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Top Ten Favorite Quotes from Books
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the bloggers over at the Broke and the Bookish. Book bloggers from all around create lists based on the chosen topics, and post links to the host blog to share our love of books. This week we’re looking at our favorite quotes from books.
If you are a regular here at my blog, you know this topic is perfect for me! Every week I have a feature called Quotetastic Friday, where I combine my favorite personal photos (sometimes public domain/antique photos) with my favorite quotes from books I love. I’m using this Top Ten Tuesday to show case my favorite Quotetastic Friday pieces in an easy-to-digest slideshow for your viewing pleasure! Here they are in, random order:
Top Ten Favorite Quotes From Books
[Quotetastic Friday Style!]
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You can see all of my Quotetastic Friday posts here!
Quotetastic Friday
(For this photo I edited the photo itself (a photo I took in downtown Denver a few weeks ago) in Pixlr Express. I LOVE the variety of options this site offers! Then I saved the photo and re-uploaded it to PicMonkey for the transparent box and text. I think I’ll be able to survive sans-Picnik, and I’m surprised by the way other sites have stepped up their features lately!)
Outrageously Alice (#9)
I have a feeling this cover alone made some parents say "NO WAY" to this book for their daughters.
Outrageously Alice (#9)
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Aladdin
Purchased from Amazon Marketplace
[#31 in my 75 book challenge]
Plot
Alice is going to be a bridesmaid in her brother’s ex-girlfriend’s wedding, and she’s feeling very grown up. In between learning all about weddings, wedding parties, and wedding nights there’s also a lot going on at school. She decides to join a club, trying both the Explorer’s Club and the Camera Club. She also get groped in a closet at the Haunted House, dyes her hair green, accidentally dyes some clothes pink, accompanies her father to the emergency room, and gets some unwanted attention from an older boy. It’s just another few months in the life of Alice McKinley.
Issues Tackled
Wedding nights, lingerie, wanting to be different, navigating physical relationships with boys, make-up, laundry, joining clubs.
Quote
“I guess the kind of person you really are will win out in the end; it’s not something, like green mousse, you can just apply.”
FINAL GRADE: B While I do remember this one from reading it years ago, I only remembered the hair dying and the lingerie…and that’s most likely because those two scenes are featured on different versions of the book. However, in reading them back-to-back in order like I have been lately, it’s kind of forgettable. There’s usually one or two major events in each book that stand out, and the rest is the general progression of Alice’s life. She gets a little less awkward, a little more knowledgeable, and a little more confident in each book. Sometimes she takes a step or two backward, but mostly she’s slowly moving forward. Within one book this may not be noticeable, but by this book it is obvious that Alice has come a long way over the course of nine books and two years. And she still has a looooong way to go!
What crazy things did you do as a teenager to get noticed or stand out?
Quotetastic Friday
Just FYI, for those who follow and read regularly: my favorite online photo editing site, Picnik, closed down yesterday and I was totally bummed! However, I found PicMonkey and I love it just as much, if not more, for my Quotetastic Friday purposes. The only thing it lacks is a collage feature, which I use to show multiple book covers at one. However, it says this feature is coming soon! Over the next few weeks I’ll be experimenting with different tools, and I’ll let you know which ones I’m using and what I think of each.
As always, the background images are my own.
Alice In Lace (#8)
What a weird cover.
Alice in Lace
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Aladdin
Purchased from Amazon Marketplace
[#30 in my 75 book challenge]
So it’s basically going to a Alice book review every Wednesday for the next two months or so. Yeah. Because I read THAT MANY of them over spring break.
Plot
Now that Alice and her friends are in eighth grade, they feel like the big kids on campus. And Alice is getting married to Patrick! No fear, it’s just a school project in their “Critical Choices” unit in health class. Pamela is a teen mom and Elizabeth is buying a car. Alice celebrate Lester’s 21st birthday, Patrick is upset because Alice never kisses him first, Elizabeth is in love with a teacher, Alice finds out that Miss Summers has been dating another man besides her father, Alice’s dad hires a new girl at the Melody Inn, Alice stands up for the truth when she feels a lie has been told, a real wedding is announced, and a baby is born (Elizabeth’s baby brother). It’s just a few months in the life of Alice McKinley, huh?
Issues Tackled
Teacher/student sexual misconduct, financial responsibility, teen pregnancy, wedding nights, childbirth, buying a car, apartment shopping, wedding planning.
Quotes
“I wondered how many of the babies born in this hospital had changed lives around completely, for better or worse. How many dreams they’d begun and how many they’d ended.”
“Was it worth it, all these bold and beautiful plans? Or did it just set you up for disappointment somewhere down the line?”
FINAL GRADE: B I liked the teacher and how he taught this course. I wish I could teach something like this with my students, because the lessons learned are important ones, even if the situations were hypothetical. I think all the Alice books from her eighth grade year should be packaged together as one edition — everything in these books is so in-between that sometimes it feels like nothing major has actually happened.
What life lesson do you wish someone had taught you in seventh grade? What part of being a “grown up” was the hardest to adjust to? (My answer? Paying taxes!)
