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[Jessica @realbooklady]

@Moncrie30531284 @BCPLibraries I think Disney enforces a more simple morality - good people are selfless and believe in people, evil people are selfish and power hungry

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@BCPLibraries And it also means your children will be able to discover something new in a familiar tale once they read they original! #MyBookLife

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@BCPLibraries Q3. I think from a modern standpoint the morality of original folk tales is fairly..dark so "Disneyfication" can't really be detrimental to it, but it does lose 'flavour' and nuance. #BCPBookChat #MyBookLife

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@BCPLibraries As a way of getting insight into our ancestors' ways of thinking and values. And then contrasting them with ours! #BCPBookChat #MyBookLife

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@BCPLibraries I recently tracked down a copy of Puffin's Norse myths just because I remembered being thrilled by it when I was young! #MyBookLife

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@BCPLibraries I generally prefer a traditional re-telling but I do love Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime series which are a twist on original rhymes/fairy tales. #BCPBookChat #MyBookLife

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@BCPLibraries My favourites are ones I read as a child - works by Roger Lancelyn Green and Kevin Crossley Holland. #BCPBookChat #MyBookLife

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@BCPLibraries @neilhimself That is on my list of 'things I must get around to reading #SomeDay!' #MyBookLife

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@BCPLibraries My favourite has to be #Narnia! Had a big influence on me growing up and reading books about it taught me quite a bit about philosophy, like Plato! #MyBookLife #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries The world of the Belgariad/Mallorean by David Eddings. It seemed real because of the politics mentioned almost in passing, as if the characters already knew and you should too. Also the maps!
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It’s bedtime and this #ReadingHour Teddy is sharing a familiar classic. But #WheresSpot?

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@BCPLibraries Miss Silver by Patricia Wentworth. Has all of Miss Marple's good qualities (all-seeing eye, kindness and knitting) without the nosiness which I wouldn't like to encounter irl. Miss Marple is runner up #MyBookLife #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Aside from the obvious Golden Age authors, I'm really sorry that Jill McGowan didn't get to write more Lloyd & Hill books. 'Unlucky for Some' is one of my favourites. #MyBookLife #BCPBookChat

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@Joseamey @BCPLibraries I suppose it depends if people long more for the comfort of cosy crime or the escape from boredom of more thriller crime! #BCPBookChat

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@TomeRa1der @BCPLibraries Have you read 'Artemis' by Andy Weir? It's not as good as The Martian but it is a crimey sci-fi novel.

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@Moncrie30531284 @BCPLibraries But which TV Marple do you think best captured the character? I started with Geraldine McEwan so I'm fond of her but Joan Hickson was perfect in my eyes! #MyBookLife #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries In general I never like adaptations of books but I admit that the earlier David Suchet Poirot films and Joan Hickson's Miss Marple were pretty spot on. Whereas I had to stop watching the recent Agatha Christie adaptations in disgust. #MyBookLife #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries I tend to think of horror as supernatural fiction. I suppose the difference between thriller and crime would be the focus - crime on solving the crime and a thriller on surviving it! #BCPBookChat #MyBookLife

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@Curly_lu @BCPLibraries How gory/gruesome are Tess Gerritsen books? I've considered them in the past but am nervous about graphic depictions of bodies.

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@BCPLibraries If you don't mind a lot of romance in your crime then Patricia Wentworth is a very cosy Agatha Christie style crime author. #BCPBookChat #MyBookLife