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kidcore-nostalgia · 10 months

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#anastasia krupnik #kids books #my childhood #childhood #nostalgia #nostalgic #books #retro #1980s #80s #80s kid #eighties #kidcore #lois lowry #reading #vintage books

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quotesfrommyreading · 2 years

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The [Anastasia Krupnik] series has been republished with new, modern covers. I think there may be nine books about Anastasia, and she gets a little older on the [original] covers—the same child, done by the same illustrator, Diane deGroat. And the new ones are glitzy and sophisticated, but they’re not as appealing to me. Also, the particular book of the series you have, they have changed the title. They did that because they thought, Today’s kids wouldn’t know what an analyst is. I think it doesn’t matter, if kids don’t know what something means. By the time they’ve read the books, they know what an analyst is, and maybe that’s something that’s important for them to learn. But I have no say over this.

— What Lois Lowry Remembers

#katy waldman #lois lowry #what lois lowry remembers #literature #authors #books #publishing #art #children #learning #words #vocabulary #anastasia krupnik

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dollsome-does-tumblr · 5 months

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i keep reading books about being outside, brutally, that are Upsetting As Hell to me and i really need a break for my poor nerves

#the vaster wilds + the marsh king's daughter within a few months of each other was apparently too much for me somehow #maybe i'm growing emotionally weak in my old age #it's too visceral i can't totally stomach it!#lemony snicket save me!!!! bolster my spirits!!!!!!!!! even if it's unfortunately or whatever!!!!!!!!!!#dollsome's deep thoughts #i might have to read some anastasia krupnik soon. it's That Dire.

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batrachised · 6 months

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I created a goodreads list for the LM Montgomery recommendations!! This is a list of books that share common elements with LM Montgomery's. Although this is supposed to be ranked, these are in no particular order. My personal vote put Up a Road Slowly first just because I have read that book and know it's similar to LM Montgomery, but the rest are completely random :-)

#lm montgomery #goodreads #tbr

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holdoncallfailed · 6 months

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can you do a longlist of the books about strong girl protags and female friendships, etc. that were really impactful/your favorites so i know what to gift/rec any young girls in my life?

aww!! i would literally love nothing more than to compile such a list ty anon. i tried to put them in an order vaguely representative of youngest audiences to older...i'm not sure how well some of these would hold up in 2023 but they're all ones i remember enjoying and having an impact on me somehow...

not one damsel in distress by jane yolen

the daring book for girls by andrea j. buchanan & miriam peskowitz

the whole dear america series!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ordinary princess by m. m. kaye

the caddie woodlawn series by carol ryrie brink

walk two moons by sharon creech (i used to have whole passages of this book memorized because i read it so often...potentially the most formative one on this list)

because of winn-dixie by kate dicamillo

the scholastic encyclopedia of U.S. women by sheila keenan (my elementary school art teacher had this book in her classroom library and i remember flipping through it when i was hanging around after school while my mom was doing PTA stuff...it was the first time i'd heard of so many of those women and further stoked my interest in history. i remember being so disturbed [and also intrigued] by the entry about ethel rosenberg specifically. i'm sure there are more updated versions of the book but this is the particular edition i remember reading.)

the penderwick sisters series by jeanne birdsall

bloomability by sharon creech

everything on a waffle by polly horvath

the tracy beaker series by jacqueline wilson

the outcasts of 19 schuyler place by e. l. konigsburg (also extremely formative)

saffy's angel / the whole casson family series by hilary mckay (i used to carry these books around with me as if they were security blankets)

p.s. longer letter later and snail mail no more by paula danziger & ann m. martin

the secret language of girls by frances o'roarke dowell

the tail of emily windsnap by liz kessler

savvy by ingrid law

love, stargirl by jerry spinelli (idk if any book had more of an impact on me as a child tbh like this rocked my world so completely i still think about it/quote it all the time. i know a lot of people read stargirl in school and honestly i don't think it's that good but the sequel is so underrated. so read it.)

