#Instructions for Dancing

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

Maybe it's because I've only ever seen them suffering via gifsets, but I really want to see both of these women in YA romance adaptations. If I had any say in this I'd cast Bailey as Iris in The Girls I've Been (main love interest), and Delainey as Evie in Instructions For Dancing (main character).

[slaughter-books]

Day 27: JOMPBPC: Set In Spring

I decided to spell out the word Spring, using the titles of books! 💕

[wellhalesbells]

the thing that fucks me up about rereading instructions for dancing is trying to pinpoint when it is that derek becomes obsessed with stiles and realizing the answer seems to be always. from the beginning. the moment they met. that poor bastard. he probably should have tried to be a little nicer about it, though, saved them both some hardship.

I think it slides so quickly from fear and annoyance that Stiles will steal Scott away to 'Oh no, oh fuck,' I'm not even sure Derek knows himself. Poor guy hamstrung himself by starting out with the 'I'm going to scare him away' mentality then wondering where the hell that went and trying to find it again through almost every subsequent interaction (while something so much bigger and so much worse - Derek's Thoughts™ - completely eclipsed it). Meanwhile Stiles also helps cultivate Derek's dickish-ness by assuming that original motivation to be his only interest in him at all, essentially until the moment Derek tells him he's in love with him.

Which is hopefully why it seemingly comes out of left field for Stiles and the reader, because that's what I wanted.

[futchbookslut]

I can't believe how much I'm enjoying this romance novel. Here I am kicking my feet and giggling at some banter, like who is this person?

[fangirl530]

You guys ever start reading a book and get to a point where you Know it is going to emotionally destroy you? But you can't put it down because you have to know what happens?

Yeah.

Anyway, I highly recommend Instructions for Dancing and Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon.

[starswhogaze]

"Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place."

Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

[caribeandthebooks]

Caribe's Young Adult Fiction TBR - Part 1

[park-king-lot]

I made a playlist for Instructions for Dancing. These songs certainly reminded me of the feelings I felt in the book. Kindly give it a listen!

[theinyshlobster]

instructions for dancing by nicola yoon [review]

read from july 27th - july 31st

review

didn’t expect to enjoy this as much as i did honestly!

i do find the more and more i read the less i like the YA genre but this was a happy little book which i had fun with. i wouldn’t say i was craving to find the ending therefore that’s why its a 3-star, but i still had a good time!

i found evie very quippy and funny, and a lot more intriguing that your usual YA romance novel protagonist. her decisions at times were grating but im finding that’s the point of YA /lhj

X was…. fine. i mean immediate point ding for sharing the same name as musk’s awful website (this book was published in 2021 so yet again this is a joke). but i mean he was nice i guess. he kind of felt one-dimensional minus his backstory with clay & his dad but like… idk it didn’t go beyond that really. the last 30 pages decided to throw a random curveball to his story which i really didn’t see coming. honestly i don’t think i liked it. yes there was “foreshadowing” but idk it felt completely random and unnecessary. nicola yoon please stop killing a main character in ur YA romances please

. i mean im not mad at it but it really wasn’t needed and felt like the tone flipped literally at the last second. not needed!

the wlw rep surprisingly fit right into the story & didn’t seem forced so as a lesbian i will take that as a win. 

fifi was…. weird. idk her characterisation reminds me of when in movies make the bad guys from somewhere like russia, serbia, etc. i mean fifi wasn’t a complete stereotype & she was a nice character by the end but i wasn’t particularly thrilled with her. why was her whole character the fact she has a thick accent. ok sure.

other side characters really had nothing going for them. evie’s dad was alright, and other than that everyone felt flat. you can only do so much in 280 pages but trying to characterise evie’s friends, her mum, her sister, X’s grandparents, his dad, shirley, shirley’s mum…. please you cannot achieve that much in such little pages. honestly you could have even removed evie’s sister and the plot really wouldn’t have suffered. and that leads me on to my final point - too much was trying to be done. like we have evie’s visions, her romance, her plot with her dad, her plot with her friends, martin’s plot, the dance competition…. too much was trying to be achieved and it resulted in nothing really “succeeding”. like i fully forgot this book was about dancing for a good while because that plot was not mentioned for a while. and then i forgot the dad plot because the dancing took up a good portion of reading time. and then the dad’s plot took up a lot of time so i forgot about the friendship plot. the book either needed to be longer to account for all of this or just chuck out some of the side plots and focus on making a few side plots and the overall plot stronger. but honestly i don’t find this egregious as it’s a YA. no shade to YA it’s probably my most read genre but i don’t pick up a YA book expecting a literary masterpiece. i expect to be entertained. and i was! but from a critical perspective……. 😬

lets all just gloss over the fact i didn't do a currently reading post for this im in the trenches atm

[klainesheilen]

starting to read Villette by Charlotte Bronte and you know what that means? Rom-Com summer break is over, time to get back to my academic readings. Yet I want to share some of my thoughts with you on the books I have read in the last 3ish weeks

started with A Witch's Guide to Fake Date a Demon by Sarah Hawley AND I HAVE EATEN THIS SHIT UP. The main reason why I have got it is simply because it was for 99 cents and I thought the idea of a romance between a witch and a demon being something unique. This book made me laught out loud, can't remember the last time a book made me do that. It's helerious, I really enjoyed the other plot going, found the characters so loveable (the ones who derserve it lol, iykyk). My only issue with this book is the fake dating aspect. I see the reasening, but once I hit a point in the story where I was wondering "Why are we still calling it fake dating?" it wasn't doing it for me anymore. Maybe it's a me thing, but still a strong 4 star read for me !

next I read was Practice makes Perfect by Sarah Adams and this was a huge side eye, criminal offensive side eye. Maybe my bar was too high after AWGtFDaD, but what was that? I couldn't feel the chemistry. Everytime one of them drifted off in their thoughts and thought something sexuell - how did I get here? The only reason I kept on was that I updated my bf after like each chapter how and why these characters (and even the whole small town) pissed me on. Two stars for me.

I have dnfed Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly. I liked the new setting, found one of the characters a little cringe but both still loveable. At 13% I got the feeling that this will be more of sad story and I wasn't in the mood for that. Hope to pick it up again one day (:

With Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon I have hit book #400 of my alltimes reads. I wasn't the target audience, so I was cringing at some moments and at the writing style. Again, would have loved it more if I was younger, because the message is so good for young people and their first heart break, but for me, an adult who been there was there, it was a nice quick (two days !!) read. The adult in me gives it 3 stars and the (pre) teen 4 !

Lastly I have read It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey. This one was a little rollercoaster for me. The beginning was so good, usually I have a problem with spoiled characters, but Piper was still true to herself that reading about her was so fun! The dynamic she has with Brendan LOVE! But once it's clear that they have a crush on each other it has put me into a slump. Everytime I had to force myself to pick the book up and keep on and once I did so I liked it, tho I got the feeling that the plot stretched itself. At like 80% I was so fucking close to dnf it. Not that I disliked the conflict, I just got so triggered by it. Can you tell that I have some personal stuff going on lately? Anyway, I finished it yesterday and gave it four stars, but now I'm thinking to go a little down with my rating, because of the reading slump it has put me in

[ringosnoop]

problem: school keeps scheduling lanciers lessons on days where it's physically impossible for me to make it

solution: binge instruction videos on yt

new problem:

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

I baked muffins! And made caramel for on top! It's been years since i was last able to just bake something if i wanted it instead of having to ask family members if they felt like baking it for me and i've always liked baking. I'm so happy!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

TGIF

[park-king-lot]

the only exception is the best song to for instructions for dancing by nicola yoon