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The two ADHD moods:
- I can’t do it
- I can’t stop doing it
The two types of ADHD time:
- now
- not now
the two ADHD memory modes:
-I literally cannot recall the words that just came out of my mouth
-I can recite the opening paragraph of every single magic treehouse book
Young Adult Scavenger Hunt!!!
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for a limited time!
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are five contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the RED TEAM–but there is also a blue team, a gold team, a purple team, and a pink team for a chance to win a whole different set of books! If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page. SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE Directions: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve hidden my favorite number. (It’s not very subtle.) Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the red team, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!). Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify. Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by Sunday, April 9, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
And NOW!!! The Hunt!!!!
I am your host, Aprilynne Pike.
I am the author of TWELVE YA novels (how did that happen?!?!) and today I’m featuring EARTHBOUND which recently got a makeover!
Isn’t it pretty?!?!?
I am hosting the lovely Erica Cameron!!
After a lifelong obsession with books, Erica Cameron spent her college years studying psychology and creative writing, basically getting credit for reading and learning how to make stories of her own. Now, she’s the author of several series for young adults. She’s also a reader, asexuality advocate, dance fan, choreographer, singer, lover of musical theater, movie obsessed, sucker for romance, Florida resident, and quasi-recluse who loves the beach but hates the heat, has equal passion for the art of Salvador Dali and Venetian Carnival masks, has a penchant for unique jewelry and sun/moon décor pieces, and a desire to travel the entire world on a cruise ship. Or a private yacht. You know, whatever works. Her debut novel, Sing Sweet Nightingale, released March 2014 and it was the first volume of The Dream War Saga. In May 2015, Erica and her co-author Lani Woodland launched the Laguna Tides series with Taken by Chance. Riptide’s new YA imprint Triton Books will release both books in the Assassins series, Discord and Nemesis, in 2016. The Ryogan Chronicles, a fantasy trilogy set to launch through Entangled Teen, began in 2017 with Island of Exiles. Next up, Erica will be working with Entangled Teen to create a young adult science fiction trilogy pitched as Star Trek: Voyager meets The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica; Pax Novis is set to fly in 2018.
On the hunt, Erica is featuring her novel ISLAND OF EXILES from Entangled Teen!
In Khya’s world, every breath is a battle. On the isolated desert island of Shiara, dying young is inevitable. The clan comes before self, and protecting her home means Khya is a warrior above all else. But when following the clan and obeying their leaders could cost her brother his life, Khya’s home becomes a deadly trap. The only person who can help is Tessen, her lifelong rival and the boy who challenges her at every turn. The council she hoped to join has betrayed her, and their secrets, hundreds of years deep, reach around a world she’s never seen. To save her brother’s life and her island home, her only choice is to trust Tessen, turn against her clan, and go on the run—a betrayal and a death sentence.
Awesome right?? You can find Erica at her website, and you can buy the book here! You can also follow her on Twitter at @ByEricaCameron or like her on Facebook here!
Erica’s exclusive content is an except and several visual inspiration collages! (And they are gorgeous!) Please click to view them!!! (And to get the rest of the info you need for the hunt! I just don’t want this to be two feet long on everyone’s Tumblr. ;))
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If I could only eat one candy for the rest of forever, gimme all the Kit Kats.
SO goth
STOP IT
So proud of my gothy wife.
AGGGGHHGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT GOTH !!!!! NOT GOTH !!!!
for fucks sake
ALSO WHO ARE YOU CALLING GOTH, DUDE WHO WROTE SANDMAN AND LITERALLY WEARS ONLY BLACK AND GETS EXCITED ABOUT VISITING OBSCURE GRAVEYARDS
back off Gaiman
Graveyards are cool.
end of battle
#winning
You people make me happy.
“It’s hard to escape the conclusion that, when it comes to literary prizes, the more prestigious, influential and financially remunerative the award, the less likely the winner is to write about grown women. Either this means that women writers are self-censoring, or those who judge literary worthiness find women frightening, distasteful, or boring. Certainly the results argue for women’s perspectives being considered uninteresting or unworthy. Women seem to have literary cooties.”
