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Just soooo sweet! I want to read this to every child I know! Another winner from @TheBookHippie ‘s #ChildrensClassicRead .

MemoirsForMe Agreed! 🙌🏻 2d

LeahBergen It‘s just so good! 🐭 2d

TheBookHippie It‘s just so so sweet!!! 2d

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LeahBergen

Mouse House | Rumer Godden

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Thanks to @TheBookHippie and #ChildrensClassicRead2025 for reminding me that I had this sweet (tagged) book waiting on my shelves. And, as others have mentioned, the illustrations are gorgeous!

I always pick up these New York Review Children‘s Collection editions when I spot them in used bookshops.

TheBookHippie I do too!!! I love these little books!! 2w

merelybookish Me too!! I found one a few weeks ago: The Lost Island. 2w

Leftcoastzen Such great little books ! 2w

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rubyslippersreads I ❤️ Charlotte Sometimes, but haven‘t read any of the others. Those are adorable editions. 2w

mrp27 😍😍😍 2w

sarahbarnes Those little ears! ♥️ 2w

LeahBergen @merelybookish Oh, that one sounds like I need it, too! 😆 And it‘s illustrated by Richard Kennedy (apprentice to the Woolfs at Hogarth Press). 2w

LeahBergen @Leftcoastzen They really are! 2w

LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads Charlotte Sometimes is a fave! 🥰 2w

LeahBergen @mrp27 😘 2w

LeahBergen @sarahbarnes Right?? 2w

MemoirsForMe Ditto on the beautiful illustrations! 😍 2w

CarolynM What pretty little books! 😍 2w

Cathythoughts Adorable 🥰 2w

RobinMcElveenAuthor Love those covers! 1w

LeahBergen @MemoirsForMe They‘re just so nostalgic! 1w

LeahBergen @CarolynM @Cathythoughts @RobinMcElveenAuthor They really are lovely little editions! 1w

tpixie What a delightful collection! Great covers! 19h

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mrp27

Mouse House | Rumer Godden

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April #childrensclassicread2025

I enjoyed this sweet little story of Mary and her mouse house but mostly I enjoyed the illustrations, they felt very nostalgic for my childhood reading days.

TheBookHippie

tpixie The illustrations were so lovely! Yes- nostalgic 🩷🩵🩷 2w

Trashcanman Nice to make your acquaintance! I‘m George. 1w

mrp27 Hello! I‘m Michelle, nice to meet you. 🤗 1w

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tpixie

Mouse House | Rumer Godden

Such a cute book with adorable illustrations! 🐭 🏡
I finally read an archive book that @TheBookHippie shared the link of.
It‘s much easier to read on my computer than my phone. 🤩
I love the library card 🩵
Juniata College Library is now named L A Beeghly Library & Juniata College was founded in 1876 by members of the Church of the Brethren.

#ChildrensClassicRead2025

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2w

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BarbaraBB

The Miniaturist | Jessie Burton

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This book had been on my shelves for years and I now finally picked it up. It‘s set in Amsterdam, where I live, in the 17th century, when we sailed the oceans and colonized countries and were a very wealthy trading country. That background is interesting to me, more interesting than the plot to be honest. But all in all a fairly good read and a light pick.

Suet624 Great to finally get it off your shelf! 2mo

Lesliereadsalot You live in Amsterdam!? I was there once at tulip time on a small boat cruise around all the waterways. Lucky you to live in such a cool city! 2mo

TheBookHippie I liked this light read. I‘m with you the background was the best part. 2mo

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BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie we obviously feel the same. An enjoyable read! 2mo

BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot It is a good place to live. Let‘s hope it stays that way in this world going crazy. 2mo

Rissreadswithcats I didn‘t realise you lived in Amsterdam! My son spent 6 mths in Rotterdam in 2023 playing cricket and is going back again for 3 mths this year, but this time he will be in Utrecht. I wish I could go over to spend some time with him. 2mo

BarbaraBB @Rissreadswithcats Did he have a good time in Rotterdam? Utrecht is great too, though smaller. Is your son a professional player? I wish you could come too. Where do you live? 2mo

