Happy Tuesday, friends! The Broke and the Bookish are, as ever, hosting a Top Ten Tuesday, and I love the question for this week: Ten Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed (less love, more love, complicated feelings, indifference, thought it was great in a genre until you became more well read in that genre etc.) I couldn’t think of ten — my initial responses to most of the books I read continue to hold true on rereads — but here are six, anyway! 1. Emma, by Jane Austen – I think the problem here is that I…
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More books from my childhood
Published 9 Aug 2009
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Gin Jenny
So Mary Francis Shura’s The Josie Gambit is where I learned pretty much everything I knew about chess. Twelve-year-old chess geek Greg is spending six months with his grandmother, and he reunites with his old friend and chess partner Josie. Josie has an absolutely hateful friend Tory, whose utter nastiness everyone is at a loss to explain. And the book is, essentially, all about why Tory is such a nasty girl. When I was small, I liked this book because everyone ate a lot of food, and I learned interesting things about chess, and there was a very unpleasant Lhaso…
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