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Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ellen Schecter
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Fierce Joy
Fierce Joy, my memoir, began as notes in one of those $1 black-and-white speckled composition books we all used in elementary school. I was sick and I didn't know why.
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And then I found out: I had either systemic lupus erythematosis [SLE] or a rare neurological disease, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [CIDP]. It almost didn't matter which: they were incurable and, I soon learned fr Read more of this blog post »
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The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (Bank Street Level 3*)
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1995
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Sim Chung and the River Dragon (Bank Street Level 3*)
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1993
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Fierce Joy
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2012
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Diamonds and Toads: A Classic Fairy Tale
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1994
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The Warrior Maiden (Bank Street Level 3*)
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1992
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Bank Street Ready-to-Read, Level 1)
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1994
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The Family Haggadah
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1999
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I Love to Sneeze (Bank Street Level 1*)
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1992
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Swim Like a Fish (Bank Street Level 1)
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1997
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Sleep Tight, Pete
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1994
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Absorbing, complex, and beautifully written. A peon to young, confused lovers unable to express their truths until it is nearly too late. Brings their relationships to the edge of tragedy. Somewhat frustrating to this reader, but make up your own min ...more |
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Heart the Lover
by Lily King (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction |
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“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”
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“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
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“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
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Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
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“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
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