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Favorite Rewritings
Round 1
The Goose Girl is a retelling of The Goose Girl fairy tale
"I love that Hale was able to take a little explored fairy tale about a princess tricked into being a servant and create a full multi-chapter YA level story and world. I love fairy tales and discovering this book in the MS lib really helped me branch out with reading. Plus there is so much magic and world building written in that it feels so unique and alive. I try to reread at least parts of this book every few years. Isi feels so real and I love reliving her ups and downs."
Razorhurst is "a fantastical retelling of the Razor Gangs in Sydney in the 1930s, especially female mob bosses Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh and female 'best girls' Dulcie Markham and Nellie Cameron"
#specific polls about books#spab polls#tournament polls#spab#favorite rewritings#round 1#bookblr#books#retellings#rewritings#fairytale retelling#fairy tale retelling#the goose girl#goose girl#shannon hale#razorhurst#justine larbalestier
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plush book self-care
#zombie#unicorn#cartoon gore tw#gore tw#goth#emo#pink#black#skeleton#zombies vs unicorns#anthology#holly black#kathleen duey#meg cabot#garth nix#margo lanagan#diana peterfreund#justine larbalestier#cassandra clare#scott westerfeld#libba bray#maureen johnson#carrie ryan#alaya dawn johnson#book#bookblr#bath bomb#self care kit#read#freshly brewed :] <kits>
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10 and 17 for the book asks? <3
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10. the worst book u have ever read?
oh man, which one to even pick. i recently skimmed part of A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, which was just. so boring. so annoying. i'm ridiculously irritated by the claim that robotic anything is forever. i haven't read the whole thing but i want to chuck it in the bin. ugh.
anyways, for a terrible book i have properly read thru -- i read this book 15 years ago and had to go plug in enough key phrases to google to remember the title (ty reddit!) but the book How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier. its a YA novel that came out in 2008, and i am still so annoyed at this thing all these years later. the book premise is this society where everyone has a fairy that comes with a like...perk? special benefit? idek. the main character is this brat with a "best parking spot" fairy and like. the book premise is weird and quirky and whatever, i'm usually down for that, but it equates the main character, who just doesn't feel special and is annoyed by people always trying to get her to come with them for the parking spot perk, and her problems to be just as bad as this other character's situation. the other girl has an "all the boys like her" fairy (this girl is extremely isolated, is constantly harassed, doesn't think she will ever be able to form a genuine connection with anyone, etc) and i'm still a little bit outraged that this book genuinely claims that a girl not feeling special is equivalent to the extreme loneliness and harassment this other teen went through her entire life. there's a lot of other issues in this book, but that one takes the cake.
17. a book to get u out of a reading slump?
if i'm in a reading slump, i usually go for either stuff i read a lot growing up, short story anthologies, or something short i won't take too long to get through even if i put it down. right now i'm reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, and right before it i read the novella Lost in the Moment and Found (from the Wayward Children series) by Seanan McGuire, because guess who's in a reading slump right now rip @.@
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#ty friend! <3#my patience for terrible books really has plummeted#i used to be able to read the things thru but now its like 20-50 pages before i dip out#i think the last book i read all the way thru that i didnt like was#oh fuck me it was a dark little mermaid story what was it called......#to kill a kingdom!#that one#a friend really liked it and i read the whole thing thru thinking 'so whens this gonna get good?'#most boring take on killer mermaids honestly
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Alredered Remembers Justine Larbalestier, Australian writer of young adult fiction, on her birthday.
"Read a lot. Write a lot. In that order. There are very very few good writers who aren’t also good readers."
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Submissions for rewritings :
Little Thieves (Margaret Owen)
Sirena (Donna Jo Napoli)
Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine)
After the Forest (Kell Woods)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Scieszka)
Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik)
Blackout | All Clear (Connie Willis)
The Great Gatsby Undead (Kristen Briggs)
Fire and Hemlock (Diana Wynne Jones)
Eight Days of Luke ( Diana Wynne Jones)
Iron Widow (Xiran Jay Zhao)
The Beast's Heart (Leife Shallcross)
The Goose Girl (Shannon Hale)
Razorhurst (Justine Larbalestier)
Angel Mage (Garth Nix)
Frogkisser (Garth Nix)
Rilla of Ingleside (L.M. Montgomery)
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet (Bernie Su and Kate Rorick)
The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet (Kate Rorick)
The Goddess of the River (Vaishnavi Patel)
The Lunar Chronicles (Marissa Meyer)
So Many Beginnings (Bethany C. Morrow)
The Radiant Emperor duology (Shelley Parker-Chan)
Beauty (Robin McKinley)
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
The Grandest Bookshop in the World (Amelia Mellor)
Circe (Madeline Miller)
Kaikeyi (Vaishnavi Patel)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)
The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'Dell)
Season 2 :
Richard III (William Shakespeare)
Thomas the Rhymer (Ellen Kushner)
Klaus (Grant Morrisson)
Briar (Christopher Cantwell)
Mr. Darcy's Diary (Amanda Grange)
A Man Among Ye (Craig Cermak)
The Daughter of the Doctor Moreau (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
Once & Future (Kieron Gillen)
The Looking Glass Wars (Frank Beddor)
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Some books I read recently that I really enjoyed!:
Hail Mary - Andy Weir (science fiction? idfk i’m so bad a genres)
The silent patient - alex michaelides (psychological thriller?- this was a booktok rec and I did not expect to like it as much as I did)
Some YA I used to love:
Caraval Series - Stephanie Garber (it’s a magic game idk what else to say)
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver (time loop. has a pretty okay movie too)
My Sister Rosa - Justine Larbalestier (psychological thriller)
Series of all time:
Howls moving castle - Diana Wynne Jones
:-) that’s it that’s the tweet (or should I say the x)
ohhh thank you!!! im putting these all on my list!!!
