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Amie Doughty (she/her)
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English professor; fantasy, children's and YA literature, and folk literature scholar and fan; cricket and hockey nut
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Truth. 🤣
Graphic showing the perks of having a cat (hint you can’t sleep in, you don’t have privacy in the bathroom and you can’t open cans) 🤣
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Day 100, The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. Enjoyable series on the whole, though I didn't care for the ending. The interweaving of mythologies was great.
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March 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Day 99, The Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday. I know House Made of Dawn is his big book, but I much preferred this one, probably because I studied Kiowa when I was at University of Oklahoma.
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March 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Day 98, Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi. Creative mythology and interesting story, though the cliffhanger ending is not cool. (I maintain that cliffhangers are inexcusable and just a gimmick to sell more books.)
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March 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Day 97, The Adventure of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey. I have so much fondness for this series. Two subversive kids and their evil principal/Captain Underpants. The flip-or-rama and sign changing are delightful.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Day 96, Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris. When I started the series, I was unimpressed (how many times does Sookie need to describe shaving her legs?), but it grew on me as the series progressed.
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March 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Day 95, Don't Tell the Grown-Ups by Alison Lurie. Great collection of essays about children's literature.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Cat? Where? (The problem with changing the sheets with a cat in the room.)
March 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Day 94, Enchantment by Orson Scott Card. Sleeping Beauty meets Baba Yaga meets time travel meets historical linguistics.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Day 93, Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal. Great inclusive presentation of fry bread as a metaphor.
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March 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Day 92, Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I tended to empathize with the character being accosted, but then I also was the fish from Cat in the Hat (a book I never liked).
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March 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Where can she be hiding?
March 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Day 91, Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare. Hal and Falstaff. Need I say more?
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March 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Day 90, How Picturebooks Work by Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott. Great discussion of this important form of children's literature.
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March 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Day 89, Interpreting Literature with Children by Shelby A. Wolf. Needs updating, and the gender chapter is awful, but the way Wolf talks about engaging young children with literature is excellent.
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March 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Day 88, King and King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland. Another fun queer royals picture book. It's the princess's brother who catches his eye.
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March 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Thank you, Solcito.
March 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Day 87, Metafiction by Patricia Waugh. Love reading metafiction and reading about it.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Day 86, Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson. You can't go wrong with any of the Moomin books.
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March 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Day 85, Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. Beautiful poetry journal narrative.
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March 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Day 84, The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko. The happily ever after without the prince, who is a "bum." (So many royal books in my list because my last monograph was about royalty in children's and YA lit.)
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March 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Day 83, Princeless by Jeremy Whitley. Wonderful comic book series. The issue in which they explore "armor" for women warriors is particularly good. The spinoff series Raven the Pirate Princess is also amazing.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Day 82, Princess Charming by Sarah Wildsmith, illustrated by Lea Paramonova. Beautiful queer revision of Sleeping Beauty.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Day 81, The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton. Flatulent pony and a fight with pool noodles. How can you go wrong?
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February 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Day 80, Rock and Hawk by Robinson Jeffers. Discovered his poetry in my Nature Poetry senior seminar as an undergrad.
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February 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM