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Part 2, ch 1: yikes this is our karma for yesterday‘s short chapter 🤣 #anyway #tomisatschool #theonlystudent #andapparentlyastupidone #somuchstruggle #andalsobabysitting #mrsrevisntasnice #therevisdecentthough #euclidandlatinaretheenemy #maggievisits #sheactuallyteachestomabut #untiltherevsaysgirlscantlearnasmuch #sir #imsoirritated #tomlikedthatalittletoomuch #boys 🙄 #christmasbreak #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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mcctrish Giving religion a bad name 2w

dabbe To be the only student ... YIKES! And (gasp) Tom behaves like a girl and actually has his hubris stomped on a little bit. I think it's a good lesson for him--even though his actual lessons are 😱! 2w

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KAO Whew. That chapter was rather long and somewhat tedious (though I liked the bit of life reflection in the last lines). Maybe the feeling that this chapter would never end parallels Tom‘s feeling about this long and tedious academic term. 2w

TheAromaofBooks I actually found myself liking Tom for the first time in this chapter. 2w

Bookwormjillk I‘ll admit it. It‘s Monday. I skimmed. 2w

ElizaMarie Tom can‘t ever let Maggie have any props 2w

Morr_Books I wish I had learned more languages when I was younger, but Latin was never one of them 2w

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Kristelh

April | Gabrielle Lord

#april #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w

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sblbooks

Farmer Boy Goes West | Heather Williams

#MiddleGradeMarch #TBR #POP prompt: involves travel

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Meghan1

Bringing the Boy Home | N. A. Nelson

pick

Book 3 of 2025. Four stars for the story, which follows two boys growing up in an isolated tribe in the Amazon. The only thing I didn‘t like, explained in the author‘s note, is that almost everything in the story is made up - the tribe isn‘t real, some of the plants and animals named aren‘t real, and most of the language the “Takunami” tribe uses is made up. The story is based on an idea about unknown tribes in the jungle. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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fredthemoose

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It | Richard Reeves

so-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️ I‘m torn on this one. The author highlights important areas where boys lag behind girls (rates of maturation, educational attainment) and ways particularly Black boys experience discrimination and the structural issues they face in school and society. He‘s careful to make clear he does not want to improve outcomes for boys and men at the expense of women. He loses me when talking about how now that women don‘t “need” men, ⬇️

fredthemoose … men are now adrift and don‘t know their roles. I have a hard time thinking of other groups who are waiting for society to present them with their unique, valued role instead of just rolling up their sleeves, figuring out how to use their talents to make a contribution and getting to work. 🤷‍♀️ (edited) 4mo

willaful Nicely put! 4mo

quietlycuriouskate 🎯 3mo

fredthemoose @willaful @quietlycuriouskate thanks. I really struggled with what to think of this. It did make me think and I want to be fair to it. The author was careful never to say it, but it seemed like implicitly a lot of the problem is that men are no long implicit the top of the hierarchy just for existing and that is hard for them and I‘m not the *most* sympathetic to that. (edited) 3mo

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LiseWorks

Soup | Robert Newton Peck

November 25th #DaysDevotedTo Soup 🍲 @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 🧡🥣🩵 5mo

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