#Edith Pattou quotes
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That’s the trouble with loving a wild thing: you’re always left watching the door.
North Child by Edith Pattou
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For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
East by Edith Pattou
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait in line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
I believe in memory. I believe in remembering someone you love so well that it becomes kind of like a ghost.
Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
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"That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: you're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to it.''
First book hangover of the year! I loved East! Especially because of the majestic description of all those magical lands. Edith Pattou has a way to describe Rose's journey and adventures that makes you feel like you are right there with her ❤
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That's the trouble with loving a wild thing; you're always left watching the door.
Edith Pattou
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon { Reylo Fairytale Series }
She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.
By the light of the candle, Rey sees her husband’s face for the first time. Not the white bear’s face, but a man’s strong features, outlined in gold and shadow. In that moment, she knows she has wronged him greatly.
“What have you done?” Kylo asks, the growl of the white bear in his throat. “Had you only waited a year, sweet one, the curse upon me would have been lifted. Now I will be forced to return to my stepmother and marry her daughter, who is as hideous and cruel as you are lovely and kind.”
“Where?” Rey asks, vowing to search for him and free him from his curse. “Where can I find you?”
“In the palace that lies east of the sun and west of the moon.”
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Top 5 non Disney fairy tale retellings
Ooooh, this is a fun one!
5. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
A fun YA series that re-imagines the stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White in a futuristic sci-fi setting where Earth is in a cold war with a genetically altered colony on the moon. I love how Meyer interprets a lot of the iconic moments and imagery of these stories in the world of the series, Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel are particularly innovative on this point.
4. Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella
A BEAUTIFUL modern dance ballet that sets the story of Cinderella in the London Blitz of the Second World War. Prokofiev’s Cinderella is one of my favourite classical scores, and Bourne does a brilliant job of playing to the sombre, brooding undertones of the music (you can really tell Prokofiev wrote this one during the war). I just think the setting is such a clever one; it takes the idea of Cinderella dancing on borrowed time and really uses it to tap in this air of desperate joie de vivre among the soldiers on leave and the regular partygoers at the ball - everyone’s waiting for the clock to strike midnight, for the bombs to drop, for the bullet with their name on it, and it makes for such a striking retelling with a truly beautiful ending.
3. Beauty and the Beast by Megan Kearney
An absolutely gorgeous webcomic retelling that rivals the Disney movie in its central couple's development, and has some really unique takes on the traditional story, particularly on the nature of the Beast's enchantment. It does a beautiful job of depicting the fallout of neglect, abuse, and the inability to see one's own worth, even in simple self-deprecation, and as a comic, it's beautifully plotted and drawn out.
2. Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
The gold standard, really. This movie is a goldmine of gorgeous quotes and character moments. I mean... "A bird may love a fish, Signore, but where would they live?" and "I kneel before you, not as a prince, but as a man in love. But I would feel like a king if you, Danielle de Barbarac... would be my wife", on top of George Fenton’s score??? Bury me now.
1. North Child by Edith Pattou (also known as East outside of Europe).
The first fairy tale retelling I read in my teenage years, and my introduction to East of the Sun and West of the Moon, this one has a very special place in my heart. I love the cast and all their different voices of narration, I love Rose's growth and struggle to find herself along with the white bear, I love that you really feel the weight of the year she spends in the castle in the mountain and the second year it takes her to travel north... just a wonderful book on every front <3
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15 and 18!
Sorry it took so long to answer, my internet went to shit ghwknfow
15~ 3 quotes that have a special place in your life
This was lowkey kinda hard but these are quotes from some of my favorite books fjekd
1. "I don't know how many women can claim to have walked a man's heart, but I've walked yours" -The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
2. "That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door." -East by Edith Pattou
3. "If music stops, and art ceases, and beauty fades, what have we then?" -Lovely War by Julie Berry
18~ 3 dream jobs you’ve had in your childhood
My job options always changed as a child so yeah ❤
1. The longest standing one: Archeologist
2. I wanted to own a bar with my bsf ngl
3. I think I wanted to be an author at some point fjwknfj
‘3 things….’ asks!
