Showing posts tagged Sarah Rees Brennan

motherfuckingtea:

Day One: A lead female character ; Kami Glass (The Lynburn Legacy)

“You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.

“They said that about all the great visionaries.”.

“You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.” ― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken

Kami art from http://sarahreesbrennan.com
Lovely Actress Is: Erika Sawajiri

What a cutie. ;) Love it.

(Reblogged from motherfuckingtea)

cassandraclare:

The cover of the next of the Bane Chronicles:  The Runaway Queen! Enjoy, my lovelies! Magnus, what a distinguished ring you have.

Fancy right? All this, and George Blagden to narrate it to you. ;)

My beautimous Maureen and Cassie have penned AN AMAZING TALE. I can’t wait for y’all to read it. 

(Reblogged from cassandraclare)

storiesofthesoul:

When you play the game of Brennan, you win or your heart breaks. You will not win.

My photo entry for Sarah Rees Brennan’s Untold ARC contest. 

Perfect picture, perfect caption. So much perfection, I hardly know how to cope…

(Reblogged from storiesofthesoul)

haiku about Unspoken

realgirlinapapertown:

pain pain pain pain pain
it hurts so bad what is life
pain pain pain pain pain

*sniffs* That’s so beautiful. ;)

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thewildestcucumber:

Sorry-in-the-Vale looked different now, with blood in its past…

She’d thought she knew every shadow and corner of this town, but now the shadows were moving, and behind every corner waited another secret.

There was nowhere safe left…

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

How amazirrific is this entry for the Untold contest? I looooove the superimposed creepiness: the ordinary and beautiful places made unsafe. So in keeping with le novel!

Also: hello, London! I am heeeeeeere.

(Reblogged from thewildestcucumber)

Untold is indeed the book in which Jared Lynburn, ticking time bomb of issues and pure maidenly untouched flower, receives his first kiss.

Is it with the beauteous Holly Prescott, sunny of hair and nature? Well a boy could do much worse. ;)

But that is a Gothic mystery that will be solved in Untold.

I am glad you guys are concerned though!

That’s how I like you. Concerned.

I am glad I have not been boring people! Deadline cave, and a topic I feel strongly about = many posts. Many, many posts. 

I am very glad my books have thus far pleased you! I and my writing = very imperfect, trying to improve, but I love my ladies, I like writing the books and I am glad people like reading them. ;)

I think we could definitely use more amazing ladies, and many more amazing ladies of color. And you give me a fine opportunity to end my Feminist Speeches for the Day with a list of a few awesome female protagonists of colour who spring to mind. (LIST NOT EXHAUSTIVE.)

Y.S. Lee’s A Spy In The House

Cindy Pon’s Silver Phoenix

Malinda Lo’s Huntress

Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover

Kimberly Reid’s My Own Worst Frenemy

Diana Peterfreund’s Across A Star-Swept Sea (coming soon!)

(Reblogged from brookarious)

To the anonymous poster of this ask: thank you for the book recommendation! It sounds excellent.

However, I disagree with your implication that all that’s needed for critical attention to be paid is ‘quality of literature.’

Oh, if only the ladies would write more better books!

I do not think that is true. There are statistically more traditionally published male critics, writing more about men.

http://www.vidaweb.org/three-years-to-stump-and-stack-and-stem

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/82930/VIDA-women-writers-magazines-book-reviews#

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/04/research-male-writers-dominate-books-world

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.damemagazine.com/2013/03/05/major-literary-journals-still-publish-more-men

Yes, excellent critical books and articles about female-centric stories exist. This does not change the statistical fact that overall, stories about women are massively undervalued and not given critical attention.

If the conclusion drawn from these facts is ‘Well, a specific half of the world is just not producing work as excellent as the other half… the talented, brilliant, throbbingly genius half’… I think said conclusion says more about the person making it than about the overall quality of women’s work.

Yes, there are exceptions to the rules. That doesn’t mean the rules don’t exist.

A motto for our time… perhaps for ALL time.

A motto for our time… perhaps for ALL time.

(Reblogged from mocamittel)