#l.d. lapinski

[ingravinoveritas]

Delighted that the full image of this (without caption) has turned up. Those trousers on David are everything...

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Day 20: JOMPBPC: Lgbtqia+

[transbookoftheday]

Jamie by L.D. Lapinski

Jamie Rambeau is a happy 11-year-old non-binary kid who likes nothing better than hanging out with their two best friends Daisy and Ash. But when the trio find out that in Year Seven they will be separated into one school for boys and another for girls, their friendship suddenly seems at risk. And when Jamie realises no one has thought about where they are going to go, they decide to take matters into their own hands, and sort it all out once and for all.

As the friends’ efforts to raise awareness eventually become a rooftop protest against the binary rules for the local schools, Jamie realises that if they don’t figure out a way forwards, they might be at risk of losing both their friends forever.

[gallifreywhere]

'Please can you stop putting things in your mouth,' Darwin muttered loudly as the Doctor went in for a taste. 'Don't you know anything about poison risks?''

Where's your sense of adventure?' The Doctor sighed, washing his hand off anyway as Darwin looked upset.

(Tenth Doctor, in Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival)

[niseag-reads]

"I don't want to make a huge fuss. This isn't worth getting into serious trouble over" Ash gave me a quizzical look. "Isn't it?" she asked. I didn't know what to say to that from: Jamie by L.D. Lapinski

[she-wolf-writer-58]

A Journey into Imagination: L.D. Lapinski's Strangeworlds Travel Agency

Strangeworlds Travel Agency – L.D Lapinski Book Review In the realm of children’s literature, a magical gateway to adventure and whimsy awaits readers in the form of L.D. Lapinski’s enchanting series, “Strangeworlds Travel Agency.” This imaginative and captivating series has captured the hearts of readers young and old alike, inviting them to explore the limitless possibilities of parallel…

[hey-color-palettes]

hii can you do one for jamie by L.D. Lapinski?

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[junction-and-juxtaposition]

January 2025 Reads

A nice gentle start to the year reading books off my shelf and a couple of library books.

Dr Who: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival by L.D. Lapinski The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis HappyHead and Dead Happy by Josh Silver

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Contemporary Middle Grade with Nonbinary MCs, Part I

Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley Alice Austen Lived Here and Green by Alex Gino Jamie by L.D. Lapinski Ana on the Edge and Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Kevin Sylvester and Basil Sylvester

[that-bookworm-guy]

A rainbow stack of Trans Books

I've rewritten this caption over & over. I've researched & written stats for trans, as well as queer hate crime. I've written about my own experiences. I wanted something with impact, to make people think & hopefully make a tiny difference. Except I won't make a difference, & that's okay

I'm tired of hearing about all the anti LGBTQ+ bills. I'm tired of hearing about trans hate. I'm tired of experiencing hate. I'm tired of my family being scared for me every time I go out. I'm tired of constantly fighting between being a proud queer person or living stealth. Both have their pros & cons, but I shouldn't have to pick, I should be allowed to just be

I was trying to write about how just 1 person supporting us makes a difference, how calling something out for being transphobic, homophobic, ableist, racist, etc, can help. But I've written about it before, other people have said it too. We can keep trying. We will never give up, but right now, I'm tired from it all

This pride month, I'm tired. I know others are too & that's okay

But we have 2 of the most powerful tools, books & social media. There is power in reading banned books. They are banned for reasons. We can have a quiet revolution. Read queer books all year. Read queer books from different countries, read fiction, non-fiction, read poems, & fan fiction. Read & share books. Read about different identities & different experiences. Educate yourself, because right now, that knowledge is power. Don't let them erase us. I've seen how this community can pull together.

So, bookblr, I ask 1 simple thing. Please keep reading & sharing queer books all year, not just pride month

For those reading this, you are never alone 💙

Books in stack:

1. The Strangeworlds Travel Agency - L.D. Lapinski

2. The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye

3. Trans Like Me - CN Lester

4. Top to Bottom - Finlay Games

5. The Gender Games - Juno Dawson

6. Trans Britain - Edited by Christine Burns

7. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar - Harry Nicolas

Books standing to the left of the stack:

8. Gender Euphoria - Edited by Laura Kate Dale

9. What's the T? - Juno Dawson

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Day 31: JOMPBPC: Read In January

My wonderful January, 2024 reading wrap-up!

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[transbookoftheday]

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski

At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is step inside . . .

When 12-year-old Flick Hudson accidentally ends up in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, she uncovers a fantastic secret: there are hundreds of other worlds just steps away from ours. All you have to do to visit them is jump into the right suitcase. Then Flick gets the invitation of a lifetime: join Strangeworlds' magical travel society and explore other worlds.

But, unknown to Flick, the world at the very centre of it all, a city called Five Lights, is in danger. Buildings and even streets are mysteriously disappearing. Once Flick realizes what's happening she must race against time, travelling through unchartered worlds, seeking a way to fix Five Lights before it collapses into nothingness - and takes our world with it.

[clarawatson]

Give us some book or poetry recommendations, Please.

This ask has blessed me 💖💖. This is also a long post, promise I'll put it under 'read more' once I turn on my laptop

Hmm let us see. I'll try to get my finger into every pie.

🌸poetry🌸

I am very white in my poetry consumption, I admit this. (And very limited, poetry confuses me) so I'll give you 2 categories: ones that inspired my Quiet Birds AU and poems I know my friends enjoyed).

