busia1999
if people kiss, i’ll read it
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Post from the The Names They Gave Us forum
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The Names They Gave Us
Emery Lord
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Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide
Eowyn Crisfield
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”’Only speak your own language to your child!’ is a common decree in much non-specialist advice about raising bilingual children. It’s particularly common in writings about the one-parent, one-language (OPOL) method. The reason commonly given is that it is confusing to young children to hear different languages from the same person. This is simply not the case. Children being raised in multilingual communities in places such as India will commonly hear two or more languages from a parent-caregiver, as different languages will be used with different people and in different contexts.”
From my anecdotal experience, it really is kinda nuts how even very small children can tell when you switch between different languages. The author does go on to note that the danger of “mixed-input” from a caregiver is that the child(ren) will hear less of the target language (if one of the OPOL parents are speaking a minority language).
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Post from the Gone with the Wind forum
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The Blind Date Agreement
Jessica Cunsolo
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The Blind Date Agreement
Jessica Cunsolo
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This is a crazy book because I literally feel like I’m reading a 2026 romantasy, just better
Rhett Butler feels like an archetype of every shadow daddy - dark (but not black), cocky, interested in himself and the heroine, uninterested in social customs, but has a softer side.
It’s always funny to me when people criticise current book trends for something, saying it’s the end of literature or modern plague or something but here we have Rhett Butler, 100 years before the word romantasy has ever been uttered.
Women haven’t changed what they like in a long time lol (especially white women sorryyyyyy)
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The summer vibes are there and are strong. I’m not usually a fan of music romances but this one wasn’t bad. There’s nothing special about this book but it’s also well-written and has a solid plot. I’d say the equivalent of watching „Friends” reruns.
0busia1999 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
This summer I’m working as a camp counselor, and one of the kids I was in charge of this week was a major Harry Potter fan. It made me realize that Harry Potter is still a huge franchise, especially among little kids who are unaware of who J.K. Rowling really is. I don’t support J.K Rowling at all and frankly believe her prejudices are present all throughout her writing, but I’d hate to discourage the love of reading I see in children like this one, and nobody should be mad at a nine-year-old for not knowing the details of J.K. Rowling’s horrible actions, which is why I thought it might be nice to compile a list of books to hand kids that aren’t Harry Potter.
I know there are already some lists like this, and I don’t want to copy anyone else’s idea, so I came up with some specific criteria:
- The book must be middle grade/for children (not YA or adult)
- The book must be a series starter
- The book should have some sort of fantastical element (like the gods in Percy Jackson or the elves in Keeper of the Lost Cities)
- I’m less interested in graphic novels for this list, but they aren’t strictly forbidden
Basically any series that’s just as much fun and not nearly as problematic as Harry Potter will do. I really just want any series that could get a kid hooked on reading the way Harry Potter successfully has for decades. It would be great to have some books with better representation as well!
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