Surely there was a better way to tell her.

When I was a kid, my absolute favorite books were the Moorchild, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and A Little Princess. I haven't read them as an adult, except last year I listened to the audio book version of the Moorchild, which of course gave me a whole new perspective on it but which I still loved.

This made me want to reread my other two favorites, and then I got to thinking, how fun would it be to have a kind of forum or read along or challenge where we revisit books from our childhoods 🥹

So I wanted to ask what books everyone enjoyed as a kid and if anyone would be interested in rereading their favorites 🤗

RE: Catherine of Sienna's dying words being "into your hands I commend my spirit" and the author following that with "But about her body, she had nothing to say" (might be paraphrasing bc I couldn't find the audiobook section again after my drive today).

That's bc "into your hands I commend my spirit" is a really Catholic thing to say (and she's a nun!!!). It'd be really weird for her to say "into your hands I commend my body" because that's not the line! Just kinda weird framing. Maybe the rest of the chapter will make up for leading with religious fasting, but it feels real strange to start there when presumably there are dozens of other avenues for talking about gut health or whatever.

I have only been using Libby for about a year, so I wanted to share in case anyone else didn't know it was possible to extend your borrow length to 21 days! You change it at the time you borrow the loan, not when you place the hold. This is the link to the Libby help page on how to extend your borrow length

You can also lower your borrow length to 7 days if you know you are going to finish it quickly (like a novella or something) to help people pace out their own holds.

If you have any other Libby tips or tricks that us newbies might not know, I would love to hear it!

When I read The Six Deaths of the Saint last January I screamed, I wept, I immediately went to google trying to find if Alix Harrow had written a full novel and when I couldn’t find anything my heart was broken and the story was haunting my dreams.

So imagine my satisfaction seeing she actually wrote a full novel based on the short story, I’m mad at myself that I’m only finding out now but whatever I’m going to gobble this up.

Only a couple of chapters in and I’m already so in love with her writing style, the imagery is insanely good, she’s creating tension so well, I have so many questions, I want to run into a forest and lay in the grass. I haven’t been this excited for a book in so long.