Read Nicola Griffith’s infuriating, depressing post here.
Sometimes I carry my book around with me even though I know I probably won’t get time to read it until I get home
Every single day, everywhere I go. Sometimes more than one.
[W]hen your worldview is solely shaped by men, you are missing out. And like it or not, your taste in music, books, television or art says something about you: it sends a message about what you think is worth your time, what you think is interesting and who you think is smart. So if the only culture you pay attention to is created by men, or created by white people, you are making an explicit statement about who and what is important. Part of the problem is that while art or books that white men put out is portrayed as universally appealing, culture produced by women or people of color is seen as specific to their gender or racial identity.
from You might not think you’re sexist – until you take a look at your bookshelf by Jessica Valenti (via catagator)
cross-connect: Vivid Hummingbird Close-ups Reveal Their Incredible BeautyWhen it comes to birds, the terms “strong” or “beautiful” might inspire images of fierce eagles or decadent tropical parrots. But both of these birds will certainly find strong contender in hummingbirds, which possess a unique sort of delicate beauty and a mastery of avian maneuvers like no other. We created this list of 20 stunning hummingbird photos to show you just how beautiful they can be.Capturing a photo of a hummingbird in flight with clearly focused wings can be very difficult, as some varieties are capable of beating their wings up to 52 times a second. This gives them the ability to hover and fly backwards – something that few other birds can do and that none have mastered the way the hummingbird has. Boredpanda
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PEN is delighted to award the 2015 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship to YA author Stephanie Kuehn, for her manuscript for “The Pragmatist”!
Keep an eye out for her book, forthcoming from Dutton/Penguin Books.
A full list of winners is available at this link.
So, so great.
Congrats, stephaniekuehn!
Stephanie Kuehn is such an amazing author, gracious and kind human being, and all-around beautiful soul. So glad I’ve gotten to meet her, and even if I hadn’t, her books are some of my VERY favorites in the whole world. Especially Charm & Strange... man that book blew me away. Can’t wait to read the new one!
“Her writing about ‘Immediate Family’ is only one of many reasons to read this memoir. Hold Still is a cerebral and discursive book about the South and about family and about making art that has some of the probity of Flannery O’Connor’s nonfiction collection ‘Mystery and Manners’ yet is spiked with the wildness and plain talk of Mary Karr’s best work.”
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HOLD STILL IS OUT TODAY
I forgot I preordered this book until I saw this post and holy crap it’s gonna be here today. Sally Mann is my artistic raison d’etre... I picked up a camera because of her, and her works moves my entire soul every time I look at it.
Books dealing with…
Depression:
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Path
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Bipolar:
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Find You in the Dark by A. Meredith Walters
A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma
The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder
Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh
Anxiety:
Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets Evan Roskos
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
OCD:
Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern
Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chappell
OCD Love Story by Corey Ann Haydu
OCD, the Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready
Mr. Monk Goes To The Firehouse by Lee Goldberg
Schizophrenia:
Life is But a Dream by Brian James
Lowboy by John Way
Crazy by Han Nolan
Freaks Like Us by Susan Vaught
Cameron and the Girls by Edward Averett
Schizo by Nic Sheff
Eating Disorders:
Butter by Erin Jade Lange
Perfect by Natasha Friend
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Purge by Sarah Darer Littman
Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Unwell by Leslie Lipton
Addiction:
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Clean by Amy Read
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson
Exit Here by Jason Myers
Stoner & Spaz by Ronald Koertge
This is a fantastic list.
What is it about reading that makes some other kids find you "odd"?
“In middle school years, for some reason, it made sense to not want to seem smart, driven to learn outside of class, or act remotely outside of expectations. I remember trying to graduate from Nancy Drew books into Young Adult, but having no friends to really talk mybooks over with. Most readers read secretly. This is a great fault of the book reading world– reading opens wide when you’re discussing it with others, but it can also be considered a sign of seclusion and introversion.
