designersof: Hi everyone! so we finally found a use for the giant “a” we picked up in france! what do you think? also we’ve put a few more of our interesting finds from the trip up on suz’s store  go take a look! thanks! Elliott.

designersof:

Hi everyone! so we finally found a use for the giant “a” we picked up in france! what do you think? also we’ve put a few more of our interesting finds from the trip up on suz’s store  go take a look!

thanks! 
Elliott.

The handmade clutches and bags of Olympia Le-Tan is a must-have item for any book-lover! olympialetan: Olympia Le-Tan “Where The Wild Things Are” pochette, made especially for my friend Val.

The handmade clutches and bags of Olympia Le-Tan is a must-have item for any book-lover!

olympialetan:

Olympia Le-Tan “Where The Wild Things Are” pochette, made especially for my friend Val.

callielily: (by Rosa)

callielily:

(by Rosa)

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means ‘flunk’.
Lemony Snicket (via wordsfromya)

(Source: dreamguide)

6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck 1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. 2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material. 3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one. 4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there. 5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing. 6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech. Read more. [Image: AP]

6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck

1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.

3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.

5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.

6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

Read more. [Image: AP]

GLOW by Amy Kathleen Ryan If a sudden attack destroyed the only world you’d ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back. It’s a new world in the murky nebula where life can be easily destroyed. In the wake of Earth’s collapse, two large family vessels are on a mission to populate an unknown distant planet. Fifteen-year old Waverly is part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in the deep space in the Empyrean. Waverly knows she has no choice but to marry young in order to have children who can carry out their task. “The survival of the human race depended on” her. However, all concerns disappear when the Empyrean is struck by a sudden attack from its sister ship: the New Horizon and they are in need of young girls. * * * In my opinion, GLOW was not as fascinating as I thought it’d be. The storyline and the setting is great. The message of the story is well delivered to the readers and is something that makes you think. So what is it that makes it not interesting? The lack of development in Kieran’s point of view (The novel is written in two perspectives and Kieran is the boyfriend of Waverly). The complicated science-space-related vocabulary that confused my brain in certain scenes.  Overall, I think many group of people would enjoy this dystopian book. It’s a great mix of teenage love and science fiction. It makes you wonder how life would be if we destroy Earth with our ignorance and laziness. It makes you wonder how life would be if human life on space was possible. RATING: 6/10  -nouveaumirai Tip: The second book of the Sky Chasers series is coming out Summer 2012.

GLOW by Amy Kathleen Ryan

If a sudden attack destroyed the only world you’d ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back.

It’s a new world in the murky nebula where life can be easily destroyed.

In the wake of Earth’s collapse, two large family vessels are on a mission to populate an unknown distant planet. Fifteen-year old Waverly is part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in the deep space in the Empyrean. Waverly knows she has no choice but to marry young in order to have children who can carry out their task. “The survival of the human race depended on” her.

However, all concerns disappear when the Empyrean is struck by a sudden attack from its sister ship: the New Horizon and they are in need of young girls.

* * *

In my opinion, GLOW was not as fascinating as I thought it’d be. The storyline and the setting is great. The message of the story is well delivered to the readers and is something that makes you think. So what is it that makes it not interesting? The lack of development in Kieran’s point of view (The novel is written in two perspectives and Kieran is the boyfriend of Waverly). The complicated science-space-related vocabulary that confused my brain in certain scenes. 

Overall, I think many group of people would enjoy this dystopian book. It’s a great mix of teenage love and science fiction. It makes you wonder how life would be if we destroy Earth with our ignorance and laziness. It makes you wonder how life would be if human life on space was possible.

RATING: 6/10 

-nouveaumirai

Tip: The second book of the Sky Chasers series is coming out Summer 2012.