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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Naming the Bones in Books

Oct 7, 2020  
Naming the Bones
Naming the Bones
Louise Welsh | 2010
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Louise Welsh knows how to intrigue her readers and, like any good mystery writer, gives them enough twists and turns to keep them interested to the last page. But instead of using a professional (like investigator or detective) to get to the bottom of this story, she puts the research in the hands of a Professor of Literature on sabbatical, trying to write the story of his favourite poet's brief life for a book. Using this as the basis of the story, the people in his life also get tangled into the strange circumstances of the poet's life and death. For people like myself, who don't care much for the mystery genre, Welsh proves once again that you don't need to be a fan to enjoy her works.
  
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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Jul 17, 2026  
It's #FolkloreFriday 🐱

This week's folklore Friday explores the cat in Celtic and Welsh mythology — a creature the tradition never quite trusted to be simply domestic.

The Cath Palug of Welsh legend began as an ordinary kitten and grew into a creature of monstrous destructive power, which reflects something the broader Celtic tradition understood instinctively about cats. They were threshold guardians, Otherworld creatures that chose to sit beside human fires without ever fully relinquishing where they'd come from. They watched things invisible to everyone else. They knew things by means that didn't bear close examination.

The Celtic animal month of the Cat is running alongside the tree month of Holly right now — both of them quietly liminal, both of them more formidable than they first appear.

#FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore #CelticMythology #TalesFromWales
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1037 KP) created a post

Aug 4, 2026  
Sealed with a Curse — Brodyr Alarch Book 0

The root from which seven books grew.

A kingdom in mourning. Six princes whose grief turned cruel. Selene, the Swan Herder of Melthkior, who grew up alongside the princes and now endures their mockery and who, when the gods of Wales intervene and a curse takes hold, never doubts that they deserve saving and is determined to do so.

Sealed with a Curse is the unifying thread of the Brodyr Alarch series, the framework that holds seven fairytale retellings woven through Welsh mythology into a single mythic tapestry. Welsh mythology, Brothers Grimm, divine interference, and a heroine whose courage is quiet and entirely real.

The series begins here.

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#FantasyRomance #FairytaleRetelling #BrodyrAlarch #BrothersGrimm #WelshMythology
      
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David McK (3883 KP) rated Dolittle (2020) in Movies

Mar 5, 2020  
Dolittle (2020)
Dolittle (2020)
2020 | Adventure
5
6.2 (32 Ratings)
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Robert Downey Jr's first post-Marvel/Iron Man foray, in which he takes on the role of celebrated vet Dr Dolittle (he who can 'talk to the animals' … although there's no singing in this version!), this is a pretty basic by-the-numbers children's film.

I've also no idea why Downey Jr is putting on a (very bad) Welsh accent throughout.