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7 months ago

“I was ten years old when my parents were killed by pirates. This did not bother me as much as you might think—I hardly knew my parents.”

and this isn’t even in the top 10 funniest lines of the chapter but it’s somehow also one of the best first sentences I’ve ever read?!!!

The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty, everyone. Please read it.


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6 months ago

"We covered the boy with a blanket and Astrid set his plank of wood (the one with the wheels) alongside him, tenderly tucking that in too. It had seemed special to him"

Yes, they just tucked a skateboard into bed. I laughed so hard. In their defense, they had never seen one before lol

pg. 24 of The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere by Jaclyn Moriarty


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