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ourcatastrophe:

“Are you sure your dad won’t mind me coming?” I asked. 

“‘Course not,” she said grinning. “He’ll be delighted to see I’ve got a community service project.”

I stared at her and felt my guts slowly going cold. 

“A what?” I said. 

YOU GUYS ada told me to read this australian kid’s book like seven times and then cracked it gloriously when I was like “what? you’ve never told me about it” and reminded me of the various times and then shamefacedly I read it and it was really good!  thanks ada <3.  it’s about a young girl called Rowena, mute since birth, who has to enter the regular school system after the government shuts her specialty school down.  (all the use of “said” in the passage above refers to sign language.  occasionally Rowena will have to do something like turn on the light so she can say something, and we’re reminded that she’s not speaking with her vocal chords.)  she has all these problems to do with people not getting how she communicates and being dicks about it, and also to do with grief over the loss of her mum and her best friend, and also to do with her dad being an incredibly eccentric and overly friendly guy with an obsessive fondness for country music and satin cowboy shirts and also some more serious issues like alcoholism and his own grief.  not everything is okay in the end but some things are.  plus it’s a book that’s legit entertaining and readable and won’t make you feel like the reader is assumed to be doing a community service project. highly recommend. 

I loved this book so much as a kid! Also, did you know there are sequels?

[image description: a photograph of the front cover of a paperback book, it is a blue starscape with a pink skinned boy at the bottom middle he is wearing a white shirt with a logo on the left breast which is a v and a carrot intertwined, he has his left hand over his chest and is looking upward. Behind him are three transition shots of him turning into a carrot with a human face. The title of the book is “VEGEMORPHS” with the byline: “The fungus among us”. there is a light grey circle in the lower right of the cover which reads “A parody of the best selling Animorphs series” and on the left of the cover above the boy’s shoulder it says “Some aliens come in peace… some come in peas!” The author”s name is Leif  E. Green and it is published by Troll. End image description.]

notdavidbowie:

this is a real book at my job ok

Must find book.

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justmako:

Someone please get this book for me.

SO MANLY

[Image description: Image is a photo of a book lying face up in the middle of the frame, it seems to be on a wooden surface. The book is by Dave Fougner and goes by the title “THE MANLY ART OF KNITTING”. Underneath the title at the top and the author’s name at the bottom is a black and white photograph of a very manly looking light skinned man with sideburns and a cowboy hat sitting on a horse in some kind of grassy field. He has a very serious expression on his face and is knitting. End image description.]

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fuckyeahkatebornstein:

A Queer and Pleasant Danger- Available for pre-order now! 

[image description: the front cover of a book. The background  is banana yellow, and in the middle there is a small, purple line drawing of a cherub holding a quill pen with their hand to their mouth as if pondering what to write next in the book which is laid out in front of them. The title is written in bold handwriting, and says “A Queer and Pleasant Danger. A Memoir” The author’s name - Kate Bornstein - sits underneath the cherub. There is a subtitle running around the edge of the cover it reads: “The TRUE STORY of a nice JEWISH BOY who joins THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, and leaves TWELVE YEARS later to become the LOVELY LADY she is today” end image description.]

I love puns so much. Especially gay puns. I also really want to read this book!

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