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Katie Ganshert recommended The Phantom Tollbooth in Books (curated)

 
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster | 2008 | Children
8.6 (10 Ratings)
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"In fifth grade, I received The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and spent the next three days wrapped up in the pages, unable to put it down. It was the first book that grabbed hold of me and didn’t let go. When I was a fifth grade teacher, I would read it aloud to my students every year and watch as the story of Milo and the mysterious Tollbooth grabbed them the way it grabbed me when I was that age. I still have that same weather-worn copy on my book shelf and look forward to the day I can hand it off to my son."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Damaged (Damaged, #1) in Books

Jan 6, 2021  
Damaged (Damaged, #1)
Damaged (Damaged, #1)
H.M. Ward | 2013
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Hmm...I'm not sure what to make of this.

I mean, not much really happened. Teacher/student forbidden romance and an overwhelming family issue but other than that...it wasn't even an in-your-face seduction fest but a slow simmer, I-really-want-you-but-can't-have-you type of thing.

That ending hasn't really even inspired me to want to read the next one, not like [b:The Arrangement: The Ferro Family|17181905|The Arrangement The Ferro Family (The Arrangement, #1)|H.M. Ward|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356483152s/17181905.jpg|23628709] has, anyway, though I would be interested to see how these two end up.
  
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Julia Roberts recommended The Wild Palms in Books (curated)

 
The Wild Palms
The Wild Palms
William Faulkner | 2000 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
(0 Ratings)
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"This would have to be my favorite classic novel. It’s such a beautiful, tragic love story—a book that will just destroy you. And Faulkner’s language is so utterly descriptive. He can write an entire page that consists of only adjectives and two commas. Actually, he’s the reason I ended up passing high school English, because my punctuation was always kind of…eccentric. I would say to my teacher, ‘Well, you know, William Faulkner—he doesn’t use proper punctuation.’ And one of my teachers ended up devising a system with two grades, where you were graded on content and then on whether it was properly written."

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