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shutth3puckup · 9 months
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Wait why does Evander Kane have a restraining order against Anna Kane?
Nov 2019: He gets sued by casinos for not paying his gambling debts, and allegedly this took place when he was in Vegas for the playoffs.
Jan 2021: EK declared bankruptcy, says he has over 25 million in debt. 1.5 million of that is gambling debts
July 2021: Anna posted to her Instagram that E.K had been betting on his own games, even throwing some games to win his bets.
Sept 21: The NHL investigated and found no wrong doing. E.K said Anna acted out because of their ongoing divorce. He would admit to having a gambling addiction.
Anna filed a domestic violence restraining order against him, and she noted sexual assault and domestic battery in the claim. I don’t know if she was ever granted hers.
He denied it, and ultimately was granted a temporary restraining order against her claiming she had been physically abusive, and then filed for a permanent restraining order.
The NHL investigated the claims against EK and ruled they couldn’t substantiate it.
EK had been accused of assault multiple times before Anna came out with her accusations. There have been many allegations and accusations over the last few years, Anna says he is keeping their daughter from her. It’s all very messy.
I refuse to believe there is no proof to what Anna is saying, but I do not think she is innocent in the matter. She is very vocal on her social media (which she has every right to do) but I think some of it will be used against her, or has been in the past. They both clearly have issues that need to be sorted out, I just hope they can see the bigger picture and focus on what’s best for their daughter.
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readtilyoudie · 10 months
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Fable: the Balverine Order by Peter David | Fable: Reaver by Peter David | Fairy Tales of Remnant by E.C. Myers | Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff | The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu | Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk | Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
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Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn | A Knight of the Word by Terry Brooks
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Last Flight by Liane Merciel | Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee | The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers | The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor | The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl | Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas | Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
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Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
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The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood | Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan | Pet by Akwaeke Emezi | Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth | The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde | A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving | The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
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The Reckoners Series by Brandon Sanderson | Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright | The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood | Ruination by Anthony Reynolds
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A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket | The Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo | Sherlock Holmes by Sir Conan Doyle | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares | Starters by Lissa Price | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk | A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
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The Tale of the Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman | These Ruthless Deeds by Kelly Zekas & Tarun Shanker | These Vicious Masks by Kelly Zekas & Tarun Shanker | To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers | Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft by Elizabeth May | Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
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This is my Yuletide 2023 placeholder letter - it will have details soon - sorry, I am being that person
General DNWs - I am not usually interested in fic with slavery. Some of these canons have existing slavery as part of the worldbuilding and I don't expect you to ignore that but I also probably would not enjoy reading about the characters being enslaved. Also, please no whitewashing of characters that are canonically not white. Any AU except a high school AU (or younger) is fine. (One specific exception is listed under Uhura's Song.)
Sexual content DNWs - I don't typically seek out fic with underage, incest, or non-con, and often skip over it. References to canonical instances of them if they exist is fine.
No involvement of animals. No scat or watersports or anything with vomit.
No sexual relationships between patient and clinician, please. (Specific exception for the Expanse.)
Anything that includes requested characters and doesn't hit a DNW will almost certainly make me wildly happy.
Things that are fine/encouraged: Any POV, any tense, any format; any queer or trans headcanons; any race/ancestry headcanons, any ace and/or aro headcanons you have.
The Druid's Call by E.K. Johnston
This is a prequel to the D&D Honor Among Thieves movie. Things I'm interested in: Doric talking to Open and/or Torrieth about her adventures. More of Open mentoring Toric. Fics that use the tag Owlbear hugs. (Yes, I think it would be cool to be hugged by someone wildshaped into an owlbear and I'm not afraid to say it. Or shamelessly request fics that contain it.)
The Bird of The River - Kage Baker
I'm interested in Eliss growing into adulthood and being mentored by other people in the crew/her found family, especially Pentra Smith and maybe Mrs. Riveter. Do she and Captain Glass ever realize their strongly implied blood relationship? Does she ever ask him about his eldritchness?
Uhura's Song
What does Brightspot experience during her time on the Enterprise? Does she ever come home and tell Stiff Tail about it? Does Stiff Tail ever unstiffen a little?
