YA literature? You mean books about Super Special White Girl and Her Mysterious Brooding Boyfriend?
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- people: So what do you like doing? What are your hobbies?
- me: um I like reading books
- people: Oh, okay. Something else?
- me: NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
Here’s a list of black YA leads! And ten Native American protagonists! And a list of ladies who love ladies in YA! And genderqueer / transgender YA leads! And more queer titles! And 2015 / 2016 YA books with Asian / East Asian leads! And bisexual YA leads! And Muslim YA leads! And asexual YA leads! And YA Interrobang’s entire section on diverse YA fiction!
*confetti*
PLEASE REBLOG THIS
PLEASE DO NOT THROW THE YA GENRE UNDER THE BUS it is filled with diversity that goes far beyond whatever makes it to the movies! Please give it a chance!
^^^ The Hunger Games was a super diverse book based on brown people and Hollywood made it about 3 white kids. There is plenty of good stuff in YA.
egyptian or greek mythology? fairies or mermaids? vampires or werewolves? past or future? silver or gold? books or movies?
I want to have a reading party where all my book blogger friends come over in their pajamas with hot cocoa or coffee and we lay around and read all day.
This sounds like heaven can I come
this is what I need in my life.
"oh, hey what are you reading?"
*shows book cover*
"what’s it about?"
*mumbles unintelligibly*
"Sorry, what?."
*shows back cover*
I’ve been re-reading the HP books and I got to Prisoner of Azkaban (be still my beating heart, it is still the best one) and, at Christmas there’s only 12 people around the dinner table. Trelawny comes along and Dumbledore stands up to draw her a chair.
She freaks out, I must not! When 13 people dine together, the first to rise is the first to die!!!!!
Except.
Ron had Scabbers in his pocket.
Which means that there wasn’t 12 people when Trelawny arrived. There was already 13.
And Dumbledore stood up.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT JK
…oh
OH MY GOD
- me: *reads entire book in one sitting*
- me: *is proud of self*
- me: *doesn't read for two weeks*
- me: *is ashamed of self*
- me: *sits on tumblr and reblogs pictures of books instead of actually reading*
OK imagine a muggleborn bringing a collection of books from home to Hogwarts, and obviously they get passed around the purebloods who are dying to find out what muggles read. One first year kid picks up and starts reading some science fiction novel, and since the “fantasy” genre as we think of it doesn’t really seem to exist in the wizarding world, they assume this science fiction universe is just realistic fiction and the muggles are a lot more powerful than they thought.
It wasn’t my fault I stayed up reading in the dark when I was supposed to be asleep. Some books just begged to be read, and you couldn’t say no.
Lending Light by Rose Christo (via simcnspier)