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Joined September 2017

Where Amy and Suzanne play Library Chicken
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Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
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Worstward ho by Samuel Beckett
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In Secret Assignments, three best friends from a fancy private high school take part in a pen-pal assignment with three boys from the nearby non-fancy non-private high school and begin to suspect that at least one of the boys may not be who he seems. It‘s an epistolary novel, made up of Diary Entries, Rude Graffiti, Hate Mail, Love Letters, Revenge Plots, Date Plans, Notes Between Friends, and Famous Last Words.‘

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(I hope this the right translation I am linking!) Reading this translation by A.E. Stallings (in rhyming fourteeners no less!) inspired me to pick this poem of hers for our October poem of the month.

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The Icarus Girl | Helen Oyeyemi
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Oh, man, I love Oyeyemi so much. This is her first novel, written when she was 18 years old (18 YEARS OLD), and I couldn‘t put it down. Jess, our 8yo protagonist, picks up an unusual friend (TillyTilly) while in Nigeria, visiting her mother‘s family. There are themes here Oyeyemi will echo later on in her excellent ghost story, White is For Witching, and as is typical, she leaves certain plot elements unresolved. 18 YEARS OLD, people. -suzanne

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Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz

Suzanne recommended this mystery-within-a-mystery for me, and she has never steered me wrong. (See also: Tooth and Claw, All the Birds in the Sky)

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Worstward ho | Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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I love a middle grades book with a little science (check! Zig's an engineer), puzzles to solve (check! Geocaching clues all over the place), and a window into a potentially unfamiliar experience (check! Zig and his mom lose their home through a combination of bad luck and hard times). I reviewed it for HSL: http://homeschoollifemag.com/blog/2017/9/23/new-books-the-exact-location-of-home

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All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren
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“...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self."

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Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse

Reading this again for this week's high school book club. I forgot how this pretends to be a short read but really isn't because you want to go back and read it two more times in a row.

RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Here's a bunch of #LitsyTips I put together in a post a couple of weeks ago: http://litsy.com/p/RzZCTVZYU1ND 7y
home-school-life-reads @RaimeyGallant This is incredibly helpful--thanks so much! 7y
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