#gary d schmidt

[francesfereshteh]

I MADE A ORBITING JUPITER/JUPITER RISING FAMILY TREE

[accidental-spice]

--Just Like That, by Gary D. Schmidt

Dedicated to @kanerallels and @kazoosandfannypacks, who saved me from losing my mind while making this

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[bookaddict24-7]

Doing some reading by the lake this afternoon with a bestie ❤️

[everchanging-cryptid]

just finished reading Orbiting Jupiter finally and AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHH

It has taken a tremendous effort on my part not to start crying

good lord gary why must you do this

[bex-xa-2026]

IM SCREAMING!!!JFKDJDJFBDJ

I have a professional writing assignment that requires me to reach out to someone in my desired field and interview them, so I emailed an author I love, Gary D Schmidt. He wrote this masterpiece that killed me

I sent the email, went to work, and after I got back to my dorm, I checked my email AND HE REPLIED

KICKING MY FEET SCREAMING INTERNALLY

[twicedailyquotes]

Life got brighter, and somehow, the world suddenly got brighter, too. You know how this is? You're walking along, and then the sun comes out from behind a cloud, and the birds start to sing, and the air is suddenly warm, and it's like the whole world is happy because you're happy. It's a great feeling. But never trust it.

Gary D. Schmidt

The Wednesday Wars

[ijustkindalikebooks]

2020 has almost come to a close, a melted ice cream of a year, 2020 has been an experience for most of us and honestly I’m looking forward to the new year - maybe very little will change, but at least with the change comes hope for things to be better, with new presidents, created vaccines and maybe getting around to the things we missed this year (looking at you the Olympics). 

Here are some books I’m looking forward to next year. 

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (May 2021) - a collection of essays about the human-centred world we live in, this book continues on from the excellent podcast of the same name. John Green is very good at storytelling and I think in a book like this, that will continue to shine. 

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley (May 2021) - an incredible author who I’d recommend to anyone who likes a book with a sense of the odd, The Kingdoms see the author return with a plot around time travel, amnesia and finding yourself. This book is going to be such a good read, I think I can already tell!

The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor (February 2021) - C.J. Tudor has had an incredible run of great thrillers recently with The Chalk Man and The Other People and their new book sounds just as intriguing. A story with keywords such as ‘excorcism’, ‘ghosts’ and ‘villages’ I am there for it - it sounds like a read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. 

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins-Reid (May 2021) - Set in early 80′s California, the story sees the Riva family’s house go up in flames but not before secrets and scandal comes to the surface. I absolutely adored Daisy Jones & The Six and everyone loves Evelyn Hugo, I really am looking forward to this one. 

As Far As You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper (February 2021) - From the author of ‘The Gravity Of Us’ Phil Stamper returns with a new book about Marty whose just moved to London to do his dream job but it doesn’t seem to be his dream life and how he figures that out. I absolutely loved The Gravity Of Us and I can’t wait to read this one too. 

Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt (January 2021) - I read Orbiting Jupiter a while ago now, but let me tell you, that is a beautifully sad book and though I don’t wish to obliviate my heart into a thousand pieces, I will risk it for this author. A story of two different people who become friends in the middle of very difficult and very strange times for the both of them. 

Other books I’m looking forward to!:

All Girls by Emily Layden.

Kate In Waiting by Becky Albertalli 

Between Perfect And Real by Ray Stoeve. 

Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein. 

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman. 

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

What are you looking forward to in 2021? Let me know in the replies!

Vee xo. 

[herawell]

“The sky was trying to decide it if wanted to be a deep gold or blush into something redder when Sanborn finally asked what they were all thinking… The sky had decided on the deep gold. It gilded all the sharp edges of the red pines, and the straight granite rock faces cut out along the road, and the wispy clouds still being pulled in long streamers after the storm front. The air itself was dashed with flecks of gold, and they drove through a shining haze— though they could hardly see it. The shining seemed always just off to the side, almost invisible, but there. And it was while trying to catch hold of it somehow—to fix it in focus—that Henry first saw the lake that lay between two dark green hills. The golden sky had coalesced in its water and its flat surface shone dully, like the gold of a medieval illumination. Down the center of the lake was a long incandescent streak, streaming like a path for the Resurrected to march hand in hand to Glory... Henry turned to look out over the lake—which no longer shimmered with gold, but glowed to match a sky that had finally decided to blush into red after all. Still, the red didn’t really look like a blush, Henry thought; it was deeper, more ominous than that. Henry could imagine that sky appearing somewhere in a folktale, just before a huge battle or the death of a king or the sinking of a ship. Or before the end of a great and noble people. [emphasis mine]”

-- “Trouble”, by Gary D. Schmidt

I first read this quote when I was in middle school, from an assigned reading novel, and I have thought about it at least once a week ever since.