#rayne and delilah's midnite matinee

[orlissa]

A couple of years ago I had the privilege--because it was a privilege--of translating Jeff Zentner’s The Serpent King, and now I finally got around reading one of his other books, Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee, and oh my. It might be because I’ve read some truly bad books lately, but this was something else--raw and painful and honest and funny and absurd and freakishly quotable. And here are some of my favorite lines:

“Did y'all literally split a single brain when you were in the womb and each one of you ended up with half?”

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It's comforting to know that you don't have to be excellent to not be completelly forgotten.

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“I have no idea wha I am doing.” “Dude, none of us do.”

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I've come to believe that everyone gets five or six perfect days in their life. Days with not a single wrong note or thorn, days that ripen like peach in your memory as years pass. Every time you go to bite it, it's juicy and sweet.

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“Isn't it amazing that we live in a time when we have access to crappy art?” “Like?” “Like think how you've never seen a horrendous Renaissance painting. Not every artist in the Renaissance was Michelangelo, right?” “Ah. True.” “There must have been some Renaissance painters that were disasters. Where are their paintings?” I shift position on the couch. “They probably got burned for firewood or something.” “I wish there was a museum of crapy Renaissance art. I would totally go.”

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I have a gray uncentered feeling of unease.

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“Eggs in one basket. That's such a dumb phrase. It only works in a world where all the chickens have gone extinct and you can't just, you know, go get some more eggs and everything's fine.”

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“No,” Delia says to the guy, who has a face even a mother would admit, in all candor, was not her best work, and whose grey goatee looks like a bedraggled mouse humping his chin.

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It is weird to me to be super resistant to things that are designed specifically to be liked. There are so many other ways to use your energy. Just enjoy stuff that's fun.

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I never feel pressure to be someone I'm not when I'm around him. I never feel like I need to hide any part of who I am. Being around him feels like waking up on a Saturday morning when the whole day ahead of you is free and you've slept the perfect amount, and your bed is the most ideal temperature, it's like you're part of an experiment in human comfort. It's so easy. So effortless.

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I want to keep living in this moment forever. […] Take the hourglass and lay it on its side.

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“I'm just saying, it's sweet how humans are animals tto, but we wer clothes and drive cars. We're like dogs in sweaters and chimps in tuxedos.”

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“I do not subscribe to the antiquated notion of 'friendship,'” he replies in a grandiose tone. I've never heard such smugness over being friendless.

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There aren't enough good places to scream in this world.

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Learning what you don't want can be as important as learning what you do want.

#jeff zentner #rayne & delilah's midnite matinee #books

[sebbyisland]

UMI - Butterfly | Madison McFerrin - Know You Better | Unknown | Jeff Zentner - Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee | Wendy Cope - The Orange | The Color Purple Original Soundtrack - What About Love? | Nina LaCour - We Are Okay | Nina LaCour - Everything Leads to You

#This one was hard. but i don't want it trapped in my drafts forever so here ya go #i am enthusiastically listing stories about girls who love each other with this post please feel free to look through the source list #Yuzumako #skip to loafer #this too is yuri #Web weaving #young love #friendship #skip and loafer #kurume makoto #murashige yuzuki #skip to loafer manga #OK SOURCE TAG TIME #madison mcferrin #umi #jeff zentner #wendy cope #the color purple #nina lacour #seb weaving

[orangiewriting]

My 2024 TBR

Since I've gotten a kindle I've been devouring books in such a high speed, it's' difficult to keep track. It's especially difficult to keep track of my TBR, because I keep adding more books to it. So: these are the books I want to read in 2024! (plus the dates I added them to my To Read shelf on Goodreads)

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. Jun 03, 2016.

My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga. Jun 03, 2016.

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Sep 15, 2018.

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. Sep 22, 2018.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. Dec 19, 2018.

Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zetner. May 28, 2019.

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. May 28, 2019.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. Oct 06, 2021.

A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas. Jul 12, 2023.

In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune. May 23, 2023

Modern Faerie Tales Series by Holly Black. Dec 16, 2021.

The Prisoner's Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2) by Holly Black. Mar 14, 2023.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Jul 12, 2022.

Happy Place by Emily Henry. Oct 19, 2022.

Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2) by Hannah Grace. Jul 27, 2023.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Nov 08, 2023.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Jul 24, 2022

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood. Dec 10, 2023.

The Brown Sisters Series by Talia Hibbert.

#tbr #book blog #books #reading #bookish #academia #fiction #ali hazelwood #v.e. schwab #six of crows

[tea-intheworld]

What do you do when you are emotionally destroyed by a book you didn't super love? Like the story was ok, kinda funny actually, but nothing that grabbed you by the throat and made you read fast so you'd have a chance of surviving?

Like maybe this just hit me at the right time but yeah I'm gross crying destroyed.

#word vomit #book dragon #the hoard #jeff zentner #zentner you bastard #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee

[mydailybookquotes]

“Sometimes small and unspectacular things can be a universe.”

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee

#quotes #books #book quotes #mydailybookquotes #inspirational quotes #inspire #life quotes #inspiring quotes #life #jeff zentner #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee

[books-and-cookies]

I'm reading the cutest book, called Rayne and Delilah's Midnite Matinee and I want to scream, it's so adorable and it actually made me laugh out loud several times, so honestly, well done 👏👏

#mary rambles #book recommendations #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee

[fyasummershowdown]

As much as we love the artsy, idiosyncratic ~aesthetic~ direction YA covers have been taking in the last few years, we couldn’t help but put the ol’ Showdown spin on a selection of our favorites.

In the twelve covers above, we have added 27 elements that don’t belong. Each cover has at least one extra element, none have more than 3. Email us @ [email protected] with a list of all 27 elements and get +10 puzzle points!

Deadline: midnight on Sunday, August 10

#2019 yasummershowdown #puzzle 2019 #week 2 #famous in a small town #the babysitters coven #swing #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee #me and earl and the dying girl #the darkest part of the forest #wayward son #like a love story #aurora rising #aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe #the wise and the wicked #pet is here to hunt a monster

[teaching-everydayisdifferent]

...you really have no choice in this life but to believe with all your heart that you’re extraordinary. You have to hold this conviction against all evidence to the contrary. Living is too sad otherwise.

Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee, Jeff Zentner

#book quote #book quotes #booklr #words to live by #reblogbookclub #ya #i read ya #perfect quotes #jeff zentner #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee

[the-knights-who-say-book]

Review: Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee

Rating: ★★★★½

Blurb: Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of a campy horror movie show on local TV.  But with the end of senior year quickly approaching, the girls face tough decisions about their futures.

Josie has a shiny new internship at a real station, but taking it would mean leaving Midnite Matinee behind. Scary movies are the last connection Delia has to her dad, who abandoned the family years ago. If Midnite Matinee becomes a hit, maybe he'll see it and want to be a part of her life again. And maybe Josie will stay with the show instead of leaving her behind, too. Growing up and growing apart might just be scarier than any monster.

Beautiful! This book is funny and relatable and I love the characters.

The main selling point of this book is the focus on friendship between two girls (although there's also a m/f romance, which was very cute in its own way). Josie and Delia love each other so much, and it was so well-written that I was shocked to remember at the end that this was written by a man because I related to it so much. A lot of the humor comes from the dialogue between Josie and Delia just bouncing off each other, and I love it a lot.

This is also just my kind of writing. I want funny! I want sappy! I want weird metaphors to make me cry! There were a few places where the writing wasn't perfect — just some places where it didn't land, and one plot point that went a little too far into bizarre for me — but overall 9/10, made me tear up and was fun to read.

Basically it's any Becky Albertalli book + Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, and you need it in your life.

#rayne and delilah's midnite matinee #jeff zentner #book review #young adult books #ya #ya literature #contemporary #Abi's Book Reviews

[summerb4jc]

So I finished this book today, and it was just so *kisses fingers like an Italian chef*

10/10 would recommend if you’re a fan of:

Laughing

Crying

Banter

Realistically portrayed friendships

Coming of age stories

That feeling that comes from reading about a public access tv show that airs horribly cheesy horror movies with snarky commentary and funny sketches and realizing that, no matter how real these characters feel, they are still characters and the show doesn’t exist no matter how badly you wish it did.

