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khepiari · 1 month

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Why do the New Joanne Harris Books cost this much? Like why? Yes I know the cost of production that goes into because I am a former book editor. Hence I also know she is not even making a lot despite the MRP! If they are pricing the book at 30 or more pounds abroad I hope she is making at least 15 to 20 each book!

One day my salary will make me able to buy these three books! Tonight is not the day! Until then let me cry in Pound to INR conversation rate!

Why does everything become costly in India! And why is there an import tax on books? Its not a luxury item! It is medication for my soul. It is essential item!

Why can’t a woman make enough money to live comfortably as a book dragon in this country?

Meanwhile look at the bloody covers! They are beautiful! 😍

And I refuse to get a kindle edition! Never! I need the books in my hand! In my hand!!!!! Hisssssssss!

#joanne harris #i love joanne harris books so much but I live in a bad country with no tax breaks #honeycomb #maiden mother crone #broken light #books by joanne harris #everyone who has money buy her books!#i want to read them so badly but capitalism is killing me

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chanyoungies · 2 years

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you still haven’t noticed, you don’t know anything, i’m a liar deceiving you // junseo × tick tack

#kim junseo #wei #ouiai #camt believe i went to translate the song nd ended up not being able to use any of the lyrics i wanted bc the other panels didnt work out #messed up. very messed up #what if i wanted to use absolutely all the lyrics . what then . rips all my hair out #todays not my day #however. perceive junseo #nd think about this concept please n thanks #junseo u wanna cover ukiss so bad..#(in an extremely loud voice but also extremely off key) TO LIE I SHALL BE SINGING TO YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT TO LIE I SHALL BE TURNING ON THE #BROKEN LIGHT #*mine #no one say anything abt how this is my worst work yet everyone pls just think about this concept Please im begging i cant be going insane al #all alone*

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drsdf · 2 years

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Heavily inspired by the omori boy comics

#hikikomori #shut in #broken light #omori #omori boy

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delightful-to-be-read · 2 months

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Broken Light - Joanne Harris

I’m not counting books I bought in 2024 as beating the backlog. They’re creating the backlog.

Joanne Harris is a writer with range, but unlike, say, Stephen King, the genre she’s writing in really dictates whether I like it or not. I read most of the books set in France in France, but I read them in English because there’s a mystical magic to them that I think relies on being an outsider. Obviously the thread that runs through all of her books, as far as I’ve read, is the voice of the outsider, but that’s not quite what I mean. Anyway, I love them. She doesn’t seem to employ the same magic in her books set in the UK, but possibly that’s because Lasquanet is fictional whereas I can picture getting on the bus to Archway or walking round the backs in Cambridge.

A thing I really dislike with books written in first person is when they’re written with the over-familiar exuberance of someone running an induction session. I don’t feel the need to be addressed directly as a reader; it’s a trait of YA books and that’s where I think it should stay. I found this weirdest of all with a book about Loki and I didn’t get past the first page. But the books about the boarding school are also written in first person, and much more calmly and remotely. More like a memoir than a pitch. This one has a tone more like the boarding school ones. It’s adjacent to the boarding school ones, although St Oswalds has become an Independent instead of a grammar school.

I also love when authors are unafraid to make their characters dislikable. I genuinely think the Gossip Girl books are remarkable because so many, if not all, of the characters are utterly irredeemable and there is never any attempt to redeem them. I think it must take such a strong mind as a writer. Joanne Harris is always good at that, even when her narrators have a pretty good opinion of themselves.

It’s really similar thematically to Weyward, which is strange because I didn’t have a clear idea of what Weyward was about before I started reading it and no idea at all what Broken Light was about. Men mistreat women and get their come-uppence with a little magic. There’s more overt political commentary and I also found the male behaviour in this book to be much more frustrating, much more recognisable as someone who is fortunate enough never to have been domestically abused but does live in the world as a woman among men. The two great tropes:

1. Two women are murdered by their partner a week, but, most importantly, NOT ALL MEN KILL THEIR PARTNER and why can’t women focus on that?

