#Albert Thornton

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Ahh, wait a minute, Can I please share a little something, right over here for one of my friends who are familiar with The Loud House and Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star? Welp, let's get ready to go with the flow, Ladies and Gentlemen!

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Almonte Hockey Club 1930-1931 Trash Talking and Egg Hurlers -- Nikki Thornton Photo Files

Nikki Thornton photos Frank Blakeley My grandfather, Tom Blakeley, was the trainer Joe Ryan This picture used to be on the wall at the Almonte Hotel.The story , as I understand it, was that this team played 16 games with 15 shutouts and lost the final championship game 1-0. Connie Ross Eric Smith was my great Uncle, married to my grandfather’s sister, Jean Guthrie Michael Gallagher Bert…

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I'm trying to find the announcement of his deal for what rights were sold, but it's buried now with this news (so if you have it, do a girl a favour)

I'm a professional googler (i.e., a research librarian) and here's what I found.

The Daily Express has an article from July 2022 about the book that included the tweet Omid posted announcing it: "I can finally share that I'm working on a BRAND NEW BOOK!! So excited to be working again with Carrie Thornton at @deystreet @harpercollins (US) and MsLisaMilton at @hqstories."

(link: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1648213/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-book-omid-scobie-biography)

Next, when I searched for Scobie and Harper Collins together specifically, I found an article that talked some about the deal: "Scobie sold world English rights to a currently untitled book, set for 2023, to Carrie Thornton at Dey Street. Albert Lee at United Talent Agency brokered the deal on behalf of Scobie." The article's source is the August 2022 Publisher's Weekly announcement (linked within).

(article link: https://meaww.com/omid-scobie-all-set-to-write-new-book-about-meghan-markle-prince-harry-released-in-the-year-202)

Next I looked up everyone these articles ID'd.

Carrie Thornton and Dey Street (which is an imprint of Harper Collins) also published Finding Freedom. Dey Street has the North American's publishing rights.

Lisa Milton is the publishing agent for the UK and Commonwealth rights. (https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/hq-snaps-up-scobies-book-on-the-monarchys-fight-for-survival)

Albert Lee is a literary agent based in NYC. Before becoming a literary agent, he was an editor and a journalist. I think he was also instrumental in publishing Finding Freedom but I haven't been able to find confirmation.

I did try to search for Omid Scobie and Xander, limiting the date range from July 2022 to October 2023 (to exclude this week's tsnuami) but all the search results came back in Dutch, which I don't speak.

well well well, thank youuuuu my darling! let's have a lil Emma publishing lesson, shall we?! disclaimer: this applies only to selling rights for an English book to an English-speaking country, but I often sell my translation rights for my self-pubbed books so I'm used to this.

Publishers will take one of two options: World English, or World Rights. World English is what it says on the tin: English language rights, usually split between US and UK/Commonwealth. With this, you handle foreign translations yourself, although publishers will work together. World Rights is the whole shebang, including translations - when it's this, the publisher then shops around for translations and whatever the foreign publisher pays for it comes off your advance.

World English Rights means he sold just English and held on to foreign translation rights. Dey Street would have then sold the UK/Commonwealth rights to Harlequin, but Scobie's agent would have shopped the translation rights.

Which means Harlequin did not send the manuscript to Xander. Omid Scobie's agent did... and his agent would have sent the manuscript Omid Scobie provided as a final copy for translation.

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A Path In The Woods: A Slay The Princess Webweave In Three Parts

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // The Dismemberment Song by Blue Kid // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters // Proverbs 30:14 from The Bible, New International Version // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // Tongues & Teeth by The Crane Wives // "I had a full-body paralysis attack..." by /u/AccomplishedEgg1814 // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // Unraveling the Enigma of Bangungut: Is Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) in the Philippines a Disease Allelic to the Brugada Syndrome? by Albert C. Gaw et al. // Who Wants to Live Forever? by Dean Rickles // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // No Eyed Girl by Lemon Demon // Solipism and the Problem of Other Minds by Stephen P. Thornton // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // Panpsychism and God by Joanna Leidenhag // In Two by Will Paquin // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // Why Do We Have Personalities? by David Feng // If You Stare Into A Mirror Long Enough, Strange Things Will Happen by /u/RehnWriter // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // The Stanley Parable by Galactic Cafe // It's Tough To Be A God by Elton John // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // Exodus 33:21-23 by The Bible, New American Standard Bible // Curses by The Crane Wives // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games // WOE.BEGONE EP114 "Maybe We'll Remember Everything" by Dylan Griggs // Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games

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Average Ages Of Mass Shooter’s Victims

It's a long list, so I added a page break.

