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[moonartemisia]

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When funky old money meets alter-style, retro pop with my oc!

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Winding Up the Week #393

An end of week recap “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” – Virginia Woolf We will be heading off on a slightly delayed honeymoon, or honeymoomin as our waggish doggy-sitter (pun intended) insists on calling it, on 1st October for four days – only as far as York, but it will, I’m afraid, scupper next Saturday’s…

[dinnickhowellslikes]

I like this distorted flower image, and wonder how it was done. Not sure if book cover designer Terri Nimmo made the image, or whether it's artwork that was licensed. It had a photocopier slur kind of effect or fun house mirror, but it too chaotic for that. Would love to learn how it was done - if it's simply a photoshop filter, I'll be intrigued (but also a bit disappointed!)

Thanks to The Casual Optimist, Dan Wagstaff's always great round ups of recent book cover designs, called , where I spotted this cover.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Everything and Nothing At All: Essays

By Jenny Heijun Wills.

[mera-k1]

Thanks for the slots, I already told you the plot I can't wait, you're the best my sweetest 🥺🤭💜✨️

ofc, elise♡!! i can't wait to write some heijun smut...🤭

[richincolor]

Book Review: When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology edited by Shannon Gibney & Nicole Chung

Summary: There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.

These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences.

This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives.

With stories by: Kelley Baker, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney, Mark Oshiro, MeMe Collier, Susan Harness, Meredith Ireland, Mariama J. Lockington, Lisa Nopachai, Stefany Valentine, Matthew Salesses, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Eric Smith, Jenny Heijun Wills, Sun Yung Shin, Foreword by Rebecca Carroll, Afterword by JaeRan Kim, MSW, PhD

My Thoughts: This is a much needed collection that provides an excellent collections of stories representing the adoptee experience. There are so few adopted characters in YA literature and of those few, rarely are those stories told by adoptees. I first heard about this book through Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen, who is an adoption studies scholar and was happy to finally get to read it this week.

In some of these stories adoption is a huge focus, but in some, while the main character is an adoptee, that isn’t really a major part of the plot. It’s a strength that there are such a variety of ways that the adoptees are portrayed. There is a poet, a relative of a queen, a road tripper, a person learning indigenous ways, two people on farms, someone who speaks to ghosts, and many more characters. The majority of the tales are contemporary realistic fiction, but one is sci-fi, one happens in a mythical queendom and two might be described as speculative fiction. One also has a comic format.

Each story feels distinct and unique, but there are common threads of identity, belonging, questioning, loss, anger, love, pain, and healing. Who am I? Where and who do I come from? Am I enough? Where do I fit? and so many other questions are asked and sometimes answered in these narratives. Like anyone coming of age, these teens are wondering so much about themselves, but living as adoptees adds another layer as they navigate the world and their place in it.

Recommendation: Get it now! This is a fantastic collection that many readers will connect with in many ways. It’s an excellent way for adoptees to possibly see some of their experiences on the page of a book and for others, this will be a way to possible see things from that perspective. Shannon Gibney & Nicole Chung have gathered together a talented group of authors and we’re fortunate to have this anthology in the world.

Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 352 Availability: On shelves now Review Copy: Digital ARC

[estoypupin]

Tamada heijun

[moonartemisia]

Nuis 🍓🫐💜🩷💕

[kinglindwyrm]

“They must have detected that I was rotted on the inside. A fragrant peace with a festering pit made bad by a beetle consuming it from the inside out. They must have seen something bad deep within me, because they discarded me even though I was beautiful on the outside.” (Jenny Heijun Wills, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.)

[ID: A painting of a cockroach emerging from the inside of a rotting persimmon. The spot it is crawling out of is irritated and bloody like a wound, and there is a pool of blood surrounding the persimmon. On one side the blood trails off, as though the persimmon has been moved or dragged. END ID]

[melancholiaenthroned]

wip but i was fighting for my life cutting out this cockroach i was like ooo i dont need to get up and get an exacto knife i have craft scissors:-) and by the time i got to the last leg i thought i was gonna have a heart attack

[mera-k1]

Okay, Im kinda invested with your personalized yume fic you just suggestion there sldnskdn

I WILL WRITE HEIJUN ANYDAY!!🙏🙏

[moonartemisia]

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Very demure, very stylish, very mindful, they slay so hard

[mera-k1]

Idk how many fics I requested aside the rest as anon.... lmfaooo but aww you're too sweet 😭🥺

DW!! it's like writing heijun but not at the same time..!!♡

[moonartemisia]

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It was a date that happened... butterflies filled inside