Catchclaw and Rushlight are included because I just think they're neat. Feel free to use them as main characters or side characters or not at all.
Fandom-specific thing: I enjoy the felinoids as such and would not be interested in an AU where they're human instead.
Dunkirk (2017)
What might happen if Peter and Collins met up again in the future? Having a chat in a pub, making small tall, and then going their separate ways? A long-term queer romance? Is Collins still flying? Does Peter become a journalist? I don't have clear answers, but I like the idea of them being together and I like the idea of Peter as a journalist (but I'm flexible).
Prefer that period-typical homophobia not be a major factor.
Newsflesh - Mira Grant
Rick! What's the vice-presidential candidate life like? How and why does he make the decisions he does after he's elected? Does he lie to himself about them? How much? What's his life like after canon?
Danika is something of a mysterious figure. I'm curious about her background. Maybe Georgia is too, and investigates.
I'm always happy for more mad science time with Dr. Abbey.
(Yes, this fandom has canonical adopted sibling incest, and I don't expect you to ignore it or write around it or anything.)
The Expanse (books)
I'm interested in stories where Aliana Tanaka lives and has further adventures with her psychiatrist. Specific exception to clinician/patient if you want to make it romantic or sexual (Tanaka is twisty, let's be real), but you don't have to.
I'm also interested in stories where she goes back to her art history interest. Feel free to change the setting if you need to.
I'm interested in what happens with Amos's experiences as an altered human before recontact.
Naomi and Teresa I added because I think they're neat. Also neat: Cara.
[I will be back later to add more general likes, in the event that you matched with me and would like more guidance.]
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leon-hoax · 2 years
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xmanicpanicx · 4 years
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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)
Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs
The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz
Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles
Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 
100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell
The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella
Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull
A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall
Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani
Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald
Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore
Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell
Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden
Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell
Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh
Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles
The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein
A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle
Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova
The Women of WWII (Fiction)
Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz
Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky
Night Witches by Mirren Hogan
Night Witch by S.J. McCormack
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein
Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
All-Girl Teams (Fiction)
The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker
Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley
Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones
Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri
This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad
We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett
Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu
The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti
Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl
Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean
Jackdaws by Ken Follett
The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman
A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg
Feminist Retellings
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
Doomed by Laura Pohl
The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke
Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke
The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs
Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
Women and Girls in Comedy 
Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin
Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim
This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry
Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer
Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot
Bossypants by Tina Fey
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen
The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields
Trans Women
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Nemesis series by April Daniels
American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
George by Alex Gino
The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag
Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña
Wandering Son by Takako Shimura
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Feminist Poetry
Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill
The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
Feminist Philosophy and Facts
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner
Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen
The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey
#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy
Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)
Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney
Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)
You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand
Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness
The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza
Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis
Pulp by Robin Talley
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
That Summer by Sarah Dessen
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
American Girls by Alison Umminger
Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Sula by Toni Morrison
Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno
None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis
The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 
Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza
Puddin' by Julie Murphy
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller
After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti
We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone
The Prettiest by Brigit Young
Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan
Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin
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Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
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Series: Iron Widow, #1 Read time: Just Over 1 Day Rating: 5/5
The quote: "I'm so tired of being a girl." "Yeah. If you were a boy, you'd be ruling the world by now." "Oh, I don't know if it's that's simple. I'd still have to be the right kind of buy. That's probably something you have to watch out for if you're getting a wish granted by some spirit. 'Make me a boy!' Bam. I get turned into a big, buff, Rongdi. Everyone's so scared of me that they'd rather chase me into the wilds. I can't get anything done." "That's not untrue." — Wu Zetian and Gao Yizhi (p.166)
Warnings: In the authors words “Please be aware that this book contains scenes of violence and abuse, suicide ideation, discussion and references to sexual assault (though no on-page depictions), alcohol addiction, and torture.”
This review is not written with a lot of cohesion. It's more a dump of I needed to get this out of my mind. I've tried to synthesise to make it readable but I have likely failed. TL:DR I loved this book. It is so worth the praise it is receiving. The Iron trio are so brilliantly broken and the ideal violent antiheroes. I really recommend it if the blurb appeals. Just be sure to read the warnings.
