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Magic Tree House #1-4 | Mary Pope Osborne

1. Magic Tree House definitely! 🌳
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall maybe. It wasn‘t my best reading year! 😬
3. I seriously can‘t think lol! Joffrey is a good one to hate!
4. Catcher in the Rye (I know, I‘m sorry lol)
5. I never know who to tag! 😩
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Cinfhen @GypsyKat chose the same book for #4 #excellentCompany 💜 6y

JenlovesJT47 Joffrey is an excellent choice 😒💜 6y

Ash.on.the.line @Cinfhen at least I‘m not alone! 💜 6y

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Ash.on.the.line @JenlovesJT47 he really is the worst! 😆💜 6y

ghosthost @Cinfhen Me too! Didn‘t like it when I was 14, which is supposedly the right age to read it. 6y

Cinfhen I did like it @ghosthost but I was closer in age to 34 than 14.....maybe that‘s why I liked it😉 6y

ghosthost @Cinfhen Oh! I misread your post. I didn‘t see the tag for @GypsyKat. 6y

Cinfhen And I read Catcher with my son who was 14 at the time... and he liked it too @ghosthost 😍 6y

GypsyKat Yes!!! 🙌🙌🙌 6y

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merelybookish

American Pastoral | Philip Roth

You know how there are people who just don't read women writers or don't read writers in translation or don't read whatever?
Well I don't read big American male writers of the 60s, 70s & 80s. Roth, Updike, Wolfe, Pynchon, Delillo, Thompson. Zero interest. Am I missing out on great literature? Maybe. #AmIWrong? Perhaps. Do I care. Nope!
#lyricalapril @Cinfhen

LauraBrook I feel the same way! #excellentcompany 7y

AmyG I did love thhis book, though. 7y

bates_barb Me too. I've read a few of the American White Dude canon here and there, but not much. I decided that 2017 was going to be the year I didn't buy or read any books written by white men. It's opened up a ton of space in my reading life for amazing books by WOC especially I probably wouldn't have gotten around to otherwise. 7y

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Cinfhen Don't think you're wrong at all, but I try to view all writers as authors and not categorize them to fit a particular box #AmIWrong ?!? That being said, I don't enjoy most of the writing from that generation of male authors. I like your hashtag @LauraBrook 😊 7y

LauraBrook @Cinfhen Yes, you make a good point, and I agree with you. But I've tried lots of these books over the years and I just don't like them (and I don't like "Beat generation" stuff either). Ugh. It's sort of nice, in a way, to not like something since I'm interesting in reading darned near everything else. ? 7y

merelybookish @bates_barb @LauraBrook I'm glad to be in #excellentcompany. White dude Canon indeed! I think part of what turns me off these writers is that their writing seems SO male. I've read a few over the years. But don't need to try anymore. @Cinfhen No, you are not wrong! I realize I'm being rather close-minded. But I figure those guys have done pretty well. They can survive without me. 😊 7y

merelybookish @AmyG one of my best friends loves this book, too. She thinks I should read it some time. Also don't Delillo. 7y

AmyG @merelybookish Oh, I am not i to Delillo at all. 7y

merelybookish @AmyG 👍👍 7y

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