The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

I'd would love reviews about this self help book / monastic history from the #medieval community.
I just enjoyed this related quote from a monk named John, mention in the New Yorker: "“All I do is eat, sleep, drink, and be negligent." #bookstadon

Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye is a 1999 #middlegrade novel about an Arab-American girl who moves to Israel. She is wistful about moving ...she's just had her first kiss at home in St. Louis.

This book is so warm, and funny, and moving, and charming. It also deals with identity and culture and conflict. But mostly it's a lovely portrait of being a young teen. This author is a poet, and the story is semi-autobiographical.

A #homeschooling readaloud for us.

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Saw Knock at the Cabin. It's a very very faithful adaptation of Paul Trembley's classic #horror novel except (1) while it's tense, it is more of a meditative thriller than a horror film and (2) changes the ending in a way I think most people will prefer. He de-Trembleys it (if you know you know).

Best part of the film is the performances and I did get emotional.

It was an interesting and well performed film. Not a classic but I don't regret going. #movies

#Dickens readers help me out.
Someone described Demon Copperhead to me as "one long run-on sentence". I'm only 30 minute into the audiobook and I agree.... though I don't mind. It's an excellent long sentence.

Demon Copperhead is a riff on Charles Dickens' book David Copperfield. Is David Copperfield similar?

Also #grammar nerds help me out, is it still proper to say Dickins' book? I am not up to date on apostrophe rules.

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