a perfect gentle knight by kit pearson

feathers by jacqueline woodson

habibi by naomi shihab nye

the anastasia krupnik series by lois lowry

criss cross by lynne rae perkins

ella enchanted by gail carson levine........OBVIOUSLY

esperanza rising by pam muñoz ryan

kira-kira by cynthia kadohata

the city of ember by jeanne duprau

bad girls by cynthia voigt (tbh i REALLY don't know how this one holds up but i remember thinking it was pretty edgy as a kid)

little women by louisa may alcott

hurt go happy by ginny rorby

persepolis by marjane satrapi (obviously for slightly older readers)

the aforementioned rookie yearbook, natch. (also older)

#Anonymous

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marmolita · 1 year

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no catchall answer because I think we've learned by now that nobody agrees with any of these lists 😂 so if you don't know them just skip this poll or vote for the one that sounds the most fun

#books #lita talks about herself #polls

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lovepollution · 3 months

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9 fandom peeps to get to know better!

I was tagged by: @hamishlinklaters 🥰

3 ships you like: Midge x Lenny (TMMM), John x Millie (Midnight Mass) and Rich x Michonne (TWD)

First Ship Ever: Mulder and Scully, baby! 🙌‍

Last Song You Heard: Not Strong Enough by boygenius

Favorite Childhood Book: I remember really liking the Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry

Currently Reading: Got a bunch of half finished books sitting there, but honestly all I've been reading lately is fic

Currently Watching: The Ones Who Live and Manhunt

Currently Consuming: Nothing at the moment, but I had coffee earlier

Currently craving: A plain ring donut, idk

Cheating, but I tag anyone who feels like it! 😃

#tagged #get to know me better

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hell-heron · 10 months

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Rambling about my fic and literary hardships under the cut

I think the thing that gives me the most secondhand embarrasment on rereading/finding new comments for ikmka is the way I handled the ensemble/background/random ironborn OCs part of the cast, there's just too many for the lenght, a lot of episodes are bizarre/pointless/just there to separate more important scenes etc, was it really needed to have three separate fosterlings of Alannys and three separate Botleys as speaking characters etc can't believe someone Is reading this dreck right now...

Part of it is I've always been someone who enjoys coming up with family trees and pointless headcanons and then can't let go of them lmao since I was 13 it was a problem and you can see it in even short fics (red moonlight, three boys etc not to mention the entirety of my Romeo and Juliet production). Like for example the worst offender (besides the Victarion thing where I was biased and wanted to include the oaf because I love him) is definitely the little trip to Iron Holt where I was attached to the little connection I came up with for Aladale Wynch (why is an ironborn knight at the Wall? backstory) and also to Calla Orkwood/Wynch a true 13 year old girl OC produced entirely by my heart and ass. And then after I came up with that I felt the need to continue on that thoroughline so it would be a feature of the fic and not one random extraneous episode.

On the other hand I really do think this fic needed the reader feel as violently dunked as Theon was in this social whirlwind, thematically, it's important to show/don't/tell that Theon is experiencing this kind of sudden and jerky reintegration to this culture, all these new opportunities for healthy peer relationships, mentor relationships, mentee relationships that should more than make up for losing one younger friend but don't, all these responsibilities and social obligations as a young lordling that should make him feel justified in coming back but don't, all this praise and acceptance for his actions which should make him feel better but don't, all this exposure to the consequences of the Greyjoy rebellion that should make him feel righteous about wronging the Starks in return but don't. Its stuff a more skilled writer could definitely have conveyed in tighter fewer scenes but I personally enjoy the confusing whirlwind approach!

(I also wasn't the best I fear at making this return different enough from canon- It felt like there were a lot more new meetings that should have been reunions, now its three years and not ten. But that also makes partial sense to me - he missed three years of passage from childhood to adolescence and now his world has opened abruptly beyond the confines of the Island of Pyke rather than gradually)

Overall though this reminds me of a musing I periodically have, which is that the novel/short story form is just... Bad at conveying the social sphere of extroverted characters or very connected characters (which I wanted Theon to be, Theon is very extroverted imho). You constantly see this criticism with characters who are characterised as popular but have three besties or unintentionally come across as being detached from everyone. GRRM, definitely one of the authors who should not be encouraged to add more characters and background details, constantly gets comments on how his court settings feel empty or how his characters who you wouldn't expect to be loners only have one friend outside of family. In 2021 my sister was having one of those downswings in social situation you have when you're out of sync with your former group in how fast you're going thru puberty and I was researching middle grade books that had less emphasis on rigidly insular groups and codependent bestie bonds and more on relationships developing organically and situationally and there wasn't really anything besides Anastasia Krupnik and thats a serial

