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Stefanie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stefanie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Stefanie Brook Trout
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in Greenville, Michigan, The United States
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June 2011
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Fracture: Essay Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America
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2016
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Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland
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2014
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2 editions
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While technically brilliant, this novel was such a slog. Chabon can write an incredible sentence, but it would be nice if those impressive feats were balanced with some restraint. Like, any restraint. And while I appreciate the diversity of the chara ...more |
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"Hey, check out my razzle-dazzle, dictionary-demanding, neverending prose that rolls off the page like marbles falling from a flatbed truck, grabbing you like a gardener's glove in a Venus flytrap, moaning like Robert Johnson on a late-night radio blu"
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"Count me among those that found reading this book a chore. Chabon is obviously brilliant and talented but reading his work is a bit like being trapped in the corner at a party by a manic genius, who feeds you dozens of brilliant different ideas at on"
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| I finished this book a week ago but haven't reviewed it yet because I haven't been able to decide how to rate it. We read Tender is the Flesh as part of a high school Book Club. It's not YA, but it has been very popular among my students. Probably th ...more | |
"Many might say that a book dealing with the level of brutality and horrific subject matter that makes up this book could never be thoughtful or highbrow. I disagree with that. I definitely think literature depicting graphic violence doesn't automatic"
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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2014: 4 stars A nice little collection of quotations and commentary on writing. Plenty of gems; good variety. 2026 update: 5 stars I used these quotes to "launch" (close) my Creative Writing classes. It's not an instructional resource, by any means, but ...more |
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| The prose was a little tricky to read at first, which made it slow for me to get into, but once I got used to the 12-year-old's narrative voice, this was a compelling - and haunting - little ghost story rife with tragedy. It left me feeling unsettled ...more | |
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| I have complicated feelings about this memoir but highly recommend it to anyone who has been impacted by addiction. | |
“Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.”
― Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland
― Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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ARCHIVED - English 9B 1617 T3
— 15 members
— last activity Apr 29, 2017 01:00PM
Group for Ms. Trout's English 9B class, third trimester of the 2016-2017 school year. Make sure you log your progress on your SSR book daily. Post ...more
Writing Readers
— 23 members
— last activity Jul 26, 2011 11:30AM
If you're an aspiring or successful writer, this is the group for you. Suggest your favorite books on the craft, discuss past and present challenges, ...more
Ms. Trout's English 9
— 6 members
— last activity Jul 09, 2017 02:37PM
Group for sharing and discussing SSR books in Ms. Trout's English 9 course for the 2017-2018 academic year. Profile image from booksdirect.tumblr.com ...more
