Anonymous asked:
Hey, have you got any book suggestions? Don't even need to be a specific genre, just listen some of your favourites please😊 (although YA is good)
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2014 books!
Book number 2 :D
Stargirl by jerry spinelli
Date? 7/1/2014
Pages? 192
Will review tomorrow I need sleep!:)
Books read: 2!
Pages read: 760:D
Damnit nonny making me procrastinate more😉
tbh i’m in a bit of a reading slump atm so none of these are ones ive read recently really but more ones that have stuck in my head i spose, and im bound to have annoyingly missed something..
(sorry if this is long oops)
But ofc, here you go:
So idk what you’ve read but heres some of my favourites, they’re hardly obscure but n mind..
I mean favourites? obviously Harry Potter but then that’s hardly a recommendation…..
I love how Rainbow Rowell writes, and so Eleanor and Park definitely is a favourite along with Fangirl, and of course Carry On.
Eleanor and park is definitely one i need to reread but its cute, romance, YA, (sad), and i think i finished it in about a day..
Fangirl is a book i love and probably came to love more after Carry On, which is the author’s take on the book/world within the real world of fangirl (ahhh that doesnt make any sense oops sorry)..So while i probably like Carry On the most of these, you probably oughta read Fangirl first..
Nowhere by Jon Robinson was very good but i need to read the rest of the trilogy..I’ll just..leave the blurb here:
Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They’re all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? And how will they ever break free … ?
I bloody love the Night Circus(by Erin Morgenstern). its so magical. its beautifully written. its an absolute gem of a novel tbh
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called ‘Le Cirque des Rêve’s, and it is only open at night.
I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson is another i bloody loved when i read it(and definitely another i really need to reread!)
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways … until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life.
another good book is we were liars by e lockhart, not a lot i can say about it tbh its YA..the summary on amazon is:
- Read this book.
- On reaching the final page, you may experience an urgent need to read it all over again.
- Check your friends have read it.
- NOW YOU ARE FREE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT ENDLESSLY
And on goodreads:
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.
So make of that what you will.
And lastly i love the 100 trilogy by Kass Morgan (also a tv series - both very different but both very good! -i started reading the books after id started watching it last year)
No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth’s radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents - considered expendable by society - are being sent on a dangerous mission: to re-colonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life…or it could be a suicide mission.
That’s at least 8 i think so I’ll leave it there; hope you enjoy them if you choose to pick any of them up, and sorry if you have already read any of them.
Thanks for the ask nonny✨
A night in reading to cheer me up I think.
Ice-cream and reading info the sun
So for 2014 I have decided to post every book I finish:D
1) Clockwork Princess By @cassandraclare
Date? 5/1/2014
Pages? 568
The last book of the infernal devices -the prequel series to the mortal instruments series
This book was amazing:D the plot was really gripping and I loved it so much!
Cassie has written this book so well and I love the links between her different series. Whilst reading it you literally do feel every emotion -happiness,sadness, anger, joy, despair, hope and so much more!
I laughed so much and I cried so much -the tears both happy and sad. I would absolutely recommend any book written by Cassie!
She really makes you imagine what is going on with such clarity because her writing is mindblowing! I love this world she has created soso much. The characters are so detailed and emotionally written that you grow attached to them and you feel like you have lived the story with them<3
Whenever I picked this book up I could not put it down and I would read past 2am every night -I finished it at 1:40am last night:’)
She has mixed fantasy and adventure with romance and teen reality, it is fast paced and dramatic and her writing is beautiful. Thank you @cassandraclare for writing such outstanding series:’)
I cannot fault Cassandra Clare on this book and I am insanely excited for City of Heavenly Fire!!!!!
:D :D :D
(By the way Sherlock now!!!:D)
Books read: 1
Pages read: 568
So that book thing…..
I mean yeah I’m still getting down what I’ve read&the date I finish&the pages..
But I lack motivation and just procrastinate too much to post them.
So I think I’ll stop reviewing them and just write the odd thing about it with a photo if I can be bothered:)
Ugh I definitely ramble too much.
Er yeah.. But books so yay!
Book number 3!
Name? Love, Stargirl
Author? Jerry Spinelli
Pages? 316
Date finished? 16/01/2014
So in the end I kind of forgot to review “Stargirl” so I shall review both here:D
Both books are fantastic but I didn’t enjoy “Love, Stargirl” (the sequel to “Stargirl” if you hadn’t guessed) quite as much.
