SO - when I saw the cover of the book, it was a total trip down memory lane and I immediately had to go dig it up to read again. I don't remember the lines they chose to quote from it, since I remembered most of the book as dialog.

The theme of the book is really very fitting though - It's a story about a narcissistic china rabbit who doesn't know how to love who gets lost, goes through absolutely terrible experiences but each time he changes hands, he understands love more and more - and loss. He becomes bitter but then hopeful that someone will come for him. I won't tell the ending BECAUSE YOU NEED TO READ IT. It's super short, although it's a chapter book, the text is huge and spaced out so I have read it in one sitting. It makes me cry every time. The author is Kate DiCamillo. Everything she does is wonderful.

So now, spoilers for the drama....Edward (the rabbit in the book) can be compared to both Min Joon and Song Yi at different points of the story.

• When Min Joon arrives on Earth and >!decides to be aloof from humanity because he gets in trouble when he helps, and also the heartbreak he feels when the young widow (whose name I can't remember right now!!) dies...!< It's like Edward being aloof to his original home, and then towards the end hardening his heart after all the tragedy he endures.

• There is also quite a miraculous journey for both Edward and Min Joon characters, and they are both lost.

• At the end of Edward's miraculous journey >!there is a reunion, same as Min Joon. You could also draw parallels between the multiple families that Edward becomes a part of and the constantly repeating cycle of separation and return that Min Joon experiences in Episode 21 and beyond.!<

• Edward and Song Yi are also both obsessed with their appearance/clothes, and are shallow in the beginning of their stories. Love is not an experience that either have had.

• Song Yi's development can also be compared to Edward's in her >!dramatic rescue as a child from the truck, as Edward also is saved multiple times by someone who he comes to love.!<

• Both characters are transformed and strengthened by love.

• In the last chapters of the book, Edward sits on a shelf >!waiting for years, believing that someone will eventually come for him. Song Yi does the very same, always hoping for Min Joon to return to her.!<

I am absolutely in love with how well this book plays into the themes of this show. AND the fact that my love fo

I have been keeping a list of must read books. My wife and I were discussing books to get our daughter who will be 6 soon. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane came up. It seemed familiar and I remembered adding it to my book list within the last 2 years. It seems like I was watching a movie where one of the characters told a summary of it or something like that and whatever he said was enough to make me add it to my list. It’s possible that they referenced The Tale of Despereaux and I ended up at Edward Tulane. It’s driving me crazy that I can’t remember. I know this is obscure, but was hoping someone here may know what movie it was. I’ve never read the books, so I’m not even sure what the context would have been in the movie. Thanks in advance!

This book is perfect, it left me emotional and inspired. I've recently been having a hard time finding any other books as good as this one, are there any books similar to this one?

I did read some of Katie DiCamillo's other books, but this one had the greatest impact for me. I've been having a hard time finding anything similar to Edward Tulane, I'm hoping that you guys may have some great book recommendations that might fit right up my alley.

I love to read to my kids. I homeschool and it’s part of our daily routine.

We read Kate DiCamillo’s Tale of Despereaux and fell in love with her writing. And anytime we see her books at the library we have to get them.

We just finished The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane after just two days. The kids wouldn’t let me stop reading. I had to pause a few times because I was crying like a baby.

It’s also led to some incredible discussions as Kate DiCamillo approaches tough topics with such grace. We have spent almost the whole day just talking about different aspects of the story and the different characters.

I highly recommend that even if you don’t have kids - that you read not only The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane, but any other of her books that you can get your hands on!

At the recommendation of a friend, I read the YA/Children's book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tullane. It was short and the language was simple but I felt like I got more out of it emotionally than any "adult" books I've read in a while.

I am not someone who is very skilled at understanding metaphors and underlying meanings and implications that are commonly found in adult fiction so that's probably a big part of why I'm realizing that maybe Children's/YA books are going to resonate more deeply on an emotional level for me. Is that just me or is this actually a common viewpoint?

I found it really refreshing that the moral of the story was kind of just laid out for you. Instead of closing the book and having to take an hour to parse through what I just read and how it made me feel (which, granted, also has its benefits), I got to just immediately understand and feel the emotion the book conveyed and it made it feel deeper and more applicable to me than I'm used to.

Is this just a particularly good book within this age range/genre? Has anyone else here read it and had a similar (or different) experience? Or maybe have people had similar reactions to other books within this age range/genre?

I'd seen that it was on before, not ever really knowing how to pronounce NOIR, but one day it was on and I watched it (stormy weather), and then it was fairly interesting, then when season 2 came out I was like pretty interested in this show, it wasn't my favourite at the time (although it is now) but it was quite fun. By the time season 3 started having spoilers, I absoloutely loved watching this show and so did my whole family. I was looking through all the spoilers, leaks, everything. After S3 was fully released and everything, I kinda stopped watching the show, since I was watching a lot of other tv shows.

Then, when I was at school one day, I was talking to a newer friend (now one of my closest friends), about how I watched a lot more childish tv shows for a longg time like My Little Pony, etc. And she said the same thing. And then we started talking about Miraculous, and I realised I hadn't watched it in ages. I have Disney+ and the New York Special had just released, so I watched it, not completely understanding it. I decided to rewatch the whole show with my sister and rewatched the special, becoming more interested in the whole idea of the show and the love square, understanding things better than before, all before the Shanghai special released. By this time I found out about S4 and not long later, the Miraculous Awakening movie, and me and my sister looked at every spoiler possible.

When S4 came out, I had realised that there were stuff on reddit and other sociial media places for Miraculous and that is how I found my way here.

