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Round 1, Poll 6: American Girl vs My Teacher Is an Alien
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Book one of the My Teacher Is An Alien series: Oooo the substitute teacher you don’t like is an alien! Wacky antics while we try to unmask him! He hates Earth music, so play your flute at him until he breaks!
Book four of the My Teacher Is An Alien series: Three children are tasked with finding evidence of decency and civility on Earth to determine whether the human species is fit to join the galactic council. Through this, they witness the gross excess of capitalism that can allow warehouses of food to waste away while children starve. They see the black heart of cruelty and apathy, and it makes them furious and want to do something to change it. Their findings will determine whether the galactic council will allow the planet to continue developing or if it should be destroyed now before humans develop space flight and start interstellar war. Humans used to be telepathic.
#my teacher is an alien#bruce coville#i’m allowed a little childish nostalgia for the books i read in third grade#which irreparably Changed me#it doesn’t hurt that the series also introduced a lot of very basic sci fi tropes#but in terms that you could understand in third grade#which also Changed me but in a different direction
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Nothing you love is lost .
Not really .
Things , people .. they always go away,
sooner or later .
You can't hold them , any more than you
can hold moonlight .
But if they've touched you,
if they're inside you,
then they're still yours .
The only things you ever really have
are the ones you hold inside your heart …
~ Bruce Coville
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“Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.”
Bruce Coville, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
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Niente di ciò che ami è perduto. Non proprio. Le cose, le persone, prima o poi passano sempre. Non puoi trattenerli, più di quanto tu possa trattenere il chiaro di luna. Ma se ti hanno toccato, se sono dentro di te, allora sono sempre tuoi. Le uniche cose che hai davvero sono quelle che tieni nel cuore.
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【Part I】our old team of church friends children's wedding party then we're meet together again
It's a pity and misfortune because my foot (n leg) injury has not healed, so I can't go down to the Miscanthus (silvergrass) Flower Sea. I can only sit on the shore to wait friends walked back and enjoy the breeze not bad too. ღ˘⌣˘ღ Lan~*
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你所愛的一切都不會失去。 並非真的。 人、事、物～～遲早都會消失的。 你無法握住他們，就像你無法握住月光一樣。 不過若是他們觸動了你，倘若他們已在你體內，那麼他們仍然是你的。 你唯一真正擁有的東西是那些你藏在心裡的東西。
Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they're still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.
─ Bruce Coville /Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (https://amzn.to/46c9tu2)
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#bruce coville#chu lan#strong friendship#fine craft artist#朱蘭皮藝#leather art artist#beautiful life#秋詩篇篇#芒草#miscanthus#silvergrass#autumn countrysides in south of taiwan#훈정양#hoon jeong yang#can i be me#나일 수 있도록#destined with you soundtrack#이 연애는 불가항력
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JOMPBPC | December 4 | Favourite Childhood Book
Can you tell from the cover decay how much I loved this book as a kid?
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Series info:
Book 1 of The Unicorn Chronicles
Book 2: Song of the Wanderer
Book 3: Dark Whispers
Book 4: The Last Hunt
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Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.”
― Bruce Coville,
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🐲 Dragon Recommendation #2 🐲
JEREMY THATCHER, DRAGON HATCHER by Bruce Coville
📖 SYNOPSIS 📖
Sixth grader Jeremy Thatcher discovers a strange magic shop he has never seen before. He enters, and his life is changed forever.
⭐️WHY I RECOMMEND IT⭐️
This book honestly made me so emotional because it features the growing bond between a young boy and his dragon whom he wants to protect and care for. The book is for middle grade kids but I feel like everyone can gleam something from it, plus it’s a classic dragon book.
#godzilla reads#Jeremy thatcher dragon hatcher#Bruce coville#dragon books#dragon book recs#book recommendations#book recs#booklr#bookworm#bookish#book blog
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Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.
—Bruce Coville, Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Photographer Sabrina Boem
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Round 1, Poll 12: Worst Witch vs Unicorn Chronicles
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The thing, "humans are space orcs" is one of my favorite things out there in sci-fi right, particularly if we're unintentional space orcs, like, WHOOPS.
Bonding and becoming friends with the other dangerous space orcs. Briefly threatened to never join the Galactic Federation or whatever.
I mean, I remember that the entire plot point of a series of books I liked as a kid was that humans are VERY UNINTENTIONALLY dangerous space orcs, and the entire planet was basically going to be refused the chance to even consider joining galactic society, basically disinvited.
I still don't have the 3rd (or 4th?!) book in this series, and I'm afraid I lost my other two... One day, I'll find you again, Bruce Colville's "My Teacher is an Alien" series.
I also like coming up with weird aliens precisely because these books introduced me to very weird non-humanoid aliens, including a crystalline telepathic starship captain.
I read Animorphs, Goosebumps, and these books when I was in middle school, because I just hecking loved aliens.
