#Charles Graeber

[in-love-with-movies]

The Good Nurse (2022)

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

My gifs from an old video!!

Eddie Redmayne for VOGUE GREECE October, 2022, wearing Gucci and Ferragamo.

Photographed by Johan Sandberg

Styled by Harry Lambert

Groomed by Petra Sellge

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

"The Good Nurse" reunion!!

📷 #Repost Charles Graeber on Instagram @charlesgraeber: "Not supposed to do this probably, this isn't the post, but have to say Eddie Redmayne is a remarkable talent and a remarkably generous host, scary and sweet and check him out in Caberet on Broadway- and what a surprise to see Nnamdi backstage! a #thegoodnurse reunion. Thanks to Amy- the real Amy- who dragged me along to a great time! real post later".

[gottdeswill]

[maddie-grove]

Little Book Review: Nonfiction Round-Up (May-December 2022)

Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine (1997): a self-help book with a somatic approach to dealing with trauma symptoms. It contained some advice that was useful at my old job. Unfortunately, I was too traumatized from said job to concentrate properly on the audiobook, so I was kind of in a Catch-22.

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022): A deliciously disconcerting series of essays about the fractured last decade of the twentieth century. It wins the coveted "book I'm most determined to lend to my mom" award.

Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy (2018): a cute collection of comics from Fahmy's Instagram, covering subjects from strangers being stupid about her hijab (hence the title) to lighthearted scenes of domestic life. I found it in a Little Library.

Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson (2022): an exploration of the life and writing career of Beatrice Sparks, author of multiple "real" diaries by troubled teens, through-and-through grifter, and coiner of the immortal phrase "freak wharf." This fucked, y'all. Emerson seamlessly delves into multiple topics of interest--Sparks's hardscrabble youth, the discovery of LSD, the Satanic Panic--with plenty of compassion and humor.

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber (2013): the true-crime account of Charles Cullen, a Pennsylvania/New Jersey nurse who murdered possibly hundreds of patients by poisoning their IV bags in the late 1980s to early 2000s. The subject matter is shocking, and it's horrifying how the indifference of the large medical systems he worked for kept him from facing consequences other than getting fired for years. The style/organization of the book is kind of pedestrian, though.

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (2019): an account of Farrow's efforts to write a story for NBC about the decades-long sexual predation of producer Harvey Weinstein, including NBC's sideways attempts to get him to back off. Farrow's a solid narrative writer, not great, and the book gets less interesting when he strays beyond the inner workings of NBC.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968): In her first collection of essays, Didion talks about murder, movies, mental distress, and Sacramento. It's incredibly fresh in some ways (the essay where she talks about raising her daughter away from her extended family) and incredibly dated in others (her incredulity at people who ascribe artistic vision to Meet Me in St. Louis). I genuinely appreciate her ability to make me go "girl, what are you even talking about."

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (2020): an illustrated memoir/series of comics, focusing on coping with mental illness and the unexpected loss of a loved one. There are some very funny passages (particularly one involving a troublesome dog), some devastating ones (Brosh's montage of memories of her late younger sister), and some aimless ones.

Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith (2012): part memoir and part general information about anxiety (the science of it, how different people have written about it through history, etc.). It's more interesting as a memoir. I remember that it had some good advice at the end for managing anxiety, but I don't know for the life of me what it was. Still, I feel like I should give him credit for it.

[jerichopalms]

#19: The Good Nurse (2022, dir. by Tobias Lindholm)

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

The Good Nurse (15): "They never stopped me".

#onemannsmovies review of "The Good Nurse" (2022). #GoodNurseFilm. A stunningly chilling Eddie Redmayne is what's worth seeing here. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Good Nurse” (2022). I’m filling in the final part of my jigsaw for the major categories at tonight’s BAFTA awards with this Netflix movie that features a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Eddie Redmayne. And I think it’s a great call by BAFTA, since Redmayne’s performance is fabulous in a quiet and creepy way. Bob the Movie Man Rating(s): Plot…

[sluttyhaecceities]

'The tendency in popular thought to view the biological world in economic terms was present at the nineteenth-century beginnings of Darwinian science.

