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⌈ Secret Post #5197 ⌋

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[House of Games]

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[James Bond]

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[Falcon and the Winter Soldier]

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[Poirot]

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[Miraculous Ladybug]

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I know a lot of people didn't like being forced to read "classic" literature, but did anyone enjoy what they were assigned to read? I actually really loved A House on Mango Street. That was assigned in ninth grade and I still remember loving it.

Gentlehands by M.E. Kerr really stuck with me. Everyone is going to say The Giver. I really liked Crime and Punishment.

When we were learning about biographies/autobiographies at school we were given 'Chinese Cinderella' by Adeline Yen Mah. It was the first nonfiction book that I had gotten really engrossed in (and actually finished reading it well before I was suppose to since reading it chapter by chapter was part of the homework for the term).

I had to quit school because of my health before we got into reading entire chaptered books for classes, I think that's a high school thing? But before I had to quit, my elementary/middle school AT classes had us reading "Junior Great Books", which were compilations of short stories. Many of them were good, but Harrison Bergeron is the one that I still think about a lot 30 years later.

I love the Vonnegut short stories!

And in general, I really think short stories are an excellent choice for middle school (or even high school) lit classes. Interesting concepts without having to force students to read long books that they might hate. I always loved reading, but making it through a full-length Dickens novel was an awful slog.

Frustrating thing is I had been reading chaptered books at least since I was 4. Between that and speed-reading, whenever they broke up the longer stories (I recall there was a Sherlock Holmes story that took up the last half of the multi-story book) into "read just this much this week" I... couldn't do it. I'd just read the whole thing in one go and make up something weird if we were asked what we thought would happen next. "Oh wow, I was WAY off!" ;)

A little different than Dickens, though, that's for sure. And if the short stories were good, which they often were, I'd re-read a few times before the discussions, no complaints there!

And I just googled to find the name of the other story from those books I also remember in precise detail... except for the title. "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury. Apparently I had a taste for classic/retro sci-fi in literature as well as TV/movies. :D

Wild Swans.

for every stinker like Ethan Frome I got to read something really good like pretty much anything by Mark Twain

A Tale of Two Cities. We'd had to read Great Expectations earlier in the year, which I absolutely haaaaaated, and was primed to despise anything Dickens our teacher came up with after that. But then we got to AToTC and I cried like a baby at the end of the book and it became probably my second favorite assigned book out of all of school. Haven't reread it in decades at this point, but I'd like to give it another shot and see how it compares to my memory.

Same

Great Expectations bored me too. In high school I used to call it great expectorations.

The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Had to read Black Ice by Lorene Cary. I haven’t reread it and don’t remember a lot of it but every so often some passage just kind of rolls into my mind. So maybe it’s less liked but it affected me in a way more than anything else we had to read that comes to mind at the moment.

Maybe 100 Years of Solitude, although I've never re-read it.

I read it, I think it's great.

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