Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 636
November 17, 2013
fieryheartivashkov:
25 Days of Shadow and Bone Challenge
Day...
25 Days of Shadow and Bone Challenge
Day Four: Favorite Female Character
↳Alina Starkov
For the living and the dead, she would make herself a reckoning. She would rise.
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Grisha Trilogy + Relationships part 1
Grisha Trilogy + Relationships part 1
Free people has this coat called the Marani Embellished Coat and it's giving me major kefta feels. I wish I could comment the link, but tumblr unfortunately does not allow it.
Doood. I just looked that coat up.
Gorgeous. But $1115 ??? That’s some pricy cosplay right there.
thisbrilliantsky:
Literature Meme — Five Poets — Robert Frost...
Literature Meme — Five Poets — Robert Frost (2/5)
Like the nineteenth-century Romantics, [Frost] maintained that a poem is “never a put-up job…. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a loneliness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.” Yet, “working out his own version of the ‘impersonal’ view of art,” as Hyatt H. Waggoner observed, Frost also upheld T. S. Eliot’s idea that the man who suffers and the artist who creates are totally separate. [x]
I feel like Frost gets written off because he became so popular and every damn person knows “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.” But he’s still one of my favorite poets.
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
(from “Once by the Pacific” by Robert Frost)
heyy leighhh so i got a nook awhile back because i have no more shelf room for books and it is easier to carry around but i love the grisha trilogy so much that i finally bought a hard copy and now i was able to read mals letter and skdfkasdfjaksfd
So lovely of you to buy the digital and the paperback.
And so glad you enjoyed Mal’s letter!
I tend to feel a little iffy when it comes to “bonus” content because it’s part of the canon, but not in the way that the books are. But I’d always wanted to write about Mal’s time away from Alina in Shadow and Bone and I was grateful to get even a small chance to do that
November 16, 2013
And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless...
And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.
Hi Leigh! I love your books! I've been reading a lot of articles about male YA authors being treated better then female YA authors and Males having more opportunities and such and I was wondering for a kind of article I'm writing: What are ther perks of be
Hi,
Thanks for the kind words on the books and the interesting question.
I saw Maureen Johnson’s excellent reply to you, and I feel like she hit all of the points better than I could.
So I’m going to interpret your question slightly differently (and perhaps wrongly) and try to answer this: Are there perks that female authors enjoy that male authors do not?
Honestly? The only concrete perk that springs to mind is group tours. They’re fun, draw nice crowds, and allow for great crossover. Thus far, I think they’ve been all female—though it’s completely possible that I’m just unaware of tours that like to mix it up.
This leads me to a less quantifiable perk: camaraderie. There are a lot of wonderful women writing YA and I get to hang out with them—definite perk. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy spending time with the gents of YA. I do! But I’ve had more opportunities to bond with lady authors on tours and retreats, and while rooming with them at festivals and conventions.
I guess I’d also say that, at its best, the culture that has grown up around YA fandoms embraces female enthusiasm in a really positive way—and in a way that I don’t see many other places. It’s a culture that lets women and girls express attraction and pleasure and feels without shame. I love being part of that as a female reader and as a female author.
Hope that helps and best of luck with your article!
