7 Days 7 Covers Day 4 - This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
The rules: every day, I will post the cover of a book that I love and nominate someone new to start the challenge
tagging: @booksnotbombs <3

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JBB: An Artblog!
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Stranger Things
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Three Goblin Art
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shark vs the universe
Today's Document

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7 Days 7 Covers Day 4 - This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
The rules: every day, I will post the cover of a book that I love and nominate someone new to start the challenge
tagging: @booksnotbombs <3
On this day (5 September) in 1957, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was published.
i could, in theory, buy a tofu press
Current read by the pool
so often i see p&p being marketed on the merit of its canonization as a classic alone. so this was fun to see… like it’s just some random romance!! the description is so fun and silly. so basically it just actually reflects the real humor of austen’s writing.
Melanin in YA
Imagine a space where you can easily find the next YA book written by a Black author to add to your TBR list. Best of all, amongst that book are an endless amount of other YA books waiting to be discovered by you, all written by Black authors. In that same space, you can find out if any of these authors have a book event near you or will be attending a festival / convention near you. In that same space, you can find out their NYT bestseller stats, book to screen adaptation details, a list of Black audiobook narrators to listen to, a detailed list of Black literary agents to query, Black bookish social media influencers to follow, Black led bookish podcasts to subscribe to, Black owned bookstores to visit and so much more.
That space is Melanin in Y.A. A database for all things Black in traditional young adult publishing. It acts as a no excuses cross-referencing tool for industry professionals, press, readers, writers, students, educators, librarians, program administrators and more. It’s available to you 24/7 for free.
I, Melody Simpson, created Melanin in YA in August 2020 and have been running it entirely by myself from day one. I really want to hire an intern to help me out because maintaining and promoting this is a lot but I’m tapped out on funds and cannot afford an intern right now. Though I am in desperate need of one and would never ask anyone to do the amount of work that I need done without paying them. If you’d like to help in that regard, you can do so here (gofundme) and no donation is too small, thank you so much. If you’d like to help out in other ways, can you please do any of the following below to help amplify this invaluable resource?
1) Follow and/or repost/retweet Melanin in YA content on Instagram or Twitter
2) Shop merch at Shop Melanin in YA
3) Send the melanininya.com link to your English teachers / professors, librarians, favorite booksellers, colleagues, fellow book club members, anyone you know who loves books, anyone you know who values diversity, equity and inclusion, and everyone you think could use this resource.
Full transparency, when Melanin in YA first launched, there was lots of excitement around it. But it’s been quite the struggle to get people to talk about this resource and share this resource outside of moments in time, say other than Black History Month or when something tragic doesn’t happen to Black people and makes it to mainstream news. I appreciate your support 365 days a year. Especially during a time when Black YA books are being banned more than ever before. This resource is so necessary. Your support is so necessary. It means so, so much.
Thank you.
Which of the books is your favourite?
1) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
3) Life, the Universe, and Everything
4) So Long and Thanks For All the Fish
5) Mostly Harmless
6) And Another Thing...
None/Haven't read the books
(note: specifically the books! I'll be running a separate poll next week about radio phases.)
Happy Thursday! I meant to post this a bit earlier, but I fell asleep. To perhaps no one's surprise, Ford Prefect won last week's favourite character poll!
I didn't expect the none option to genuinely have a chance at winning. They're good books, read them!!
I finally got polls!
What's your favorite fantasy book/series about young magic-users attending magic school?
Tempests and Slaughter (Numair Chronicles) by Tamora Pierce
The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles) by Laurie Forest
The Alchemist's Touch (Underrealm series) by Garrett Robinson
Carry On (Simon Snow trilogy) by Rainbow Rowell
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts) by Nnedi Okorafor
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle) by Ursula LeGuin
If you haven’t ditched the Amazon-owned Goodreads in favor of the independent, Black-owned StoryGraph, what are you waiting for?
You can import your Goodreads data (so you won’t lose years of book tracking)!
You can get personal recommendations based on your current preferences!
It’s sleek af!
IT’S NOT OWNED BY AMAZON
Users can apply content warnings so you can avoid triggers before ever opening a specific book
The same applies for ‘mood’! Wanna read something sad? Find books tagged as ‘sad’, that’s literally it
IT’S NOT OWNED BY JEFF BEZOS
Addressing some comments in the tags: It’s true that the database isn’t as vast as Goodreads’ - yet. The site is much, much newer than Goodreads. But you can actually help them expand!
When you search for a title, you may not find what you need. Then all you have to do is click the handy “Can’t find the book you’re looking for?” link, and you’ll be taken straight to this page, where you will be able to help them find books to add to their database! If you can’t find that non-English book you’re looking for, help them out!
I had no idea it was black-owned! So cool.
I’ve been using StoryGraph for a bit over a year now and I LOVE IT.
Way better review system - you can mark things as quarter stars, you mark moods, slow/medium/fast pace, several things about plot, character, etc.
Tailored searches - you can search by mood as well as set various preferences and then search for matches.
Can add/view content warnings to books - no more skimming reviews and accidentally getting spoilers!
Really interesting and unique reader-created challenges
Tracks more than # of pages/books read - also tracks moods, types of books, length, fast/medium/slow pace, etc.
Also, to address the above comment- it has been about 7 months now since I’ve had to add a book to their database, and I’ve been reading a good mix of old/new/popular/lesser-known/etc. just in the last 3-4 months. The database has grown ENORMOUSLY since StoryGraph first launched and will simply continue to grow the more people use it!
yo I’m on StoryGraph as ladytabletop, please find me and let’s chat books! I am so glad to finally have an alternative to Goodreads and I am loving all their filters and options already!
A quiet Thursday Morning
made me cry
https://bookshop.org/
*heavy breathing sounds*
18/?: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo. Holy bejesus. If you haven’t read this book, please, go and pick up a copy this instant. It’s a beautiful illustration of the human condition and absolutely everyone needs to read it. This book completes the #readharder challenge prompt #18: Read a novel by a #trans or #nonbinary author. #readingchallenge #bookstagram #amreading #ifiwasyourgirl #YA (at Changing Hands Bookstore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt2ZO-UluaY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k46lq0o1r4bt
“It’s easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don’t understand.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races