#Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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Book names + authors under the cut

Captain Niccoli Santi/Scholar Christopher Wolfe- The Great Library by Raichel Cain

Eadaz uq-Nāra/Sabran Berethnet- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Susan Smith/Becky- The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

August Landry/Jane Su- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

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I wanted to say a lot of things, but, as usual, I didn't have the words for the thoughts inside my head.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life

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Book poll round 2 #3

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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - The War That Saved My Life

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Reading This Week 2024 #22

This is the first week since the spring semester ended that I really felt like I read a lot, and a decent amount of books that really grabbed me made that possible

Finished:

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu, audiobook read by Corey Brill & Joy Osmanski Reading this was a great time. It's been a while since I've read a collection of short stories and it was so great to read so many things that set out to tell a story and just goes forward and does so. Notably, two different stories in this collection follow the formula of "white American girl child makes friends with an old magical Chinese man who teaches her about Chinese culture through stories of magic." I liked both of them, but it was kinda funny to read two stories by the same author, in different settings, with essentially the same central relationship. I will also repeat that the title story made me cry

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll This is a horror graphic novel about a woman falling in love with the ghost of her husband's first wife, imagining herself as a knight and the ghost as a princess. it's a very tense character portrait, though I'm a bit confused and dissatisfied by how it ends. This is worth reading for the sake of the art alone. It's both gorgeous and creepy in exactly the measure this story needs.

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Vol. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu My friend Tort recommended that I read this isekai webnovel for the purpose of giving them my analytical thoughts on it. This backfired because it hit the off switch to my brain and I had a wonderful time just along for the ride, which I think is exactly what I've been craving from a book. I will be reading the next three volumes as soon as my holds from the library come in

Murder Crossed Her Mind by Stephen Spotswood So, technically I had an ARC copy of this book before it was published (because my mom is awesome and sometimes uses her book reviewer clout to get me early copies of books from authors I love), but I delayed reading it for so long that its publish date past! I spent all yesterday afternoon reading it because I was craving a mystery and sapphism, which this series always delivers for me. Now that I know the cliffhanger, I'm kinda glad I delayed so there will be less time between reading this, and the next book getting published next February

DNFs:

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, audiobook narrated by Jayne Entwistle This was too be expected, I'm just marking that I won't be continuing it for the sake of organization

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older, audiobook read by Lindsey Dorcus Abandoning THIS book however was really unexpected for me. I remember seeing so many good reviews for it when it came out, including from some of my favorite authors. it's a mystery novella set on Mars with a sapphic investigator! that seems so my thing! but unfortunately literally nothing about it caught my attention in the first four chapters, even after I switched to the audiobook. the silver lining is that being disappointed by this lead to me finally reading Murder Crossed Her Mind to fill my craving

Started/Ongoing:

Rape and Representation edited by Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver while my hunt for summer jobs is not going very well, I can at least start up on my summer research. This a collection of essays, and I've so far read the first two, which are grouped together for being stories from Greek and Roman myth

Reading Plans: I will be trying to read about one section of the Higgins and Silver collection per day, and overall try and read a full book for my thesis research each week (with several article length works serving as appropriate substitute). I'll be looking at the bibliography of each to try and find good readings to follow up. I'm also going to work my way through different books that have been lingering on my bookshelf for a while, since i have the free time for it!

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[Text ID] “When things got really bad I could go away inside my head. I’d always known how to do it. I could be anywhere, on my chair or in the cabinet, and I wouldn’t be able to see anything or hear anything or even feel anything. I would just be gone.”

The War That Saved My Life By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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43 and 95 for the book asks?

43: A book that you've read more than three times

Okay, so I'm actually a pretty big re-reader. After the Chronicles of Narnia, which gets an annual reread, I think Jane Eyre might be the book I've reread the most times? It's hard to know, though.

96: Your favorite coming-of-age novel

Oh goodness, too many to pick a single favorite. Naturally, Little Women, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Island of the Blue Dolphins, and such are up there. A good lesser-known one that I like to recommend, though: there's this book called For Freedom by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley that I read at just the right time and it resonated deep with me. I still borrow the protagonist's prayer sometimes.

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kimberly brubaker bradleys books have forever and permanamtely altered the way that i think

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The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

2016 Newbery Honor Book

Adapted by Haadiya Ahmad of Colony Meadows Elementary (2024)

From Sugar Land, TX

Judges' Remarks: A straightforward, no-frills sprint through the story. The black-and-white filter gave it an appropriately old-fashioned vibe, and the clear and expressive voiceover from Ada's point of view did a good job guiding the viewer through the story. There were nice touches like the stock footage of the train and the old-fashioned costumes, and the cinematography and editing were adroit and proficient. Told the story quickly and mostly accurately, with solid performances from everyone in the cast, and eliminating all the inessentials!

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Q & A with Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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Reading log (Jan - Mar 2024)

Finished reading:

The War That Saved My Life (Kimberly Brubaker Bradley)

The War I Finally Won (Kimberly Brubaker Bradley)

Sweet Bean Paste (Durian Sukegawa)

The Miracles of Namiya General Store (Keigo Higashino)

Currently reading:

The Hands of the Emperor (Victoria Goddard)

Soshite, Baton wa Watasareta (Maiko Seo)

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Burgakov)

The Art of Rest (Claudia Hammond)

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Book pole round 1 #7

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The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

“It had been awful, but I hadn’t quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won.” Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life Until she was ten, Ada had never left the single room apartment she shared with her little brother Jamie and single mother. She had never been outside. She had never gone to school. Ada was born with a club foot, and her mother hid Ada away from the world. As WWII…

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