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yombur · 3 months

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hava from seasparrow: finally characters whose personalities are as unpalatable as their upbringing

#graceling realm #seasparrow #hava #kristin cashore #graceling #the fact that there are still graceling realm books coming out is such a gift to my teenage self. it is healing my inner child #the fact i have not found any hava art is criminal. must i do everything myself #in other news i still can't remember how to draw. anything working here is mostly by accident #i wish the color of her eyes were a bit clearer but i couldn't give up the dramatic lighting. it suits her

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99percentprocrastination · 1 year

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me at age 12 starting Graceling: fun! a fantasy book about a girl who stabs people!

me at age 25 finishing Seasparrow: I Have Been Irrevocably Changed By These Characters

#graceling #graceling realm #seasparrow #kristin cashore #mp

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luminouslumity · 20 days

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storiesandsarcasm · 1 year

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“Wanting is confusing for me…I don’t think it happens to me like it does to other people. I’ve watched people do sexual things. I’ve seen the way it takes them. And I have an imagination, I have yearnings sometimes too. But it’s like yearning to be a bird. It’s like yearning for something that exists only on the moon.”

-Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore

#Hava #seasparrow #aroace #it’s actually not funny anymore mrs cashore the way you read my mind and publish it in beautiful novels #how are her characters so incredibly human I feel like I could speak to each one #graceling #graceling realm #kristin cashore #quote

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13oddbeetles · 1 year

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With each new Graceling Realm book Kristin Cashore rewrites a portion of my DNA to make me less fucked up in some ways and more fucked up in new and exciting ways

#Seasparrow #kristin cashore

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now-that-i-saw-you · 1 year

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I'm just casually thinking about Hava feeling so much grief because of her mother and so much hate for her father that she feels like she's drowning and Hope saying "Girl is breathing." Just...the casual way in which she says it, the fact she doesn't really understand Hava and the truth she reveales. The pain might feel like too much, but she's alive. She's okay. Her lungs are full of air.

#seasparrow #the graceling realm #graceling #kristin cashore

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theinquisitxor · 1 year

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Not Your Classics Challenge

Day 6- To The Lighthouse

Or, sea-centered books

#notyourclassics #book challenges #the bone ships #Seasparrow #we the drowned #migrations #the sea Wolf #in the serpents wake #my post

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darknight1192 · 9 months

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#graceling #fire #bitterblue #winterkeep #seasparrow #kristin cashore #books #made with canva

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melliflewus · 1 year

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hava: no one ever brings me food like giddon does for bitterblue. no one cares about me.

giddon: hey hava i brought you chicken pot pie :D

hava:

#seasparrow #seasparrow spoilers #graceling #kristin cashore

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saiiboat · 1 month

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Idk what to ask but hiiiii <3 how are you?

mel!!!!!! hi :3 doing good im listening to music and playing stardew valley. kitty asleep on my lap. life is good. hows it for you?

#seasparrow #saii.answers #courtesy of mike

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yombur · 3 months

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hava's memories of bellamew will haunt me all my days.

#seasparrow #graceling realm #kristin cashore #hava #graceling #bellamew #this book has one of my favorite depictions of trauma #it understands people can't go through horrenedous shit without carrying it with you into every part of your life #it allows hope for growth and healing without the expectation that people just surmount their trauma #this book carried the weight of a messed up character rather than just pushing forward through a narrative #it was definitely a character study and i'm so glad

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evangelineartemiasamos · 1 year

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I feel so cleansed, hugged, lifted, cuddled, warmed and sparkling by the aroace-spec and neurodivergent Hava with her foxes in Seasparrow

#seasparrow #kristin cashore #hava #graceling #graceling realm #aromantic #asexuality #lgbt+

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checkoutmybookshelf · 1 year

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Those Books that Just Casually Reach into Your Chest and Tear Your Heart Out

So, as you may or may not know, I moved to Canada a few years ago, and had to leave some of my books in Alaska. Graceling and Bitterblue were two of those books, but SINCE I moved, Kristin Cashore has added two fantastic books to the series, and I wanted to talk about them today, because every single one since Graceling in 2008 has managed to just casually reach into my chest and tear my heart out.

Cashore's writing is a really fascinating balance between geopolitics and the intensely personal interior lives of her protagonists. From Katsa learning that her grace is the exact opposite of what she thought to Fire's acceptance of her heritage and actions, to Bitterblue's massive growth and Hava's recovery from just a stunning amount of trauma, these books are always a trip and always worthwhile.

Graceling came out in 2008, and it was a book I really had to sit with and read a few times, because Katsa's head was not necissarily easy to be inside--but taking the time to get there and understand her was immensely rewarding. Apparently they are also doing a Graceling graphic novel, for those of you who want to explore the story that way!

Fire is and will forever be my favorite entry in this series, which might be a bit strange because it functions more as a companion to the rest of the books--dare I say immensely relevant prequel that gets increasing nods in the subsequent books?--than a part of the main storyline. But what I will never forget about Fire is how physically present she is as a character, which was a really interesting switch from the other protaginists.

Bitterblue--it has been a lot of years since I read Bitterblue--is a masterwork in untangling and understanding the past and the true extent of the trauma that King Leck caused. I'm an English major for a reason, but Bitterblue made me appreciate math in a way that a string of increasingly desperate math teachers never, ever could.

Winterkeep expanded Cashore's world both in terms of geography and in terms of what authors can do in YA fiction now that it's not 2008 anymore (this book was released in 2021--LOTS changed in the intervening time...). This was more of an ensemble book--albeit with Bitterblue in the fore again--than the first three, and it was incredible.

Seasparrow is Hava's book, and literally everyone needs a hug. There are baby blue foxes, and everyone resolutely NOT becoming the Donner party. This book grabbed me by the heartstrings and hung on as Hava learned to forgive and to grow.

#book recommendations #Graceling #Fire #Bitterblue #Winterkeep #Seasparrow #Kristin Cashore #Books #fantasy #books & libraries #strong female protagonist #strong female characters #strong female lead #ya books #ya fantasy

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taichouu · 27 days

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