Day 13: Your Favorite Songs A Book (or Books) That Changed Your Life

All the books mentioned:

• The Chronicles of Narnia series, by C.S. Lewis
• The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight, by Jennifer E. Smith
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
• The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
• Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

Thanks for the motivation, Fia!

The problem with well-written young adult fiction 

…is in two parts;

1. that when at its best, it is very difficult to put down; and
2. that most young adult fiction novels are not very long.

This results in me ripping through a book a day and then not having anything to read the next day.

In other news, I just finished The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, a book whose charm is both so romantic and so realistic that I really want this to have happened to someone, somewhere, if it could not be me. 

hungergamestweets:

proofyouth:

Hey Racists:  You guys need to learn to read.  Thresh, Cinna and Rue were described as being black.  Please stop being huge d-bags all over my internets.  Thank you.

To Kill a Mockingbird meets To Kill a Mockingjay

To all the people who implied that crying over a book is silly, ridiculous, or stupid: 

FUCK OFF.

In nicer terms, though: I’m sorry.

I’m sorry that I can appreciate someone’s talent for bringing fictional characters to life, sorry that I read such quality stuff that it is easy to get wrapped up in the lives of people who have never existed  (but in a way, exist everywhere).

I’m sorry I can make the connection between the lives of others and my own, sorry that I can feel empathy for a situation that may not exist in those exact details but has existed and will continue to exist similarly for people all over the world all the time.

I’m sorry that I can understand the bigger themes of life and the point of it all and break down when I recognize myself struggling with the same ideas.

I’m sorry that I can allow myself to feel something over life and inspiration that leads to the art of the young adult fiction novel that made me cry.

I’m not really very sorry at all.

Finally unpacking from college… (Taken with instagram)

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from The Blue Castle, by Lucy Maud Montgomery