#bruce coville#My teacher glows in the dark#My teacher is an alien#My teacher flunked the planet#WAIT THERE'S A FOURTH BOOK#My teacher fried my brains#Mood#Space Orcs#text post#brightsuzaku
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WRITING A COHERENT REVIEW OF SKINAMARINK IS HARD.
Song of the day: “Jack-o’-Lantern-Man” by the Bravery.
Tomorrow’s my birthday. I’m going out to get vaxxed, then get brunch and dinner. I’m slowly redecorating my room, so I got some posters but won’t unwrap them until tomorrow. Also bought more winter clothes. Wearing black jeans rn. The first jeans I’ve worn in years. I don’t usually like wearing pants lol.
Finally saw Skinamarink. Expectations were met. It blew me away. Like, an entire essay could be written on why I liked it so much. Watch it if you value aesthetics over plot in film. I do.
At least when it comes to horror movies. I tend to watch horror and read (murder) mystery. Not so much the other way around. Whereas mysteries are plot-driven, horror media can either rely on plot or visuals/descriptions and be enthralling.
One problem I have with a lot of films is their cinematography. It often seems to take a backseat to plot, dialogue, and score/soundtrack. Which is why I love aestheticism. Well, that and symbolism. Deeper meanings are great, too.
I adore all the fan theories Skinamarinkers (?) are coming up with. Normally, “he’s in a coma” fanons bore me. But the dad said Kevin bumped his head, then the rest of Skinamarink is basically a hundred minutes of nursery nightmares. Faces aren’t shown properly.
MAKE SURE TO WATCH WITH SUBTITLES. (Unfortunately, the director’s commentary doesn’t have those.) AND THE SHORT PROOF OF CONCEPT HECK BEFOREHAND. It’s on YouTube. If you like it, you’ll like Skinamarink. Also, it unnerved me a bit more.
Skinamarink made me feel so many things. Excitement. Nostalgia. Sympathy. Nostalgia. Fear. Well, mostly just fear when the phone got those toony eyes. There are a couple jump scares, but the movie’s more about slowly mounting dread. Plus making viewers pity the protagonists.
I feel like I’m super biased towards Skinamarink because it taps into my nostalgia. The amount of media it makes me want to reminisce about... All those “child(ren) up against a bogeyman” stories.
Those parallels between the classic cartoons and what the Voice in the Dark does to Kaylee and Kevin. The same Fisher-Price toy phone we had. Classic cartoons that were on either VHS or LaserDisc, watched in our snug basement. “The Cobweb Hotel” creeped me out so badly as a kid. At least I had my great-grandmother’s elephant figurines to watch over me. Dad’s cuckoo clock, too.
The commentary mentions there are some anachronisms, like with the toys. Skinamarink takes place in 1995, but has that orange LEGO brick separator from 2011. Which just makes it more personally relatable to me.
My family’s always been practical, using things until they break. I have a DVD player that’ll turn twenty next year. So it wouldn’t surprise me if someone else has the VHS player somewhere. The only movies I remember watching on LaserDisc were The Wizard of Oz and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. But Oz is one of my all time faves and got watched a LOT. We had a bunch of obsolete or antique things and new things.
Going back to the toy phone… There was a Bruce Coville Magic Shop book that had a witch call the protagonist and her little brother on one. Jennifer Murdley’s Toad? And I’ve seen creepy art of Fisher-Price phones before.
Disclaimer: ED IS WRONG. CANADIANS NEED TO GET WEIRDER. I hope Skinamarink inspires people to make more weirdass movies.
#Tawney talks#The Bravery#Skinamarink#Skinamarink 2022#Heck 2020#minors do not interact#horror#Heck#Fisher Price#Color Classics#LEGO#The Wizard of Oz#Snow White#Disney#Oz#Bruce Coville#Magic Shop#Jennifer Murdley's Toad#Ed Edd n Eddy#EEnE#Cartoon Network#The Wizard of Oz 1939#Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs#Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
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Today's lesser known cryptid is: The Ghost in the Third Row
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Hey! Sorry you don't get many questions.
Is there anything you'd like to see adapted into a TV series that hasn't been already? Anything at all.
“Good question. So, I was gonna say Animorphs, but then I remember they did a low budget Nickelodeon show in the 90s. I would love to see that remade though.”
“Aside from that, the book Restart by Gordon Korman would make a super awesome movie.”
“Then there’s the entire My Teacher Is An Alien series by the legendary Bruce Coville that totally deserves its own TV show or Movie Quadrilogy. I would prefer it to be a TV show though. That way important character arcs wouldn’t have to be cut for time.”
#alvin seville#alvin and the chipmunks#movie adaptation#tv adaptation#books#i love these books so much#best ones ever#thank you for the ask!#always nice talking to a fan#alvinnn and the chipmunks#alvin 2.0#alternate universe#my teacher is an alien#animorphs#restart#gordon korman#ka applegate#bruce coville
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