studio ghibli movies make everything look pleasing. the food, the water droplets, the grass, going outside, doing chores… can i just jump in ghibli movies and live in them please
Fresh cover for Margaret Rogerson’s next stand alone, Sorcery of Thorns! <3
At long last, it’s here!
If you would like to read a preview of Sorcery of Thorns, there’s one available on the Barnes & Noble Teen blog. This is a standalone YA fantasy about magical libraries, battle librarians, and sentient books that can transform into monsters.
What an incredible privilege to have cover art illustrated by Charlie Bowater. I always tell my editor that I spend hours staring at the covers—and I’m not joking. I cried when I saw this one and An Enchantment of Raven’s for the first time. There are so many things I love about Sorcery of Thorns’ cover, but what stands out to me the most is what a great job Charlie did making the heroine, Elisabeth, look physically strong. Elisabeth is tall (taller than her love interest!) and can really hit stuff with that sword. In an environment where there is often pressure to make YA heroines look delicate on book covers, this strikes me as something special.
Here are all of the Routledge Grammar PDFs that I currently have. I’ll be updating whenever I find more. Let me know if there’s one in particular you want me to look for^^
Last Update: 2017/04/24
Fixed Intermediate Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook link
Added books for Czech, English, French, French Creoles, Persian, Ukranian
Added more books in Cantonese, Danish, Greek, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
It’s the last day of 2018. On the one hand, I can’t believe that the year is over. On the other hand, I’m excited for 2019 because I’ve been waiting for this year for years. Regardless, now’s not the time to talk about this because the purpose of this post is to tell you guys about all the books I read this year and what I thought of them!
Hi everyone! As 2018 almost closes, I wanted to write a long-overdue post about a book that I recently received in the mail, sent by HMH Teen (thank you so much!). I hadn’t requested this novel, but I’m so in love with the packaging and the ~aesthetic~ of it all that I decided I should write a blog post on it.
The book I received in the mail was Bloodleaf by Crystal Smith, which is going to be…
I tell everyone this and I mean it. Buy a journal. Carry it with you everywhere you go. And I mean everywhere. Write about your favorite moments, your least favorite moments, ideas, grocery lists, people you’ve met, strangers you’ve walked past on the street, favorite quotes, words to remember, what the sky looked like at 7pm, new songs you’ve discovered and what they mean to you, your childhood, places you want to go or places you’ve been, write about your passions, how you feel in this exact moment, draw out the mountains, scribble all over the pages. And when that one gets full, buy a new one. Reread it in 2 years, 20 years, when you need a good laugh, when you’re crying on your bathroom floor, read it to your children. You need to remember these moments in your life. They are so important.
