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Abstract:  A good if at times challenging read.  This series combines Arthurian legend, good prose, interesting plots, and likable characters into a strong series of children’s literature.  There are some elements, like certain ideas, I have issue with, and the ending wasn’t quite to my taste, but overall I really enjoyed this series.  The audiobooks are also very good, if that is more to your preference. Content Warning (highlight to view):  frightening images, violence, occasional language- especially in later books, some folk-related events that touch on the occult- in particular in book 3, non-detailed references to sexual assault and adultery in later books ——— I have quite a few thoughts to cover in this one, so I’m just going to jump right in. The Dark is Rising Sequence  is a five-book children’s fantasy series by Susan Cooper set in Great Britain during the late 20th century.  At the series’ start, three siblings  stumble upon an ancient map to the location of the legendary gr

Just a brief note- on March 6th, Lent begins, and I usually fast from personal use of the internet.  This will be the last post until at least April 27th, if not May 4th.  In the meantime, though, I will be working on making and planning some changes to the site, so please look forward to those.  Have a good Lent, and have a wonderful Easter Sunday! Abstract:  A short, convicting book that makes a pretty good argument for receiving the Eucharist kneeling and on the tongue rather than standing and in the hand. Content Warning (highlight to view):  Very, very high church ——— A few weeks ago, I overheard a mother talking to her son saying, “The wine isn’t really blood.”  The grade-school child had just gotten out of his Catholic religious education class, and here was his mother teaching heresy in the school hallway.  For any readers not in the Catholic/Orthodox know, for a Catholic to deny that the bread and wine used in the mass really has been transformed into the Body and Blood of Jes