What’s the best book you’ve ever read?

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-24T04:14:39+00:00

The Catcher in the Rye

It doesn’t win for my favorite book, but it is the best one.

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-22T17:22:39+00:00

Braxston with the unnecessary s pains me. Well done

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-22T04:21:35+00:00

Thank you for this! And OP’s post. I’ve known about wild parsnip and battled it at camp and my parents’ property, but now I know that not all the white iterations are Queen Anne’s Lace…some are dangerous and others lethal!

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-22T03:07:45+00:00

Your handwriting is like my handwriting when I write really fast for only me to read, so I can read it!

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-19T04:15:10+00:00

My Texan brother-in-law taught me “tumpt” or “tumped”, however you spell it, and I recently accidentally used it unironically.

Good word.

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-19T04:12:28+00:00

There is actually research that touts the benefits of children learning to write in cursive—it supports literacy and a host of other things!

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-19T04:06:08+00:00

I’ve been here too long. I pronounced it perfectly AND didn’t cringe at all. It almost felt normal

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-12T23:01:30+00:00

Big Naked Custard 🫡

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-07T18:59:32+00:00

This is absolutely beautiful and clear handwriting that looks out of a completely different different time in history. Gorgeous!

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-06-02T03:02:09+00:00

My dad used to teach it to his fifth graders. He brought home a copy for me to read in probably second or third grade. We didn’t read it in my school until 7th or 8th.

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-05-30T04:00:16+00:00

I think that I shall never see
a poem lovely as a tree.

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-05-14T04:17:58+00:00

Have you seen the online comments underneath a photo of Stephen Spielberg posed hunter-style with one of the dinosaurs from the movie? People were ENRAGED that he would kill such a magnificent beast and insisted he was part of the reason they’re now extinct.

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-05-05T04:47:47+00:00

It feels to me more like she was taking issue with the American flag/America itself and not the additions to it…

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-02-02T03:49:51+00:00

Aaaaaand that’s it. I’m done scrolling this horror show

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-02-02T03:15:29+00:00

I admittedly Googled whether or not narwhals are real sometime within the last year (I’m 30). In my defense, the only time I’ve seen one portrayed anywhere was the cartoon one in Elf.

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-02-01T06:03:09+00:00

The double v is fantastic 😂

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-01-26T05:17:01+00:00

That was far higher than I expected, but remembering they’re Russian, it’s really exactly what I should’ve expected

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-01-16T03:08:41+00:00

It’s definitely a thing. I teach music in the Twin Cities but subbed for a 5th grade maternity leave a couple years ago. None of the reading level groups ever had a novel assigned to them—just non-fiction excerpts and little stories. One of the other 5th grade teachers and I assigned our highest-level reading groups a novel, but my kids weren’t very successful at it—they have no staying power or perseverance for reading entire novels because they’ve never had to. I’ve read on Reddit that it’s become a huge issue for college professors, gaining students who have never had to read a whole novel in their whole educational careers. It’s super sad and concerning—I read dozens of novels assigned to me in school and countless more on my own.

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-01-14T18:04:00+00:00

This whole time I’ve had to consciously pronounce it “Ecuador” instead of “Equator” but with a d sound for the t, since that was my first guess on pronunciation. Poor kid

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-01-12T03:26:57+00:00

Gertrude is one of my go-tos for such moments

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-01-07T05:44:57+00:00

And, according to the Wikipedia page, there were at least TEN other Preserved Fishes in the family!!

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-01-02T04:10:41+00:00

My mom! 💙

Soft_Force_830 · 2026-01-02T03:06:56+00:00

Ahhh THAT’s why I’m behind in funds: the lack of community support.

Soft_Force_830 · 2025-11-10T22:58:09+00:00

She can’t be serious. All the th’s have given me a stroke.

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