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Moments

I am having the best moment

Opening up a book that bends in my hands

Sitting in a little bookshop.

Choosing a cake that my grandmother knows the recipe for

The words on the pages feel personal, familiar, safe.

Quiet chatter around me pauses while a song that I thought only I knew plays.

My chair is not cozy, but comfortable and the sun is perfectly peeking through the window— miraculously warming my hair while avoiding my eyes.

Listening to laughter and laments I see decorations for the upcoming festival of love.

Each day I check the mail for my upcoming “Be mine.”

My Be Mine invitation coming from my future.

My future school where I will go with the flow— and hopefully flowing with happiness and not just relief.

And I smell my cake as the older couple zips and clips up their coats and I am wishing I could read my book and write simultaneously,

Because both feel so       calm.

And it is moments like this. Calm moments of my own, and moments of others I witness from my spot I the corner that make this life, this day, this moment, the best.

#poetry #spoken word #occasional poet

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The yellow couch

Here is lay and I am comfortable—

On this couch that was build for a man who has only lain for ten years.

He left big shoes to fill and filling where his king legs once reached.

Here I lay and I am rested—

Looking at the lights shimmer across the bay, the trees casting their shadow on the ceiling. My alarm completely unaware of the time. My bright eyes can see far from my sunny perch.

Here I lay and I am loved—

My mother in the room beside listening to the sound of,

my grandmother sitting upright in her empty king sized bed as to not disturb her do,

You think my stepfather can be anymore kind and thoughtful? Is what I asked myself when my uncle answered his questions about his new baby girl.

If there is a word to describe this foreign kind of love I’m sure it is Yiddish. I think I’ll ask next time the matriarch of all this love barges in in my bath.

Here I lay content—

Bathed in the feeling of gratitude

my stresses and obsesses feel far far away,

My thoughts only on the glow of the space the glow of the home. Lit by safety. Safety in knowing that happiness is overrated. Joy is overwhelming. Big girls do cry. Being carefree is not so freeing. Age is not just a number. Perfection is pressure. Finding a release is the pleasure in life. Pleasure flies and lands. Here, from my nest Safety is contentedness. Safety is knowing you are lying on velvet the color of daisies.

Here I lay—

My legs are still inches away from the ending. Reaching and stretching seeking resistance.

Here I lay—

As the light of the day overtakes the glow.

Here I lay—

As comfortable as can be

on a couch not designed for me.

#poetry #love #comfort #poems #am I a phony or am I a poet

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yup. this sums it up

the inheritance games by jennifer lynn barnes is just like: 🎶 there goes the last great american dynasty 🎶

#the boys for sure dyed a dog green

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The Inheritance Games

No spoilers- just my true thoughts!

Okay. So. I really really REALLY wanted to like this book. Like I devoted a whole day to it, so I could read all day. That is how much stock I had in this book. I had seen it everywhere! On all the YA TBR shelves, and all the tiktoks, and all the tweets! I waited 6 weeks for it at the library. I went to three stores for it. SIX WEEKS of waiting!! So when I got it, I was soooo excited. But then I read it. Don't get me wrong. It was good. But was it Hunger Games good? Not even close. First off it was written for the Teen Section, which kinda shook me. Also, the main character seems to have a lot of hype around her, but she doesn't really do that many cool things! At least in comparison to other books (thinking of you Cammie Morgan). On that note, the ending was so predictable! Next, the male characters were pretty good, but not super fleshed out. I mean Xander is so under hyped!! I do really like the love triangle, I can't decide who I like more (I think team Grayson though). I just thought it was good, but not great. I mean I did add myself to The Hawthorne Legacy waitlist, but... Ya know. I think if I had just read it without hearing anything about it, I would have liked it a lot more. In all, the Knives Out vibes were incredible! The property described in the novel, and the problematic adults (she who must not be named), were really great!

