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Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only 15 centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout. ’But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Jonathan Swift original by Clare West.

This is an adjunct to my long-running blog at Bookworm Room. There, I talk about politics and social issues from a conservative perspective. My blog's motto is "conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts."

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Welcome Bestie!!! As a self-certified bookworm, I’ve always had a dream of sharing my favorite books with fellow readers. This podcast will be covering hot takes on your favorite books, narrations of books and generally trending topics in the book community. So grab your tea and get ready for an exciting chat! New episode every Thursday.

Brandi Bradley is an indie author who cannot stop talking. She writes crime fiction about secret and scandals, but in her regular life she's teaching, baking, and driving around Atlanta in her favorite cowgirl boots. Each episode is a mini essay about how she navigates being an indie writer, a parent, and an urban cowgirl.Read Books. Wear Boots.

Poet and author Cassandra Dallett is your Badass Bookworm inviting writers and activists to talk about their projects, process, and current events. Some times there are drinks sometimes there are roundtables but there is always great dialogue and ideas.

William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time... or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet... or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams.

Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter ’A’ stands for ’Adultery’. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne.

"When we are happy, we are always good," says Lord Henry, "but when we are good, we are not always happy." Lord Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Oscar Wilde original by Jill Nevile.