Read to Breathe

[driareads]

This is why we have funerals. We desperately need to see the truth for ourselves, see that loved one’s face, even if it’s marred. Otherwise, it’s just too hard to believe.

When We Believed in Mermaids, Barbara O’Neal

[driareads]

Books should include trigger warnings. Yes, doesthedogdie and other similar sites are awesome. However. Including trigger warnings is not actually spoiling the book and should be common practice

[cosmos-calling]

[driareads]

Recommend is a word fraught with unintended meaning and emotion. Recommending places us in the role of expert saying, “Take this book; it is good for you.” Suggesting, on the other hand, makes us partners with readers in exploring the various directions they might want to pursue.

Saricks, Joyce G. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction.

[driareads]

but what had passed between them still felt fresh to her, a peach bitten into. Felt like yesterday, all that bodily joy...Not the worst thing to build a marriage around, such juice.

Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff

[driareads]

It unnerved her, the gap between who he appeared to be and the person he held inside him.

Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff

[driareads]

Muvva was heading fast toward that same future; the tiny pink beach house a tomb of figurines and chintz. Muvva loved the sound of the sea, she told Rachel, but Rachel had never even seen her go out into the sand. She just stayed in her little pink aquarium of a house like a sucker fish, gobblemouthing the glass.

Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff

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That moment when you read a book and you finally understand what the title means and it hits you

[jessicacaseyauthor-deactivated2]

The amount of stories in the tags people are writing on this post warms my heart

[rothko]

“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, “I think I might be a terrible person.” For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

— Miranda July, excerpt from The First Bad Man (via wethinkwedream)

[kazualbrekker-deactivated202011]

1.3k celebration: victor vale for @cardangreanbriar 

To Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them.

[lifeinpoetry]

witch attempted to be separate from her own body / witch attempted to unwoman

Rebecca Tamás, from “WITCH SCOLD,” WITCH (via lifeinpoetry)

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I’m tired. It bleeds from my lips I’m tired, in a world where loneliness prowls distances, teeth barred, knuckles bloody, dragging dragging dragging.

I’m tired, is a whisper in the night. Mouths pressed to fluorescent screens.  I’m tired. I’m tired. Please let me sleep.

Nick cave croons me lullabies, slow and steady, unlike the erratic beat of my heart, drumming a war inside my throat.

– feed me loneliness, I’ll make it golden // e.d.c.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Forough Farrokhzad, from Another Birth: Selected Poems; “I Am Naked,”

[incendavery]

parting is such sweet sorrow

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

One of my students turned in a paper arguing that Hamlet and Macbeth both view death as a solution to their problems and the only difference is that Hamlet wants to kill himself and Macbeth would rather kill everybody else and I honestly treasure this insight.

[teenboystuff]

So the subplot of Holes is that Kate Barlow deals with the politically-sanctioned execution of her black boyfriend—who unlawfully kissed a white woman who was in love with him!!!—by becoming a serial killer who targets racist/sexist white dudes who harassed her, were rejected, then went after her boyfriend as revenge from the depths of the “friend zone”.

Go off Louis Sachar, let em know!

[anzozi-everywhere]

Don’t forget the main plot was a damning satire of the brokenness and inherent racism of the American justice and prison systems! Louis Sachar does not fuck about

[galaxianbitch]

It always fuck me up that older people don’t understand how this story is as essential to most american children as Gone with the Wind or Mary Poppins was.

[angrynebula]

unironically, this is one of the best books/movies for young people that exists

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Kissing Kate Did Nothing Wrong

[aimmyarrowshigh]

And the technical writing of Holes is perfect. Like, it’s one of the most technically-perfect books ever written. Basically any plotting or pacing or characterization issue you’re having, read Holes and really study how Sachar did it. THE LIZARDS! THE LIZARDS.

[whilereadingandwalking]

the twisty prophecies! the lizards! the lipstick! the humor! this book doesn’t play. a true classic.

[wolfdancer333]

Some of the best books are hidden in plain sight!

[ariadza-writes]

Seriously! One of the best books I’ve EVER read. And it has one of the best opening lines: “There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.” Here we have HOOK and SET UP and UGHH. So good. 

And Kate dies laughing, knowing that Trout will never find her loot. What more can you ask for??

[driareads]

So when the school day ends and nothing extraordinary has happened, it's a tiny heartbreak. It's like eleven o'clock on the night of your birthday, when you realize no one's throwing you a surprise party after all.

Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda