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Eight classics that inspired my favorite Terry Pratchett novels
The ones he wrote for kids
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The 19th century authors who brought historical fiction to the masses as instruments of social control
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My favorite (cringeworthy) Anne of Green Gables editions
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Shasta Publishers: The Little SF Press That Could
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Misguided moral panic about children's books
...has been around for more than a century
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Bookshelf Tour #2: Horror anthologies
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