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Helping hands keeping stories alive

The Keeper of Stories by Caroline Kusin Pritchard

November 11, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The story within the pages of The Keeper of Stories by Caroline Kusin Pritchard and illustrator  Selina Alko is fairly simple. It is about the Jewish Theological Seminar library told in poetic language that tells from the start to the devastating fire in 1966. The publisher description says: When a fire breaks out at the Jewish Theological Seminary library, helping hands from across the community rally together to save the books and preserve the stories within the pages. Includes factual backmatter on the Jewish Theological […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: Books, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, fires, Judaism, libaries, Selina Alko, United States - 20th Century

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:501 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Books, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, fires, Judaism, libaries, Selina Alko, United States - 20th Century ·
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How dull it would have been to be happy!

Fires by Marguerite Yourcenar

April 12, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There are two main narrators for this book by Marguerite Yourcenar. The first is whoever is telling the stories in the vignettes and monologues and minor narratives about the mythic figures. The second is the author herself, experiencing a personal crisis, that seems to result from a disastrous love affair, which has led her to consider suicide. But the idea of the suicide perhaps takes on a kind of Greek/mythopoetic form of dramatic and mythical suicide. The kind of suicide open to heroes, Gods, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: fires, marguerite yourcenar

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:186 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: fires, marguerite yourcenar ·
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