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Why yes those are my well worn speed skates
I did speed skating until I was 47 👀👏🏼🏆
I have roller skated my entire life- my father owned a roller rink for 30 plus years. 🛼🛼

Bucket of bookmarks
Poetry

Flashback! Who had a pair of these wheels?! I did 👋🏾👋🏾 I can still hear them on the pavement.

I‘m so far behind on my #ChildrensClassicRead2023 #April
But this book is so delightful, I have to finish it.
Sweet Lucinda‘s uncle gave her money they bet on when she was 10 yo - knowing all along he was going to lose.
She bet she would not get the ‘Snobbiness Disease‘!

Finished this last month for #childrensclassicread2023 challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed young Lucinda‘s vacation from her well to do family while her parents traveled abroad. She was allowed the opportunity to experience life outside of her limited circle while exploring the streets of NYC on her roller skates. New adventures every day! I discovered that skating was all the rage and there was even a specially designed corset for the mature woman.

What struck me is this is the fictionalised version of a year in the authors life. And what a life she had. I like the realness of death in the book but that was life for me as child. So much death. I plan to find more of her books!

Next up MAY and UNDER THE LILACS 💜

Author -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sawyer

#CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2023

This was a pleasant read, for the most part, though I agree with other reviews that the first death is just really weird and doesn‘t seem to fit with much. The second death had me bawling. I found the ending unsatisfying but probably realistic. My mom read this as a kid and loved it, now I‘ve read it, and kiddo has, too. I love passing books down through the generations. This reminded me of All-of-a-Kind Family in the setting and friendships.

“It‘s silly to believe that you learn everything at school.I know now what it meant in the Bible when it talked about the stars singing together.I‘ve closed my eyes some of the time,and when I do that‘s what it is-the stars singing together.Johanna says the loveliest music in Ireland was caught by some lad going to sleep with his ear to a fairy rath.Do you suppose Beethoven went to sleep with his ear to the stars?”
#ChildrensClassicRead2023

I found this book, set in late 19th-century NY, to be mostly a delight. During a year when her parents are away in Italy, Lucinda's looked after by two ladies & roller skates her way through the city experiencing new things & people. I loved the details of her love for beauty, tabletop theatre performances, & falling in love with Shakespeare. There's quite a tragic turn towards the end as Lucinda learns about the hardships of life.

“Lucinda stubbed her toe frequently and would have fallen had not the Night Owl and Tony held firmly to her hands. And this was because she could never cross Madison Square without tilting her head far back to see the magnificent new tower on it, and Diana on tiptoe, bending her bow,to speed its arrow across the city,”I love Diana,”said Lucinda… “She‘s the goddess, defending the city,I hope she‘ll be there forever.” #childrensclassicread2023

My copy of our #childrensclassicread2023 May

This is such a delightful read I‘m so glad I‘m savoring it by reading it slowly! 🛼🛼

“Lucinda avoided the devotion, but she wrote in her diary everything that she could be thankful for, and there was much.”

I have been thinking of a Gratitude Journal as a contemporary idea. #ChildrensClassicRead2023

Pg 20: Water Babies book is mentioned. I googled it and was surprised to find out what it was about!

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.

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Started this month‘s selection for the #childrensclassicread2023 !

Fun article (spoilers) https://www.livingbookslibrary.com/the-story-behind-lucinda-or-is-it-ruth/

#childrensclassicread2023 April

@Jess861 @ravenlee @IndoorDame @batsy
@LapReader @rubyslippersreads
@UwannaPublishme @PurpleyPumpkin @tpixie
@GingerAntics @Blackink_WhitePaper @DivineDiana @curiouserandcurioser @erzascarletbookgasm @SamanthaMarie
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@Julsmarshall @Soscha @DebinHawaii

Yay! Not only does my library have the Newberry Award 🥇 winning Roller Skates, they have 2 other cute-looking Ruth Sawyer books!
( they could work a little harder where they place the scanning code though! )
But here‘s the PDF @TheBookHippie kindly found

https://ia800200.us.archive.org/2/items/RollerSkates/rollerskates.pdf

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“Isn't it elegant not to have tantrums any more! I guess half of it is because you don't expect them; and the other half is roller skates. They use up a lot of energy and iron out a lot of feelings. Like Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup they ought to be called the mother's friend.'"

It‘s an errand and reading day, while my son takes his screen reader class at the Braille Institute, Tuesday has been declared Starbucks day ☕️ #childrensclassicread2023

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So surprised to find out that my library had a copy of this title for this months read!

#CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2023 schedule reminder

http://bookhippie.com/index.php/2022/08/01/2023-childrens-classic-read/

Everyone welcome ♥️

APRIL #CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2023

Everyone Welcome 🛼🛼

https://archive.org/details/RollerSkates

https://archive.org/details/RollerSkates

Not sure if this will work
April #CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2023

@Jess861 @ravenlee @IndoorDame @batsy
@LapReader @rubyslippersreads
@UwannaPublishme @PurpleyPumpkin @tpixie
@GingerAntics @Blackink_WhitePaper @DivineDiana @curiouserandcurioser @erzascarletbookgasm @SamanthaMarie
@TheAromaofBooks @mrp27 @teebe
@Ann_Reads @KristiAhlers @julieclair
@Julsmarshall @Soscha @DebinHawaii

#ChildrensClassicRead2023 APRIL

April ALREADY???
Here is our book for April!
I am excited to read it!

Screenshot from @oumi_janta on Instagram. She posted videos of herself and friends roller skating and they are an absolute joy to watch!

#bikiniday #julyjam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

The opening bars of #Freezeframe come on and I'm whisked back to the early 80s and roller skating with my friends at a rink called Happy Wheels. Good times!🕺🎶
This book is another classic of children's lit that I've still not read. It has nothing to do with photography. 📸📸📸
#winterwonderland @cinfhen @TrishB

I‘ve been reading Truman Capote‘s In Cold Blood this weekend and I‘m nearly finished but I have a headache tonight and wanted lighter fare before bed. This Newberry Award winner fits the bill and fulfills one of my 2018 challenge prompts. Win-win!

This is one #favoritechildrensbook among many, my mother's old copy that I read as a child. Lucinda is a temporary orphan, free to explore Manhattan on her skates at the turn of the last century. She has her supportive and antagonistic relatives. She makes friends, and one dies --I think it was my first book with a real shock of grief in it. She's crazy for The Tempest and has a wonderful tabletop theater I still wish for.

Got a new copy on the bookmobile ! Yay!
Old classic.