Oh man, this book did things to me. It gave me emotions I didn't expect. There is a lot of just pure female power and rage in Iron Widow and readers are encouraged to go with Zetian. One of the cover quotes/endorsements is "a primal scream of a book" (E.K. Johnson) and that is a fantastic quote for it. Zetian is the kind of feministic badass, unforgiving, deadly and headstrong heroine I love and really do not read enough of. Probably because not enough of them are published. She is the ultimate f**k the patriarchy and anyone who supports it. Do you have any idea how both rage-filled and overjoyed and adrenaline filled I was by the time I finished this? I read it in a day and a bit (70 gages one night the rest the next day). I just could not put it down. The world both captivated and frustrated me. Wu Zetian, Li Shimin and Gao Yizhi enthralled me. The Iron Triangle is one of the most powerful things I've read in a long while.
One of the first things you will see in reviews for Iron Widow is to read and be aware of the content warnings. I'm going to add Xiran Jay Zhao's statement here "Please be aware that this book contains scenes of violence and abuse, suicide ideation, discussion and references to sexual assault (though no on-page depictions), alcohol addiction, and torture.". The violence of the book is regularly discussed in reviews, all these things are important to be aware and some will definitely be triggering to the point where the book is unreadable for some.
Iron Widow plays with the concepts of femininity, vengeance, making amends, love, power in the best possible way. Though not always in the same person. Zetian may be the main character but this is also about Li Shimin and Gao Yizhi. These three characters are so likable and almost human but they are different. Different to each other and different to your normal protagonists. One of the really appealing aspects of these characters is their unwillingness to shy from their darkness, they are aware it can be weaponised and will when it suits them. Li Shimin in defence, Wu Zetian in vengeance and even Gao Yizhi when the need calls for it. there is also something appealing in Xiran Jay Zhao writing Zetian, as not unique in her level of ability just rare, and even with that Zetian and Shimin, are ostracised rather than elevated. It fuels the readers' indignity and anger. They are our antiheroes.
Wu Zetian is an interesting protagonist. At first, I was wondering if she was unreliable, especially during the first part with Yang Guang. I no longer trust protagonists as tellers of their own stories, they are always the least objective of storytellers. But this first part makes everything that comes later that much more valuable. It shows the contrasts between those only seeking self-preservation over fame. But aside from anything else, it is so nice to see a female protagonist for ruthless in ya, so willing to go after what she wants. To kill, to seek vengeance, to take pleasure, to give and withhold her trust. I like her. I like her relationship with Li Shimin and Gao Yizhi. The way she does not care about cultural norms and will be with them regardless. That pretty much sums up her attitude... f**k society I'm here to be me... wait nope on second thoughts bow before your queen you cowards.
Some dot points to stop this from getting truly out of control.
The use of Chinese elements is brilliant, the way they have been made ancient than futuristic all while remaining understandable. The way it is written is impeccable. It allowed for a consistent, natural and easy to follow world and lore.
Wu Zetian is based on the powerful 7th century Chinese Empress of the same name. Li Shimin is based on an Emperor of the same name (interestingly Wu Zetian's father in law) as the perfect touch here his consorts name was Empress Wende. Li Shimin was a different kind of power, he was logical and scholarly. Gao Yizhi is I guess based on Zhang Yizhi one of Wu Zetian's favoured *cough*toyboys*cough* consorts. Look Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong weren't stupid they knew how to get power.
Ruyi, Zetian's sister and the reason she goes after vengeance is possibly named after a period of her reign.
I appreciate the choice to call piolets boys. Given they rarely ever twenty-four, never twenty-five and wouldn't typically be considered men until they reach twenty, the cultural age of majority. So culturally when they become pilots at sixteen they are boys.
I did not expect the sheer amount of care for the girls in play here. From Wu Zetian. From Li Shimin. To a degree Gao Yizhi.
Wu Zetian is an angry, hurt woman. Li Shimin is just a broken and pained boy. Yin and Yang in so many ways. And Gao Yizhi is so full of love I can't, he kinda feels like their balance.
