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Jan 24, 2025
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You may be alone here; i have never read this book before. I feel like the closest to it is The Giver and To Kill A Mockingbird
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of this one series but I remember reading it as a middle schooler in the early-00's and it was about a group of children with supernatural abilities. one girl was telepathic and listened to metal to drown out peoples thoughts, and there were some dark creatures that caused magnetic disturbances (paperclips made a big appearance) and now that I've written it out it sounds quite a bit like stranger things.
but also,
Redwall
Captain Underpants
Animorphs
Incarnations of Immortality (which was v much not age appropriate mom what were you thinking)
The Wheel of Time series
The Dark Tower series
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my mom always encouraged me to read, and it started with her reading picture books to me. my favorite was the monster at the end of this book, starring lovable furry old grover! grover from sesame street is terrified to get to the end of the book because he's scared of the monster, but in the end it turns out it was just him all the time. my mom would always do a silly grover voice when she read it to me.
as i got older, my "reading level" as the school called it was always higher than other kids', which is good i guess, but it meant they limited what i could get from the school library to what they deemed appropriate for my level. i liked harry potter and lord of the rings, but i also wanted to read stuff like goosebumps and choose your own adventure books. luckily my teachers allowed me to read those things from their classroom libraries.
there was a book i read as a kid that i've honestly never met another person who's ever heard of it, but i loved it when i read it and i loved it again when i tracked it down and re-read it a few years ago. it's called how to disappear completely and never be found by sara nickerson. a 12 year old girl whose mother is severely depressed sets off to a mysterious house on a nearby island to try to figure out how her mom owns it, why she's selling it, and what it has to do with her deceased father. i realized when i re-read it as an adult that it formed a lot of my attitude toward stuff and why i like collecting things and have so much trouble throwing things away. a really good book that i think more people should know about!
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as i was reminiscing about book of my youth, i uncovered another buried memory.
due to growing up poor circumstances, i was constantly getting free books from different programs as a kid.
i remember when i was around 13? maybe 14? one of these books i received was “primavera” by francesca lia block. i think an older lady chose it for me based on the cover alone because i should NOT have been reading this at that age. it was a fantasy which excited me, but i soon realized it dealt with heavy themes and a lot of erotic elements that i didn’t truly understand. but the entire story remains vivid yet distant in my memory.
i think i'm gonna take the plunge and read it again 13 years later. i remember the settings and prose being sooo vibrant and beautiful and i wonder if i would have newfound appreciation for it as an adult.
i still love the cover and wish i still had my copy. but i think i quickly got rid of it after the big “what the fuck?” i felt when i finished it. i def thought my mom would find it and lock me in a dungeon for being a freak bc i slightly enjoyed it even when i was confused.
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