#still gonna read the sequal #the inheritance games #the hawthorne legacy #avery kylie grambs #team Grayson #book blog

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I love love love Markus Zusak, and I love your signed copy! The little doggy is so sweet! That said, this book was not my favorite. Beautiful writing, but pretty hard to follow.

ig: thepaige_turner

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Midnight Sun

#ahhhhhhh #midnight sun

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Imagine Me (No Spoilers Yet)

I am writing this for myself, so keep scrolling unless you want kinda sad content. I need to be honest and say that I have not finished Find Me. I have it. In fact, I had it three days before the rest of the world because my local bookstore sent it early. The second day it sat on my bedside table, I told myself I was going to read it. I told my whole family to leave me alone. I would be a creature that crept downstairs at odd and irregular intervals to eat snacks that I didn’t have to look at so I could just keep reading. I was going to finish it all in one sitting. Like I had done Defy Me and Reveal Me and all the books before. I was going to enjoy it— dammit. But, I can’t write that I did. I started my day how I had planned it. I got up and read. Nobody bothered me. My sister even brought me my favorite tea so I wouldn’t have to leave my reading cocoon. But, halfway through, somewhere where Andersette was starting, I stopped. I was so overcome with emotion at the end of chapter —. Not because I was really pushing for Andersette to happen— Oh my G-d no— but because I didn’t want it to end. I was having my perfect reading day. I was reading my favorite series ever. I didn’t want it to end. I don’t want to read the next half of the book because I can’t admit to myself that it is over. If I finish the book (and see the vows that are floating around twitter and intagram) I will have to admit that the series is over. Done. Kaput. And I can’t do that. Not yet. So, if you follow this blog for Shatter Me content, and you are waiting for a review of Find Me. You are just going to have to keep waiting. I don’t know when I will be able to finish the book. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe next week. Maybe next month.  I just know that right now, I would not be able to cope with the loss of Juliette. I know she doesn’t die. But her story is one I cannot see an end to. These books have meant so much to me since I first read them in high school. I feel like I grew up with Juliette. I certainly spent most of my young adult life reading and rereading her story. Watching Juliette find her voice taught me I had one. So, yeah. That’s it. I use this platform as a way to keep track of my reading habits. My thoughts and feelings go on here— just for me. Here they are. I am scared to finish the Shatter Me series because once it is over I do not think I will be able to handle it’s loss. So, for the time being, it is going to stay on my bedside table. Just sitting there. Kenji would say the book is mocking me. Juliette would say keeping it’s me company. 

#booksarefriends #tahereh mafi #find me #shatter me

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I saw this on the EpicReads Twitter.... I love this idea!!!!!

#but twilight tho #some ship names are just bad

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Tag yourself I’m Charlotte

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A man wrote this.

Places that make “women only ____” to fight gender equality are doing the opposite by forbidding men to go in.

#thoughts from the shower #water based introspection #showerthoughts #showery contemplation #feminist

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ATBP Trailer

OMG!!! The All the Bright Places trailer comes out tomorrow night!! As I have said before, I am so nervous for this movie to come out. I hope the they honor the story and stay true to the book. But... I am SOOO EXCITED!!!

#all the bright places #atbp

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Free Shavacadoo!!

New personality test

What vine do you think of first when you hear the word “avacado?”

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I am so excited for this movie!!!! This book series means a lot to me, I feel like Lara Jean is who I wanted to be in DUN DUN DUN DUN.... High School! When they made the first film I was so worried that they would not stay true to the book, but they did! And, this trailer looks true to the novel too!! I am so excited to see it! 

#g-d knows ill be watching it by myself on valentines day #otp #tatbilb

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Would buy

PLEASE look at what my sister made me for christmas

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new imagine me excerpt on tahereh’s ig!!

you can find it here (hope it works lol)

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Imagine Me pages 9-16??

Yo. I’m ded. Juliette forgetting is tragic. However, her love is still strong so by remembering her past feelings and forgetting her current ones proves their love. The fact that he can feel her emotions so clearly makes me think that we are gonna see more of Aaron’s powers and I am hyped. I am so excited to experience their powerful love again.

#im already crying #shatter me series #imagine me #so i guess its warnette again #thank goodness aaronella is a terrible ship name

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My bookshelf looking like:

y’all I was on goodreads today for the first time in a long time and oh BOY am I tired