Writer Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson in the Caribbean island of Antigua on May 25, 1949.
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Tina Fey reads.
This is the book I read in seventh grade when I was ashamed of the crush I had on my lab partner. A girl with microbraided black hair and thick eyeliner.
This is the book I read in seventh grade when I didn’t know that you could love boys and girls.
This is the book I read in seventh grade and this is the first love story I ever cared about and ever wanted a piece of.
When you feel like a freak—for any reason—books are more than stories. Some books change your life.
“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.” — Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty (via timetravel-teacup)
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Is she reading Order of the Phoenix?Jennifer Lawrence reads (on the set of The Hunger Games).
WHAT is she reading!?!?
The girl playing a girl from a book reads a book… infinityyy
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Get Your Read on with Lambda Literary's My Story Book Club -
Covering many genres including fiction, memoir and poetry,My Storyis a place where LGBT youth and their supporters can read a story like their own and participate in an open discussion with like-minded readers. Focused on providing an open and welcoming atmosphere online,My Storyexposes diversity in the positive and creative conduit of literature.
Each month, we will introduce a LGBT work geared towards young adults with compelling discussions, polls, play lists, author commentary and trivia each week led by a guest youth moderator. At the end of the month, the author will participate in an hour-long Q&A with readers.
May’s title is What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson.
June will be Name All the Animals by Alison Smith.
Find them at Goodreads too.
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