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Listening to BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by Dee Brown and narrated by the voice of voices Grover Gardner. This is actually a very good book. I apologize for not having the "link" but I've never been able to use that feature from the iPhone app.
Oh my apologies this was for children's literature. I'll delete the above post when I get to the computer.
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I have just read and posted my first review! New BeginningsNot exactly my genre, but a delightful and very enjoyable read- ideal for pre-teens.
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Leroy Ninker Saddles Up: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume One and brown girl dreamingI loved When You Reach Me, Cheryl in CC NV. Now read Liar & Spy! You'll like it, too!
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Thank you Shelley for the rec, I'll investigate.
Ugh, I keep forgetting to post in this thread.....
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I'm now reading
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Re-reading
, one of my favorites. I think I might start
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, one of my favorites. I think I might start
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Then I'm going to read Liar & Spy.
Finished Room, I'm now reading Garden of the Purple Dragon. I'm putting Feed on the back burner, so to speak....:)
I've just completed Flush and really enjoyed the book. It was my first exposure to his books and I am recommending this one to any friends who have kids that are interested in environmental matters.
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Amy's Eyes
by Richard Kennedy.
I'm re-reading
(I like the Middle School series for more sentimental reasons now). After that I might start
to find out if my opinion on it has changed since last time I read it...
(I like the Middle School series for more sentimental reasons now). After that I might start
to find out if my opinion on it has changed since last time I read it...
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Old Man and the Sea is a tough one. I don't like other Hemingway, but I loved that as a teen and again a couple of years ago.
Otoh, my teen son, who in many ways is a more erudite reader than I, more able to appreciate classics and literature, didn't like it at all. I *think* the book may appeal more to those who have struggled in life. By the time I read it I'd known hunger, blisters, sleepless nights - but my son is so pampered he just can't empathize with the Old Man. At least that's my theory why he didn't like it.
The part that bothered me a few months ago was the ending. I'm not a fan of open ones in general, so this was awful for me. :)
Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "I'm enjoying a true 'modern classic.' Published in 1985, it reads like it was written a century earlier, with the same dreamy fantasy mixed with high adventure that books like [book:Treasure Islan..."My oldest daughter loves pirates so this looks like just the book for her. Would you recommend it for age 7?
P.S: I was blown away by The Old Man and the Sea this time. I don't know why I hated it so much...
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Maybe you read it at the wrong time in your life. That's happened to me quite a few times (especially with the so-called classics) and is one of the main reasons why I tend to reread books.
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Oh, but yes, I do recommend it in the sense that I strongly believe both of you would enjoy it. ;)
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With my 5yo daughter we are reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... in Russian now - unbeatable classics!But I somehow managed not to read it in my own childhood, so enjoy every word and read further for myself while she is asleep.
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But I somehow managed not to read it in my o..."
I loved these when I was a child, but I found the narrator a bit intrusive when I reread the books as an adult (still loved them, but not quite as much). You should also read the Noisy Village books (I am assuming they are also available in Russian) with your daughter; the narrator Lisa, is five, so only two years older than your daughter (lovely stories).
Reading Al Capone Does My Shirts. Great book, so far. My son, Jack, likes it too:)
Thank you, Gundula.She is actually five and I thought about this book, but flap through it in the bookstore and decided to wait. Though now I can't quite remember why...
Do you know A.-C. Vestly's "Eight Children and the Truck?" That's what we love!
Fantastic... It's the first time I have a discussion about kid's books with people with other background and I realise that it is very confusing... I don't know if it is "Of course I know it by heart!" or "Who is it?" and it influences a lot the way I should ask. Was there a thread about it here on Goodreads? Or should I start one?:)
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She is actually five and I thought about this book, but flap through it in the bookstore and decided to wait. Though now I can't quite remember why...
Do you know A.-C. Vestly'..."
I don't know this story, but why don't you start a thread? But perhaps ask one of the moderators in which of the folders it would be best to start said thread.
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I've never heard of the Vestley book, and the book page for it, here on goodreads, needs help. But I can see it looks charming!
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Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "Ooh, did you like the Last Book? I find Philbrick a hit'n'miss author. I did like that one, but can see why some readers wouldn't."
