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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ first test by @tamorapierce

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better.

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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ page by @tamorapierce

Fear is a good thing. It means you’re paying attention.

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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ every heart a doorway by @seananmcguire

You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.

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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ beneath the sugar sky by @seananmcguire

We’re all puzzle boxes, skeleton and skin, soul and shadow.

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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ the cruel prince by holly black

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ hamlet, prince of denmark by william shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

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[id: 6 edits. the left side of each edit is light gray with a diagonal line separating it from the selected image. in the bottom left corner is the dark gray text “ann schmiesing” in all caps and a basic font. on the left side is a large dark gray box containing the light gray text “disability, deformity, and disease” justified to the left in all caps (save for the word “and”, which is lowercase and in italics); below that text, still in the dark gray box, is more text in a smaller all-caps font which reads “in the grimms’ fairy tales”.

each edit has its own selected image, all of which are drawn depictions of various grimm fairy tales. the first image is grayscale of a donkey with a child hiding within its skin. the second image is of a hyperrealistic drawing of a pale-skinned girl with long blonde hair in a white dress with no hands and bloodstains around her sleeves. the third image is of pale-skinned girl with dark hair and bandages around the stumps of her hands, looking upward at a tree with her mouth open. the fourth image is greyscale of a man cutting off the hand from a hanging corpse. the fifth image is of a humanoid figure with hedgehog spines and other hedgehog-like traits. the sixth and final image is of of a pale-skinned girl with dark hair and silver hands. end id.]

BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ disability, deformity, and disease in the grimms’ fairy tales by ann schmieising

The Grimms aspired to restore an organic wholeness to their tales. By contrast, my own prosthetic goal has been to restore disability to their tales by foregrounding it instead of—as has been the case too often in fairy-tale scholarship—reading over it or seeing it as valuable only insofar as it symbolizes something else.

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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ beren and lúthien by j.r.r. tolkien ; edited by christopher tolkien

Farewell sweet earth and northern sky,      for ever blest, since here did lie,      and here with lissom limbs did run,      beneath the moon, beneath the sun,      Lúthien Tinúviel      more fair than mortal tongue can tell.