After 7 months of waiting, I finally designed the last poster for the Matched Trilogy. I hope you liked it. What do you think?
SO COOL
All these years he’s been so careful, but now he’s willing to take a chance. Because he’s found someone who wants to know. Someone he wants to tell.
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| — | Cassia Reyes (via sunbeams-and-passion) |
Anna recommends…REACHED by Ally Condie!
Though there were so many wonderful books published by Penguin this year, and frankly I find it incredibly hard to choose just one favorite, the first thing that came to mind when we conceived of this project was Reached by Ally Condie. Penguin acquired Matched in 2009, right about when I started working here, and I read it earlier than almost anybody in the world, which is such a crazy thing to think about a book that has blossomed into a genuine literary phenomenon! So in many ways, I’ve been with Cassia, and Cassia has been with me, since the very beginning, and I was both sad and excited when the manuscript of Reached finally landed in my inbox—sad because it was the last book, but excited because I knew that Ally was going to blow me away with her gorgeous writing, fascinating characters, true romance, and amazing plot revelations. And I was right! (As always.) If you haven’t had a chance to dive into this amazing series yet, there’s no time like the present—you have some time off for the holidays. USE IT WISELY!
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REACHED is on this list—go vote!
If you think I’m above suggesting that you guys vote for Penguin Teen titles, let me assure you that you are quite wrong. We have so many wonderful titles on the list, it’d be a shame not to call them out especially! In the order in which they’re listed in the poll:
Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony & Rodrigo Corral
Reached by Ally Condie
Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Origin by Jessica Khoury
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
The Innocents by Lili Peloquin
Gilt by Katherine Longshore
The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
A Million Suns by Beth Revis
Black City by Elizabeth Richards
Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
Immortal City by Scott Speer
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
A Temptation of Angels by Michelle Zink
Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.
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| — | Allie Condie, Reached (via sumo-sam) |
The stars are lights in houses and on streets. The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, eveery now and the3n, if we’re lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling. But it feels even better to find myself standing on solid ground, with someone holding on to me, pulling me back, and know that I’m doing the same for her.
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| — | Xander Carrow from Reached by Ally Condie (via waitingformysteadyflame) |
And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.
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| — | Reached, Ally Condie, Page 90 (via beingsomewhatnormal) |
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.~Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
The Matched Trilogy by Ally Condie
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REACHED & RED parallels
Losing him was BLUE like I’ve never known
Missing him was dark gray [GREEN] all alone
Forgetting him is like trying to know somebody you’ve never met
But loving him was RED
-Taylor Swift](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdnwvqrnTn1rdd17oo1_500.jpg)
