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MASSIVE list of book recs

plays

  • death of a salesman, arthur miller
  • macbeth, shakespeare
  • a streetcar named desire, tennessee williams
  • hamlet, shakespeare
  • a raisin in the sun, lorraine hansberry
  • a midsummer night’s dream, shakespeare
  • antigone, sophocles
  • king lear, shakespeare
  • the glass menagerie, tennessee williams
  • othello, shakespeare
  • pygmalion, george bernard shaw
  • the tempest, shakespeare,
  • much ado about nothing, shakespeare
  • as you like it, shakespeare
  • the taming of the shrew, shakespeare
  • the merry wives of windsor, shakespeare
  • the merchant of venice, shakespeare
  • oedipus rex, sophocles
  • an ideal husband, oscar wilde
  • who’s afraid of virginia wolf, edward albee
  • our town, thornton wilder
  • waiting for godot, samuel beckett

fantasy/fairy tales

  • the ranger’s apprentice, john flanagan
  • harry potter series, j.k. rowling
  • inkheart by cornelia funke
  • throne of glass, sarah j. maas
  • the chronicles of narnia, c.s. louis
  • the lord of the rings, j.r.r. tolkien
  • the hobbit, j.r.r. tolkien
  • percy jackson and the olympions, rick riordan
  • eragon by christopher paolini
  • the bartimaeus trilogy, jonathan stroud
  • howl’s moving castle, dianna wynne jones
  • the wonderful wizard of oz, lyman frank baum
  • the books of bayern, shannon hale
  • ella enchanted, gail carson levine
  • the princess bride, william goldman
  • the raven cycle, maggie stiefvater
  • the sisters grimm, michael buckley
  • the spiderwick chronicles, tony diterlizzi and holly black
  • the alchemist, paulo coelho
  • forgive my fins, tera lynn childs
  • alice in wonderland, lewis carroll
  • the faerie path, allan jones frewin
  • the school for good and evil, soman chainani
  • the grimm legacy, polly shulman
  • the sweetest spell, suzanne selfors
  • the tales of the frog princess, e.d. baker
  • the wide-awake princess, e.d. baker
  • once a witch, carolyn maccullough
  • the silver bowl series, diane stanley
  • the emily windsnap series, liz kessler
  • fairest, gail carson levine
  • the fairy realm series, emily rodda
  • the water mirror, kai meyer
  • the two princesses of bamarre, gail carson levine

non-fiction

  • the seven habits of highly effective people, stephen covey
  • the seven habits of highly effective teens, sean covey
  • mencken’s chrestomathy, h.l. mencken
  • yes please, amy poehler
  • is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns), mindy kaling
  • audrey hepburn: an elegant spirit, sean hepburn ferrer
  • how to be lovely: the audrey hepburn way of life, melissa hellstern
  • how to win friends and influence people, dale carnegie
  • how to win friends and influence people for teen girls, donna dale carnegie
  • #girlboss by sophia amuroso
  • 14,000 things to be happy about, barbara ann kipfer
  • choose to matter, julie foudy
  • the little book of skin care: korean beauty secrets for healthy, glowing skin, charlotte cho
  • where stylists shop: the fashion insider’s ultimate guide, booth moore
  • the girls’ book of glamour: a guide to being a goddess, jeffrie sally
  • the girls’ book: how to be the best at everything, juliana foster
  • the girls’ book of excellence: even more ways to be the best at everything, sally norton
  • the life-changing magic of not giving a f*ck: how to stop spending time you don’t have with people you don’t like doing things you don’t want to do (a no f*cks given guide), sarah knight
  • bossypants, tina fey
  • we should all be feminists by chimamanda ngozi adichie
  • behind the scenes: or, thirty years a slave, and four years in the white house, elizabeth keckley
  • the pillow book, sei shōnagon
  • eat pretty: nutrition for beauty, inside and out, jolene hart
  • eat pretty every day: 365 daily inspirations for nourishing beauty, inside and out, jolene hart
  • narrative of the life of frederick douglass, frederick douglass
  • narrative of sojourner truth, sojourner truth
  • 12 years a slave, solomon northup

poetry

  • the flowers of evil, charles baudelaire
  • a season in hell, arthur rimbaud
  • she walks in beauty, lord byron
  • shakespeare’s sonnets, shakespeare
  • we real cool, gwendolyn brooks
  • poems of emily dickinson
  • poems of robert frost
  • leaves of grass, walt whitman
  • the raven, edgar allen poe
  • poems of edgar allen poe
  • milk and honey by rupi kaur
  • the sun and her flowers, rupi kaur
  • the princess saves herself in this one, amanda lovelace

