pickI found this graphic novel via NYPL's Teen Banned Book Club. It is inspiring, funny, heart-warming, and utterly delightful. It's an amazing resource, as well. Books like this need to exist.
You can watch NYPL's online event with the authors here: https://www.youtube.com/live/WpNLG725Uss?si=hLu7F29lGv_Cem01
And the book club link is: https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/freedom-to-read/teen-book-club
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pickGreat 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.
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. ⬇️⬇️
#WeeklyUpdate
Read books for:
#WithTheBanned #WTB25 #BobWhiteBuddies (still playing catchup from my unexpected 4 month trip) #NoPlaceLikeHolmes & several for #SeriesLove2025 #readyourebooks & #Roll100
pickI‘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
pickFor 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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1. Definitely 💙📚💙
2. Tagged. I just finished rereading this for #WithTheBanned #WTB25 💚💚💚
Thanks for the tag, @Eggs 🤓
Next up for my movie/bookclub. I was surprised there was a 6-week hold for the ebook across my 3 library cards.
Anyone else listening to songs mentioned?
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