#booktalks

“What’s that?”

“I want daisies in your hair.”

𝐼𝑌𝐾𝑌𝐾 🌼🌼🌼

Hi guys!

Have a good day lovies🐠

here is a list of books i’ve read so far in 2021:

• Everything, Everything (reread this one, forever a good one) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Red, White, and Royal Blue ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• They Both Die At the End ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Josh and Hazels Guide to Not Dating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• The Hating Game ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Duplicity (harry styles fan fiction on wattpad lmao, so good, i highly suggest) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (reread this one too, Harry Potter will forever have a special place in my heart) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• We Were Liars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• I Need You to Hate Me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• It Only Happens In the Movies ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• What If It’s Us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Boyfriend Material ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Ugly Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• The Sun Is Also A Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I was probably... fourteen or so.

I laughed, and he asked "what was so funny?"

Trying to give all the context to someone else who hadn't read what I had, was frustrating, not least because his attention drifted while I was explaining, probably badly, and too much at length.

Ten years later I was librarianing at a junior high school. Did you know that librarians learn and practice how to talk about books? We call it booktalking. Like the "elevator pitch" for your resume or the project you want funding for, but it's more whetting someone's interest for specific stories, or finding out from that one person enough of what they like so you can be a matchmaker for books and readers...

TW/MENTION OF SUICIDE

we all looked up by Tommy Wallach

Quick summary: The world discovers an asteroid (which they call Ardor) heading towards Earth. They determine it has a 66.6% chance of hitting and causing mass destruction. The story follows a group of teenagers as they process this information. Naturally, they start preparing for the end of the world; falling in love, making the most important relationships they’ll ever have (the one’s right before the end), crying, and living like it’s the end of the world, because it is. Their end goal is to have a party at the end of the world, a mass gathering the night the asteroid is supposed to strike.

Thoughts and feelings: I know nobody really cares, but I want to share because this book hit me so hard. It fully took over my thoughts for awhile, I had nightmares. I rarely remember the plot of nightmares, but I usually remember the feelings, these end of the world dreams were all paralyzing fear, dread, sadness. So many ponderings about the end; What would I do? Where would I go? Who would I want to spend my last moments with? Who would I kiss? Would I kill myself as soon as I found out or wait to die with the world? 4/5 existential crises, please go read this book if you think you can handle it.

My favorite quote: “Hate is only a temporary failure to perceive our absolute interdependence. It’s not real.” (Wallach, 182)