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#TheLastChairlift is a #JohnIrving 800 pg tome which focuses on a ski instructor single mother & her son. Exploring ussues of sexual identity & politics, interesting people enter (and exit) their lives challenging the conventional norms of family, marriage & relationships.
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#ReadRibbetReads #JohnIrving returns to the orphanage of Cider House Rules in #QueenEsther - an orphaned Jewish girl whose life has been shaped by antisemitism. The story shifts to her son James as it explores other themes. Events from the middle east conflict shape the ending of the book.
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#ReadRibbetReads #TheShards is by #BretEastonEllis. With himself as a central yet unreliable narrator, it follows his friends in senior yr who may be targeted by a serial killer who might be the new student. Set in the 80s in SoCal, Ellis themes of sex, drugs & crime are prevalent thruout.
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#ReadRibbetReads #MichaelRosen & #HelenOxenbury take the classic action rhyme #We'reGoingonaBearHunt & transform into a 32 pg boardbook. The family goes on a bear hunt, discovers a bear & then races back to the safety of their home. Good book to engage in actions and play with sound words.
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