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A young adult, middle grade, and classic book blog! Twitter account run by Briana: Tolkien, Doctor Who, medieval lit fan.

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@AphelionAly @AConcernedPare2 Yes, of course you look for the ones that will book you, but it's not "most" hotels. My coworker has two siblings and said when she was a kid, they would book 4 people and sneak a kid in. It's a known issue for larger families.

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@AphelionAly @AConcernedPare2 There are actually a lot of hotels that are strict on 4 people per room and will not book you if you are 2 adults and 3 kids. You have to book with specific chains.

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"Where am I, and what is the time?" he said aloud to the ceiling.

"In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning." said a voice. "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know."

Image: 'Frodo Waking in Rivendell' – Carol Phenix

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Books That Take Place in Bookstores or Libraries https://t.co/MQRFMcDLTB

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@lizalullaby @JonghyunGal48 I mean, assuming a brain surgeon mostly knows about the brain is far from the wildest thing I've seen. People are out here confidently writing things like, "Since Shakespeare lived in Rome in the 1200s..." I think you're good. 🤣

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Apparently if you post that you disagree with how morality is portrayed in a book, you get accused of "wanting books to be religious instruction manuals."

Look, I still enjoyed the book, but I also think its morality is completely wrong! Both things can be true at the same time!

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How (Not) to Renovate a Haunted House by Jenny L. Howe https://t.co/Ij9BLiJ8HQ

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@witty_genstein I guess it depends why you're doing plastic free. I assumed to avoid eating microplastics, but if you're only puking in the bowl and not eating out of it, I'd go with plastic anyway.

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I was very confused by REAP AND SOW as the Fairyloot YA book pick because it has a twenty year old protagonist and explicit sex scenes. It reads like an adult book to me. I just Googled it and it IS marketed as adult. So why is it in in a young adult book box?

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@SupSenAssoc @leononrails @PaulSkallas I probably would have been like, "Yeah, I do things with my own little circle like going on picnics, but I don't go to NFL games. I guess they're asking about the wide range of human experience, to see if you go to 'big events' or just chill in your neighborhood." 🤣

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@SupSenAssoc @leononrails @PaulSkallas I doubt most people were answering the question that way. If someone polled me and said, "Have you been to a sporting event?" I'd assume they were asking about professional games or maybe a big college game.

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@CaitlinKellyNYC @clarafables A lot of it definitely has a "voice" I wish it didn't. And her writing had that voice. And a lot of "dramatic" sentence fragments.

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@CaitlinKellyNYC @clarafables I taught briefly and once had a student where I immediately thought, "Wow, you read a lot of YA." And I like YA books and read them, but her writing just . . . looked like she only read a lot of YA. 😅

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Is Everyone Reading the Same Thing? (And Is That Even New?) https://t.co/zyjnVVYkIM

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I'm not sure how I feel about the trope in books where a character has been dating another one for a few years and is then shocked/annoyed they proposed. 🤔

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@erinbraid I complained once about how the circ assistants treat children at my library and got a call back basically saying they know. Ok? Well hire people in the whole building who can tolerate kids. That's not just for the children's librarians.

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@nickwoj98 @heshclaps Honestly, if someone asked me if I attended a sporting event, I would not think a kids' game counted and would say no if I hadn't been to anything professional.

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Our Strange Duet by Erin A. Craig https://t.co/TJRmxQ99t1

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The new American Girl novel for adults is so fun! Samantha gets in crazy scrapes, and the book ends with a "Looking Back" historical section just like the kids books!