The Girl with the Silver Eyes | 
1) My grandfather was a high school math teacher, and my parents looked through the absentee list from his school for name inspiration. So I am technically named after someone who didn't bother showing up for school! 😂
2) I adored the tagged book growing up - a protagonist with my name and the ability to move things with her mind, just like Roald Dahl's Matilda (my other favorite book)? Sign me up!
#TwoForTuesday
@TheSpineView
pickNostalgia points; this was a favorite of my sister‘s and I remember begging to read it, and maybe finally just stealing it. Now I have my own copy 😆 and I think it still works, if some parts are a little dated (30 cents to ride a bus?). Katie can move things with her mind, and her silver eyes make people uncomfortable. When someone starts asking too many questions she starts to wonder if there might be more kids like her.
AND she‘s reading my favorite book from childhood. I don‘t remember noticing any of this when I read this as a kid.
When your book character shares your birthday - September 10. I think this is a first for me.
And part four of library discards #bookhaul starts with a childhood favorite (tagged). It‘s my sister‘s, so now I have my own copy! Kiddo and I love Witch Mountain (original movie) and while I dislike the movie cover I won‘t quibble with free. I‘ve been wanting to read the other three and they fell into my arms today. What a haul!
so-soGenre : Science Fiction
author : Willo Davis Roberts
Date started : Nov 15
Date finished : Nov 19
Why i chose this book: this book was mostly a mistake will i was choosing. i was looking for a booked called silver eyes at the public library and this is the only book that they had so i had to go for the book that they had.
Genre : Science Fiction
author : Willo Davis Roberts
Date started : Nov 15
Date finished :
Why i chose this book: this book was mostly a mistake will i was choosing. i was looking for a booked called silver eyes at the public library and this is the only book that they had so i had to go for the book that they had.
Day 2: #7days7covers #covercrush
7 days, 7 covers, no explanations. Join in if you want!
Finally crossing one off my #popsugarreadingchallenge ! This was one of my favourites when I was a kid, so I thought I‘d choose it for my book that makes me nostalgic, but I think it‘ll be “A book that I think should be turned into a movie” instead.
Because you can never have enough movies about kids with telekinesis. #24in48
pickIt had been 30+ years since I read this book! It really stood the test of time. Just as good now as it was then. (Whew!!)
This was the cover art on the old book. 😄😄😄
#LitsyAtoZ #R #BookishMarginalia
I first had this book when I was 10-11 years old, back in the early ‘80s. I loved it and read it over and over until the book fell apart. I was thinking about it recently, and decided to buy a new copy. Time to re-read and reminisce! 💙 👧🏽 📚
I love it when the characters in a book enjoy books & reading as much as I do ❤️
These were the first books to come to mind for #Apples. As a kid, The Girl with the Silver Eyes made me want psychic abilities and The Dollhouse Murders freaked me out, especially since I had a dollhouse in my bedroom. The idea of moving dolls still creeps me out! #Riotgrams
This seems to make a lot of people's favorite childhood books lists! I have yet to read it, but these first few lines in the description sound promising:
"Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would rather read a book than deal with other people."
#MayBookFlowers And it has an apple on the cover so it counts for today's prompt #fruit ?☺?
I've fallen behind for the #ReadJanuary photo challenge, so I'm doubling up: The Girl on the Train is my pick for both #BookEveryoneButYouHasRead and #GirlintheTitle. Another one that I feel like I'm the only person who hasn't read is Harry Potter & the Cursed Child. More "Girl" titles: childhood fave, The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts, and Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy.
Three fictional characters that are me - a combination of the outlook of the unnamed female anthropologist in Mating, the silver eyes and psychic powers of my favorite childhood novel, and the belief in love of Anne Elliot in Persuasion.
pickIn 2nd grade there were three Apple paperbacks I checked out over and over. As an adult, I became a librarian and watched my blue eyes turn silver. Coincidence? #FunFridayPhoto
