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“Charm has never been a flower that blooms in your garden, has it?” (243)

Another book rec from a student! This one comes from my classroom library and comes highly recommended!

As someone who lived in Roseburg for 18 months and who is a teacher teaching memoirs this year, this graphic memoir seems like a perfect combo. Scary and tragic things happen but I’m optimistic that this memoir will be full of hope.

Enjoying this so far!

Finding the “peace” sections to be quick reading.

“…the caprice of fate and the designs of rogues” (216)

“Again, as at the Enns bridge, there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line separating the living from the dead—lay between them. All were conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all.”

Yet another book rec from a student. Let’s see how this one goes.

Yet another book rec from a student. Let’s see how this one goes.

Getting into this was a challenge since the diction is very elevated. I’m beginning to love it, however.

Kinda wish she’d stop mooning over Tamlin. Girl, you kinda screwed things up for him. Like big time.

Listen, if Beauty and the Beast ever taught me anything it’s that Stockholm syndrome is real and that most rich guys who essentially kidnap you have big libraries. So far ACOTAR has both a healthy dose of Stockholm syndrome and large libraries…

Ah. A Sarah J Maas book. Can’t wait for the enemies to lovers trope. Honestly, much better start than Throne of Glass. Hoping I’ll enjoy this series as much as my students, who have been hyping it up.

Actual “Crucible” stuff happening? I couldn’t be any happier!

1am is a perfectly acceptable time to start a new book, correct? *asking for a friend*

Got it for $2 at Goodwill on the way to the doctor’s and I’m in love. I love all the allusions to the Salem Witch Trials (and this The Crucible). There’s even a character named “Girl Corey” (Giles Corey?) and Abby Putnam…