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#evil #maymoms @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#maymoms #evil @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Miss Honey loves books and tea parties and flowers, and being a mom to Matilda 💗

#Readers #MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The roller derby / literary mashup I did not know I needed. (Posted on Instagram by JammerCandy.)

Love this Matilda artwork. So so pretty 😍 a great representation of the reading world and magic #roalddahl #matilda #bookmagic #nature #reading #freedom

Found these at my local book store & couldn't resist a little midweek pick me up 😁

Well today was annoying.
Low point : my book trolley tipping over while exiting the lift, books loudly went everywhere and yet no one noticed? 🤨
High point : impressing a kid with my amazing recall for books and authors - tales of a fourth grade nothing-BLUME, drama - TELGEMEIER (I impressed the librarian with that one), first HP book - too easy.

#ThinkPositiveBePositive @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

To play post a positive quote and tag a Litten friend or two.

@fredamans @JenReadsAlot @bthegood @OriginalCyn620 @Eggs @Nute

Quote from the book Matilda by Roald Dahl

#SavvySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

No matter how old I get, this book and movie will always be one I read and watch over and over again. Although the school #Campus is a bit rough at first, Matilda figures out how to navigate it quite well. 😁

Mixed feelings with this book😳Of course I love Matilda and her passion for books. Love also her beautiful relationship with her teacher, Miss Honey. But there are so much abuse in this story, physical and psychological from the headmaster and her parents. It was terrible, no funny at all to me. Then you have Miss Honey talking with a 5 year old girl about her problems including family suicide ? What? I was struggling with all this abuse😬😠3⭐️

Oh happy day
Happy World Book Day y'all

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” - Descartes

#worldbookday #wob

Geez, so dark. It really seems like Roald Dahl‘s terrible experiences in school really affect his writing of children‘s stories. Her parents and Miss Trunchbull are really idiot tyrants. Disturbingly so. As a teacher, this was hard to read…

What better lover of books for today‘s #BookLove prompt than Matilda ❤️📚 #ItHadToBeYou 💖

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

I read this as a child along with other Roald Dahl books. They were my go to books.

Guess where I was last night!

#SundaySoapBox @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Thank you @TheAromaofBooks for tagging me.

The books I've probably recommended the most over the years are the tagged book and the following:

➡ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg
➡ 11/23/63- Stephen King
➡ The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
➡ Geek Love- Katherine Dunn
➡ The Sandman Graphic Novels- Neil Gaiman
➡ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- Rebecca Skloot

On the final stretch of completing the Roald Dahl box set. Two more to go now.

1. James Fraser...I hope my husband doesn't mind. 😅
2. Do what makes you happy *cough, cough-- read-- cough, cough*
3. Tagged
@ozma.of.oz

A bit of a lazy costume day,. but here is my favorite book character from childhood Matilda..

#scarathlon #screamathlon #teamHrndrix

I don‘t mind this book at all. It‘s an original book made by an original author. I love the format and the illustration

#FallTreasures

I read it as an adult but I think Miss Honey from Matilda is very deserving of some #TeacherAppreciation 🏫 👩🏼‍🏫 💛

Had a fun day yesterday listening to the Big weekend of books on RN & I‘m keen to listen again today. I put my ear buds in & masked up for my daily lockdown exercise. I used it to go to the local book swap & these are what I scored. Matilda is a very cute edition. I own Michelle‘s autobiography too, that I am yet to read. Any one else read them one after the other or is that too much? The feel the fear & do it anyway might help me get a license?

1) I remember watching the news coverage of the Columbine High School shooting when I was in high school myself. Little did I know this would be an incident I would train for as an educator now.
2) Library! I don't think I've been in a bookstore since before COVID.
3) Tagged- I loved that Matilda loved books for their transportive properties the way I love them!

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Loved it.

The outside of Miss Honey's house sounds like my dream home

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Matilda is a delightful book about a 5 1/2 year old precocious girl. Matilda is very smart but overlooked by her parents who believe her to be nothing but trouble. This book is a quick fun read.

Day 19 #MayCharacters
Prompt: Magic

I've always loved Matilda's brand of magic ✨

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#MayCharacters @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Prompt: Merry

The character of Matilda is merry and so much more. Loved her.

When a very special person gets you these for your birthday ❤ Absolutely adore Matilda and her love for books, it's so me! 📚 Couldn't get a more thoughful gift in my eyes 😍

4 STARS - This was an enjoyable, quirky story about an extraordinary girl. I'm glad I finally read/listened to it. Kate Winslet as narrator was phenomenal!!!

My Review: http://bit.ly/MatildaAUDIO

#MayCharacters @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Miss Honey #Motivates all of her students to be better people, but she has a special bond with Matilda and she helps her realize her full potential.

Can we all take a moment to appreciate this awesome card that @jenniferw88 sent me? This is the most perfect picture. I might frame it!! Thanks Jenny

Books are magic. 🔮✨🌈☀️🦋💐💜💕

My last day at my old store.... my entire team wore bookish T-shirts and we took a ton of photos with our shirts and matching books for our store Instagram.... here‘s me and my 2 assistant managers. Going to miss my whole team so much! 💕📚

Had an itch to re-read a childhood favorite. The ending I'm always so torn between being happy for Matilda and sad at the same time.

Hell yes! It me! 💖

https://bookriot.com/librarian-from-pop-culture-quiz/

#BookRiotQuiz

I read this to my daughter and it‘s the first time reading it for both of us. I really enjoyed it and actually would have like if it had been a longer book. I don‘t know why it took me so long to read Matilda. But I‘m glad I have.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • a delight

I've read this book as a #bookspin for March. I liked the story, but I kept thinking I liked the film better. The storyline of the film is so much more ingrained on my mind. But nevertheless Roald Dahl is a very good writer. The drawings ofcourse are great.
TBR since August 28th. 2011; 233 pages.
@TheAromaofBooks

I took advantage of the Out of Print buy one get one tshirt sale.
It happens that the movie is on this evening as well, so I‘m wearing my new Matilda shirt while watching Matilda.

Happy #WorldBookDay! I've dressed up as a clinical coder who'd rather be reading her books than reading about heroin overdoses and vulval haematomas. Sweatshirt from @outofprint.

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One of the absolute cutest early middle grade reads. Matilda is an adorably wonderful main character & very inspiring. She is intelligent & humble, has a great sense of moral character, & is quite confident despite her horrible upbringing. The writing is perfectly age appropriate & somehow, despite the absolutely horrible way Matilda's parents & Miss Trunchbull act, it doesn't read overly scary for that set. My favorite Roald Dahl read thus far.

For an almost 28 year old adult, I LOVE this book! It makes my heart swell and I laugh out loud each time that I read it. I‘m going back and rereading a lot of my childhood favourites at the moment. I always saw a lot of myself in Matilda growing up. A family who didn‘t like/see me, a love for books and knowledge at an extraordinarily young age. And Miss Honey, well she is my childhood hero!

1 - hm. I am sure there are so many, but with the question in front of me I am like uhhhh... Miss Trunchball from Matilda. I will think of a bunch of answers after I post this....

2 - Plot but I do like a good character. There are definitely books that didn't have an amazing plot, but I loved the characters!

Thanks to @EadieB for the tag!

Hello, yes please! 😍😍😍 #MusicalAdaptations

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/lashana-lynch-matilda-movie-musical-no-time-t...

I had forgotten this about Matilda... Maybe the bookshop was meant to be from childhood for me. This is one of my favorite childhood stories. 11/365

My newest mug from my daughter ❤️ I adore Matilda (book and movie).