What did you read this year?
Celeste’s
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2020
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“The figures of rhetoric are the beauties of all the poems we have ever read. Without them we would be merely us: eating, sleeping, manufacturing and dying. With them everything can be glorious. For though we have nothing to say, we can at least say it well.”
I had no idea that there were so many different types of rhetorical phrases. Seriously, there are so many. I learned a lot from The Elements of Eloquence, but I had fun while doing it. Some o ...more
What a delightful little book. I had a feeling it would be. Beneath the title, the phrase “Nafariously Written & Ignominously Illustrated by the Author” adorns the title, and I figured after see those words that this story was sure to be a snarky treat. And I was right. I’ve always loved Lois Lowry, but this was a new side of her for me. There was so much tongue-in-cheek sass in this book. It reminded me of a quicker, happier version of Lemony Sn
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