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People of Tumblr, please, give me a good romance book rec. I need a stand alone. Reverse grumpy x sunshine, optional. Ooh, or or or. I want to try dark romance, also optional. Pleaseeeeeee
Also accepting toothrotting fluff
for the love of books
Not me looking for psychological thriller books to be like Yuri-
I fear no one is going to get this because it is a hungarian book we had to read in... I don't even know what grade. 3rd or 4th, maybe? It's called "A Pál utcai fiúk" ("The boys of Pál Street", written 1906), and it's about a group of kids who find a big, abandoned... field? I think? in the city of Budapest, on Pál street, and make it their own, and turn it into their HQ. They become friends, or more accurately, form a club, and have strict rules to follow. If I remember correctly, (I literally haven't read this book in seven years) there is also a rival club of boys, who they are trying to sabotage. I cannot for the life of me remember the plot, but I do know there was this one kid, young and scrawny and small, who was constantly trying to prove himself. Some things happened, which led the boys to believe he betrayed them, and was a traitor - not true, of course - and as punishment, they wrote his name into their rulebook with lowercase latters, the lowest and most humiliating thing a member of the club could be punished with, and they kicked him out. (Ah yeas, I remember, his name was Nemecsek I think!)
Meanwhile, however, in an earlier adventure, Nemecsek fell into a cold lake on a winter night, already a bit down with the cold. After he was kicked out, the boys ignore him completely, and shun their friend out - so they don't realise in time that the illness got serious. Nemecsek got pneumonia, i think, which at the time was incredibly dangerous, especially for a frail little boy like him.
Needless to say, he dies, with none of his friends there, his mother bawling on his chest, still believing his only friends hate him. When the boys hear about this, they are shook, of course, and immidiately forgive him and feel completely fucking horrible, but it's too little too late. They honor him by not only rewrite his name with the correct -capital letters, but by writing it in ALL capital letters.
I bawled my eyes out. I was such a little kid at the time, and i loved reading and getting invested in stories, and this fucking broke me. I finished the book at like 1 am one evening, which at the time was very late for little me, and my brother heard me literally sobbing and had to comfort me. First encounter with MCD. I didn't even think it was real. I just kept reading, because I was like "what do you mean? Books ALWAYS have a good ending please this has to be a joke - " it was not. Fucking. Broke me.
fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
☆☆☆☆☆
An absolute must read.
"Long before she was the terror of wonderland, the infamous Queen of Hearts, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love."
This novel brings readers excitement and illicit romance between two star crossed lovers.
The protagonist, Katherine, is the daughter of a noble and only wants to open a bakery to share her love of pastries with the folks of wonderland. But fate has other plans when she is suddenly told of the foolish King's desire to marry her.
I found this novel to be painfully beautiful because as the reader we already know that she is going to marry the king. We know how the story ends. We know and yet we hope stubbornly that she will succeed in her quest to follow her dreams by opening a bakery and be with the one she loves. And when she ultimately fails we can't be surprised; we knew this was coming.
I give this book 5 stars because I will be crying over this book 'till the end of time.
I highly recommend this book to anyone it's so good!
One of the things I love about Catherine’s character in Heartless is that she doesn’t do a complete 180 bcuz her heart broke or something like in most “kind person turns to villain” books I read. Thing is: Catherine was never a kind person to begin with, she was a people-pleaser and had trouble standing up for herself, and that covered up so many of the small little hints that show her true nature and personality.
She threatened a flamingo to help her win a silly game, she stole a pumpkin she was specifically told not to take because she needed it to win a competition and when that went wrong she immediately blamed Hatta even though it was so blatantly an implication of her own actions. It’s funny to me how in one scene where she caught the husband of the jabberwocky (i forgot his name, I haven’t read the books in a while) being mean to his wife her thoughts immediately turned to wanting to see him suffer, that seemed normal to us at the time but after seeing how she could be by the end of the series, it really foreshadows how vindictive her nature is.
Despite all this, you have a hard time hating her because there are so many points in the series where you can’t help but feel sorry for her. The way she misjudged her relationship with Mary Ann, the way she thought she could trust her father to have her back but he turned out to be as spineless as she was, the way her mother abused her, the way her dreams of having a bakery were disregarded over and over, etc. etc.
Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.
If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!
I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.
I just finished The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.
Definitely in my top 3 books, now.
The 'Afterword' letter in the 2012 edition made me cry a little.
I'm glad Charlie made it.
Writing advice from my uni teachers:
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
I will never get over this😂
The amount of shipping in this anime though😂❤️
I think I'm falling for him🙈
Phan playing Undertale gives me life😂
Ed and Winry :)
I love this ship so much
Rin and Shiemi :)
Haikyuu💚 Just some of my ships from this awesome anime since I have way too many😂☺️
Nalu
Soul and Maka
I’m gonna be posting some ship videos from now until Valentine’s Day so be ready for the feels :)
Fullmetal Alchemist💚 Way too many feels right now😭
Fullmetal Alchemist💚
Soul Eater