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LibrarianRyan
Starfish | Lisa Fipps
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⭐ 🌟 ⭐ 🌟5 ⭐
Where was this book when I was a child. As a 46-year-old woman I am all in my feels about a book that makes me 11 again. I am lucky that I did not have Ellie‘s mother, but my aunt and my grandmother were just like her. Ellie is a girl who is not small. She‘s been big all her life. She‘s been picked on by people at school, people in neighborhood, and even her mother. This constant referring of “you could be pretty if you lost weight”.

LibrarianRyan “Your problems are your own because you‘re fat”.” We could love you and like you more if you weren‘t big”. If you have a big girl in your life they need this book. Whether they‘re two years old or 102 years old. This novel in free verse is written with love and compassion and hope and bravery. The best thing about this book is how happy it leaves you feeling at the end. Happy and knowing that Ellie will most likely be OK. Because she‘s learned to 19h
LibrarianRyan stand up for herself. She learns to let others know that their behavior affects more than just them. I loved Ellie in the story. I understand the idea of star fishing and just floating. At age 11, I was in Alaska and the pool was my best friend. So much to not only like but to love about this book no matter your age, no matter your size. It moves quickly, so quickly that you‘re done before you had a chance to fully live out the message in the 19h
LibrarianRyan pages. I love everything about this book and it will probably be one of my favorite books of the year. 19h
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Steph.Titus
Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez
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6.2025

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itsjustme40something
Hunger Point | Jillian Medoff
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I loved this book when it came out and felt the connection to "Frannie" that everyone told me I would feel about Holden Caulfield...I enjoyed getting to step back into this world

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OriginalCyn620
All the Bright Places | Jennifer Niven
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This book wrecked me!
#25alive #bright

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 💛 2d
mom2bugnbee Loved that book! 2d
Eggs Great choice👏🏻👏🏻 1d
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn‘t.”

#hope
#25Alive

🧡🤍🧡

Aims42 💙🩵💙 4d
Eggs Lovely 😢 3d
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Anna40
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This book about the hospital Craiglockhart & two of its most famous patients, Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen, tracks the effects of industrial warfare on soldiers & the origins of PTSD. Shell shock was seen by many commanding officers not as an illness but cowardice& thus punished. It was thanks to physicians such as Dr Rivers who treated the men with compassion that some lucky few found healing. The strongest parts of the book are the poems

Anna40 written by Sassoon & Owens. I also enjoyed learning about the pacifist movement in the UK & how the war was perceived by those not involved in combat. Overall, the men who received treatment all had very privileged backgrounds, the poor private was sent right back to the front without any compassion or treatment … 4d
Suet624 Ugh. So sad. 4d
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Anna40 @suet624 yes, it is. I think many more than we think still believe PTSD in soldiers = coward or is something to be ashamed of 😢 3d
Anna40 @CarolynM it‘s not an easy read but it really pulled me in. I‘m interested in reading Sassoon‘s and Owens poetry collections. Very powerful poems 3d
CarolynM I‘ve got a particular interest in First World War literature with particular reference to Owen and Sassoon. Owen is a tragic figure and his poems are really moving. Sassoon was such oddbod, he is endlessly fascinating. Have you read his Sheraton trilogy? 3d
Anna40 @CarolynM I had never heard of either of them before reading this book. Would you recommend starting off with Sheraton trilogy? 3d
CarolynM It‘s fictionalised autobiography so it‘s a good way to get to know him. The first volume, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man is pre war, the other 2 during the war and cover the Craiglockart experience. Sassoon also features in Robert Graves‘s memoir Goodbye to All That. 3d
Anna40 @CarolynM thanks! Sounds great 💕 3d
CarolynM And for a fictional take on Owen and Sassoon at Craiglockart 3d
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Blueberry
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Up and down today.
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Kerrbearlib I need to read this book. Thanks for sharing! 4d
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LitsyEvents
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Repost for @BarkingMadRead

Who is in for the Bell Jar? Drop a comment below! Note that we start in the 9th, and remember that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so don‘t read the post each day until you‘ve read the chapter! Chapter a day! #hashtagbrigade
Amanda, I have two tag lists. One at the beginning of each new month, and one for each individual book, opt ins only.

BarkingMadRead Thank you for sharing! 4d
JenlovesJT47 @BarkingMadRead can you add me to the list please? 🙃 2d
JenlovesJT47 @BarkingMadRead thank you! 🤗 2d
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