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Don Quixote

“Until death it is all life” Author: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” Middle-aged Alonso Quixano is bored. He is tired of the average life, the average person, the lack of grand gestures and romantic sacrifices. He has spent his life reading one chivalric adventure after another, and while madness lies in fiction, so does glory and adventure. And so, he becomes a madman and sets out to be knighted Don Quixote de la Mancha, a brave knight-errant beset by sorceresses [...]

2026-08-02T17:23:41-07:00August 2nd, 2026|Tags: , , , |

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.” Author: C.S. Lewis Lucy and Edmund are stuck with their cousin, Eustace, enduring his haughtiness, when suddenly they are all three sucked into a beautiful picture of a daring ship. They are back again, at last, in their beloved Narnia, and this time the adventure will take them across oceans to the very edge of the world where Aslan’s land is said to begin. The ship, the aptly named Dawn Treader, is captained by King Caspian who, along with his crew and Reepicheep (the brave mouse), are looking for seven lords banished by [...]

2026-06-14T17:08:28-07:00June 14th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Robinson Crusoe

The Novel That Created The Castaway Story  Author: Daniel Defoe The story of Robinson Crusoe is a cultural icon; many of us haven’t read the full book before, but we all know the premise: a young sailor survives a shipwreck only to be cast onto a desert island. Here, he is stranded and forced to live by his wits and wiles. This becomes more complicated when he discovers that his new island home is also the special feast location for several tribes of cannibals who row across the waters to host their deadly banquets. I read Robinson Crusoe (proper title The [...]

2026-06-06T14:36:06-07:00June 6th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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