7.0 - Patrick Purdy

7.4 - Thomas Hamilton

9.0 - Charles Roberts IV

13.4 - Salvador Ramos

13.8 - Wellington de Oliviera

14.3 - Jaylen Fryberg

14.5 - Li Zhongren

15.4 - Adam Lanza

16.0 - Ethan Crumbley

16.3 - Victor Hoffman

16.6 - Dylan Klebold

16.8 - Kosta Kecmanovic

17.0 - Robert Smith

17.8 - Tyler Peterson

18.0 - Michael Clark

19.6 - Nikolas Cruz

19.9 - Eric Harris

20.0 - Elliot Rodger

20.1 - Larry Ashbrook

21.0 - Matthew Murray

21.6 - Mauricio Garcua

23.0 - Steven Kacmierzak

23.3 - Travis Reinking

23.6 - Tim Kretschmer

23.7 - Marc Lepine

24.1 - Matti Saari

25.3 - Dimitrios Pagourtzis

25.3 - James Huberty

25.7 - Vladislav Roslyakov

25.8 - Chase Garvey

26.2 - James Holmes

26.5 - Gonzalo Lopez

26.8 - Pekka-Eric Auvinen

26.8 - Seung-Hui Cho

27.0 - Noah Esbensen

27.7 - Timur Bekmansurov

28.2 - Jeff Weise

28.3 - Michael Silka

28.5 - Ruslan Akhtyamov

28.8 - Wesley Higdon

29.3 - Sterling Hunt

29.4 - Omar Mateen

29.8 - Muhammad Abdulazeez

30.0 - Charles Whitman

30.0 - Colt Gray

30.8 - Kimbrady Carriker

31.7 - Phasid Trutassanawin

32.0 - Todd Kohlhepp

32.6 - Anderson Aldrich

32.8 - Chris Harper-Mercer

33.1 - One Goh

33.2 - Connor Betts

33.2 - Howard Unruh

33.3 - Ryan Palmeter

33.7 - Solejman Talovic

33.8 - Thomas McIlvane

34.8 - Audrey Hale

35.0 - Cedrid Ford

35.3 - Snochia Moseley

35.7 - Richard Farley

35.7 - Richard Poplawski

35.8 - Chai Vang

36.0 - Robert Dear Jr.

36.3 - Mark Essex

36.4 - Nidel Hasan

37.0 - Noah Harpham

37.3 - Radcliffe Haughton

37.9 - James Pough

38.0 - Ivan Lopez

38.2 - Gary Martin

38.4 - Mark Baton

38.7 - Patrick Sherill

38.8 - Leo Held

39.3 - Joaquin Roman

39.5 - Maurice Clemmons

39.6 - Stephan Paddock

39.7 - John Parish

39.7 - Michael McLendon

40.1 - Gian Ferri

40.2 - Andre Bing

40.4 - Edward Allaway

40.7 - Albert Wong

41.0 - Gavin Long

41.0 - Jonathan Sapirman

42.0 - William Bonner

42.3 - Michael McDermott

42.4 - Lyndon McLeod

42.8 - Eduardo Sencion

43.0 - Zane Floyd

43.2 - Ian Stawicki

43.6 - Micah Johnson

44.3 - George Sodini

44.3 - Terry Ratzmann

44.9 - Jennifer San Marco

45.0 - Randy Stair

45.1 - Samuel Cassidy

45.4 - Brian Uyesegi

45.7 - Jiverly Wong

45.8 - Herman Klink

46.1 - Robert Card

46.3 - Timothy Hendron

46.6 - Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa

47.0 - Brandon Hole

47.3 - Kenneth Tornes

47.5 - William Baker

48.4 - Zephen Xaver

48.7 - Ronald Taylor

48.8 - Anthony Ferrill

49.4 - Robert Hawkins

49.8 - Joseph Wesbecker

50.3 - Carl Brown

50.7 - Jimmy Lam

50.8 - Isaac Zamora

51.0 - Douglas Williams

51.0 - Kevin Neal

51.2 - Andrew Engeldinger

51.3 - Amy Bishop

52.6 - George Hennerd

53.8 - Connor Sturgeon

53.8 - John Neumann Jr.

54.1 - Scott Dekraai

54.4 - Omar Thornton

54.6 - Robert Long

55.0 - Jarrod Ramos

55.2 - Charles Thornton

55.5 - Jared Loughner

55.8 - Aaron Alexis

55.7 - Jason Dalton

55.9 - Wade Page

56.1 - Dylann Roof

57.3 - Anthony Polito

57.6 - Arcan Cetin

58.3 - Chunli Zhao

59.1 – Patrick Crusius

62.0 - Robert Crimo III

62.1 - Payton Gendron

66.9 - Huu Can Tran

73.8 - Robert Bowers

79.3 - Robert Stewart

83.3 - Beau Wilson

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YouTubers / YouTube channels I watch

(or that I used to watch but will lost anyway cuz of nostalgia)

Adrenaline Dubs

AlanaLintao

albert

Albert Clips

AlbertsStuff Archive

Alex Bale

Alex1Leg

al jokes

AnthonyPadilla

Apollo and Frens

Behind The Meme

bill wurtz

bo en

boyxanimation

BriannaPlayz

[Brii Studios UwU]

BumbleKast Highlights - Unofficial

Call Me Kevin

CaseOh

Chao Abuser

chaomix

Charriii5

CheapPickle

Cheesy Hfj

CheezyChez

Chipflake

Cinema Therapy

ColeyDoesThings

cooper2723

Corporate Tom

Courtney (ProjectSNT)

