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Johanna414
Whispering Pines | Heidi Lang, Kati Bartkowski
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I‘m having the best luck with my #MiddleGradeMarch choices this year! This was a super fun horror/sci if that gave off slight Stranger Things vibes while still being appropriate for middle school. I‘ll definitely continue the series! @megnews @sblbooks

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MoonWitch94
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I haven‘t been around much on here lately. A lot is going on in my personal life. But I wanted to take a minute & share my family. My cousin, Jamie, & her husband Chris (a Lutheran Pastor), their daughter, Rebekah, have been doubling down on their advocacy for #LetKidsPlay & fighting Anti-Trans bills all over the country. Today, they spoke before the steps of the Capitol, defending trans kids. I am so proud of them. #Transrightsarehumanrights

JenniferEgnor I‘m so glad to see them doing this. Hard to believe the bullshit that is happening right now in this country. Trans folx are amazing and I‘m honored to have them in my life. Why can they not be seen as human and worthy of love and happiness as anyone else? This is madness. 3w
AmyG The world needs more people like them. It is madness. We‘ve seen this hate before in Hitler‘s Germany and it‘s frightening. 3w
Clare-Dragonfly That‘s wonderful. Thank them for standing up for trans kids. I hate so much that it needs to be done. 3w
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Johanna414
Whispering Pines | Heidi Lang, Kati Bartkowski
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We are short on subs today so I‘m covering 8th grade science for a few periods. They‘ve got an independent assignment which means I get to start reading a new book! The first couple chapters are nice and creepy #MiddleGradeMarch

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Coffeymuse
The Wanderer | Peter Van den Ende
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A cup of coffee and a couple of older kids books this AM. Great start to a slow Sunday!

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Addison_Reads
Odder | Katherine Applegate
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I'm loving all the MG reads I'm reading lately. Katherine Applegate has been a favorite of mine for years. With Odder, she has written an adorable tale about an orphaned otter who humans help. I liked how she addressed troubles sea creatures face and how humans can be both good, and bad in our interactions with animals and their environment.

I loved that Applegate included the true facts at the end.

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RowReads1
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@gossamerchild Thank you for the lovely #muglove23! I‘m obsessed 😍 with the mug and look forward to trying the beans. @TheKidUpstairs @Cinfhen

Cinfhen Cute mug ♥️ 1mo
gossamerchild Yay! I'm so glad you liked it ❤️❤️ 1mo
Chelsea.Poole I love axolotls! Such a cute mug! 1mo
TheKidUpstairs So cute :) And I'm not a coffee drinker, but I'm loving the label on that coffee! 1mo
ShelleyBooksie That mug ♡♡♡♡ 1mo
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mandarchy
Odder | Katherine Applegate
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? ? this paragraph will make a teacher blubber in June. If you loved the One and Only Ivan, you'll love this too. I'm not sure why "Sea Otter" by Ezterhaz wasn't in the back of this book, but almost everything I know about otters is from Ezterhaz. Both books will make you want to watch the otter cams at Monterey or the Seattle aquarium. #playlikeanotter

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britt_brooke
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My youngest baby, who‘ll be nine tomorrow - I know he looks more like twelve, he‘s super tall! - reading at my oldest baby‘s orthodontist appointment. WHY ARE THEY SO BIG?! 😭

#raisingreaders

LeahBergen ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
batsy 💕 1mo
PathfinderNicole I know the feeling! My son will be in middle school next year and I‘m already going through it 😩 1mo
britt_brooke @PathfinderNicole My older one will be, too. 😭 1mo
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mandarchy
Odder | Katherine Applegate
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What are you thinking about the updates in goodreads. I am feeling meh. I want goodreads to be more interactive. I want to be able to share from goodreads to other sites similar to the way my posts automatically tweet - especially since Twitter has become so Twit(tee). It's appearance was the least of my concerns and the update is not really an improvement. I want it to have more features like storygraph or share to SG.

mandarchy It drives me crazy that someone can like my post and when I get the notification it takes me to my post and when I click on their profile, it does not take me to theirs! Who are these people?
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mandarchy I wrote to the help desk asking about sharing improvement and got directions for how to share to Twitter and Facebook. I want to crossover to Storygraph. I do not like the share feature for Facebook. It never works the way I need it to. I automatically share to Twitter, but I only have 62 followers there. I don't really want a new platform. Just having some growing pains about GR. 2mo
Bookwomble Goodreads was taken over by A****n in 2013 (the year I moved to Library Thing) & the ensuing 10 years has seen a gradual decline from a thriving bookish hub to a platform for shifting units. I far prefer Library Thing as a cataloguing tool, & Litsy as a social platform. The new GR book page is terrible, imo, but as ever when they test a beta feature, to which I was an early subjectee, they ignore the feedback as it's clearly already decided on. 2mo
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mandarchy I may have to move to Library Thing. Maybe my next vacation, I'll move there... but goodreads has been underwhelming for such a long while. 2mo
BookwormM @Bookwomble @mandarchy I still haven‘t forgiven Amazon for killing Shelfari I use GR because that is where my reading group moved to but imo it is completely inferior to what Shelfari provided in terms of book discussions 2mo
mandarchy @BookwormM I never tried shelfari. I like story graph, but got tired of posting in 3 places and often not finding a good fit with their tags. I've tried a couple of others but couldn't trust because of creeps such as on bookstagram. Or even the bots on GR! 2mo
mandarchy @Bookwomble thanks for your reply, I forgot to tag you in my reply to your reply. 🙃 me 2mo
wideeyedreader I actually really like the new book page on GR—it‘s much more attractive and intuitive for me 2mo
mandarchy @wideeyedreader Ah! Good to get positive feed back. I always wonder, who needed this? 2mo
wideeyedreader @mandarchy personally, I felt like the text on the old one was too small, and I hated that the reviews were automatically an infinite scroll—not I choose to read them, and it‘s much easier to actually read the information! 2mo
DogMomIrene I haven‘t spent a lot of time with the updates. I don‘t tend to interact there much. I would like more features like Storygraph because I don‘t have it in me to add another platform to the mix. I do like the more modern look. Minimalism feel with larger text. But the whole…here‘s the Kindle purchase button grosses me out. Like Amazon, you‘re huge. Get out of my face on the book app, but that‘s me. I‘ll be curious to see what others say. 2mo
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lynneamch
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"There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness and even the prettiness, of her *youth*; rendering it evident that the personal charms which Tess could boast were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical." Required reading long ago for my Senior High lit class. Still treasure this find from a little bookshop in London on our Senior trip. #youth #InQuotes @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💞💞💞 2mo
Eggs Beautiful 😍 2mo
Talewaggingreads London as a Senior Trip? Lol, how about a Seniors' trip to London? 😜 4w
lynneamch @Talewaggingreads Ha! Guess we'll settle for Fairhope for now. 4w
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