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The Annotated Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame, Annie Gauger

Random book from our personal library.

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IriDas

Three Names | Patricia MacLachlan

This is what my youngest son is reading to me.

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TheBookHippie Awe. Such fun. 15h

AnnCrystal How sweet 🥳📚💝. 11h

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BookmarkTavern

The Patchwork Girl of Oz | L. Frank Baum

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The young Munchkin Ojo is on a quest to save his beloved uncle. With friends like Scraps the Patchwork Girl, the Glass Cat, & the Shaggy Man, he will travel across Oz to save his family.

I feel so weird about this. I love Ojo, Scraps, & the Glass Cat. But reading this now, I don‘t like Ozma‘s banning of magic except for Glinda & the Wizard, & I really don‘t like the final treatment of the Glass Cat or the Wizard Ex Machina at the end.🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑

BookmarkTavern Because, basically, it‘s “We don‘t like how the Glass Cat behaves, so we‘re going to give her a lobotomy and change her literal brain so she becomes humble and docile and a Good Pet for Ozma.” 18h

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monalyisha

Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery

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Just as obsessed with Anne as the first time I met her (which wasn‘t until my early 20‘s)!

I love L.M. Montgomery‘s writing. I adore her sense of wonder, which she finds in nature and in the hearts of people. I think I laughed more this time around, at a further remove from the dramatic throes of childhood and adolescence (but not so much that my laughter wasn‘t tender and full of reminiscences).

I‘ll admit that I prefer Anne in print.

HeartOfBabel I've read these books to my girls before bedtime, a very good collection to have in the personal library. 5h

monalyisha @HeartOfBabel I imagine that‘s the perfect way to read them when you‘re young! 5h

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Juxtapositions like these are one of the reasons I‘m so enjoying reading LMM‘s journals alongside a re-read of her books!

Top: quote from Aug. 4, 1923 — just weeks before Emily of New Moon was published
Bottom: quote from chapter 1 in Emily of New Moon

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread #LMMJournals

lauraisntwilder, TheAromaofBooks

JenlovesJT47 💚💚💚 2d

TheAromaofBooks I am really interested to see what connections we find between Emily and LMM (and later - Pat and LMM) 1d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I am SO interested to read the journals alongside Pat! I remember you really not liking the Pat books--do you think you'll re-read this time? 22h

TheAromaofBooks I still have never read Mistress Pat, but I probably will reread Pat of Silver Bush despite saying I wasn't going to read it again ever 😂 8h

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

I was really excited about re-reading Emily of New Moon by listening to this audiobook narrated by Megan Follows. Until I saw it‘s abridged. 😭 Maybe I‘ll read it in print and then go back afterwards to listen and see what they cut out. #LMMReread #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

TheBookHippie Oh dear. 2d

lauraisntwilder ☹️ I see no reason for this book to have been abridged. 2d

BarbaraJean @TheBookHippie I‘m SO disappointed! @lauraisntwilder Right?!? How could Megan Follows be part of this kind of travesty?! 2d

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TheBookHippie @BarbaraJean it makes no sense. 2d

willaful Good grief! It's hardly a super long book! 2d

BarbaraJean @willaful I was thinking it was longer than Anne by about 100 pages, but I just looked it up, and at least in the Bantam paperbacks, it's all of 30 pages longer than Anne. 🙄 22h

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) | J.K. Rowling

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I always have something in my ears when I go to sleep, & while I've read the HP series multiple times, I've never listened to them. I'm slowly making my way through Jim Dale's narration, sometimes no more than 15 minutes a night before I drop off to sleep. This is one of my favorite series, so all books are 5 ⭐ for me.

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