Yizhi's tattoos continue to cause me great suspicion. But oh they are so pretty.
Their monikers are fierce, strong and perfect, Iron Demon, Iron Widow and Baofeng Shaoye (Young Master Strom). Better yet it is Wu Zetian owning the slur. By honour Zetian and Shimin's names should be Iron King and Iron Queen.
Holy... that photoshoot. Has anyone made fanart for it yet? I need to see it. Speaking of fanart Xiran Jay Zhao's tumblr is @xiranjayzhao​ they share some gorgeous fanart there. Also their username basically everywhere.
"Maybe , if things were different, I could get used to this. Being cradled in his warmth and light, Being cherished. Being loved. But I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me. I choose vengeance." — At this point, I realised that Yizhi was definitely coming back and love was much more important than Zetian though. This section is so lovely. (Wu Zetian, p.37)
"I drop Yang Guang in front of me and set a tiny lotus foot on his corpse. What do you know? I really did kill him." — Followed quickly by the iconic Welcome to your nightmare!. This is such a good visual though especially given the gauzy material and slightly mad look. (Zetian, p.81)
"I have to remind myself that those are the same vicious, red-lit eyes that glared at me with bloodlust in the mind link. He is not innocent. Not framed. Not misunderstood. I know that for certain. I have lived through the burning, screaming depths of his mind." — His mind realm was a shared perception for them, she saw what she expected to see. (Zetian, p.108)
""Let's be real." I let out a cross between a scoff and a sigh. "We were doomed from the beginning. The world will never forgive us for what we've each done, and there will always be those who will love to make us suffer. Not like we would've gained any respect by lying down and letting them do it." His mouth pops open, then he huffs. "Yeah. That's true." — I don't know why I like this so much. It could be because of the timing. (Zetian and Shimin, p.155)
"False hope. I swear the army is sustained on it." — Where is the lie? (Zetian, p.229)
"You're my polar star. I'll go wherever you guide me." — This is such a lovely sentiment. And you can tell he means it. (Yizhi, p.238)
Two posts I need to share from tumblr posted by @bookcub​ and @fixaidea​ respectively. Bookcub and Fixaidea both hit the nail on the head here. THIS is Wu Zetian (if you want your posts removed I am happy too).
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I've read that this is a duology and damn I'm glad there is more to this story. I'm glad that Zetian has more to tell us. I can be patient until Xiran Jay Zhao writes it. It takes a lot for a book to impact me as much as this did. I kinda hope we get to see something more of Wende I feel like there is more to tell there. I also hope that Zetian, Shimin and Yizhi get more loyal and valued allies.
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gffa · 5 years
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THIS IS A PRETTY STELLAR LINE TO END THE SCENE ON AND IT WAS ANOTHER MOMENT THAT HIT ME LIKE A GODDAMNED BRICK. One of the things that I’ve found myself asking a lot, as I go through more and more Star Wars content, is:  “How do you solve the galaxy’s problems?  How do you affect lasting change?” It’s a question that doesn’t always have a clear-cut answer, but I feel like boils down to two main options: - To stay with the system, to do your best to affect lasting change by making it better - To bombard the system from outside it, burn it all down, because you don’t believe it can be made better Star Wars is interesting because different moments can have different answers to this set of paths even from the same characters--ie, the Republic is worth saving, there’s still hope, Padme and Bail and the Jedi believe that you should make the system better, they work to do what they can where they can.
