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[jiinyu]

Hello.

While I can speak the English language fairly competently, my reading skills are not as great as I'd like. My group wasn't able to source many books in English that were at the proper reading level while I was growing up, so while I can read English, I'd like to be better at it. That being said I'd like to request some of your favourites from the library. I'm afraid I haven't dedicated enough time to perusing our shelves so it will all most likely be new to me. Chang'e and I will read anything, even poetry.

Thank you for your time.

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[jiinyu]

Thank you. I will look at these books.

[dochenka]

They are classified as horror, but not so scary.

My favorite is The Secret Garden. Do you know it?

[jiinyu]

Scarier than the book with the clown who eats children?

I have heard of it, but I have not read it. What is it about?

[dochenka]

No, though I am from Belarus and our cautionary tales are worse than any horror book I have heard of.

It is about a young orphan girl who is sent to live with family in England. She is neglected by them, but she discovers a locked garden on the property and begins to care for it. I feel the message is about nurturing nature and yourself to become something better and healthier than before, and that we all thrive with love or we will fall to decay.

[jiinyu]

I do not know if our cautionary tales are too scary.

I will look for this book.

[dochenka]

What is your favorite?

[jiinyu]

Chang'e and Hou Yi are my favourite myth. What about you?

[adequacies]

Have you read A Little Princess?

[dochenka]

No. It is good?

[adequacies]

Yes. It’s by the same author as The Secret Garden. There was a film made, too.

[dochenka]

Do we have a copy of the book?

[adequacies]

I’m sure I read it on board. It must be in the library somewhere.

[dochenka]

Thank you, Eva. I will look for it. The movie is better or worse?

[adequacies]

I think it’s one of the rare adaptations where it’s impossible to say. I love them both.