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Sinnett_Blue
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Wow another hidden gem 📕 The Familiar was so good with a heck of an ending. 🥲♥️ I highly recommend! 🙌🏼

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BacklistReader
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Mehso-so

It took me all month but I finically finished a book.

This was one of my #bookspin #doublespin picks for June.

I really liked the first book in this series but everything after that has been just ok. This one picked up a little bit and I was intrigued by some of the part but for the most part we continue on the just ok path.

I do own the entire series so I will continue but I kind of just want it to be over already.

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allisonjackson
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Seeing formations like this always makes me think about my high school English teacher who had us write a poem in the shape of a thing relating to the theme (shape poems). Even if this isn‘t necessarily a shape I think the scattered-ness of it brings about a theme of scattered thoughts. Shapes are all about bringing an experience of reading the poem, or in this case the novel and I think McBride executed this in a cool way when you notice

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This description and personification of sorrow was super interesting to me. I had not thought about people being so engulfed with sorrow and pain that they felt like it was holding them in a grip so tight they couldn‘t move. It seems like McBride personifies sorrow throughout this novel to show the hold it has on this person, on page 172-3 “sorrow chuckles…taps its fingers…smiles.” It was neat to me to read this and acknowledge what others feel

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allisonjackson
Panpan

Round of applause for McBride tackling these issues that most people (and authors) just breeze over. She was able to bring awareness using their inner thoughts. That said I am not a fan of this style of book, I don‘t like the novel in verse writing or fantasy reads. Absolutely nothing against McBride taking on these topics and themes is super important I will absolutely keep this on my bookshelf to recommend to students it‘s just not my cup of tea

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forestandcrow
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I found the best score at the thrift store today! All 3 of these audiobooks on cd for 6 bucks. 😭 plus a few books for my kiddos.

Gissy HP audiobooks are phenomenal! It is an adventure! 👌 2h
forestandcrow @Gissy I am excited for them. I love supporting libby for our libraries but sometimes I just want the audiobook immediately 😂 plus it will be great for my kiddos to listen too. 1h
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William_Harwood

“Sometimes your own mind will unroot you.“
McBride doesn't just write about mental health, she teaches it. Through poetic metaphor, students explore how depression distorts daily life. People cast spells to hide pain. Brains “think too much,“ even when endorphines are gone. Students examine performance, masking, and the quiet toll of overthinking, all within a lyrical and accessible framework.

katiegregory I really like that you said she teaches mental health, because I hadn‘t seen it from that perspective. I could see this book being a great way to explain depression and mental health to people who don‘t have experience with it, especially for younger readers. 2h
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AroundTheBookWorld
Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky
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William_Harwood

At the beginning of the narrative, it is unclear what reality is. The narrator exists somewhere between recovery, therapy, and fairy tales. This mix of the whimsical and reality makes you ask: Is magic a metaphor, a coping strategy, or both? This blending of fantasy and mental illness feels honest. Real pain can feel unreal, unbearable, and unrelatable.