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To me, this post might be just as important as the bible.
One of my classes. My elderly teacher taught us this because he really cared about books.
Why does no one teach us these things anymore?
I get so uppity when someone breaks the binding on my books.
AH I’ve been needing this post since I got my hardcover first edition of The Black Gryphon.
NOW I’LL BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO READ IT.
“I get everything all lined up in a row, and all the little climaxes have happened, and now there’s this huge juggernaut of plot teetering on the edge and all I have to do is stand aside and let it drop. And it goes barreling down on the characters, and there’s the earthquake, and the forest fire, and the war, and the ground opens up, and the palace collapses inside, and the rats reign supreme over all!”
— Tamora Pierce on her writing process (x)
I love her. I was fortunate enough to corner her for about forty minutes after a book signing at a tiny shop down the street from my old house, mostly because I was the oldest person there and everyone else had to leave with their parents. This was a few years ago. Charming, dry, wonderful woman. Gainel is based off of Neil Gaiman… I found that out because I stood there and fan-girled over Gainel for about twenty of the forty minutes. She was so droll about it too. Like, “Obviously, that’s him.”
Books break the shackles of time. (x)
the adaptation ebook by malinda lo is apparently $4.99 right now!!! why should you read this book, you ask???????
- malinda lo is basically the best person, she is a qwoc writer and she blogs on her website and on tumblr about writing, diversity in ya, queerness, and race issues!! she is on tumblr as malindalo and diversityinya (which is a gr9 tumblr)
- she is also on the 2013 autostraddle hot 100, which is a great honor (jasika nicole is in the top 10, btw, hell yeahhhhhh)
- queer female lead character in a scifi book YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T SAY NO TO THAT
- m/f/f love triangle which as we all know is the best kind of love triangle (and it’s not done in any annoying/problematic way)
- the next most important character because reese (the main character) is an asian american guy named david and he is a+
- it is a great book
- scifi plus DIVERSITYYYYYYY
- do not read if you are very freaked out by birds
- the sequel is coming out in a few months and the cover looks pretty awesome
- malinda lo wanted a cover involving water for the first one and a mirror for the sequel but she didn’t want it to look super passive and weird like most girls on ya covers look (she blogged about this on her website) and thus, they look awesome and the model on the cover IS STARING YOU DOWN
- i read it in one night because i had to know what happened, that is always a good sign
- in a scene of elementary you can see adaptation in the corner at a bookstore. i bet joan watson read it. but have YOU?
- her other two books, ash and huntress, are both excellent (especially huntress imo). ash is based on cinderella only it is now a queer love story, BAM. huntress is also a queer love story and it has poc saving the kingdom and shit. my favorite
- i can see huge improvements between each of her books so inheritance is probably gonna blow everyone’s MIND like seriously i am so excited for it
- afterellen says about inheritance, the sequel: “ In less than 500 pages, Malinda explores race relations, sexual fluidity, gender identity, Internet commenting culture, modern news media, and other really important topics I can’t talk about because of spoilers. And she does it all seamlessly. One of the big motifs of Inheritance is empathy, and the book itself is a prejudice-vanquisher for vastly underrepresented members of the queer community.”
- tell me that’s not the best thing you’ve ever heard
- in conclusion, malinda lo
- also buy the adaptation ebook
welp you’ve sold me. Purchased from Kobo for my ereader.
there are children on this site
I kind of want this to be different reading rooms in a massive library, like history, literary fiction, dogs, arcane sciences, design, natural sciences, religion, art and special collections.I should write a story about this.
it’s like the library in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! D:
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The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to talk, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realise that they’ve all survived rape and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle declares open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.
A novel by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan: The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad will be available soon! In the meantime, we have patches which can be sewed or ironed on. [x]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/56db790176d186819e259b56d3f9a690/tumblr_mjayhrXk5i1qcyvzwo1_400.jpg)
The six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to talk, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. Until the night they realise that they’ve all survived rape and that not one of their assailants has suffered a single consequence. Enough is enough. The Knitting Circle declares open season on rapists, with no licenses and no bag limits. With needles as their weapons, the revolution begins.
A novel by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan: The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad will be available soon! In the meantime, we have patches which can be sewed or ironed on. [x]
To answer a few questions people have been asking, mostly in the comments of that last post, about what sort of thing The Ocean at the End of the Lane is:
It’s a novel. It’s not a long novel, but it’s sort of bigger on the inside, if you see what I mean.
It’s published on June 18th in the US, the UK, Canada,Australia, Brazil, possibly some other places as well.
It’s not part of any series or anything else. It’s not really like anything else I’ve written, although it was obviously written by me.
It’s not a horror novel, although it has moments in it that are as scary as anything I’ve written.
It’s not a memoir, although I set it on the lane that I grew up as a boy.
There’s magic in it.
The Amazon US preorder is http://j.mp/OCEANLANE
The Indiebound link, to find an independent bookshop close to you with a copy is http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062255655
Here is the Headline UK link: http://www.headline.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781472200310
I love that Indiebound categorises it as: Categories: Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology, Fantasy - General, General. (They could add another half a dozen categories to that.)
I don’t like the reviews that tell you what happens in it, but I’m very happy to link to the reviews that tell you how it feels for someone to read it. Here’s author Amy McCulloch blogging about it.
The 39 Clues: Books 1-10 11
Across the Universe: Book 1 2-3
An Abundance of Katherines
A Song of Ice and Fire: Books 1-5
Balefire: Book 1
The Bane Chronicles: 1
Between the Lines: Book 1 2 3
Bloodlines: Book 1 2 3
Blue Bloods: Books 1-5 5.5 6 7
The Caster Chronicles: Books 1-4
The Catcher in the Rye
The Chemical Garden: Book 1 2 3
The Curse Workers: Books 1-3
Delirium: Book 1 2 3
Delirium Stories: Hana Annabel Raven
Divergent: Books 1-2
The Dresden Files: Books 1-12 13 14
Easy
Elemental: Books 1-2
Evernight: Books 1-3 4 5
The Fault in Our Stars
Gallagher Girls: Books 1-5
Graceling Realm: Book 1 2
The Great Gatsby
Harry Potter: Book 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Hex Hall: Book 1 2 3
The Host
How to Train Your Dragon: 6-8
The Hunger Games: Books 1-3
Hush, Hush: Book 1 2 3 4
The Immortals: Books 1-3
The Infernal Devices: Book 1 2 3
The Iron Fey: Book 1 2-4 5
The Kendra Chronicles: Book 1 1.5 2
The Last Song
Legend: Book 1 2
Looking for Alaska
Lux: Book 1 2 3
The Lying Game: Books 1-3
Mara Dyer: Book 1 2
Matched: Book 1 2 3
Maximum Ride: Books 1-7 8
The Maze Runner: Books 1-2 3
The Mortal Instruments: Books 1-3 4 5
The Notebook
Paper Towns
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Books 1-5
The Perks of Being A Wallflower
The Secret Circle: Books 1-3 4 5
Shatter Me: Book 1 2
The Silver Linings Playbook
Sookie Stackhouse Novels: Books 1-11 12
Splintered
Sweeps: 9-11
Uglies: Book 1 2-4
Under the Never Sky: Book 1 2
Vampire Academy: Books 1-4 5-6
The Vampire Diaries: Books 1-10
Vampire Kisses: Books 1-7 8-9
Wicked Lovely: Books 1-3 4-5
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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