Meagan Spooner's Blog, page 143

Gorgeous. <3

Gorgeous.

soundtrack-of-the-mind:picked up These Broken Stars from the library and from what I’ve seen via...

soundtrack-of-the-mind:

picked up These Broken Stars from the library and from what I’ve seen via bookmad's posts, I think I'm about to destroy my life??

"It did not matter who the client was. I watched him ensnare them with nothing more than a smile and..."

“It did not matter who the client was. I watched him ensnare them with nothing more than a smile and a sweep of his eyes.”

- The Young Elites(releases Oct. 7, 2014). Stop by any Barnes & Noble this Friday - Sunday (7/18-20), and get a free 50-page sampler of the book! (via marielubooks)

lunsfuhd:Am I the only one who liked Nebula more than...

lunsfuhd:

Am I the only one who liked Nebula more than Gamora?

On the one hand, I’m tired of science fiction/action movies in which the only female characters are mean/hate-y to each other. (And we wonder why so many guys are all “why are women such bitches”?) Assuming there’s even two female characters present to bitch at each other in the first place.

But Gamora and Nebula’s relationship had the potential to go deeper than that, an actual love/rivalry/hatred thing (though the rivalry did mos...

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"My father and his stupid fixation on mythology. He told me all the old stories when I was little, of..."

“My father and his stupid fixation on mythology. He told me all the old stories when I was little, of warring gods and goddesses, and I almost imagined he was one of them. All-powerful, all knowing. Someone to be worshiped unconditionally. But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possesses that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”

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Lilac, These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (via loveyabooks)

There’s Greek mythology in all my books. I really can’t help it. It...

Sometimes, during revisions/copy-edits/final-pass pages, I’ll read a sentence or a phrase or...

Sometimes, during revisions/copy-edits/final-pass pages, I’ll read a sentence or a phrase or an idea that I originally wrote over a year ago and think, "Wow, that is actually kind of really good."

That thought is almost always followed immediatelyby one of two subsequent thoughts:

"Must have been a fluke."

or

"How come I can’t write like that anymore? I’ve lost whatever it was that made me able to do this…"

Fighting against these subsequent dismissive thoughts is, most days...

naturallysteph:the-book-ferret:They look so beautiful all...

naturallysteph:

the-book-ferret:

They look so beautiful all together. My heart is full of happy.

I will re-tumbl this adorable ferret forever.

buttpoems:a drawing about optimism

buttpoems:

a drawing about optimism

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