@egads I finally read Dreyer’s English. I loved it! I also recommend to my fellow Beanies a book called Property of the Rebel Librarian. Its a childrens book and amazing!

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    I put Property of the Rebel Librarian in my audiobook queue.

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      Ove got the dreaded inappropriate word nonsense.
      Lets tey again.
      Did you like it? How was the narrator? I want to punch the parents in the face and I fear listening to the audiobook will make me hate them more!

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        The narration was good. I enjoyed the book but wish the parents had been more fleshed out because they came across as monsters 99% of the time. The dad giving her the silent treatment at the end really annoyed me because it’s emotional abuse that she seemed to find normal.

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          I felt the same way. They didnt explain why the parents were so ridiculous in their over the top bid to protect her. From books. I guess you could argue that its for kids and kids dont always get explanations when their parents do something crappy. But I want a follow up. Maybe a YA/NA novel where ahes completely cut those lunatics out of her life and is working to get her degrees and make her decade long relationship with the boy work.

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    The chatty footnotes are the best. I love chatty footnotes.

    I have just borrowed the ebook of Property of the Rebel Librarian. Thank you.

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      Have you read it yet? Huh huh huh have you have you have you? Did you like it? I have to say this is one of those books that I read while flailing around and punching the air–ready to fight somebody! People on my fb group thought it was something happening in my library I was so fired up. I may have called for her parents to be murdered. I dunno.
      I also finished Wow, No Thank You. I started it ages ago and liked it but didnt finish it. I remember you saying you gave up on it. I liked it well enough but I did the audiobook and this was a case of the author not being the best narrator. She doesnt sound good when she reads. And then! It just got confusing. She was going back and forth in time between her first marriage (to a man) amd her second marriage (to a woman) and i got sonturned around. She kept flipping between calling herself she/her and then man/husband/son and then shed talk about her current wife calling her wife or my lady and then jump back into talking about her ex and still calling herself husband son whatever she would use traditional masculine pronouns for him and then in the middle of the story–like she knew it wad getting confusing–shed revert back to she/her. By the end I had no idea how many times she had been married if she was bisexual, lesbian or something else all together, what her preferred pronouns are, whether her wife or husband or both had kids how old these kids are or where they are now. Which considering she wrote and narrated it about her iwn life experiences thats a heck of a lot to walk away not knowing

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