May 7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54783/the-visible-world
I dig my hands into the absolute. It is a tender maneuver, hands making and unmaking promises. The speed of light, down here, upthrown, in m
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54783/the-visible-world
I dig my hands into the absolute. It is a tender maneuver, hands making and unmaking promises. The speed of light, down here, upthrown, in m
A self-explanatory post on why you should read "I Was Born For This" by Alice Oseman
So, I finished reading "I Was Born For This" on the flight back home and I thought that since I couldn't give live feedback, I should at least give you an overall review, but then I realised that every quote was pretty much self-explanatory, so I thought: "Let the book speak itself".
Amazing bisexual characters, feat. My Baby Lister Bird:
More of My Baby Lister Bird:
More of My Latest Fictional Crush Bliss Lai:
Queer humour, feat. My Latest Fictional Crush Bliss Lai:
Lovely, wise and kind elderly people, feat. a lit lesson on fangirling:
Precious, delicate, lovely babe Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, feat. A lit lesson on relationship which personally hit me:
A dope main character:
Generational gap, feat. Millennial problems:
And last but not least, one of the best writers of our age (and if you don't read the acknowledgement ppages why are you even reading at all?):
So, in conclusion, READ "I WAS BORN FOR THIS" BY ALICE OSEMAN OR I'M GONNA SLAP YOU AWAKE FROM EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU OCTOBER NAPS!!!
Reading "Writing Magic" by Gail Carson Levine, one of my favorite authors. She wrote Ella Enchanted and Fairest, but the stories I know her by are "The Princess Test", "The Fairy's Mistake", "Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep", "Cinderellis and the Glass Hill", "For Biddle's Sake", and "The Fairy's Return". As you can probably guess, they're rewritings of various well known fairy tales or even her originals. Though rewrites like these are brand new originals to me. They're so funny and easy to read! I suggest trying them sometime. She also wrote "Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg" which is a Disney Tinkerbell story and something I read after reading the fairy tales. I've read her other stories too and I love them all which is rare for me to love everything one person has written.
I didn't connect all of these stories to her until I found "Writing Magic". If you are going to chose a book on how to write, pick this one. Her writing is amazing and her advice even better. To give some examples, write even five minutes a day, don't let the negative voice get you down, and never ever delete or throw away anything you write until at least 15 years have gone by and even then do not throw it away lightly.
Her advice and stories on how to quiet and make that negative voice helpful really got to me and makes me want to try writing again. I think I really might this time. :) I think I might pull down the stories I wrote and posted and never finished long ago and work on them again.
Oh! Another piece of advice she had was work on 1-3 ideas at a time and only write down the ideas you get during that time with maybe a page of writing before returning to the ideas you have decided to work on. That's another thing that always gets me. X'D
Seriously, get this book. Read it. It's pretty easy to read and is a small book. And hopefully it helps you. :)
ALSO: last week the third book of The Mirror Visitor Saga by Christelle Dabos arrived in Italy... I'm going to read it next and I already know it is going to be awesome as well!
I deeply recommend this Saga to you if you haven't read it already. It is so diverse and original and complex and absolutely impossible to put down. Another one of the best young adult/fantasy books that I read in this last couple of years!
Go grab it RIGHT NOW!
PSA: Read books during the season they take place in!
I had to read Gatsby the summer before my junior year of high school and I’ll always be grateful my teacher had us read it then. It was absolutely magical to read the book during the season it took place in, it adds an even deeper level of immersion. I totally recommend this for any book that’s applicable!
Book Suggestions?
Sometimes I need to remind myself how much I miss and love Victoria.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
In this fandom, we do appreciate word play. We all know how difficult it is to deliver a decent pun, especially in a language which is not even your own like in Hannibal’s case. But it’s part of his character to just hint at something horrible of his doing in front of a delicious dish.
The author of A Prime Cut does something similar, defying expectations and leading us to Hannibal’s table for one last unorthodox meal, which Will enjoys without murder getting involved, for once. Short and funny, because I can’t always rec dark and sophisticated works ( ･౪･) for @freshmeatfriday and their lovely initiative.