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  • Monkey King
    • I really like East Asian/Chinese Mythology and I have heard of the Monkey King so the title caught my eye
    • I have also watched the foreign language films The Monkey King and The Monkey King II on Netflix
  • Celtic Fairy Tales
    • I like anything Celtic so this one caught my eye
  • Russian Folktales
    • This one caught my eye because I don't know anything about them and I would like to know more
    • I also like that a lot of these stories are on LibriVox!
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