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Lenamarcela339
Summer Sisters | Judy Blume
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CogsOfEncouragement
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Pickpick

Great pick for #WithTheBanned @Jadams89

This was my first time reading Perks. I watched the movie many years ago and pretty much just remembered the scene pictured above.

Difficult topics dealt with respectively and with hope.

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Andrea313
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I hopped on the BannedWagon this month with @Jadams89 and crew to revisit one of the most important books in my own personal journey. If I read it for the first time now, I'm sure I'd think it's a perfectly fine coming-of age-story. But I read it as a teenager and so have no objectivity whatsoever; I still find it close to perfect. I'd never read anything at that age which captured in words the feelings I always thought were inexpressible. ⬇️⬇️

Andrea313 Charlie's feelings of being an outsider were so palpable to me then, and him finding himself in a handful of fellow outsiders, and importantly, in books and music, struck me on a cellular level. Mix tapes, aimless drives, Rocky Horror, and endless nights at Big Boy were the very fabric of my adolescence and I read now with nostalgia and gratitude for finding my way- with the help of artists who put shape and sense to my emotional landscape. ⬇️⬇️ 1d
Andrea313 My old, tattered copy from my youth is pictured here with the mixtapes I will never get rid of. ❤️🎵📼 #WithTheBanned 1d
Read4life Such powerful comments. 💙💙💙 I loved the reread just as much and my daughter will be reading it for the first time once finals are over. 10h
Andrea313 @Read4life I hope your daughter loves it! There have been many books that have spoken strongly to me at various points in my life but this one will always stand out. It's just what I needed when I discovered it and I hope she finds recognition and solace here. ❤️ 9h
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TheBookgeekFrau
A Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Newton Peck
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Finished this yesterday morning before our family hike/picnic.

This was one of the most honest, straight-forward, heart warming coming of age stories I ever read.

28/80

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

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TheBookgeekFrau
A Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Newton Peck
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dabbe Wow! It's been AGES since I've read that one! 💙 3d
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe This is my first reading of it 😲 I know 😂 3d
dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau I can't remember a thing about it, so if you like it, I'll have to read it again! 🤩 3d
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Read4life
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I‘m so happy I reread this one. It is just so good. I‘ve never watched the movie. My daughter told me she hasn‘t read the book or seen the movie. We plan on reading it together this summer & watching the movie afterwards. #raisingreaders #readbannedbooks

#readyourTBR #readyourebooks #WithTheBanned #WTB25

CBee The movie is good! 5d
Read4life @CBee 💙💙💙 4d
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Rissreadswithcats
I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith
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This book was delightful! Oh to be young and silly again and have your whole life ahead of you! And who doesn‘t want to live in a castle with an eccentric family surrounded by nature?!?!?!? I found a lot of this book to be amusing but especially the shenanigans on the train! Hilarious! 💙💙💙💙💙

TheKidUpstairs Beautiful edition! 6d
LeahBergen Love this book! 5d
CarolynM I really must read this one day. I‘m sure I‘ll love it😊 5d
Rissreadswithcats @CarolynM I will eat my hat if you don‘t love it! 🤣 5d
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Blueberry
Seven Perfect Things | Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Eggs 🐶🧡🦮 6d
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5feet.of.fury
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For a while I was reading it and was not really into it, Charlie being more of an observer than participant in his own life resonated with how I‘d felt in my life at times but I didn‘t really see where it was going & the ending came & blew me away completely not what I expected. The 20th anniversary afterword was cute.
Excited for the discussion #withthebanned
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