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[doubledaybooks]

"What is grief, but love that’s lost its object?"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/695825/when-women-were-dragons-by-kelly-barnhill/

[the-unseelie]

the wicked king & the queen of nothing

characters belong to @hollyblack

[ireadyabooks]

The Hunger Games Illustrated Edition

The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before -- in a remarkable illustrated edition.

Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem.

One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death featuring two young tributes from each of Panem's twelve districts. This gruesome battle is meant to send home a chilling message: Rebellion will always be punished.

When Katniss finds herself within the Hunger Games arena, she knows the odds aren't in her favor. Any wrong move will end her life -- and even the right moves come with a cost. But if she can survive, there is a chance the districts may survive as well...

The Hunger Games has enthralled millions of readers in its examination of the price of war, human nature, and the powerful force of both love and resistance. Now it appears for the first time in a deluxe illustrated edition, with spellbinding art from internationally acclaimed artist Nico Delort.

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[cortanasdaisies]

a herongraystairs reunion in twp would actually ruin me yall don't understand. i was a complete wreck for a week after reading clockwork princess and had a fever from crying so hard. their reunion would kill me.

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (December 24th, 2024)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Sequels:

Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow #2) by Xiran Jay Zhao

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Happy reading!

[quotingmyjourneys]

“I think there are lives that make it easy to be good. Or what most people call good. When you have wealth, status, family, it’s easy to be a saint, it costs you nothing. I can’t say if you’re a good person or not. But the more I know of you, the more I understand that the world keeps making you choose between survival and martyrdom. No one should fault you for wanting to live.”

— Margaret Owen (Little Thieves | Little Thieves #1), first pub. 2021, USA

[marshmyers]

Check out my curated collection of books and graphic novels featuring LGBTQ characters and themes and spanning various genres, from science fiction to the supernatural to fantasy and beyond.

SEE THE COLLECTION

[magicnaanavi]

Aelin

[permanentreverie]

books read in 2023: a good girl’s guide to murder by holly jackson

“I’m not sure I’m the good girl I once thought I was. I’ve lost her along the way.”

[qbdatabase]

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White: Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. ..... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

[leebrontide]

Shed Letters: the complete archive so far

For all the people who've followed me recently- at least SOME of whom must be actual people and not clickbait bots- I have a free monthly newsletter that I'm really proud of. If you like what I write here, you can access my once month efforts to present organized, spellchecked, researched thoughts, often with cool links for further reading.

If you wanna read about writing, ableism, queerness, psychology, research deep dives into history, science, and current events that are funneling into my writing, consider looking over some of what I have on offer, and maybe consider subscribing.

Also contains cat pictures!

Reblogs welcome!

You Heard It Here, First! An announcement of a co-authoring project in the works where we use a pulpy vampire romance to explore queer history in MN

What Stories Are You Made Of? A meditation on renegotiating my relationship to the problematic queer media I had access to in the 90s

What Do We Celebrate? Pics and the story of how I ended up throwing a T(ea) party to celebrate starting HRT, and my nonlinear path to hormone therapy

Why I’m Researching a 19th Century Cult This Month What’s a civil war era cult have to do with the scifi YA I’m writing? (Hint- they were literally trying to breed messiahs into existence).

Another Kind of Coziness How can anti-ableist theory make my writing space so damn cozy and effective?

A Unique Character Development Technique  Learn about one of my most ridiculous ways of intuitively developing new characters. 

The Golden Girls, D&D, and The Newest Way I’m Refusing to Make Writing Solitary This is actually all one topic

Tractors, Cybernetics and the Radical at the Radioshack That time I got radicalized by a Radioshack cashier and what it has to do with disability activism

The Cartoons Are Coming for Our Collective Trauma A therapist/YA writer’s thoughts about why kids shows are all about intergenerational trauma these days, and what I think it means for our future

People Who Need People Writing about The Giver, Each of Us a Desert, and what it’s been like having one of those faces that compels people to tell me things I have absolutely no business knowing

The Bananabook Method  What I call “The Bananabook Method” of book planning/pre-writing. Please enjoy my collection of absurd tiny colorful notebooks and this explanation of my *~process~*.

Because Everybody Was Calling for YA Scifi About HIPAA, Right? Why I’m writing about medical data privacy practices in scifi books for teens. Contains a LOT of info about the current systems and their limits.

Tinkering With Cyberpunk I was interviewed about cyberpunk and disabilities by the lovely Zuhura Ismail, whose wonderful cyberpunk art is also included in this edition.

Lies I Tell Myself, Security Blankets and Backstitch Drafting Another writing process post! Features a very nice cat picture, more writing with memory problems, and my proposal that creative project advice is only as useful as it is adaptable.

Of Flesh and Gundams What somatic psychology has to say about the pursuit of perfection and immortality via tech.

Gods and Ink - the new digital era of old school mythmaking and my newest tattoo.

[thereaderbee]

What are you currently reading? Or planning to start this weekend? We made it to Friday, Bookworms! Do you have any reading plans this weekend? What will you be reading? 📖 I don’t have anything planned for the weekend so far, so I’m hoping that I can spend most of it catching up on some reading.I’m almost finished with *The Fine Print*, and I am trying to decide what I want to start next. Maybe something cute and quick to get me back in a reading mood. ❤️ What are you guys reading this weekend? 📖 📚 📖 📚 📖 📚 #AlltheBooksMar23 #MyFictionalMusings #CourtofReadingMar23 #ReadingintheWeb 📖 📚 📖 📚 📖 📚 #bookstack #bookpile #books #reading #shelfie #bookshelf #fantasybooks #yabooks #bookstagram #booknerd #booklover #booksaremagic #bookcommunity #booksofinstagram #igreads #currentlyreading #fridayreads #amreading #tbr #toberead #bookaesthetic #weekendreading #ilovebooks #cozyreading #bookphoto https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp4wOwROE5y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ireadyabooks]

The Light in Hidden Places: Read an Excerpt!

The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron.

One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make...

It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemysl, Poland, singing her way into their lives and hearts. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio -- a betrothal they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish.

But everything changes when the German army invades Przemysl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for Helena, her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door. Izio's brother Max has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Then they must wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that will mean death. When the knock finally comes, it is two Nazi officers, requisitioning Stefania's house for the German army.

With two Nazis below, thirteen hidden Jews above, and a little sister by her side, Stefania has one more excruciating choice to make.

This remarkable tale of courage and humanity, based on a true story, is now a Reese's Book Club YA Pick!

READ AN EXCERPT

The Light in Hidden Places ... by I Read YA

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[cortanasdaisies]

there’s nothing cuter than percabeth in chalice of the gods because after being with them through tartarus and back, a little adventure and domestic moments with them just felt so right

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (December 3rd, 2024)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

Dust by Alison Stine

The Party by Natasha Preston

My Fairy God Somebody by Charlene Allen

When the Mapou Sings by Nadine Pinede

Encanto by Alex Segura

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Happy reading!