#take me with you when you go

[slaughter-books]

Day 25: JOMPBPC: Deserved So Much Better

Both main characters deserved so much bettter! 🩷🧡💛

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #deserved so much better #take me with you when you go #david levithan #nina lacour #beautiful book #beautiful cover #amazing author #lgbt+ #bookish #i love books

[valentineslvr]

some random book recs from me<3

our wives under the sea by julia armfield

-> lesbian deep sea literary horror, incredible quotes, definitely didn't help my fear of the sea

vicious & vengeful by v.e. schwab

-> paranormal urban fantasy, found family, i just love the story and the characters so much (it's like the x-men in a way and has amazing morally grey characters)

the folk of the air series by holly black

-> YA fantasy, jude is a badass and cardan is an icon, one of the best enemies to lovers i've ever read, the romance is only a subplot but so so good imo, honestly just one of my fav series ever

the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater

-> YA paranormal urban fantasy, found family, it's so funny but actually really gross or scary at times, just a comfort read tbh but the storyline is so interesting

if i stay by gayle forman

-> YA realistic fiction/romance, touches on death and grief, the meaning of life ig, and music is very important. this book just resonates with me in my soul and is my n.1 comfort read forever and ever.

take me with you when you go by jennifer niven and david levithan

-> YA contemporary fiction about family, abuse and ultimately sad. i loved it so much that it really stuck with me, even two years later. it's also queer!

that's it, just some i wanted to recommend because i really loved them :)

#book rec list #book recommendations #books #our wives under the sea #vicious #ve schwab #the raven boys #if i stay #take me with you when you go #the cruel prince #the folk of the air #holly black #reading #reader #book blog

[raoulgoldenlake]

One thing about me is that I’m a David Levithan completionist. If I see David Levithan has a book? I’m gonna read it. I saw another blogger’s review of this book (I can’t remember who, I’m sorry!) and I was like great, new David Levithan, let’s see if the library has this! And they did!

And wow! I was not prepared for what this book would do to me, emotionally. At one point one of the characters says “I feel like my whole life I’ve been playing this game called This Is Not As Bad As That…Why didn’t anyone ever tell me this was the wrong game to play? Why didn’t I understand how broken my frame of reference was, and that I wasn’t the person who’d broken it?”

That quote perfectly sums up my relationship with my own Not Great upbringing. I feel wary even calling it abuse because a) it could’ve been so much worse b) it was so much worse for my siblings and c) I remember so little of it so how do I even know? The characters in this book resonated with me so much, even though our specific situations were different.

The other thing I loved about this book was it didn’t fall into the trap that I see a lot of other YA books fall into, which I call a Turning To The Camera style of writing. There weren’t any long paragraphs about Why Abuse Is Wrong and How To Get Help. Instead, the book showed us why the situation was wrong, we watched the characters get help, we watched them learn and grow without having to be told explicitly. I was really moved by this book, but it was hard and sad for me to read at points.

Rating: 4/5

Is It Gay?: One of the main characters is gay!

#tbr busting in 2023 #david levithan #take me with you when you go #i continue to owe David Levithan my life #decades after I first read one of his books and he’s still giving me hope for a better life!

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Take Me with You When You Go | Author: David Levithan / Jennifer Niven | Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (2021)

#books #Take Me with You When You Go #David Levithan #Jennifer Niven

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Review: Take Me With You When You Go by David Levithan & Jennifer Niven Rating: 5/5

There are not enough YA books about teenagers experiencing abuse, and of the ones that are out there, too few of them acknowledge the harms of emotional and verbal abuse. Reading about Bea and Ezra's home life is hard, it's painful, but I'm so glad that Niven & Levithan teamed up to write this book because teenagers experiencing abusive homes deserve to know not only that they aren't alone but also that they can get out.

Because watching Bea and Ezra get away from their mother and their step-father and beginning to discover their true selves is so heartening. To see them realise that they are not liars, they are not burdens, they are not wastes of space. They are just kids, who've been lied to and mistreated and they are so much more than what their abusers put them through.

Please give this book a read, especially if you haven't experienced domestic abuse, because it is so important to know the different ways abuse can manifest.

Warnings: domestic abuse; abusive parents; verbal, emotional and physical abuse; references to suicidal ideation.

#take me with you when you go #jennifer niven #david levithan #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #reviews #5 star reads #lgbt books #mlm reads

[thecolorsinouruniverse]

this may be a long shot, but i'm not going to think about the things i might not be able to do. that's something i've been told all my life--what i can't do. i'm ready to see what i can do.

david levithan and jennifer niven, take me with you when you go

#quotes #books #jennifer niven #david levithan #take me with you when you go

[halfpricedpages]

“if you don’t pay attention to anyone else, they won’t pay attention to you” ezra ahern makes sense

#take me with you when you go #david levithan #jennifer niven

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!! #how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

[taffywabbit]

reminding myself there are no truly "bad days", because every single day, someone somewhere in the world has taken a photo of an extremely tiny animal and shown it to someone else, and that's very good actually

#buny text #bless the people who take photos of incredibly small baby bunnies and post them on line. they are what keeps me going #when i was running the bunnieswithVGM twitter it was like. genuinely a healing experience getting to look at rabbit photos regularly #i highly recommend looking at pics of very small rabbits and thinking to yourself 'you tiny fucking thing. how do you exist' #it's very important and also fun. and then you can share those images with a friend #the tiny fucking animals on the internet are free and you can take them with you

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Take Me With You When You Go

Author: David Levithan, Jennifer Niven

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, contemporary, LGBT+, romance, family

Blurb: Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister Bea gone...no note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother - how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew she needed to get as far away from home as possible...but a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in a new city without Ez, without a real plan, chasing someone who might not even want to be found. As things unravel at home for Ezra, Bea confronts secrets about their past that will forever change the way they think about their family. Together and apart, broken by abuse but connected by love, this brother and sister must learn to trust themselves before they can find a way back to each other.

#take me with you when you go #david levithan #jennifer niven #standalone #2021 #fiction #contemporary #lgbt #romance #family

[slaughter-books]

Day 22: JOMPBPC: Books And Socks

Four beautiful books and some soft, grinchy christmas socks! ❤️

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #books and socks #invisible boys #holden sheppard #i'll keep you close #jeska verstegen #take me with you when you go #david levithan #jennifer niven #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #taylor jenkins reid #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #christmas socks #i love books

[anna-scribbles]

last one i promise(<—lie)

#let’s as a society think more about why adrien wanted to go to school #and what. perhaps. he thought school was #i think the way chloe describes it she really is just a beautiful rich girl with too much time on her hands #and no one at school is treating her accordingly. #abby got so mad at me today because she thinks it’s too cringe that i keep taking about adrien liking ohshc #which is like. how are you gonna know me my whole life and then be disappointed when i’m cringe. #i’ve never hidden who i am. it’s cringe all the way down #anyway #ml #my art #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #chloe bourgeois #ohshc #wait i am gonna tag this thirteen actually. just go with me #thirteen

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

going through my old journals as part of therapy homework and i'm reading a section written in the emotional wreckage of a full-on breakdown when i get hit with this line:

There is never a satisfying answer to ‘Why didn’t they love me?’

