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Interior with reading girl   -   Sigmund Sinding 

Norwegian, 1875-1936

Oil on plate , 61 x 49 cm.

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Mujer, café, lectura… relax (ilustración de Sylvie Bulcourt)

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i’ve been thinking about this maggie stiefvater tweet all day

[”To me, horror and fantasy are such wonderful siblings. They share parents: Broken Rules and Possibility. If you break the rules of the world, all kinds of things become possible, and if they are good, we call it magic, and if they’re bad, we call it horror.”]

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I know there's an "Other" option, but I'm surprised one of the given options wasn't book size, in order to maximize shelf space.

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from Whiskers & Rhymes by Arnold Lobel (1985)

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You don't have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create.

Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required to be your audience's moral teacher.

You can have bad things happen-- you can have a protagonist who is bad-- without having to explain to your audience that they are bad.

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writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

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from your friendly neighborhood librarian:

all books are good books.  you are not a “lesser reader” if you only read manga or comic books or a “better reader” for reading academic heavy texts.

reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy

reading is supposed to be fun and don’t let elitism sap any joy out of it

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Charlotte Bland

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'book in a cage' by elisabetta gut, 1981 in the book as art: artists' books from the national museum of women in the arts - krystyna wasserman (2011)

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David Ostow

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Bookworm by Norman Rockwell

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Antes de dormir siempre leo. Y vosotros? (ilustración de João Vaz de Carvalho)