Cube

Cypopps

Danny Gonzalez

DissociaDID

darkvictory

Dean Schneider

DJ Cook

DoshVO

Dutchess Celestia

Elise Ecklund

Emirichu

Emzii

Etymology Nerd

ExJW Panda Tower

Explore Lucid Dreaming

ExtraRosy

Ezekiel

Faline San

Flamingo

Flamingo Reuploads

Flamingo Shorts

foster on the spectrum

Frank James

Frank Wattkinson

Fundy

Gayer Things

GLITCH

Haminations

How To ADHD

Hxnnah

I can't sleep

Ice Cream Sandwich

illymation

InfinityXFilms

iTomFoolery

JackStauber

JaidenAnimations

javadoodles

Jay & Sharon

Jehtt

Jelly Jess

Jenstine

Kaitlyn Flames

Katherine Lynn-Rose

kevin james thornton

KLR Productions

Kwite

Kwote

Laddi

Lady Cuddles Meow

LaurenZside

LavenderTowne

LesbianMindflayer

Let Me Explain Studios

Lewis Hancox

liam miller

LilyTrescot MSP

luisgamercool23

Lumity Fan

Matt Rose

MayTree

MVPerry

Nerdy Arty

norific

Oh my god we killed kenny we're bastards

ParachutingKitten

PeetahBread

PetPyves

Pixi-Gags

PrestonPlayz

Prince Ea

PuhlaSteve

Queer Chameleon

Quirkology

Respectable Rick

Riri Bichri

RosyClozy

Sadaxe

Sarcastic Chorus

scribblejuice

Silly Author 🤪

SimplyTasha

skulltrot

SnapCube

SomeThingElseYT

Sonic David

Sonic the Hedgehog

SonnaDrawzStuffYT

Spilling The Milk

storybooth

Tabbes

Tails is disappointed in your recent decisions

Tales of an Enigma

TBNRFrags

Terrible Writing Advice

T4thDoH

TheAMaazing

The Film Theorists

The Food Theorists

The Game Theorists

The Land Of Boggs

TheOdd1sOut

TheOdd2sOut

ThePJShow

Therian Territory

TimTom

Toni Baloni

Tony Turner

Trevor Brighton

Tweek & Craig Are Gay

Tyler Vitelli

Vailskibum

Victaton

Vsauce

Willcraft

Willyandgaming

Wowza Dawg

XayXay

XUANNY

Your Favorite Martian

0iqrobloxian

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W.I.D

The following content does not limit the type of requests I accept. If there is a topic or character that is not listed, but you wish to have included feel free to ask! If I’m ever uncomfortable with something I will simply deny the request.

HIGHLIGHTED names are my personal favorite characters. 

WRITING

Fluff

Smut

Angst

Yandere

Violence

Dub-Con

Polyamory

OTHER

Fancasts

Writing Tips

Script Creation

Character Building

CHARACTERS

HORROR

The Boy

Brahms Heelshire

The Quarry

Abigail Blyg

Emma Mountebank

Jacob Custos

Laura Kearney

Max Brinley

Ryan Erzahler

Travis Hackett

The Lost Boys

David

Dwayne

Marko

Michael

Paul

House of Wax

Bo Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Vincent Sinclair

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface)

Halloween

Michael Myers

Scream

Billy Loomis

Randy Meeks

Stu Macher

American Horror Story

James Patrick March

Jimmy Darling

Yellowjackets

Lottie Matthews

Misty Quigley

Natalie Scatorccio

Shauna Sadecki

Taissa Turner

Van Palmer

SCI-FI

The Boys

A-Train

Billy Butcher

Black Noir

Frenchie

Homelander

Hughie Campbell

Kimiko Miyashiro

Mother's Milk

Queen Maeve

Soldier Boy

Starlight

Detroit: Become Human

Chloe

Conner

Gavin Reed

Hank Anderson

Josh

Kara

Luther

Markus

North

Ralph

Rk600 (Sixty)

RK900 (Nines)

Simon

Fallout

Fallout 4

Deacon

John Hancock

Nick Valentine

Paladin Danse

Piper Shaw

Preston Garvey

Robert MacCready

Fallout (series)

Aspirant Dane

Chet

Cooper Howard (The Ghoul)

Knight Maximus

Lucy MacClean

Norm MacLean

Alien vs Predator

coming soon!

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon

Eugene Porter

James Cameron’s Avatar

Eetu

Lyle Wainfleet

Mansk

Miles Quaritch

Nor

So’lek

Teylan

Tsu’tey te Rongloa Ateyitan

SUPERNATURAL

TVD Verse

Bonnie Bennett

Caroline Forbes

Damon Salvatore

Elena Gilbert

Elijah Mikaelson

Finn Mikaelson

Jeremy Gilbert

Katherine Pierce

Kol Mikaelson

Niklaus Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Stefan Salvatore

FANTASY

Baldur’s Gate 3

Astarion Ancunín

Dammon

Gale Dekarios

Halsin

Karlach Cliffgate

Lae’zel

Raphael

Rolan

Shadowheart

Wyll Ravengard

Zevlor

REALISM

Red Dead Redemption II

Albert Mason

Arthur Morgan

Charles Smith

Dutch Van Der Linde

Flaco Hernández

Javier Escuella

John Marston

Kieran Duffy

Sadie Adler

Call of Duty

John Price

John “Soap��� MacTavish

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick

Simon “Ghost” Riley

Grand Theft Auto

Franklin Clinton

Michael De Santa

Trevor Philips

Outer Banks

Pope Heyward

Rafe Cameron

Sarah Cameron

Topper Thornton

W.I.D.D

Notes :: There may be some things on these lists that are debatable. If they are something I’m willing to write under certain circumstances then it will be ITALICEZED.

WRITING

Racism

Ableism

Ageplay

Underage

Homophobia

Transphobia

Character x Character (w/o reader)

CHARACTERS

Bubba Sawyer

Freddy Krueger

Pennywise

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Careers Take Off At Any Age

This came up in a group chat. One person asked if it were possible for a career to take off later in age. I said yes, yes it could.