I loved it, but the ending left something to be desired. :)
I loved it, but the ending left something to be desired. :)
Tanja wrote: "Thank you, Gundula.She is actually five and I thought about this book, but flap through it in the bookstore and decided to wait. Though now I can't quite remember why...
Do you know A.-C. Vestly'..."
My youngest daughter is 5. If yours like animals, you could try Sophie's Snail or most of the animal books by Dick King-Smith. Mine also enjoyed Anatole recently.
We've read The Magic Faraway Tree this year and she really enjoyed it as well. If she likes ballet, my daughter adores the Magic Ballerina series. Delphie and The Magic Spell is the first one.
I actually read an Afrikaans translation of the Emile books as a child. It was a popular children's TV series in the late 1970s in South Africa.
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She is actually five and I thought about this book, but flap through it in the bookstore and decided to wait. Though now I can't quite remember why...
Do you know..."
I saw the Emil series as well, dubbed into German. I've also seen the TV series of the Noisy Village books and the Madicken books (again dubbed into German). It's actually too bad that aside from Pippi Longstocking, none of the TV series or movies of Astrid Lindgren's works have ever been dubbed into English (at least to my knowledge). However, considering that many of the series actually contain brief scenes of children cavorting in the nude (nothing remotely inappropriate, just children playing), I doubt that these series would have been considered acceptable in especially the United States (in the American translation of the Noisy Village books, the scene where Lasse pretends to be a water sprite and is sitting on a rock in the nude playing his flute has simply been cut, sigh).
I just finished the whole series of Harry Potter (for the first time ever). My kid started reading them this summer, and I thought I should try to keep ahead at first in order to "vet" the books for him, make sure there wasn't something in them I knew would offend his sensitivities. So I read along and was mighty impressed with Sorcerer's Stone and mostly liked Chamber of Secrets. Then I got to Prisoner of Azkaban and I figured that the dementors would probably freak out the little guy, so I meant to try to slow him down. Well, by that time his interest shifted anyhow as he became obsessed with Pokemon, but I myself couldn't stop reading HP so I continued churning through them. I found them so consuming though that I would try to pace myself with a 7-10 day break between books.This week I finally finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and what a riveting tale! I feel totally drained and exhausted, happy ... but sad that it's now over.
(I'm one of those people who used to think this series was a fad, and never felt compelled to read them. Why should I have been interested in reading about a little boy going to "wizard school"? I was utterly wrong of course ...)
I want to read the Harry Potter series sometime - I read the first one, when it first came out, and quite liked it, but didn't feel particularly inspired to read the sequels. But they've turned into such a phenomenon that now I'm curious to read the whole lot.Today I am reading Stig of the Dump - which is apparently a modern children's classic, and for some reason I never read as a child. I knew of its existence - other kids in the class were reading it and talking about it - but I guess it didn't appeal to me at that time.
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I'm so happy that you have discovered the true magic of Harry Potter! :-) I was one of those people, too, though thankfully I discovered my mistake over a decade ago and have reread the series a few times since then! ;->
Kathryn wrote: "Fjóla wrote: "(I'm one of those people who used to think this series was a fad, and never felt compelled to read them. Why should I have been interested in reading about a little boy going to "wiza..."That "re-read" part trips me up: I found that though quite exciting I never want to re-read any of them, once was enough. Very derivative. And some of the grammar is awful, hypercorrection all over the place. Would love to learn C.S. Lewis' view of them, after all they couldn't have been written without him.
Diana wrote: " ... Very derivative. And some of the grammar is awful, hypercorrection all over the place. ..."That's interesting, I hadn't noticed that about the grammar. But then I'm not a native English speaker nor do I have a solid feeling for American vs. British idioms. In fact I became thrilled when my son started choosing HP over Magic Treehouse, because it seemed to me he would be learning so much more from Harry Potter. I was finding the Magic Treehouse books so tediously repetitive and over simplified in language. But now his grammar is going to get all messed up, LOL ...
I will definitely be rereading them however, all the clues and forebodings scattered throughout them to me warrant a reread.
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There was also Judy Blume and other books, and of course, classic authors like L.M. Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott. I think these series were a fad, but that there were also many other types of books available (I was in high school in the early 80s and at university in the late 80s and although I had heard of this series, I was never even remotely tempted to read it).