#Katherine Paterson

[sorryforthebonyelbows]

Anna Quindlen

Franz Kafka

Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember

Anna de Noailles, tr. By Norman R. Sharpiro, from “Your Hidden Fleshly Grace"

Shirley Jackson, “Raising Demons"

Katherine Paterson

[freckles-and-books]

Since I’m in an Arthur mood, I decided to find a book I remember reading and liking as a kid. It’s so cute and small. 🥰

[nouveauxamoris]

assortment of never-before-seen doodles both new and old

RBS APPRECIATED!

[doyouknowthismusical]

[axinite25]

MOVIES THAT MADE ME FEEL THINGS

Bridge to Terrabithia (2007)

Dir. Gábor Csupó

Cast: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb and Robert Patrick

[pagesofserene]

Hi! It's my official 2024 post!

Let me share my very first (thrifted) book haul since the pandemic!

All three books are from a small pile of pre-loved books (mostly inspirational/historical romance) from a department store. I'm proud of what I've found.

#prelovedbooksph #prelovedbooks #secondhand #books #bookhaul #annieknox #lilianjacksonbraun #katherinepaterson #collaredformurder #thecatwhotalkedturkey #jacobhaveiloved

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BOOK AESTHETICS — BOOKS I’VE READ

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Coraline by Neil Gaiman Divergent by Veronica Roth Frogkisser! by Garth Nix Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang Unbecoming by Jenny Downham

[chasingwhitebunnies]

I’ve not been the same since Bridge to Terabithia

[boricuacherry-blog]

[addictedtowords16]

She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there—like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

Bridge to Terabithia

[adamwatchesmovies]

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

Ooh. Ouch. I can tell you in advance your reaction to Bridge to Terabithia won’t be the same as mine. I didn’t read the book as a child. I went in cold, with only the trailers and the movie poster to let me guess what I might see. As such, I was disappointed. To prevent you from having the same “bad” experience as me, read this review.

12-year-old Jesse Aarons (Josh Hutcherson) is bullied at school, feels ignored at home - when he isn’t smothered with chores by his strict father (Robert Patrick) - and lonely. When Leslie Burke (AnnaSophia Robb) moves in next door, they become inseparable and begin having adventures in the imaginary kingdom of Terabithia - which can only be reached by swinging on a rope over a stream in the nearby woods.

Based on the book by Katherine Paterson, this is NOT a fantasy adventure film. It's a family drama. It’s about a desperately lonely boy whose family is poor. Bridge to Terabithia talks of the power of imagination and ultimately, loss. If we judge it on this scale, the picture fares well. Josh Hutcherson is excellent as Jesse. He’s a real person; rude and sometimes frustrating but also kind, insightful and tender. A scene where he clearly has mixed feelings about his father setting a lethal trap for a pest that’s been destroying the crops inside their greenhouse feels completely genuine. You see yourself in him. Not so much the one-dimensional characters which populate the rest of the film. There are several but I’m going to single out Zooey Deschanel as the music teacher. She’s this idyllic woman with no basis in reality. Every time we see her classes, no one is learning notes or doing exercises. Instead, the children are happily following her along as she sings a song they all recognize. Combined with some of her actions outside of school hours, it makes you wonder if the writers have ever seen a real teacher. Take another look. Would she seem so sweet and innocent if she were a man and Jesse a 12-year-old girl?

The biggest flaw with this film are the characters. Too many are generic bullies who run rampant whenever the plot needs them to. Key figures in Jesse’s life are the other extreme; angels who seem too pure for this world and leave sticky saccharine trails. I grew frustrated waiting for the magic and the fairies to come in, for the pretence that everything was imaginary to disappear. Ok, my bad. Still, the characters and the way the drama is telegraphed by their obvious arcs is noticeable even if you know what sort of movie this is.

Bridge to Terabithia has an intended audience and for them, the film is effective. Younger viewers will not recognize the flaws I saw. However, my “job” isn’t to speculate on what might’ve been. Until I get a time machine and warn myself of what I’m about to see, all I can report is my opinion/experience and it wasn’t a positive one. I hope you have a better time watching Bridge to Terabithia than I did. (February 15, 2019)

[inlovewithquotes]

There in their secret place, his feelings bubbled inside him like a stew on the back of the stove---some sad for her in her lonesomeness but chucks of happiness, too. To be able to be Leslie's one whole friend in the world as she was his--he couldn't help being satisfied about that.

- Bridge To Terabithia

[veryslowreader]

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

This Is Us: "The Dinner and the Date"

[artemissnowflower24]

I really loved this book growing up. It made me feel less weird about my abundant imagination. It also made me less self conscious about being a more masculine girl growing up. Leslie was a fantastic character and I liked the friendship that formed between her and the main character Jess. 10 out of 10 I recommend if you have a kid that feels different from the rest of the children their age.

[quotesfrommyreading]

What do you make of the way that children’s literature has changed since you started writing?

I think it probably has changed, but I’m very bad at reading children’s literature or young-adult literature. I like to read adult books. I like to read about people who are my contemporaries. And I’m also bad at keeping up with “the marketplace.” So I’m not really an expert, but it does seem to me, from what I read about, that there is a lot of hard-hitting young-adult fiction now. When I began writing it, that was not the case. My first book [“A Summer to Die”] dealt with the death of my sister. It was published in 1977, and, at the time, it was said that it was one of the very first books for kids that dealt realistically with the death of a young person. Coincidentally, it was published the same year that Katherine Paterson wrote “Bridge to Terabithia.” So it was ironic that she and I did that at the same time.

But that was rare, and it was probably beginning to herald a change in the field. Now nothing is taboo anymore, and there’s a lot of violence, from what I’ve read about. And I think there’s a larger audience for it. In my day, we went from reading children’s books to adult books. There was no middle ground.

 —  What Lois Lowry Remembers