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Hello everyone, my name is Sara, I'm 19 and I used to love reading.

I learned how to read before starting elementary school, when I was about 4 or 5 years old and I read books until middle school or when I discovered the Internet and now I haven't read a book from start to finish in years.

I wanted to set a challenge for myself for 2021, I want to rediscover my love for books and for reading and I want to document everything that I'd like to on this blog.

Lastly, I want to say that English is not my first language but I'm in my first year of University and I'm studying English and Chinese and with studying these two languages I have to study their literature too so I'll be writing a lot about books I have to read for the exams but also I wanna read some old classics and those written in English I'm gonna read in their original language.

If anyone reading this wants to read books again or loves reading we can support each other and suggest each other new books, something like a book club!

Thank you,

  I’m going on a rant today, so stay tuned.  

  I’m tired of seeing posts in my writing group like:

  “I’m afraid my book might trigger someone.”

  “I don’t think I should publish my book because it might hurt someone’s feelings.”

  “I don’t know if I should put trigger warnings in front of my book or not.”

  Look, I know that a lot of people try to be kind and considerate, but nobody ever made anything of themselves by being afraid. If you feel passionately about something, write it and publish it anyway. I’m writing a romance book about a high school girl who gets involved with an older man, and I know it’s going to upset a lot of people, because I don’t exactly cast their relationship in a negative light. I wrote it in first person from the perspective of the girl, so of course she’s not going to immediately think it’s creepy that this twenty-something is interested in her. And to be fair, he didn’t know how old she was until it was too late. She, much like myself when I was a teenager, was often mistaken for a college girl. But you know what? I don’t care. I don’t care about what people think of my book. If someone can write something about a thousand year old vampire falling in love with a teenage girl, then my twenty-something isn’t so bad.

  You can’t say those types of books aren’t successful either because let’s all just remember Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

And while we’re on the subject, let’s remember The Color Purple by Alice Walker. It was rejected from schools and libraries for being too outrageously sexual, or Ulysses by James Joyce. For a period, all copies of the book coming into the U.S. were burned just because the book had a masturbation scene in it. Or let’s remember that the freaking  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by mark Twain use to be unacceptable reading because Huck’s family was too kind to their slave.

  I could go on because there are any number of books which have caused controversy throughout the years, and more than a handful of people became upset at their existence, but you know what? They got published anyway. This post isn’t about just my book, either. It’s about any book. It could be about a book completely condemning the type of book I’m writing. If you are passionate about it, write the book. If you want a chance, even a small glimmer of hope to be successful in the vast ocean of books and publications, you can’t be afraid to be audacious. Not everyone needs to agree with you, and if you’re afraid you’re going to upset some people, those are what back covers are for. They can read the description and if they don’t like it, they don’t have to read it. If they read it anyway and get upset, that’s on them and not you.

  Besides all of that, no matter what you write, somebody is going to get upset. Even if you wrote the most neutral, trigger-less novel in the world, somebody would still be offended by it. So quit worrying so much about offending people; it’s taking from the beauty of your work.

14 Breakthrough Books Everyone Will Be Talking About This Year

[via BookBub Blog]

When it comes to first-time authors or novelists, it can be tough to know where to start — which is why we've rounded up the biggest debut books hitting shelves this season, from shocking thrillers to heartwarming stories and thought-provoking memoirs.

Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

Golden Child by Claire Adam

When You Read This by Mary Adkins

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Looker by Laura Sims

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

Maid by Stephanie Land

The Plotters by Un-su Kim

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Call Me Evie by J. P. Pomare

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

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