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I had 80 pages left in Yellowface but it returned on Libby on US time and I’m in Hungary I’m *screams* it was becoming a 5 star too

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If Max Hastings has no haters I’m dead

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I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

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I don’t think people understand how true How To Sell A Haunted House is in the sense that Grady Hendrix didn’t make up anything when it comes to the Charleston setting or facts…like the Stuhr’s funeral home is real, the streets where Louise’s parents had their car accident are real and do intersect, Wando (the high school Louise went to) is real and I knew people who went there! Piggly Wiggly had AMAZING Mrs. Mac’s friend chicken that people still mourn! Being a Charleston native while reading this is completely wild.

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My Good Girl, Bad Blood hold just got available on Libby I’m so excited!!!!!

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NEW HUNGER GAMES BOOK FOR HAYMITCH’S GAMES ANNOUNCED I’M GOING TO BE ILL

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I would commit so many crimes for Alex Easton, my beloved. I read What Feasts At Night in one sitting. I need more.

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On one hand I'd love to see more books staring Alex Easton in the future, on the other hand ka keeps ending each book with a couple new friends and a shiny new facet added to kans PTSD, and it would be a shame to keep subjecting kan to that.

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A scene from What Moves the Dead (by @tkingfisher) that has been ringing in my head since I read it ( ˙꒳​˙ )

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the validation i get from seeing my goodreads tracker say "you're 2 books ahead" is rivaled only by the endorphin rush i get from actually reading

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Talking about pip to my friends be like:

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my headcanon is that aelin read a fairytale book from terrasen as a kid and the hero’s name was celeana sardothian, so when she changed her name she picked the name of her favorite character

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sam and celeana as “you’re the loss of my life.”

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2024 Book Review #5: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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2024 Book Review #4: Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

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2024 Book Review #3: Powerless by Lauren Roberts

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2024 Book Review #2: The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

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Preface: I am anti J.K. Rowling. I do not support her, I am rereading these books as an adult to make an opinion separate from the one I had as a child.