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Perfection & Other Illusive Things

A young adult contemporary with a touch of magical realism.

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Set on a movie set in LA in the coolest and most approachable of ways, this was delightful. "Feel good," with heart. Breakups and friendship and family and new beginnings. • Study Nina LaCour for grab-you-by-the-neck beginnings and the importance of details -- there can be wrong details that bog a reader down I think, but she is adept at piling the right details up so we feel immersed and carried along. • #amreading #yalit #NinaLaCour #movies #setdesign #yacontemporary #craft #beginnings #writerslife #writersofig

Sorry, Starbucks. There's no you in that cup. But you're my favorite mug. • Other favorites: reading with coffee on the porch in the rain. • Except you knows those days when your coffee just doesn't taste quite right? 😭 What's that about?

"It was really about making the decision to finish.. to give up on perfection, and simply do it." ~ Leigh Bardugo, from an interview on dracarya.wordpress.com. • #justdoit #amreading #yalit #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookaday #writerslife

"You know that moment when you're standing in front of Bert's Quality Butchers holding a speaker blasting "Meat is Murder" and your mum is doing interpretive dance to Express the heartbreak of a slaughtered cow and your ten-year-old brother, Pip, is handing out pamphlets for your family's new vegan-organic-wellness store called Blissfully Aware and he's dressed in gingham pinafore, red wig, combat boots and tiger face paint?" • 🤣🤣🤣 • That would be a GREAT first line, right? It's the first line of a second chapter and definitely caught my attention! Oddly, the first chapter felt more like a prologue. • Quick | writing prompt | "You know that moment when you're..." • #amreading #yalit #contemporary #TinHeart #bookstagram #writingprompt #firstlines #funny #nopedonotknowthatmoment

As if you need one more person to tell you... but here I go. • If you liked The Liar's Club by Mary Karr or The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, you will like Educated by Tara Westover. • Or if you've never read any of those but want to read a memoir/like reading memoirs, 100% read this/them. • Educated is set in Idaho, in the "Mountain West" and Tara grew up on a junkyard with a survivalist father and midwife mother, not believing in help from anyone really, not even for medical purposes. Family strife + serious accidents + lots of denial = a triumphant story of finding yourself against all odds. • Also, this cover is gorge, amiright? • #amreading #memoir #mentalillness #unschooling #bookstagram #booksofig

This cover tho. . . . #amreading #yalit #horror #bookstagram #booksofig

I've talked a fair amount recently about dialect and how it has a place (imho) and how it just takes a bit sometimes to get into the rhythm. Well, I found one too difficult (for me) to get into 😬 • I'm really trying to read these essential novels, but I might just not be cut out for it... • #amreading #allthethingsatonce #booksofinstagram #bookstagram

I'm thinking these each get one more chapter to tempt me, or backwards on the shelf they go. . . . #amreading #beginningsareimportant #theyreallydosellthestory #isayasareader #somanybookssolittletime #bookstagram

"Minimilalism: the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from them." • This is different than frugality or being a nomad, though it might look that way to some. • To me, it's priorities and simplification, not that it's something I actively practice, but I'm definitely drawn to it. • #amreading #minimalism #myhusbandwantstobuildatinyhome #butnottolivein 🤣

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