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Ona’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ona’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Practical Love
It was nearly a year and a half ago that Dave told me he was probably dying. I sat on the porch swing on my terrace, phone pressed to my ear, the leaves on the one visible tree in the courtyard below me trembling in the breeze. As Dan's brother—my not-quite-legal brother-in-law, my good friend—talked evenly and scientifically about his neurons separating from his muscles, I felt, strangely as thou
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| This is a book I will come back to for nourishment, wisdom, and inspiration. I plan to put it in the hands of everyone I encounter who loves poetry or who doesn't yet love poetry. It, like its author, is the perfect ambassador. ...more | |
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| Roxie Glass is a relatable, creative, dimensional, and easy-to-root-for protagonist. I loved getting to know her, her train-obsessed little brother, and their parents, both blind, who are steadfast, loving, resilient, and so much more capable than so ...more | |
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| A moving and compelling story of fraught mother/daughter dynamics, self image, and disordered eating. Tweens and young teens will find a lot to relate to and take heart from here. Highly recommend. | |
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
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“It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.”
― Devotion
― Devotion
“Of course, we're made up of what we've forgotten too, what we've tried to bury or suppress.”
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Kids/Teens Book Club
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— last activity Feb 22, 2026 11:45AM
Welcome to the group :) Here we talk about and recommend plenty of MG/YA books, as well as discuss film, music, our writing, current affairs and much ...more