In Hollywood, age doesn't matter as much as talent. I got curious and decided to go off googling!

Stan Lee, 39

Even though Stan Lee started working with comic books since he was just 17 years old, it took him over twenty years to achieve success. He began working for a company called Timely Publications as an assistant and slowly rose up the ranks until he published his first comic book in 1961 – Lee was 39 at the time.

Alan Rickman, 42

Alan Rickman, the famous actor who played Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series, used to be a graphic designer and even had his own studio. But at the age of 26, he started attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with hopes of becoming an actor. However, he only achieved his first major role in 1988, when he got the role of Hans Gruber in the movie Die Hard – Rickman was 42 at the time. After the movie, Rickman’s acting career quickly took off and he landed the role of Severus Snape in 2001, at the age of 55.

Kathy Bates, 42

Kathy Bates worked steadily both on stage and on screen early in her life, but it was only when she was cast in the thriller “Misery” at age 42 did she gained prominence as one of the most impressive actors in her generation. Winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, Bates’ career took off, landing her the role of Molly Brown in “Titanic,” Libby Holden in “Primary Colors,” and Miss Hannigan in Disney’s remake of “Annie,” as well as remarkable turns on television series “Six Feet Under,” “Two and a Half Men,” and “Harry’s Law.” Bates was also cast as one of the co-stars of the third season of “American Horror Story.”

Martha Stewart, 41

Before the beginning of her career as an entrepreneur and media personality, Martha Stewart was working as a stockbroker in Wall Street. However, she quit to start a catering business and eventually published her first cookbook in 1982 at the age of 41.

Morgan Freeman, 50

Even though Morgan Freeman loved acting since he was young, instead of becoming an actor, he joined the Air Force after finishing school. However, the actor never gave up on his dream and got his first major role in the movie "Street Smart" at age 50.

Jane Lynch, 49

After many small roles in various different films, Jane Lynch got her first major role in the TV series "Glee" when she was 49.

Samuel L. Jackson, 46

Samuel L. Jackson was interested in drama since his early 20’s but only achieved worldwide success at age 46, for his role of Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 hit "Pulp Fiction".

Christoph Waltz, 53

This Austrian-German actor only achieved international success at the age of 53 for his role of Col. Hans Landa in the 2009 movie "Inglorious Basterds".

Viola Davis, 43

Even though Viola Davis had many small roles in different movies before, her first big break only happened in 2008, when she got a role in the movie "Doubt" at the age of 43.

Julia Childs, 50

Julia Child, known by many for her TV show and cookbooks, wasn’t initially even that good at cooking. She attended the Cordon Bleu cooking school in 1948 and wrote her first book in 1961 at the age of 50.

Kathryn Joosten, 60

Kathryn Joosten joined her community theater when she was 42. Before that, she used to work as a psychiatric nurse. The actress eventually landed the role in “The West Wing” at the age of 60.

Ray Kroc, 52

Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman. He purchased the fast food company McDonald's in 1961 from the McDonald brothers and was its CEO from 1967 to 1973. Kroc is credited with the global expansion of McDonald's, turning it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world by revenue.

Billy Bob Thornton, 41

Even though Billy Bob Thornton struggled with his acting career in the 1980s, it all changed when the actor wrote, directed and starred in the movie "Sling Blade" in 1996 – he was 41 at the time.

Steve Carell, 43

Believe it or not, The Office was Steve Carell’s first big break – the actor was 43 years old at the time.

Regis Philbin, 57

Regis Philbin started out as an NBC page and worked on "The Joey Bishop Show," but he was never widely known.

That changed in 1988 when the morning show Philbin was working on became the nationally syndicated "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee." After almost 20 years of working on TV, Philbin's chemistry with Kathie Lee made the show a success and gave him national exposure.

At 57, it was the first time the name Regis was in the nation's lexicon. He's been a part of pop culture ever since, most notably for hosting the game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

Lucille Ball, 40

Lucille Ball was a pioneer for both female leads and for comedy after creating one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time, "I Love Lucy" in 1951.

However, she didn't become Lucy Ricardo until she was 40.

Before "I Love Lucy," Ball went from role to role in films. However, once television became a prominent medium she (along with her husband and co-star Desi Arnaz) tried to sell her vaudeville act to networks. That act became the prototype for "I Love Lucy."

Bea Arthur, 47

It wasn’t until Bea Arthur was in her forties that she landed on the map. Her portrayal of the acerbic Vera Charles opposite Angela Lansbury in the original Broadway production of “Mame” won her a Tony Award. She became more successful as she aged, gaining acclaim for her portrayal of Maude Findlay on “All in the Family,” and later, “Maude.” In addition, Arthur went on to score many Emmy Award nominations for her work on “The Golden Girls.”

Colonel Sanders, 62

Throughout his career, Colonel Sanders tried many professions: he was a fireman, a steam engine stoker, an insurance salesman and even tried practicing law. He eventually opened his own roadside restaurant in the 1930s and opened the first franchise restaurant in 1952 – he was 62 at the time.

Michael Emerson, 46

Before Michael Emerson became an Emmy Award-winning star, he took retail jobs and worked as a freelance illustrator in New York City. Discouraged, Emerson and his wife moved to Florida, where he appeared in local productions around the state. Emerson landed on the map with his electrifying performance as a serial killer on “The Practice,” which earned him his first Emmy Award. Emerson has taken home more Emmy Awards for his work on the popular thriller “Lost.”

