#ryan douglass

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Happy Black History Month 2026!

It’s Black History Month, and we’re celebrating as we do with books by Black authors (almost entirely) starring Black characters! For even more titles, check out past years’ posts. Picture Books Dancing with Water by Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel An intergenerational story about a nonbinary child who learns the tradition of well digging in this picture book about community, hope, and…

Happy Black History Month 2026!

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Our tears will wet the earth like rain in the fall, when it's time for a season to start anew.

Ryan Douglass, from The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay

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Day 4: JOMPBPC: Books And Chocolate

Four incredible books and one of my favourite Cadbury chocolates! 💙

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Already know this is gonna be an amazing book

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The next pick for the Black History Month novel showcase gets a bit spooky with The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass.

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Ryan Douglass ships Zutara.

Explore his works on GoodReads and StoryGraph.

Website: https://ryandouglasswriter.com

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Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High (Shannon & Dean Hale) "Now, Ever After High itself is very Web. The children of famous fairytales being destiny-bound to relive their stories or go 'poof' is the driving force behind all the books' conflicts.

However, Shadow High takes it to another level. The narrators, who were present throughout the series, are more influential within the story. Even the straight-laced narrator parents who believe only in observing stories leave 'plop devices' to coerce characters in or out of making decisions. The titular Shadow High is a school for narrators run by antagonist Ms. Direction after a narrator schism between those who observe stories and those who control them. Ms. Direction uses 'unmaking lava' that turns characters and props into the words that compose them, destroying them so that they can be made again in her vision. She also uses narration to compel characters into doing her bidding. The narrator of the book, Brooke Page, is the daughter of the other books' narrators and has frequent arguments with her parents between chapters about why she can't intervene in the story to help the characters. Brooke ultimately does this in the book's climax by climbing the Fourth Wall and asking the reader for help, turning the book into a choose-your-own-adventure and having the reader write in how Ms. Direction is ultimately defeated.

Also, it's a crossover with Monster High so Frankie Stein and Draculaura are there."

The Taking of Jake Livingston (Ryan Douglass) "Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he’s going to win."

Web Leitner Bracket Round 1 Bout 4

Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High (Shannon & Dean Hale)

The Taking of Jake Livingston (Ryan Douglass)

Voting ended onApr 16, 2024

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➫ monthly book round-up: december 2024

books read: 8 [=] average rating: 3.31 [-9%] average speed: 12.3 days [+54%] total pages: 2,755 [+18%] yearly goal progress: 84/50 [168%] best of the month: for your own good, samantha downing worst of the month: in every mirror she's black, lọlá ákínmádé-åkerström

4.5* reads:

for your own good, samantha downing

my friends, hisham matar

4* reads:

enola holmes and the elegant escapade, nancy springer

3.5* reads:

the kinder poison, natalie mae

3* reads:

the last family in england, matt haig

the power, naomi alderman

the taking of jake livingston, ryan douglass

1* reads:

in every mirror she's black, lọlá ákínmádé-åkerström

currently reading:

house of kwa, mimi kwa

the last devil to die, richard osman