#Brandon Wang

[montavillanews]

Hong Phat Supercenter Celebration

Hông Phát celebrated the opening of its new Supercenter at 4200 SE 82nd Avenue on Friday, July 26th, with firecrackers, lion dancers, and speakers lauding the anticipated community contribution of this grocery store. Store staff filled the former Walmart location in Eastport Plaza’s campus with many of the fresh produce and imported brands found in the local chain’s other three locations.…

[a-ramblinrose]

💖✨️Rose's Last Book Haul of 2023 ✨️💖

[luxuriascloset]

More best Met Gala looks [Countdown to the Met Gala 2024]

Blake Lively wearing Versace, 2022.

Iman wearing Harris Reed, 2021.

Lady Gaga wearing Brandon Maxwell, 2019.

Emma Watson wearing Brandon Maxwell, 2016

Ariana Grande wearing Vera Wang, 2018.

[acrowdedmindsblog]

she smiled ✨️

Words of Radiance (chapter 71)

The Sword of Kaigen (chapter 27)

⚘️✨️⚘️

[swampflix]

Quick Takes: Second-Hand Kung Fu

There are currently 8,867 films on my Letterboxd watchlist, and roughly 8,000 of them will remain unwatched for all eternity.  Every time a movie looks interesting to me, I toss it into the bottomless watchpit, with no concrete plans to dig it up at any particular time.  Either it’ll tumble out of the Shuffle button at the exact right moment or it will rot there forever, and I think that’s…

[mediashadowreads]

°․✶ JUNE WRAP UP & JULY HOPEFULS

June was actually a solid month for me reading wise. There was only a few days where I didn’t read, mainly because of the ridiculous heat we’ve had in the UK recently (fyi, I do not do heat. I hate it) which depleted my motivation to do literally anything. But other than that, really solid month. Had some great books had some not so great books but that’s just the nature of reading! Continue…

[caribeandthebooks]

April 2024 Reading Wrap Up

I read 4 books and got 6 kindle challenge achievements this month!

Now let's look at the breakdown :)

Reading Challenge Progress: I committed to reading 30 books in 2024 so currently I'm ahead by 3 books!

Top Genre read as at April 2024: Fantasy

My first read for April and 10th read for the year was The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige. Rating: 3/5

This book was Book 2 of the Dorothy Must Die quadrilogy. It was a very easy read even though it felt like a fever dream to be quite honest. I liked it well it enough and it did a good job of keeping my attention but I dunno if I have it in me to read 2 more books from this series...we'll let the future decide.

The Wicked Will Rise earned me the Head Start achievement in the 2024 Kindle Spring Challenge. I'm off to a good start :D

Book #11 was Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson Rating: 5/5

This is my first Brandon Sanderson book. It was adorable, as a YA there was no unnecessary pining, the plot twist twisted. I had a great time! Now I'm slightly less scared to read The Way of Kings but that's for when I've finished my reading goal for the year

Tress of the Emerald Sea was one the picks in the 2024 Kindle Spring Challenge. On completion I was given the Series Pioneer achievement as well as the Bookish achievement.

Book #12 was The Sword of Kaigen by M.L.Wang. Rating:4/5

M.L. Wang used every bit of those 600+ pages! I really liked this book but I would mostly likely recommend this to someone who's a bit of a weeb. I don't often read wartime stories, in fact I will quickly skip over any book set in the vicinity of a World War. This story was well done as far as my expectations around war stories go, there was no tedious training arc and we see that life goes on in spite of a tragic thing happening to the MC.

The Sword of Kaigen helped me unlock the 2024 Kindle Spring Challenge The Bards of Kindle achievement on National Talk like Shakespeare Day!

As the Sword of Kaigen was my second Kindle read in the 2024 Kindle Spring Challenge I was also awarded the Bookworm achievement.

Book #13 was Heir of Uncertain Magic by Charlie N. Holmberg . Rating: 3/5

I appreciated this palette cleanser following the previous read. This book was a cute and cozy as book one and pretty much wraps up the trailing bits of the first book. This was more romance than mystery but sometimes middle books are like that.

Heir of Uncertain Magic was my third Kindle read in the 2024 Kindle Spring Challenge I was also awarded the Bibliophile achievement

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And that's it!

See you next month but in the meantime, what have you been reading?

[aweirdsoup]

tag dump, pt.2 — characters

[babii-bunni]

Absolutely drooling over these bags omg

Quickly becoming a Brandon Blackwood stan

[starsstardust]

SMILE pt. 1

Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance // M. L. Wang, The Sword Of Kaigen // Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows // Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily Lily Blue // Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily Lily Blue // Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races // Bridget Collins, The Binding // Benjamin Aliré Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World // Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows // Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

[vintagetvstars]

Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket - Round 1 - Part 1/2 (Polls 1-99)

Round 1 (All Polls)

