greatestheights replied to your post: 2018 book roundup
holy shit. that is incredible tbh
what were your faves out of the adult and picture books? i’m sure it’s pretty hard to narrow down, so no worries if that’s too tall an ask!
Not at all! For adult books:
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
Educated by Tara Westover
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Textbook by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
I’m also including Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak and Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson in this category - for different reasons, they each have an adult bent even though they are marketed as YA.
The picture book list is quite a bit longer so it’s going under the cut, but it includes both books that appealed to me aesthetically and those which had narratives or phrasing that I loved:
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again by Dan Santat
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis
The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater, and Eric and Terry Fan
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper
Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie
Crankenstein by Samantha Berger and Dan Santat
The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen
Dear Substitute by Audrey Vernick, Liz Garton Scanlon, and Chris Raschka
A Different Pond by Bao Phi and Thi Bui
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown and John Parra
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome
Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim and Grace Zong
A Greyhound, A Groundhog by Emily Jenkins and Chris Appelhans
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers
How to Be an Elephant by Katherine Roy
I Really Want to See You, Grandma by Taro Gomi
I Wish You More by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
Ida, Always by Caron Levis and Charles Santoso
Imani's Moon by Janay Brown-Wood and Hazel Mitchell
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and Patrice Barton
Life Without Nico by Andrea Maturana and Francisco Javier Olea
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Love by Matt de la Pena and Loren Long
Lucia the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza and Alyssa Bermudez
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai and Kerascoët
Marilyn's Monster by Michelle Knudsen and Matt Phelan
The Mermaid and the Shoe by K.G. Campbell
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant
Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters by Michael James Mahin and Evan Turk
My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) by Peter Brown
Nanette's Baguette by Mo Willems
Night Animals by Gianna Marino
Noodle Magic by Roseanne Thong and Meilo So
Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima
Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability by Shane Burcaw and Matt Carr
Number One Sam by Greg Pizzoli
One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree by Daniel Bernstrom and Brendan Wenzel
A Perfect Day by Lane Smith
The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems
La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya and Juana Martinez-Neal
The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton
The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine by Mark Twain, and Philip C. and Erin E. Stead
Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall
School's First Day of School by Adam Rex and Christian Robinson
Snappsy the Alligator by Julie Falatko and Tim Miller
Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev and Taeeun Yoo
This Book Just Ate My Dog! by Richard Byrne
This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World by Matt LaMothe
This Is Sadie by Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts and Noah Z. Jones
To the Sea by Cale Atkinson
Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great by Bob Shea
We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
We Found A Hat by Jon Klassen
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman and Zachariah OHora
I was tagged quite a while ago by @greatestheights for a handwriting meme. And I finally did it!
1. Name 2. Blog URL 3. Blog Name 4. Favourite colour 5. Crush/Significant other 6. Write something in all caps 7. Favourite band 8. Favourite number 9. Favourite drink 10. Tag friends whose handwriting you’d like to see
low-key tagging: @bluejelloh, @akaclairetemple, @annerbhp, @pepperf, and anyone else who’d like to do this.
(included are photos of the coffee mug I happened to be drinking from, which was the inspiration for #6, and random things I found in my 6-year-old’s sketchbook while looking, with her permission, for a blank page to write on.)
half awake and almost there (15419 words, WIP) by @annerbhp - You’ve been wanting to read a Harry/Ginny coffeeshop AU, with a little bit of Ron/Hermione? You’re in luck! The talented Annerb is currently writing that one. (After you’ve read this, you can read her Slytherin!Ginny AU, and then everything else she’s ever written because it’s all good.)
Aftershock (20171 words) by @greatestheights - “Nobody hurts on purpose.” On the morning of Christmas Eve, Stanley Keyworth talks to five White House staffers about Josh Lyman. This is a companion piece to the West Wing Season 2 episode “Noel” that is so heartbreakingly beautiful and powerful, it’s hard to remember that it’s not canon. (And then go read the rest of Alej’s stories because you miss The West Wing and her stories are amazing.)
to the beginnings of the earth (3676 words) by @openhhearts - This Community fic is a fairly realistic post-S6 study of Jeff Winger and alcoholism, depression, fear of abandonment, recovery, friendship, family, and love. Britta, Shirley, Abed, Craig, and Frankie are in this story too. Annie is in DC for the entire story, but she’s present throughout because Jeff is a lovesick mess. This story is much more hopeful and satisfying than this description is making it sound.
Hmm, maybe the way that Timeless went in S2? I really loved it in S1, but S2 kind of lost me. It was a bummer.
18. Fandom that you never expected to get into
I already answered this one (One Day at a Time, see this post) but I can answer it again! :)
Maybe...Selfie? There isn’t really much of a fandom to speak of, but whatever fandom there is I AM IN IT because John Cho and Karen Gillan were amazing as Henry Higgs and Eliza Dooley and I will be forever bitter that I was denied the chance to watch them fall in love and make out. Sigh. Also it was just a really smart and hilarious show.
I just finished watching Derry Girls on my friend @pools-of-venetianblue‘s recommendation, and it was SO GOOD. It’s overall really well-written and -acted, and the costumes and set design are amazing, and the 90s soundtrack is brilliant. Full disclosure, it skated pretty close to the line of ‘too much secondhand embarrassment’ a few times, but never quite crossed that line. It’s mostly hilarious and I love every single character, don’t even ask me to pick a favorite (okay, it’s Clare, my favorite is Clare).
For me, there’s the added bonus that it’s set in (I think) 1992 when all the main characters are about 16, and I was 17 in 1992, so that’s fun and nostalgic. Also, the show totally surprised me by making me CRY in the last few minutes for both happy and sad reasons, so that was a cool surprise. Can’t wait for more of that in season 2!
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