I have read Stargirl before and I absolutely love that book because it makes you feel really warm and it is just adorable:’)
Jerry has written the characters really well and she links the very beginning to the very end with the porcupine neckties which I think was the perfect touch!
The story is really relatable for young teens and I just think it’s great!
The sequel, that I finished a couple of days ago, didn’t live up to the first I don’t think.
It was still really good don’t get me wrong, but I just didn’t enjoy it quite as much. The story line was good but I think that because it quiteis technically just one long letter from Stargirl and I sort of would have liked her and Leo to actually correspond.
I love the whole calendar thing and Perry is quite cute but the book just didn’t quite do it for me..
I hadn’t read the sequel before but I had read the first one so I guess that might javelin sort of affected it but nonetheless.
Jerry is a superb author Stargirl is a great book!
Books read? 3
Pages read? 1076
I will admit it. I have read all three books in the Fifty Shades of Grey series.
I am not admitting this because I am ashamed of my sexual desires or even because I feel the need to rant and rave about the poor writing quality of these books. (And it is extremely poor. I set my Kindle to count how many times the word “gasp” is used in the third book and the total was more than 70). I am admitting this because I feel the need to share my opinions about what I consider to be the incredibly — and dangerously — abusive relationship portrayed in the books.
When I first heard about Fifty Shades of Grey and learned they began as Twilight fanfiction, I swore I would not read them. I have read all of the Twilight books and I did not enjoy them. I found the relationships between Edward and Bella and Bella and Jacob to be patronizing and emotionally abusive, and I also thought the writing was pedestrian at best and boring to read. Why would I devote the limited amount of time I have for reading for pleasure to a series like this?
But as the dialogue about Fifty Shades of Grey increased, both in the media and amongst my friends, my curiosity was piqued. I attended a talk titled “Fifty Shades of Grey - Bad for Women, Bad for Sex” and decided that I should see what all the fuss was about.
To quote the book, I gasped. I rolled my eyes. I even bit my lip a few times. But not for the reasons Anastasia, the protagonist, did. I did out of exasperation, boredom and disgust, but also out of fear. After reading this book series, I am deeply afraid that this type of relationship will be viewed as the romantic ideal for women. And I consider that to be extremely dangerous — much more so than anything that takes place between Christian and Anastasia in the Red Room of Pain.
Could the character of Anastasia Steele be any more of a stereotype? She is an introvert, has low self-esteem, has abandonment issues from her father, apparently has only one close friend who bullies her and even though she works in a hardware store, she doesn’t seem to possess any self-sufficiency aside from cooking for her roommate and herself. She seems to have no sexual identity until Christian Grey enters her life and requests that she become his Submissive in a sexual relationship.
In order to be Christian’s submissive, Anastasia is expected to sign a lengthy and detailed contract that, amongst other requirements, requires that she exercise four days a week with a trainer that Christian provides (and who will report to Christian on her progress), eat only from a list of foods Christian supplies her with, get eight hours of sleep a night and begin taking a form of birth control so Christian will not have to wear condoms. Anastasia negotiates a few terms of the contract with Christian (she only wants to work out three days a week, not four), but all of her negotiations are only within his framework — none of the terms are hers independently. Nothing in their relationship is hers as an independent.
The character of Christian Grey is a rich, superpowered businessman who was abused as a child. He is in therapy, and Anastasia frequently references his therapist, but based on how he treats Anastasia, he doesn’t seem to be making much progress. As Anastasia’s relationship with Christian progresses, his controlling tendencies affect her life more and more. When her friend takes portraits of her for his photography exhibit, Christian buys all of them, because he does not want anyone else looking at Anastasia. (They weren’t even in a relationship when he did this.) When she is hired as an assistant at a publishing company, he buys the company — to make sure she’s “safe” working there. When she goes out to a bar with her one friend, against his wishes, he flies from New York to Washington State that same night, just to express his anger — and exercise his control over her. When she does not immediately change her name at her office (in hopes of maintaining some professional autonomy, given that he bought the company she works at), he shows up, unannounced, at her office, in the middle of her workday, to pick a fight with her. When she asks why it is so important to him that she change her name, he says he wants everyone to know she is his.