romance

  • romeo and juliet, shakespeare
  • emma, jane austen
  • ever, gail carson levine
  • pride and prejudice, jane austen
  • eleanor and park, rainbow rowell
  • sense and sensibility, jane austen
  • jane eyre, charlotte brontë
  • landline, rainbow rowell
  • madame bovary, gustave flaubert
  • to all the boys i’ve loved before, jenny han
  • love in the time of cholera, gabriel garcía márquez
  • the sun is also a star, nicola yoon

young adult

  • fangirl, rainbow rowell
  • great expectations, charles dickens
  • aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire sáenz
  • when the moon was ours, anna-marie mclemore
  • the goldfinch, donna tartt
  • looking for alaska, john green
  • we were liars, e. lockhart
  • the wrath and the dawn, renée ahdieh
  • little women, louisa may alcott
  • palace of spies, sarah zettel
  • the clique series, lisi harrison
  • the finishing school series, gail carriger
  • eyes like stars, lisa mantchev
  • the ever after high series, shannon hale
  • along for the ride, sarah dessen
  • girl online, zoe sugg
  • keeping the castle, patrice kindl
  • stargirl, jerry spinelli
  • stir it up, ramin ganeshram
  • prom and prejudice, elizabeth eulberg
  • the summer i saved the world…in 65 days, michele weber hurwitz
  • pink and green series by lisa greenwald
  • six of crows, leigh bardugo
  • the catcher in the rye, j.d. salinger
  • the house on mango street, sandra cisneros
  • turtles all the way down, john green
  • under the lights, dahlia adler
  • geekerella, ashley poston
  • simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda, becky albertalli
  • it’s not like it’s a secret, misa sugiura
  • the idiot, elif batuman
  • the outsiders, s.e. hinton
  • everything leads to you, nina lacour
  • a wrinkle in time, madeleine l’engle
  • dumplin’, julie murphy

historical fiction

  • the great gatsby, f. scott fitzgerald
  • the scarlet letter, nathaniel hawthorne
  • a tale of two cities, charles dickens
  • the song of achilles, madeline miller
  • the last of the mohicans, james fenimore cooper
  • the constant princess, philippa gregory
  • the count of monte cristo, alexandre dumas
  • les misérables, victor hugo
  • war and peace, leo tolstoy
  • a mad, wicked folly, sharon biggs waller
  • manor of secrets, katherine longshore
  • to kill a mockingbird, harper lee
  • night, elie wiesel
  • uncle tom’s cabin, harriet beecher stowe
  • atonement ian mcewan
  • the unbearable lightness of being, milan kundera
  • things fall apart, chinua achebe
  • ophelia, lisa m. klein
  • the god of small things, arundhati roy

gothic fiction

  • frankenstein, mary shelley
  • dracula, bram stoker
  • the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
  • wuthering heights, emily brontë

parody/satire

  • catch-22, joseph heller 
  • candide, voltaire
  • don quixote, miguel de cervantes
  • animal farm, george orwell
  • the importance of being earnest, oscar wilde

science fiction

  • the city of ember, jeanne duprau
  • 1984, george orwell
  • the handmaid’s tale, margaret atwood
  • brave new world, aldous huxley
  • the lunar chronicles, marissa meyer
  • the time machine, h.g. wells
  • the fourteenth goldfish, jennifer l. holm
  • fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury
  • twenty thousand leagues under the sea, jules verne
  • the extraordinary voyages series, jules verne

epics

  • beowulf, author unknow
  • the odyssey, homer
  • the iliad, homer
  • the bhagavad gita, vyasa
  • the mahabharata, vyasa
  • inferno, dante alighieri

miscellaneous

  • the bell jar, sylvia plath
  • the secret history, donna tartt
  • swann’s way, marcel proust
  • the art of war, sun tzu
  • the awakening, kate chopin
  • moby dick, herman melville
  • anna karenina, leo tolstoy
  • the canterbury tales, geoffrey chaucer
  • the crucible, arthur miller
  • one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, ken kesey
  • the antichrist, friedrich nietzsche
  • sew zoey, nancy taylor and chloe zhang
  • the candymakers, wendy mass
  • my sister the vampire series, sienna mercer
  • eight hundred grapes, laura dave
  • their eyes were watching god, zora neale hurston
  • the adventures of huckleberry finn, mark twain
  • the adventures of tom sawyer, mark twain
  • a christmas carol, charles dickens
  • the old man and the sea, ernest hemingway
  • to the lighthouse, virginia woolf
  • utopia, thomas more
  • a spy in the house of love, anaïs nin
  • crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky
  • the assistants, camille perri
  • a room of one’s own, virginia woolf
  • the joy luck club, amy tan
  • sputnik sweetheart, haruki murakami
  • the namesake, jhumpa lahiri
  • a thousand splendid suns, khaled hosseini
  • crazy rich asians, kevin kwan
  • save the date, morgan matson
  • neuromancer, william gibson

thanks for reading! i hope this helped some of you out. hugs, mel ✨✨✨

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It’s Ya Girl’s College Scholarship Masterpost

Hello internet civilians! As some of you may or may not know, my name is Dana and I am a high school senior that is ALWAYS on the prowl for trying to get to college for as cheap as possible. I’ve come across 1000′s of scholarships that I simply don’t qualify for, so I thought “hey, why not share these with random people on the internet that don’t know where to start?” You asked the question and only answers you shall receive.

