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bookworm-in-love:

So here’s Amanda’s (perfect-in-pearls) and my first entry for Sarah Rees Brennan’s Untold contest! We have a free period because of online classes so this is how we chose to spend it today. No we are not truants (we just really love Unspoken).

Would you look at these cuties reading Unspoken? I particularly commend them for heroics like climbing into a bin and finding lockers that match the book. ;)

First entry for Pictures of Yourself Reading Unspoken In Weird Places in the Untold Contest is 100 % awesome!

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Whenever I See Someone Saying…

‘But this is just FICTION, you know, it’s not REAL, it’s a story, they’re FICTIONAL CHARACTERS…’

Look, we all know that. Nobody is rattling wardrobe doors trying to get into Narnia. (OK maybe once but I was young.) Nobody is breaking into a discussion about the postal service going ‘I know, right? Damn owls… where is my Hogwarts letter?’ Nobody thinks Oliver Twist was a historical figure. (Good name for a male exotic dancer, though.)

Everybody knows. The stuff has a label on it. Like so…

Very necessary and important label! You know, like other important labels we have.

But of course, nobody ever reminds you ‘IT’S FICTION!’ because they think you don’t know.

They think you shouldn’t care because it’s fiction, or that it’s not important because it’s fiction.

Jane Austen, knowing where it was at since 1787: 

‘It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.’

We all know it’s fiction. (As a group we tend to read pretty well.)

It’s not that we don’t understand. It’s that we don’t agree.

We know it’s fiction, and we think it’s important.

Aw, thank you! I am happy to be an inspiration and happy Cass is one too. ;) I hope you meet us some day as well! (Cass is pretty charming and eloquent, you’ll enjoy that, and I… uh… perform strange tricks like a wayward monkey. It’ll be fun!) And lots of luck with your writing. I believe I just chatted idly about the many romantic possibilities I saw for Stiles on Teen Wolf. Erica. Isaac. Danny. Allison. I forget which I picked! I am fickle and wayward like that… Sometimes I have a One True Pairing when I’m reading/watching, sometimes I’m just enjoying the (in this case, absurd werewolf) ride.  Both attitudes have their fun side. One True Pairing means you get to chant ‘Kiss kiss kiss!’ at the screen or the page… but it can mean disappointment! Bitter tears! Never getting over certain situations like The X ‘It Doesn’t Matter If You Wait Till Nobody Cares’ Files and The Secret ‘Nobody Mention Dickon To Me’ Garden. I have been watching The Mindy Project recently, and I find myself twitching when romantic situations happen not involving my preferred couple. Romance, it can enhance or mess up your reading and viewing experience, just as it can enhance or mess up your living experience! Shippin’ thoughts. ;) View high resolution

Aw, thank you! I am happy to be an inspiration and happy Cass is one too. ;) I hope you meet us some day as well! (Cass is pretty charming and eloquent, you’ll enjoy that, and I… uh… perform strange tricks like a wayward monkey. It’ll be fun!) And lots of luck with your writing.

I believe I just chatted idly about the many romantic possibilities I saw for Stiles on Teen Wolf. Erica. Isaac. Danny. Allison. I forget which I picked! I am fickle and wayward like that…

Sometimes I have a One True Pairing when I’m reading/watching, sometimes I’m just enjoying the (in this case, absurd werewolf) ride. 

Both attitudes have their fun side.

One True Pairing means you get to chant ‘Kiss kiss kiss!’ at the screen or the page… but it can mean disappointment! Bitter tears! Never getting over certain situations like The X ‘It Doesn’t Matter If You Wait Till Nobody Cares’ Files and The Secret ‘Nobody Mention Dickon To Me’ Garden. I have been watching The Mindy Project recently, and I find myself twitching when romantic situations happen not involving my preferred couple. Romance, it can enhance or mess up your reading and viewing experience, just as it can enhance or mess up your living experience!

Shippin’ thoughts. ;)

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Every Monday, in thousands of language and language arts classes, children are given a list of 20 vocabulary words … If you show the list of 20 words to a child who has read, who grew up with books, he probably knows 15 or 16 of the words already. He has seen them before, in Choose Your Own Adventure, Harry Potter, and Batman Returns. If he studies, he gets an A. If he doesn’t study, he gets a B. If you show the list of 20 words to a child who did not grow up with books, the situation is very different. He may know five or six of the words. If he studies, with a heroic effort, he might get a D+.

On the value of libraries, and reading, and a million other things I love. A++. (via sarahbethlibrarian)

A great Backtalk piece from Brian Samek online at Library Journal.

(via libraryjournal)

(Reblogged from libraryjournal)

Thanksgiving

Oh I’ve celebrated American Thanksgiving a time or two, hosted by very kind peoples. I love pie? The rest of it is pretty mystifying to me: I am terribly lazy, so, like: ANOTHER festivity between Halloween and Christmas? Okay, you energetic celebrationers!

Sadly no pie for me tomorrow! (I mean, I guess I could buy pie…)

But it’s a nice idea, to take the time to be thankful.

I am thankful for those I love: my friends, my family, my friends again. 

