Little Reads and Tea

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[littlereadsandteas]

Age: 25

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[littlereadsandteas]

[ladyofthebubblingblacklake]

'The Goblin Market' by ViciouslyWitty

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2142213/chapters/4679844

I want to say THANKYOU to @sarcasticoctopi for recommending this fanfiction to me. (Let's be honest she has been recommending it to me for 13 years and I've only just now read it.) I was an idiot for not reading it sooner!

I whole heartedly believe that there can not and will not be a better sequel fanfiction to the Labrinth film! This whole story had so many parallels, cameos, thought provoking moments - Gah and so much more! I literally read it in one sitting because it was just THAT good. I willing offer all my screams and curse words uttered during my time reading this to the author.

♥ Remember if you enjoy the story, give the author some love! ♥

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[littlereadsandteas]

[littlereadsandteas]

[mountainhermitauthor]

Shattered Ice is out today.

A YA environmental fantasy about northern ice, disrupted migration, water, wildlife, dragons, grief, courage, and hope.

It is part of the Draconim series — stories where ordinary teenagers discover they are bound to ancient dragons, not as weapons or symbols of conquest, but as guardians connected to the deep memory of Earth itself.

Each book follows a different ecological wound.

Poisoned air. Burning forests. Plastic in the water. Melting ice.

But these are not stories about despair.

They are stories about young people who notice what adults keep explaining away. Young people who listen. Young people who act. Young people who understand that the future is not something they should have to inherit silently.

For readers who like dragons, climate fiction, ecological fantasy, youth activism, grief, wonder, and hope that has teeth.

Shattered Ice is available now.

[littlereadsandteas]

May Wrap Up

[benedictscanvas]

read chapter twelve here!

summary: mary teaches history. tom teaches english. their classrooms are next to each other and all the kids ship ‘benward’ like crazy: much to mary’s annoyance as she tries not to think about her colleague’s blinding smile.

i was secretly very delighted with the reaction to the last chapter, although i’m sorry for scaring all of you!! have some tom pov yearning as a little treat 🩵

[benedictscanvas]

also, side note for anyone who sees this! i’d love to know your thoughts on me carrying on this fic after they get together? (not much of a spoiler i think we know where this is going lmao). i have quite a few ideas for further chapters but wanted to see if that’s something people are interested in!! 🫶

[tommyhayward]

I haven't even read this chapter yet but please continue writing it for at least the next 50 years so I can read it til I die x

[midnighttidepublishing]

And for the bookish baddy, something short and sweet? We've got stand alones and short stories galore! Just take your pick.

Those We Couldn't Burn

The Mirror Guardian

Call of Death

The Stars Forgot Us

Slumber Nevermore

Threads of Gold

Life After

The Lady of the Watchtower

The Twin Kingdoms

The Last Dragon of Oz

Lost

Doomed Girls of Jefferson

In The Days Before

The Medusa Project

[deonsshlong]

Storygraph friends anyone? my un is the same as here

[finitevoid]

the goblin emperor is such a book. Opens with a mock academic text giving you a bunch of terms to remember. you’re line okay this is a fantasy novel with Terms. not uncommon. fantasy and sci fi novels like to flesh out their alien worlds by inventing whole slangs and made up words that work diagetically within context. and this book It’s seemingly got a whole grammar system and detailed worldbuilding which is cool and you’re prepared for the Terms. and then BAM fucking cold open the emperors dead and the main characters speak in archaic English okay wait what the fuck is an elf or goblin in this context actually and then as soon as all that percolates it proceeds to bludgeon you upside the fucking head with an entire grammar system made up around adding an entire formal pronoun to the English language. Fuck you . and so not only are you like Hey what’s a goblin you’re also being absolutely dumped with an onslaught of Terms that mean nothing to you AND all the characters are speaking in THE ROYAL WE the entire time AND no breaks baby the political intrigue starts NOW!! and this is done with such razor sharp precision that every moment a character slips into informal I/thou it is HUGELY noticeable and significant. By the end of the book you are GASPING when the informal I/thou gets whipped out. the book is literally forcing your attention and entrenching you in its world by making its world deliberately opaque. To understand the word of tge you have to be studying it as you read, to be paying attention and absorbing context and enjoying doing so. it won’t spoon feed you and that’s the point. Your understanding of it is so hard fought that it makes you feel pretty proud of yourself once you get the hang of it. As a result you feel that much more attached to its world; its world feels that much more lived in. A delightfully effective tactic and toolset I’m obsessed with it

[your-mommy-ems]

going feral till i have her book in my hands

[jerein]

"I'm an idiot, you're an idiom"

[jerein]

"I'm an idiot, you're an idiom"

[crehate]

source

[quotespile]

“My anger scares me, my fear scares me, and somewhere in there is shame, too — why am I so enraged and so scared? I am afraid of going to bed and of waking up; afraid of tomorrow and of all the tomorrows after.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief