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Mrs Weasley: now repeat after me Harry - Diagon Alley.
Harry: DIE AGGGARD GARY! Oh shoot! I mean DAGGER RON AGGY! FUCK! DIJON AOILI! DRAGON CON VALLEY! FUCK!!
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Image: Elvis Presley’s success was undoubtedly driven by the material he appropriated from black musicians. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Recently, the New York Times published an essay defending cultural appropriation as necessary engagement. What would have happened, it argues, had Elvis Presley not been able to swipe the sounds of black musicians?

Author and critic K. Tempest Bradford says that’s a simplistic, misguided way of looking at appropriation – and it can cause real harm. Consider how it relates to literature: “Writing inclusive fiction might involve appropriation if it’s done badly,” she says, “but that’s not a given.” 

ELVIS THOOOO

Things Bookworms Say/Think as They Read

  • …WHY?!?!
  • Wait, what the heck just happened?
  • OH, i skipped over a page. No wonder nothing made sense.
  • I wish you were real…
  • Daaaaaaamn! this character is hot!
  • I swear to all that is holy is this character dies I will destroy something
  • …well that was a stupid decision.
  • I ship it…like FedEx.
  • Why are you attracted to them?!? They treat you like dirt!!
  • Wow, what a plot twist…(sarcasm)
  • WOAH! What a plot twist!(not sarcasm)
  • Why would you do that?!?
  • …Nope. Nope! That’s it! I’ve had it! I’m noping the f*ck out of this book!
  • Oh God! *bends over in pain* the feels…right in the heart
  • No. Don’t lie to your love interest. Lying only makes it worse…goddamnit.
  • Aw! They’re so good together! <3
  • Do not flip to the end. Do not flip to the end to see what happens. Do not-GODDAMNIT!
  • Oh! I see what you did there author! lol
  • Do NOT hurt my cinnamonroll characters!
  • They’re twisted, cruel, sarcastic, and possibly the most evil person in the universe…they’re mine now. I call dibs.
  • …this book is too small to read without cracking the spine! (mass market books)
  • I’m already reading this book but that book just got in the mail but this other book has been on my shelf for a month…

if ths isnt me

From Entertainment Weekly: “Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones — the first installment in her riveting Mortal Instruments series — turns 10 this year. To commemorate this milestone, City of Bones is getting a stunning new anniversary edition, packed with brand new content. EW can reveal both the 10th anniversary cover (a cloth-over-board jacket with text and art stamped in foil) as well as six full-color character portraits that will appear in the new book. The book also features chapter header illustrations, black-and-white illustrations scattered throughout the book, and The Clave’s Confidential Files on our favorite characters, written by Clare herself. (top sekrit info on the characters, including birthdays, scars and major weaknesses ;) Check out the cover and the back, printed with the iconic ALL THE STORIES ARE TRUE. The 10th anniversary edition of City of Bones will be out Nov. 7, 2017, but is available for pre-order now.” Entertainment Weekly’s story is up along with a portrait of Jace: http://ew.com/books/2017/06/27/cassandra-clare-city-of-bones-anniversary-cover/

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