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There are so many more. Anyone's career can take off suddenly, not just in Hollywood, but elsewhere too.

Don't let age be the limitation of your life.

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Watch 'Terrifier 3' Q&A Panel with David Howard Thornton [Video]

Watch 'Terrifier 3' Q&A Panel with David Howard Thornton [Video]

Art the Clown is slaying Christmas and the box office with Terrifier 3, currently the number one movie in the country, making David Howard Thornton’s appearance last weekend at Nightmare Weekend a celebration, culminating on Sunday’s Q&A panel on stage with the new film’s special effects makeup artist Heather Albert. At the Terrifier 3 Q&A panel on Sunday, October 13, at the Nightmare Weekend…

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i went to a used book sale today... procured:

railroad color history: new york central railroad (brian solomon & mike schafer) — i'm not actually that into trains but it appealed to me.

the complete guide to the soviet union (jennifer louis & victor louis) — travel guide from 1980

an anthology including the big sleep (raymond chandler), "the undignified melodrama of the bone of contention" (dorothy l. sayers), "the arrow of god" (leslie charteris), "i can find my way out" (ngaio marsh), instead of evidence (rex stout), "rift in the loot" (stuart palmer & craig rice), "the man who explained miracles" (john dickson carr), & rebecca (daphne du maurier) (i already have this one..) — it's volume 2 of something (a treasury of great mysteries) which annoys me but whatever

an anthology including "godmother tea" (selena anderson), "the apartment" (t. c. boyle), "a faithful but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed" (jason brown), "sibling rivalry" (michael byers), "the nanny" (emma cline), "halloween" (mariah crotty), "something street" (carolyn ferrell), "this is pleasure" (mary gaitskill), "in the event" (meng jin), "the children" (andrea lee), "rubberdust" (sarah thankam mathews), "it's not you" (elizabeth mccracken), "liberté" (scott nandelson), "howl palace" (leigh newman), "the nine-tailed fox explains" (jane pek), "the hands of dirty children" (alejandro puyana), "octopus vii" (anna reeser), "enlightenment" (william pei shih), "kennedy" (kevin wilson), & "the special world" (tiphanie yanique) — i guess they're all short stories published in 2020 by usamerican/canadian authors

an anthology including the death of ivan ilyich (leo tolstoy) (i have already read this one..), the beast in the jungle (henry james), heart of darkness (joseph conrad), seven who were hanged (leonid andreyev), abel sánchez (miguel de unamuno), the pastoral symphony (andré gide), mario and the magician (thomas mann), the old man (william faulkner), the stranger (albert camus), & agostino (alberto moravia)

the ambassadors (henry james)

the world book desk reference set: book of nations — it's from 1983 so this is kind of a history book...

yet another fiction anthology......... including the general's ring (selma lagerlöf), "mowgli's brothers" (rudyard kipling), "the gift of the magi" (o. henry) (i have already read this one..), "lord mountdrago" (w. somerset maugham), "music on the muscatatuck" (jessamyn west), "the pacing goose" (jessamyn west), "the birds" (daphne du maurier), "the man who lived four thousand years" (alexandre dumas), "the pope's mule" (alphonse daudet), "the story of the late mr. elvesham" (h. g. wells), "the blue cross" (g. k. chesterton), portrait of jennie (robert nathan), "la grande bretèche" (honoré de balzac), "love's conundrum" (anthony hope), "the great stone face" (nathaniel hawthorne), "germelshausen" (friedrich gerstäcker), "i am born" (charles dickens), "the legend of sleepy hollow" (washington irving), "the age of miracles" (melville davisson post), "the long rifle" (stewart edward white), "the fall of the house of usher" (edgar allan poe) (i have already read this one..), the voice of bugle ann (mackinlay kantor), the bridge of san luis rey (thornton wilder), "basquerie" (eleanor mercein kelly), "judith" (a. e. coppard), "a mother in mannville" (marjorie kinnan rawlings), "kerfol" (edith wharton), "the last leaf" (o. henry), "the bloodhound" (arthur train), "what the old man does is always right" (hans christian anderson), the sea of grass (conrad richter), "the sire de malétroit's door" (robert louis stevenson), "the necklace" (guy de maupassant) (i have already read this one..), "by the waters of babylon" (stephen vincent benét), a. v. laider (max beerbohm), "the pillar of fire" (percival wilde), "the strange will" (edmond about), "the hand at the window" (emily brontë) (i have already read this one..), & "national velvet" (enid bagnold) — why are seven of these chapters of novels....? anyway fun fact one of the compilers here also worked on the aforementioned mystery anthology. also anyway Why did i bother to write all that ☹️

fundamental problems of marxism (georgi plekhanov) — book about dialectical/historical materialism which is published here as the first volume of something (marxist library) which is kind of odd to me tbh

one last (thankfully tiny) anthology including le père goriot (honoré de balzac) & eugénie grandet (honoré de balzac)

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, April 17 in 1897, the American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Isabella Thornton Niven and newspaper editor and U.S. diplomat Amos Parker Wilder. Thornton Wilder’s many works garnered him international acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943), the 1955 play The Matchmaker, and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 Shadow of a Doubt.  It was his 1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey, however, that first brought him commercial success and his first Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

We hold three illustrated editions of Bridge, one illustrated with wood engravings by Clare Leighton and published by Longmans, Green in 1929 (which we will show on Wednesday), another illustrated with color lithographs by Rockwell Kent and published by Albert & Charles Boni in 1929 (which we posted about over five years ago), and this 1962 Limited Editions Club (LEC) production, illustrated with 16 original color lithographs drawn directly on the plates by the French-born American painter and illustrator, Jean Charlot (1898-1979), and printed in a limited edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Charlot was a frequent LEC contributor, and we have already posted a few times on his work for the club.