Intro

Many writers of western cartoons use social media to interact with fans and form a relationship with respective fandoms. From Noelle Stevenson who created a child of the main couple during one livestream to Alex Hirsh who loves joking with his fandom on Twitter. So when Thomas Astruc (one of the creators of Miraculous) started answering questions of his young fans, almost nobody was suprised.

Unfortunately, fandoms tend to be volatile and almost anything can start a reaction. One of the biggest dramas with Thomas Astruc started due to the final of season 3. To be more specific, it started due to one character, Chloe Bourgeois.

What is Miraculous?

To quote Wikipedia, "it is a French CGI superhero / magical girl children's television series. The series focuses on two Parisian teenagers, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste, who transform into the superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir, respectively, to protect the city from supervillains."

The showed gained popularity due to multiple reasons like the strong female lead, reinvented love triangle (the love square) and the atmosphere of Paris. Especially the second bit stole hearts of fangirls and ignited imagination of multiple artists.

Who is Chloe?

Chloe can be simply described as cliche mean girl that ticks off almost all boxes. She is an ignorant (telling a Chinese man to make sushi), insanely rich, snobbish bully with blond hair and heavy make-up. And of course, she bullies the main character and tries to steal her spotlight.

Basically imagine The Plastics from Mean Girls, but with yellow instead of pink.

The fandom's first reaction to Chloe (Season 1)

To fully understand how Chloe led to the drama, we must go back to the beginning.

Like I've mentioned previously, Chloe is a cliche mean girl and in first season, she was only that. She served as a source of multiple conflicts and a butt-monkey for multiple jokes, which is fairly logical if we consider a fact that the series was fairly episodic and many characters were [just](https://miraculousladyb

While the insider vs outsider debate continues to have the industry divided, there’s one point most people raise: If only people with connections were getting chances, how do we justify rank outsiders such as Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui or the late Irrfan making it big?

Ask Bajpayee and prompt comes the actor’s reply, “This is whataboutery. Everybody knows the question and where it’s being pointed at. Don’t run from the question; answer it. Manoj Bajpayee, or the actors they name, their journey has been miraculous, and we ourselves can’t believe it. It hasn’t been a smooth journey, and all the films we have been a part of, we’ve struggled very hard to make it. Don’t forget that.”

His recent release, Bhosle, did the rounds of many film festivals, and finally released on an OTT platform. While he says he’s happy with the response it has garnered, one wonders what he feels about the fact that the film released directly on the web and not theatres.

Bajpayee rues that films like these aren’t appreciated enough in theatres.

“I don’t know how much the makers would be pleased with this if they released it in theatres with their own money... My point is how many theatres could they release it in? A film like Bhosle, how many shows would exhibitors have guaranteed? How right the timings would have been of the shows? How any days would they have kept it in theatres? What I’m talking about is the fate of all independent films I’ve done,” he tells us.

However, this hasn’t affected his resolve to do good cinema. “I’ll keep doing it. The resolve is bigger and stronger than the treatment that we get. If it released now because of the lockdown, I’m much happier. My whole journey is about becoming better. I’m fascinated and in love with this craft,” Bajpayee concludes.

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The preface here is back in 2011 I ran my first marathon at 25, with minimal distance running experience, followed a haphazard low mileage training plan that peaked at 46 mpw and a 18 mi long run, biked 5 km to the starting line and ran without any timing device, hit a wall at about the 24 mi mark, and still somehow managed to obliterate my goal time of 3:30 with a 3:11:02 time, finishing 3 seconds shy of a BQ at the time.

I'm not trying to humblebrag, I'm just trying to make sense of it all as I put together my training plan for a Marathon this August, one where I know I probably won't PB, but want to build my confidence and possibly shoot for a BQ in the future. I'd appreciate any insight into my training, what I might have inadvertently done right, and how I can apply that to future training plans.

So lets dive in.

Training

While it was a long time ago, I still remember my training plan as I logged everything into MapMyRun, and it was ridiculously simple. I basically based all of my training around building up mileage, and doing one long run, at least one medium long runs, and a couple shorter runs most weeks. But here's the kicker: I did practically all of my runs at pretty much the same pace, that generally being the fastest pace I could maintain throughout the run - somewhere in the 8:00 range initially, improving to the 7:20-7:40/mi range. (My pace during the race averaged out to 7:17). No speed work, no intervals, just day after day of steady state runs at just under marathon pace, and the occasional slow, short recovery run at an 8:00-9:00 pace.

Here was the mileage breakdown of the weeks leading up to the race, with my longest run of the week in parentheses:

Week 1: 23.2 (7.4) When I started at this point, I weighed just over 200 lbs, and over the next two months would end up dropping 20 lbs.

Week 2: 31.7 (7.5)

Week 3: 28.9 (11.4)

Week 4: 8.6 (4.6)

Week 5: 11.8 (6.1) The second of a few low mileage weeks. I think this was during a period of ridiculously cold Saskatchewan weather and also a time when I was pretty low motivated.

Week 6: 35.1 (9.7) <---This run was done at 8:10. Most of my runs were at this speed around this time, which was likely the fastest speed I could maintain at the time. As I got faster, so did my training pace.

Week 7: 19.1 (15.4) recovery week. Only had two runs this week followed by 6 days off.

Week 8: 41.0 (8.7) I continued to lose weight to this point and then leveled off at around 180

I've recently discovered this writer and I was really impressed by his books (notably, No Beast So Fierce and The Animal Factory). It is a vivid description of a the underworld of prisons, a dark wold that most of us would never know. I strongly suggest reading those books to understand human relationships from a very different point of view. I'll read definitely the other Bunker's books .