Ted Bessell Vs. Dick Van Dyke

Jonathan Frid Vs. William Hartnell

Claude Rains Vs. William Hopper

Eric Idle Vs. Peter Tork

Henry Winkler Vs. Tom Smothers

Martin Kove Vs. Tom Selleck

Jeff Conaway Vs. John de Lancie

Dave Foley Vs. Michael J. Fox

David Hyde Pierce Vs. Tony Shalhoub

Jason Bateman Vs. Rob Lowe

Ted Cassidy Vs. Boris Karloff

Eddie Albert Vs. Russell Johnson

Bobby Sherman Vs. Micky Dolenz

Robin Williams Vs. Fred Grandy

Kevin Smith Vs. Bruce Campbell

Brad Dourif Vs. LeVar Burton

Seth Green Vs. Brandon Quinn

Matthew Perry Vs. Tim Daly

Mike Farrell Vs. Judd Hirsch

Matt Bomer Vs. Timothy Olyphant

Larry Hagman Vs. Kent McCord

Fred Rogers Vs. Bobby Troup

David Cassidy Vs. Luke Halpin

George Takei Vs. Richard Hatch

Ricardo Montalban Vs. John Forsythe

Richard Dean Anderson Vs. Bruce Willis

Anthony Head Vs. Paul McGann

Thorsten Kaye Vs. Michael Horse

Darren E. Burrows Vs. Dana Ashbrook

Adam Brody Vs. Milo Ventimiglia

Adam West Vs. Richard Chamberlain

Randy Boone Vs. Dean Butler

Clint Walker Vs. George Maharis

Erik Estrada Vs. Paul Michael Glaser

Billy Dee Williams Vs. Rock Hudson

Ted Danson Vs. Jameson Parker

Sylvester McCoy Vs. Armin Shimerman

Joe Lando Vs. Spencer Rochfort

Ben Browder Vs. Keith Hamilton Cobb

Richard Ayoade Vs. Kevin McDonald

Patrick McGoohan Vs. Robert Vaughn

Chad Everett Vs. DeForest Kelley

Jon Pertwee Vs. Mark Lenard

Darren McGavin Vs. Peter Falk

Terry Jones Vs. Alan Alda

Michael Tylo Vs. Timothy Dalton

Sean Bean Vs. Valentine Pelka

Ioan Gruffudd Vs. Colin Firth

David Tennant Vs. Robert Carlyle

Jason Priestley Vs. Tom Welling

Martin Milner Vs. James Garner

David Soul Vs. Lee Majors

Derek Jacobi Vs. Andrew Robinson

David Hasselhoff Vs. Stephen Nichols

Jimmy Smits Vs. Hal Linden

Brent Spiner Vs. Ted Raimi

Patrick Troughton Vs. Andreas Katsulas

Miguel Ferrer Vs. Mitch Pileggi

David James Elliot Vs. Andre Braugher

Blair Underwood Vs. Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Don Adams Vs. Cesar Romero

Bob Crane Vs. John Astin

Walter Koenig Vs. Davy Jones

Tom Baker Vs. Jamie Farr

Woody Harrelson Vs. John Schneider

John Goodman Vs. Joseph Marcell

Danny John-Jules Vs. Marc Alaimo

Michael Praed Vs. Kevin Sorbo

Mark McKinney Vs. Colm Meaney

Neil Patrick Harris Vs. David Schwimmer

James Arness Vs. Robert Fuller

Clint Eastwood Vs. Robert Conrad

Jonathan Frakes Vs. Michael Hurst

David Duchovny Vs. Michael T. Weiss

Luke Perry Vs. Jeremy Sisto

Matt LeBlanc Vs. John Stamos

Reece Shearsmith Vs. Alexander Siddig

Eric Close Vs. William Shockley

Daniel Dae Kim Vs. Robert Beltran

Scott Cohen Vs. Scott Patterson

Dick Gautier Vs. Michael Landon

Wayne Rogers Vs. Alejandro Rey

Gerald McRaney Vs. Robert Wagner

Simon Williams Vs. John Cleese

Brian Blessed Vs. James Earl Jones

Noah Wyle Vs. Kyle MacLachlan

James Marsters Vs. Paul Gross

Paolo Montalban Vs. Robert Duncan McNeill

Garrett Wang Vs. Nate Richert

Christian Kane Vs. Michael Vartan

David McCallum Vs. David Selby

Leonard Nimoy Vs. Colin Baker

Randolph Mantooth Vs. Michael Nesmith

Demond Wilson Vs. Tony Danza

Ron Perlman Vs. Mr. T

Ron Glass Vs. Dirk Benedict

John Shea Vs. Michael Ontkean

Jeffrey Combs Vs. Rowan Atkinson

Tim Russ Vs. Bruce Boxleitner

Round 1 Polls 100 - 128

[theinquisitxor]

25 in 2025

I was tagged by @e-b-reads for the 25 books you want to read in 2025. You can see how I did on my 24 in 2024 list here.

I liked the idea of color coding them like other people have done, so that's what I did for this year. Key is at the bottom!

