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February JOMP Day 7 - Tearjerker
Not a traditional tearjerker, as didn't go in expecting this book to make me cry. Love this book, I think largely because it did make me cry and think both. ❤️
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#books#booklr#stepsister#jennifer donnelly#ya books#fairy tale retelling#book photography#moondustbooks
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The full spredges collection as of October 2023
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“This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.”
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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watching mstief’s writing the raven cycle webinar and I just want everyone to know that she just explicitly stated that adam was supposed to go full villain in her first draft but changed her mind bc “the worst thing that could happen is they stop being friends”
#the raven cycle webinar#the raven cycle#maggie stiefvater#ronan being gansey's pet possum oh heavens#they all forgot noah?!? how did I miss this?!?
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January JOMP Day 18 - Book Stack
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#books#booklr#the bear and the nightingale#the girl in the tower#the winter of the witch#the ten thousand doors of january#the beast's heart#never never#to kill a kingdom#beast#funko pop#book photo challenge#book photography#moondustbooks
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When the outside world gets too dramatic and I need to chill out, I go to my happy place. Books and Tea.
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Ah yes, my signed books stack from my library-in-progress.
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“’…but there’s something about movies and stories. I want to help change the rules, you know? To help make everything more fair. But no one cares about evening the playing field or changing the rules unless they have some kind of connection. I guess… well, that’s what stories do. They connect people. Stories change hearts and then hearts change the world.‘”
— Julie Murphy, Puddin’
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girls just wanna have fun (hide away in their bedrooms with piles of books until further notice)
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December JOMP Day 9 - Favorite Page Design
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Title: Iron Hearted Violet | Author: Kelly Barnhill | Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2012)
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This is unnecessarily long, but: I was just thinking about Wickham's predation on fifteen-year-old Georgiana Darcy and then, almost exactly a year later, Wickham's predation on sixteen-year-old Lydia Bennet.
There are obvious parallels between the two incidents. In fact, they're so obvious that I think the incidents are sometimes treated as equivalent, with the consequences only differing by happenstance. I don't think that's true, personally.
There are some mechanistic sort of differences—Wickham put a lot more effort and planning into the Georgiana situation. He wanted to marry her for her money and to make her brother suffer. She had to be isolated from people who would look out for her interests, he had Mrs Younge in place, he had known Georgiana as a child and was able to exploit his own previous kindness to her as her father's godson, etc.
And Georgiana, despite all of this, and despite being swept away by a teenage infatuation with an extremely attractive man, was still uncomfortable with it. She was worried about disappointing a brother who raised her and whom she deeply loves and admires. When her brother actually showed up by surprise, she decided to tell him everything; Darcy takes pains to give her credit for this. Adaptations generally downplay Georgiana's active decision-making here, but the only element of chance is Darcy deciding to go to Ramsgate at all. He insists that he was only able to act because Georgiana chose to tell him what was going on.
This isn't meant to be an indictment of Lydia, though. Does she admire the parents who raised her? No. But why would she? Especially why would she admire a father who treats her mother and sisters and herself with profound contempt and no sense of responsibility? Why would she ever confide in him?
It's not like Lydia doesn't confide in anyone. In fact, she too confides in an older sibling, her sister Kitty. And in one sense, her trust in Kitty is not undeserved. Kitty does keep the secret. Presumably, she does this because, despite her occasional annoyance with Lydia, she is very much under her influence and goes along with whatever Lydia does. Regardless, she is trustworthy in that sense. Moreover, we see at the end of the book that Kitty is easily improved by being placed in better environments and taught how to behave. She just didn't know better.
How was she going to judge Lydia's situation correctly? Who was teaching her to judge anything correctly? Certainly not their parents.
If Mr Bennet had bothered to interest himself in his younger daughters and try and influence them for the better, impressionable Kitty is probably the one who would have benefited the most. The whole Lydia/Wickham thing would have fallen apart before it went anywhere if all the girls had been been properly raised, even if Lydia did exactly the same things.
And Lydia likely wouldn't do the same things if she'd been brought up properly and, you know, treated with a baseline of respect rather than being openly mocked by her father, the person most able to affect her development. Instead, at barely sixteen, she's been continually rejected by her father, over-indulged by her mother, and flattered by adult men (28-y-o Darcy says he and Wickham are nearly the same age). And she still tells someone what's going on, even though she doesn't care about her parents' opinions or the consequences of her actions. And she was under the protection of a colonel and his wife at the time, who also could have told someone or acted, and didn't.
It's not that nobody could have done anything about the Lydia/Wickham situation. It's that nobody did until Darcy found out and tried to extract her. But it was, in one sense, too late. To Lydia, he's just some unfun acquaintance who says boring things like "go home to your family and I'll do what I can to cover for you." That is, he tries to do what he did for Georgiana.
But Lydia is not Georgiana—she did not choose to tell him about any of this. She did not want to be extracted because she didn't know and couldn't be quickly made to understand what marriage to Wickham would mean in the long term. And she didn't care what her family thought because she had no reason to, pragmatically or psychologically.
Georgiana, otoh, did care about her family's welfare and the good opinion and affection of the head of her family. But despite their radical differences in personality, the most fundamental difference between the girls IMO is that Georgiana had every reason to believe that disappointing Darcy and losing his respect would be a change from the norm.
Normally he is affectionate and attentive towards her. They write each other long letters, he defends her to other family members, and praises her frequently. Georgiana, quiet and intimidated though she may be, talks more when he's around. Disappointing him had actual stakes for her.
Put another way, the potential loss of his good opinion mattered to her because he's gone to the trouble of raising her as well as he can and forming a good relationship with her. She chose to tell Darcy the whole thing because he had earned her affection and trust in a way that Mr Bennet has utterly failed to do. Even Darcy happening to visit Georgiana at Ramsgate comes from his affection and attention to Georgiana's welfare, even if he couldn't have known what would follow from checking on his sister at that particular moment.
Chance is always part of life, and it's part of the novel and these situations. But a lot of how these scenarios wound out was not determined by chance but by long-existing patterns in these girls' educations and relationships.
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Title: Juliet Immortal
Author: Stacey Jay
Series or standalone: series
Publication year: 2011
Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, paranormal, retelling, supernatural
Blurb: Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most: her new husband, Romeo Montague, who made the sacrifice to ensure his own immortality. But Romeo didn't anticipate that Juliet would be granted eternal life as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For seven hundred years, Juliet has struggled to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent, while Romeo has fought for the dark side, seeking to destroy the human heart...until now. Now, Juliet has found her own forbidden love, and Romeo will do everything in his power to destroy their happiness.
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What an amazing idea!
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November JOMP Day 30 - Read in November
Until I sleep it's still November. 😁 Oh goodness. Cannot wait for the third book to come out next year.
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#books#booklr#belladonna#foxglove#adalyn grace#book photo challenge#book photography#moondustbooks
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This book was supposed to be posted with my weekly findings but then I took the dust jacket off and this lovely illustration showed up. So naturally I had to make a whole post just to show you this beauty 😍 📚
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