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Varsha Seshan

Just Henry

posted on June 3, 2018

Have you read Goodnight Mister Tom? If you haven't, you must. I can't quite believe that I never wrote about the book. It's a classic, one that touched something deep inside me, the way only classics can.I remember the first time I read the book - I borrowed it from the library, and read and read and read and read ... And the last page was missing. I don't need to write about how frustrating that was.Then I read it for the second time and sobbed over it all over again, but finished it. Ah. It's one of those books. I see it on the shelf and it fills me up just thinking about it.So, of course, when I saw another book by Michelle Magorian at the library, I had to borrow it. I was a little daunted by how thick it was - I haven't read a 700-page book since Harry Potter. But I borrowed it and started reading it.And just like Goodnight Mister Tom, I read and read … [Read more...]

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