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Sally’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sally’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Sally J. Pla’s Followers (272)
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Sally J. Pla
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August 2013
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The Someday Birds
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2017
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22 editions
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The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
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2023
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9 editions
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Invisible Isabel
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2024
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7 editions
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Benji, the Bad Day, and Me
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2018
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5 editions
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Stanley Will Probably Be Fine
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2018
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3 editions
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Der Gesang der Wellen: Meine Familie, ich und mein neues Leben | »Ungeheuer warmherzig.« Deutschlandfunk | Über einen unvergesslichen Sommer am Meer und den Weg zu sich selbst
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Ada and Zaz: Band 16/Sapphire
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L'onda dei segreti di Maudie McGinn
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Rowan and Gemma
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¿Quién quiere ser Maudie McGinn?
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Sally’s Recent Updates
“You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.”
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“(It’s amazing, the things we are capable of, in our dreams. If only we could harness that power when we wake. —Tiberius Shaw)”
― The Someday Birds
― The Someday Birds
“I have a public bathroom rating system that I keep in my head, and anything that I think rates lower than two stars, I won't even enter.”
― The Someday Birds
― The Someday Birds
Polls
We have read a lot of great literature this year, but have we missed your favorite? This is our last month for 2018 Newbery contenders so write in the one you think we've missed.
What book should we read in December?
Please vote/write in your choice for the book of the month.
One month before the 2018 awards!
What book should we read in December?
Please vote/write in your choice for the book of the month.
One month before the 2018 awards!
The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
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Her right foot by Dave Eggers
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The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
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Real Friends
Bronze & Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan
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Beyond the bright sea
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Princess Cora and the Crocodile https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
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Ban This Book by Gratz
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Forget me not
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Sputnik's guide to life on Earth By Frank Cottrell Boyce
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The Stars Beneath Our Feet
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118 total votes
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Mock Newbery 2026:
Let's Choose the Winners!
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73 | 276 | Jan 23, 2018 05:41AM | |
| Book Riot's Read ...: 2019 Read Harder Challenge Plans | 172 | 1769 | Nov 21, 2019 02:38PM | |
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EVERYONE Has Read...:
Bingo Reading Challenge 2020
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142 | 967 | Jan 03, 2021 09:31AM | |
| A Million More Pages: Contemporary | 33 | 53 | Aug 22, 2022 04:05PM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: Serious Readers Challenge 2022 - Level 2 | 54 | 512 | Dec 04, 2022 12:37PM | |
| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: Melissa (ladybug)'s reading list | 13 | 42 | Dec 08, 2022 06:57PM |
“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.”
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“Being a person, I had come to
realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people
do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other
people.”
― Zombicorns
realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people
do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other
people.”
― Zombicorns
“In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.”
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“May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. ”
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“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.
...I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egotists that survive.”
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
...I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egotists that survive.”
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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Hey there, Sally! Thanks for the friend request - I recognize you from Twitter and it's nice crossing paths again :)
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