The Books of Pellinor series by Allison Croggon (reread)

Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Hild by Nicolla Griffth

Captive Prince by CS Pacat

The Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima

The Luminaries by Elenor Catton

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kimmerer

Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid

Oathbound by Tracey Deonn

The Listeners by Maggie Steifvater

Katabasis by RF Kaung

Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

Emily Wilde 3 by Heather Fawcett

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Alison Saft (currently reading)

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by HG Parry

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

Ancillary Justice series by Ann Leckie

She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker Chan

Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker

Green = books from last year's list I didn't get to

Pink = new releases I want to read this year

Blue = books on my physical tbr

Tagging anyone who is interested!

[freddycartr]

you know what really bothers me is that macmillian audio chose two white narrators to narrate nova and adrian in the renegade trilogy, two people of color. both rebecca soler and dan bittner are white. while i get that marissa meyer has probably a personal connection with soler (and soler does an amazing job with every book that she reads), but it’s really not that hard to pick two people of color narrators. like anne yatco, has narrated anime characters and is an actress or rebecca wang who is a voice actors. both are filipino-american voice actors. and then for adrian, brandon rubin who is jesper fahey’s voice in six of crows, and does an amazing job. or they could have had multiple narrators for the lunar chronicles including natalie naudus as cinder, ewan chung as kai, kamran r. khan for wolf, or gabrielle union for winter.

[sidecharactersdomatter]

Thoughts I had during TGCF S2 EP 10

*furiously whispering* This was the most intense one of the season!

Previously on TGCF…

-The Gilded Banquet…

-An Le was its host

-Yong’An Palace

-The guards!

-That’s right it was Qianqiu’s birthday

-Those prejudiced Yong’An royals

-That explains the massacre, An Le faced a lot of discrimination from the kingdom’s nobility

-Qianqiu had a cousin

-Qianqiu’s mother

-Even Qianqiu’s dad was disappointed in his nephew

-He had loving parents

-The king and queen were the ones that were nice to him

-Those shady guards

-It’s all going down…

-Mengyou!

-With a red box!

-He hid it!  I wonder why?

-Dang political troubles

-It reminded him of the banquet with his parents

-Oh no!

-It tied to the last episode

-Discussing the future of both people

-Qianqiu’s dad sounds a little like Macbeth from Gargoyles, which is weird since I got back into said fandom for this autumn

-Even Qianqiu’s dad had hidden prejudice

-There he is!

-Qianqiu, his mother, and An Le

-He smiled again

-End of flashback

-That cape swish!

-This isn’t as vibrant when I go up with my fam to visit relatives

-This also isn’t like that Ba Sing Se banquet from Atla book 2 Earth

-The green veins!

-There goes their disguises

-Oh no and a child was there!

-Qianqiu still hasn’t appeared

-The music stopped

-Qi Rong’s lackeys!

-Mengyou’s still looking

-He found him!

-I freaking love their dynamic

-Qianqiu wanted to give his mother a gift!

-Oh the jewelry artist was voiced by Jill Harris

-Aw man, they still have their great bond

-Look at all that verdant carnage!

-Oh no the mother noble and her son!

-Qianqiu’s dad had the same large sword!

-An Le’s crazed look

-He has a knife!

-Qianqiu’s mother was so selfless!

-That explains it!

-Both King and Queen were slain!

-He really was allied with Qi Rong

-Because no one’s breathing now!

-More trauma

-This donghua still doesn’t mess around with the body count

-You can even hear Qi Rong’s laughter through An Le

-There go the lackeys

-It’s too late Fang Xin

-He wanted revenge as his last breath

-He ended Qianqiu’s father!

-Unpopular opinion, the Fang Xin arc was basically the “Avatar Day” episode, but done respectfully and came out compelling

-Even the noblewoman’s son

-That explained it

-Damn Qi Rong still rubbed salt in the wound

-Technically it was both of your lives

-Qi Rong’s offensive gesture

-QR was responsible for failing to kidnap Qianqiu

-That revelation

-Dang Brandon Loera delivered!

-He confessed!

-He got sliced in Twain

-And he survived!

-Dragging him by the braid

-That ain’t curry and I don’t even want any of it

-He has melted

-That’s going to be tedious

-There goes the cauldron and emptied for good

-LQQ stills wants round 2

-This reaction’s a wrap ‘cause Oh my Gods Howard Wang freaking ate it up like a 5 star full Dim Sum  Course and left! No! Crumbs!

Only 2 episodes left to go! This ep shot me in the feels!

[truthwatcherblog]

My top 10 books of all time in no particular order:

1. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

2. Babel, R.F. Kuang

3. Harrow the Ninth, Tamsin Muir

4. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

5. Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson

6. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks

7. Blood Over Bright Haven, M.L. Wang

8. The Rage of Dragons, Evan Winter

9. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

10. Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

Honorable mention for Stormcaster by Cinda Williams Chima, which is objectively bad but has a very special place in my heart

[swampflix]

Take Out (2004)

When Sean Baker’s career-high poverty drama The Florida Project locally premiered at New Orleans Film Fest in 2017, I was surprised that the screening included a Q&A with the movie’s producer, Shih-Ching Tsou.  Although Tsou does not enjoy the same name recognition as her longtime creative partner, I immediately recognized her as the donut counter cashier from Baker’s previous picture – his…