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dont make a blood oath with a near-stranger just because he's hot!!!
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@booksociety’s Children of the Night Event: House of Salt and Sorrows
Flushed with starlight and moonlight drowned, All the dreamers are castle-bound. At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind, Revealing fantasies soft or unkind. Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest daydreams. Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen.
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@novelsnet event 03 alternate covers
— house of salt and sorrows
❝ All the dreamers are castle-bound. At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind, Revealing fantasies soft or unkind. Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest daydreams. Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen. ❞
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Books are just so damn pretty ✨
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Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen.
My October reads.
Eligible: Not gonna lie. Wasn't a big fan. I love Pride and Prejudice, but this retelling was not it.
ACOWAR & ACOFAS: I am still experiencing a book hangover. Thank you for that.
Scarlet & Cress: After DNFing Scarlet multiple times, I'm glad I made it through. These ended up being so good. I'm just a little salty that I can't get the books with the original covers now.
The Hollow: A good spooky read for spooky month. Haven't read the rest of the series, but maybe one day I will.
House of Salt and Sorrows: I'm still reading it but I already love it. I've been humming the theme from 12 Dancing Princesses because of this.
The Final Girl Support Group: This was a book club book. I've really wanted to read some of the other books by Grady Hendrix. This one had the ability to be something so great but it just never got there. It was too slow and then bam. I was able to figure out the antagonist 1st page. It is a nice homage to horror movies though!
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Things we should do in English class instead of just Shakespeare:
- Compare & contrast a Rick Riordan book, an original Greek myth, and/or a retelling like Song of Achilles
- Instead of talking about poetic devices, look for imagery, symbolism, and color theory in comics/graphic novels/Webtoons (Lore Olympus is a great example!!)
- Analyze a Broadway musical instead of a Shakespeare play. (There’s SO MUCH to unpack in Dear Evan Hansen)
- Have half the class read a book, and the other half listen to the audiobook. Do the audiobook kids have more similar interpretations? How much does the inflection and (unsaid) thoughts of the narrator influence ones takeaway?
10k notes and I’ll show this to my English teacher
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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔫, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔢
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Azriel
I think it’s interesting that Azriel, who is considered to be the coldest and the least emotional of the brothers, and maybe of most characters, has displayed very thoughtful, caring, gentle gestures towards everyone around him, even those he doesn’t particularly like. There is a kindness that’s hidden in him and I hope that it’s revealed more in his book.
- Azriel is the only person who attempted to make the initial visit to the sisters as comfortable, or as non-confrontational as possible.
- Azriel offered to teach Feyre to fly, understanding how difficult it would be for her and taking the time to explain, understand and help her overcome her physical and mental limitations.
- Azriel, to his great detriment, with shredded wings, saved not only Elain, but a completely random other person from Hybern.
- It was Azriel who rushed to find and rescue Mor, after Eris left her naked, half-dead, with nails embedded in her belly, on the forest floor. Despite the fact that he’d only known her for a little while, and she opted for Cassian instead of him.
- Azriel, curiously, is the only person who ever voiced concern and objection over the Blood Rite. While he is being perceived as an Illyrian hater, even by Rhys, only he said that it was a barbaric practice and that it wasted young men’s lives completely unnecessarily. Everyone else’s opinion seems to be ‘Oh, well, it’s tradition’. His opinion is –why the hell are we doing this and why is this allowed?
- Azriel is the only person who never picked a fight with Nesta. He is also the one person, besides the sisters and Cassian, who got her a thoughtful Solstice gift.
- Azriel covered Cassian with a blanket after Nesta’s nightmare.
- ‘Gentle and unfaltering’ Azriel stepped in to train the priestesses.
- ‘Be careful how you speak about my High Lady’
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Cassian: FEYRE. Tell your sister to be nice to me.
Feyre: What did she do?
Nesta: Absolutely nothing.
Cassian: She threw a KNIFE at my HEAD.
Nesta: I knew he would catch it.
Feyre: To be fair, you have great reflexes.
Cassian: YOU BOTH ARE MISSING THE POINT. I WAS BATHING. SHE ATTACKED ME AT MY MOST VULNERABLE.
Feyre: You always told me an attack could come at any time.
Cassian: *leaves*
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It’s a beautiful October! We usually expect a lot of new Phantom materials around Halloween, but they’re usually less light than this, so we can only hope there’ll be more for next month, too!
Phantom Heart by Kelly Creagh is billed as a “steamy YA romance” and is set in the present day, with some supernatural weirdness and a crumbling Gothic mansion. So really, all the ingredients you might need.
Phantom’s Beauty, Part 1 by Rose La Belle is the first part of a neat little retelling in which it’s actually Daddy Daae who is kidnapped by the Phantom, and Christine who must find the Phantom’s lair and attempt to rescue him.
Phantom’s Beauty, Part 2 by Rose La Belle is the second installment, in which Christine agrees to remain and do sexy things with the Phantom in exchange for his promise to release her father.
Phantom’s Beauty, Part 3 by Rose La Belle is the last part, in which Christine and the Phantom become romantically involved. The fact that each of these three parts is only about 100 pages long is a little annoying, though, suggesting as it does that the author is trying to get extra money out of readers by making them buy multiple volumes for no real reason.
The Guardian of the Opera: Dawn Melody by Cheryl Mahoney is another in the author’s ballet-focused Phantom and Meg series, now with competing love interests and Christine back to possibly seek revenge on her tormenter.
Ghost Dance by Christine Pope is a sequel to the original story, in which Christine hears rumors of the Opera Ghost appearing in Paris again after his supposed death years ago and sets out to investigate. Pope is more famous for her modern-day retelling No Return, but this one doesn’t seem to be related to that one.
The Bureau of Investigative Time Travel: Phantom of the Royal Opera by Alydia Rackham is part of a series of time travel investigations, and involves an opera house just beginning to reopen after a deadly fire, only to begin seeing strange, ghostly occurrences…
So that’s a nice roundup of new stuff - enjoy, y’all!
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PHANTOM HEART
by Kelly Creagh
(Viking, 8/17/21)
9780593116043
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Rapunzel from Into The Woods and Johanna from Sweeney Todd are the same character and essentially interchangeable, don’t @ me, you know I’m right. In fact I’ll add Cosette into the mix. Broadway in the 80’s had one (1) role for sopranos, and it was Ingenue Who Is Locked Away By Someone Who Is Not Her Biological Parent And Falls In Love With The First Dumbass Tenor Who Happens By And Also Her Mother Is Dead.
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Gav: I know where I stand. I always have. Don’t worry about it.
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wowizard
I care them
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I love Rose Tyler because every time she encountered a new alien life form or a fellow human that seemed to be mistreated in some way she went “HELLO DO THEY TREAT YOU WELL, HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY YOU, ARE YOUR BASIC RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED, DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE ENTITLED TO AN EIGHT HOUR SHIFT AND THREE WEEKS OF VACATION ALSO YOU COULD JOIN A UNION, MY NAME IS ROSE I’M HERE TO HELP” and that was just so rad of her
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its been 13 years and im still not over how the ninth doctor’s idea of a good first trip for his new companion was to take her to see her planet blow up at a celebratory party