Sara Beth West

reader.writer.critic
youth & children's librarian she/her(s)
reviews @chapter16, @ShelfAwareness, & @SouthRevBooks

[Penguin Young Readers School & Library @PenguinClass]

🎉CONGRATULATIONS @isaacblum_ 🎉! THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF HOODIE ROSEN is THE 2023 @Yalsa Morris Award winner for best YA Debut! We are so proud! #ALAYMA #LibLearnX23

[Sara Beth West @fiftytwowest]

And here i thought twitter didn't have anything left to offer me

[Stefan Bielik @prstskrzkrk]

I didn't know Miss World was a thing still, but I've been watching how the French woman introduces herself for about half an hour

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@thurris Little Monarchs by @Jonathan_Case for the older end of that range; also a strong seconding of the votes for Swim Team

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Here it is! The Morris Finalists!

[YALSA @yalsa]

The 2023 William C. Morris Award Finalists have been announced. https://t.co/TU1LyBvBd2 #YALSA #YouthMediaAwards #ALA #LibLearnX

[literaturesupporter📚🖋 / @[email protected] @literatureSC]

no matter how this relationship ends, we'll always have tolstoy.

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@heathermwolf1 @ParnassusBooks1 Big fan of @ParnassusBooks1 here, but if you do make this dramatic move, don't miss @thebookshopnash - home of the very best curation I've seen!

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@LaurelSnyder I know you said short stories, BUT the POETRY UNBOUND podcast with @duanalla is truly beautiful and definitely bite-sized.

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@JohnRNeeleman Hmmm.... I'm away from my book rn, but there's a passage that I read as at least some measure of acknowledgment of his culpability, something about the ways he failed to see Antinous when he was still standing before him? I'll find it later (unless someone gets there first)

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@Steven_Hyden got me plugging in the headphones again

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

Hey, I dove deep into my complicated relationship with Weezer, a foundational band of my youth and a problematic band of my adulthood. Listening to these songs again awakened ancient feelings. Come undone with me! https://t.co/MlvJXYMOBm

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Another language question for those with MY's original French: How does she render this sentence (from p. 198) -- "All the metaphors took on meaning: I held that heart in my hands." The alliteration is so delicious in the translation, and I want to compare. #hadriantogether

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This is a small matter, but I wonder: how are you pronouncing Antinous? I feel like Antinous and Antinoös have such different pronunciations, and both names apply to Hadrian's young lover, right? #hadriantogether

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@Miss_Mainwaring This is an excellent question

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so much wisdom here

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The Marginalian was born 16 years ago today (under the outgrown name Brain Pickings). Here are 16 things I've learned about life over the years (and the untold origin story) https://t.co/6IIPWOapL9

[Sara Beth West @fiftytwowest]

rereading this, I realize it may not be clear I'm making a point of the contrast. MY is showing and very effectively.

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"show, don't tell" is a thorny piece of advice because telling is often what works. MY gives a great example of how tiny gestures reveal much of a character, like when Hadrian notes, "even my ritual robe was in tone with the evening colors" - beauty matters so #HadrianTogether

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@Miss_Mainwaring It's almost comical how different this section feels

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@WOLWOL8989 you may, of course, have had similar thoughts and still been mad! :) It just meant something different to me once I sat with it for a moment.

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@WOLWOL8989 I almost wanted to be mad at this, and then I thought about the word "venture" -- it could so easily be seen as something positively daring or with the connotation of adventure, but this really just means risk. And that observation is true and beautiful somehow.

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@megireid So gorgeous