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The Bible posted:I adored this series. Yes! I think about this way more often then objectively makes sense because even after a 30 odd years of reading other stuff it's still such a wild dénouement.
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root beer posted:I read a lot of books in these two series, The Great Brain (JD Fitzgerald) and Soup (Robert Newton Peck). Just a bunch of stories about tweens doing dumb poo poo at the turn of the century and the ‘30s, respectively. They were contemporary with Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume but I assume they were considerably lesser known. I read pretty much all of whatever they’d written that was published up to the late ‘80s. I had to read Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die in school, which was deeply upsetting (not Red Fern upsetting but real real close). My unhappiness was further compounded by the fact I confused him with Richard Peck and couldn't understand how one person could write a book I hated so much but also could produce the wonderful Blossom Culp series.
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teen witch posted:Mentioning Where the Red Fern Grows unlocked a memory of my fifth grade class listening to my teacher read it out loud. When we got to the ending, it became a classroom of weeping kids. I’m certain doesthedogdie.com came from a kid who read that book. I feel like I may have posted about this before but I moved around a lot as a kid and so was assigned Red Fern in 3rd grade and then had it read aloud to the class in 4th grade at a different school. I was the only kid who had read the book before and I remember sitting there eagerly anticipating the poo poo storm that was about to ensue as we got closer and closer to the end when, of course, every single kid in the class was going to lose it. I wasn't a complete psycho though, I was sobbing right along with everyone else when we got there. The only book that made me as upset as a kid was Jacob Have I Loved, I remember lying on the couch weeping as I angrily read it because everyone was such an rear end in a top hat to the protagonist (and also because they threatened to drown a bunch of cats).
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:
My favorite author as a kid was John Bellairs, who I started reading because Gorey did the covers and interior illustrations so they looked completely different from anything else on the library shelves (except, apparently, Mary, Rose, and Christmas Tree June). I loved the books in part because the magic in them was real stuff people in the actual world believed it, and because they could be legitimately scary - there was a bit in Eyes of the Killer Robot (otherwise not one of the strongest books) that had me so frightened I remember hiding it in another room and going to bed with the light on that night. eta the Eyes cover because drat it's creepy  Rain Brain fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Feb 27, 2024 |
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