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Kathleen Clare Waller's avatar

I’m so up for these album reviews and 1980s music as well as your take on “sides”. And what a literary feast. Happy new year!

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John Halbrooks's avatar

Thanks, Kate. Happy new year to you too!

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Zina Gomez-Liss's avatar

Yay! CHAUCER CHALLENGE! This is going to be a great year.

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John Halbrooks's avatar

Thanks, Zina! I'm happy you'll be joining; I'll look forward to your insights as a poet.

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Tiffany Chu's avatar

I would be very interested in medieval music to go with Chaucer! Excited for this year at PCF.

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John Halbrooks's avatar

Then it’s decided! What Tiffany wants, Tiffany gets.

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Tiffany Chu's avatar

To steal a Wicked reference, “Toss, toss.”

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A. Jay Adler's avatar

Yes on the medieval music. Dog snouts are an out-of-order appeal to emotion.

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John Halbrooks's avatar

Ha! Abby is also our emotional manipulation coordinator and begs to differ.

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Sarah May Grunwald's avatar

Where can I find the Middle Earth read along?

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John Halbrooks's avatar

Hi, Sarah. We will be doing the second read along this summer at PCF. The first read along from last year is indexed in this post: https://open.substack.com/pub/johnhalbrooks/p/a-brief-history-of-personal-canon?r=kyg3a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Sarah May Grunwald's avatar

Thanks

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Kim and the Cat's avatar

I am definitely interested in The Gawain and the Green Knight part of that, and maybe I'll follow the Chaucer Challenge, too. It's been a long time since I cracked open The Canterbury Tales.

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John Halbrooks's avatar

Glad you’ll be joining the fun!

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Matthew Long's avatar

Looks like a great year at PCF John! I will definitely be following along with the Tolkien readings.

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John Halbrooks's avatar

Thanks, Matthew. Perhaps a guest post for the series may be a possibility?

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Matthew Long's avatar

Sure, let me know what you need John. Always happy to contribute.

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Plain Jane's avatar

Looking forward to all of this in 2025 - happy new year!

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John Halbrooks's avatar

And to you!

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<Mary L. Tabor>'s avatar

Hurrah for that marvelous reading, thinking brain.

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