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Danielle Babbles About Books - West (East, #2) by Edith Pattou
Rating: 4/5 stars
Adult Content: there’s some violence, no more than in the first book though
Review: Yes it did take me a whole year to get to this. I have some mixed feelings about this. I totally get having ideas for sequels and that it’s a little weird to continue a story that is finished. The overall lesson is that you gotta kill your villains dead the first time. No cheating! No “they fell from a great height” without checking the body afterward, no more “they were dragged off for execution,” do it thoroughly and make sure the death is absolutely confirmed. Second of all I wasn’t sold on Neddy and Sib’s romance. Where were the interactions? I’m not feeling things! I know I’m supposed to and the narrative style has a lot to do with this but a the same time I’m not seeing the point in Neddy “needing” a romance and Sib’s backstory just felt sloppy in the way it was presented, I knew an explanation was coming but it felt like it was too last-minute and there wasn’t enough hinting or the right kind of hinting. I also didn’t really see why Rose fell in love with Charles again. I think there could’ve been more, more interactions, more tension. And then there were things with the family back home. Sara dying honestly felt cheap and I wonder if there could’ve been more or less focus on that part of the story. It added tension in that we were getting a view of how dangerous the troll queen was but at the same time there was little consequence because I never got to know Sara enough to care about her and Neddy surviving was also just a little too easy. So there were a lot of things about this book that frustrated me and I think there’s a lot that should’ve been added and some more that could’ve been cut down. Like I think Rose should’ve spent more time learning wind magic and not just having Sib use it and what was the purpose of those cloaks if she keeps them but never uses them? It was the last ~50 pages that got this rating to 4 stars because that actual final confrontation was intense and satisfying and I was tortured right up until the end and was so happy with that final little twist but it’s still a little off.
Favorite Quote: “Tell me a story” I said, handing him the story knife. He shook his head, pushing the knife back toward me. “I have no stories,” he said. “Stories have a beginning, middle, and end. I have only moments, flashes of pictures in my mind.”
“That is what stories are made of,” I said. “Moments. One followed by another, by another. Until you have a story.”
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"She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there." North Child
#North Child#book recs#favourite quotes#you had me at#edith pattou#legends#myths#culture#the snow queen#superstition#fantasy#east of the sun west of the moon#polar bears#trolls
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san francisco & florence :’)
San Francisco: If someone gave you a bouquet of flowers, what type of flowers would you hope to see? Have you ever gifted someone a bouquet of flowers– and what was the occasion?
I would love love love to get a wildflower bouquet, and I would DIE if it had queen anne’s lace, black-eyed susans, thistle, and wild mustard - those are just off the top of my head, mind. I haven’t ever given someone a bouquet unless it was a bunch of wildflowers and “””weeds””” (like dandelions) to like...my mom or dad when I was little. Those occasions were that young girls have hearts of gold and giving spirits.
Florence: Favorite books? What genre of book is your favorite? Do you have a favorite quote from a book? Share it with us!
AH!!! I love this!