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I'm always sad when I don't see Strange Horizons on these lists. It is WEEKLY. It is FREE (though we of course appreciate contributions on Patreon or our Kickstarter). It has FICTION of the speculative variety. It has POETRY and NON FICTION and PODCASTS too! Oh, and ART to go along with all of that.
SH has been around, online, for over 20 years. We're run by a volunteer editorial collective and pay market rates to contributors. We've been shortlisted for the Hugo (semi-pro zine) and many of the stories we publish have won awards.
We also have a record of finding and supporting exciting new voices in SF: writers who got their start in Strange Horizons include N. K. Jemisin ("Cloud Dragon Skies," from 2005), Justine Larbalestier ("The Cruel Brother," from 2001), Ken Liu ("The Algorithms for Love," from 2004), Nnedi Okorafor ("The Palm Tree Bandit," from 2000), and John Scalzi ("Alien Animal Encounters," from 2001). You can find others in our archives as well, like Charlie Jane Anders, Ursula Vernon, Vandana Singh, and Saladin Ahmed, to name a few.
So yeah, check out Strange Horizons! You'll probably find something you'll like! Long live short fiction!
Amazon fucks everyone over again
some of you may recall Neil Clarke's blog post on the deluge of AI-generated spam that has hit Clarkesworld Magazine's submissions queue.
well, Clarkesworld and other short fiction magazines like it are about to get another swift kick in the dick: Amazon is discontinuing their magazine subscription service (and replacing it with a new service that pays creators much, much less). of the very little money made in the short fiction market, most of it was coming from Amazon.
as Clarke points out in his editorial on the subject, "While there are plenty of people happily reading, listening to, and writing short fiction, a very disappointingly small percentage of those same people are actively paying for it."
short fiction is not dead. the existence of subreddits like r/NoSleep and blogs like @writing-prompt-s proves that. if you value these stories and you want to help writers get paid for their work, please consider checking out (and subscribing to) some of the following publications:
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Apex Magazine
Asimov's Science Fiction
Clarkesworld Magazine
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Fantasy Magazine
Nightmare Magazine
many of these publications charge less than $5 USD per month for subscriptions, so if you've just dropped Netflix and have an extra $10/month lying around, you can instead support two fiction magazines full of interesting, original, well-written stories.
(feel free to reblog with your own favorite publications!)
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Posted a review of Magic or Madness #3: Magic’s Child by Justine Larbalestier on my blog. Read it here.
tl;dr – Mostly good
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I normally don't vote if I don't know both elements but c'mon! In an unreliable narrator contest Gen's only possible rival is the narrator of Justine Larbalestier's Liar, Micah.
UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE C
Kaz Brekker Propaganda:
whenever the book switches to his narration hes always going "haha.. im so cool and smart and cool and cunning.. no one can outsmart me mahahah..." and then you switch to literally any other character (well. mostly inej) and they're pointing at him and laughing. stupid ass motherfucker who's too smart for his own good
Eugenides Propaganda:
the entire plot hinges on a detail he lets the reader (and every other character) assume is true. I don't want to spoil it because it's a really fun reveal but he is lying from the first second he appears on the page and you can't trust him to tell the full truth about ANYTHING related to himself and his goals. he mostly does it to keep his advantage and not have other characters be suspicious of him but it's just so fun when you realise he's been lying the whole time
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#Holly Black#Sonia Hartl#Justine Larbalestier#Sarah Rees Brennan#the lost girls#the coldest girl in coldtown#Team Human#Love That? Read This!
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team unicorns has cishet protagonists and unnecessary romances (and whiny unicorns)
team zombies has two mlm and one wlw story and a girl who killed her romantic interest who turned out to be a traitor and ruled the land alone
I think it's obvious which one I prefer
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Rereading old favorites and remembering all the authors I’ve been fortunate enough to meet and attend workshops with.
#tamora pierce#scott westerfeld#justine larbalestier#maggie stiefvater#lara elena donnelly#seth dickinson#mike and rachel grinti#kij johnson#catherynne m. valente#cinda williams chima#kristin cashore#edith pattou#megan whalen turner#john green#david levithan#rainbow rowell#alison bechdel#rosslyn elliot#mindy mcginnis#jay asher#lemony snicket#chris colfer#mitch albom#mary peterson haddix#jayson reynolds#loung ung#dorothy allison#salman rushdie#kristin mcbride#jeannine garsee
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sunshine by robin mckinley
team human by sarah rees brennan and justine larbalestier
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Any suggestions for Vampire 🧛🏽♂️ Books 📕?
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books read in 2020 ---- My Sister Rosa 4⭐ ‘s
“She promised to be good. She wasn't.”
#booksin2020#young adult#ya#my sister rosa#justine larbalestier#ya thriller#thriller#psychological thriller#book#book aesthetic#book moodboard#aesthetic#moodboard#bookworm#novel
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