#foolish hearts

[areggos-art-dump]

other kofi requests from september

#art #kofi #kofi request #request #ko fi #astarion #baldurs gate 3 #shinji hirako #bleach #foolish hearts #digital replicant #duke cassius #areggo

[the-dust-jacket]

LET'S PUT ON A SHOW: six novels about playing Shakespeare!

(Pictured: Romeo and Juliet Together (And Alive!) At Last; Foolish Hearts; King of Shadows; Star-Crossed; Hag-Seed; Station Eleven)

I love a good let's-put-on-a-show story, especially a Shakespearian one, and I feel like it's been ages since I've picked one up. If you've got recommendations please let me know!

#William Shakespeare #Happy Shakespeare Day #Romeo and Juliet Together and Alive At Last #Hag-Seed #Station Eleven #Foolish Hearts #King of Shadows #Star-Crossed #Barbara Dee #Susan Cooper #Emily St. John Mandel #Avi #Emma Mills #Margaret Atwood

[jeremyknoxs]

and i’ll call gideon when it’s over and talk to him long after everyone has fallen asleep, the phone growing warm against my ear. as we say good night, i will want to say i love you. i won’t say it. but just the thought of it will keep me awake long after. the best kind of awake, the purest caffeine pumping through your veins, where you never want to stop feeling what you’re feeling, can’t bear the thought of interrupting it, even with sleep. (in/sp)

#* #literature #foolish hearts #emma mills #litedit #foolishheartsedit #yalit #bookedit #storyseekers #usercossette #chaptersnet #booknet #edit #lit

[alluringwaves]

CLAUDIA WALLACE.

“I remember thinking . . . ‘Claudia feels this so much more than I do.’ You just care so much, you know? And sometimes I feel like I’m cut off from stuff because my first instinct is like, ‘okay, how can we fix this, what can we do to make it better.’ But your first instinct is just like, ‘how must the other person be feeling?’ It cuts so close with you."

— Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

#[💐] lana’s book girls #[📖] lana‘s books #she’s for the stupid sensitive girlies #claudia wallace #foolish hearts #emma mills #justclaudiawallacethings #gideon prewitt #quotes #aesthetic #booklr #book characters #summer book #book character aesthetic #character aesthetic #book aesthetic

[ourblueming]

lit edit: foolish hearts by emma mills

“It just feels like..." Her voice small. "Sometimes it just feels like I'm faking."

"Maybe everyone feels that way.”

#foolish hearts #emma mills #litedit #mine:read #i adored this book!!! feel free to chat to me about it #it’s been years since i’ve made a lil edit #bookedit #yalitnet #yalitedit #ya lit aesthetic #foolishheartsedit

[asexual-juliet]

gideon prewitt and iris huang go as sharkboy and lavagirl for halloween i said what i said

#the idea of like the gang doing ‘couples costumes’ but gideon goes with iris and claudia goes with noah is… so personal to me… #also gideon fucking loves him some sharkboy and lavagirl holy shit #WAIT FUCK WHICH ONE OF THEM GOES AS WHICH #IRIS AS SHARKBOY GIDEON AS LAVAGIRL… THATS THE GOOD SHIT #foolish hearts #emma mills #foolish hearts emma mills #gideon prewitt #gideon prewitt foolish hearts #iris huang

[onebluebookworm]

June 2023 Book Club Picks

Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden History of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples - Rodger Streitmatter: One of the most popular (and irritating) things LGBT people hear from scared reactionaries is "This is a recent trend that kids learn about on tiktok! There are no LGBT people in history." Rodger Streitmatter sets out to prove that assertion wrong by showcasing fifteen same-sex couples that were, for all intents and purposes, close enough to be considered married, from grandfather of American poetry Walt Whitman to glamorous actress Greta Garbo to social reformist Jane Addams.

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein: Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife - Sandra Pankhurst was all of these things over the course of her life. By the time Sarah Krasnostein met her, Sandra had made a business out of handling trauma. In the filthy homes of hoarders and the lonely flats of overdose deaths, Sandra sashays in with a kind word and an understanding air to help people clean up when life becomes overwhelming. As Krasnostein explores Sandra's life leading up to the founding of her business, we learn what Sandra had to go through to become the Trauma Cleaner.

