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Eggs
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
21 posts | 26 read | 7 to read
Nine-year-old David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Sarcastic and bossy 13-year-old Primrose lives with her childlike, fortuneteller mother, and a framed picture is the only evidence of the father she never knew. Despite their differences, David and Primrose forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives. This powerful, quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery.
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Eggs
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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1. Tagged
2. Over-easy or vegetable omelette
3. Turtles, toads, spiders, snails, fish, birds, insects, and crayfish all hatch from eggs.

#deviledeggday @WildAlaskaBibliophile

WildAlaskaBibliophile Love it, thank you for playing! 🥚 14mo
Eggs @WildAlaskaBibliophile you‘re welcome ☺️ 14mo
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GatheringBooks
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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#AutumnPlease! Day 13: For #WorldEggDay, here‘s brunch today with morning flatbread consisting of eggs, kale pesto, mozzarella, kashkaval and akkawi, sundried tomato, and pine nuts. If we have video here on Litsy, I would have gladly shared the video of our server preparing this in front of us. 💕

Eggs How fun 🤗🥚🍳 1y
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Eggs
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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Bklover And a happy World Egg Day to you, dear @Eggs !❤️🥚🪺🍳 1y
TheSpineView It's your day! Enjoy! 1y
Eggs @Bklover Thank You Missy I assure You I‘m eggstatic🥚🥚 1y
Eggs @TheSpineView Thank You Lisa, it was an eggcellent day 🤗 1y
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Eggs
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🥚 💙 3y
marleed Nice! 3y
Eggs @marleed Thanks 🙏🏻 3y
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LibrarianRyan
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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1. ummmmm. New kitten...kind of (I hate cats)
2. Squad or If the Shoe Fits, or a book I can't talk about yet.
3. Frankenteins Monster
4. security guards

@trashcanman @Bookzombie @eggs

#WonderousWednesday

TiredLibrarian This new kitty might bring you around to loving cats! 😻 Pic? 3y
Eggs Great post! Thanks for playing 😻📚👏🏻 3y
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Eggs
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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1️⃣ it works for people who have trouble saying my last name
2️⃣ counseling/curriculum in public education
3️⃣ reading, writing letters to my grands, walking
4️⃣ forever climbing Mt. TBR 🧐
5️⃣ Accept things you can‘t change, change the things you can, and be wise enough to know the difference (serenity prayer)
#allaboutme
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

TheBookHippie Mt. TBR 🤣🤣❤️ 5y
Eggs @TheBookHippie 🤗🤓💖 5y
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Eggs
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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A quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children (David and Primrose) has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery.

#eggs
#bloomingbibliophiles
@OriginalCyn620
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Velvetfur Eggs reads Eggs! 🍳😂 5y
OriginalCyn620 Sounds good! 🍳 5y
Eggs @Velvetfur Birds of a feather lay eggs together??🥚😂 🐦🥚 (edited) 5y
Velvetfur @Eggs 😂😂 5y
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BookPanda
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
Pickpick

Love this book, it really gives me strong emotions. I love the way Jerry Spinelli writes.
#bolducbookworms

.ioisblocked No really, please don't egg me on. 5y
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bookishbitch
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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Mehso-so

Cute book about friendship. It meanders a bit but overall I liked it.

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vumblereads
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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The story has nothing to do with eggs but you‘ll see eggs splatter in every other scenario. David, the main character also met Primrose in an Easter egg hunt 🤷🏻‍♀️

It‘s establishing some sort of continuation in the story line-Easter egg hunting, David finding eggs splatter on the van. I get it.

For those who have read the book, am I the only person here who thinks that Primrose‘s mom needs to be under CPS investigation? 🤔

mellissimo I don't know the book but the photo is so funny! ^^ I first didn't realise that it was just the cover of a book and thought your cat was sitting behind a real package of eggs. 😂 6y
vumblereads I know. You‘re not the first person who‘s wondered why I took a picture of eggs. 😄 6y
rretzler Beautiful kitty😻. 6y
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vumblereads
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli

Still reading Eggs by Jerry Spinelli. I‘m wondering whether or not I should start posting my reviews here on Litsy instead of Goodreads. Do you guys use both apps? Which app do you prefer to write reviews on? #litsyvsgoodreads #bookreviews