like wow babe. good fucking point

#like you were on the ground biting the carpet and dry sobbing while you wrote that and still. good fucking point #not a shitpost #cptsd #and it's true. there's never a satisfying answer #the truth is i know why i wasn't loved #i analyzed my parent's traumas and abuse to death. i understand why i alienated and was alienated from my siblings #i know why my mom was too overwhelmed to be capable of nurturing #i know why my dad vanished into addiction and avoidance #the details of our cycles of trauma and cptsd and family history i have a phd in all of it #i understood perfectly. i spent years studying and now i knew the answer #and guess what? IT WAS NOT SATISFYING!!! #because they still didn't love me! and i still couldn't change that! #it was still a completely unsatisfying state of affairs! #so like. when the people who are supposed to love you...don't. #when the people who are supposed to take care of you...fail to #you can look for answers and reasons and explanations #but that's not actually going to FIX your situation. #and it's probably not within your ability TO fix the situation. (and definitely not your job) #because you don't need answers--you need a new situation #*inserts Just Walk Out. You Can Leave!!! (Running Skeleton) Meme* #and yes. walking out isn't always possible. #but for you i hope it will be one day soon. and i hope you build the courage to take that leap. #stepping away from the people who failed to love you...it feels like being untethered but also like being lighter than air #new and scary. immensely relieving. the future opens up. empty but empty like a canvas. blindingly bright until your eyes adjust #like climbing out of a pit you called home and for the first time realizing how bright the light of day can truly be #when you aren't just getting glimpses from the bottom of a hole

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

#dc comics #dc #damian wayne #dick grayson #talia al ghul #batfamily #dc robin #nightwing #anyway. yes im a self-indulgent ''dick as damians secret third parent'' truther #like i DO think it's way more complex and nuanced than the schmoopy affectionate fan portrayal of it #they're brothers they're father and son they're partners they're the dynamic duo except only in past tense etc etc #but consider! I'm not immune to schmoopy affection in fanworks. it compells me despite itself #anyway it's technically not that crazy when it comes to dick and damian. they hug! often! at least they did #it's not as big a leap to these types of scenarios #also talia ''somewhat absent for complex reasons on both her and damians part but very loving and loved by her son'' al ghul #you will always be famous to me #son of the demon origin...bwahhh #anyway. someone made a comic kind of like this/like a post i made abt this topic #but way funnier bc dick and talia starting trying to beat each other up #so go look at that as well #anyway. it's been a somewhat difficult few weeks so I'm. desperately trying to take it easy #i got some reading with me (first vol of kevin smiths GA run that i found second hand and jaimes BB run vol 2!) #so we'll see how far i get through those. considering there's demons in my head telling me to re-read things (LET ME OUT!!!) #when i finish GA and BB i do plan on rereading robin 2021. as a treat to myself #it's a run I've really warmed up to as time went on #I'm keeping up w/ the current b&r run even though it is. admittedly very slow w/ some weird dialogue #i read it for the damian content more than anything. also nikas back so that's neat :] #idk I have a feeling that after absolute power shakes out we might get some more creative team switch ups #so if anyone at dc is interested in taking over the reigns on b&r...that could be very neat #(it's me they should hire me. please DC i have ideas listen to my red hood pitch PLEASE-)

[ccorinthian]

fuck you ageism fuck you life ending at 30 fuck you makeup industry forcing us to feel bad about a natural process fuck you hustle culture fuck you instagram fuck you youtube fuck you glorification and deification of youth fuck you who make people feel bad for not having "achieved anything" in their 20s fuck you people who peaked in high school and try to drag everybody down by insisting it's all downhill after 19

#im not dedicating hours and days and weeks of my 20s of hard work on my mental health to cope w shit i went through #for some bitches on websites to tell me ill shrivel up and die when i hit 30 unless my life is perfect by then #youre not dragging me down to that mindset and i wont let your doom and gloom about turning older make me feel like shit !! #some of us have to rebuild ourselves from ground up and that shit takes time and thats FINE and if you think otherwise fuck off honestly #ageism is such a disgustingly overlooked aspect thats so ingrained in our culture and you need to recognise it #or you'll just feel worse and worse about yourself with every passing day bc guess what baby you cant go back!! #SICK of the negativity surrounding age on this website get yourself the fuck together honestly

[thecolorsinouruniverse]

all these things that happened to us--they are no longer happening. they happened. and that doesn't guarantee anything, and it doesn't erase all the pain our lives have had, but it also feels like we've proven that stories can change.

david levithan and jennifer niven, take me with you when you go

#quotes #books #jennifer niven #david levithan #take me with you when you go