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IamIamIam
Ghost | Jason Reynolds
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Pickpick

I need a LOVE option for this little slice of perfection!!! What a voice Reynolds writes in! It was narrated PERFECTLY and I was cheering for Ghost and wanted to smack him upside the head at the same time!! A #DiverseMiddleGrade novel about a boy living with his mom after his dad gets put in jail for trying to shoot them. A sad beginning with a few pretty bad choices in the middle makes for an excellent story of perseverance and second chances.

MrBook Great review! 5y
IamIamIam @MrBook Thanks! This was spectacular! I'd recommend it to anyone fighting a reluctant reader. 5y
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LibrarianRyan Agree whole heartedly. I loved this book. 5y
MrBook It was a #GreatAmericanReads book too! 😁👏🏻 5y
IamIamIam @LibrarianRyan You were right! Such a great read and the audio was really short. Guy Lockard did an absolutely amazing job!!! 5y
IamIamIam @MrBook And rightly so!!!! 5y
Cinfhen 💕 5y
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
The Land I Lost | Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
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Quite a climb up #mounttbr w/Phryne. Two #greatamericanreads - Dunces & Alaska. Several #bookclub & #readmyshelves reads.
Most Inspiring - We Should All Be Feminists
Long Awaited Favorites - Guides to Getting Lucky & Petticoats and Piracy.
My Absolute No 1 Favorite - Finally reading how #malec adopted Rafe in The Land I Lost. I laughed, I cried, I just got all the feels. 😍
#mymonthinbooks #oct #stats
10 Print 5 Kindle 4 Audio = 19 Total

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MicrobeMom
Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days | Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
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My best friend loves this series. So, I chose it as part of my #greatamericanreads list. I am not very fundamentalist as a Catholic and I knew exactly what this series was when starting. I went with an open mind. However, I feel the writing is really poor and it is turning me off. I am going to give this another 100 pages but I might have to bail. Anyone else feel the writing was poor for this series?

ReadingSusan Yes. 6y
GingerAntics I read it. I didn't know, going in, that it had so much anti-catholic sentiment. I think I made it through the first book, but I never made it past that. The writing is horrible. I wish I had bailed on it, honestly. 6y
Crazeedi Tried to read, but just couldn't get into it. There are tons of other excellent books on faith etc that are worth my time 6y
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger
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Panpan

Read this for Banned Books Week and because of Great American Read. Maybe this is a case of a book that needs younger eyes rather than older ones. Appears people either love it or hate it. Quite frankly I found it a slog. Finally gave up, read cliffsnotes, skimmed and read the final couple of chapters. At least now I know what the title is about. 😏 #bannedbooks #skimmedandreadthefinalchapter #greatamericanreads

MelissaSue81 The worst!! 6y
Samplergal One of my favorites. That‘s why there are so many books! 6y
Reviewsbylola I‘m curious to see if I would like this one as much as I did as a teenager. 6y
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BeththeBookDragon
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Still working on this one... had to switch to print, someone else wanted the audio! #greatamericanreads #pbs #pbsgreatamericanreads

bookandcat I'm working on the #gar books too, this is one of them for me! I have about 30-40 left I think. 6y
Hoopiefoot And a Dogfish Namaste to boot. Cheers! 🍻 6y
BeththeBookDragon @bookandcat I have 44 left - I couldn‘t believe how many of them I hadn‘t read - some I‘d never heard of! 6y
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BeththeBookDragon @Hoopiefoot It‘s a new fave for me! 6y
bookandcat @BeththeBookDragon I'm LOVING the one I'm working on now (it was new to me): 6y
BeththeBookDragon @bookandcat I just put that one on my ever growing hold list at the library! 6y
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BeththeBookDragon
Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe
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BeththeBookDragon
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Another missing check mark from the #greatamericanreads on actual CDs! #greatamericanread

readingjedi I loved this series! 6y
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MrBook
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Brackets 4-11 of my library branch's #GreatAmericanReads tournament 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! Each branch (but not our County Correctional Facility branch) has been having very different results, all starting with the same titles in the same places. Very interesting to watch. We have a couple hundred total votes so far. Looking forward to it building up more momentum.

Surprised by any of these results?

#LitsyLovesLibraries

aroc You are going to have Anne vs Harry Potter!!!! That is an implosion of my childhood! I don't know who will win!! 🤔 6y
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Celeste57
Shelter in Place | Nora Roberts
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Here‘s my tentative #JuneTBR and #AnticipatedJuneReads . Tentative because I‘m a super moody reader so everything is subject to change, especially the classics. I might substitute some of these for a few of the #GreatAmericanReads I haven‘t read yet. Tagged book is my most anticipated, and I‘m over halfway through both The Outsider and Christy already! #ReadingResolutions #June #JuneInBooks18

rubyslippersreads Along with many other Littens, I ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
Celeste57 @rubyslippersreads Somehow I completely missed both this one and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn when I was younger. ATGiB is now one of my favorite books ever, and I‘m really looking forward to I Capture the Castle!! 6y
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MrBook
The Infinity of Lists | Umberto Eco
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Okay, so I wanted to share my #GreatAmericanReads display I set up today and the latest #booklist I've gotten done, but I got tied up with some work 🙈. It's late and I don't want to slam your newsfeed anymore than one of these will do, lol; so, I'll share the list tonight and the display tomorrow?

This booklist was done in significant conjunction with another Litten, the amazing @Copwithabook 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

Copwithabook @MrBook this is awesome! Thank you for doing this. I can‘t wait to add so many more to my TBR 6y
MrBook @Copwithabook You're awesome! 😁🤗🤗🤗 6y
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