June 2013
81 posts
“I think we saw the numbers of multicultural books flatlining when school and public libraries began to get funding cuts, so that publishers came to rely more on bookstores for sales. At around that time, we also saw the rise of Amazon, Borders, and B&N. I’ve heard many times from publishers that the “buyers at B&N” believe multicultural books don’t sell. When they are not stocked in these bookstores, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
—~Kathleen T. Horning, Director of Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. From Lee & Low’s excellent analysis on diversity in kid lit in the last twenty years: http://blog.leeandlow.com/2013/06/17/why-hasnt-the-number-of-multicultural-books-increased-in-eighteen-years/ (via diversityinya)
“I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful, but are you a dangerous lunatic?”
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Linette Owens’ first words to Edmund Herondale
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale (via omijesus)
Ah, romance. ;)
“If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”
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Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\
I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said
(via aragingquiet)
I Write Like... (whut?)
So when I see a website like this, I can’t resist. I go right over there and start playing with it to see what happens.
I stuck a chunk of one of the Young Wizards books into it, and it told me I write like Daniel Defoe.
I then stuck in a piece of fanfic I’ve done, and it told me I write like H. P. Lovecraft.
(snicker) GOOD.
First page of the Unfinished Novel of the Damned: Robert Louis Stevenson (period-appropriate! one of the heroine’s favorite authors!).
Chunk of Hannibal recap: Stephen King. Program may be sentient.
Page from my diary: Cory Doctorow. (I have never read Cory Doctorow.)
Garden-variety blog post (the one about the Kindle Worlds announcement): H.P. Lovecraft…?
I put in the first chapter of Untold, and it told me I write like L. Frank Baum.
Must delete Munchkins…
are we fucking serious?
- Tessa: I'm ready to die for Will. I'm ready to die for Jem. I want to protect the people I love, no matter what may happen to me.
- Fangirls: You're a stupid whore, please go fuck yourself or better die.
- Sebastian: I've killed Max, almost killed Isabelle, I tried to kill Jace, I tried to strangle Alec, I tried to rape Clary, I want to burn down the world. Oh, did I mention that I'm into incest and I'm a homophobic piece of shit?
- Fangirls: OMG SEBBY I LOVE YOU YOU PRECIOUS MISUNDERSTOOD SOUL.
“My skin is brown and my parents weren’t born here and I love a good nasi kuning, but why shouldn’t I play with Western culture? I’m a product of it. I grew up watching American television, reading American books, going to American schools, dropping tokens in American video games in American arcades in American malls. If Norse gods and myths can find a place in American stories, then those are my stories, too. To insist otherwise is to make me a mere spectator to my own culture. It means an Indonesian-American kid can’t pretend to be the cowboy. It means she can’t imagine herself as an elf in a Tolkien-ish fantasy. It means Idris Elba can’t play Heimdall in Thor. The push for diversity should not preclude an Indonesian-American kid playing in the Western sandbox that he grew up in.”
—It’s my stuff, too.
(via stacylwhitman)
gird your loins ladies tomorrow we welcome edmund herondale
*pumps fist in the air*
HOLLY BLACK: That post. That’s the one.
I can’t help reblogging.
Magnus meets Edmund, Linette and Camille, among others…
I hope you guys will liiiike it.
Hard Bound: angelolly, but actually why I love Holly and then oh yes f/f love →
hardboundbookhound.tumblr.com
the thing about the tentative lesbian relationship in Unspoken (bcs tbh it’s not a full fledged relationship yet tho from what she wrote in my copy when she signed it it may become a torrid one fingers crossed) is that it’s between two femmes.
I thought it was so exciting because A) as I’ve said…
I love to see love for love, and who doesn’t love a shipper essay? *beams*
