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Excited to announce that we are giving away an Outlander Fraser Stag Brooch to one lucky world-wide winner! Enter to win here: Fraser Brooch Giveaway Check out all our Outlander Jewelry and see more about the Fraser Stag Brooch!
Episode 115: An interview with Allison Hourcade of @rocklovejewelry
Link: outlanderpod.com/115
Listen to me wax poetic about work with Outlander, RockLove’s collaborative merch process, an embarrassing interaction with Diana Gabaldon, and my racy teenage reading habits!
“It’s been so long between the words we spoke
Will you be there upon the shore, I hope"
(Florence+The Machine Long&Lost)
Done for Caitrionation’s fundraiser for WorldChildCancer - beautiful idea inspired by Laura <3
To help survive Droughtlander ;)
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Inspired by one of my fav @Writer_DG#Outlander quotes & @SamHeughan’s heartbreaking performance
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Alright, I’m like 150 pages into Outlander and I love Jamie with all my heart
My FANTASY Summer Reading List!
~TOP 5 books I want to read summer 2016~
A Court of Mist and Fury
by Sarah J Maas
Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Glass Sword
by Victoria Aveyard
Falling Kingdoms
by Morgan Rhodes
And..
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
I just realized these are all female authors :)
Don’t know when I will get to all these (some are really chunky), but I plan to finish them all by the end of summer!
I want to read at least one classic as well, maybe Alice in Wonderland???
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Nine Books To Read Right Now: YA for People Who Don’t Read YA (but also still want to know what it’s about)
It seems like the YA buzz and controversy have continued over into 2015, and I’ve been seeing a lot of lists of “YA Books for People Who Don’t Read YA” and I’ve gotta say that I’ve been rolling my eyes a lot. Don’t get me wrong - I want people to read books that I love. I know the definition of YA is fluid, for the most part, but I’m pretty sure To Kill a Mockingbird wouldn’t be sold as YA, there’s a distinct line between middle grade and young adult, and there are books beyond The Giver and The Fault in Our Stars.
Herewith I present you nine of my favorite YA books published in the last decade or so, in no particular order. These aren’t necessarily superstars of YA, and not all of them are straight contemporary lit. Below I’ve listed the book, a short summary, and who I recommend it for.
Feel free to reblog and add on! I know I didn’t get everything and I know I haven’t read everything that could be on this list, so I’d love this to be collaborative.
Click below the cut!
The Walls Around Us - Nova Ren Suma
Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer, is days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. Within the walls of the Aurora Hills juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying their two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries.
What really happened on the night Orianna stepped between Violet and her tormentors? What really happened on two strange nights at Aurora Hills? Will Amber and Violet and Orianna ever get the justice they deserve—in this life or in another one?
For fans of…Lauren Beukes, Shirley Jackson, Kelly Link
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han
Lara Jean has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister’s ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.
For fans of…Emma Straub, Jean Kwok, Rainbow Rowell
Lies We Tell Ourselves - Robin Talley
In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily. Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the town’s most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept “separate but equal.” Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another.
For fans of…Zadie Smith, Harper Lee, Octavia E. Butler
The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth
When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both.
Then Coley Taylor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship — one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to ‘fix’ her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self — even if she’s not exactly sure who that is.
For fans of…Cheryl Strayed, Jeanette Winterson, Alison Bechdel
Theo is better now.
She’s eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when her oldest friend, Donovan, returns home after spending four long years with his kidnapper, Theo starts reliving memories about his abduction—and his abductor.
Donovan isn’t talking about what happened, and even though Theo knows she didn’t do anything wrong, telling the truth would put everything she’s been living for at risk. But keeping quiet might be worse.
For fans of…Jodi Picoult, Maria Semple, Misty Copeland
Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy’s best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they’re seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls – until the young new coach arrives.
Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death – and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain.
For fans of…Liane Moriarty, Tana French, Paula Hawkins
All the Rage - Courtney Summers
The sheriff’s son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her everything—friends, family, and her community. Branded a liar and bullied relentlessly by a group of kids she used to hang out with, Romy’s only refuge is the diner where she works outside of town. No one knows her name or her past there; she can finally be anonymous. But when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing after a party, and news of him assaulting another girl in a town close by gets out, Romy must decide whether she wants to fight or carry the burden of knowing more girls could get hurt if she doesn’t speak up. Nobody believed her the first time—and they certainly won’t now — but the cost of her silence might be more than she can bear.
For fans of…Roxane Gay, Alice Sebold, Laurie Halse Anderson
Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon*
This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she’s ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.
For fans of…Emma Donoghue, Jami Attenberg, Jenny Offill
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight - she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug.
When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace - or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away.The Graceling Trilogy as a whole really is required reading here.
For fans of…Erika Johansen, Diana Gabaldon, Naomi Novik
There you have it! Some of my recent favorites - what are yours?
Thanks to the indispensable reelbrains,dancinginodessa, and ellewceefor their help figuring out these comparable titles.
*Everything, Everything isn’t technically on sale until 9/1/15, but I still thought it was important enough to go on this list!
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“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.”-Diana Gabaldon
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“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
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WE HAVE THE CAST FOR ADULT WILLIAM RANSOM PLAYED BY CHARLES VANDERVAART IN SEASON 7
Excerpt from the Outlander Prequel
From Diana’s Twitter that she accidentally posted
The door to the chieftain’s room stood ajar. Ned paused for an instant outside, listening as was his custom—but of course, no need now to judge the temper of the room’s inhabitant before entering. Nonetheless, he took a deep breath. He let it out, nostrils twitching, and stepped into the room.
