CandidCeillie

wintersong

It’s here and it’s beautiful. 

Read my review of this wonderful book here

The Strand, McNally Jackson, and dinner in Little Italy is a good time

“Reader… I murdered him”

The Bookshop, in Wigtown, Scotland | I want to be able to feel those books with my wandering hands.

Beautiful minimalistic art of Harper Perennial Olive Editions

If I had to pick one candle to live with forever this would be the one (which is cheating slightly because when you order a Bertie Botts candle from Meraki Candles you could get one of over 30 scents! Mine is bubblegum 💕)

Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin (via yaliteraturebookshelf)

Thank you, and happy reading!

When you have a psycolagy test tomorrow that your gonna fail but reading is life.

It’s the same thing… right?

“But with my earlier book, I got rejected so much—sixty times—that I had to say, “Let me put it aside and work on something else.” And I knew that with The Hate U Give, I couldn’t hold back and that was scary because in young adult literature at the time, the reading diversity movement was just starting up. As a black woman, when I’m hearing them say, “We need diverse books,” and people are saying, “We want diverse books,” in the back of my mind I’m thinking, “Well, how much diversity can you handle? Can I be unapologetically black? Is that going to be too much? Do you want the whitewashed version of diversity? Or do you want the real deal unapologetically black diversity?”So, it was coming to the conclusion that I’m going to write it the way I want to write it. I’m not here to make anybody comfortable. I’m here to write the book I want to write and a book I felt like I needed to write. That was the best thing I could have done for myself as a writer, for sure.” – Angie Thomas, The Rumpus