Behind The Curtain

Haley. Old enough to be a mother though probably not yours. Lover of all things Disney and British television. Slightly mad but we're all mad here, aren't we? I'm not one to get into my political/social opinions on my dash but they might slip in from time to time if I'm particularly moved. I hate filling in large spaces with words about myself. How does one do this?

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Rare Little Folks Edition of Through the looking glass and what Alice found there

First Edition 1903 - beautiful coloured illustrations

[bi-olent-little-cowgirl]

[victusinveritas]

All of this is correct. No notes.

[jupiters-orbit07]

some food for the 5 six of crows fans on here since i just got clip studio paint and also this flopped absolute balls on instagram

[screenshotsonpinterest]

The scene in catching fire where Katniss goes to Haymitch to make him promise to protect Peeta only for him to say that Peeta was just there asking the same thing for her is heartbreaking and beautiful and tragic and all that

but its also hilarious because it gives us a very clear metric for the difference between Katniss and Peeta's emotional bandwidth. At any given moment, she's about 45 mins behind whatever realization he just came to. And they're gonna end up in the same place, at the same conclusion its just gonna take her an extra sec to get there give her a minute

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Parted Earth: A Novel

By Anjali Enjeti.

Design by Meg Reid.

[macrolit]

“Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”

— The Complete Essays, Michel de Montaigne (b. 28 February 1533)

[xiranjayzhao]

I'm here to clear up some confusion about YA books. When some people hear that label, they think "meant for children." Why is it, then, that some books classified as YA have tons of explicit content that doesn't seem "appropriate"? There are actually complex and messy industry reasons behind this, mainly to do with female, qu33r, and POC authors getting pushed into the category and then pigeonholed there. (Also, totally not a coincidence that such authors get funneled toward a lower-paying category.)

I go over the main 3 reasons in this video, but basically, everyone's lives would be better if a clear distinction existed between Teen Lit and New Adult Lit, but this did not work out and forced the YA category to house more than it's nominally supposed to. Pearl-clutching at individual authors (or worse, calling for book bans "in the name of the children") is not the way to resolve this. The industry itself needs to commit to recognizing the necessity of New Adult, or it'll always be forced to room with YA and scandalize people.

[macrolit]

Literary history that happened on 1 March 

[macrolit]

Personal library of Richard A. Macksey, retired professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

[typhlonectes]

[elysianmuses]

The love language of annotating a book

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[optimistic-nihilist]

[luciferslilith7]

Hey! (with the intention of taking you on a library date)

Picture Credit ~📍pinterest

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[sunshinecourts]

"Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster." — IF WE WERE VILLAINS. | M.L. RIO

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A poster by Maurice Sendak for one of the Children's Spring Book Festivals sponsored by the Herald Tribune, 1950s.

Photo: Invaluable Auctions