Lovely vocabulary words, but I felt bad for Petey. I do love that Pru doesn't change, but I wish she had helped to clean up a bit. Ah well.

I would like to read it in a storytime because the words are fun to say but I am wondering if one-on-one Reading would be better to explain the words?

I will say this book sucked me right in, which was nice, because I had felt like I was in a little bit of a reading slump, often choosing the internet instead. This book I picked over the internet, if that tells you anything.

It's a compelling story about complicated people. I didn't particularly like any of our main characters, but their stories were interesting. It would be an excellent book club choice, which is why I read it (even if I can't be with my book club now). I do think it is a good reminder of the way crimes and prison reverberate through a family.

I enjoyed the advice overall, but I kind of wondered--if we always put self happiness ahead of all other things, what does that mean for communal goals/society? Maybe I took it too far, and read it too seriously, but part of it seemed a little, I don't know, white feminist-y to me. There are definitely things to care less about, especially what other people think, but I'm wary of telling people to not care about climate change or politics.

I thought this one was okay. I didn't think it would be particularly for me from the start, when it became clear it was going to be a story that foreshadows some event in the future the entire time. That's not my jam. I also found it slow-going. I read some reviews on here before I finished, and so I was on high alert for certain situations that I didn't notice as much as other people did, but I just...didn't like it.

This book shows why they work, and made me happy for them. True love!

This is a great story about what would happen if the dead rose up during the Civil War and we had to fight them instead of actually formally ending the war. Our narrator, Jane, is fairly reliable, although we find that she tells herself (and others) some lies to survive. I especially loved Katherine, a beautiful girl who is hampered by that beauty in ways. She is never played entirely as the mean girl. And of course, as in most good zombie stories, the humans are far scarier than the dead ever could be.

Sunny is being sent to Florida to spend the summer with her grandfather at his retirement home, instead of at the shore. She seems to be having flashbacks to what happened in May and June to cause her to be sent there, but it isn't until the end of the story that her situation is revealed to the reader.

Karen Cushman is one of my favorite authors. I loved Catherine Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice. This book was not quite as good as those. The language caused me to read slower. I also didn't like Meggy Swann as much as I liked Catherine. I did like the depiction of how someone with a disability might be treated before we really understood illnesses, and I could still see some parallels to today's world. Still worth a read, although not an extraordinary book.

Currently re-reading on audio because it won the Odyssey. So much better as an audio, probably due to the talented Katherine Kellgren (RIP).

So, so good.

Ally has been hiding a secret for a long time. It's not until a long-term substitute teacher comes in that her secret is discovered--she has dyslexia. Ally's struggle feels realistic, as do the struggles of her friends. I particularly loved Albert and his obsession with facts. Another fantastic novel from Hunt.