Charles Darwin, after all, borrowed the term “survival of the fittest” from the sociologist Herbert Spencer, that darling of robber barons. Spencer, in turn, was struck by how much the forces driving natural selection in On the Origin of Species jibed with his own laissez-faire economic theories.

Competition over resources, rational calculation of advantage, and the gradual extinction of the weak were taken to be the prime directives of the universe.'

– David Graeber, What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

By the way, by contrast, the other great, independent discoverer of Evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, was a socialist, indeed an anarchist, even if he didn't use the label.

“However, we did not talk of geography during the afternoon we spent together, but of Anarchism, of which [Élisée Reclus] was one of the most convinced advocates, and I was very anxious to ascertain his exact views, which I found were really not very different from my own. We agreed that almost all social evils — all poverty, misery, and crime — were the creation of governments and of bad social systems ; and that under a law of absolute justice, involving equality of opportunity and the best training for all, each local community would organize itself for mutual aid, and no great central governments would be needed, except as they grew up from the voluntary association of their parts for general and national purposes.”

— Alfred Russel Wallace, My life: A Record of Events and Opinions

[gracelandmp3]

finally reading 1491 and the fact that the guy is a journalist not an historian keeps pissing me off which i was NOT expecting like i read popular press history books all the time! i’m quite stupid! it shouldn’t be bothering me this much!!! but it’s sooo frustrating i keep mentally comparing it to other books i’ve read w even vaguely adjacent subject matter and it is Simply not doing it for me

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then PROVIDENCE (Apr 12), and beyond!

#15yrsago Why URL shorteners suck https://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners

#15yrsago Heinlein’s house for sale https://web.archive.org/web/20090406105617/https://mcginnis.com/listings/detail.php?lid=41846127&limit=0&offset=0&aid=005900204&oid=005900002&temp=1057&aname=Sharon+Roland&aimg=1&chome=1&agent_hasfeat=2&&posc=6&post=10&cfq=elegant%3Dyes%26property_category%3D1%26county%3D41%26aid%3D005900204%26oid%3D005900002%26temp%3D1057%26aname%3DSharon%2BRoland%26aimg%3D1%26chome%3D1%26agent_hasfeat%3D2%26SRSearchDate%3D1238781456%26SRRecordCount%3D10%26SRPage%3D1%26SRPageCount%3D1%26SRPageLinks%3D6

#15yrsago Game industry exec celebrates 60+ hour work-weeks https://web.archive.org/web/20090405131359/playthisthing.com/mothers-dont-let-your-children-grow-be-game-developers

#15yrsago Nine year old’s survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don’t think of themselves as male or female https://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/102417.html

#10yrsago Britain is turning into a country that can’t tell its terrorists from its journalists https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03/britain-is-turning-into-a-country-that-cant-tell-its-terrorists-from-its-journalists/

#10yrsago Stop-and-frisk as the most visible element of deep, violent official American racism https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/what-i-learned-about-stop-and-frisk-from-watching-my-black-son/359962/

#10yrsago David “Debt” Graeber evicted, implicates NYPD intelligence, claims revenge-harassment for OWS participation http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015820.html

#10yrsago Open net gets a huge boost in the EU: net neutrality and no roaming fees https://web.archive.org/web/20140405234420/http://www.marietjeschaake.eu/2014/04/mep-european-parliament-supports-proposal-schaake-to-enshrine-net-neutrality-in-european-law/

#10yrsago Cats of Tanglewood Forest: illustrated modern folktale from Charles de Lint and Charles Vess https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03/cats-of-tanglewood-forest-illustrated-modern-folktale-from-charles-de-lint-and-charles-vess/

#10yrsago House Science Committee: a parliament of Creationists, Climate Deniers (and dunces) https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/the-house-of-representatives-committee-on-science-is-turning-into-a-national-embarrassment/

#10yrsago Big Data has big problems https://www.ft.com/content/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0

#5yrsago 540 million Facebook users’ data exposed by third party developers https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes holding execs criminally liable for scams and data breaches https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/elizabeth-warren-its-time-to-scare-corporate-america-straight/2019/04/02/ca464ab0-5559-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html

