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The best things aren’t perfectly constructed. They aren’t illusions. They aren’t larger than life. They are life.
Nina Lacour, Everything Leads to You
THINGS I’VE LEARNED FROM TUMBLR ABOUT YA BOOKS I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY READ
Disclaimer: There might be spoilers but also all of this could be wrong.
Shadowhunters:
Teenagers covered in tattoos fight evil ninjas.
The TV show is apparently better than the books and the author is an asshole. Everyone ships the blond guy and the redheaded girl even though they seem to be siblings, and a dark-haired guy called Alec at some point made out with a glittery Asian DJ?
Divergent: Teenagers also covered in tattoos fight mysterious dystopian government which sorts them into sci-fi versions of the Hogwarts Houses and apparently has sumptuary laws about not wearing anything that isn’t black. At some point you jump off a building in a very extreme game of parachute. Somebody dies at the end and nobody talks about it.
Eleanor & Park: Chubby freckled redhead and skinny Korean boy meet on a bus and probably fall in love? Earbuds.
Percy Jackson: Summer camp for bastard offspring of various Greek deities. Chapter titles look like Fall Out Boy songs. The movie was terrible. Rick Riordan is milking this for all it is worth.
Grisha Trilogy: Everyone is Russian and into BDSM. Also, antlers.
Throne of Glass: Girl assassin is supposed to protect somebody from something and has sex in a closet with somebody named Chaol?
The Selection: Fairy tale version of The Bachelor with a really annoying protagonist.
The Maze Runner: Hunger Games/Lord of the Flies slashfic sausagefest.
Vampire Academy: Vampire royalty need personal bodyguards at their fancy prep school for some reason. People fight with sticks. Stakes? I don’t know they just look like sticks.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe: Gay boys indistinguishable in fan art from the gay boys in Song of Achilles go on a road trip and wear Chuck Taylors. One of them is Latino? I think there’s a pool involved.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone: I thought this was part of the Grisha trilogy and now I know it isn’t but that’s all I know about it.
Lunar Chronicles: Cinderella is a mechanic and everyone really hated the cover art with the apple.
The Raven Cycle: Asian girl named Blue babysits a group of gay boys in a weird Southern town called Cabswater or Carpswater or something. One of them dies but doesn’t seem to actually go away? Someone turns into a tree.
The Fault in Our Stars: Kids with cancer fall in love, one of them dies, and they tell each other stuff’s okay even though it’s pretty obviously not okay. Everybody forgets about the blind friend. The cigarette is a metaphor but I’m pretty sure John Green doesn’t actually know what a metaphor is.
Stephanie Perkins’ books: Cutesey heterosexual rom-coms which take place in Romantic with a capital R European cities and one of the boys is named after a bug.
Okay how did I do?
Adults aged 18-44 made up 65 percent of young adult book buyers in 2014.
The Barbed Pen of Best Sellers, The New York Times, April 12th 2015 (via read-and-be-merry)
if you ever feel the urge to tell someone they aren’t a “real reader” because they only read YA or only romance or don’t read every classic ever written here is a tip: don’t
Booklr help me make a point.
Like/Reblog if you would visit and be the loyal customer of a bookstore that specialized in, but was in no way limited to Children’s lit and YA/Teen and all it’s subgenres. With dedicated sections for the typical things like poetry, classics, romance, biographies etc. The cafe would have drinks and snacks inspired by literature in some way like White Witch Turkish Delight. On top of all that it would be spacious and wheelchair friendly. With actual little shopping carts you could take around the store.
HECK YES!
I’m reblogging this again, for good measure.Actually running a fundraiser to help make this a reality guys. to donate click Here
the most unrealistic thing about ya books are all the teenagers making references to obscure classic novels. literally where are all the harry potter/hunger games references and stuff like that. no teenagers make jokes about what went down in wuthering heights irl come on
things you should do based on your sign
aries: read books
taurus: read books
gemini: read books
cancer: read books
Leo: read books
Virgo: read books
Libra: read books
Scorpio: read books
Sagittarius: read books
Capricorn: read books
Aquarius: read books
Pisces: read books
i just want books and more books and big books and small books and funny books and sad books and weird books and amazing books i just want books
Going into a bookstore and looking at books is like visiting family but better.
SO MUCH BETTER
Books don’t judge. Books comfort, regardless. Books aren’t rude. Books do nothing but give.
I’d take books over a vast majority of my family any day.
Yes. Books. Always.
This is very relevant.