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[inlovewithquotes]

"Are you well?" she asks.

The genuine concern in her voice takes me by surprise.

"I'm fine," I answered, hoping she can't read the truth in my feelings. "I just had a nightmare."

The lie tastes bitter on my tongue. I can tell Anassa doesn't totally buy it, but she doesn't argue.

"Well, go back to sleep," she says. "You're keeping me up."

-Dire Bound

[soup-maiden]

Very self indulgently combined two of of my favorite things, Star Wars and Ren Faires

Meet Anassa and her noble steed! Anassa runs a ranch that breeds and trains the traditional war mounts of Shili, and in her spare time she jousts at a local faire. I'm still puttering about the world building for this but I absolutely adore the sporse (space horse) that came out if it.

[slaughter-books]

Day 5: JOMPBPC: Dead Author

I didn't have antything to do for this prompt, so I took a photo of this beautiful duology! 💕

[readingbooksinisrael]

7, 8 and 11 for the fairy tale asks, please?

Hi!

Thank you for asking!

7. What fairy tale would you retell in a completely different genre and setting?

There are so many fairy tales it’s hard to even think of one, so I’ll probably change my mind five minutes after pressing ‘post’, but Thumbelina as a thing where Thumbelina is forced to be a spy for the wizard who made her (is this her mother or the person who gave her to her mother in this retelling? if it’s the second one does the mother even know?) and that’s why she ends up in all those different places. I think I’d go in a steampunk-ish direction for this.

8. Recommend a particularly ambitious fairy tale retelling.  

I could recommend Spinning Silver again, but you’ve already read that, so The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey which is also really, really good. I find it similar to Spinning Silver in that the setting is very important to the plot, though it sticks more to its original fairy tale (The Snow Child, Snegurochka...).

11. What fairy tale would you adapt into a movie, given an infinite budget and a Rolodex of every cool person in the industry?  

I don’t really watch movies, so this movie would be very action based, by which I don’t necessarily mean an action movie but everything would always be moving, even when people were talking. Think Frozen, In Front of the Class (even with voice overs there are no scenery scenes, but actual scenes happening), and most parts of The Truman Show (I know I zoned out in some scenes, but I stayed in enough for me to understand everything that happened except that part that comes before the climax). 

That preface because it would have to be a fairy tale that fit that, so Little Red Riding Hood, but not live action. Alternatively, because there are already good ones of that that exist, a Goldilocks short with no/very few words (short because she’s alone so much of the story).

fairy tale asks

[booksiseeloveandread]

It's Sunday! And that means another #SynopsisSunday! This week it's Ariadnis by Josh Martin. I actually discovered a book in a second hand shop in Scotland when I was on holiday there, and it sounded so good I couldn't leave it behind! . Joomia and Aula are Chosen. They will never be normal. They can never be free. On the last island on Erthe, Chosen Ones are destined to enter Ariadnis on the day they turn eighteen. There, they must undertake a mysterious and deadly challenge. For Joomia and Aula, this means competing against each other, to end the war that has seethed between their cities for nine generations. As the day draws nearer, all thoughts are on the trial ahead. There's no space for friendship. No time for love. However much the girls might crave them. But how you prepare for a task you know nothing certain about? Nothing, except that you must win, at whatever cost, or lose everything. . Have you read Ariadnis? What did you think? Also, post your own #synopsissunday to be featured! . . . #ariadnis #anassa #joshmartin #quercusbooks #quercus #paperback #bookcover #bookcoverart #booksandpatterns #yalit #yascifi #yafantasy #youngadultbooks #booklr #bookphotography #bibliophile #booklover #bookphoto

[danaandthebooks]

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[whatjoshwrote]

DO YOU LIKE BISEXUALS, WILD MAGIC, UTOPIAS, TREES, GRUMPY HEROINES and SENSITIVE HEROES? Well good news, this book has all of that and it’s currently just 99p on kindle!!! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ariadnis-Book-1-Josh-Martin-ebook/dp/B01KFR6506/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518018333&sr=8-1&keywords=ariadnis

[readingbooksinisrael]

@anassarhenisch recommends great books and recipes. Thank you again for writing it up! So far, besides me, my mother and brother also tasted the cookies and they loved them.

I was too lazy to go out and buy m'n'ms, not to mention I don't even know where I'd buy a big bag, so I changed that to broken up pretzels which is okay, but I think next time I might try Reese's Pieces (or just chocolate chips). Wet didn't have any walnuts so I exchanged that for pecans which are amazing. I think they're my favorite part of the cookie actually.