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Pirates?

03 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Stories

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John Steinbeckhine Tey, Josephine Tey, Pirates, R. L. Stevenson, Rafael Sabatini

A couple of weeks ago my mother discovered, with considerable amusement, the existence of Talk Like a Pirate Day, and asked why I didn’t post about it.

“Never have,” I said. “I don’t even like pirate stories.”

“Nonsense,” was the answer. “You’ve read lots of them.”

And I protested that no, really – in fact, I rather dislike pirate stories… And I was thinking of Jack Sparrow and company, but even more of Salgari’s insufferable Sandokan and multi-coloured corsairs, without which no Italian childhood is considered complete… Continue reading →

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