hello hi i finally figured out how to run a digital bookclub and the answer is tinyletter. 😍 our first on is about the incredible The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
bi monthly #ya #bookclub in your inbox, come hang out with me and my best book frand tess. (our names rhyme and we're tons of fun): https://tinyletter.com/jessandtessmess

y'all, John Green is good. 🐢 #ya #yalit

something tells me i shouldn't be starting this right before trying to fall asleep. 🐦

i like doodling in the most anal way possible + books that sweep me away and make me think. 👍 #ya #yalit

JK can pontificate all over twitter about how Draco is an iredeemable twit, but I have the receipts. 🐍 #hpreread #harrypotter #dracomalfoy

Everything about this book makes me furious, including this incredibly battered library copy, and I'm not finishing it. Stop calling it adult Harry Potter. It's not. 😛 #bye

Y'all this was devastating, in the best and worst possible ways. As with the first Themis files book, please grab this in audio, it's stunning. // And ffs, someone ~tALK~ to me about Kara. 👾👽🎆 #scifi

So beautiful I might have to buy my own copy. 🌿 #wallpaper #patterns

mood: 👾🎆😭🇬🇧👽💕😵🎉😂🔥😍👍🎆😇🌋😱

#feminism and eggs for brunch. 🍳

Someone talk to me about that ending of The Last of August because ...what? What the hell happened? / Side review: Labor of Love was fascinating and really fun. / Gotta love that dirty Brooklyn snow melt. 👙 #ya #yalit #sherlockholmes

This was an exercise in deep breathing. / Lord help us that it was written in 2005 and is still so relevant. 🐘🐴 #politics

Started this today and am loving the small part of the giant hole in my chest it's filling left by BBC Sherlock's unforgivably disappointing finale. ❤ #ya #yalit #sherlockholmes

My snow day companion yesterday, and with only 50 pages left, leaving for work this morning was torture. ⛄ #ya #yalit

Damn shame this gorgoues cover didn't keep me more interested in this story, especially since it seemed so unique for contemporary YA. Alas, nothing gets me insta-bored more quickly than insta-love and an idiotic protagonist I really can't get behind. 🌋 #ya #yalit

Another case of beautiful, lyric prose separating me from the main character, who was the most boring of all the Devonairre Street girls. The good: a gorgeous portrayal of female friendship and grief and a fascinating alternate universe America (and that cover 😍). The bad: I wanted to spend more time with the world than inside Lorna's selfish, confused and repetitive inner monologue. 🌾🍋 #ya #yalit

About to interview for a volunteer position at my local library. 🙌 Been wanting to do this ever since the disaster election inspired a desire to give back in my community. And I'm here every weekend loving books anyway, so here's to hoping it's a perfect fit! 💞📖

Y'all, this was a goddamn treasure of a read. I loved the fantasy world. I loved all the side characters. I loved the brutality, because I didn't cry, I raged. And right now, I'll watch some kick-ass young adults battle their fascist empires until my eyes bleed. ✌#ya #yalit
I had a lot of thought about this one. Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1719783744

Get you a bae who loves you like Bruce loves Patti. 😍 #happyvalentines

Some thematically festive reading for today. 💜💙💚💛 #happyvalentines

I can't stop thinking about this one. I think Goodreads actually managed to pick a YA of the year deserving of the title. This was gorgeous and devastating and utterly consuming. And, really, reading it in the midst of global politics right now just ...Hurts. 🐚 #ya #yalit

These Bloomsbury cover reissues got this #hpreread like 😍😍😍. #hpchapteraday

Nevermind me just having a religious experience listening to Arcade Fire walking up the steps to my favorite place on earth like, "Hope that something pure can last." My local library for #riotgram. ? #brooklyn

omgggg Noah and Brian from I'll Give You the Sun for favorite #TeenageLove affair. No one is surprised, cause I love this book so much my heart hurts. 😍😍😍 #BookLove17 @LibrarianRyan

I read this in under a day. It made me desperately misty-eyed. It wasn't perfect, but it's Important™ and was delightfully hopeful. Amanda was somewhat universally relatable, but artsy side-kick Bee and her arc was incredibly nuanced. Thankfully the plot was about more than the reveal of Amanda's secret—which was handled so uniquely and well that I didn't see it coming ten thousand miles out. 😇 #ya #yalit #lgbtq (& yes, a trans cover model!)

Not so much a bad book, but a book I probably read waay too late to fall in love with it for #BookLove17. 🌷 #bestlineinabadbook @LibrarianRyan

Ignore the reviews. This book is hardly about her mother's journals. It's about womanhood and voice and humanity and coming of age and it's meditative and lyrical even if it's slow to start, by the end it left me reeling.

