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they belong together the way books fit in a library // main - georgiefinchs

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Aerial Ethereal Challenge-Day 1: favorite quotes or scene

“That’s rude,” I state.

He laughs into a bigger smile. “Where did you come from?”

[tonight-thestreetsareours]

Aerial Ethereal Challenge  Day 1: favorite quotes or scenes 

[taitalagi]

aerial ethereal challenge day 1: favourite quotes or scenes

I’m average. I’ve been average most of my life, but there are moments where I feel extraordinary. Invincible. Able to conquer any fear and step outside any box. There is no illusion, no fantasy. I can climb a forty-foot pole. I can fly eighty-feet in the air. I can be taller than tall. It’s a dream that I’m living. Every day.

[jacquioakley]

COLOR ME JANE | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

I hope some of you will have fun colouring in my drawings of Elizabeth and Darcy, Anne and Captain Wentworth, Emma and Mr. Knightly, and all the other characters, moments and fashion from the world of Jane Austen. It’s out now and can be found through Penguin Random House or on Amazon.

If you do happen to pick one I’d love to see some of your work! It’s going to be so cool seeing how people translate it. Be sure to hashtag #colormejane!

Thanks!

Jacqui O.

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Google Doodles celebrating the birthday of author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942).

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Below is a list of some highly recommended books written by people of color (in no particular order). They span across a wide variety of genres and target audiences. Thank you to everyone who submitted their favorites and helped make this list possible! Known triggers are in parentheses next to the books they apply to, but if there is something that has been missed or there’s a book you’d like me to add, please don’t hesitate to let me know! Happy reading!  The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (rape, murder, child abuse, domestic violence) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri Migritude - Shailija Patel (gore, violence, rape mentions, abuse) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho The God of Small Things - Arundathi Roy (child abuse, sex) Joys of Motherhood - Buchi Emecheta (starvation, poverty, gore, and suicide) Distant View of a Minaret - Alifa Rifaat (castration and death) White Teeth - Zadie Smith  Emails from Scheherazade - Mohja Kahf (sexual violence) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz (transphobic language/violence, homophobic violence) Boy Snow Bird - Helen Oyeyemi Sister of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakurani  Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi  The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison The Summer Prince - Alaya Dawn Johnson The Noughts and Crosses series - Malorie Blackman A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (rape, murder, child abuse, domestic violence) And The Mountain Echoed - Khaled Hosseini (rape, child abuse) The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing - Mira Karoll Born Confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier The Queen of Water - Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango (child abuse, sexual harassment/child sexual abuse, racism, internalized racism, internalized shadism) Time to Dance - Padma Venkatraman Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (implications of rape and sexual harassment) Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho Astonishing the Gods - Ben Okri Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami Fasting Feasting - Anita Desai The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi Drown - Junot Diaz Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak Honor: A Novel - Elif Shafak Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston Reservation Blues - Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie The Age of Shiva - Manil Suri The Kitchen God’s Wife - Amy Tan Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel - Sara Farizan By the Light of My Father’s Smile - Alice Walker A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif No God but God - Reza Aslan The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki Babji - Abha Dawesar Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri (implications of rape and sexual harassment) Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai (violence, rape mention) The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros (sexual assault) Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Brick Lane - Monica Ali No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai A Bad Character - Deepti Kapoor (death, abusive relationships) Karma and Other Stories - Rishi Reddi The Burning Sky - Sherry Thomas Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi Climbing the Stairs - Padma Venkatraman The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Coin Locker Babies - Ryu Murakami The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan Please Look After Mom - Shin Kyung Sook Bonsai Kitten - Lakshmi Narayan Written in the Stars - Aisha Saeed  The Hero’s Walk - Anita Rau Badami Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz Beloved - Toni Morrison Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi The Golden Age - Tahmima Anam Season of Migration to the North - Tayib Saleh Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami Snow - Orhan Pamuk Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche The President - Miguel Asturias (extreme violence, rape) The Hungry Ghosts - Shyam Selvadurai The Skin I’m In - Sharon G. Flake Black Boy - Richard Wright Cinnamon Gardens - Shyam Selvadurai 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (domestic violence, horror, violence) She of the Mountains - Vivek Shraya (explicit sex) Island of a Thousand Mirrors - Nayomi Munaweera (rape, violence) Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew - Shehan Karunatilaka Broken Circle - Theodore Fontaine (child sexual abuse, alcoholism, anti-Native sentiment) The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamid Burnt Shadows, Kratography, Salt and Saffron - Kamila Shamsie Last Man in Tower - Aravind Adiga Birds of Paradise Lost - Andrew Lam Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Bitter Melon - Cara Chow (child abuse) Q&A - Vikas Swarup Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat Motorcycles and Sweetgrass - Drew Hayden Taylor  Lakota Woman - Mary Crow-Dog Legend Trilogy - Marie Lu The Young Elites - Marie Lu The Wrath and the Dawn - Renee Ahdieh An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir (rape, abuse) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Grace Lin Half of A Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Children of The Jacaranda Tree - Sahar Delijani The Twentieth Wife - Indu Sundaresan Destiny’s Captive - Beverly Jenkins  Tiny Pretty Things - Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton (eating disorders, bullying, family issues) Lakota Woman - Mary Brave Bird (child abuse, alcohol abuse, sexual abuse) Flight - Sherman Alexie (child abuse, alcohol abuse, sexual abuse) Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangerembga (violence, eating disorders and mental illness) Redefining Realness - Janet Mock (child sexual assault, child abuse, transphobia) The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta (homophobia, violence against queer women) The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo  The Shiva Trilogy - Amish Tripathi (rape) The Krishna Key - Ashwin Sanghi To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga Shatter Me Trilogy - Tahereh Mafi The promise - Nikita Singh When Only Love Remains - Durjoy Datta Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya Chords of Strength - David Archuleta This Bridge Called My Back - Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga  Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami (rape/suicide mentions) I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (rape) Draupadi: The Fire-Born Princess - Saraswati Nagpal The Hybrid Chronicles - Kat Zhang (child abuse, violence) Esperanza Rising - Pam Muñoz Ryan Becoming Naomi Leon - Pam Muñoz Ryan The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper Ghana Must Go - Taiye Selasi Difficult Daughters - Manju Kapoor Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez (violence, explicit sex, death) Birdie - Tracy Lindberg Burn For Burn - Jenny Han Mãn - Kim Thúy  Huntress - Malinda Lo  A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth From Heaven Lake - Vikram Seth Two Lives - Vikram Seth Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler (violence) The Mango Bride - Marivi Soliven (abuse) Between Two Worlds - Roxana Saberi When the Elephants Dance - Tess Holthe (rape) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (violence, explicit sex, death) La Vie et Demie - Sony Labou Tansi - French (gore, sexual violence) L'Enfant de Sable - Tahar Ben Jelloun - French (gender violence) Girls of Riyadh - Rajaa Alsanea The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives - Lola Shoneyin I Do Not Come to You by Chance - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani 26a - Diana Evans  Cloth Girl - Marilyn Heward Mills The Hidden Star - K. Sello Duiker kemi’s journal - Abidemi Sanusi  Imagine This - Vickie M. Stringer  God’s Bits of Wood - Sembene Ousmane Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez (violence, explicit sex, death) The Autobiography of Malcolm X -  Malcolm X (trigger warnings for rape, racism, death) Roots - Alex Haley Sultana’s Dream - Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain The Crossover - Kwame Alexander I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia - Jenny Torres Sanchez When Reason Breaks - Cindy Rodriguez  Los Perros - Lorea Canales - Spanish The Secret Side of Empty - Maria E. Andreu  The Wake of the White Tiger - Diamond Shamsher Rana Blue Mimosa - Parijat - best read in its original language of Nepali  The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (child sexual abuse, racism, violence, animal abuse, body image) Empress Orchid - Anchee Min Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz  How to Be Drawn - Terrance Hayes When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz (explicit sex, drug references) Boy With Thorn - Rickey Laurentiis Between The World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (police brutality) Breath, Eyes, Memory -  Edwidge Danticat   I Too Had A Love Story - Ravinder Singh Can Love Happen Twice? - Ravinder Singh Boys Don’t Cry - Malorie Blackman If You Could Be Mine - Sara Farizan Ash - Malinda Lo Pig Heart Boy - Malorie Blackman (death) The Pearl that Broke Its Shell - Nadia Hashimi Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodsen Umrao Jaan Ada - Mirza Hadi Ruswa - Urdu Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum Citizen - Claudia Rankin This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera

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Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return /  Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.  ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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How many times have you told me you’re a monster? So be a monster. Be the thing they all fear when they close their eyes at night.

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (via parrishly)

[sprigday-remade]

When I was in the faerie country, each night I would think of each of you—of you and Helen, of Livvy and Ty and Dru and Tavvy. I gave the stars your names, so that when I saw them wink to light in the sky I felt as if you were with me. It was all I could do to still the fear that you were hurt or dying and that I would never know. But I have come back to a family not just alive and healthy, but whose bonds have not been severed, and that is because of what you have done. There is love here, among you. Such love as takes my breath out of my body. There has even been enough love left for me.