With this edition, then, we celebrate a Thornton Wilder Birthday Anniversary!

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[lboogie1906]

Dr. Robert Ambrose Thornton (May 6, 1902 - March 7, 1982) physician and university administrator was born in Houston to Frank Thornton, a laborer, and Mary Jane Sullivan, a midwife. He attended Houston Colored High School but graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School. He entered Howard University to study Physics and mathematics. He worked as a student teacher and, hoping to break into show business, auditioned to sing in the hit Broadway musical comedy Shuffle Along. He became an associate of concert tenor Roland Hayes and composer Harry T. Burleigh. He first met Albert Einstein who gave a lecture in Washington’s Belasco Theater.

He pursued graduate study at Ohio State University where he earned an MA. He studied for his doctorate at Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Chicago where he was a Rockefeller fellow. He married home economics professor Jessie Lea Bullock (1924) at Shaw University. He taught at Johnson C. Smith University and Talladega College.

He launched a liberal arts program at the University of Puerto Rico. He wrote to Einstein requesting his assistance in establishing a philosophical basis for the program. Einstein responded, beginning a nine-year correspondence. They had seven face-to-face meetings.

He was awarded his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Minnesota and began teaching as an associate professor at the University of Chicago. He next taught at Brandeis University, worked as a dean at Dillard University, and at Fisk University. He taught physics at San Francisco State College. He was appointed its first Dean of the School of Natural Sciences.

The university awarded him an honorary doctorate of science. He was honored when the new science and engineering building was christened the Robert A. Thornton Hall. His final employment was as visiting professor at the University of the District of Columba. Just prior to his death, he had been editing transcripts of his years of conversations with and letters to Albert Einstein. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[princesssarisa]

Character ask: Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny (The Phantom of the Opera)

Tagged by anonymous

Musical canon only, because I haven't read the novel.

Favorite thing about them: His devotion to Christine and resolve to protect her, even at the cost of his own life.

Least favorite thing about them: His plan to use Christine as bait to catch the Phantom by having her sing in Don Juan Triumphant, despite her objections. His intentions are good, but the result is Piangi's murder and Christine's second kidnapping.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I enjoy opera.

*I'm loyal and affectionate.

*I'm nostalgic about my childhood friendships.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I'm female.

*I'm not an aristocrat.

*No one would ever call me a "slave of fashion."

Favorite line: The lyrics to "All I Ask of You."

brOTP: None in particular.

OTP: Christine.

nOTP: The Phantom.

(Although I do enjoy Love Never Dies-inspired comedy fic where, after Christine's death, they reluctantly decide to live together for Gustave's sake and become the most unlikely pair of dads.)

Random headcanon: He'll never become an alcoholic or a gambler, and Christine will never have a child by another man, especially not by the Phantom. Love Never Dies will never happen.

Unpopular opinion: I understand why so many Phans dislike him, but I don't agree with it. Their dislike has a little more basis than, say, the dislike of Cosette among old-school Les Misérables fans: it's not just that he's in the way of the Phantom/Christine ship. He's genuinely the flattest of the three lead characters, and he makes a few big mistakes over the course of the story. But that doesn't make him a bad person, or just a "fop," or wrong for Christine.

Song I associate with them: "All I Ask of You."

Favorite picture of them:

Steve Barton with Sarah Brightman as Christine, London, 1986.

Michael Ball, London, 1987.

Reece Holland (yes, fellow '90s kids, the March Hare from Adventures in Wonderland), Los Angeles, 1989.

Ramin Karimloo (yes, he played Raoul before he played the Phantom) with Katie Knight-Adams as Christine, London, 2004.

Oliver Thornton, London, 2004. (When I visited London as a teen that year and took in some West End shows, he was playing Enjolras in Les Misérables while Ramin Karimloo was playing Raoul in Phantom, but then after I left, they switched roles!)

Patrick Wilson in the 2004 film.

Jim Weitzer, US Tour, 2006.

Hadley Fraser, 25th Anniversary Royal Albert Hall performance, 2011.

[solaris-girl]

100-ish classics and must-reads

solaris girl's list of 100 must-reads :-)

( bold = read. constantly updating!)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 

1984 - George Orwell 

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Giver - Lois Lowrey

The Book Thief - Markus Zusack

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Miserables -Victor Hugo

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

Our Town - Thornton Wilder

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Candide - Voltaire

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - Naomi Klein

The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe

Emma - Jane Austen

The Republic - Plato

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli 

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Tell Tale Heart and Other Readings - Edgar Allan Poe

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Sidhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespear

The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Middlemarch - George Eliot

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

White Fang - Jack London

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

[justforbooks]

In the summer of 1967, Ronald Blythe cycled from his home in the Suffolk hamlet of Debach to the neighbouring village of Charsfield. There he listened to the voices of blacksmiths, gravediggers, nurses, horsemen and pig farmers. He gave them names from gravestones and placed them in a fictional village. Akenfield, a portrait of a rural life rapidly disappearing from view, was immediately acclaimed as a classic when it was published in 1969.

