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#bookspin yearly #wrapup2024

Not my greatest bookspin year but 8/12 books not too bad. My favorite out of this bunch was Heidi and The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store.

This year I am striving to post more consistently here and to actually participate in #bookspin #doublespin

I have chosen to make my list a list of prompts so as to not be forced to read something I don‘t want to or loose interest in a book because it becomes required reading.

January‘s prompts were Fiancé Pick and Poll Pick.

#bookspin #doublespin is hosted by @TheAromaofBooks

I listened to this middle grade book over the course of the day. It was ok, with plenty of references to Harry Potter (Vivian‘s favorite books), Dungeons & Dragons (the characters play B&B), and some other fantasy stories, but there‘s nothing that really pulled me into this specific world with these characters.

#MiddleGrade #audiobook #TRS2024

📷: After a couple days inside because of the snow, Luthien and I got back out for a good walk today.

This book had me ugly crying but with happiness at the end. I borrowed it from the school library where I work. Such an important book for children to show them empathy and respect for the animal world. It‘s heartbreaking because a lot of it is true.
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#LitzyAtoZ Letter A @Texreader

Yelchin's memory tale of being a child behind the Iron Curtain is beautiful but harrowing as he navigates the everyday experiences of growing up, along with a crushing regimen of state surveillance, old family secrets, vicious antisemitism, and pressure from his parents to excel so that he may one day escape his circumstances. His art is his solace, and the illustrations throughout are gorgeous and interspersed creatively among the text.

Ground Zero, created by Alan Gratz follows two parallel stories that is framed around the 9/11 attack during and after the incident. In 2001, a young boy named Brandon is trapped within the World Trade Center, also known as the Twin Towers, after the terrorist attack happened and tries to survive. In 2019, an Afghan girl named Reshima faces consequences on the ongoing war in Afghanistan from the result of 9/11. Through both characters experiences,

Yes, it‘s a children‘s book, but it‘s also funny, moving, and heart-warming. My favourite read of December

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Lora is still playing pretend and her friends are out growing that game. She meets Alexa, an imaginary friend/ghost. The story's theme is about being yourself, holding on to the magic of childhood. Graphics good, story concept good. Overall, a good read.
Cover got a few spots on #ISpyBingo !
Make a great day everyone 😊

This was an interesting story of time travel in which Boomi hopes she can change her dad‘s fate but instead makes other changes and learns to make her own choices. I really liked how it was divided into tracks instead of chapters as her dad‘s boombox from 1986 is the key to the time travel. It also deals with some serious issues of parent death and healthy body perception in relation to ballet.

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Willing to chalk this one up to a mismatch between book and reader. I can see a lot of worthy imagination and originality in the premise and execution, there are beloved characters and moments of warmth and spectacle, there appears to be messages of the dangers of being permanently lost to an emotion, but simultaneously the danger of denying it completely, 1/?