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rubyslippersreads
That Awful Term | E M Channon
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I really enjoyed this #girlsown book. My favorite trope (orphan girl goes to live with unsympathetic aunt), along with Girl Guides, and a mystery. I‘m glad Books to Treasure is reissuing these vintage novels.

(Not in the Litsy database, so I tagged another book by the same author.)

LeahBergen I‘m reading a fun “Girl‘s Own” book right now, too! 2w
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen Thanks for reminding me that I own this one. 😄 I‘ll have to move it up the TBR list. 2w
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BooksandCoffee4Me
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JenlovesJT47 Ahh, nostalgia 💙🩵💙🩵💙 2w
lil1inblue I miss those days! Love this. 💓 💓 💓 2w
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dabbe Oh, those halcyon days! 🖤🐝🖤 2w
Eggs Sweet memories of childhood in the neighborhoods ❤️❤️ 2w
AnnCrystal The sweet good o'days 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🛼🐝💝...loved skating 💝💝💝. 2w
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rwmg
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Children plus dog explore the island in the cove where one of them lives and look for treasure.

Pure nostalgia with the book which is my earliest memory of owning a book. Read in memory of my uncle who gave it to me and who died last week.

Ruthiella Sorry to hear about your uncle. That is a lovely way to commemorate his memory. ❤️ 3w
TheBookHippie ♥️ 3w
Sace What a sweet memory. Sorry for your loss. 2w
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Dilara What @Ruthiella said. My condolences. 2w
IriDas Sorry for your loss. 💐 2w
kwmg40 Sorry for the loss of your uncle, but this is a nice way to remember him! 2w
Bookwomble Sorry for your loss, Robert ❤️‍🩹 2w
Reggie I‘m sorry about your uncle. 2w
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TheAromaofBooks
Pollyanna Grows Up | Eleanor Hodgman Porter
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Well, Litsy won't let up upload an image today. Ah well. This sequel to Pollyanna is almost like two books in one. The first half takes place only about a year after the first book ended. P is able to walk again and is happily living with Aunt Polly & her husband. When Aunt P & Dr end up going abroad, P goes to stay with a woman in Boston, and we kind of get a repeat of book 1, with P spreading sunshine and happiness to all and sundry. However, ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) there is still a lot of charm here. Second half of the book opens several years later with P now a young woman. She has been abroad with Aunt P & Dr for most of that time (I honestly found it hard to believe that she hadn't come back to visit in all that time...) & Porter decided to make a plot decision that really annoys me every time (spoiler below). Here we get a little love story with everyone pairing off just right. If you enjoyed ⬇ 3w
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) the first book, you'll probably like the second as well.

@BarbaraJean - I think you mentioned something about being concerned about a potential weird age-gap romance but I can reassure you that that is not remotely an issue 😁
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TheAromaofBooks For some reason, Porter decides to kill off Dr. Chilton, leaving Aunt Polly a bitter widow! I think the idea is that we have to have Pollyanna in “reduced circumstances“ etc but honestly it makes me mad every time! At the end of the book, literally everyone else is happily paired off except freaking poor Aunt P who apparently only gets to have 3w
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Bklover Noooo!!!! 3w
BarbaraJean Haha—I need to read this now! 3w
TheAromaofBooks @BarbaraJean - I think you would enjoy it!! I also really wanted to post the picture because I have a 1940s hardcover edition that still has the jacket cover - and it's impressive how many times Page managed to fit “Trademarked“ onto it 😂 I don't know how he ended up with the rights to Pollyanna/Glad books after Porter's death, but knowing him, it was something shyster-y! 3w
MemoirsForMe Oh my! 🫣 2w
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bekakins
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#doublespin done - another fun Famous Five book - so much food in this book 😆 also I know it‘s old but I found it hard to believe that anyone would let 4 children go off in a horse drawn caravan by themselves 🤯 Good fun - trying to teach Gary to #bemoretimmy

TheAromaofBooks I haven't read these, but I just finished rereading one of the Swallows & Amazons books (Coot Club) wherein two sets of parents let their children go off in a sailboat with a random stranger and the two children she had staying with her 😂 She had met the parents ONCE and they are just like “oh sure a multi-day sailing/camping adventure sounds like a great time for everyone“ soooo crazy to me! 3w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
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LeahBergen
Come Back, Lucy | Pamela Sykes
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I just remembered to pull this off my shelves, @Centique , after I mentioned it on your time travel post. This is the American edition; does it look like it matches the ‘70s TV show at all? 😄

Centique Oh yes it does! In the show it is all because of the mirror she finds at her cousins house I think? I am going to a secondhand bookshop next week that specialises in children‘s books so I am going to look for this! 3w
Centique Thanks for showing me your version! I love that art style too 😍 3w
LeahBergen @Centique I hope you find it! Buddy read? 😄 3w
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Centique @LeahBergen definitely! Fingers crossed! 3w
Centique No luck so far sorry Leah. Ill keep looking! 2w
LeahBergen @Centique Oh, darn! 2w
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen @Centique I think I have both of these books. I‘ll have to check. 4h
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LiseWorks
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 3w
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Centique
Come Back, Lucy | Pamela Sykes
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It was this tv show in the late 70s that made me love time travel - being able to visit your grandparents as children in the early 1900s! Time travel novels for me can be escapist fantasy or dystopian sci fi - sometimes a delight, sometimes a disaster - and my tastes have moved from fantasy towards dystopia lately #timetraveltop5 @Ruthiella
1 - The Time Travellers Wife
2 - Outlander
3 - Doomsday Book
4 - Black Out/All Clear
5 - Kindred

Centique If you have some time travel faves, feel free to make a list too! @Dragon @LeahBergen @Ruthiella 1mo
Centique And then there are the kids time travel books like 1mo
Luke-XVX I recently re-bought Toms Midnight Garden. I remember reading the school libraries copy a lot 1mo
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AlaMich I also recommend this one by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. It‘s a bit of a chunkster but worth it. (edited) 1mo
LeahBergen I have a copy of the tagged book! I must get to it soon! 1mo
julesG @AlaMich the audiobook of D.O.D.O. is good 1mo
AlaMich @julesG I know! I listened and read the print edition. Have you read the sequel? (edited) 1mo
julesG @AlaMich Yes. Like you, book+audiobook. 1mo
Centique @Luke-XVX I remember it being so good, I must re-read it! 1mo
Centique @AlaMich @julesG I have that on my TBR but I must move it up! I will look for the audiobook. 1mo
Centique @LeahBergen oh wow! I only found out it was also a book yesterday. I will look for a copy too 😍 1mo
Centique @Dragon ooh that looks really good too! I have such a good TBR of time travel books now 🙌 1mo
Dragon I think you‘re going to enjoy it. I just finished another time travel book that I enjoyed 4w
rubyslippersreads Bid Time Return (I prefer it to the movie based on it, Somewhere in Time) and 3h
Centique @rubyslippersreads that sounds great! I am going to try and find a copy 🤞 1m
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booklover3258
The Hotel Balzaar | Kate DiCamillo
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Such a good book and a wonderful read.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Jhd65EbM9fY?feature=share

Enjoy!

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The Treasure Hunters | Enid Blyton
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#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
This was one of my absolute favourite,edge of the seat adventure books when I was a kid.I could probably read it now and still love it!
From a children's book,definitely George Kirrin of The Famous Five,not perfect at all,straining against the constraints of girlhood,a clever rebellion against expected behaviours.
I read The Long Goodbye and would give it all the stars!!

Eggs Love Enid Blyton❣️ Thanks for playing 🥳 2mo
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