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RoyallyReading
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Sometimes you just need something familiar in a new format 🏴‍☠️

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swynn
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars | Ellen Macgregor
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(1951) A recent conversation with a friend has me thinking about the "juvenile" science fiction that was available when I was in the target audience, and brought to mind this gem, of which I owned a copy back in the day, about a strong-minded aunty who comes upon a mission to Mars in her cow pasture and accidentally makes the trip. This has not held up well, but Miss Pickerell is still a hoot and I'm giving it a thumbs-up from elementary-school me

Dilara I know an aunty (my SIL) who would love the book's premise! Can I ask what has not held well? Would it make me fling the book across the room? 😁 1d
swynn @Dilara The science is what I had in mind, mostly: it aims for a mix of whimsical characters with scientific realism (especially about the Martian environment), but its science now reads more like nostalgia. I think it would not make you fling the book across the room: Miss Pickerell is a certain stereotype, but also an undermining of same. You can check it out here: https://archive.org/embed/misspickerellg00macg 19h
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Pip2
Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Dafoe
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Albeit not very popular amongst the many I really enjoyed this book. Providence, and the hand that guides the many sometimes comes in signs, that if we were to be more aware of these subtle signs for or against something and to live our lives more honorably, the result may result in abundance if one is genuine to those moral roots.

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Jedi_Bruno
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Fun adventure. Easy read. Very entertaining. Alls well that ends well.

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Chrissyreadit
The Wednesdays | Julie Bourbeau
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I do not care that i have 500 books unread on my shelves. If i need a new book to give me hope and escape from this dumpster fire fu@king sham of a govt I will buy it. I‘m contributing to women owned local businesses!!! and supporting mental health!!! #wdncw

charl08 👏👏👏 5d
GingerAntics YES YOU ARE!!! 5d
Deblovestoread 💙✊🏼💙 5d
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Bookwomble Fighting the Power, one book purchase at a time 📖✊😁 Legitimate resistance in a system defunding libraries and banning books on ideological grounds. 5d
Aims42 Hell Yeah!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌 5d
ncsufoxes I fully support this act of resistance. ✊🏻I keep trying to tell myself I don‘t need to go to the bookstore this week. I‘ve got too many books to choose from already. I‘m weak, I‘ll probably give in. 5d
dabbe YES!!! 😅😅😅 4d
mcctrish 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4d
Karisa 🎉🎉🎉 4d
EKonrad Amen!!! 🙌 4d
AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼🥳 Bravo ✊🏼🥳👌🏼💝. We need to support books, they are endangered...no kidding 💝📚💝. 4d
ravenlee Right on, sister! Also, only 500? 4d
TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 4d
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kspenmoll
The Wednesdays | Julie Bourbeau
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We do not care that we have bags of bottles & cans stacked high so the cats think its a jungle gym because it‘s too hot to do the work of taking to recycling. We do do not care that the cats HATE air conditioning so refuse to leave the un air conditioned kitchen so we have bowls of water everywhere that I persist on kicking over even though I know they are there. 🔥🥵😻🐾

dabbe Those precious kitties! 🖤🐾🐾🖤 4d
mcctrish Oh cats 🤦🏻‍♀️ 4d
Lesliereadsalot Laughed out loud! 4d
AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼😹👌🏼💝. 4d
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mcctrish
The Wednesdays | Julie Bourbeau
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We do not care if the laundry ever gets folded #wdncw if people want their clothes they can come and pick them out

Jari-chan That! 💯💯 5d
Karisa Amen 🙏 5d
kspenmoll 😂😂 5d
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mcctrish @Jari-chan @Karisa @kspenmoll I miss my empty nest 5d
Karisa @mcctrish 😂 I still have at least two more years. The youngest is threatening junior college (despite straight A, honors classes, double sports). . . Trying to keep my poker face on—don‘t you want to fly free, my little birdie? 😅 5d
mcctrish @Karisa 🐥🐥🐥 5d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish @Karisa I had an empty nest in the 1980s…. My son is living home for college 😵‍💫😅🫣🥴so I figure when I live in the nursing home I‘ll be free… 5d
mcctrish @TheBookHippie I‘ve had one briefly but now it seems like one is always home 5d
willaful My disabled daughter constantly veers from “I'm totally independent, leave me be!“ to “I'm a total wreck and need you to do everything for me“ so my nest is sometimes empty and then sometimes overcrowded. It's a frustrating way to live! 5d
mcctrish @willaful absolutely 4d
dabbe Let the laundry lie! 💙🤣💙 4d
ShelleyBooksie Same Trish! The laundry is clean - that's the most important part! 4d
AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼😂👌🏼💝. 4d
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totefairie
Vespers Rising | Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, Jude Watson
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mcctrish
The Wednesdays | Julie Bourbeau
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#wdncw #nasty 🇨🇦 we do not care what Herr Trump thinks