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ONE-STAR REVIEWS OF JANE EYRE

Spoilers ahead… sort of.

“Ugh. Overdramatic, far too emotive, and why is it always raining?”

“SPOILER ALERT!!!! Melodrama Jane marries a boring, condescending dumb head because his eyes fall out.”

“I hated this book. Mostly because I don’t care what types of stone the house was made of and I didn’t really think it was necessary to spend 20 pages discussing it.”

“Bronze’s writing is very detailed, preachy, and racist. Jane ( and all the characters) are ignorant, racist, and arrogant. But what else would you expect of Britains in the 1800s?”

“This is essentially ‘Twilight’ from the nineteenth century - a bunch of wholly undesirable guys who are falling head over heels in love with a girl who is described as “plain” and is downright boring.”

“What the hell is wrong with Jane? And in the end, why the FUCK is she still in love with Mr. Rochester? The guy is clearly psychotic. He keeps his mentally ill wife locked up in the attic while he’s out trying to woe another woman and PROPOSES to her? WHILE HE’S STILL MARRIED TO THE PSYCHO WOMAN?!”

“If you really want to know the story of Jane Eyre just watch Cinderella and strip away the fairy god mother, and all the fun.”

“‘Reader - i wanted to strangle her’…fervid and turgid…warped and twisted - her ability to write well I wouldnt argue, but this novel is preposterous and somewhat unhealthy…like all Bronte novels.”

“‘Jane Eyre’ follows the story of a girl named ‘Jane Eyre,’ who lives in what I guess is the 19th century. Want to know what people do for fun in the 19th century? Not much. Walk around gardens and try to fall in love with men who are 90 years older than them, mostly.”

“To call Jane Eyre a feminist text is to insult women. To call it a feminist novel is to insult literature. And to call Charlotte Bronte a writer is to insult civilization. Might as well call Hitler a humanitarian.”

“To those who recommended this book, I forgive you. I know you meant well.”

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Lisa Dengler 

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Rose calloway + Connor cobalt // Quotes

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if i want more, i need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best i can with it.

books (re)read in 2016;; on the jellicoe road

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Looking for books w/fake dating trope in it?

One of my favorite tropes in books (either YA or NA/Romance) is: fake dating/marriage. I don’t know why but maybe it’s the fact that it all starts as an arrangement but soon enough those little looks and touches, become something more. 

Here is a list of some favorite reads that have this trope

THE DEAL by Elle Kennedy

ADDICTED TO YOU by Krista and Becca Ritchie

TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE by Jenny Han

MORE THAN FASHION by Elizabeth Briggs

RED BLOODED by Caitlin Sinead

WILDE AT HEART by Tonya Burrows

UNEXPECTEDLY HIS by Maggie Kelley

I SPY A DUKE by Erica Monroe

BOUND BY HONOR by Cora Reilly*

THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT by Katee Robert*

THE WRATH AND THE DAWN by Renée Ahdieh*

And some reads I’ve heard they are quite amazing but haven’t yet read:

IN THE FAST LANE by Audra North

YOURS TO KEEP by Shannon Stacey

FAKING IT by Cora Carmack

ISN’T SHE LOVELY by Lauren Layne

A WEEK TO BE WICKED by Tessa Dare

THE FILL-IN BOYFRIEND by Kasie West

*Arranged Marriage/Engagements trope

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Sorcery and Cecelia (YA) by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede: fake engagement

Trade Me by Courtney Milan (NA)

Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas: fake marriage

would also second the rec for A Week to be Wicked :D

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Also adding:

Act Like It by Lucy Parker

When the Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare

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Adidng more:

The Kitchen When It Sizzles by Chrissie Peria

Foolproof Love by Katee Robert

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata

[dadarebook]

ADDICTED FOR 15 DAYS //favorite book/comic/movie/tv reference

Rose’s eyes narrow even more. Then she stomps forward, almost challengingly, and pauses for dramatic effect. With so much confidence, she grabs the back of his head and licks his face slowly, starting from his chin all the way to his nose—like a cat. Connor stands poised, unmoving and unblinking. But his grin could shatter the world. My smile grows. “Did she just…” “Yeah,” Lo confirms, sounding impressed. She recreated a scene from Batman Returns where Michelle Pfieffer licks Michael Keaton’s face. I’m not sure if Rose has seen the movie or if it’s just a coincidence.

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ADDICTED FOR 15 DAYS // a child you love so much

Beckett is the only brother searching for the bird because Pip-Squeak grew fond of him. Unless he’s defending Charlie, he’s the most even-tempered and the calmest of all my children. He can move his arms like billowing silk. He dances so gracefully that at nine he’s begun classes for twelve-year-olds.