max theodore’s Reviews > Harriet the Spy > Status Update

thinking "half of them don't even have professions" about her classmates. who are eleven. because she is eleven. love her so bad

"Without a notebook there was nothing to do but listen to Miss Harris. Having never done this before, Harriet was totally lost."

voice of many, many generations

"he's so dull that i already forgot his name so i'm calling him The Boy With The Purple Socks" is the evolutionary ancestor of dear dumb diary's That Ugly Kid Whose Name I Forgot

"According to Stanislavsky you have to feel like an onion. Do you feel like an onion?"

“I think you girls have something to learn. I think you have to find out you’re girls.”

indubitably lesbian book

did everyone really just leave their house doors unlocked in the 60s. wish that were still true so i could break in and sit in someone’s dumbwaiter

this is an ancestor of dear dumb diary and i do mean that. everyone in this book is so mean

“Jamie Gibbs was Harriet’s best friend besides Sport. She had a chemistry set and planned one day to blow up the world.”

this book really profoundly gets kids

i’m inconsolably sad and i need this