Please remember to credit me for this masterpost because I spent a lot of time and energy on it :)

PLEASE ALSO REMEMBER THAT A SCHOLARSHIP IS WORTHLESS IF YOU DO NOT APPLY FOR IT. 

SO DO NOT JUST SAVE THIS POST IN YOUR DRAFTS AND NEVER USE IT. ACTUALLY WRITE AN ESSAY OR FOUR

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4 Scholarships That Are Easy To Apply For

Do Something Campaigns

Need help on Scholarship Motivation?

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22 October 2017 ♬♪ mic drop - bts so school’s out, and i’m officially a senior in school･ﾟﾟ*(>д<)*ﾟﾟ･ i did this spread when i was extremely busy, so it’s relatively empty ლ(¯ロ¯"ლ) so i got my results back, improvements can but done, but it wasn’t too bad╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ | 39/100 days of productivity |

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[10 - 20/100 days of productivity] although i was super productive finishing four assessments in the last few weeks, i didn’t have a chance to take pictures everyday :-( but, i’m on break for a few weeks now and then back in for summer school! lots of organising, internship finding, and random stuff to do!

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somehow I got 95/20 on an assignment

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I hope they never fix it and leave it this way forever

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reblog the Awesome Grade picture for awesome grades

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guys this really works i reblogged it and then got 870% on an essay

Come on… Come on…

need this for history test tmrw

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I finally got around to taking pictures of my desk to post! 

I never had a desk in high school, so purchasing this one over the summer was honestly like a dream. I hunted for the perfect decorations and printables and organizers all summer, and I’m so happy with how it turned out!

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Hey everyone! We wanted to take the chance to thank you guys for helping us reach 17K followers. When we started this blog as a way to motivate one another despite our ‘long distance friendship’, we never dreamed that it would become so big! We can’t even begin to express how much this means to us 💖

STARTER KIT

We’ve recently been getting a number inboxes asking for suggestions to a perfect studyblr starter kit. So we’ve decided to brainstorm, and compile a beginners list to some basic/typical studyblr stationary ^_^ 

The list doesn’t include ALL the stationary the studyblr community uses, but simply the stationary that we personally love and use, and would 10/10 recommend for anyone 🌟

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15/10/2017 //

Bless our anatomy lab professor because she is forcing us to go over latin nomenclature and positioning of the bone structures before the actual lab and as much as this might be time consuming and difficult to do ourselves we are learning from the get go ✨ Ft. Yo always confused as I thought scapula is turned the other way, turns out I’m clueless 🤷🏻‍♀️

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as a procrastinating overachiever i feel like i don’t necessarily “half-ass” things, it’s more like a “3/4 ass”. like overall did i do pretty well? yeah. did i reach my maximum potential though? i think the fuck Not.

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What your headache is tellin you

I haven’t seen this post in a min but precisely when I have a headache RN it comes up in my feed

Two quick additions, as someone who suffered from chronic migraines

1. Behind the eyes: eye strain or just long stress. More sleep will definitely make this feel better. 2. Temples: unclench your jaw, as that bone is putting too much pressure on your temples.

This is a fucking life saviour with the amount of headaches I have

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types of study breaks for every situation

if you realize you’ve been studying for hours: grab a snack to refuel your body and watch a sitcom to refuel your brain. then back to the books.

if you’re feeling stressed out: take some deep breaths, text your friends, maybe stare at a wall for a few minutes. gather yourself.

if you can’t seem to focus: get moving and get outside. take out the garbage, check your mail box, maybe walk your dog. just get moving and get fresh air. it’ll help bring you back.

if there’s something else going on in your life and you can’t get it off your mind: write down what’s going through your head, sort of like a diary entry. it’ll help you work things out.

if you’re just mentally and physically exhausted: set a timer for 25-30 minutes and take a nap. any longer and you’ll hit REM and you’ll wake up feeling just as tired. once you wake up, get some caffeine in you.

if the material is boring as hell: find another way to study. see if there’s a crash course video online about it or draw out what you’re trying to learn in diagrams and pictures to make it fun.

if people around you won’t shut up: listen to some music. soundtrack and classical music is always good because they won’t absorb you as much as music with lyrics. white noise (like ocean waves, rain sounds, etc.) also works.

if you only half understand a concept: call/message a friend who’s not in the class and try to teach the material to them. this will help you mentally work through the material and will help you remember it as well.