Life of Pi by Yann Martel; East by Edith Pattou; The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke; the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy by Diana Wynne Jones; She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb; I could go on but then I’d scream endlessly into the night and that sounds like a Lot
I tend towards realistic fiction, fantasy, and YA novels in those genres! I’m never opposed to a good dystopian novel, either. OH and Modernism! I like that more for poetry, but it’s fun in novels as well. Also Naturalism is the worst literary movement ever fuck Steinbeck thanks
I have so many book quotes ajkdfsfalk here are a few:
“That’s the trouble with loving a wild thing: you’re always left watching the door,” from East
“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse,” from Life of Pi
“ I think we ought to live happily ever after,” from Howl’s Moving Castle
“ Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love,” “ You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in,” and “ People waste their happiness—that’s what makes me sad. Everyone’s so scared to be happy,” all from She’s Come Undone. That book is RICH with gut-punch-emotional lines
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Revive Booklr Tag
Thank you @caitreadsya for tagging me! Rules: If tagged, answer the original questions and either add to the list or delete some (if you’d like), then tag more people! ————————- Which book are you currently reading? A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor Assassin's Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden What’s the best beverage when reading? Idk, I don't really drink anything while I read, I always forget about it What’s your favourite book quote? 'That's the trouble with loving a wild thing, you're always stuck watching the door.' - East by Edith Pattou What’s your Hogwarts house? I took the sorting thing on the website and it said Slytherin If you could get on a plane right now, where would you go? (Yes, fictional places are good as well. You could also travel via wardrobe/train/etc.) Ireland What’s your favourite holiday read? Nothing really, depends on what I'm in the mood for. But during the Halloween season at like to read horror When do you put your Christmas decorations up? The beginning of December Are there any books you want to recommend to the rest of us? God that's a hard question, just look at my favs category on Goodreads What books do you want for the holidays? All. Of. Them. Probably the Gentlemen Bastard series What is your favourite nonfiction subject to read? Homicide/Unsolved Mysteries What types of book covers do you find most aesthetically pleasing? I honestly have no idea, all the covers of my books differ from one another Favourite book you’ve read this year? In 2016 it would be.....Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. So good. If you set yearly goals for yourself, how many books would you like to read in 2017? I've set it for 40 books this year Who are some of your book girlfriends and/or boyfriends? Angel from White Trash Zombie JASON TODD from DC Comics Lucien from ACOTAR Scarlet Benoit from The Lunar Chronicles Wolf from the Lunar Chronicles Sabetha from His Fair Assassin Locke Lamora from The Gentleman Bastard Tara Abernathy from Three Parts Dead I tag: @adventuresoflibrarygirl @bibliophilicwitch @bookandwords @bookdrunkdemigod
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reading notes: Jan-May 2020
Articles
Lot of articles–before the quarantimes hit, I worked a temp job as a front-desk receptionist for a data management office tucked away in a corner of the city. We rarely got phone calls and rarely got visitors, so I read most of the day.
A Sea Story by William Langwiesche, The Atlantic (limited articles)
Warning: This is a vivid account of a tragedy. Deeply sorrowful and masterfully written, yeah, but there’s a lot of death.
Thinking of this now in the context of the quarantimes. How so much of survival depends on circumstance, coincidence, quick thinking and movement. How everybody is literally in the same boat–but that does not mean the experience is the same all over.
The Internet of Beefs by Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm
You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
Against Waldenponding by Venkatesh Rao
Thinking of this article again now, especially as I wrangle with both media input and writing output. To live head-in-the-sand is comfortable yet impractical. But what are guidelines for responsible input and output? That’s next on my list of things to research. I want to balance unpacking my own baggage and healing with the constant and necessary work of becoming a better person in the world. (For what it’s worth, Rao’s perspective focuses on information consumption and production, not so much the interior stuff I’m reflecting on here.)
Why We Need a Working-Class Media by Carla Murphy, Dissent
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, The Believer
Together Alone by Michael Hobbes, Huffpost Highline
Warning: Talk of drug abuse, suicide and suicidal ideation, and addiction.
The Moods of Ernest Hemingway by Lillian Ross, The New Yorker (limited articles)
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong by Michael Hobbes, Huffpost Highline
Millennials Are Screwed by Michael Hobbes, Huffpost Highline
Read most of this on my phone, standing during an hour-long bus ride home from a temp job in the city. Felt fitting.
The Last Time Democracy Almost Died by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker (limited articles)
How ‘West Side Story’ Was Reborn by Sasha Weiss, The New York Times Magazine (subscription paywall)
There’s an image of Tony and Maria being pulled apart by cast members, their bodies literally hanging from others’ arms as they reach toward each other, and it’s described as being “not realistic, but operatic.” That. There is something in that.
A quote from Sondheim: “Story is, this is about a man who can’t make up his mind. Plot is, this is a guy who thinks his uncle killed his father. And a good play combines the two.”
