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AshleyHoss820
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bront
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What more can I add about a classic? I can tell you that I read this for my Victorian Lit class and we roasted Rochester on the daily. 😂 234/1,001 #BookSpin for September #FlourishAndBlott Set/Written Before 2000 #TBRTarot Which Has a Person‘s Name in the Title #RoryGilmoreChallenge

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
AshleyHoss820 @TheAromaofBooks I am SO sorry for flooding your notifications! BookSpin is the only challenge I actually stick to! ☺️🧡 6mo
Clare-Dragonfly Rochester deserves to be roasted 🔥 5mo
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TheAromaofBooks No worries, I'm excited to see what all you have gotten into!! 😁 5mo
CBee Awesome 👏🏻 5mo
AshleyHoss820 @Clare-Dragonfly I mean, Bertha thought so too, but I get it…🤣🤣🤣 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly Bertha did nothing wrong 😂🔥😂🔥🔪 5mo
AshleyHoss820 @clare-dragonfly I want to make a Justice for Bertha hoodie! 😂 5mo
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AshleyHoss820
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This play is exhausting and it‘s so worth it. The film was also groundbreaking because the director went against the morality code most movies followed at the time because he refused to water down Albee‘s play. I think this was the wise decision. This play is an important addition to the American canon. I would LOVE to see this one on the stage! #RoryGilmoreChallenge

TheBookHippie Me too!!! 10mo
SamAnne Love the play, love the movie! One of our local theaters put it on and did a really great job. 10mo
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AshleyHoss820 @SamAnne Me too! ☺️ That‘s amazing! Yay for local theaters! 10mo
SamAnne @AshleyHoss820 and hah! I‘m flashing back to my highschool drama class where our excellent drama teacher had us watch the movie! This would have been 1984. Everyone looked shell shocked when the credits rolled. So glad I went to school when students were still allowed to read about hard topics, be exposed to adult themes. But, also, kinda funny he had us watch it. 😂😳 10mo
IuliaC I saw this play a couple of years ago and some of the scenes are still alive in my memory! 10mo
AshleyHoss820 @IuliaC I can imagine!! This play definitely has staying power! 10mo
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ChelseaM6010
Untitled | Untitled
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#MarchMagic
Day 31. Book of Poetry
This particular book is on my TBR and is also part of the #RoryGilmoreChallenge. I‘m hoping to get to it sooner rather than later

TheKidUpstairs Love love love Sexton! 12mo
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AshleyHoss820
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I have a back-and-forth relationship with Mark Twain. Like, I both like him and can't stand him. It's weird. But I digress...this is a fun little story that is like a human interest piece in the local newspaper. You know the one, they find the weirdest guy and he just gives the goofiest story ever and it's fabulous. It's a fun little story. #RoryGilmoreChallenge

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AshleyHoss820
The Crucible | Arthur Miller
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All right, listen...Arthur Miller was a douche (I've heard, but I haven't looked too hard into this), but MAN could he write a play. Remember the historical significance of Miller writing this as a covert stab at McCarthyism. The speed with which one can be swept up so quickly in mass hysteria, the lack of control a person has against their government/the mob. It's so insightful and terrifying how relevant this play still is. #RoryGilmoreChallenge

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AshleyHoss820
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This is a lovely, contemplative little play. It has some great imagery involved, and the characters are fully realized people full of hope, desperation, and flaws. It's my first Tennessee Williams. I wasn't completely blown away, but I am looking forward to A Streetcar Named Desire. (In case you want fair warning: Amanda, the mom, has a couple of racist remarks against a couple of different minority groups.) #RoryGilmoreChallenge

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AshleyHoss820
Downpour | Nick Holmes
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These poems were absolutely haunting and beautiful. I cannot BELIEVE I‘m all alone in the comment section. I *think* this is featured on the #RoryGilmoreChallenge list (probably included in the revival?) and that‘s how I stumbled on this. I was savoring every poem. Im looking forward to Time Spent Falling. I had to take a screenshot of my GoodReads update, just so I could always remember this one.

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CogsOfEncouragement
Holidays on Ice | David Sedaris
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Mehso-so

Dry humor, mixed with dark humor, mixed with REALLY dark humor.
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AshleyHoss820
Night | Elie Wiesel
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This is a tough book. It is also a necessary book. I used a personal connection with my own students to help them understand that this is still affecting people in so many ways. (I have ancestors I can‘t trace too far because the church where our records were kept was ordered to be burned down.) We shall never forget, and we MUST never forget. #RoryGilmoreChallenge
📷: Yiddish Book Center

AmyG Never Forget. I am happy to hear you are teaching this. Eapecially now with what Kanye and Kyrie have said about Jews, men that young people listen to. 1y
AshleyHoss820 @AmyG I don‘t know what Kanye said (I can‘t stand him), but I have heard that he‘s been making some stupid remarks. While that‘s not surprising, you are right. We HAVE to counteract those derogatory viewpoints. It is SO imperative that we NEVER let this memory slip. 1y
vivastory I read this around this time last year & it deeply deeply impacted me 1y
AshleyHoss820 @vivastory It is definitely one of those stories, Scott! I had read it many years ago, when my oldest was only two. I had to keep pausing to hold him to remind myself he was safe. He‘s 19 now, but going through this with the students…I was surprised how much I remembered. 1y
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AshleyHoss820
Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare
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There‘s nothing I can add about the plot that we all don‘t know. I‘ll tell you this, if you want me to teach irony and inference to students, I can find other ways. The only good time we had reading this was when they acted out the final scene and we had “dead bodies” laying all over the classroom. 🤣 This is a good way to teach caution in relationships, though…I‘ll say that… #RoryGilmoreChallenge