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"I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us."

#sad

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs 😊

- Authors I wanna read but haven't read anything by yet... SA Cosby, VE Schwab, Riley Sagar, Virginia Woolf, Percival Everitt, Laura Purcell, Mieko Kawakami, Ruth Ozeki, Trudy Canavan, Leigh Bardugo, Stefan Zweig, George Eliot

Books - anything on my #shelfofshame

- The Book Thief

- Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

#weeklyforecast

Pride month continues with a couple of classics (Giovanni's Room is a reread), one that looks like a solid romp, and the tagged for my #doublespin @thearoneofbooks

I‘m not sure enjoy is the right word for this one. Heavy, Intense and thought provoking, I finished it in two days!
Wasn‘t quite ready for how dark things got towards the end and it left me feeling a bit frustrated. Having said that, Malorie Blackman is a legend and I can‘t believe it‘s taken me this long to read.
#pick #noughtsandcrosses

#manicmonday #letterN @CBee @The_Penniless_Author

📖 Noughts and Crosses
✒ David Nicholls
🎞 Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
🎤 Nicky Minaj
🎶 Nobody's Hero (Rush)

Unpopular opinion. Sorry. It‘s a brilliantly imagined, thought-provoking & important read. And Malorie Blackman is awesome, so I‘m glad I finally read this.

But it reminds me of the books I was given as set texts in school that piled issue on top of issue, were unremittingly grim, & leave you without the slightest glimmer of hope. Plus I‘m not entirely sure I believed in their love story.

Best not read in 2020. Or just not my thing. Or both.

Well look at that! I just downloaded a Libby copy of Noughts and crosses, and scrolling through the starting reviews, alongside endorsement from Stormzy, a quote from our very own Faye. Hope you‘re doing well @daydreamin_star 😘

#blackvoices Loved the book series and many of her other books. Need to get reading the 5th book, Crossfire, now.

"How many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?"

I remember lots of people at school reading this book over 10 years ago but for some reason I never gave it a go! So glad I finally read it and I am eager to read the whole series. A very poignant YA book about racial inequality.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 91 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram

Just found out this was adapted by BBC. Will check out the pilot episode later and check the book too.
#bookstoscreen

BBC series of this starts tonight, anyone watching?

Absolutely loved this book. I often feel like I shouldn‘t be reading YA fiction, but I‘m glad I did. I haven‘t enjoyed a book like this for a while now. An upside down look at how no matter which race is deemed ‘superior‘, equality is always miles from their minds.

It‘s so lovely to finally be back! Lots of drama has kept me away but hopefully I‘m turning a corner into a very exciting time of my life accompanied by lots of beloved books of course. ❤️🌈

This is brilliant, a really gripping read. The 'alternate history' is that blacks (Crosses) historically enslaved whites (noughts), and now hold the power in a segregated society. A powerful reflection on how injustice can ferment a wish for revenge, and how destructive that cycle can be.

#ReadHarder challenge 17:an alternate history novel.

#booked2019 18-diverse middle grade
@BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft
An astonishing book sees me finish summer with a high and wishing books like this had existed when i was a teen. It reverses the race issue with the oppressed group noughts being white people. The bk focusses on callum a nought and sephy a cross & their love story amid a race struggle into which the families are drawn. A great book & im so glad i've now rd it.

Apparently there's a new book to this series - will have to get my hands on a copy soon!

So yesterday I absolutely devoured One of us is Lying after finding it on Kindle store and immediately went in search of Two Can Keep a Secret because woooow I needed it. Was really happy too to find that it‘s got sprayed edges 😍
Noughts & Crosses came up and I remember reading this years ago, possibly even in primary school, and never really went any further with it even though I really enjoyed it soooo that‘s another series I‘m started now 😂♥️

Today's breakfast - strawberries, a croissant, coffee, and a reread!

It‘s been so long since I posted! I have a two week Easter break from university so I have come with my family to Spain for a relaxing fortnight of pure sun and reading — it literally doesn‘t get better than this. Noughts and Crosses has been in my TBR list for a long time and then I seen it reduced to 99p on the kindle store so finally giving it a shot. So far so good! Any other holiday reading recommendations? #holiday #currentlyreading

The concept was great and reiterated how deeply socially entrenched racism is but it was not well written. Using the perspectives was good but the story arc was a mess.

The author cannot seem to decide what she is writing, a dystopian? A modern day Romeo & Juliet? A response to To Kill a Mockingbird? A YA alternative literature?

The book veers significantly at the section named 'The Hostage', I assume this is for dramatic effect; it is realistic as people's lives take dramatic turns but I'm not sure that it is effective. Furthermore the author alludes to one of the main characters being gay, if this turns out to be the case it is handled weakly.

Good story, but what I enjoyed most about this book was how it challenged my biases. I kept having to check my mental images of the characters. It really made me think.

"The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear."

i read this in primary school and it was so interesting but sad

Chose this book for a book club I run at the school I work at and I forgot how woke it is! It is a love story that perfectly deals with issues of race, class and inequality. The students enjoyed the book especially because the roles were reversed as the black people were in power. They learnt a lot about how deeply institutionalised racism is and how racism is dumb. Glad I chose this book and more people need to read this series! #diversebooks

Just came across this again and had to share my little lady indulging in Noughts and Crosses. Thank goodness she was there when I finished it because I needed loads of hugs! #weneeddiversebooks #awesomeya #dogsoflitsy

I wish I looked half as intelligent when I read #dogslovereadingtoo #malorieblackman