“Who better to recruit than a librarian when you’re dealing with a fledgling dictatorship?”
Stephen King, Under the Dome
1090739 words, 3363 pages, 199 chapters, 7 books - 1 story - Harry Potter (via Harry Potter Obsession / .)
Huxley vs Orwell
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THIS IS WATER by SeeTheGlossary
Guide to Troubled Birds
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Writer Problem - “Writing a complete history for your characters even though it will never show up in the story.”
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“Coming-out stories don’t unfold in a vacuum, and nor do teens’ own lives. The best books integrate queer teens’ coming-of-age stories into the rich and varied spectrum of human experience.
A corollary of this rule is that a good coming-out novel knows its characters are more than their sexual or gender identity. Queer kids are more than just their designated letter of the alphabet, and their stories—coming out and otherwise—should reflect that. As the protagonist of Cris Beam’s I Am J puts it: “Being trans wasn’t special, and yet it was. It was just good and bad and interesting and…very human, like anything else.”
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What Makes a Good YA Coming Out Novel? posted at The Horn.
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The Great Gatsby was originally published 88 years ago. Had Nintendo adapted the game in the late-1980s, it would have looked like this.
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” - Mark Twain
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quote from Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
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Cure Ignorance - read.
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ING advert - it’s brilliant!
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There’s cute, and then there’s a perfectly timed photo of an adorable harvest mouse climbing a dandelion.
Photo by Matt Binstead, via My Modern Met
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