#Yvonne Battle-Felton

[mangotortoise]

You know an audio book is good when it has you screaming out "NO" very loudly while stuck in traffic

[katherinelam]

for nytimes abt yvonne battle-felton's "curdle creek"

[alrederedmixedmedia]

Alredered Remembers American writer Yvonne Battle-Felton, on her birthday.

"My writing typically starts with a question. When I’m very lucky, a character comes along to help me answer it."

[writerswritecompany]

Quotable – Yvonne Battle-Felton

Read more about the author here

[universitybookstore]

"He holds her like it's forever. I believe it."

It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning. From Dialogue Books, Remembered, by Yvonne Battle-Felton. (Read a review from the Irish Times here.)

[foreverlostinliterature]

4/23 Book Deals

Good morning, everyone--happy Friday! We made it through the week! I hope you've all made it through the week in one piece and are doing okay. It's been an up and down week for all a lot of us, I think, but we always make it through, right? :)

I actually wasn't planning to do deals today because I'm trying to get a final paper done (my last paper ever for my MA!), but I saw how many books were on sale and decided to try to whip it out really quickly--so here we are! There really are a ton of great books on sale, so many that I’m just going to leave it to you guys to check them all out, haha. :) (But The Vegetarian is really interesting and you can’t guy wrong with a classic like Hamilton’s Mythology!) I hope there’s a little something for everyone!

I hope you all have a truly fantastic Friday and weekend! Happy reading! :)

Today’s Deals:

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - https://amzn.to/3aw3R2L

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - https://amzn.to/3ngGm2Q

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - https://amzn.to/2QqYoDM

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout - https://amzn.to/3sPKt7b

Mythology by Edith Hamilton -  https://amzn.to/3axwNaK

The Vegetarian by Han Kang - https://amzn.to/3dK6nol

Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky - https://amzn.to/3tL9a65

The Redemption of Time by Baoshu - https://amzn.to/3neKwbw

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai - https://amzn.to/2QVZjw0

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth - https://amzn.to/2PkEDgG

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill - https://amzn.to/32FrD8a

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - https://amzn.to/3sFitTS

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid - https://amzn.to/2RZElNa

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - https://amzn.to/3dIr2Jq

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak - https://amzn.to/3sKoZZu

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - https://amzn.to/3xhiNM1

Atonement by Ian McEwan - https://amzn.to/3sG3ARn

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick - https://amzn.to/3tPqiaX

MIlkman by Anna Burns - https://amzn.to/3sP9wYa

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis - https://amzn.to/3nfQ0mt

Across that Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change by John Lewis - https://amzn.to/3vdNrUH

Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez - https://amzn.to/3azLg60

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash Bk. 2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout - https://amzn.to/3epU3J5

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - https://amzn.to/3sID9uk

Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe by Dean Nicholson - https://amzn.to/2QSnQ4M

The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama - https://amzn.to/2Pmij6o

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - https://amzn.to/3dJ134l

The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - https://amzn.to/3tPxwMi

The Yield by Tara June Winch - https://amzn.to/3ndvdQu

Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton - https://amzn.to/2QPdIdk

My Invented Country by Isabel Allende - https://amzn.to/3tMUMKO

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay - https://amzn.to/3vebKSt

NOTE:  I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!)  commission on any purchase made through these links.

[secondlife]

Join us on Thursday, June 25th at 10am PT/SLT for this special edition of the #SecondLife Book Club with Draxtor, held at the #SL17B Auditorium! Featuring Writers of Color, Writers of the World: Yvonne Battle-Felton, Anthony DeRouen, Nadine Kaadan, and Samit Basu! https://secondlife.com/destination/second-life-book-club-sl17b Or watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/M4T2ACYDxM0

[latestageyouth]

For the ask stuff: 3, 7, 11, 14, 15, 16, 23, 39, 45, 73. I'd like to ask more but I'm sure I would annoy you.

you wouldn’t annoy me at all! feel free to send another ask if you want to! :D

(3) Can You Whistle? Yes!

(7) What Is The Temperature Right Now? I don’t know specifically but it’s,,,cold,,,

(11) What Is Your Eye Colour? Dark brown

(14) What Books Are You Reading? fanfiction  Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton and Twisted by Steve Cavanagh

(15) Grab The Book Nearest To You, Turn To Page 64, Give Me Line 14.

