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Hi! Can u suggest a young adult novel about stars or constellations? Or maybe anything related to it? I wanna learn about stars while enjoying a good story. Thank youuu! x

Hmmm…I have to admit, I have nothing on this one haha I feel so bad! I’m hoping by putting it out there that others will, though. I did find a list of books that have stars and planetary systems mentioned in them. You can find that list HERE. Sorry that I couldn’t be of more help! 

The only one that even came to my mind (aside from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy but that’s more made up) was The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White, but that’s not even about stars per say but Egyptian mythology. 

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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (via books-n-quotes)

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It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (via quoted-books)

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It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (via books-n-quotes)

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I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they’ll remember we were human beings.

Timothy Findley, The Wars (via quoted-books)

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Critic Etelka Lehoczky says The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage – Sydney Padua’s rollicking graphic novel about computing pioneers Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace – transforms punch cards and little brass cogs into the stuff of legend.

Read her review: ‘Lovelace And Babbage’ Is A Thrilling Adventure

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Ricardo Piglia’s new novel is a brainy, postmodern, sometimes funny take on the classic detective novel. Critic Michael Schaub says:

“It’s tempting to compare Piglia to any number of like-minded authors — he has the skewed but perceptive vision of Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon, and the novel clearly owes a debt to the American noir authors of the last century. But nothing in Target in the Night is anything less than original.”

‘Target In The Night’ Scores A Solid Hit

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evanescentdaydream asked: Do you know of any books where the main character is blind or deaf?

Here’s the posting for deaf main characters! Hope these help you as well!

1. What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins - on both lists! 

2. Read My Lips by Teri Brown

3. Waiting for a Sign by Esty Schachter 

4. Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover

5. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

6. Keeping Silent by Carla Damron

Thanks again for the question! Happy reading!

Lauren

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‘Sometimes,’ Robert said, 'you choose whom you want to be with when you’re too young, and you change, and they don’t change with you.’

Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire (via quoted-books)

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Last week, the State Department unveiled this poem by Maya Angelou in memory of Nelson Mandela.

More book news here.

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mavikecelikalem said: Hi there ^.^ I follow this blog for a long while and i don’t doubt about how amazing it is ^.^ Well, my question is about personal development books. I need a book that can help me about anger management. Do you know any? Thanks ^.^

Thank you so much! I sadly do not read many nonfiction books, but I can give you some fiction books that involve dealing with this topic. You can find those below! If you would like, I can compile a list of nonfiction ones based off online reviews - just let me know!

1. Reality Boy by A.S. King

2. Iron Man by Chris Crutcher 

3. Perfect by Ellen Hopkins (Sean’s perspective)

Hope these help! Thanks for the question! 

Anyone know any other fiction that deals with anger management? Or good nonfiction books for them?

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Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what.

Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

(submitted in a way through comments by: bitch-youresupposedtosayjerk)- I think this quote is great too! 

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???DO YOU KNOW THIS BOOK???

Hi! You posted a book about a month or so ago and I can’t remember for the life of me what it’s called, I remember it was about a couple living in Budapest (I believe) during the invasion of the Soviet Union, or something along those lines. If this sounds familiar to you I would really appreciate it if you could give me the name, thanks so much!

Wanted to catch  your attention :) haha- anyone know this book?

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It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places (via quoted-books)

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The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

Joyce Maynard, Labor Day (via booksquoteslove)

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I think sometimes the biggest influence isn’t what’s present in your lifer, but what’s absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.

Margo Rabb, Kissing in America  (via quoted-books)

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50 Shades of Blue: Just some water/cloud/precipitation-themed book covers.

- Intern Cara