#5yrsago How EFF’s Eva Galperin plans to destroy the stalkerware industry https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus/

#5yrsago After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn’t block open source implementations, Google says it won’t support open source implementations https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-years-of-insisting-that-drm-in-html-wouldnt-block-open-source-implementations-google-says-it-wont-support-open-source-implementations/

#5yrsago After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn’t require filters, top EU Commissioner says “Article 13 requires filters” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-months-of-insisting-that-article13-doesnt-require-filters-top-eu-commissioner-says-article-13-requires-filters/

#5yrsago Notices at Intel press event seem to say attending photographers must assign copyright to all pictures and videos to the company? https://web.archive.org/web/20200616222543/http://mitchwagner.com/2019/04/02/video-consent-notice-posted-discreetly-in-a-couple-of-places-on-the-walls-at-the-intel-press-analyst-event-today/

#5yrsago Patagonia tells banks and oil companies that they can no longer buy co-branded vests https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change

#1yrago The problem with economic models https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all-models-are-wrong/#some-are-useful

[gaypiratepropaganda]

ok here are the most important ones (to me)

The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Anne Yolen

this is a children's book in verse about Anne Bonny and Mary Read. responsible for my pirate obsession

Bloody Jack by LA Meyer

a young adult series about a girl who disguises herself as a boy, goes to sea, and becomes a pirate. these were the best thing ever invented to kid me but I haven't read them in a while so I don't know if they're actually like, good. I liked the atmosphere and the slightly antiquated way it was written. there are gay bits.

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates: From Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to the present Time, with the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny

or A General History of the Pyrates by "Captain Charles Johnson"

A good starting point. a lot of our pirate stories come from this book. it claims to be a true historical record, but I have my doubts. still fun though. I think this guy just wrote down every story he heard about pirates. it has illustrations.

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by B.R. Burg

not super historical but it doesn't really claim to be. basically it's just this guy going. "so... pirates fucked, right? like, there's no way they didn't." and then he's correct. I mainly wanted this book as a teenager because I loved the cover and the title but now it's in my brain forever. look at Blackbeard. look at his gay little pose

Pirate Enlightenment or The Real Libertalia by David Graeber

this is the one I'm reading right now and I love it so far. it's about pirates in Madagascar and the real-life version of the pirate utopia from general history of pyrates (it isn't real but it kind of is but not.) I like the writer, he's written other good things. he's obsessed with the enlightenment for some reason but you can easily ignore that.

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, which is kind of like a magical realism type thing. I think it's kind of what pirates of the Caribbean is based on. this is where I knew Stede Bonnet from

Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb, three books that are part of a fantasy series. these pirates are dicks to each other a lot but they are gay and their ships are alive.

Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey is a queer sort of modern version of Peter Pan. captain hook is in there and he's like a leather guy. not literally pirates, but still.

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach is science fiction with queer pirates, a monkey god, and mushroom houses.

[bluestockingbaby]

WELCOME BACK MAGGIE! 12 17 and 21

HI SYDNEY I MISSED YOU

12. I already answered this one from Jojo, so here are 5 other books that were very difficult for me to cut from my top 5!: Dangerous Liaisons- Choderlos De Laclos, The Poisoner’s Handbook- Deborah Blum, Right Wing Women- Andrea Dworkin, All That You See Here is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies- Brian Doerries, Bullshit Jobs- David Graeber

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were? Well, I haven't finished it yet, but I'm still working through Moby Dick (via Whale Weekly) and it's really good. I went into it already a bit familiar, but it really is better than you would expect as long as you're not expecting something straightforward and adventurous. Like Charles Dickens, it's best read aloud.

21. Did you participate in any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama? Participate? Absolutely not. I'm aware of some of it, like the current Cait Corran thing because one of my mutuals keeps up with booktok and sundry. I do also follow withcindy on youtube. I'm strictly a lurk and judge type of person.

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Together again!!

"This was really fun and Eddie Redmayne is really remarkably talented. I don't know how he does that, playing the MC of Death night after night but somehow having time for a quick backstage reunion.See the show."

