After that I would just lie there reading while everyone else took a nap.
It turns out it was a romance novel about Pocahontas.
I learned alotfrom that book, just not about history.
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But the professor was a Joyce specialist and had his own ideas about howUlyssesshould be taught.
So he made us read the chapters out of order.
Let’s say…Lilo & Stitch.It’s my favorite Disney movie, and definitely the most subversive one.
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I’d go so far as to say it’s funnier to adults than to kids.
And it’s genuinely funny while never being saccharine.
So what’s surprising to someone maybe says more about how you see me than anything else.
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My favorite character in literature
This is an impossible question!
I can’t pick just one.
I guess what I really love is capable, badass young women from children’s lit.
Lilo and Stitch in ‘Lilo & Stitch’.Everett Collection
A book that always makes me laugh
Calvin and Hobbes.
There are ten perfect years, and the whole run is just a masterpiece.
The last book that made me cry
Hamnet,by Maggie O’Farrell.
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I don’t know how she did it.
My literary crush
Wait, does this mean a character, or a writer?
For characters, see above.
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I’d love to grow up into any of those girls.
But I always buy books for kids as presents, and I pair them with toys.
And I’ve been loving recent adaptations of novels to limited series, likeNormal PeopleandPachinko.
But if I had to pick just one?
Except: that “original"Princess Bridedoesn’t exist.
It’s an incredibly clever book, and a genius adaptation.
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And, also, a book about werewolves that I found in an antique shop on vacation.
I mean, don’t you want themallto?
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