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September 10 2017

After I posted this post I got a ton of requests for the full images of each individual poster, so here they are!! I drew them all by hand (periodic table was the worst one) and I plan on doing some more because I really like having info sheets all plain and out there like that. It really helps me study. 

I’m  pretty sure they are all legible if you click on them, but if any of you want ***printables*** I can try to scan them.

Please use these for your personal needs only! Ellee (instagram: @studyellee)

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Waiting for things in the mail is such torture.. *stares at book depository* I was thinking of doing a week in journal spreads.. or a school supply haul for the upcoming semester. Let me know what you guys think! ( 0 3 / 0 8 / 2 0 1 7 )

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HOW TO BE PRODUCTIVE ON THE WEEKENDS

Hi study buddies it is Saturday night and I’m home alone and one thing I hate about being alone is that I really never get anything done. I’m either cooking or I’m in my bed and I just hate doing that because I’m so unproductive. I know a lot of us just hate studying especially during our “down time” and we also have other priorities we need to do during the daytime. So today I’m going over some tips on how you can make your weekend a little but more productive and studious. 

  • there are 60 hours between the end of Friday after getting out of school and the end of Sunday, substracting let’s say seven hours of sleep every day you have about 39 hours of free time.
  • That is plenty of time to relax, do all the activities you need to do and also be productive to work on assignments. The first thing you need to do is plan out your weekend and make a schedule.
  • if you don’t want to read everything, i made a video explaining the same exact productivity tips on my youtube channel {link}

STUDY EARLY + PLAN A SCHEDULE

Weekends are a time for you to relax, but if you can, try to start working early in the morning because you’re going to be more productive and your brain can actually function properly. 

By 12-1 AM at night is the time where the majority of people including me cannot be productive so just try to avoid working during that time period because it’s just not a good time to be trying to memorize math functions and write a week pieced essay. I know that every time I try to study during 1 AM or 2 AM I always end up being so slow at retaining information, it just becomes counter productive. 

  • Start your assignments on Saturday night or the afternoon and try to finish it during Sunday morning. (recommended)
  • if you have the motivation to start your homework during Friday obviously do your homework during Friday, that is the best thing to do, but for the majority of us I know we would like to relax for a little bit.
  • So just try to plan a routine and schedule that matches your weekend

FIND A STUDY PARTNER

So now that you have created a routine or something or you can follow. I’m going to go over some tips on how you can be more focused and concentrated on doing the stuff that you need to do.

  • find a study buddy or just a friend that you know can keep you company. 
  • go to your local coffee shop or someone’s house and work there because if you have someone nearby, they can keep you accountable for actually doing your work  (obviously find a friend that will not distract you).
  •  If you can’t meet them in person Skype them I know a lot of people go on Skype chats with your friends and do homework. I think that is a really good idea I’ve done it a few times myself and I’ve been pretty productive during them. So try to have someone nearby that can keep you on track so you don’t spiral down into a YouTube and Netflix day.

NO MORE DISTRACTIONS

Another thing you can do is actually download some applications  that can keep you off sites like Netflix, YouTube, and Facebook.

  • I talked about this in my how to be productive after school video and basically just download this app called “self control” {link}
  • what it does is that a blocks you from using sites that you would normally get distracted on.
  • So you can and manually put in sites like Facebook.com and Netflix.com The app will block you from using it for certain amount of time that you put in, so usually when I’m studying I block myself from using YouTube for about 30 minutes to an hour limit.

FIND A STUDY SPACE

Experiment with where you’re studying because I know I cannot concentrate for my life In my bedroom.

  • The majority of the times where I’m the most productive is in my kitchen
  • experiment with where you’re studying and find out if you were the most productive in your bedroom or if you’re the most productive sitting on a couch or on a dining table.

TO-DO LIST

My fourth tip is to have a to-do list of all the things you need to do.

  •  having a written down to do list is really important because sometimes you just forget about tasks and you might end up not doing some of them.
  • having a physical piece of paper saying that you need to do all these things by the end of it this day will help you to keep you on track.

LISTEN TO MUSIC (or not, it depends)

Another thing you can do is actually play some music

  • music helps a lot of people, including me, study more efficiently because it blocks out all the distractions from the outside world and keeps you focused inside your little bubble so you can work on your assignments
  • note that music isn’t always the best thing to listen to while studying especially for classes like history or english but I do really recommend it if you’re doing some math problems because it can be quite relaxing
  • And if you don’t know what to listen to I really recommend checking out my study playlist which is study & chill  {link}
  • study session playlist - instrumental music, piano solos, soundtracks from movies {link}

Now that you have done all these things, You are for sure ready to be productive and focus on finishing all those assignments you need to do. GOOD LUCK!

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