🎂 ~some February #TBR on my birthday~ 🎂

Why is no one talking about this? 🍓 #hpchapteraday #hpreread #ya #yalit

#TeamTheo, which really tells you all you need to know about how bullshit this love triangle is, if I fell for the guy that doesn't even win.
This book had such potential! Interdimensional travel! And Gray just piddles it away in a boring love triangle and half-baked physics with glaring plotholes explained away cause Marguerite 'doesn't get science.' And it was boring so boring, omg, I can't imagine picking up the next one. 👾#ya #yalit

I won't have enough characters to talk about how much I #LovetoHate this novel. Suffice it to say that it's not a love story, it's losely disguised sex-ed propaganda 40 years out of date. Katherine is a cardboard cut-out who doesn't have any characterization other than the fact that she hates raisins and hot dogs and Michael is an unrelenting horndog who calls his penis Ralph. Nothing about this book is okay. #BookLove17 @LibrarianRyan

I probably wouldn't have finished this is it weren't for the audiobook. But Miranda's live readings really transformed this collection into something delightful to listen to on a long walk in the cold. ⛄

Excuse me. Are you denigrating Queen Bey? How dare you? / This book is getting on all my nerves, but I am far too close to the end to abandon ship. 😲 #ya #yalit

Bless Hermione, seriously. 🐲 #hpchapteraday #ya #yalit

PAUL IS MAKING A LASAGNA OMG THIS IS THE WORST SENTENCE I'VE EVER READ. 😲 Like, okay, they look similar but cottage cheese and ricotta are NOT the same. What. Is. This. Blasphemy!?

I mean, I hate short stories. But there are some profound pieces in this collection that almost made me forget that. And one that took my breath away. Not to mention some incredible female characters, which—well, can't ever complain about that. 🐞

Oh, this is bringing back some weird long-buried memories of being a swimmer in high school... so so glad to be warm and dry now. Though it is making me long for summer! 🌊😁 #ya #yalit

I got my wisdom teeth extracted yesterday so I'm spending today vicariously marching by looking out for the protest posters I made for my friends on the news and social media. Rooting for all my #NastyWomen and Men representing out on the streets today! 😘 #WomensMarch #WhyIMarch #WomensMarchOnWashington #lettering #signpainting

"You serve at the behest of your audience's imagination." Bless this special liberal snowflake rock musician who paid attention and taught himself the truth. ☃ #springsteen

AU where sasscat Harry Potter is president instead of Orange Voldemort. // But seriously, my American HP versions have a bunch of weird Americanisms. Do the Gryffindors still make a Potter for President sign in the original British version of the novel? 😕🌍 #hpchapteraday #ya #yalit

It's easy to forget how much I hate short stories when Roxane Gay is the one writing them. // This one especially, messed with me deeply.

Haha, uh, hi. I really didn't like this one. Ari was unbearable. His narration read like Hemingway. His internalized homophobia and repressed emotional development was trying, and the book was pretty plotless (which I generally despise).
Like Perks of Being a Wallflower, I think I read this too old. It lacked that transcendent, beyond-YA quality all of my favorite YAs share. And it is NOTHING like I'll Give You the Sun, tyvm. 😶 #ya #yalit #sorry

I mean, jesslovestype, right? My bookshelves are 40% books about type, so here's a selection #ForTheLoveOfFonts. #readJanuary. 🔡🔢🔣

uhm, excuse me, but this book is nothing like I'll Give You the Sun (and I am v salty about it). ☀ #ya #yalit

I own all three, cause they're gorgeous, but I #DNF ed about halfway through Authority. I was beginning to suspect I wouldn't get an answer to a single question and, as far as I'm concerned, a mystery is only as good as the explanation. Plus all those flashbacks to how it felt to be watching Lost... Anyone finish the trilogy? Was it worth it? 👽🌿 #readJanuary

Several people have compared this to I'll Give You the Sun, so I have maybe unreasonably high hopes for this TBR. 🌎 #ya #yalit

Suffer Love is perfectly readable, if somewhat lackluster. The central mystery is easy to figure out, so you just find yourself screaming at Sam to tell her already through most of the novel. Tho I do appreciate a good YA where the characters can have sex without becoming pregnant or dying (or facing incredible amounts of sex-shamey judgement; looking at you, Kat). 🐈 #ya #yalit

Coquette is my hero; don't @ me.

Okay, I am enjoying Suffer Love, but if one more teenager says crap instead of cursing, I WILL THROW THIS LIBRARY BOOK AT THE WALL it is my biggest pet peeve ever crap is the DUMBEST word. / Hi, fellow east-coasters, how is your snow day reading going? ⛄❄ #ya #yalit

That last one is the reason she's my favorite #advice columnist. 💅