Aims42 Amen! 🙌 2w
dabbe Nor do some of us over here! We don't even know if he's actually capable of thinking. ♥️🇨🇦🤍 2w
KadaGul Well, Mango 🥭 Syndicate has cabinets of morons who came up with amazing tariff numbers and now travel fees. WE ARE BUILDING AMERICA GREAT FROM THE BOTTOM UP. Why move forward when we can go back 1600-1700s 🤣🤣🤣 2w
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Eggbeater We civilians do not care what he thinks either. We love Canada and Canadians. We are *#$%ing trapped here. He does not represent at least half of us. 2w
Amiable @Eggbeater More than half, if you do the math on the percentage of voter turnout vs. actual number of eligible voters! 2w
Suet624 I miss all the Canadians who came to visit us in Vermont. I completely understand why they aren‘t coming though. 2w
mcctrish @Aims42 I‘m not sure what the ambassador was aiming for with his comments 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2w
mcctrish @dabbe truly seems like some screws are loose 2w
mcctrish @KadaGul I guess being a white male means it looks rosy 🤦🏻‍♀️ (edited) 2w
mcctrish @Eggbeater I am baffled, as a 🇨🇦, why each state ( or some states) control how a federal election gets managed. I understand states working their own elections how they wish but there seems like some leeway is given to states re:federal elections or maybe I‘ve misunderstood 2w
KadaGul @mcctrish He sounds like that old lady in the neighborhood who is always stirring shit up. 🤣🤣🤣 2w
mcctrish @Amiable I‘m frustrated with all grownups who don‘t vote 2w
mcctrish @Suet624 I miss thinking about trips across the border 2w
PurpleyPumpkin We REALLY do not care. 🙌🏽 Does the Trump government think Canadians are just going to take whatever they want to throw at us??? I honestly don‘t get their logic at all. 🙄 2w
mcctrish @PurpleyPumpkin we are in good company being called nasty imo 2w
PurpleyPumpkin 😂Indeed!!! 2w
Deblovestoread @eggbeater 100%. We DO care that Canada is in the crosshairs of our unhinged government. We are doing our best to turn the tide and are not giving up. 2w
lil1inblue I don't think the #fluorescentfascist is in any position to judge nastiness. He's utterly disgusting. P.S. If Canada would like to annex the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I'm on board. Just let me know what I have to do. 😉🙃🤣 2w
mcctrish @lil1inblue we are already attached, Ontario and Michigan, I think it should be easy peasy 2w
Amiable @mcctrish Take New England, too! Please 🙏🏼 2w
Prairiegirl_reading 100% Grade A Canadian Nasty over here!! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ 2w
mcctrish @Amiable for the clam chowder and lobster rolls, absolutely consider it done 2w
marleed 🇨🇦 🍁🇨🇦 2w
JenReadsAlot @lil1inblue Can Wisconsin come too?! 2w
mcctrish @JenReadsAlot we share lakes so of course 2w
AnnCrystal 👸🇨🇦👏🏼🥳👌🏼💝. 2w
lil1inblue @mcctrish @jenreadsalot My town is considered part of the 100 mile “border zone,“ but the only way that makes sense is if you consider Lake Superior to be Canadian (I'm more than 100 miles from the border). Therefore, I think that Canada should get all the states that border Lake Superior. #prettyplease #midwesternniceissimilartocanadiannice 2w
mcctrish @lil1inblue it‘s decided ✔️ welcome to canada 🇨🇦 2w
TheLudicReader There are worse things than being nasty. MAGA for one. 🇨🇦 1w
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