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It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.

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Station Zero
Philip Reeve
Progress: 220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Vess
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The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Robert Chandler
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Patrick O'Brian
Progress: 8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
Marguerite de Navarre
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The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
John Masefield
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Poems Selected
Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
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Selected Poems
U A Fanthorpe
Progress: 18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Mick Imlah, Robert Crawford
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
Ursula K. Le Guin
Progress: 133/789 pages

Reading progress update: I've read 127 out of 288 pages.

Early Irish Myths and Sagas - Various Authors, Jeffrey Gantz

The Cattle Raid of Froech


Cattle raiding is a Big Thing in the Irish Celtic stories. It also was a historical fact of the Scottish Highlanders' way of life. I'm not sure if it was pan-Celtic or not. Anyway, Froech wants to marry the daughter of Mebh but he's opposed at every turn and adventures ensue. Lots of Celtic literature motifs, including, rings, fairies, salmon, lake monsters, cattle raiding, feasting and complicated tasks required of the hero in order to get the girl...