Source : Charles Graeber, the Good Nurse Author, on IG

IG !!

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

More photos of "The Good Nurse" reunion!

📸 Credit: Charles Graeber on Instagram

#Repost: "This was really fun, and #eddieredmayne is really remarkably talented. I don’t know how he does that, playing the MC of Death night after night but somehow having time for a quick backstage reunion. See the show. #kitkatclub #caberet #broadway #thegoodnurse"

[trudnadusza14]

16-17.05.2023

Wczorsjszy dzień do południa pamiętam jak przez mgłę.

Znów mnie pół dnia dusiło w klatce piersiowej

Po południu było szydełko i teatralne. Na teatralnych ćwiczyliśmy dykcję i później pani opowiadała co będziemy grali

Byłam jedyna podekscytowana xD

Wszyscy przerażeni a ja pełna ekscytacji.

Jak zwykle inna od wszystkich

I dołączałam pomysły. Pani jak widziała tę radość to ona takie wielkie oczy xD

Myślę że idzie mi coraz lepiej

Potem jedna kumpela mnie przeprosiła i już jest z tą jedną dobrze,wybaczone 🥰

Wróciłam do domu to obejrzałam anime. Spodobało mi się "3D kanojo real girl"

A dziś to pół dnia przespałam

I coś stało się z wiadomościami że do mnie wgl nie dochodziły xd

Ktoś pisał coś a nie dochodziło. Ten telefon to jak nie zatnie się tak to zacina się inna funkcja

Tak poza tym to kolejny obraz zaczęłam

I skończyłam książkę pt.

"dobry opiekun-Charles Graeber"

Jak ktoś lubi na faktach to polecam

No i wieczór postanowiłam wybrać się na siłownie 💪

Dziś siłownia jutro ma być grupowe i terapia tańcem 😏

I oczy mi się zamykają xd

Wgl dziwne ale polubiłam piwo,tyle że zwykłego nie mogę,jedynie bezalkoholowe

Zamierzam wszystkie smaki spróbować 😆

I dziwna rzecz. Coraz częściej budzę się w innym miejscu i wszystko jest inaczej ułożone,no ba porozwalane na całego

Znowu lunatykuje ? Boże 🤣

Jak nie jedno to drugie. Ludzie ja zwariuje ponownie xd 😂

[adollwritesblog]

1. 80 books

2. I reread The Quarry by Susan Howe bc the first time I read it everything went over my head lul (and did the second time)

3. a. Xenogenesis series by Octavia Butler

b. The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

c. A year and other Poems by Jos Charles

d. Freshwater by Akwake Emezi

e. Scatter, Adapt, Remember by Annalee Newitz

4. Samuel R Delaney!!

5. Hmmm probably sci fi or nonfiction

6. Stories are weapons by Annalee Newitz

7. I dont use goodreads

8. Ig I wanted to read 100 books? I’m okay with where I landed tho

9. I tried out a romance book!! You Made a fool of yourself by Akwaeke Emezi. I loved it!

10. A Year and other poems

11. Probably Wuthering Heights. It was not what I expected but I loved it!

12. I tried reading Technocapitalism and was extremely disappointed by some of the reasoning in the book (i.e. the tech industry is dominated by men bc more men are autistic) (super disproven at this point)

13. ^

14. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber

15. I’m not really sure tbh

16. I read a few shakepseare plays. Maybe those?

17. Scatter Adapt Remember!!! This book has so much for being 30 pages

18. Considering i get half off on books at my job, too many

19. Yes!!!

20. Jos Charles again, and I think it went way above my expectations!

21. Never tbh

22. Godel escher bach maybe?

23. I read a couple of poetry books in a day

24. See 12

25. Hmmm maybe I’ll try another romance book!

end-of-year book ask

How many books did you read this year?

Did you reread anything? What?

What were your top five books of the year?

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

What genre did you read the most of?

Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

Did you get into any new genres?

What was your favorite new release of the year?

What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Any books that disappointed you?

What were your least favorite books of the year?

What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

How many books did you buy?

Did you use your library?

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

What’s the longest book you read?

What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

Did you DNF anything? Why?

What reading goals do you have for next year?