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I would love for someone to tell me I can't read something.

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Whoever is in charge of making the decisions for the Shadowhunters series, by the Angel, thank you. This is exactly what this fandom needed.

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Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.

Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (via leadingtone)

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman (via themightypens)

I will reblog this every New Years without fail.

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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Neil Gaiman (via pursuingauthenticity)

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I can not even deal right now with The Vampire Diaries. 

I feel very unsettled and this is going to be a bad time. 

Poor Damon. Who knew they went all American Horror Story torture style on him...but still even though he was tortured for 5 years no excuse to turn your back on a friend. (He would never have done that to Alaric though, jus sayin') But its okay because Elena and Damon will come out of this jussst fine because they always do because DELENA 5EVER, And this will just be a learning experience for them and they will grow and love each other all the more for it. 

KATHERINE AND STEFAN. OMG. CALLED THAT OH, I DON'T KNOW 102 EPISODES AGO. LITERALLY.

WHAT DID I TELL YOU PEOPLE. STEFAN FELL IN LOVE WITH KATHERINE'S DOPPLEGANGER AND DAMON FELL IN LOVE WITH ELENA. 

This has been a TVD post. 

laters taters.

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Basically, everything that's good in life

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Damn. I really respect you, George.

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So I had a thought.

What if JK Rowling does in fact wind up writing a spin off series where we get to see the new generation of Potters and Weasleys and Malfoys (you know all of their children)

And by the time it’s released the generation that grew up with Harry Potter (us) would have kids of their own. So what IF just like we grew up with Harry. Our children would grow up with Harry’s children?

Oh my gosh. I’m crying. It’s so beautiful. Double rainbow all the waaay across the SKYYYY.

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Book Rant

Alright, so I wasn't going to do this but I just have to. I can't. Its really bothering me. 

SO this book. 

I pick it up in the book store. I'm drawn to it. Not gonna lie, the cover and the title intrigued me.

The problem was the book was not about all of the things it alluded itself to be about. 

The writing was beautiful and even haunting at times and the voice was so strong it practically leaped off of the pages.

However, the plot. The plot was seriously lacking. It started out great at first. I was as hooked as a fish. The mystery of it all was growing, the wheels in my head were churning, even my heart was pounding but then somewhere towards the last handful of chapters it all just sort of...stopped. 

It felt like this author had a really brilliant idea for a plot but that maybe it was just the shell of a plot and once the shell was written there wasn't any nut underneath. It was almost as though the plot unfolded into something entirely different than what it made itself out to be, which can sometimes be a good thing! But in this case not so much. 

Then we've got this strange plot line going on about "the glow or the burn" I can't even elaborate on what this means because guess what? It was never really explained. I'm not so sure the author herself knew what "the glow or the burn" even meant and there were all of these brothers and frankly, it was all just a little far fetched and way convenient. Looks like somebody read a bit too much YA. AND THAT IS COMING FROM ME. If you could see my bookshelf you would understand what I meant by that. 

You know that unsaid contract that's between writer and reader? The one where the writer is going to weave you a lie and as a reader you're going to go in willing to believe it? Well, I stopped believing the lie around Chapter 26 out of 30. 

She also just had so many literary references which would have been fine but it was like she couldn't decide on American Literature or British Literature of Victorian Literature. Her references just didn't flow well together. She also seemed to be trying very hard for symbolism with this one object in particular and it just wasn't very well done. 

It was all very Flannery O'Connor esque and Nathaniel Hawthorne's, "Young Goodman Brown" from the get go and I was really digging it and then I don't know what happened. If she would have just stuck with the Southern Gothic feel I THINK she was going for it would have been awesome. 

Now, she has a sequel to go with it titled, "Between the Glow and the Burn" 

Whatever the hell that means. 

Who knows? Perhaps she'll surprise us all with the sequel. 

Consistency, is key in novels and so is keeping your readers believing the lie. 

The only satisfaction I got from this novel was the confirmation that it isn't anything like my work because the synopsis, title, and cover all alluded to contain similar subject matter. 

Laters taters. 

If you want to try something that actually is what it claims to be try Kendare Blake's, "Anna, Dressed In Blood" Hands down one of the best YA books I've read in a while and I read it over a year ago.