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Did You Ever Stop To Think | Blog
2d ago
Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober by Victor Appleton II My rating: 5 of 5 stars The tall, dark-haired reviewer sat down to write her review on the book and considered how to begin. It was interesting, she thought, how everything in her busy, vivid life had suddenly required two adjectives. She wasn’t sure ..read more
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2w ago
Mother Tells You How: Essential Life Skills for Modern Young Women by Unknown My rating: 4 of 5 stars I love these comics very much and devour them whenever I come across them. They’re beautifully constructed things and the amount of knowledge they pack into six frames (six! frames!) is incredible. The only thing that ..read more
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2w ago
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus My rating: 3 of 5 stars It’s an interesting one this because I did like it and I did enjoy it but also I found some strange stickiness about certain parts of it. Let’s start with the good stuff. Elizabeth Zott persists despite everything the world has to throw ..read more
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3w ago
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m very fond of what E. Nesbit does because she does it very well. She has a deep understanding of the messy, vibrant rhythm of family life and inter-personal relationships and it’s this, really, that makes her work still immeasurably readable and interesting ..read more
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1M ago
Max Kowalski Didn’t Mean It by Susie Day My rating: 5 of 5 stars A while ago, I had a very particular need to read some Susie Day. I have adored her work for a long time and I think that in many ways, it demonstrates everything that is good in present-day children’s literature. She ..read more
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2M ago
Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I found this remarkable and have been taking some time to quite figure out how to review it and what to say about it. I am unfamiliar with Laurie Halse Anderson’s original text so was coming to this fresh. I had ..read more
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2M ago
Donut Feed the Squirrels by Mika Song My rating: 5 of 5 stars (Please note that I was offered a copy of this to review from my publisher. This hasn’t impacted my feelings about the book nor the content of this review). This is infinitely, infinitely, infinitely charming stuff. I loved every inch of it ..read more
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2M ago
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by Richard Appignanesi, artwork by Sonia Leong My rating: 4 of 5 stars Adapting Shakespeare and then adapting Romeo and Juliet is not the easiest of tasks to set yourself. Not only do you have to wrestle with an incredibly familiar text that everybody knows (and even if they don’t ..read more
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2M ago
Normal People by Sally Rooney My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this, my first Sally Rooney over Christmas and the New Year. I was quite determinedly ill at the time, hurtling from one virus to another and then another in that breathless, desperate way that people can do when there’s nothing on the ..read more
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3M ago
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald My rating: 5 of 5 stars And so, the end of the year and the start of a new one. Christmas and then the bit beyond. A time when the world gets a little bit thin and unsure of itself. December slides from all purpose and helter-skelter intent ..read more