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(Queen’s Shadow | E.K. Johnston)
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(The Clone Wars, “Corruption”)
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See also:  the various ways the Jedi try to suggest better options (like Mace trying to get Palpatine to save the Zillo Beast, Mace suggesting that Boba Fett be granted leniency, Dooku as a Jedi addressing the Senate to ask for help for Outer Rim worlds, Obi-Wan suggesting negations instead of fighting to the Pantorans, etc.). That the entire reason they are part of the Republic and let themselves be put under Senate jurisdiction (aside from how the galaxy has repeatedly shown that Force-Sensitives are in danger just for being Force-Sensitive, because people don’t really get them, see them only as weapons, are afraid of them just existing) is because the Jedi believe that the only way to create lasting change is from within--that’s why it’s so important that it’s Ahsoka who delivers this message to the Mandalorian cadets. That’s why she speaks of how the citizens must be the ones to hold the government accountable, that’s why she speaks of how internal threats are often the deadliest, because that’s what Jedi are taught all their lives to do--look inward, face your fears, face the dark things about yourself, work through them, then let them go, change yourself for the better. Her final line, “Lasting change can only come from within.” is one of the core beliefs of the Jedi, on a personal level and a political level. And I’m incredibly inclined to agree--well, you know, setting aside that I’ve been making that very point for awhile now. Because I’ve looked at what happened with the Republic:  The people didn’t want to fight the war themselves, so they agreed to fund a clone army, which tanked the economy, which made them so scared--as well as physically scared of the Separatists--that they exchanged basic freedoms for the security the Empire offered. Because I’ve looked at what happened with the Empire:  The people didn’t want to fight back against the Empire, they were too scared or they were buying into the convenient scapegoats the Empire offered up instead of looking at the real evils, until things became too bad that people could no longer ignore the moral event horizons that had been crossed, that there was no hope of making the Empire better, because it had never been operating in any kind of good faith. Because I’ve looked at what happened with the New Republic:  The people didn’t want to fight another war, so they ignored the signs of what was happening with the First Order, they ignored the people that were saying, “Pay attention to this shit!”, they literally stopped reading about the Empire’s atrocities because they were tired of it, their entire political set-up tried too hard to be Not The Empire that it became kind of nothing instead, and people across the board refused to stand up once the First Order destroyed Hosnian Prime, that there has been book after book after book after comic after comic after comic about this. In each and every instance, my conclusion about the question, “How do you create lasting change?” has come back to--the public at large has to be involved, it has to be the one that holds the people in charge accountable, because no amount of laser swords slicing through a problem will stop things from reverting back to the status quo by the people in charge (especially an organization that is literally 1 out of 6,000,000,000 people at best!) if the general public doesn’t step up and hold their officials accountable. This is why I agree with the Jedi being part of the Republic as an understandable and completely reasonable choice, that they’re trying to work within the system to make it better, they’re trying to put themselves in a better position to actually help people, because being part of something is what allows them to actually make any kind of real help.
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(Obi-Wan & Anakin | Charles Soule & Marco Checchetto) (See also:  Master & Apprentice | Claudia Gray, where Qui-Gon literally saves the day by using a Republic law about how hostages must be released in times of crisis, that it must be a representative of the Republic that makes this claim, because being part of this bigger system means it has the actual weight to carry this through and affect a permanent solution to this part of the problem.) This is something that would not have been feasible from outside the system (setting aside, again, that the Jedi were one in six billion and did not have the numbers to make sweeping galactic changes even if that had been a good idea, which it was not, because of [waves hands] everything in this post), not unless they wanted to be punished for years for it, like Padme was in Queen’s Shadow, where going around the Senate during the Blockade of Naboo got her set out the outs with them for literal years and it was her full time job to be a politician and work her way back into influence so she could do good, imagine how much harder it is for someone that people fundamentally mistrust because they seem strange and eerie and have weird mind powers that people don’t understand!
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This is the system, which isn’t perfect, but one that these people believe in.  Bail and Padme and the Jedi believe that the Republic has hope, that it can be made better.  That working together gives them the means to help people on a far bigger scale than by going at things alone.  That they can be put in better positions--in a Republic that, up until the late Clone Wars, was still largely acting on good faith--to help, that being part of the system does not mean that you approve of everything, but that you have hope to change it. Because lasting change can only come from within.  That it must be the entirety of the public citizens, not just a small handful of people, who hold their leaders accountable and stand up for what’s right.  No matter how many mountains the Jedi move, no matter how many times a Rebellion burns an Empire to the ground to build a New Republic, no matter how many times a Resistance tries to protect the New Republic, it all crumbles when no real change has been coming from within the public who are within these systems.