Jacob MacKenzie lay half-on and half-off the couch beneath the window, half-clad in his twisted shirt, his randy auld loins exposed and slippery and the couch beneath him fouled by the loosenings of death.
“I should have thought to bring a sheet,” Ned said aloud. More to break the odd stillness than as apology to the corpse, but he did glance at Jacob’s face as he said it, and nearly beshit himself as the dead man stirred. Only the fact that he’d bitten his tongue kept him from shrieking, and it was with thundering heart and watery bowels that he realized belatedly that the movement wasn’t Jacob’s, but that of a big orange cat, curled on the cushion just above its master’s head, where its thick fur mingled with Jacob’s disordered locks—still thick and red, despite his age.
“Jesus, Mary and Joseph,” Ned said, the shock making him cross. “What the devil are you doing here?”
Rorvik Ruadh merely stared at him, amber eyes unsettling. Christ, had the beast been in the room during—
He debated seizing the cat by its scruff and putting it out of the room, but Rory was as much a force of nature as his master, and a wise man wouldn’t lay a finger on him, uninvited.
“Very well, then,” he said to the cat, and firming his shoulders, went to the washstand and fettled himself for the job at hand. Maeve FitzGibbons and some of the women would see to the proper laying-out, washing and grave-clothes and tidying of the body, but he felt that such a man as his employer—too small a word for what Red Jacob was (“had been,” he corrected himself) to him, but his brain refused to find another—deserved the attentions of a loyal henchman in this last undignified extremity.
Catriona’s best performance yet!! Still shocked after today’s episode.
Catriona on the set of Outlander season 7
Looks like someone is gonna have a bad hair day lmao
Outlander 06x06 promo pics!!
OUTLANDER SEASON 7 IS IN PRODUCTION!!
Diana posted an excerpt of book 10 on twitter. Here it is:
[Excerpt from Book 10 [Untitled], Copyright 2022 Diana Gabaldon]
“What are you thinking?” I asked. “I know it’s about William.”
“Oh, aye?” He glanced at me, mouth curled up at one side. “And what do I look like if I’m thinking of William?”
“Like someone’s handed you a wrapped package and you’re not sure whether it’s something wonderful, or a bomb.”
That made him laugh, and he put an arm around me and pulled me in close, kissing my temple. He smelled of day-old linen, ink and hay, and the dribble of honey that had dried down the front of his shirt, like tiny amber beads.
“Aye, well, one look at the lad and ye ken he’ll explode before too long,” he said. “I only hope he doesna damage himself doing it.”
“Or you.”
He shrugged comfortably.
“I’m no very breakable, Sassenach.”
“Says the man with four—no, five bullet holes in his hide, to say nothing of enough surgical stitching to make a whole crazy quilt. And if we start counting the bones you’ve cracked or broken…”
“Ach, away—I’ve never broken anything important; just the odd finger. Maybe a rib, here or there.”
“And your sternum and your left kneecap.”
He made a dismissive Scottish noise, but didn’t argue.
We stood for a bit, arms about each other, listening to the sounds outside. The younger children had fallen asleep under bushes or in their parents’ wagons, their happy screeching replaced by music and the laughter of the dancers, the clapping and calls of those watching.
“He came to me,” Jamie said quietly. He was trying to sound matter-of-fact, but he’d stopped trying to hide what he was feeling.
“He did,” I said softly, and squeezed his arm.
“I suppose there wasna really anyone else he could go to,” he said, off-handed. “If he canna find his grace, I mean, and he couldna very well talk to anyone in the army, could he? Given that….” He stopped, a thought having struck him, and turned to me.
“D’ye think he knows, Sassenach?”
“Knows what?”
“About—what he said. The…threat to Lord John. I mean–” he elaborated, seeing my blank look, “does he ken that it’s no just a canard.”
“A—oh.” I stopped to consider for a moment, then shook my head with decision. “No. Almost certainly not. You saw his face when he told us about what Richardson was threatening. He’d still have been scared—maybe more scared—if he knew it wasn’t an empty threat—but he wouldn’t have looked the way he did.”
“Anxious? Angry?”
“Both. But Anyone would be, wouldn’t they? Under the circumstances.”
“They would. And…determined, would ye say?”
“Stubborn,” I said promptly, and he laughed.
“A bomb for sure, then.”
New stills of Fergus from the previous 2 episodes that aren’t in the show…
I know bc I spent days trying to figure out if I’m going crazy or I missed something…
–No fuiste la primera mujer que besé –susurró–. Pero te juro que serás la última.
Forastera, Diana Gabaldon
“Cuando pregunté a mi padre cómo sabría cuál era la mujer correcta, me respondió que llegado el momento, no tendría ninguna duda. Y así fue. Cuando desperté en la oscuridad bajo aquel árbol en el camino a Leoch, contigo sentada en mi pecho y maldiciéndome por dejarme sangrar hasta morir, me dije: «Jamie Fraser, a pesar de su aspecto y de lo que pesa, ésta es la mujer.»”
Forastera, Diana Gabaldon
Dije: «Señor, si alguna vez en mi vida he tenido valor, dámelo ahora. Permíteme ser lo bastante valiente para no caer de rodillas y rogarle que se quede». –Apartó la vista de la cabaña y me sonrió–. Ha sido el momento más difícil de mi vida, Sassenach.
Forastera, Diana Gabaldon
Las heridas no estaban cicatrizadas. Nos habíamos perdonado, pero nuestras palabras perduraban en la memoria, inolvidables.
Forastera, Diana Gabaldon
–¿Se acaba alguna vez… este deseo por ti? –Su mano acarició mi pecho–. Incluso después de tenerte te deseo tanto, que me cuesta respirar y me duelen los dedos de ganas de tocarte otra vez.
Forastera, Diana Gabaldon
