Litsy

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2024

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KCofKaysville

Going Solo | Roald Dahl

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Fun book about Roald Dahl's further adventures as a young man. In Africa and as a RAF pilot in N. Africa and Greece during WW2.

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KCofKaysville

Going Solo | Roald Dahl

Starting sequel memoir to Boy, which I have read.

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LaurenAsh

The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets | Roald Dahl

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Read with my kids...a preface to reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, next.

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sdbruening

Danny the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl

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This was a sweet story about Danny and his dad and their poaching adventure. I enjoyed that they have midnight feasts when they can‘t sleep. Dahl‘s writing is so personal. Like the narrator is talking directly to you.

Aimeesue My 4th grade teacher read this to us and i still remember it vividly. ❤️ 6mo

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Amandakay

The Twits | Roald Dahl

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I did this for a middle school book club and will never again.

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Nutmegnc

World Book Day 2016: the Great Mouse Plot | Roald Dahl

March 7, 2024

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mabell

Danny the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl

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This was one of my favorite Roald Dahl books growing up, but I haven‘t revisited it as an adult. Still a great story! The love and friendship between Danny and his father is so special, and the way they work together (to give Victor Hazell his comeuppance) is perfect!
Quite an adventure!
And Roald Dahl writes the most nasty, villainous adults! I have to skim read their parts 🤣
(I found this fabulous vintage copy for my shelves!)

#1975 #192025

Librarybelle

Aimeesue Beautiful copy! My fourth grade teacher read this to us and I‘ve loved it ever since ❤️ 1y

AvidReader25 I loved this one when I was young! 1y

Librarybelle That is a fabulous vintage copy!! 1y

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mabell @Aimeesue You have a good memory! I‘m trying to remember when I first read it! I can‘t think of anything I associate with it that would pin down the timing. This is going to drive me crazy 😆 1y

mabell @AvidReader25 Same! I‘m always a little nervous going back to books I loved so much, but this was just as I remembered! ❤️ 1y

mabell @Librarybelle I was so excited! It was a former school library copy that I extricated from the book cover! 1y

squirrelbrain I had this exact cover, although mine was paperback! 1y

mabell @squirrelbrain How fun! It‘s such a perfect cover for this book! I‘m trying to remember the one I had - I didn‘t remember this one, but I also didn‘t think it was Quentin Blake 🤔 1y

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Cuilin

Boy: Tales of Childhood | Roald Dahl

@TheSpineView thanks for the tag @dabbe

1 I think the Wednesday before Labor Day
2 Oh, there‘s so many, tagged book, Old School by Tobias Wolf, Malory Towers, Gentlemen and Player, by Joanne Harris, In Memoriam, by Alice Winn, The Chalet school series, Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, I‘m sure I‘m forgetting others. I love a novel set in a school, especially an old English public school.

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