so-soVery dry to begin with but then gains traction.
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so-soVery dry to begin with but then gains traction.
pickIt was a strange feeling to read this story about German POWs in lower Michigan during WWII. I never knew POW camps existed in Michigan until I was an adult, and to discover this story has a connection to the teeny (teeny) tiny town I spent my early childhood in was just bizarre. I enjoyed the verse and the POVs of these two characters. I did not enjoy the very abrupt ending, though it's certainly fitting in any book on WWII.
pickA beautiful heartbreak. The characters are complex. Even the villains are beloved. The atmosphere is so well portrayed that it isn‘t an exaggeration to say the reader may very well awake from the pages of the novel expecting to hear gunfire and see enemy soldiers creating the mountainous ridge.
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100 words for 1000 points!
@StayCurious
This is likely my only major contribution to the point getting for #holidaybookdragons 😂. I wrote a Python script last year for a similar Scarathlon challenge and used it for the 2023 Winter Games challenge. The phrase this year is the same as last year's, but I reran the code to be sure. The code and words can be found here: https://github.com/wapisani/public-pyprojects/tree/main/Litsy/WinterGames_2023/W.... #wintergames2024
@LiseWorks
1. LOVE me some eggnog. Non-alcoholic, though, and I recently found a pumpkin one that is delicious!!
2. Family tradition is one on Xmas Eve with new PJ‘s, and the rest on Xmas day
3. Red star to match our red, silver, and black decorations :)
4. Another family tradition is to have Xmas dinner at one of the two Waffle Houses within a mile of our house lol
5. Since I moved to Alaska, we can‘t afford to go home very often
+20pts
Got my books all ready to go! Glad the library was able to get those four in time. So excited to get started!! Most anticipated is probably Thirteen Storeys (thank youuu @Lin3han !)
+40pts
#wintergames #wintergames2024 #christmaschapterchasers #XmasChaCha #twowitches #twoyuletidewitches #earlybirdpoints
“He named her Gertie. Soon he was writing stories about Gertie nearly every day. People came to the bridge just to peer over the railing and catch a glimpse of her.”
This would be a cute little book to add to a classroom library. I think it would also make a good lesson to introduce tough topics such as World War II to the class.
