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| Topic | B8 Books & Lit Topic 42 - A Squeeze of the Hand |
| SeabassDebeste 03/20/17 5:26:57 PM #140: | kateee posted... i read this for the first time in ninth grade and it's one of those books where i'm unsure if it'll still hold up for me but also one where i wasn't so blown away by it that i'm not prioritizing a revisit to see if it does hold up. Shouldn't be anything about it that doesn't 'hold up,' IMO. The first person narration is what it is. It's also unlikely to turn into a sentimental favorite if it wasn't already, but it's possible you'll get a bit more out of it as an adult. (Also, upon rereading that sentence, I finally understood the quadruple-negative in it, but I'm leaving my response as it. Very worthwhile read, IMO, and you probably got a lot of the value from it as a kid.) --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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