Afterlife: Steven, Sonny, and Del are "widows" - all three met in the hospital when their lovers died within a week of each other from AIDS complications. Through potluck dinners and emotional phone calls, they've tried to help each other pick up the pieces and move on, but things are quickly changing, and not entirely for the better. Del has turned to political activism to distract himself from his anger and pain. Sonny indulges in shallow hook-ups and new-age spirituality to find something to numb himself. And Steven is running himself ragged to take care of everyone but himself. When another friend falls ill, all three must make decisions that may effect the course of their entire lives and the future of their friendship.

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya: Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. The world of the masculine has never been much to her but cruel and aggressive, forcing her to perform at masculinity to get out of her childhood alive. Even as an adult, that fear haunts her, forcing her to make compromises to steel herself against heartbreak, threats, and her own mental health.

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills: Claudia didn't mean to eavesdrop on the breakup of power couple Paige and Iris. All she wanted to do was use the bathroom. But now Claudia is on the wrong side of prickly Iris's temper, and will do anything to make amends. Unfortunately for Claudia, that means being thrown into a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream against her will. But all that changes when she meets the goofiest, most charming boy she's ever known and she starts to legitimately bond with Iris.

#book club #june 2023 #outlaw marriages #rodger streitmatter #the trauma cleaner #sarah krasnostein #afterlife #paul monette #i'm afraid of men #vivek shraya #foolish hearts #emma mills

[fleursincarnation]

in an attempt to contribute to foolish hearts tumblr as I intended to yesterday, here is one of my favourite parts

#just #it’s so simple but #the way it perfectly describes friendship #and specifically that turning point in friendship where even just their company becomes enough #when they become part of the collective thing we call home #and I love claudia and iris so much #emma mills writes such good female friendships #claudia wallace #iris huang #foolish hearts #emma mills

[snixx]

the only thing I'm certain about my sexuality is that I am decidedly not attracted to men in any way shape or form but every so often I will read a man written by a woman and question everything

#tj powar #never have i ever #foolish hearts #not here to be liked #men written by women give me so much gender envy hdhjfjdkfk #also yes im gone for academic rivals #and that is probably the one trope that isn't better sapphic #don't get me started on why but i just can't relate to female rivalry it's always the dudebros who get on my nerves #girls just aren't insufferable about this shit it's easier to just be happy for them #but the trope >>>>>>>

[inlovewithquotes]

Sometimes it's hard to know if something's for real. It's hard to believe it, even if you want it to be real. Even if you want it so badly. Sometimes it seems...safer. Not to risk it.

- Foolish Hearts

#literature #quotes #books & libraries #book quotes #life quotes #emma mills #foolish hearts

[a-fuked-up-mess]

these lines>>>

[image id: i laugh like me again, she laughs like you / i wouldn't know where to start / "sweet music" playing "in the dark" / be still "my foolish *heart" / don't ruin this on me]

#hozier #music #sweet music #almost #aesthetic #quotes #dark academia #Spotify #be still my heart #foolish hearts #don't ruin it #in the dark #laugh #where to start #image id

[evafoxz]

— claudiagideon headers. 🎈

like/reblog if you save or use.

#claudiagideon #claudiagideon headers #claudia x gideon #gideon prewitt #gideon prewitt headers #claudia wallace #claudia wallace headers #booktwt #bookstan #booktwitter #book headers #book quotes #book header #romance headers #foolish hearts #foolish hearts headers #emma mills

[iheartgracie]

claudiagideon quotes from foolish hearts

“Have fun, okay?”

Gideon takes my hand. “We will,” he says, and we leave the kitchen.

I look down at our clasped hands in the hall, and Gideon hesitates, loosening his grip as if to let go.

“Is this okay?”

I give his hand a squeeze. “Only because it’s Saturday.”

“Does that make a difference?”

“Yeah, I mean, hand-holding on a Tuesday is pretty risqué.”

His lips quirk. “It’s also a quarter moon, you know.”

“What happens on the quarter moon?”

“I turn into a quarter werewolf.”

I grin”

“Then he looks at me hesitantly. “Want to dance?”

“What have we been doing for the last hour?”

“I meant, like, with me.”

“Who have I been dancing with all this time? Did someone get a face transplant with your face?”

He grins. “You know what I’m saying.”

“Thanks for coming with me tonight.” His mouth is still close to my ear. “I really, um.” He pulls back the slightest bit, looks at me for a second. “I really like it when we hang out.”

“Me too.”

“Sometimes … around some people, I feel like I have to, like … try, you know? Like really hard.” His hands tighten a bit on my waist. “But with you—when I’m with you, I can just … exist. You know what I mean?”

His expression is open, his eyes serious.

I know exactly what he means.

I nod.”

“Is this a date?” I say.

He blinks, extending the coat toward me, but I don’t take it. “I mean, it’s a … it’s a dance date. Not like a … date date. But still kind of a date?” There is a hopeful upward inflection at the end of that sentence. “I was actually … I sort of wanted to ask you about that.”

“About what?”

“Maybe you and me could … maybe we could go on a date. A real one. Maybe we could be, like. Dating.”

“I’m meant to say something. I’m supposed to respond.

I like you, you majestic space prince.

How hard would it be to say that? It’s the truth. How hard would it be to close the distance between us? Thread my fingers through his hair, thumb the corners of his jaw, kiss him right.”

“On-screen, avatar Gideon Prewitt walks right up to Viola. And it’s so stupid, I’m so stupid, but I wish he was here, I wish it was real. I wish I could bury my face in his neck. I want it so bad my fingers twitch on the controller, straining not to make my stupid game character hug his stupid game character so at least some facsimile of it can exist.”

“Out of the corner of my eye I see Gideon glance over at me. And then he looks straight ahead again, but he rests one hand on the console between our seats, palm up. Like an invitation. Like I could take it if I wanted.

I don’t hesitate.”

“Gideon looks at you like you fucking hung the moon”

“Seemed important to you, and … I mean, this is it, right?”

This is it.

I nod. Take the barrette and put it in my pocket. And then I take his hand, rest it against my cheek, and turn my head to press my lips against his palm.

He just stares.

“What are you doing?” he says.

I loosen my grip, embarrassed suddenly. “Is it—do you not want—”

“No, I want,” he says quickly, moving closer. “I want.”

Me too is what I should say. Me too, ME TOO, but words don’t come out, I just look up at Gideon’s face, at the smile blooming there, with his unfathomable dimples and his eyes that you need GoogleMaps to find your way out of, warm and bright and shining.”

“but he looks at me and there’s barely any space between us now. “So you do … like me like that?”

“Yes.”

“So if I kissed you…”

“Yes.”

One corner of his mouth ticks up, the dimple reappearing. “I should probably … do that, then.”

“Or we could keep talking about it.”

He grins full-out now, and then we kiss.”

“When we finally separate again, I rest my forehead against Gideon’s.

“You know what?”

“Hm?” He sounds a little dazed.

“That had everything on my must-have list,” I say, and then drop down to a whisper: “Luxury. Affordable. Industry standard.”

Gideon lets out an unholy snort, and I dissolve into giggles. I bury my face in the crook of his neck, and we both laugh, holding each other tight.”

“Not just the kiss in the hall outside the auditorium, but the ones in the parking lot afterward and at the cast party and on the street outside after the cast party. Gideon with his cheeks flushed and his eyes bright, close enough that he was blurry, saying I like you, you know. Like so much, so much, so much—each one punctuated by a kiss to a different place.”

#foolish hearts #claudiagideon #emma mills #romance books

[meeghanreads]

February 2024 TBR

Hello friends!! Welcome to the February 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the next… 29 days. Because it’s a leap year! Nothing is impossible on leap day… including reading from my TBR! Surprisingly, I actually read quite a few books in my January 2024 TBR. Which I may or may not recount in a monthly wrap up… Another type of post I haven’t written since…

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#2024 challenges #2024 TBR #A Marvellous Light #Alexandra Bracken #Alexis Hall #Book #Caroline Peckham #Elizabeth May #Emma Mills #Farah Heron #February TBR #Foolish Hearts #Freya Marske #Goodreads #Heartless Sky #House of Flame and Shadow #James Patterson #Jana Goes Wild #Kathryn Purdie #Mortal Follies #Private Princess #Reading #Reading goals #Rees Jones #Sarah J Maas #Susanne Valenti #TBR #The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding #The Falconer #The Forest Grimm

[sandythereadingcafe]

REVIEW

FOOLISH HEARTS (Seaforth Billionaires) by Jeana E Mann at The Reading Cafe:

'I think this may be my favorite of the series, and I really hope to see some of these characters again'

#books #reviews #Foolish Hearts #Seaforth Billionaires #Jeana E Mann #The Reading Cafe

[thereadingcafe]

#Jeana Mann #Foolish Hearts #Seaforth Billionaires #Romance #Contemporary #Review