I am thankful for the lessons of my friends: it takes a really long time to learn that people who care about you will act as if they care about you. You learn it by having people be good to you, and learning to be good to them.

I am thankful for the lessons of the internet: when it is awesome and gives me contact with readers and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and when (sometimes I don’t listen!) it sayeth unto me: Close that laptop. Close it like the door to a tiger’s cage!

I am thankful for those who have taken a chance on my books: publishers, readers, everyone. This means YOU! Everyone who read Unspoken this year, I am particularly thankful for you!

I am thankful for pie. In general.

I am thankful for my genre, because I love me some YA.

I am thankful for romance, because my next three books to read are all romance novels and I am super excited to read them!

I am thankful for miniature cupcakes, sunshine that is happening somewhere else in the world, and the hilarious thing that happened to me yesterday (and the other hilarious thing that happened the day before that, and the day before that…) (I am thankful for this world of hilarity!)

I am thankful for EVERYBODY who wrote me about the end of Unspoken and said ‘WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?’

(I think my thankfulness is clear every day on that subject.)

Most of all, best of all, worth mentioning again: I am thankful for friends and readers… not just of my books but all books, people who love to play in imaginary worlds, people who are the most likely people to become my friends. ;)

Pew Study Discovers that People In High School and College Read

fishingboatproceeds:

Not only that, but Americans under 30 are more likely to read a book by choice than Americans over 30.

Adults are sitting around fretting about the Internet generation. We ought to be worrying about ourselves.

(Source: pmautomat)

(Reblogged from schoollibraryjournal)

brambleberrycottage:

Sarah Rees Brennan: This Book Will Ruin Your Life

sarahreesbrennan:

brambleberrycottage:

sarahreesbrennan:

It’s possible I’ve never written a trilogy before.

I know, I totally thought I had: but switching narrators does mean that you have to wrap up the narrator’s emotional arc a lil bit. But having Kami have the whole Lynburn Legacy as hers means that her emotional arc is spread out, too: notes of…

I wish I had known just how unceasing the agony would be! Two whole years until I know what becomes of my lovelies.

Golly no! Just one year. Good heavens I am not a SLOWPOKE. Untold is all written and everything! It’s in copyedits. *waves to the land of copyedits, where they fix the fiddly bits*

No, no, my evil queen. I meant two years until the third book is out. I assumed one a year, but are both Untold and #3 coming out in 2013? After all, I am pretty sure Untold will also leave me a puddle of feelings on the floor, so I am holding out hope that the third book will somehow allow my lovelies some measure of happiness. (I don’t hold with depressing books. I can handle pain and tears and heartwrenching, gutting passages that … shh, spoilers. But there must be happiness in the end.)

Ohhh I see. No, No. 3, Unbroken, is out in 2014.

But some people’s stories end in Untold, so you’ll know what becomes of them then!

(Reblogged from brambleberrycottage)

Sarah Rees Brennan: This Book Will Ruin Your Life

brambleberrycottage:

sarahreesbrennan:

It’s possible I’ve never written a trilogy before.

I know, I totally thought I had: but switching narrators does mean that you have to wrap up the narrator’s emotional arc a lil bit. But having Kami have the whole Lynburn Legacy as hers means that her emotional arc is spread out, too: notes of…

I wish I had known just how unceasing the agony would be! Two whole years until I know what becomes of my lovelies.

Golly no! Just one year. Good heavens I am not a SLOWPOKE. Untold is all written and everything! It’s in copyedits. *waves to the land of copyedits, where they fix the fiddly bits*

(Reblogged from brambleberrycottage)

I’m thinking of reading the Demon’s Lexicon to somehow ease my Unspoken hangover.

abitlovely:

Yes I’m still upset. I just miss Jared and Kami okay. *cries in a corner*

Starting to get a bit worried about how happy other people’s pain is making me…?

Surely there will be a consequence for this: surely I will be hunted through the woods and have to flee for my life.

(Reblogged from abitlovely)
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TITLE: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy #1)
AUTHOR: Sarah Rees Brenna aka The Evil Queen of Cliffhangers
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, AMAZEBALLS
RATING: ★★★★★ +infinity stars!!!
QUOTES:
“My body is a gift from God,” Jared said gravely. “Except my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.”
“He looks at her as if she was his heart, made of glass and suspended on a thread that might break. If the thread breaks, I don’t know what he’ll do.”
SUMMARY:
Kami Glass is in love with someone she’s never met—a boy she’s talked to in her head since she was born. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she has learned ways to turn that to her advantage. Her life seems to be in order, until disturbing events begin to occur. There has been screaming in the woods and the manor overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years …The Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. Now Kami can see that the town she has known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets—and a murderer. The key to it all just might be the boy in her head. The boy she thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous
REVIEW:
Bear with me my awesome followers who actually like my blog because of my book reviews and not because of all the Alexander Skarsgard photos I post. It’s 1AM here and I literally leapt out of my bed and turned on my computer because I was powered with my feelings for this book. I was suppose to finish the book and go to sleep but apparently the book’s awesomeness forbade me from doing so and that’s why I am here lovely people of the internet.

mad exhausting love 

I embrace my new title of The Evil Queen with joy.

(Reblogged from abitlovely)