Decisively Optimistic

Hi, I'm an eighteen year old art enthusiast and an incorrigible optimist!

[apagewithaview]

[lunchbagmonster]

Currently listening to the Abhorsen series audiobooks! I read them for the first time about ten years ago and it’s been fun re-reading them with Tim Curry narrating. My audio copy of Lirael expired before I could double-check their costume descriptions though, so Sam is rocking an 80s sweater look.

[hccfrenzy]

Looking for something to read? The long weekend is the perfect time to start a new series!

We recommend starting Garth Nix’s Abhorsen trilogy, which begins with Sabriel, a novel taking place in a world where the line between the living and the dead isn’t always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether. 

Already a fan of the trilogy? Mark your calendars, because Clariel, the long-awaited prequel to this awesome series, is coming our way this October!

[cinderellainrubbershoes]

[thousandwrecks]

I finished rereading the Abhorsen Trilogy and I am in a tailspin of feelings about Sameth. heavy breathing he is such a fantastic kid.

[thousandwrecks]

30 DAY ITEM CHALLENGE + FOURTEEN + YOUR FAVORITE BOOK CHARACTER

Okay literally the cruellest prompt, because I have so many. I opted for my favorite team, because my heart beats for the Abhorsen Trilogy. Sameth is absolutely precious, and Lireal is the most badass librarian ever.

eta: FRICKEN CRAP I got Sam’s surcoat wrong. Um, oops.

[walonvaus]

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”

 - the book of the dead

Favorite book series of all time, hands down.  Lirael in the library was always my favorite part, but the parts in Death were plenty amazing too.   ;D

[thatwriterchickyouknow]

Aelin, Kestrel, Feyre, *insert other YA heroine*: this is my boyfriend who is badass and cool and capable he is my partner in kickass.

Ruby Daly: this is my Liam he is soft and full of sunshine and if you touch him I will kill you.

[alexandrabracken]

We call this a beta hero, and there ain’t nothing wrong with that. 

[macrolit]

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Nora Ephron (via macrolit)

[abandoned-marionette-reading]

“If you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down.”

Renee Ahdieh | The Rose and the Dagger

[bleusargent]

the private talks, the close embraces, the tenderness of their friendship.

[queens-of-cosplay]

Flapper Korra and Asami

Art by: Foxville Cosplayers:  Sushi Monster &  Gurl With Red Hair Photographer:  Eurobeat Kasumi Photography

[lbardugo-deactivated20210617]

Omfg

[elakudark]

life goals: become imperator furiosa

[booksandtea]

[booksdirect]

Romantic read.

[murbur14]

What about YA sci-fi authors? Do you any you would recommend or have been recommended to you?

YA Sci-Fi authors! Again, my definition of sci-fi may be a little loose - lots of space and messing with genetics and diseases and such. Hope this works!

Books I’ve read:

Mindee Arnett (Avalon)Romina Russell (Zodiac)Gretchen McNeil (3:59)Emily Loyd-Jones (Illusive)Elizabeth Norris (Unraveling)Debra Driza (Mila 2.0)Lydia Kang (Control)Jennifer Rush (Altered)Neal Shusterman (Unwind)V.E. Schwab (Vicious)Books I’ve had recommended:Cori McCarthy (Breaking Sky)Cassandra Rose Clarke (The Madman’s Daughter)Pierce Browning (Red Rising)Claudia Gray (A Thousand Pieces of You)Karen Akins (Loop)Mary E. Pearson (The Adoration of Jenna Fox)

Happy reading!

[mikrokosm0ss]

[murbur14]

What are your top YA fantasy authors that you would recommend or have heard were good?

OH BOY THIS IS EXCITING(obviously I read way more YA fantasy than anything else)

Also disclaimer, I tend to have a pretty loose definition of “fantasy,” so keep that in mind.

HERE WE GO (in no particular order)

China Meiville (Un Lun Dun - carnivorous giraffes and neverending library caves)Rachel Hartman (Seraphina)Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn and Firefight)Kierstin White (Paranormalcy)Stacey Jay (Of Beast and Beauty)Maria V. Snyder (Poison Study)Victoria Shwab (basically everything she’s ever written)Marie Rutotski (The Winner’s Curse)Sherry Thomas (the Elemental trilogy)Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass)Julie Kagawa (everything she’s written)Marie Lu (The young elites)Sara Raasch (Snow like Ashes)Mary E. Pearson (Kiss of Deception)Megan Whalen Turner (The Queen’s Thief)Leigh Bardago (Shadow and Bone)Rae Carson (Girl of Fire and Thorns)Kristin Cashore (Graceling)Tamora Pierce (Alanna)Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen)Sarah B. Larson (Defy)Jodi Meadows (The Orphan Queen)Erica Johanson (Queen of the Tearling)

I’m kinda pleased that out of all those, only two were guys. Guess I read a lot of women authors. Huh.Happy reading!