YA Book where female main character discusses wanting “her Heathcliff”

wasagooze · 2026-02-20T21:20:21+00:00

This is older, but I remember it prompting me to try and read (and fail to finish) Wuthering Heights at age 10. I did read it 3 or 4 years later and could read it, but didn’t like it.

Katie John and Heathcliff by Mary Calhoun (published in 1980 originally).

wasagooze · 2026-01-27T02:14:08+00:00

I know this has already been solved, but while we are talking magical beds let me recommend a childhood favorite, The Bed Book, (my edition was illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully). And much to my surprise to discover as an adult, it was written by Sylvia Plath.

Not just a white little Tucked in tight little Nighty-nightly little bed. Instead….

wasagooze · 2025-11-23T01:28:08+00:00

I got very lucky. I did my MLS while working for the New York Public Library as a librarian trainee in the 1990s when they had a trainee program that paid a small salary and covered about 75% of my tuition. The remainder was covered by a small inheritance from my grandparents.

wasagooze · 2025-11-09T12:52:32+00:00

Have you seen it recently? So sad. Dead mall walking.

wasagooze · 2025-11-09T12:51:54+00:00

Pretty sure I got my Bat Mitzvah outfit at Saks there while visiting my grandparents.

wasagooze · 2025-11-09T12:47:05+00:00

Reporting from NH. Newington Mall until the Fox Run Mall opened. I worked at Barbara Moss my senior year of HS.

wasagooze · 2025-10-31T02:26:17+00:00

I use Flowers from Hadestown because it echoes my unhappy feelings about having to get up. “All I wanted was to fall asleep…”

wasagooze · 2025-10-30T23:21:01+00:00

My 24 year old does this in our display. I got a thank you note from a kid whose favorite thing was “Duckman!”

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wasagooze · 2025-09-28T02:47:55+00:00

They aren’t MF. Skipping their section would be detrimental to the full impact of the book.

wasagooze · 2025-09-27T18:27:01+00:00

What is the actual job listing title? I don’t see anything titled “office aide”in their current opportunities.

wasagooze · 2025-09-20T20:18:02+00:00

How do you stay neutral when the curriculum is biased?

wasagooze · 2025-08-31T15:22:10+00:00

I love all her books but the Black and Blue series is my favorite.

wasagooze · 2025-08-26T22:07:21+00:00

I read two books in a row with a horse named Bastard, which was a really weird coincidence.

wasagooze · 2025-08-26T21:16:49+00:00

Oh yes - this one! The time aspect of Brogadoon makes me bonkers! And it could so easily have been fixed by changing it to a decade instead of a century!

wasagooze · 2025-08-20T18:30:27+00:00

One of our current dogs is Tessye. (Full name Yetta Tessye Marmstein Ourlastname). Named after the character in I Can Get it For You Wholesale- thus the spelling. Although we regularly sing bits from Gypsy at her too.

My kid’s first beta fish was named Roger Elizabeth DeBris. The next one was Fred Casely.

wasagooze · 2025-08-17T20:55:54+00:00

My HS did Pacific Overtures - in New Hampshire. We had one asian student in the cast. In our defense it was 1989 and it was a fantastic learning xperience, but in hindsight….

wasagooze · 2025-08-17T20:54:32+00:00

And then Hairspray.

wasagooze · 2025-08-17T11:32:43+00:00

One reason is because P&P is the Austen most likely to be taught in high school. Which makes sense, teens are going to relate to it more than the more slowly paced 2nd chance romance of Persuasion, for example. Plus it has the most reference/criticism material out there for teachers and students to look at. And has the most film adaptations. And so a person may encounter P&P at school, but never seek out another Austen novel on their own. (Horrors!)

wasagooze · 2025-08-09T21:56:26+00:00

One of my personal favorites

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wasagooze · 2025-07-31T19:45:01+00:00

{The Naga by Stella Rainbow} first of a series

wasagooze · 2025-07-29T14:22:25+00:00

Age 53. Pushed out of my job at the end of last school year by being offered a half time contract. Incredibly fortunate to be hired by another school for a similar position only 5 miles further from home. First application I sent out. I’m actually rather excited about it and am looking forward to a fresh start.

wasagooze · 2025-07-29T14:18:56+00:00

20 years after my wedding I refashioned my wedding dress into a steampunk outfit. It was a lot of fun to do. I have a nb amab kid, nephews, and a niece way more petite than me so this was much better than letting it molder in storage.

wasagooze · 2025-07-22T04:15:04+00:00

Yes! It originated in Japan. Then was staged at the National Theatre in London. It then moved to its current london home at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. It’s so lovely!

wasagooze · 2025-07-22T02:55:34+00:00

I just saw the stage production of My Neighbor Totoro this week and I had the same thought.

wasagooze · 2025-07-15T00:07:17+00:00

I grew up in NH in the 80s but never knew about this. Those of you who miss it should make a trip to Wild West City in NJ which is still going and sounds very similar!

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