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Rules of the Road | Joan Bauer
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A tightly plotted journey with real people and their real struggles. Joan Bauer is on form in this book, taking up her characters' pain honestly without ever letting go of hope or settling for platitudes. My new favorite YA author!

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The Canterville Ghost | Oscar Wilde
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Our French teacher read this story and begged me to read it so we could talk about it. She thought the pragmatic Americans were hilarious.

Well, this is a funny story. It's funny right up to the end when Wilde tries to, like, make a point or something, but his tacked-on moral is kind of hokey. (I'm over the impossibly innocent virgin heroine, too.)

But, on the whole, not bad. Fifteen minutes of chuckles.

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Two chapters in. This is SOLID. Theology of joy is familiar to Piper-head neo-Reformed like me, but the addition of the neurobiology/psychology of attachment and its impact on relationships is valuable. #Christian #Mission

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Fantastic, deep, moving, troubling: John Boyne serves it all up again. Highly recommended.
Possible pairings: Code Name Verity, The Nazi Hunters, The Hiding Place.
#bookaday #YA

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"That's what I call real honest-to-goodness Christian charity. This is what people don't understand about you, Adolf." p. 158

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This is how far I got before I was too nauseated to keep going. I guess that's how you know a book about WWII is doing its job.

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