“I sucked in on the metal cigarette as if a doctor were telling me to”

(16) Favourite Anime? I am currently hyperfixated on Boku No Hero Academia! Other than that, Kakegurui has been a favourite of mine for some time :)

(23) What Time Do You Usually Go To Bed? uhhh,,,midnight or 2 am, somewhere in between, haha...

(39) Is There Anything Pink Within 10 Feet Of You? No i don’t see anything

(45) Name One Movie That Made You Cry. Up, always gets me :’(

(73) What Is Your Favourite Quote Right Now?   “I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other.”

[bibliobethblog]

Five Books I'd Love To Receive For My Birthday - 2019

Five Books I’d Love To Receive For My Birthday – 2019

Happy Birthday to me! April is my birthday month and my birthday actually falls on Easter Sunday this year. Like any other regular bookworm, the only thing I want for my birthday is BOOKS.I did this post last year in 2018 and enjoyed doing it so much I thought I’d have another go this year. Let’s be honest, there’s no chance of my wish-list ever getting any smaller – there’s just too many good…

[book-warehouse-broadway]

Congrats to the longlist of the Women’s Prize for Fiction!

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Bottled Goods - Sophie van Llewyn

Circe - Madeleine Miller

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Milkman - Anna Burns

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Normal People - Sally Rooney

Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li

Ordinary People - Diana Evans

Praise Song for the Butterflies - Bernice L. McFadden

Remembered - Yvonne Battle-Felton

Swan Song - Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker

[adayinbookland]

April 12th, 2019 || READING WRAP-UP n° 4: books 15-19. . 🌻 Pure by Rose Cartwright. Memoir about the author suffering a type of OCD which involves experiencing sexual (and violent) intrusive thoughts. This was really good and difficult to read but I highly recommend it (8.5/10). The Channel 4 series inspired by the book is also very good. 🌻 The Idiot by Elif Batuman. Quite a surprising book. I enjoyed it even though I thought it wasn’t gonna be a book for me. I was wrong. It was a fascinating read although not a perfect one (7/10). 🌻 Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton. The thing I loved the most about this novel was the writing. So beautiful! But unfortunately, although a good read, I found myself losing interest at the middle and my reading experience suffered for it. TW for sexual assault (6/10). 🌻 How Long ‘til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin. A solid short story collection. As always I enjoyed some stories more than others but I find Jemisin’s writing extremely compelling (6.8/10). 🌻 The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang. This was good but not as brilliant as I was expecting considering the hype around it. Trigger warnings for absolutely everything you can think of and then some. There are moments which are very difficult to read and hard to digest but at the same time I didn’t feel like it was too much... maybe because I was expecting it to be brutal. Not a perfect book (it does have some inconsistencies and I found Rin’s character quite annoying during the second half of the book due to her stupid decisions - she just kept changing her mind every other page) but a good start of a series nonetheless (7.5/10). . Have you finished any book lately? • • • #readingwrapup #recentreads #thepoppywar #remembered #womensprize #theidiot #howlongtilblackfuturemonth #pure #fantasybook #scifibooks #literaryfiction https://www.instagram.com/adayinbookland/p/BwKjq8VH7Rt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tnnvwpxcp5qf

[mangotortoise]

Finished Curdle Creek (Yvonne Battle-Felton) and I'm really not sure how I feel about it.

On the one hand, those were impeccable gothic vibes, and the author's style really lent itself well to the environment it was trying to craft. I think hearing Osira's thoughts--seeing her so clearly struggle to shake her indoctrination but flip flop because it was all she'd ever known--was great. On the other hand...

I saw someone bitch on Goodreads about how there were a lot of little plot tangents that went nowhere. How the ending felt incomplete. The former I kinda get (only kinda...to me, the story was written in a way I think a person would speak about their life, and even the "side tangents" helped world build.) As to the latter, I think i get what the author was trying to do, I think the execution just fell flat to me.

Anyway, I'd probably check out this author again. I really like their style.

[jsbookshelf]

Remembered: Yvonne Battle-Felton

[velvetandchampagne]

Top Ten Tuesday - Books that Should be Adapted into Netflix Shows/Movies

Top Ten Tuesday – Books that Should be Adapted into Netflix Shows/Movies

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

You can find more details about TTT here.

