Just Another Book Review

Hello I'm Rachel and I'm a book addict. On here I'll post random bookish thoughts and reviews. If you're curious about anything go ahead and ask!

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Goodbye Tumblr

Goodbye Tumblr. 

Over the course of the next week, I am going to be moving my blog and old posts to a new, sleeker, blog. 

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time spent on this site, but it’s time to focus more on my own writing and less on the community here. I will post a link to the new blog for anyone who might be interested. I can’t keep up with trying to gain a following anymore. I’m going to build a website I can be proud of and an archive of some of my old posts from here. Thank you for your time and support. 

- Just Another Book Review

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bastard’s degree

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I started this blog when I was in high school.

It’s been about 5 or 6 years now and as the times change, so does my view of literature. I love it. With my entire being. But what I think I love more is watching other people fall in love with it-no matter the media. Any story. Any tale. Any characters. This goes for movies and video games. 

I am a high school English teacher now. My students are not going to love everything they read but boy will I try. Some of them even told me they don’t read outside of school. My solution: choice. Let them read comics or manga or nonfiction. I DON’T CARE. It’s not about me or about expanding themselves. If they’d rather read a 200 page manga rather than a 100 page classic, who am I to say no? My job right now with ninth grade is to help them think deeper about what they read, not necessarily to tell how and what to read.

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fallen

Fallen

When the world turns copperWith the Autumn sunThe leaves fall to earthAnd the winds song has begun.A look at the empty nestAnd the barren treesA dying landIs all people see.But in plain sightHidden thereIs a whole new world To grow over the land so bare.

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[bookpatrol]

Book Shoes from Groove Bag

Yeah!

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Some nice as shit nature pic! I just love them! Its amazing and I can feel the witch vibe~

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Hi yes I was just looking over the material for one of my wildlife courses and

I have questions about week 5

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

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Early birthday present from my friend for my future English classroom ❤❤

[proatimperfections]

* The smell of books = heaven *

[shanreads]

Currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story collection, The Unreal and the Real, and am enjoying it immensely. I can’t get over how real she makes her worlds, even in a short story.

[jawnkeets]

found some charity shop gems 🌹

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August Shelfie - Messy and overcrowded, waiting for a change

Instagram | Goodreads | Twitter | Booktube 

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Book store found in Black Mountain, NC

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Hello all,

Just wanted to remind you that you don’t have to buy a lot of books, read a lot, read the latest releases, buy only new books, or take fancy photos to be a proper reader or book blogger.

It’s fine to only read when you can, it’s fine if you can’t afford new books, and can only borrow library books, or buy second hand. It’s okay if you can’t take fancy photos or have a lot of books swag. You are still a book lover and book blogger if you want to be. There are no requirements.  

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