lahousewyfe I use both apps and just copy my Litsy review to my Goodreads account. 6y
mreads I use both, I write here and usually just star there. A brief synopsis and casual opinion here works better for my style. 6y
Jemgirl2014 I'm primarily here. I just use goodreads for updating my reading challenge. 6y
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Suet624 I just use Goodreads for the reading challenge. 6y
rretzler I use LibraryThing, Goodreads and Litsy. Litsy is easier to post quick reviews, but I attempt to get them in all 3 places (using the same review for LT and GR) Always a star rating on LT and GR at a minimum (edited) 6y
bookishbitch I only post here and on Instagram. I used to do goodreads but stopped. This is easier and more fun for me. Plus it annoys me that goodreads and Amazon are linked. I can't articulate why. It just feels invasive. 6y
Naj I post reviews only here. Goodreads is just for tracking my reading. 6y
vumblereads @lahousewyfe I might do that too. The only bad thing about Litsy is that the characters are limited for reviews. 6y
vumblereads @mreads yes I don‘t always feel like I have to write a full on review. 6y
vumblereads @suet624 Litsy and Goodreads should combine into one app 😂 there are a couple things I like on goodreads that I can‘t find here on Litsy 6y
vumblereads @jemgirl2014 yes the reading challenge always draws people back to goodreads 6y
vumblereads @rretzler I‘ve heard library thing is pretty good too. 6y
vumblereads @bookishbitch I understand. I personally don‘t find it invasive, but somehow I can‘t escape Amazon and Goodreads since I‘m a kindle user 😂 I eventually got used to my review being here and there and the cookies too. Those terrible cookies. 6y
vumblereads @naj I would understand why you‘d post reviews here. People are more receptive here than goodreads. 6y
rretzler IMO LibraryThing is better than Goodreads. Like GR, LT has groups that you can belong to. Some of them, like the 75 Books Challenge, are longstanding and the members of the group are a very welcoming and friendly community. I‘ve tried some of the groups on GR and to me it seems that no one really cares about getting to know you. Plus even though the selection of giveaway books is smaller on LT, it is much easier to get one than on GR. 6y
Naj @vumblereads Yes, Litsy is a smaller community. More cozy! 6y
vumblereads @rretzler interesting. I‘ve been joining these giveaways on goodreads since I don‘t know how long and never won a book 😂 and yes I agree with the goodreads community not being warm and friendly. Some of them are even high brow and judgmental IMO, they need to chill out. I might check out library thing one if these days. I know there‘s a way to transfer data without manually putting your books in one by one. 6y
rretzler I had probably signed up for GR before LT, and I do use both sites daily, but the only reasons I can think of to say why I use GR is because of its year end reading summary graphic and book challenge graphic and because the star ratings of reviews are very slightly better aligned with my star ratings. 6y
rretzler Sorry, last post and then I‘ll stop. 🤣 Plus Litsy is owned by LT and the LT founder and staff are very approachable. They care and listen to the community and make changes to both platforms based on user feedback. (Not all changes anyone wants, but they do listen). No way that would happen on GR! 😀 Just my thoughts - sorry I rambled! 6y
vumblereads Oh yes. And I do enjoy looking at my reading stats - tables and graphs of the books you‘ve read. I‘m a fool for graphs and charts 😂 makes me feel smart. My most favorite one is the chart by publication year. The oldest book I‘ve read I think was published in the 30s. 6y
vumblereads @rretzler 😂 oh you‘re totally fine. Like I mentioned before, this is what I like about Litsy because the community is so receptive. And yes goodreads staff are pretty strict about features to add. I haven‘t gotten over GR getting rid of the MOST READ AUTHORS feature. 6y
rretzler I didn‘t know that feature was gone. ☹️ I‘m certain that there is a way to do it on LT if you do decide to join. If you have questions about how things work, the members are always happy to help and @lorannen is wonderful at answering questions. And yes, I believe there is a way to export from GR and then import into LT. The other thing about LT that I like is it supports both “shelves”, called collections, and tags. Both are customizable 6y
Suet624 I‘m in agreement with @bookishbitch I‘m not happy that Amazon owns Goodreads and I stay completely away from Amazon. So I‘d hate to see Litsy be associated with Goodreads. 6y
Jemgirl2014 @vumblereads True! It's a pretty cool feature. 🙂 6y
The_Real_Nani I haven‘t gone so far as to delete my GR account but I don‘t use it anymore. I prefer Litsy because it‘s less overwhelming and not so busy! 6y
Bookladylinda I use both, Goodreads has its faults but I still like it. 6y
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vumblereads
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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Currently reading Eggs by Jerry Spinelli. I‘m taking a break from reading the Arrows Trilogy, and I might continue once again with that book once I‘m done reading this one. I got this free from a school library that was cleaning out their shelves. I love getting free books 🧡

mreads That's a very realistic looking cover, I was wondering why you were talking a picture of a carton of eggs 🤪 6y
vumblereads 😂 @mreads people are running out of ideas for cover art, next thing you know, you‘re going to see your own underwear in the front cover without you knowing. And you‘ll say to yourself, “hey that‘s mine!” 6y
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Eggs
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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I had to read this—my namesake after all. It was honest and original. I recommend 🤗😉

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erinjohns
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
Mehso-so

The cover of the book was snazzy. As an 80s child this book still mostly terrified me. Healing through unlikely friends...golden.

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Clwojick
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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Pickpick

I thought I remembered a lot more about this book than I actually did. I remembered it was about a little boy who‘s having a hard time with life because his mother recently passed away, but I forgot all about Refrigerator John and Primrose. Once again, I‘ve loved this reread. ♥️ #Throwbackreadathon

Im almost at 4 hours for the #24in48 ! 👏

Clwojick @monalyisha whoops, forgot to tag you. 😉 7y
monalyisha I forget like, every time. 😅 7y
Eggs My booook 7y
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Clwojick
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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I managed to read for just over 2 hours before I simply couldn‘t keep my eyes open anymore. I couldn‘t even stay up to post about the rest of the books I read for #ThrowbackReadathon ❤️

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Clwojick
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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Next up for #audiobooking. I can‘t wait until I get home and can read from my own collection. Until then it‘s more audiobooks for me. I simply CANT WAIT for this weekend to begin. ❤️😱💙 #ThrowbackReadathon

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Kalynrebecca
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️

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NovelPairing
Eggs | Jerry Spinelli
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Pickpick

"Eggs" follows the story of a 9 year old boy whose mother just died and a 13 year old girl who is neglected as they befriend each other and decide to run away as they try to make sense of their shifting worlds. 3.75 ⭐️ it was sweet and sad in a not to overwhelmingly horrible way. Good to read once.