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For my tenth birthday, my mother got me a framed copy of the front page of the New York Times from the day I was born. The big headline is about food costs pushing up …
I actually enjoyed it, because I expected to hate it, and while it is definitely bad — buys into its own pompous mythos, takes too long to explain a conflict nobody cares about, thinks it’s …
Hi Sarah,
Seeing so many reader entries about children’s books has gotten me nostalgic for the books of my childhood. I remember a lot of them, but there were two I loved but cannot remember the …
Hello!
So, I am beginning to think I might be crazy, because I am looking for a book I loved but I am having no luck at all.
I read it in the 1970s; it was about …
Sars —
I’m hoping the readers can help me out with my search for a beloved childhood read. It was a YA novel about a teenage girl in post-Revolutionary America (I think Jefferson was president …
I’m looking for a book I read in the mid-to-late 1980s. It was a young adult book and involved a teen boy who has an amulet that causes a portal to another world to …
In middle school, instead of an elective, I was a Library Aide. I was a super goob, but I got to read a lot of really good books — I stumbled across du Maurier …
Dear Sars,
A longtime lurker peeking out into the light.
No amount of Googling has helped me turn up an old favorite from my Catholic school days, so I’m giving it a shot here. There was a …
Dear Sars,
I’m hoping readers can point me toward a poem. In a college Asian history class, our professor showed us a Chinese poem. It was a nice but fairly standard poem, had been submitted anonymously …
Hi, Sars —
I’m looking for a short story, narrated by a guy who I think has a connection with the federal government (i.e., he’s a BIA rep or something like that) who’s been sent to …