Books I’ve read in 2021: ‘The Silver Chair’ by C.S. Lewis | Middle Grade Fantasy | 3/5
“Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.”
Books I’ve read in 2021: ‘Six of Crows’ by Leigh Bardugo | YA Fantasy | 4/5
“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?" "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej. "Gun to the back?" said Jesper. "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina. "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
Books I’ve read in 2021: ‘The Children of Jocasta’ by Natalie Haynes | Myths and Legends | 3/5
"There turned out to be a difference between knowing something terrible might be true, and discovering it was definitely true."
Books I’ve read in 2021: ‘The Lightning Thief’ by Rick Riordan | Middle Grade Fantasy | 4/5
"Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say."
Books I’ve read in 2021: ‘The Nickel Boys’ by Colson Whitehead | Historical Fiction | 5/5
“Like justice, it existed in theory."
Buckle up kids it’s time to reread Percy Jackson
So this is the launch of a new community where we (re)read books together, share our thoughts and hold discussions, get creative, and try and put a bit of good out into the world as we go
After a public vote, we’ll be reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan in support of Save the Children
Rules and general info:
- We’ll be reading one chapter a day. You are obviously allowed to read at whatever pace you want but I’ve set a slow pace so people with hectic lives can still get involved
- The event will be from the 1st - 22nd April
- On this blog, twitter, and instagram I’ll be posting my thoughts and a discussion question for each chapter so feel free to get involved!
- You are encouraged to get involved however you want- be creative! Art, videos, your thoughts throughout reading the book, reading in a new language, writing scenes from other characters POVs, posting headcanons, tiktoks, baking blue food; there are loads of great ways to get involved! The more creative the better
- Make sure to use the tag #readforchange so we can all join in on each other’s discussions and hopefully make some new friends!
- I also thought it would be great to try and tie in the read along to trying to raise a bit of money for charity and you guys selected Save the Children as our first charity
- Read here to learn more about Save the Children and what they do
- Obviously I’m not expecting us to raise loads but every little helps!
- As with the reading, how you want to get involved in fundraising is up to you. You could donate £1, you could use the sponsorship form to raise money from friends and family (especially if you’re doing something creative!), you could hold a bake sale with blue food, or you could help out by sharing the link to the just giving page
This is all meant to be fun, flexible, and low pressure so get involved as much or as little as you want and really make it your own. I can’t wait to see what you all get up to!
Reblog if you’re interested so we can get as many people involved as possible! I’ll be posting reminders as we get closer to the day but I’m so excited and hopefully you guys are looking forward to it too!
Books I’ve read in 2021: ’Pandora's Jar' by Natalie Haynes | Myths and Legends | 5/5
“What Pandora brings to mortals is complexity. And that is true of all the women in this book [...] Their stories should be read, seen, heard in all their difficult, messy, murderous detail. They aren’t simple because nothing interesting is simple."
Books I've read in 2021: 'The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' by Claire North | Science Fiction | 5/5
“Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
Books I’ve read in 2021: ‘Darius the Great is Not Okay’ by Adib Khorram | YA Contemporary | 4/5
“...We have a saying in Farsi. It translates 'your place was empty.' We say it when we miss somebody." I sniffed. "Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”
Books I’ve read in 2021: ‘There’s Something About Sweetie’ by Sandhya Menon, YA Contemporary Romance, 4/5
“He thought, ‘Life can't get any more perfect than this’. But they were young, and it did.”
Moodboards Masterpost
so I’ve had a request from @sai-kida134 to compile something of a master post for the moodboards I’ve made and it sounded like a great bit of lockdown procrastination so here I am
- I know I don’t post here any more but I do still make these in other places so feel free to hmu if there are any requests
- entries in bold are ones I personally like the most. A highlights reel if you will (because some of them are decidedly subpar lol)
- *please note mood boards with asterisks were made ironically and are not aesthetically pleasing in the slightest*
- (also note that when I just typed that I wrote asterix which is hilarious but also? what an icon?)
Buckle up kids it’s that time of year again
So this year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and, as has become custom on this blog, I thought we could do a celebratory group reread
Rules and general info:
- The pace set for the reread will be one chapter a day during the week and two chapters a day at the weekend. You are obviously allowed to read at whatever pace you want but I’ve found it works best to set a slow pace so people with hectic lives can still get involved
- This means the reread will be happening from the 8th-25th of July with the 8th marking the actual 20th anniversary
- On this blog I’ll be posting my thoughts on each chapter, artwork, and a discussion question for each chapter so feel free to get involved with that!
- However you are obviously allowed to get involved in this reread however you want- art, videos, your thoughts throughout the reread, reading in a new language; there are loads of great ways to get involved!
- Just make sure to use the tag #hogwartsreread so we can all join in on each other’s discussions and hopefully make some new friends!
Reblog if you’re interested so we can get as many people involved as possible! I’ll be posting reminders as we get closer to the day but I’m so excited and hopefully you guys are looking forward to it too!
Books I’ve read this year: ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Historical(ish) Fiction, 4/5
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story”
GUYS IT’S A CONCERT
IF YOU LISTEN TO JOEY IN THE BACKGROUND OF THAT VIDEO OF JAIME WITH A BALLOON AROUND HER ON JULIA’S INSTAGRAM STORY, IT SOUNDS LIKE JOEY IS PRACTICING LINES. AND HE SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT “THIS SPECIAL REUNION CONCERT” I CANNOT BELIEVE IT
Books I’ve read this year: ‘One of Us is Lying’ by Karen M. McManus, YA Mystery, 3/5
“I guess we're almost friends now, or as friendly as you can get when you're not one hundred percent sure the other person isn't framing you for murder.”
Books I’ve read this year: ‘On the Come Up’ by Angie Thomas, YA Contemporary, 4/5
“All these folks I've never met became gods over my life. Now I gotta take the power back.”
i have zero (0) feelings regarding the jonas brothers reunion, but i will fight every single one of you that has the audacity to call year 3000 a jonas brothers song in 2019
Books I’ve read this year: ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ by Diana Wynne Jones, Middle Grade Fantasy, 4/5
“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
Books I’ve read this year: ‘The Power’ by Naomi Alderman, Dystopian Fiction, 5/5
“One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.”
Books I’ve read this year: ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Historical Romance, 5/5
“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”