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merelybookish
This Is All | Aidan Chambers
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Pickpick

I finally read this 800 page YA novel that's been sitting on my shelf for years, a leftover from my teaching days. It took over a month & I don't even know how to review it. Definite ups & downs. Places where the narrative went off the rails. A TERRIBLE ending. Some beautiful parts woven in. A complex depiction of teenage life. So I guess overall it's a pick because a) I managed to read the whole thing & b) I have complicated feelings about it.

merelybookish This book won the Printz award. It is also written by a man and sometimes that bugged me and I doubted his representation of teenage girlhood (eg her enjoyment of being nude and suspicion of other girls 🙄) but other times I felt he did a good job. Just more reasons why my relationship status with this book is: it's complicated. 11h
merelybookish @TheLudicReader Hey Christie! Wondered if you might like this book for your classroom library. 11h
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LitsyEvents
Journalkeeping | Carl Koch
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repost for @TheBookHippie

#JOURNALINGPROMPTS NOVEMBER

I cannot but remember
When the year grows old—
October—November—
How she disliked the cold!

-Edna St Vincent Millay

Whole poem: https://poets.org/poem/when-year-grows-old

Song : https://music.apple.com/us/album/when-the-year-grows-old/1588177175?i=1588177604

All welcome 🩶

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TheKidUpstairs
Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot
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Love this

TheBookHippie 🎉👏🏻🙌🏼 2d
OriginalCyn620 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣 2d
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AlwaysBeReading
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Mehso-so

Witch Child follows fourteen-year-old Mary, who flees England in 1659 for the New World near Salem, Massachusetts. Though she hopes for a fresh start, suspicion still follows as the town faces hardship and fear. I was hoping for something a bit more witchy, but it‘s more about survival and harsh colonial life. Told through Mary‘s discovered journal, it starts slow, yet by the end I was curious to see what happens next and would read the sequel.

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lauraisntwilder
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Maud had a tough four years in this volume! She can be so funny and relatable, then occasionally say something strange or slightly racist. It's tempting to say she's a product of her time, but I think it's more accurate to say she lacked self awareness sometimes. I find these journals fascinating. It's such an interesting record of life in this time period.

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lauraisntwilder
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Good gracious, Maud! That's a lot of racism in two consecutive sentences. ? "We seemed to be motoring through a river there and back but in the little Jew theatre itself we spent hours in another world. The film was The Birth of a Nation and it was very fine."

TheBookHippie Sigh. 3w
dabbe 😱 3w
BarbaraJean Yeah. Yikes. 😬 Also, the footnotes here were entirely insufficient, describing “Birth of a Nation“ as “a film set in the Civil War period.“ 3w
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lauraisntwilder @BarbaraJean Right?? What else have these footnotes left out? 3w
BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder The footnotes in these journals feel so inconsistent to me. Sometimes they explain way more than I want to know (i.e. detail on WWI battles), or they leave out so much context as to virtually be inaccurate (like here). 3w
lauraisntwilder @BarbaraJean Very true. I'm grateful that they've transcribed the journals, but the scholarship of the footnotes took a nosedive when Oxford was no longer involved. They are never helpful at this point. 3w
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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

Amy is currently working her way through the Anne books so I grabbed this for her when I saw it at at charity shop.

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kelli7990
Journalkeeping | Carl Koch
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I saw this post on Instagram from someone I follow and here‘s my comment on this post.

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🫂👌🏼💝. 1mo
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