Quiet Birds Inspo:

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep (Mary Elizabeth Frye) ~ I read this in highschool and it ended up in every book I own. (Genuinely. It's in my art book of all places).

Caged Bird (Maya Angelou) ~ I just love this poem tbh.

Poems my friends enjoyed:

The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock (T.S.Eliot) - "the poem gay, kids" is the note I have at the bottom of my notes on that poem.

Poetry (Marianne Moore) -- it's a poem about hating poetry.

Mary Szybist's Incarnadine -- this is an anthology I did not enjoy but my friends did.

🌸books🌸

Thriller(s):

Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)-- even if you've watched the movie or know spoilers, this book is a treat. It is so well done.

The Cry (Helen Fitzgerald) -- it's only small (307 pages!) But if you're interested in original work vs TV adaptation I highly recommend watching the 4 part mini series and reading the book, it's interesting how the two approach Joanna (I'm inclined more towards TV Joanna).

History based dystopian(s):

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) -- i had to make sure I was in a good headspace to read this (it has some very heavy topics and I would NEVER tell anyone they had to read it, it made me very uncomfortable) but I am grateful i did.

The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood) -- is a modern day take on Women's Prisons or "reformation centres" those places for ""troubled girls"" (y'know, they had sex, lock them away) very arty but very good and makes you think!!

Queer Young Adult:

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here (Erin Gough) -- two lesbians take down homophobic, racist and sex offending teachers via an allias in the school paper and accidentally fall in love.

Her Royal Highness (Rachel Hawkins) -- falling in love with royalty at a Scottish boarding school only it's lesbian.

~Queer~:

To be taught, if fortunate (Becky Chambers) -- novella!! 134 pages!! an astronaut sends back her final letter to earth, not knowing if anyone survived. Incredibly diverse, has everything. (A pansexual MC and a trans biologist and an understanding the whole ship is poly?? So good)

Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuinston) -- the president's son falls in love with the prince of England. Has quite explicit smut sometimes, wouldn't recommend reading anywhere someone can read over you shoulder.

Fantasy:

Stardust (Neil Gaiman) -- again, another one that isn't spoiled by knowing the movie or the book. Both stand alone perfectly.

Four Dead Queens (Astrid Scholte) -- this book was incredible. It's got a bad rep on goodreads because two of the dead Queens are queer (not a spoiler) but it's genuinely a good book (i, a queer, say so) and pulls off its plot twists effortlessly and always has you looking in the wrong direction.

Children's fantasy:

Strangeworlds Travel Agency (L.D. Lapinski) -- 11 year old girl and her new 18 year old friend pretend they're in Doctor Who via suitcases and there's a bunch of canonical queers.

Nevermoor (Jessica Townsend) -- you gotta fight through that first 200 pages (it works really hard at NOT being Harry Potter) and then it comes into itself. Townsend was also very quick to speak out against Rowling (also evident in source material that constantly has people pulled up for being mean, and calls out human rights violations, also Queer characters).

YA Fantasy:

The Medoran Chronicles (Lynette Noni) -- 5 book fantasy series featuring female protagonist. I only read them last year, they're brilliant. First book kind of reads like Harry Potter fanfic but it does not continue in that direction.

Authors i would just recommend in general:

Patrick Ness

John Flanagan

Lynette Noni

If you're looking for something more visual:

Illuminae (Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff) -- it's a compilation of ship blue prints, emails, chat logs, classified files, debrief interviews, transcripts and security footage. Such a good book.

Favourite text(s) I studied:

Dracula (Bram Stoker) -- my best friend bought me a collectors edition for my birthday because I ruined my first edition when I read it at the Gardens and it started raining.

Animals People (indra sinha) -- a fictionalised account of the Bhopal Disaster, meant to draw attention towards it.

Swallow the Air (Tara June Winch) -- May sets out the find her Aboriginal identity while her family falls apart after her mothers death.

[lemonadeandlanguages]

4 6 10 for the book asks!

4: What was the last book you added to your tbr?

Bold of you to assume i keep track of my tbr anymore :’) but it’s The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D Lapinski!

6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved?

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid!

10: Sci-Fi or fantasy? Why?

I like both but I read more fantasy cuz that’s what my fave author writes haha

[yabookprize]

There’s a new YA magazine in town

A new online zine dedicated to showcasing the best of UKYA has been launched!

SHIFT is the brainchild Darran Stobbart (aka @ShinraAlpha) at ED PR, author and freelance writer L.D. Lapinski, Alice Sutherland-Hawes (aka @alibelle) who works as a rights manager at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency, and teaching assistant Rachel Bell (aka @_sectumsemprah). 

The zine will share features about the latest YA novels and their authors, reviews of books and film adaptations and also original short YA fiction.

You can see the first issue - which includes a review of the A Monster Calls film and lots of books, as well as interviews with Katherine Webber and Juno Dawson - here. You can also follow SHIFT on Twitter here.

We can’t wait to see what’s published on SHIFT next. Yay for UKYA!

[thepinklibrarian]

RT @ldlapinski: Choose an Aragorn:

Choose an Aragorn:

— L.D. Lapinski (@ldlapinski) November 22, 2017

via Twitter https://twitter.com/queenoftartan November 22, 2017 at 08:26PM