Make It New, Again – interview with Hannah Sullivan by Lily Myer, Poetry Foundation
We Will Be Seen – interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom by Mark Leviton, The Sun
Books, Poetry, Short Stories
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Similar vibe to Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, which I’d been gifted/read shortly before reading this. Also similar to East by Edith Pattou – the whole East of the Sun, West of the Moon genre. Gotta read that, too, someday!
Murderbot Diaries (#1-4) by Martha Wells
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I feel some sort of way about humans navigating the gods’ landscapes. Cruel rules; splendor and limitation; what it means to choose to walk the path before you, even and especially when you do not have a choice.
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Warning: Deep violence and tragedy.
Death for rubber for tires in World War II, to better engineer death. Just a small piece of what this book covers. I think…this is one I’ll be revisiting as I learn more about what didn’t get taught in school (or that I plain forgot).
Circe by Madeline Miller
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
To buy, read, and cherish.
The City Born Great by N.K. Jemisin
Short story, not a book (prequel to The City We Became, on hold for another FOUR WEEKS, gosh).
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (pair with this Poets & Writers profile of Dillard)
Did not know she grew up in Pittsburgh until I saw this on the shelf in a used-book store! A fascinating glimpse into the past of a city I kinda sorta know well.
HOLY COW she reads so much.
The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa
Still making slow progress on this. I love it, it’s wild, I swear it gets longer every time I look at it.
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ELEVEN (11) QUESTIONS
RULES:
always post the rules. / answer the questions given by the person who tagged you. / write 11 questions of your own / tag 11 people.
I was tagged by @bratwurst-poltergeist :-D
What’s your favourite book?
✿ ...literally the most difficult question to ask a bookworm! ...erm... Sabriel by Garth Nix has been a favourite for years. I’d also recommend North Child by Edith Pattou.
Do you have a favourite quote from it?
✿ “Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?” -Sabriel
If you could change one thing about your appearance would you and if so what?
✿ ...nah.
Pick a historical character to have sex with
✿ I’m ace so i’m gonna say pass.
A recent achievement you’re proud of?
✿ finally getting a job b/c that’s been the last several month’s thing
Do you like me? Y/Y
✿ Yeah :-D
Rec me new band to get into
✿ Have you ever listened to anything by Of Monsters and Men? I’d recommend Mountain Sound and Wolves without teeth.
Can you show me pics of your pets?
✿ I don’t have any pets at the moment. The last pet I had was my family cat (sadly passed away when I was 13). (and sadly I can’t find a pic on my computer atm! sorry!)
Do you honestly believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the Kennedy assassination?
✿ I don’t know enough about the details of the Kennedy assassination to form an opinion and don’t feel like speculating without more information.
Do you have an iconic item of clothing? The thing that you’d be drawn in if you were a cartoon character
✿ *cough* hedwigHOOD *cough* *cough* *points at icon which is a cartoon featuring me and my hoodie* *cough*
Do you have a natural talent you’d like to brag about?
✿ I’m pretty good at maths *she says, admiring the shiny first class masters degree in mathematics sitting on her shelf*
OKAY MY TURN TO ASK THE QUESTIONS: 1. Favourite colour? 2. Why is that your favourite colour? 3. First thing you can see on your left? 4. Opinion on chocolate cake? 5. Do you have a favourite author? 6. Tolkien or Lewis? 7. If we invented the warp drive in our lifetime (as in star trek)(and like to a reasonable standard so it doesn’t take years to get anywhere) and you were offered a place on the first voyage out into the stars, would you go? 8. Any pets? Feel free to infodump about your pets if so. 9. What would brighten your day the most? 10. What do you put on your windowsill? 11. What’s the weather outside like where you are?
Tagging @stripeysocksarecool, @invisible-goats, @20furiousbluebirds, @woodelf68, @myfriendstellmeimweird, @thornfield13713, @ashadeofpemberley, @nerdfishgirl, @be-a-warrior-not-a-worrier, @sarashouldbestudying and @licieoic If you want to :-D
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