#ya lit
With This Free Short Film, Meet Author, Hero, Super Star: Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds is shaking and shaping the landscape of Young Adult literature. He is talking about real life in a voice that is unlike one that most teens have read before. He is being noticed. He has won numerous awards (John Steptoe New Talent Award, finalist, National Book Award for Young People’s Literature,Walter Dean Myers Award,Coretta Scott King Award honor in 2016, 2017, and 2018, NAAC…
Blushing teens Molly and Reid, because I love to draw some blushing teens. And The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli was very charming.
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Simon sketch from Simon VS. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. I’m years behind on my to- read list, but every one was right- soo delightful and excellent.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: survive the night by danielle vega
T e l l me you don’t love that.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: a totally awkward love story by tom ellen and lucy ivison
Eighteen is supposed to be the age when you become an adult. When you are complete. How can anyone feel finished by now? I don’t even feel started. I haven’t done anything, I haven’t been anywhere.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: road trip summer by lauren barnholdt
When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: a list of cages by robin roe
“And when you smile…my grandmother calls them big-soul smiles. She says some people have souls so big that they spread out, touching everyone they pass.” Emerald wipes her wet face again. “There are different ways to help people, Adam. There are different ways to do good.”
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books read in 2016 - 2017: a song for ella grey by david almond
Maybe we were mad that day. Maybe some of the things that seemed to happen didn’t really happen at all. Maybe many of the things that seemed to happen in the days and weeks that followed didn’t really happen. Maybe it was all because we were young, and because being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad.
But maybe the best things that we do, and the best things that we are, come from madness.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: 26 kisses by anna michels
“Finishing was never the point,“ she says, stuffing the pile of weeds she had collected into a brown yard bag. "Starting was.”
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books read in 2016 - 2017: the merciless iii by danielle vega
People no longer spoke of “hope” when they saw her. They said another word, instead.Barabas. Balakyot. D i a b l o.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: the last boy and girl in the world by siobhan vivian
We’ve been told that all good things must come to an end. Even things that feel permanent. Stuff that maybe we take for granted. Like this town. Or for me, my mom. So how tightly are we supposed to hold on to the stuff that we love? Really tightly? Or not at all? Should we be sad when they go away? Should we fight? Or is letting stuff we love go inevitable, like the old adage says?
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books read in 2016 - 2017: boys of summer by jessica brody
-Touche.
-What does that mean?
-It means you’re right.
-Of course I’m touche. I’m always touche.
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books i read in 2016 - 2017 : falling into place by amy zhang
She was tired. Gravity pulled at her more aggressively than usual. When she closed her eyes, she could feel it, dragging her deeper, deeper. I would have pulled her back. I would have saved her from falling, but she didn’t see my hand.
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books read in 2016 - 2017 : never always sometimes by adi alsaid
Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.
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❧ art by @oblivionsdream(thank you so much!)
⤞ commissioned by me
Let’s level up the angst and forbidden love trope as we await @elriel-month
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My True Love Gave to Me, edited by Stephanie Perkins
Genre- Young Adult
Publisher- St. Martin’s Press
Rating- ✮✮✮✮✮
I received a copy of this book in exchanged for a honest review. In no way did the author or publishing company influence my review.For info on my book reviews click here
I loved this book! I love Christmas, I love cheesy Christmas movies and the music and everything about it. If you feel the same way, you’ll probably love My True Love Gave to Me.
Very few of the stories weren’t insta-favorites for me, my favorites being the ones by Rowell, McEntire, White, and Foreman. I wasn’t crazy about Carter or Black’s stories, but they didn’t take away from the greatness of the other stories.
This book covers so many different characters, with different lives and views of Christmas, therefore being the perfect book for anyone. You can find a character to relate with in at least one of the stories! Mine was defiantly from Rainbow Rowell’s. (Which isn’t very surprising since I’m pretty sure she’s stealing from my life to write all her books.)
Basically, this book is perfect and you should read it this Christmas season!
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