart or burned at the stake before the morning was over.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/08/her-true-nature-reasserted-itself-during-the-course-of-the-game-however-and-many-a-doll-was-stabbed-to-the-heart-or-burned-at-the-stake-before-the-morning-was-over/

#before #book #burnedAtTheStake #Classics #course #doll #During #EdwardEager #fantasy #FantasyMagic #fiction #Game #heart #HumorousStories #juvenileWorks #magic #many #morning #over #quote #reasserted #spaceAndTime #stabbed #trueNature #wishes

“Mark didn’t think much of the love blah, but he watched the villain getting more villainous, and the hero getting more heroic, and patiently waited for them to slug it out.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/07/30/mark-didnt-think-much-of-the-love-blah-but-he-watched-the-villain-getting-more-villainous-and-the-hero-getting-more-heroic-and-patiently-waited-for-them-to-slug-it-out/

Here's my #bookstodon (first) post, of my most beloved, foundational, formatively lifechanging fav sff authors, some of whom (most recently McKillip, & Lee) have headed off to unknown destinations, leaving me re-reading like crazy, doing my part to keep them in the world.

#CJCherryh
#TanithLee
#PatriciaMcKillip
#SusanCooper
#UrsulaLeGuin
#LloydAlexander
#JRRTolkien
#EdwardEager
#RayBradbury
#LordDunsany