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    <title><![CDATA[Film Review: The Mask of Zorro (1998)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:41:08 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[With my husband, lately, (and to my initiative), we've been sort of binge-watching the 1957 Disney series Zorro, a classic from my childhood and I am such a big fan And I'm not saying that there aren't any problems of representation in this show, there... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Northanger Abbey - chapter 5]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(read chapter 4) Chapter 5 The Old Wing part 1 Catherine spent the rest of the day absent-mindedly reading a book in the parlour–she took extra care in choosing a history book from the Abbey's library–while Eleanor embroidered tiny flower patterns on... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Northanger Abbey - chapter 4]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:05:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(read chapter 3) Chapter 4 A Decisive Discovery Catherine felt very weak in the morning. She could barely stand up and it was insisted upon by her affectionate Henry that she should have breakfast in her room. It was also decided without her consent,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Northanger Abbey - chapter 3]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:23:08 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(read chapter 2) Chapter 3 A Growing Uneasiness The following day, Catherine felt rather tired. She did not feel like having a long walk through the grounds, so Henry suggested that they simply sit on a stone bench under a tree in order to benefit from... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Northanger Abbey - chapter 2]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:04:56 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(read chapter 1) Chapter 2 Northanger Abbey Eleanor rode in the chaise-and-four with the General, while Henry and Catherine rode together in the curricle. Frederick had decided to stay in Bath before he was to join his regiment. After a few hours of quiet... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[About &quot;The Mystery of Northanger Abbey&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2018 10:46:46 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[If you have read The Lovers of Reading Abbey on this blog, you may already know that two years ago, I helped my pupil, The Royal Shrimp, write a detective story for her English class in high school. As she didn't like detective stories, I suggested we... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Northanger Abbey - chapter 1]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2018 10:30:05 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When Mr and Mrs Allen invited Catherine Morland to come with them to Bath, very little did the eighteen-year-old girl suspect that she was going to become an heroine, very much like the heroines of all the Gothic novels she spent so much time reading... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Lovers of Reading Abbey - part 5]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:56:25 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Actually, there were three flowers shops in the main street of Reading. Anne went in the first shop and asked if they sold yellow roses. They didn’t, neither did the second shop. But the third one did! With her charming smile she asked the owner of the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Lovers of Reading Abbey - part 4]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:28:23 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Anne was very upset with this investigation. While she was looking the next day for a portrait of the mother, she arrived in the General’s office. It was an austere place. Everything was dark and organized. She didn’t find anything expect a mysterious... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Lovers of Reading Abbey - part 3]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:28:20 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After that, she left the room and decided, as Mary had suggested her, to talk to Margaret Murphy who was the housekeeper of the Abbey. She wasn’t beautiful and didn’t seem to be kind. She was just strict like her job. Mrs. Murphy was little and had a... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Film Review: Crimson Peak]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:55:39 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yet, I must say, I was rather disappointed. I saw that the reviews of the film were quite positive in general, and that Stephen King himself called the film "gorgeous and just fucking terrifying". Now, the thing is that I know nothing about horror films,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Film Review: Thor (and Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:18:44 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[All this being said... ************ Thor or the making of mythology [review part] Once upon a Christmas (read: four months or so ago), Santa brought me the DVDs of The Hollow Crown, which series 1, being myself a big fan of both British history and British... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Lovers of Reading Abbey - part 2]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:31:35 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[About &quot;The Lovers of Reading Abbey&quot;]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://myenglishfantasies.eklablog.com/about-the-lovers-of-reading-abbey-a135528438]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:26:40 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This short story was written by my pupil for an English class assignment in her first year in high school. They spent the whole year studying detective stories in class, and as a "final task", they had to produce their own detective story. We worked on... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Lovers of Reading Abbey]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Lovers of Reading Abbey by The Royal Shrimp (about author and writing context) Part 1 ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Film Review: Pride and Prejudice (2005)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:40:48 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[As I am strongly considering writing my Master's dissertation on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (as well as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho), I recently decided - since I'm reading Radcliffe - to watch the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice again.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Book Review: Howl's Moving Castle]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://myenglishfantasies.eklablog.com/book-review-howl-s-moving-castle-a134213732]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:02:40 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Howl's Moving Castle is the first book of a series of 3, although it is muuuch better than its two sequels - *ultra partial mode ON*. I say I'm going to be partial because this book is one of my favorite EVER, along Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Road Not Taken]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:26:45 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The analysis that we did at the end of the answer sheet (which included a short biography of Robert Frost), was that this poem reflected on his own life. As he was said in his biography to have been a "pioneer" in poetry, we assumed that the "road less... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Book Review: Channel Blue]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://myenglishfantasies.eklablog.com/book-review-channel-blue-a131668194]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:02:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Overall - yep, let's start with the conclusion - Channel Blue is a very nice read. It is easy to read - although I should point out that I read it in French, so I can't exactly judge the style itself - and never boring. I read this book because I am now... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Final Task: American Dream]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:20:39 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Once upon a dream by The Royal Shrimp and Myself They had a dream An American dream They came from far away They reached the bay To escape the misery Of their own country They were supposed to find a land But instead, they found an island They discovered... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Film Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:13:37 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed watching Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, although I also found many imperfections to talk about. I will first talk about what I didn't like or thought weird about the film, and then about what I liked, and it's easier to... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Film Reviews: which Robin Hood?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:41:23 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[****************** N°4: Robin Hood (2010, by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett) Well, I don't mean that this is a very bad film altogether, but at least, I don't understand its title... Had it been called The Making of Robin Hood,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Final task: Fast Fashion]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 20:08:10 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[back (Yeah, we're sort of fans of Emma Watson, but it kind of fits the purpose here ) ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[An bhfuil Gaelige agat? - The Gaelic Revival]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:06:48 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[************** A Short History of the Irish Language until Irish Independence When you think about "Irish music", you probably think about something like this... ... but perhaps not something like that: Well, I think this proves that Irish is a language... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marie A.]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Film Review: La La Land]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2017 19:14:59 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My first criticism is about the rhythm. And this is very subjective and personal... but I tend not to enjoy films with a low rhythm (for instance, Japanese films), and there are a lot of long long takes in this film. The very opening scene is (supposed... ]]></description>
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