#ag books

[coreysdolladventures]

Also pls rb so i can see the varied opinions and put those choices in the tags

[laciedollblog]

I love you American Girl books

[kirsteninthesun]

I wish American Girl would credit their authors more prominently. They tend not to put the author’s name on the front cover, and in some cases the authors can be really hard to find.

I didn’t know that Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway was written by an author I’d grown up reading until I went on a deeper dive, and that’s a real shame! 

[doll-princesse]

I finished Becky’s book, but I could tell it was abridged. The second half felt shoehorned in compared to the first half. It was still good, just rushed. I’ll see if my public library has her unabridged books.

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[malkmori]

Uhh... I'm just gonna put it here..

[causticbicaudate]

I'm sorry for pitting two bad bitches against each other here but I gotta know everyone's thoughts

[feypact]

public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents, EDIT: just commonly banned books)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these books unbanned cards (unless otherwise stated) get you access to each library's complete libby/cloud library collection, no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/chrome/edge compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

[danzigmcfly]

[anotherpapercut]

genuinely it will never stop baffling me how people will wear twilight shirts and talk about team Edward vs team Jacob and then the same people will be like "I'm not basing my personality off of a piece of media (harry potter) made by a transphobe 😌" like good that's great! so you can excuse racism but you draw the line at transphobia? good to know

[raintides]

they're going shopping

[laciedollblog]

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Stories from Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Dulac (1911)

[doll-princesse]

The fireworks kept me up so I read some more of Beckie’s book, which I started this evening before I went to bed.

I love her character!! She’s so clever, making business deals and thinking up a way to help her family. And the way she has to deal with her family’s expectations for her as a girl— don’t talk too much, don’t boast, be a teacher when you grow up. It’s subtle but there and I like that it’s portrayed. While also, she really strives to do more and they still see her as too young. I haven’t decided if she’s precocious yet.

I do hope cousin Josef doesn’t get worse at the Ellis Island hospital. I watched a documentary about it once— not a great place to be.

[possuminthetrashh]