Christian’s possession of Anastasia is the cause of much of my disgust and fear of the book’s influence on people and how they view romantic relationships. After they exchange their wedding vows, the first words he says to her are, “Finally, you’re mine.” The control he exercises over her does not reflect his love for her; it reflects his objectifying of her. Christian never views Anastasia as a person, let alone an independent woman. He wants her to obey him, and even though she refuses to include that in her wedding vows, it is exactly what she does. When her mother questions her choice to keep her wedding dress on rather than change before traveling for her honeymoon, she says, “Christian likes this dress, and I want to please him.” Her desire to try some of the “kinky fuckery” in his Red Room of Pain comes from wanting to demonstrate her love for him, not her own sexual desires.
Wanting to please Christian apparently includes subjecting herself to verbal and emotional abuse from him ‘til death do them part, because any time she tries to stand up to him — which isn’t often — he berates her, guilt trips her and beats her down verbally until she apologizes and submits to him. After she uses the “safe word” in the Red Room of Pain so he will stop, he bemoans his sad state of mind later, mentioning that his “wife fucking safe worded him.” He is not concerned with her well-being or why she felt the need to use the safe word. He only cares about how it affects him.
The question that I kept asking myself as I read the books was why Anastasia stayed with Christian, and the answer I found was that she has absolutely no sense of self worth. She only feels sexy when he says she is, and when he insults or patronizes her, she accepts what he says as the truth. One of the passages that disgusted me the most was when Anastasia was at a club with Christian, dancing and thinking to herself that she never felt sexy before she met him and that he had given her confidence in her body. Yes, being with a partner who frequently compliments you can increase your confidence, but Anastasia went from zero to one hundred thanks to Christian. None of that came from within herself. Because of his influence on her, nothing in her life came from herself — her job, her home, her way of life, or even her self-esteem.
The co-dependency between Anastasia and Christian is alarming to read and even more to contemplate. When she breaks up with him at the end of the first book, the second book finds her starving herself and wasting away to nothing until he contacts her again. When she thinks his helicopter has crashed in the second book, she thinks to herself that she can’t live without him. Their marriage only comes about because he is scared she will leave him, and when she asks what she can do to prove to him she isn’t going anywhere, he says she can marry him. Yes, origins of insecurity and desperation are a great start to a healthy marriage.
When Anastasia finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and shares the news with Christian, he rages at her, asking if she did it on purpose and storming out of the house, disappearing for hours. Even though Anastasia thinks to herself that the pregnancy happened too soon in their marriage, she never considers terminating it.
The themes of the novel — that love alone can make someone change, that abuse from a spouse is acceptable as long as he’s great in bed, that pregnancies should always be carried to term even if the parents are not ready to be parents, and the ridiculously antiquated, Victorian idea that the love of a pure virgin can save a wayward man from himself — are irrational, unbelievable and dangerous.
Our culture has seen a radical shift of ideals moving towards traditional gender roles and Fifty Shades of Grey is a shining example of that. Early marriage to one’s first sexual partner, having a baby even when saying neither of the partners is ready to be a parent, and submission to one’s husband as the head of the household are all aspects of life that feminists and progressive thinkers have worked to move beyond. Anastasia and Christian’s relationship is not romantic. It is abusive. The ways he tries to “keep her safe” are not masculine or sexy. They are stalking. Fearing one’s husband’s reaction to an unexpected pregnancy is not normal, because “boys will be boys.” It is sad and dangerous and should not happen in a healthy relationship.
Fifty Shades of Grey was one of the best-selling books of the year. Sex toy classes have been inspired by it, as have new types of cocktails. The film adaptation is already in the works. I sincerely hope that honest discussion will be had about the book and that the Christian Grey ideal of romance is not one that will be perpetuated throughout our culture. The best way that can happen is through open, honest dialogue that leads to healthy relationships of two equal partners. That, in my opinion, is sexier than anything that can happen in the Red Room of Pain.
A male coworker just noticed that I was reading and decided to “let me know” that reading physical books is a dying pastime and that no one cares about books unless they’re digital. He told me that readers are rare. “Real books aren’t what people want anymore” - he says this as im reading a “real” hardcover book. IS HE CONFUSED
he sounds confused. he’s making me confused. he should just stop talking. stop the confusion.
Close the book. Look at it as if you are confused. Then look at him. Say ‘Let me knock some sense into you.’
Look at the book. Smile at him. ‘Can digital books do that?’
NO WAIT DONT DO THAT I AM NOT CONDONING VIOLENCE.
DO IT SOMETIMES SENSE NEEDS TO BE KNOCKED INTO PEOPLE BOTH LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY.
so am i hitting him with my hardback or not
JusT dO IT
The never ceasing conflict of whether to read or tumblr or art…