I remember being fourteen and having a specific place for my novel of the time so that it could sit in my backpack’s inner pocket and hide. I remember being sixteen, fully entrenched in high school and holding my class books along their spines in my left hand so that my novel could be hugged on the inside as I walked. Nobody could see my books. These were self conscious times, but I find that even now, there’s something about reading that can make people find you “odd.”
-On Being Book Shamed in Middle and High School via Book Riot
How many of the rest of you dealt with this? The #1 reason I got in trouble in school was for reading in class when I’d finished my work but the teacher was still trying to teach other students how to do the math, or whatever. Seriously. My punishment? Having to sit inside during recess. Where I could read. What did I learn? KEEP READING. Just always keep reading. As I finish up my MLIS degree and look back on the journey that brought me to the position of director of the library in my hometown, I realize how well that lesson has served me. No matter what, guys, and no matter who says what about it, just keep reading. Always.
Boys cry. Girls masturbate. Boys can like pink and not be gay. Girls can have short hair and not be a lesbian. Boys can like ballet. Girls can like video games. Boys can be hot without a six pack. Girls can be hot without a hairless body. Boys can have hair down to their waists. Girls can have stretch marks, curves and back fat. Gender doesn’t determine what you can and cannot enjoy, what you can and cannot look like or what you can and cannot do.
There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld. It’s also the anger at the headmaster who would decide that six-year-old Terry Pratchett would never be smart enough for the 11-plus; anger at pompous critics, and at those who think serious is the opposite of funny; anger at his early American publishers who could not bring his books out successfully. The anger is always there, an engine that drives. By the time Terry learned he had a rare, early onset form of Alzheimer’s, the targets of his fury changed: he was angry with his brain and his genetics and, more than these, furious at a country that would not permit him (or others in a similarly intolerable situation) to choose the manner and the time of their passing. And that anger, it seems to me, is about Terry’s underlying sense of what is fair and what is not. It is that sense of fairness that underlies Terry’s work and his writing, and it’s what drove him from school to journalism to the press office of the SouthWestern Electricity Board to the position of being one of the best-loved and bestselling writers in the world. […] Terry’s authorial voice is always Terry’s: genial, informed, sensible, drily amused. I suppose that, if you look quickly and are not paying attention, you might, perhaps, mistake it for jolly. But beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury. Terry Pratchett is not one to go gentle into any night, good or otherwise. He will rage, as he leaves, against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness, not just the dying of the light. And, hand in hand with the anger, like an angel and a demon walking into the sunset, there is love: for human beings, in all our fallibility; for treasured objects; for stories; and ultimately and in all things, love for human dignity. Or to put it another way, anger is the engine that drives him, but it is the greatness of spirit that deploys that anger on the side of the angels, or better yet for all of us, the orangutans. Terry Pratchett is not a jolly old elf at all. Not even close. He’s so much more than that. As Terry walks into the darkness much too soon, I find myself raging too: at the injustice that deprives us of – what? Another 20 or 30 books? Another shelf-full of ideas and glorious phrases and old friends and new, of stories in which people do what they really do best, which is use their heads to get themselves out of the trouble they got into by not thinking? Another book or two of journalism and agitprop? But truly, the loss of these things does not anger me as it should. It saddens me, but I, who have seen some of them being built close-up, understand that any Terry Pratchett book is a small miracle, and we already have more than might be reasonable, and it does not behoove any of us to be greedy. I rage at the imminent loss of my friend. And I think, “What would Terry do with this anger?” Then I pick up my pen, and I start to write.
Neil Gaiman. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)
Game of Thrones characters reimagined as Disney characters
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.
“America’s librarians, like our teachers, connect us to books and learning resources that help us dream big. They help ensure that we continue learning throughout our lifetime.” –President Barack Obama, “My Fifth Grade Teacher.”
