#On the jellicoe road

[sunsetquotes]

It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.

Melina Marchetta; On the Jellicoe Road

[bebisexual]

"these people have history and i crave history." —on the jellicoe road, melina marchetta.

"i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive." —the secret history, donna tartt.

[twicedailyquotes]

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

Melina Marchetta

On the Jellicoe Road

[avocado-frog]

Happy STS! What is the best novel you've ever read? What did you like about it, from a storytelling perspective? Has it influenced or informed your own approach?

Hi thanks I've got another ask from you from like two weeks ago that I forgot about whoops

On the jellicoe road has had me in an absolute chokehold since December. It took me a while to get into it because it's a little confusing for the first 100 pages, but my English teacher last year gave it to me because I didn't get a book from the library (it's also worth noting that he gave me a copy that did not have the title on the front, and it was scratched out on the spine, so i did not know what the book was called until i looked it up later)

From a storytelling perspective, it follows two storylines, one is the present, the other is about 20 years into the past, and I'm not going to spoil too much of it, but the parts from the past are written by the protagonist's caretaker, and are in third person, while the present bits are in first. It's definitely worth a reread because of the way the two storylines tie up in the end

I don't think it's really influenced much of my own writing, but I do think that my characterization skills have improved because of it

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"Hold my hand because I might disappear."

Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

[milf-harrington]

thinking about jellicoe road again. yeah its gonna be an all night thing, yeah it's literally keeping me awake.

[snazz-ie]

btw read on the jellicoe road

[89words]

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don’t know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don’t know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

Melina Marchetta - 'On the Jellicoe Road'

[ahurumustdie]

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(road for "jellicoe road", steve harrington for steve harrington, library for "nobodies hero", and werewolf for that werewolf poem you wrote <3)

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[myfathersdaughter1]

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, ‘What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?’ and my father said, ‘Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,’ and that was the last thing he ever said.”

― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

Via myfathersdaughter1) v

(via paige myfathersdaughter1)

[avocado-frog]

Happy STS! Today, I'm pulling away from characters (finally 🤭) and asking about influences. Who are your literary influences? Can you see specific influences coming through in some of your specific works?

HII URUHURGRGR I WROTE EVERYTHING OUT AND THEN CLOSED THE TAB LIKE A FREAKING DUMB DUMB MY BAD

The "s" in STS stands for sunday

Frankenstein, Coraline, and On the Jellicoe Road (i've mentioned that book a few times and that's because I eat that book for breakfast)

[liminalmemories21]

9 Books

tagged by @cha-melodius. Thank you!

I'm 90% sure I've done this, but I'll never be able to find it now. And it's not like I could possibly contain myself in nine books. So, variation - nine authors I will read no questions asked whenever they come out with a new book.

1 - Everina Maxwell Winter's Orbit is just my entire heart. Didn't love Ocean's Echo quite as much, but still devoured it in one big gulp.

2 - Margaret Owen I know I've done PR for the Little Thieves trilogy (Goose Girl told from the POV of the goose girl + a heist - so good). But, the Merciful Crow duology is also just spectacular.

3 - Marissa Meyer The Lunar Chronicles are just astonishing - fairytale retellings in sci-fi future - Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Snow White.

4 - Patrick Ness (see, I do read men, sometimes, under highly selective circumstances) Chaos Walking just blew my entire mind with how smart and nuanced it was (have not seen the movie, do not plan to). But also The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and Release are gorgeous.

5 - Tess Sharpe My love for this author knows no bounds. Her women are never morally white - they're complicated, and they make hard decisions and live with the consequences.

6 - Melina Marchetta Jellicoe Road, and Finniken of the Rock, and Piper's Son. She writes in so many different genres, and I love all of them.

7 - Anna Marie McLemore When the Moon Was Ours, and The Weight of Feathers are just some of my favorite books ever. Their writing is so magical and lyrical.

8 - Maggie Stiefvater I cannot wait to see what she's doing next (also, my mind is still blown by the fact that she wrote the fourth book of the Raven Cycle when she was seriously ill and it was affecting her brain and she could barely think in sentenes).

9 - okay, and cheating here with all my beloved romance authors that make my world go around - Evie Dunmore, and Sarah MacLean, and Lisa Kleypas, and Julia Quinn, and Olivia Dade, and Patricia Briggs, and Ilona Andrews, and probably more that I'm blanking on right this second.

Tagging @rmd-writes, @jesuisici33, and @iboatedhere - 9 authors you will read without thinking twice.

[milf-harrington]

jellicoe road haunts me

[lesbianprophecy]

I can’t wait to drop out of school so that I have time to reread the haunting of hill house and to finish the Percy Jackson series and maybe even to reread on the Jellicoe road and MAYBE to read book club books but first I want to start nostalgically

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

in the lead-up to Booklr Reads Australian, I'm going to share some Goodreads lists that have good selections of Australian novels for people to investigate and choose from 😊