Hardcover Book Nook

I adore hardcover books but, I'll read just about everything reguardless of the cover .

[alwaysbewoke]

Ummm....

[iamverity]

My goth fem hero 

[moonfaery]

Goth as fuck

[fluffy-raccoon-artist]

All hail the queen of goth!

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[malglories]

what she says: I’m fine

what she means: why is Dorian Gray never played by people with blond hair? why is Dorian always depicted as all pale and dark? oscar literally describes his hair as gold like two seconds after we meet him. directors apparently feel like they have to make Dorian look dark dangerous and brooding, but he’s not supposed to look dark and dangerous and brooding. That’s the whole point. No one ever suspects him because he looks like an innocent little cherub with golden curls and rosy cheeks. His physical appearance is described with terms that Western literary tradition, during the nineteenth century in particular, associated with goodness and godliness, and this is intentionally juxtaposed with the blackness of his soul. If you intentionally play him as someone who looks like a Byronic hero, much of the symbolism of his character is lost, right?

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In honor of Pride Month, I'd really like it if we could all make a list of some good LGBTQIA + reads! My recommendations are:

•"Autoboyography" by Christina Lauren

•"Keeping You a Secret" by Julie Anne Peters

•"Vanilla" by Billy Merrell

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From “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel” by Hank Green -

“Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”

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Has anyone used this ? I just heard about it and I'm genuinely curious

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From "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel" by Hank Green -

"Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it."

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Check out the books I added on Goodreads.

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My Thoughts on Run by Kody Keplinger

*This review is pretty much all spoilers, just a warning

I think that it's interesting how Agnes and Bo are both unconventional characters in the aspect that one is blind and another comes from a rough home. The author does a great job of separating the two characters despite the many overlapping themes between them, through their physical features. Physically they are each others foil. It's not pure coincidence that they are essentially opposites of each other. Bo has light hair, brown eyes, a skinny frame, and is short while Agnes has dark hair, blue eyes, a tall stature, and is a little heavier set. Despite all these physical differences, they form a friendship on the fact that they both have aspirations of escaping their hometown because the two protagonists are born into lives where they have inescapable disadvantages: Agnes is blind while Bo is raised within a rough household. These two things vastly change the characters lives and make them open for public ridicule. The other kids with whom they attend school make no effort to hide what is being said about our two protagonists. It's brought up how people think Agnes is faking her blindness, that her condition isn't as bad as she makes it out to be while Bo constantly has rumors surrounding her and her family. Often taunting Bo about her alleged promiscuous endeavors or pulling Agnes's special school supplies away from her.

While I do acknowledge that people who live in the South often do have the vocabulary that Bo carries throughout the novel, I do not find it realistic for Bo’s character. I know that Bo comes from a rough home life however, in the novel she is placed into the advanced English class. This leads me to believe that it's unrealistic to expect her to speak in an illiterate way. I mean no offense to Southern people who do talk that way however the  vernacular that Bo uses is commonly used as a representation of a lower class status in the social pyramid and thus a lack of education. I do believe that the author intended it to be used to portray Bo as a, “hick" yet, I just don't think it's believable. I understand that it is slang in South, especially in Kentucky where the story occurs yet Bo seems to use this way of talking way more than any of the other characters in the novel.

I'm frustrated with the love interests in the story. To me, there was an odd romantic tension between Agnes and Bo throughout the book. While I support the friendship angle between the two protagonists I just thought that they were headed in a romantic direction. The topic of Bo’s sexuality was discussed between the two of them more than once in the novel and I just thought that was an indicator that their friendship might grow in a different direction. I feel it weird that the love interests are just kind of thrown in conveniently.

I enjoyed the back and forth that occurred throughout the chapters. I wish I could read the book again but with Bo’s perspective of the past and Agnes's perspective of the present. Yet, I believe that this duel perspective of storytelling was great for this story.

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Quote from R.L. Stine's, Creature Teacher: The Final Exam

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Bo Dickinson from Run by Kody Keplinger

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Run by Kody Keplinger

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Run by Kody Keplinger

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Okay, I've just closed the cover and here's what I have to say about Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt. I'll start with the bad, there are faults in the reality of the scenarios described within the book. For example, of everyone that Mallory could have ended up having a crush on she picks her ex's cousin. Now, there is a slight internal debate about it but not one big enough to make it realistic. Now, that said, I will say, I was pleasantly surprised by the Grandma Vivia plot twist. I truly, didn't see that one coming. It's an easy read, and a good story!