#rayne and delilah's midnite matinee #jeff zentner #book recs #booklr #the octopus reccomends #true facts about the octopus in that i am the octopus

[yourockthebeatofmyheart]

Do I keep reading and get this weirdness over with or wait until I’m in a better headspace to handle the insanity that’s going on right now?

#rachel reads #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee #i’m liking the book just fine #but this one part towards the end… hoo boy #making me very anxious

[orlissa]

End of the year book-reading ask: 6, 8, 22?

6, Any new favorite authors? Oh, Laura Wood, definitely. I kind of wnna say Rebecca Ross as well, but I actually read her Queen duology about two years ago, and she got me bad back then as well.

8, If someone were to ask you what your top ten books for this year were, what would you choose? In no particular oder, and not counting rereads:

Ghosts: The Button House Archives

Ashley Poston: Hawkeye – Bishop Takes King

B.B. Alston: Amari and the Night Brothers (& the second book)

Laura Wood: The Agency for Scandal

Rebecca Ross: Divine Rivals

Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry

Laura Wood: A Single Thread of Moonlight

Jeff Zentner: Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee

Mary Mcmyne: The Book of Gothel

Catherine & Elizabeth Corr: Daughter of Darkness

Honorable mention: Demon in the Woods and They Called Us Enemy

22, What are some books you discovered this year that you added to your tbr? *Checks tbr quickly* Ariadne by Jennifer Saint, House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft, The Power by Naomi Alderman

#orlissa reads #ask #meme

[readingaway]

(Backlisted) Danielle Babbles About Books - Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

Rating: 5/5 stars

Potentially Sensitive Content: Many jokes or discussions about farts, some cursing, sexual references

Review: It’s rare to find a book that is both absolutely hilarious and moving. I would add here that I probably wouldn’t have been crying as hard as I did if I hadn’t read the physical book, but that’s just an issue I have with my habit of speed-listening and time management. I liked how the girls’ friendship, how close they are, was so real. The emotional turmoil of entering this transitional period of life, graduating high school and moving on, was also really well done and felt real. I’ve been the person left behind and the person who leaves everyone else behind at different periods and had some intense teenage friendships and “weird” interests, so this book just worked for me.

My one nitpick is that I can’t think of any girls who made a lot of fart jokes like, a lot of fart jokes. Maybe it’s because my only close girl friends either lived far away or were similarly anxious and socially weird in a different way from these characters. I’m not saying that it’s not possible for a pair of girls in this age group who are very close to make a lot of fart jokes but it stuck out to me. 

Favorite Quote (chosen because I couldn’t use the two page monologue that made me cry like a baby): “Remember that Florida is a land of weirdos and bizarre happenings, and conduct yourselves accordingly.”

#rayne and delilah's midnite matinee #jeff zentner #danielle babbles about books #my reviews #book reviews #booklr #backlisted reviews

[novelistra]

NoveList's Juvenile Brain Trust is a group of readers' advisory librarians and metadata librarians who focus on books for kids and teens. Once a week, the JBT gets together to catch up and share books. On 4/3/2019, we discussed:

Little Doctor and the Fearless Beast, Sophie Gilmore

The Music of What Happens, Bill Konigsberg

When Aidan Became A Brother, Kyle Lukoff

The Happy Book and Other Feelings, Andy Rash

Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee, Jeff Zentner

Have you read any of these books? What do you think of them?

For more recommendations (plus printables and readers’ advisory tips), subscribe to the NoveList Book Squad! It's free :)

#jbt book share #book discussion #librarians #booklr #little doctor and the fearless beast #when aidan became a brother #the happy book #the music of what happens #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee #sophie gilmore #kyle lukoff #andy rash #bill konigsberg #jeff zentner #picture books #ya books

[jewishpubliclibrary]

#new titles #jeff zentner #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee #ya lit #teen lit #ya fiction #teen fiction #jpl montreal #jewish public library #mtlyafest2019

[mydailybookquotes]

“Dreams are their own universe. They exist in you, and you’re the God of that universe, so no one can tell you what they mean. You have to figure it out, assuming dreams have any meaning at all, which I think they sometimes do.”

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee

#quotes #books #book quotes #mydailybookquotes #inspirational quotes #inspire #life quotes #inspiring quotes #life #jeff zentner #rayne and delilah's midnite matinee