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Valerie_Lillis

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Romance and Dark Fantasy Writer. Feel free to ask about any of the projects I'm working on!

Author Site: https://lilliswrites.blogspot.com/
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Dec 18th: Will you read over the holidays? What book will you choose?

I'll probably read a few more short stories from the Gothic Fantasy collection or from one of my Library of America books.
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To Bloom in the Shadows is officially here! Grab your beverage of choice and dive into the Everautumn courts where shadows lurk and love isn't as simple as easy as the old faerie tales make it seem.

Amazon/Kindle:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLZG9SC8

Apple Books/Kobo/Smashwords:
https://books2read.com/u/mgRXp0

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A decade after graduating highschool and I'm finally giving Wuthering Heights another chance. So far not regretting my decision as I'm able to catch a lot more of the social nuances in the story and appreciate Heathcliff's decent into the man we meet at the start of the story.

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@musingoddity @bookstodon Makes me wonder why they make us read them as teenagers. If the language and style isn't hard enough to read there's also the more adult topics that could go over a teenagers head if it's not explained first by a teacher.

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Unfortunately, my experience is simply being told to read it then write a book review of it to present to the class. This is started by passing out a list of classics and having each student pick a different one.

There is no discussion on the book afterwards: child abuse, racism, interracial romances, and classism of the time could be have all been brought up in Withering Heights, but they were not. Only literature tools like symbols and metaphors were touched.

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I feel like some of these older classic would be good supporting resources for a history class. It's almost a first hand account of what old social norms and cultures looked like.

In literature and english classes we could certainly do with less focus on the classics and more focus on modern pieces.

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That's a very good point. I didn't realize there were actual first hand accounts that survived from that area.

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@eyrea @kbg @musingoddity @bookstodon

That's wonderful! Do you have any specific accounts that you would recommend? Or perhaps where I could find them online? I'd love to expand my knowledge of that time period

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Day 7: Post an image of a book cover you really enjoy from a work other than your own.

I think my favorite is Taste Like War: A Memoir by Grace Cho. Not only is the title itself intriguing, but the lettering is folded into the artwork which is a blend of natural foraging foods that are lightly splattered with blood. It's a perfect reflection of the book's contents while not giving anything away.

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Looking for a quick read to hit off the spooky season? The Red Knight is a quick mystery set in the fictional duchy of Graystoke. Follow the Inquisitor Diane as she investigates the disappearance of a court official.

The truth of the mystery could be quite bloody.

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Serious question bc I'm still learning the ropes on Mastodon. Are ya'll okay with authors tooting about new releases on the group page?

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That's very understandable. On Twitter, we would have writer's lifts and it was very frequent to see the same book posted for months even if the original post was asking for poems. It was rather annoying.

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Alpha male's, the female equivalent, and other plots that romanticize mental and emotional abuse of a partner need thrown away or moved into psychological horror genre.

I use to adore these tropes as a teenager but they did not give me good examples of a healthy romance even though that is what they were marketed as.

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