NOVL

4.30.2013

FACT: The term “ice cream” shows up 32 times in Jennifer E. Smith’s This Is What Happy Looks Like.
It makes sense. Ellie does work in an ice cream parlor, after all. Plus, the whole thing is about a summer in Maine, an unexpected match, and HAPPY. What’s happier than ice cream? (Hint: nothing.) So, inspired by Ellie and the wide open summer that is so close we can taste it, Team Novl compiled The Ultimate Ice Cream Road Trip.
Please, go forth, read, road trip, and get happy. Don’t forgot to ask for sprinkles.

1: The Original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory - Try the: Lychee | 2: Toscanini’s Ice Cream - Try the: Burnt Caramel or Ginger Snap Molasses | 3: The Creole Creamery - Try the: Lavender Honey | 4: Amy’s Ice Cream - Try the: Grasshopper | 5: Graeter’s - Try the: Black Raspberry Chip | 6: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream - Try the: Queen City Cayenne | 7: MOOMer’s Homemade Ice Cream - Try the: Amaretto Cherry | 8: Sweet Action Ice Cream - Try the: Salted Butterscotch | 9: Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream - Try the: Balsamic Strawberry | 10: Salt & Straw - Try the: Grandma Malek’s Almond Brittle with Salted Ganache | 11: Bi-Rite Creamery - Try the: Roasted Banana or Malted Vanilla | 12: Sweet Republic - Try the: Salted Butter Caramel — **FACT**: The term “ice cream” shows up 32 times in Jennifer E. Smith’s This Is What Happy Looks Like.

It makes sense. Ellie does work in an ice cream parlor, after all. Plus, the whole thing is about a summer in Maine, an unexpected match, and HAPPY. What’s happier than ice cream? (Hint: nothing.) So, inspired by Ellie and the wide open summer that is *so close* we can taste it, Team Novl compiled The Ultimate Ice Cream Road Trip.

Please, go forth, read, road trip, and get happy. Don’t forgot to ask for sprinkles.

1: The Original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory - Try the: Lychee | 2: Toscanini’s Ice Cream - Try the: Burnt Caramel or Ginger Snap Molasses | 3: The Creole Creamery - Try the: Lavender Honey | 4: Amy’s Ice Cream - Try the: Grasshopper | 5: Graeter’s - Try the: Black Raspberry Chip | 6: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream - Try the: Queen City Cayenne | 7: MOOMer’s Homemade Ice Cream - Try the: Amaretto Cherry | 8: Sweet Action Ice Cream - Try the: Salted Butterscotch | 9: Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream - Try the: Balsamic Strawberry | 10: Salt & Straw - Try the: Grandma Malek’s Almond Brittle with Salted Ganache | 11: Bi-Rite Creamery - Try the: Roasted Banana or Malted Vanilla | 12: Sweet Republic - Try the: Salted Butter Caramel

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4.29.2013

theiconsseries:

—Margaret Stohl’s ICONS, page 176

PS: You can read even more here and you can read the WHOLE thing on May 7th! — theiconsseries:

—Margaret Stohl’s *ICONS*, page 176

PS: You can read even more here and you can read the WHOLE thing on May 7th!

Source: ICONS by Margaret Stohl | Official Tumblr

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4.28.2013

Book People Probs
(Source: somefrankenteencalledfranky, via mysteryingrey)

Source: Franky. Or Cranky.

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4.26.2013

Source: Talk Nerdy To Me

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4.26.2013

Friday dance! Friday dance! Friday dance!
(Source: topartywithgatsby, via brooklinebooksmith)

Source: Dancing in the Rain

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4.25.2013

literarychicks:

LOVE THIS.

XO
(Source: theliterarysnob)

Source: The Literary Snob

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4.25.2013

Here’s the deal:
1 perfect assassin + 1 imperfect mission = Boy Nobody from Allen Zadoff
Check it out.

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Here’s the deal:

1 perfect assassin + 1 imperfect mission = Boy Nobody from Allen Zadoff

Check it out.

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4.24.2013

fashion-by-the-book:

The Diviners by Libba Bray
Find it here
“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”

Dear Ladies & Gents:
It’s Wednesday. Go get bookishly fancy.
Always yours, Team NOVL
Also, just in case you missed our fashion-related thoughts on the leading ladies of Libba Bray’s The Diviners:Evie Mabel Theta — fashion-by-the-book:

**The Diviners by Libba Bray**

Find it here

*“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”*

Dear Ladies & Gents:

It’s Wednesday. Go get bookishly fancy.

Always yours,
Team NOVL

Also, just in case you missed *our* fashion-related thoughts on the leading ladies of Libba Bray’s The Diviners:
Evie
Mabel
Theta

Source: fashion-by-the-book

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4.23.2013

fitzcarraldo

Random Impressive Tuesday Thing #4: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. an image that somehow becomes lodged deep in your brain—maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a casual conversation—which then grows into a wild and impractical vision that keeps scrambling back and forth in your head like a dog stuck in a car that’s about to arrive home, just itching for a chance to leap headlong into reality.

Fitzcarraldo, friend, you are one fine word.

[Passed along by an internal source. Major thanks, internal source.]

Source: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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4.22.2013

theiconsseries:

—ICONS, page 2

Today is April 22nd.
Icons (the brand new series from Margaret Stohl) releases May 7th.
Two weeks and one day.
TWOWEEKSANDONEDAY!!!

(Not like we’re counting or anything.)

PS: The first six chapters are free to download at:
Amazon
Apple
Kobo
Google
NOOK
Sony

Source: ICONS by Margaret Stohl | Official Tumblr

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