Yvonne Battle-Felton, Remembered (I mentioned this book here)

2. Hallie Rubenhold, The Five

3. Emily St. John Mendel, Stat…

[writerswritecompany]

Quotable – Yvonne Battle-Felton

Read more about the author here

[ilovemovieposters]

Most Popular Celebs, 25th Sept

Bill Skarsgård - It

Sophie Lillis - It

Alicia Vikander - Tomb Raider

Alexandra Daddario - Baywatch

Harry Dean Stanton - Twin Peaks

Adrianne Palicki - The Orville

Halston Sage - The Orville

Alexander Skarsgård - Big Little Lies

Gal Gadot - Wonder Woman

Taron Egerton - Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Finn Wolfhard - It

Jennifer Lawrence - mother!

Elisabeth Moss - The Handmaid’s Tale

Laura Haddock - Transformers: The Last Knight

Eiza Gonzalez - Baby Driver

Yvonne Strahovski - The Handmaid’s Tale

Jaeden Lieberher - It

Lily James - Baby Driver

Darren Aronofsky - mother! (director)

Shailene Woodley - Big Little Lies (!)

Danielle Panabaker - The Flash

Karen Gillan - Jumanji

Emilia Clarke - Game of Thrones

Pedro Pascal - Narcos (!)

Sofia Boutella - Kingsman 1

Sam Heughan - Outlander

Laura Vanderbvoort - Jigsaw

Tom Hardy - Dunkirk

Tim Curry - It

Christian Serratos - The Walking Dead

Tatiana Maslany - Orphan Black

Alexis Bledel - The Handmaid’s Tale (!)

Millie Bobby Brown - Stranger Things

Kaya Scodelario - Pirates of the Caribbeans 5

Anna Chlusmky - Veep

Amber Tamblyn

Ann Down - The Handmaid’s Tale (!)

Ella Purnell - ?

Maggie Grace ?

Kelly Rohrbach - Baywatch

Jeffrey Dean Morgan - The Walking Dead

Ana de Armas - Blade Runner 2049

Tom Cruise - American Made

Jack Dylan Grazer - It

Alison Brie - BoJack Horseman

Hilarie Burton ?

Isabela Moner - Transformers: The Last Knight

Sophie Cookson -  Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Jon Bernthal - Baby Driver

Holliday Grainger - Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

Emma Stone - Battle of the Sexes (!)

Linda Hamilton ?

David Cross ?

Evan Rachel Wood - Westworld

Katheryn Winnick - Vikings 

Dylan O’Brien - American Assassin

Jennifer Tilly ?

Reese Witherspoon - Big Little Lies (!)

Elizabeth Debicki -  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 

Margot Robbie (!) - Suicide Squad

Margarita Levieva - The Deuce

Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies (!)

Jeremy Ray Taylor - It

Pom Klementieff - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2

Lena Headey - Game of Thrones

Teresa Palmer - Hacksaw Ridge

Ariel Winter - Modern Family

Ansel Elgort -  Baby Driver

Emily Meade - The Deuce (!)

Haley Bennett - The Maginificent Seven 

Johnny Depp -  Pirates of the Caribbeans 5

Morena Baccarin - Gotham

Stephen King - It (author)

Stellan Skarsgård - ?

Tom Felton - The Flash

Nicholas Hamilton - It

Jimmy Tatro - American Vandal

Cassandra Peterson ?

Mackenzie Davis - Black Mirror

Leonardo DiCaprio - ?

Robin Wright - Blade Runner 2049

Christina Hendricks - Tin Star

Sophie Loren ?

Kate Mara - House of Cards

Camren Bicondova - Gotham

Blake Lively - All I See Is You

Jessica Biel - The Sinner

Michelle Pfeiffer - mother!

Noomi Rapace - What Happened to Monday

Caitriona Balfe - Outlander

Charlie Hunnam - King Arthur

Hanna Alström - Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Donald Glover - Atlanta

Lorenza Izzo ?

Javier Bardem - mother!

James Franco - The Deuce

Jason Momoa - Justice League

Zoë Kravitz - Big Little Lies

Annabelle Wallis - King Arthur

Jake Gyllenhaal - Nocturnal Animals