C.B. Lee's Blog, page 99
January 14, 2016
"His words tangled in his throat, cut off, because suddenly, Ren was consumed with power, rushing..."
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The Star Host by F.T. Lukens (via ftlukens)
Pre-order The Star Host from the IP Web Storeand...
January 13, 2016
January 11, 2016
Sorry, grammar nerds. The singular ‘they’ has been declared Word of the Year.
Singular “they,” the gender-neutral pronoun, has been named the Word of the Year by a crowd of over 200 linguists at the American Dialect Society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Friday evening.
In a landslide vote, the language experts chose singular they over “thanks, Obama,” ammosexual, “on fleek,” and other contenders for this annual award given to the most significant term or word in the past...
January 10, 2016
January 9, 2016
January 8, 2016
Amandla Stenberg comes out as bisexual
Last night, Amandla Stenberg came out as bisexual in a powerful message via the Teen Vogue Snapchat:
“I wanna thank Teen Vogue for giving me this opportunity, I cannot stress enough how important representation is, so the concept that I can provide for other black girls is mind-blowing. It’s a really really hard thing to be silenced, and it’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity and just mold yourself into shapes that you just shoul...
January 2, 2016
thebibliosphere:When I was nine, possibly ten, an author came to our school to talk about writing....
When I was nine, possibly ten, an author came to our school to talk about writing. His name was Hugh Scott, and I doubt he’s known outside of Scotland. And even then I haven’t seen him on many shelves in recent years in Scotland either. But he wrote wonderfully creepy children’s stories, where the supernatural was scary, but it was the mundane that was truly terrifying. At least to little ten year old me. It was Scooby Doo meets Paranormal Activity with a bonny braw Scottish-n...
