Litsy

The Chocolate Touch | Patrick Skene Catling

Does anyone else remember this traumatizing book cover? John Midas (get it!?) gets his wish when everything he touches turns into chocolate.

#wickedwhispers @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

willaful mmmm... delicious mom. 😂 4w

RaeLovesToRead Good God 4w

LiteraryinPA Oh my gosh, I DO remember that!! 4w

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Bookwormjillk Haha yes! 4w

rubyslippersreads I‘ve never seen that. It could (almost) spoil chocolate for me. 😂 4w

Eggs Oh yes, from years of teaching middle school!! 3w

Kerrbearlib I remember this book! 3w

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BarkingMadRead

Nancy Drew 12: The Message in the Hollow Oak | Carolyn Keene

#hauntedshelf #flerken #tbrread #scavengerhunt #figure #gottacatchemall #greed #maze #countryside #nancydrewbr

Sace Oh I like that cover better than my edition! 4w

BarkingMadRead @Sace she looks so chic in this one! 4w

Sace @BarkingMadRead She does! I‘ve never really liked the 60s/70s covers but those are the covers for pretty much my whole collection. 4w

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LibrarianRyan

Mine! | Candace Fleming

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4 ⭐This book is adorable and would be great fun as a read aloud. An apple is about to fall from a tree and each animal takes a moment to think that is going to be mine. The way the author rhymes the story when she needs to and uses sound words like plop, fizz, etc. in other parts of the story makes this such a fun read. It a great ending. Also have to give it up to Eric Rothman, who did all the fantastic illustrations.

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psalva

McTeague | Frank Norris

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Ugh! I have complicated thoughts upon finishing this. There are many things which I despised, chief among them the brutal antisemitism which poisoned so much of the reading experience. Also, for me, the story boils down to a sociological character study on the negative effects of money, the extremes to which greed can push people. The writing captures the tone and feeling of inevitable destruction excellently. That element kept me reading. Yet…⬇️

psalva I‘m left with a bitter taste in my mouth. The antisemitism, the violence, the abuse that the characters put each other through, the stereotyped brutality linked to “stupidity”- it was a lot. Also, the ending was a bit on the nose (see final comment). In the end, no matter the level of suspense, I feel like the journey wasn‘t worth it entirely. This had a lot of potential, but perhaps its value is as a historical document of the era and style. 1mo

psalva The fact that McTeague flees from San Francisco after murdering Trina, taking the money and his canary, and is led by his instincts to flee an unknown pursuer, ending up in Death Valley-all of that made for palpable suspense. Painting it as some kind of Darwinian atavism was a bit much. He ends up chained to Marcus, in Death Valley, the canary in the gilt cage a symbol of his destiny. I gave my rapt attention for so trite an end to the horridness. (edited) 1mo

dabbe #fanofthepan! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 1mo

Lindy Ouch! 1mo

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