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Continuing with Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story, English translation by Ralph Mannheim. If you’ve missed one of the last two installments, I have unlisted recordings of them; just ask me for the link(s). Bastian has entered Fantastica and met the Childlike Empress, but upon making...
Happy Easter, folks! I hope the Easter Bunny and their helpers bring you lots of chocolate and other candy! I imagine bunnydom elects an Easter Bunny each year to oversee the festivities and the worldwide bunny community participates to make Easter a success, decorating and...
Reading chapters 14 and 15 of Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. Bastian has said the Childlike Empress’ name and been transported into the book, where he met Moon Child and an amazing twilight forest grew from his wishes. But what happens now? This is what...
Continuing with Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. Atreyu has brought Bastian to the Childlike Empress. All Bastian has to do to save Fantastica is say her name. He already knows her name. But he won’t say it because of crippling self-esteem issues, basically. So in...
We’re continuing with Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (English translation by Ralph Manheim). Atreyu’s been separated from Falkor and AURYN, and he’s in an abandoned city whose former inhabitants have jumped into the Nothing, except for one creature, a dying werewolf who isn’t actually from...
I’m continuing to read Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. Atreyu is the last Fantastican to ask Uyulala in the Southern Oracle who can give the Childlike Empress a name and save all of Fantastica, but her answer was that only a human can do it,...
Continuing with Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. As Bastian continues to read along in the attic of his school, he wonders how Atreyu heard his shout of fear, and meanwhile Atreyu finds himself and Falkor at the Southern Oracle, where they can ask the question:...
We’re in the third week of Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. As Bastian reads the book, it appears that the Childlike Empress, and in turn Fantastica itself, can only be saved if someone gives her a new name, and she’s designated young hero Atreyu to...
Well, what would The Neverending Story do, other than continue? We’ll start with Chapter 2, having read the introduction and Chapter 1 last week. Messengers from all over Fantastica have been journeying to the Ivory Tower to bring to the Childlike Empress dire news: a...
It’s finally time to start Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (English translation; the original’s in German). I’ve been teasing it for so long that some people may have thought it was the Never-Beginning Story! Many people are probably familiar with the movie from the 1980s,...