(Ikmka is def a middle grade novel among other genres tbh)

Or like recently I've been struck by how well Ljudmila Petrushevskaja does it in short stories but she definitely also does it by confusing whirlwind technique; also Emma and Persuasion are good examples to me but not exactly everything that Austen writes is. Its just this very delicate balance of lots of people all of whom are known and some kind of relationship exists with and who are loosely arranged in groups but you don't get the feeling every single person has an ironclad thematic reason to know the protagonist, you know. Its a really hard realism/thematic coherence balance to strike and I can never describe it until I see it

#op

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unicornery · 2 years

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i literally could not stop saying “interesting” when I recorded the chart chat tonight, and by the time I realized how bad it was, it was too late to re-record or try to fix it elegantly. It reminded me of the Anastasia Krupnik books, how her dad wouldn’t let her call things “weird” because he thought people(?kids/teens?) overused the word and there more apt descriptors than calling everything “weird.”

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rotzaprachim · 2 years

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The ”duality of woman“ Thing that will never not fuck me up is lois lowry writing both “the giver” quartet and ”anastasia krupnik”

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upthewitchypunx · 4 years

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Have you read any of Seanan McGuire's October Daye novels? You are a dead ringer for October Daye in human form.

What? no. I have not. Is this a good thing?

Can I tell you a story? When I was in 6th grade we had a variety of book reports choices. You could make a diarama in a shoebox or write a short story based on a character. On the day we turned them in we went around the class and told everyone what we did for our project. This girl Diana who was my friend the year before but was my first friend breakup that was brutal for my 11 year old heart, she choose to compare someone in the class to someone in the book she read. When the teacher asked in front of the whole class who she had written about, she sheepishly said me. This was the girl who told me that she couldn’t have a sleep over with me because “the spirit wasn’t in my house” because we were not Mormon and it was the 80s in Utah.

I hadn’t read the Lois Lowry Anastasia Krupnik books, but I did after that. And I realized that Anastasia was rad! But I also knew that Diana had done it to be cruel because she found my weirdness and my okay-ness with being weird threatening. I sometimes joke that Mormons made me punk, but they definitely made it easier to not give a shit what people of little imagination think of me.

So, now I’m going to go find these books you speak of to see for myself because I suspect you mean this comparison in the best possible way.

#Lois Lowry #Anastasia Krupnik #Anonymous

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authorstalker · 5 years

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My September & October Reads

Getting a Life, Helen Simpson - This collection, which is about motherhood, did NOT make me want to have kids. It DID make me want to read more short stories, however, so I'll consider it a win. The writing is sharp and funny, incredibly smart, ohmygod just really, really good. Every story left an impression and I need to read Helen Simpson's other books asap.

Pumpkinheads, Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks - A super cute graphic novel, perfect for middle schoolers (I think). Funny jokes, cozy illustrations, lots of autumnal splendor.

Sourdough, Robin Sloan - I loved it, but it’s an extremely weird book. If you were into Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and if you enjoy magical realism or sci-fi, then I think you’ll like this one too.

Meg and Jo, Virginia Kantra - Thank you to Kerry for hooking me up with this, the ultimate galley brag! Meg and Jo is the first in a two-book, modern retelling of Little Women, and I’m so excited for other Alcott fans to get into it. Virginia Kantra does an amazing job balancing nostalgic nods to the classic novel with interesting, fresh twists. Kantra is an award-winning romance writer, and the romantic relationships in this book are *wonderful*. Her versions of Bhaer and Laurie......oh my gosh. If you’re a fan of the original, please pre-order this book right now and thank me later. ;)

Anastasia Krupnik, Lois Lowry - Hilarious and delightful. My husband had to take a stressful exam last month and I was stressed too, so I turned to middle grade fiction. I’m a genius!