2. Male depression is caused by the erosion of gender roles. Women, won’t you get back into the kitchen? You could save a life.

Also the third, although I think this is in the process of being eroded:

3. If only women had the sense to stay in the kitchen, they wouldn’t be raped and murdered (unless the rapist or murderer was in the kitchen too).

More or less my whole adult life, I’ve refused to take the precautions I’m meant to take because I’m a women and I’ve got very annoyed with my mum, who is only worrying as mums do, whenever she’s worried about me coming home late, etc. I’m now at the point where I’ve pretty much forgotten it’s supposed to be a thing, but I do have echoes of identifying with her running defiance. Besides, I’m a big fan of exercising for mental health, as much as a person is able to.

As we know, exercise does not equal thinness and body positivity is a warmly embraced part of the book. Being positive about a body that doesn’t match gender expectations, a body that doesn’t match sporting expectations, a body that doesn’t match sexual expectations, yet these bodies are bodies that are full of gender, activity and sex. Loving bodies that are strong, loving bodies that have been put through the wringer but still house spirit, loving bodies that are tired but still persisting, loving bodies that make their kids sprint after them through the Alton Towers crowds at 35 degrees because the extensions of their bodies have an accelerator.

Now to read something completely different.

#Joanne Harris #Broken Light #women-centric #body positive book #london

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mianimasenpoeticus · 4 months

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#Broken Light #poetry #new poem #poem #poetic #intsa original #new poetry #i.s.a.#lha #1introvertedsage #poems daily #original poetry #my poem #light #real #superficial #facade #mask #heart work

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1introvertedsage · 5 months

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So sick of superficial Just give me something real Hearts made out of gold Or candy coated steel.

Masks the main accessory. Facades are the new true. Built up images around the world. No light reflecting through.

~I.S.~

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tmblrsucksdick38 · 5 months

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#humor #signage #broken light #innuendo #tmblrsucksdick38 #tsd38

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bookliteratibookreviews · 11 months

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Broken Light by Joanne Harris

Book Blurb Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are these days, mostly online). At nineteen she was full of dreams and ambitions; now almost fifty, and going through the menopause, she’s fading, fast. Heartbroken and hormonal, she often feels like she’s losing her mind. But when a young woman is murdered in a local park, it sparks a series of…

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#Book Blogger #Book Recommendation #Book review #Broken Light #Contemporary Fiction #Joanne Harris #Magic #Orion Books #Supernatural #Women&039;s Fiction

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novelist-becca · 1 year

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Man.

Imagine being Eda here.

You did everything in your power to keep your daughter (who just cracked open your walls) safe and away from the fight. Argued with her about her safety and even helped carve her palisman.

Only for it to be in vain, because she ended up being killed by Belos anyway. And you got a front row seat.

You don’t even know what to do as you watch the light orbs that used to be your kid float away.

At this point, Eda doesn’t give two shits and let’s the owl beast take the reigns.

You can practically hear her grief and agony in “I don’t think I can control myself right now.”

#a lot of people talk about how Camila cried as a puppet at seeing the light orbs #but I don’t see anybody acknowledging how broken Eda must’ve felt at this point #the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #owl house #the owl house spoilers #eda clawthorne #luz noceda #edalyn clawthorne #eda the owl mom #found family #angst #analysis

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halideandpixel · 1 year

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#digital photography #puddle #reflection #broken light #2018

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voidsentprinces · 7 months

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Shadowbringers is about two old men trying to out dramatic each other and failing while wearing the most frilly of robes. Grandstanding, trying to win over the heroes' heart and trying to out old man each other while everyone else is trying to fix the Post Apocalyptic Hellscape.

#{ also Emet and G'raha have inverted outfits }#{ G'raha has red overtones while Emet's red is more of a maroon subdued beneath the black }#{ Broken up by the white obvious symbolism of light #dark the blood they've shed to get where they are and the golden gleam of the future they believe in }

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stagnation-is-a-deadly-poison · 2 years

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Broken Light - Nomadic