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The Midnight FoxBook

by Betsy Byars

Who uses, recommends or left The Midnight Fox, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Gretchen Rubin
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature; author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
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I would say The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars. That’s like a middle grade book. Are you talking about a middle grade book or more like a YA book? That’s a middle grade book, but it is a masterpiece that anybody, male or female, adult or child, it’s just a perfect book.

The Tim Ferriss Show #290, Gretchen Rubin; asked for a short children’s book they would recommend to almost everybody. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2018-02-04·tim.blog ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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