Baby, Patricia MacLachlan - When I was little, I borrowed Baby from the library so often that my parents bought me a copy. Picking it up for the first time in probably 20 years (oh god, I'm old) was wild; I was in tears from the spice cake batter and tap dancing on blue/green tiles all the way to rock, paper, scissors -- if you've read the book, you know what I mean. And can we talk about the names? Larkin, Lalo, Byrd, Eunice, Rebel, Marvella. ALSO, I had a parakeet in junior high, and I completely forgot that I named her after a character in this book (RIP Sophie the bird). In conclusion, I highly, highly encourage everyone to re-read their childhood favorites.

French Exit, Patrick deWitt - I went in with the lowest expectations (written by a man, etc.) annnnd I must admit that I loved it so much. This is an absurd novel about the dynamics of an uber wealthy mother and son, and I can only compare it to TV shows: Succession, Schitt’s Creek, Arrested Development. The dialogue! The cat! Read it.

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larkandkatydid · 2 years

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OF COURSE you also loved Anastasia Krupnik. In one of the books she jokes badly about poor people being the Great Unwashed and her mildmannered dad unexpectedly reams her our for being a snotty little shit...this is so exactly how my father would handle it that for years I confused this fictional scene with an actual family memory.

Okay but to me what made that an exceptionally relatable Anastasia scene is that she didn’t even understand what she was saying. It was just a phrase she saw in a book and thought sounded sophisticated. I feel like Anastasia Krupnik and Hilary the Spy are just so great in exploring the comedy hijinks of a bookish kid who doesn’t have the life experience to understand the consequences of the things she does and says.

Also, the book where she catfishes an adult widower.

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retrogirlsbooks · 3 years

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Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry

Cover painting by Bob Larkin

ISBN 0-440-21955-8

#Dell Publishing #1979 #1990s reprint

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literaticat · 2 years

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I'm the one who asked about contemporary humorous school stories, and I can see that I didn't express myself well at all. I meant books such as the recent The Best at It, My Life as a Potato, Stu Truly, Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year, etc. (I think of these as "fun around the school" books). Of *that type* of book, are there any plot lines, situations, character types, etc., that you feel are overused? Thanks again & sorry!

Ooooohhhh, OK. Yes, I see what you mean now.

And uh -- to be totally honest, I have read none of those particular books.

BUT: I would still actually stick with my previous answer -- I think that the thing that I see the most in SUBMISSIONS like this is quite play-it-safe humor, generic characters and situations -- and that is not compelling at all, IMO. Like, if your protagonist is a "perfectly ordinary boy, who nothing special ever happens to," living in random upper-middle-class suburbia with nothing particularly noteworthy going on -- why is he interesting enough to merit A BOOK about him that somebody would not only spend time writing but also that then other somebody's would SPEND MONEY on?

Sometimes people write this very safe, generic kind of character and world because they want to basically "appeal to anyone" -- but actually that makes it end up kind of appealing to no-one. Specificity is what makes us feel like a world is alive, those little weirdnesses are what make us fall in love with a character and remember them forever.

Like, Anastasia Krupnik -- if you haven't read those books, they are *chefs kiss* but anyway -- I haven't read them in decades, but I will NEVER forget that she specifically wants to live in a turret, and gets to. That she has a bust of Freud in her room. That she put dog poop in a mailbox and the bomb squad came. And that when she got to name her hated baby brother, the name she comes up with is...

ONE-BALL REILLY.

ONE-BALL REILLY KRUPNIK.

(he ends up with the name Sam and she loves him, but still. ONE! BALL! REILLY!)

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1mechanicalalligator · 3 years

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Favorite books from when you were a child?

Ohh I read so many books as a kid! All of the Little House on the Prairie books of course, and the Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry (and most of her other books), and the Alice books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (and most of her other books, too). One of my favorites was Anna the One and Only by Barbara M. Joosse which I must have checked out from the library a hundred times. The Baby-Sitters Club books, of course, and Sweet Valley Kids and Sweet Valley Twins. Sweet Valley High was too intense for me, though. Oh, and the Sideways Stories from Wayside School series by Louis Sachar. And Animorphs! Those are the ones coming to mind right this moment :) :) Thank you for asking <3

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