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Help the church recover from a horrific act of terrorism.

Donate Directly to Emanuel AME Church Here

I just donated. A small amount maybe, but at least some small way I can support this community as they grieve.

Hey North Carolina, let’s get the ‘Get Lost Get Found’ tour in your state! Favorite and reblog to vote now! One note = one vote!

The oldest photo (I think) of Terry and me, at the 1985 Eastercon. I’m 24. Still smoking and wearing grey. Photo from Rob Hansen’s 1985 Fandom Diary: http://www.fiawol.org.uk/fanstuff/FanDiary/1985c.htm

So sweet. It's been a tough year for losing literary greats.

I will always be more interested in a story with dragons than a story about a young man with no direction in life who goes to (insert city here) to “Find himself.” Like…the dragon story can still have finding yourself, but it will also have dragons.  Yeah you’ll find yourself in brooklyn but how many dragons will you find in brooklyn? How many, Chad?

Truth.

Celebrate Book Expo America and the Reblog Book Club with Tumblr!

Thursday, 5/28 at 7pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in NYC

Join patriarchy-smashing, Pushcart Prize-winning cheeseburger enthusiast Katie Coyle, who will read from her debut novel Vivian Apple at the End of the World, named by Rolling Stone as one of the best YA novels of all time, along with writers Ashley C. Ford and Julie Buntin, for free drinks, snacks, music, and teen-style fun for all ages.

Some of you you may remember this as the party that was blizzarded out in January. As promised, we will rise again, sledgehammer in hand, to celebrate great writers, great readers, and the reblogbookclub community.

Hope to see you there!

I will be sprinting from my dinner to go to this! Exciting!!

It’s easy!  

[all week at work i’ve been drinking 3 cups of coffee before i eat lunch (or breakfast) and things have been JUST SO INTERESTING!  all the time!]

Today on Cool Stuff in the Mail, this imposingly attractive tiger scarf arrived along with Renée Ahdieh’s new YA fantasy novel The Wrath & The Dawn, a reworking of the Thousand and One Nights. We thought it might work to scare potential thieves away from our work shelf!

– Petra

I didn’t get a tiger scarf but I met Renee earlier this year and AM SO EXCITED to host her for a reading!  This book is great and Renee Ahdieh is fantastic!  

This is good.

The same thing is done with racing horses. Except that they use a goat. [x]

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HELLO FAST CAT I AM YOUR DESIGNATED DOG FRIEND

Opponents would literally attempt to kidnap each other’s goats in an effort to upset the horse and cause them to lose the race. [x]

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THIS IS THE BEST THING I'VE READ ALL DAY!

So I started in on Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle today and I have to admit I’m impressed. She introduced a ridiculous amount of characters in a short period of time, but I have a good sense of their personalities and I can visualize them all clearly. Neat.

It’s kind of creepy, though. I’d just...

You will not regret your deep and immediate love for Ronan.  Ever.

Sweet Jesus I found these while lost in the weird part of the Internet and almost choked to death.

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actual lol rn.  

Terry Pratchett was prolific: He wrote more than 70 books, dozens of them about the Discworld — a flat planet borne through space by four elephants on the back of a giant turtle. Pratchett died Thursday at age 66. He had been suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. 

As Petra reports for All Things Considered, Pratchett had the good death he describes above: He died of natural causes with his cat asleep on his bed and his family around him. 

Author Terry Pratchett Was No Stranger To Death

Why I Want to Live Like I’m 40 In My 20s | Tue Night

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Flashback to a drunkish night during BEA 2014 when I drank craft beer with 3 other cool girls sharing their first times at the Big Book Con with me. We were all young and relatively new in our respective jobs and I told them, "I can't remember where this quote is from but I saw it on tumblr and it says, 'there are years that ask and years that answer,' and you guys this year is a year that answers for all of us."

And you know what tumblr? It was.