librarymary.bsky.social
She/her, Reader, Dog Person, School Librarian, LFL Steward, Pop Culture curious, Consistently inconsistent
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“DUFRESNE, PARTY OF FIVE. Who can eat at a time like this?”
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The idioms and radio jingles and baseball broadcasts were all ways to soothe herself with familiar ideas and people she trusted in her isolation to help stay focused and survive, and to stay “human”.
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One of my FAVE podcasts has been roasting him for 2 years
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I don’t necessarily recommend this retailer, but if you can find one of these, they work SURPRISINGLY well. a.co/d/ekD9kaj
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Maybe it was a little corny, but I loved the callback to Tom Gordon’s signature gesture in the final scene.
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There was a lot of, in my opinion, reasonable and natural questioning of God, and other forms of spirituality discussed. And swear words? Nothing in it was inappropriate for teenagers IMO. The idea is laughable compared to what most of them are getting on their/ their friends’ phones anyway.
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Agree!
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Once I came to suspect the most graphic / frightening things were going to be imagined, I relaxed and enjoyed. Some of the times that she imagined how badly she could have been hurt, I was really wincing.
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I learned a little about things to eat in the forest if you’re lost, I learned a really catchy late 90s New England commercial jingle, if it’s not fictional.
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Haha I loved the baseball passages for giving me a break from the peril. Also it was my favorite Yankees era so I loved seeing all those names again, even if they were the villains.
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The pacing of a baseball game really did mirror the novel, as well as the stakes. The first few innings, you are just starting the game, not too worried yet about every run or strike. Later in the game, every play feels crucial.
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It was my first Stephen King book. I know he writes more than just horror, but as a Stephen King movie adaptation I saw too young kind of scared me away from horror, I avoided his books my whole life. It was a great introduction and opened my mind to reading some more (but not all) of his books.
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I would classify this as just fiction, maybe a psychological thriller? But the pace doesn’t feel like a thriller either.
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This is the reason they want to end the DOE as an end goal - so conservative state and local governments can enact discriminatory laws without federal intervention to protect students’ constitutional rights.
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That is not a role our current federal administration has any interest in fulfilling, and they consider enforcement of civil rights to be “woke” and “fraud and waste”. They have ended all investigations into book bans.
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The federal dept of education is usually not a factor in that process at first, but an important role of the dept of education is to protect the civil rights of students, so theoretically their function might be to prevent book bans if it is deemed to violate civil rights, not to enforce them.
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So when we say “banned” books we mean “banned or challenged” which often means a person or group has demanded a book be removed from library shelves or school curriculum. These are typically handled in a local / municipal level and libraries / school systems have a review process.
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In a TX school district, all Stephen King books are banned from school libraries, without specifying titles, let alone reasons. The High School I work in has 2-3 shelves of Stephen King books in the collection, and they are regularly checked out by students and teachers.
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“Your whole house smells of dog, says someone who comes to visit. I say I’ll take care of it. Which I do by never inviting that person to visit again.”
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My 11yo calls Danny Devito “the Jersey Mike’s Guy”
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“I decide to make reading aloud part of our routine. Knowing how this might look to others, though, I don’t tell anyone. But then there’s a lot in these pages I’ve never told anyone. It is curious how the act of writing leads to confession. Not that it doesn’t also lead to lying your head off.”
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Ok I’m considering!
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Aww, that’s so nice!
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Ok I have never read a Stephen King book. I am a wimp. I also don’t typically like peril-in-nature stories. Watching Pet Semetary when I was way too young made me very averse to horror. Do you think I can get through The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon? If not I’ll dip and return to the convo in June!
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No New Things is a great #nonfic worth a try if you’ve wanted to ditch Amazon and failed (or just want to save money, live a more sustainable and environmentally friendly lifestyle, or embrace minimalism)! Dogtown is the very charming #middlegrade fiction I’m currently reading with my kid. #booksky