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holy shit

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#posts that would kill former us senator joseph mccarthy where he stood (via @a-really-bad-decision)

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Statement on Simon & Schuster

Statement on Simon & Schuster

Hi everyone! I know I’ve been MIA recently but I have exciting news. I have finally finished my thesis, so now I should have way more time to read and review books for fun (rather than reading a bunch of philosophy articles haha). On the topic of reviewing books, I’d like to announce that I will no longer be reviewing books by Simon & Schuster. In light of their agreeing to distribute a book by…

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Review: Amina's Song by Hena Khan

Review: Amina’s Song by Hena Khan

Synopsis: It’s the last few days of her vacation in Pakistan, and Amina has loved every minute of it. The food, the shops, the time she’s spent with her family—all of it holds a special place in Amina’s heart. Now that the school year is starting again, she’s sad to leave, but also excited to share the wonders of Pakistan with her friends back in Greendale. After she’s home, though, her friends…

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Review: As You Were by David Tromblay

Review: As You Were by David Tromblay

Synopsis: A hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming-of-age story from within the aftershocks set off by the American Indian boarding schools, fanned by the flames of nearly fifteen years of service in the Armed Forces, exposing a series of inescapable prisons and the invisible scars of attempted erasure. When he learns his father is dying, David Tromblay ponders what will become of the…

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Review: Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll

Review: Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll

Synopsis: Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman,…

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Review: Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall

Review: Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall

Synopsis: Things can change in a second:The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica.The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he’s in trouble.The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters.And the second Frankie joins his uncle’s gang in exchange for paying for his father’s medical bills, there’s no going back…or is…

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Review: Victory Colony, 1950 by Bhaswati Ghosh

Review: Victory Colony, 1950 by Bhaswati Ghosh

Synopsis: When she lands in Calcutta’s Sealdah railway station on a humid day in 1949, Amala Manna has managed to flee from the communal violence in her village, but not from all her trials. Within moments of crossing over to India as a refugee from East Pakistan, she loses Kartik, her younger brother. Thanks to a group of young volunteers, Amala finds her way to a refugee camp in Gariahata where…

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Review: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Review: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Synopsis: A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the…

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Review: Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Review: Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Synopsis: Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Unnamed Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love…

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Review: Teen Aged by Jason Singh

Review: Teen Aged by Jason Singh

Synopsis: Still reeling from tragedy, Johnathan finds himself struggling to finish high school, help his single mother, spend time with his crush, and be the man of a house that he doesn’t own. When life takes another turn, Johnathan is forced to grow up quickly and pay for university himself. Out of nowhere, he takes a job at a long-term care home. Meeting residents from all walks of life and…

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Review: Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

Review: Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

Synopsis: Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera’s rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her. When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited – not in love, but in a tentative alliance against…

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Review: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Review: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Synopsis: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she…

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#anastasia (1997) actually fucking me up since i was 4 years old

bonus:

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This Dimitri is straight out of a Russian novel

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his character really is more of a prince by sheer default then nearly any actual disney prince out there and you may all fight me on this - he excudes that decent slavic sadness™ centrified all the way

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#decent slavic sadness#i cry#it means he will do shady shit but have a strangely strict moral compass @thorrential

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if you’re white and you act like race issues are just “unnecessary drama” or “discourse” then sorry to tell you but you’re just…. racist

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yes white people CAN and probably SHOULD reblog this just dont add on anything.

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Review: Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

Review: Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

Synopsis: Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This is not that world.

Art student and monster’s apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a…

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Review: The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

Review: The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

Synopsis: Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki’s song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini’s star rises and Neela’s stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in. With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and…

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