ladyenchantress

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ladyenchantress commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

riskyreads

When did you learn to read?

Hi my daughter is about to be 3 and very advanced. She’s known her alphabet since she was 13 months. And she can say the sounds of every letter. So I’m curious if she may be ready to learn to read? I have a friend who learned at the age of 4 before she even went to kindergarten. But I didn’t learn until first grade in public school.

My daughter loved books just like mommy and I would really love to continue to foster her advanced little mind and her academic abilities if she’s up for it.

If 3 is an okay age, does anyone here have any resources, thoughts, experience?

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The Shadow Rising

Robert Jordan

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The Overstory

Richard Powers

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There’s something you need to hear."

ladyenchantress commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

Tessp

How do you use the library?

I've been thinking about how I use the library recently. I usually go in with a book I want in mind. I've already looked online where I can find it and go straight there. Do you agree or are you more of a peruse kind of person? I find it almost overwhelming when I see how many books there are!

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The Shadow Rising

Robert Jordan

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Alicia_G27

When do y'all decide it's time to DNF a book?

Hello Boundlings!

Is there a page/percentage point that if a book doesn't have your attention by now it probably won't, or something specific that makes you go NOPE?

I am about 40% into Gentlest of Wild Things (by Sarah Underwood) and frankly, I just don't really care about the story or the characters still unfortunately 🙃

I've only ever DNF'D one book and even then I read until over 70% when I first considered DNFing at just 30% 😅 That felt like an accomplishment though because I need conclusions and tend to read to the end just in case it gets better, or to find out if I was right about something. I know I need to work on that though, my TBR is way too long to read books I'm not enjoying lol, but at what point should the decision to DNF be made? What is your DNF point or criteria? Help a girl grow a DNF backbone 😭

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The Shadow Rising

Robert Jordan

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Welcome to The Shop Around the Corner

by kenznais

141 books

Here you’ll find a multitude of children’s books featured in the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail, which, if you’re unfamiliar, heavily features a children’s bookstore called The Shop Around the Corner. Nothing brings me joy quite like children’s literature and 90s nostalgia, so I have painstakingly studied the shelves featured in the film to bring this list to life. I hope that at least one book here unlocks a nostalgic memory for you, or at least conjures a smile of recognition.

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Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)

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Silver: Finished 10 Main Quest books.

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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun (Penguin Little Black Classics, #114)

Emily Dickinson

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'. This title features electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first of Mark Twain's novels to feature one of the best-loved characters in American fiction. From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A sombre undercurrent flows through the high humour and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality - base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. In his illuminating introduction, noted Twain scholar John Seelye considers Twain's impact on American letters and discusses the balance between humorous escapades and serious concern that is found in much of Twain's writing. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river; 'Mark Twain', a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep, became the pseudonym by which he was best known. After the Civil War, Twain turned to journalism, publishing his first short story in 1865. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain led a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.

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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305. Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War. It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

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Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)

Cornelia Funke

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The Shadow Rising

Robert Jordan

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ladyenchantress commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

teddydee

"Whatcha Get?" Weekend

To tell you the truth I am still catching up on last week's comments (😭) but time marches on... It's time to share what books you got in the last week!

Did you check out a big stack from the library?
Did you visit a new LFL and find something exciting?
Did someone give you a book for your birthday?
Did you go splurge at the bookstore?
Did you stuff your Kindle?
Did all your Libby holds come in at once?
Did you find a book in the dumpster?
???

IT ALL COUNTS so tell me...whatcha get??? 👀

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Mo is talking to Meggie about how books tend to keep a younger version of you within them, so that when you reread them when you’re older you find a bit of the person you were when you read them the first time. This is so sweet and so true—I first read Inkheart as a kid (though I didn’t read the whole series at the time, we only had the first book) and, having just finished it this morning before starting Inkspell, I most certainly found young me within it.

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