Rissreadswithcats He isn‘t a professional player but he‘s very good, one step down so the cricket clubs will sponsor players from other countries like Australia. They get there flights and accommodation paid for and a small wage while they are there. He is 23 so I‘m glad he is doing his thing and having fun and seeing the world. If I do get over (I would have to win some money! But stranger things have happened!) I would def let We live in Perth, Western Australia. 2mo

BarbaraBB @Rissreadswithcats That is quite the trip for your son as “young” as he is! But you‘re right to be glad for him, it sounds so cool! ❤️ 2mo

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monalyisha

Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them | Lynne M. Thomas, Deborah Stanish

I just went down such a rabbit hole after learning that Seanan McGuire 1) found her agent through writing Buffy fanfic, & 2) genuinely despises the ending of the series.

NOW. I have plenty of complaints about Buffy. But the ending was never one of them. Any other superfans want to weigh in?

I may have bought a book just to read her essay about it.

Note: Don‘t worry! I bought it used. Because, ew, Joss Whedon.

willaful I was a big fan at one time and was pretty happy with the ending. I'm curious now too. 3mo

monalyisha @willaful The most I can find is a Goodreads quote, “The mythology warped and twisted back along itself until Buffy Summers, the girl who once railed against the unfairness of being Chosen, looked at a squadron of girls who were just like she‘d been and took away their right to Choose.” 3mo

willaful Ah, yes I can understand that point of view. It's presented as entirely a positive in the show, and you can argue that Buffy's pov has changed with age and that she's giving them something she mostly didn't have -- each other. 3mo

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AnneCecilie I liked that ending, but I had a completely different understanding off it. I took it to mean that every girl had the inner strength to be a slayer and stand up for herself 3mo

TheLudicReader I didn‘t hate the ending of Buffy. (My complaint has always been how they jumped the shark with Spike.) Curious to know what the author‘s fanfic handle was as I wrote a lot of fanfic back in the day and was pretty well connected to fandom. 3mo

monalyisha @willaful @AnneCecilie Yes! I viewed it as such a hopeful and beautiful example of the redistribution of power (and its decentralization)! Context is incredibly important. Community vs. isolation means so much. I didn‘t get the impression that every new Slayer would be forced into servitude, either. I bet McGuire feels even more passionately about her interpretation (which she‘s entitled to!) after the allegations against Joss came to light. 3mo

monalyisha @TheLudicReader Unfortunately, she removed her name from all of it after people started critiquing it like they would her published writing. I‘m not sure that info‘s findable anymore. I wouldn‘t recognize your handle (I was too young and my memory‘s too shoddy)…but I wonder if I read any of your stuff back in the day! I know McGuire specifically wrote Buffy/Faith fanfic. 3mo

willaful @monalyisha @AnneCecilie Yes, well put.

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TheLudicReader @monalyisha I don‘t think fic writers should be ashamed of what they wrote. It‘s great practice and I wrote stuff I am still really proud of. It sucks that Whedon tainted Buffy‘s legacy, but this is one instance where I separate art from artist. There were a lot of other people involved in the Buffyverse, too. Where did you read your fanfic when you read it? 3mo

monalyisha @TheLudicReader I truly have no idea. I was about 13. To me, it was all just “the internet.” 😅 I know I was a big fan of the Angel/Willow “ours is a forbidden love” storyline. To be clear, this pairing horrifies me now. 🙈 (As do many aspects of the show if I look at them too closely.) At the time, my thinking went no further than, “Angel is hot...and I am like Willow.” Reason enough for me! (edited) 3mo

TheLudicReader @monalyisha Angel is hot is the reason I started watching that show in the first place. 🤣 The next ten years I was full on fandom! 3mo

monalyisha @TheLudicReader Recapping the moment that he returned from Hell (in the nude), my bff‘s older sister‘s bff commented, “He was glistenin‘ like a Greek God!” That moment is forever seared into my brain. 😂 (edited) 3mo

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