Never out of print and read and studied around the world, Akenfield made Blythe famous and perhaps overshadowed the many other fruits of his long years of writing – short stories, poems, histories, novels and, in later life, luminous essays and a superb weekly diary that the Church Times published for 25 years until 2017. Blythe, who has died aged 100, is regarded by his peers and many readers as the finest contemporary writer on the English countryside.

The eldest of six children, Blythe was born in Acton, near Lavenham, into a family of farm labourers rooted in rural Suffolk. His surname comes from the Blyth, a small Suffolk river, but his mother and her family were Londoners. His mother, Matilda (nee Elkins), a nurse, passed to him her love of books. Although Blythe left school at 14, by then he had already established a voracious reading habit – “never indoors, where one might be given something to do,” he remembered – which became his education.

His father, Albert, had served in the Suffolk Regiment and fought at Gallipoli and Blythe was conscripted during the second world war. Early on in his training, his superiors decided he was unfit for service – friends said he was incapable of hurting a fly – and he returned to East Anglia to work, quietly, as a reference librarian in Colchester library.

He befriended local writers including the poet James Turner, who helped his passage into a bohemian, creative Suffolk circle that included Sir Cedric Morris, who taught Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling and lived nearby with his partner, Arthur Lett-Haines. Blythe “longed to be a writer”, he said, and he listened and learned – inspired by the example of poet friends including Turner (the unnamed poet in Akenfield) and WR Rodgers of how to live with very little money. “It was a kind of apprenticeship,” he once recalled.

Most importantly, in 1951 he met the artist Christine Kühlenthal, wife of the painter John Nash. Kühlenthal encouraged his writing and championed him: Blythe edited Aldeburgh festival programmes for Benjamin Britten and even ran errands for EM Forster, who took a shine to the shy young man. Blythe helped Forster compile an index for Forster’s 1956 biography of his great-aunt, Marianne Thornton.

Blythe’s first, Forster-inspired novel, A Treasonable Growth, was published in 1960. He followed it in 1963 with The Age of Illusion, a social history of life in England between the wars. He earned money from journalism, being a publishers’ “reader” and editing a series of classics – including one of his heroes, the essayist William Hazlitt – for the Penguin English Library.

After a stint living in Aldeburgh, recalled in an elegiac and characteristically discreet memoir, The Time by the Sea (2013), he moved to a cottage in Debach. In the mid-1960s, he was befriended by the American novelist Patricia Highsmith. “I admired her enormously. She was a very strange, mysterious woman. She was lesbian but at the same time she found men’s bodies beautiful,” he remembered. One evening, after a Paris literary do, they slept together; he told a friend they were both curious “to see how the other half did it”.

Blythe said the idea for Akenfield (he took the name from the old English “acen” for acorn) arrived as he tramped the Suffolk fields pondering the anonymity of most farm labourers’ lives. His friend Richard Mabey remembers it being commissioned by Viking as the lead title for a short-lived series on village life around the world.

Over 1967 and 1968, he listened to the citizens of Charsfield, recreating authentic country voices while somehow adding a poetry of his own. The result was a portrait of the “glory and bitterness” of the countryside: the penury and yet deep pride of the old, near-feudal farming life, and its obliteration in the 60s by a second agricultural revolution alongside the arrival of the car and television.

The village voices were never sentimental about country life, and nor was Blythe: as well as stories of how to make corn dollies, there were quiet revelations of incest, and the district nurse recounted the old days when old people were stuffed into cupboards. Old labourers remembered the “meanness” of farmers who had treated their workers like machines because the big rural families delivered a seemingly endless supply of farm-fodder.

Ecstatic reviews of this “exceptional” and “delectable” book in Britain spread to North America, where Time praised it, John Updike loved it and Paul Newman wanted to film it. But some oral historians were suspicious that Blythe had not recorded his conversations.

Blythe turned down a film offer from the BBC but eventually accepted a pitch from the theatre director Peter Hall, a fellow Suffolk man. Blythe wrote a new synopsis inspired by the unfilmable book, and Hall asked ordinary rural people to improvise scenes with no script. Blythe oversaw every day of filming and played an apt cameo as a vicar. Nearly 15 million people watched Akenfield when it was broadcast on London Weekend Television in early 1975.

Blythe’s next book, The View in Winter (1979), was a prescient examination of old age in a society that did not value it, at a time when more people than ever reached it. The “disaster” suffered by the old, he wrote, is “nobody sees them any more as they see themselves”. Blythe regarded it as his best book. While he was writing it, Kühlenthal died, and Blythe moved into the Nashes’ old farm, Bottengoms, to look after the elderly Nash. When Nash died a year later, he left the house to Blythe. There Blythe lived for the rest of his life, writing beautifully about his home in At the Yeoman’s House (2011).

In later years, Blythe drew praise for his short stories and essays, including a series of meditations on the 19th-century rural poet John Clare. Many writers who were later grouped together as “nature writers” became his friends, including Mabey, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin.

Blythe never married, never lived with anyone, and kept his personal life veiled. Interviewed by the Observer in November 1969, he was judged “intensely private”. He disclosed nothing in his published writing about his love affairs with men, or indeed his one-night stand with Highsmith.

