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What’s with dukes in romance novels?
According to Goodreads I’ve read 16 books with the word Duke in the title or the series name. Seriously, I’m pretty sure there are less current Dukes in England and I can’t believe there’s been much more at any one time, let alone in Regency England. But NO, heaven forbid we marry our heroine off to a mere baronet… :)
Reblogging for truth bombs :-)
I’m very bad at mornings…
If I don’t absolutely have to be somewhere in the morning, it takes me forever to get going.
I should have been at the gym an hour ago. I’m still sitting on the couch looking at Tumblr. I’ll go at some point. Have to work my arms, and try and do something to get the soreness in my legs worked out.
I know a book is good when…
Good question!
I start counting how many pages I have left and freaking out because that’s not enough pages!
I feel a lot of feelings (that aren’t the rage of “WHY DID I WASTE MY TIME ON THIS BOOK?!?!)
I look up everything about the book and anything else by the author.
I tell all my friends about it.
I give it a goodbye hug.
I buy a personal copy after having borrowed it from the library.
I don’t want to talk after I finish. I just want to think about it for a long time.
There are definitely more, but this is a good start.
From picture books to YA, The Horn Book has summer reading covered!
Want the list in PDF form? Go here.
And so grows my to-read list. Seriously guys. This isn’t funny. It never shrinks. No matter how much I keep reading… it just keeps getting bigger!
But hey, thanks. I appreciate this.
YA!flash: So about the so-called lack of boy stuff in YA
So I have a lot of feelings every single time I hear that people are “angry” or “annoyed” or whatever that they can’t find ONE SINGLE YA BOOK IN THE ENTIRE YA SECTION FOR BOYS TO READ and YOUNG MEN ARE FAILING BECAUSE GIRLS ARE TAKING OVER LITERATURE and HOW CAN BOYS POSSIBLY BE EXPECTED TO WANT… These are the feelings that got stirred up while reading this. I loved giving my boys, “girl” books. I hate lists and displays that are “Books for Boys” and “Books for Girls” I understand the idea behind things like Guys Read and materials for reluctant readers (almost always referring to boys), but I really worry about attaching titles to readers and categorizing books in these ways because I worry that someone will miss out on the book that will make them a reader because it wasn’t on the right list or someone thought they weren’t the intended audience.
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Did she miss him?
She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.
If she showed him how much she needed him, he’d run away.
"From Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
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When he got on the bus, she was already sitting in their seat — but sitting in his spot, against the wall. He was too embarrassed to say anything. He sat down next to her and let his hands hang between his knees…
Which meant she really had to reach for his wrist, to pull his hand into hers. She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb.
Her fingers were trembling.
"From Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The whole chapter about them holding hands was stunning and perfect and completely reminded me of the first time I held the hand of someone I really liked. I had to put down the book after all of that and just go to sleep.
On donating to a cause
You know when you’re at a grocery store and they ask you to donate to heart health or juvenile diabetes or homeless pets and ask you to put your name on the little heart or sneaker or puppy cut-out to hang in the window? I always put the name of a famous serial killer. Thank you, John Wayne Gacy, for donating to leukemia research!
"As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. he rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath."
From Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