He was almost as reticent about his faith, but his writing was deeply suffused in his Christian beliefs and his knowledge of the scriptures. He was a lay reader – deputising for vicars across several parishes – and became a lay canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, but turned down the chance to become a priest.

Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury and an admirer of Blythe’s writing, believed Blythe used the Christian year of festivals as “a steady backdrop” for his writing and thinking, which was liberated by his faith. The writer Ian Collins, a good friend of Blythe in his later years, felt it was Blythe’s lack of formal education or “training” that liberated his original thinking and elegant prose style.

Blythe was politically radical throughout his life, a Labour voter who joined peace vigils outside St-Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Friends were surprised when he accepted a CBE in 2017, around the time he was gently “retired” from public speaking and writing as his short-term memory faded. When he reached 100, he was still well enough to sign 1,500 copies of a new compilation of his best Church Times columns.

The old people who thrived in The View in Winter were those, Blythe concluded, who were able to preserve their “spiritual vitality, a vividness, an imaginative sort of energy”. This credo served him well as he grew older, although he was mistaken in another respect. The old, he wrote, are “cared for, surrounded with kindliness, and people are often interested in what they say; but they are not truly loved and they know it”.

Blythe was much loved in later life. A roster of devoted friends he called his “dear ones” visited him daily, supplied him with hot meals and ensured he could live out his years at Bottengoms.

🔔 Ronald George Blythe, writer, born 6 November 1922; died 14 January 2023

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[emilysworldoffandoms]

Books I Read in 2022

1. Beast Boy Loves Raven By Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo 2. Dear Girl By Aija Mayrock 3. A Fire Like You By Upile Chisala 4. Nectar By Upile Chisala 5. Soft Magic By Upile Chisala 6. As If On Cue By Marisa Kanter 7. Heartstopper Volume 4 By Alice Oseman 8. Address Unknown By Katherine Kressmann Taylor 9. Ariel By Sylvia Plath 10. Heart Talk By Cleo Wade 11. At Somerton: Cinders & Sapphires By Leila Rasheed 12. At Somerton: Diamonds & Deceit By Leila Rasheed 13. Unlock Your Storybook Heart By Amanda Lovelace 14. Instructions for Dancing By Nicola Yoon 15. Martita, I Remember You By Sandra Cisneros 16. Brown Girls By Daphne Palasi Andreades 17. Here's to Us By Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera 18. Counting by 7s By Holly Goldberg Sloan 19. The Summer I Turned Pretty By Jenny Han 20. It's Not Summer Without You By Jenny Han 21. We'll Always Have Summer By Jenny Han 22. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood By Melissa Wagner & Fred Rogers 23. Gained a Daughter But Nearly Lost My Mind: How I Planned a Backyard Wedding During a Pandemic By Marlene Kern Fischer 24. At Somerton: Emeralds & Ashes By Leila Rasheed 25. Café Con Lychee By Emery Lee 26. The Book Tour By Andi Watson 27. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian By Kurt Vonnegut 28. Yoga Pant Nation By Laurie Gelman 29. Mr. Malcolm's List By Suzanne Allain 30. Miss Lattimore's Letter By Suzanne Allain 31. The Road Between By Courtney Peppernell 32. Enough Rope By Dorothy Parker 33. My Favorite Half-Night Stand By Christina Lauren 34. Smells Like Tween Spirit By Laurie Gelman 35. How to Be a Wallflower By Eloisa James 36. Be Like the Moon By Levi Welton 37. Morality for Muggles: Ethics in the Bible and the World of Harry Potter By Moshe Rosenberg 38. 84, Charing Cross Road By Helene Hanff 39. Josh & Hazel's Guide to Not Dating By Christina Lauren 40. The Matchmaker By Thornton Wilder 41. The Cheat Sheet By Sarah Adams 42. All-of-a-Kind Family By Sydney Taylor (Re-read) 43. Shadow Angel Book One By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 44. Spooky America: The Ghostly Tales of Sleepy Hollow By Jessa Dean 45. Needle & Thread By David Pinckney, Ennun Ana Iurov, Micah Myers 46. Good Game, Well Played By Rachael Smith, Katherine Lobo, Justin Birch 47. Home Sick Pilots By Dan Walters & Caspar Wijngaard 48. Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard By Tom Felton 49. Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley By Jonathan Kruk 50. Heartless Prince By Leigh Dragoon 51. A Contract with God By Will Eisner 52. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American By Laura Gao 53. Blackwater By Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham 54. Woman World By Aminder Dhaliwal 55. In Real Life By Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang 56. Lore Olympus Volume 1 By Rachel Smythe 57. Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword By Barry Deutsch 58. Persuasion By Jane Austen 59. Devil in Disguise By Lisa Kleypas 60. Shadow Angel Book Two By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 61. Lore Olympus Volume 2 By Rachel Smythe 62. Talk to My Back By Yamada Murasaki 63. How I Saved Hanukkah By Amy Goldman Koss 64. Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet By Barbara Dee 65. Shadow Angel Book Three By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 66. The Matzah Ball By Jean Meltzer 67. Canción By Eduardo Halfon 68. Leopoldstadt By Tom Stoppard 69. Say Yes to the Duke By Eloisa James 70. Winter Roses after Fall By Robert M. Drake & r.h. Sin 71. Roomies By Christina Lauren 72. Falling Toward the Moon By Robert M. Darake & r.h. Sin 73. Empty Bottles Full of Stories By Robert M. Drake & r.h. Sin