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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (June 2nd, 2020)
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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___
New Standalones/First in a Series:
If We Were Us by K.L. Walther
My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong
Kissing Lessons by Sophie Jordan
Jo & Laurie by Margaret Stohl & Melissa De La Cruz
The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant 
When the Stars Wrote Back by Trista Mateer
When We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha 
You Don’t Live Here by Robyn Schneider 
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
You Should See Me in A Crown by Leah Johnson 
The Stepping Off Place by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
Burn by Patrick Ness 
A Song of Wraiths & Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
Again Again by E. Lockhart 
Category Five by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Beyond the Break by Heather Buchta
Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso
All Eyes On Her by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson
New Sequels: 
My Calamity Jane (The Lady Janies #3) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
The Challenge (Contender #2) by Taran Matharu 
Queen’s Peril (Star Wars Disney Canon Novel) by E.K. Johnston
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Happy reading!
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The 2020 Rainbow Book List : YA Fiction
[via the American Library Association]
The Rainbow Book List Committee is proud to announce the 2020 Rainbow Book List. The List is a curated bibliography highlighting books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning content, aimed at children and youth from birth to age 18. This list is intended to aid youth and those working with youth in selecting high-quality books published in the United States of America between July 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019.
REALISTIC FICTION:
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom by S. J. Goslee
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Birthday by Meredith Russo
You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas
Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale
FANTASY & FAIRY TALE:
Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron
The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu
The Afterward by E.K. Johnston
Black Wings Beating by Alex London
The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
SCI FI & HORROR:
Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Alien: Echo by Mira Grant
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir        
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
MYSTERY/THRILLER:
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig
Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia
GRAPHIC NOVEL:
Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O’Neill
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
The Avant-Guards, Volume 1 by Carly Usdin
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
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tagged by @bisexualwentworth  
tag your favourite character from the last 5 shows/movies/books you watched/read:
1) I’ve been watching Avatar: The Last Airbender (for the first time) and I’m only in season 1 but my favorite character is Aang because he’s such an interesting chosen one and his presence just lightens a room, and like, the YA chosen ones could never. all protagonists should be 12 years old. Also my favorite character is Iroh because I also have had stressful months of my life where all I talked about was tea.
2) E.K. Johnston’s The Afterward (which is a STUNNING queer lady knights story and you should all read it, it reads quickly and is just lovely) my favorite character is Kalanthe because even when the best thing falls right into her lap, she doesn’t take it for granted that she deserves such a good thing, and that humility is admirable.
3)  Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist do I even have to say this? it’s Max. Obviously it’s Max. There was literal no reality where I liked anyone but Max. I’m still not 100% sure I wasn’t ONLY watching that show for Max. My undying loyalty to the beauty of Skylar Astin has been burning hot in my soul since 2012 and there’s no chance of it every burning out.
4) Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston  This is unfair. Can’t pick. won’t pick. I call truce.
4 actually) The Baby-sitters Club, definitely Mimi, and probably only 50% because of nostalgia?? The girls are great, I could never pick one above any of the rest, but Mimi, gosh. Her very existence is so comforting, and the fact that Claudia feels Mimi is the only one who understands her? and that Mary Anne can talk to her even when she can’t talk to anyone else? Mimi Yamamoto is very important. 
5) Friends & Foes by Sarah Eden. This is my comforting pandemic read, I think my favorite character is Fennel Kendrick? I am hoping against hope that Eden sticks with this series long enough to give Fennel a book, because he is a delight. 
I’m tagging @onceuponadiceroll
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Moving with the efficiency of long practice, she [Rabé] wove half a dozen braids into Padmé’s hair, each of them twisted with gold and silver ribbons. The braids were then pinned up in six wide loops, starting in front of Padmé’s ears and circling her head on the back to give the illusion of size that was typically granted by the absent headpiece. Rabé added more ribbons so that they cascaded down Padmé’s back.
Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow, E.K. Johnston
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darthvadersgirl · 4 years
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May
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Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) / Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner  / The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi (Unbound) / These Women by Ivy Pochoda (Ecco)
June
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The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant (Knopf Children’s) / Queen’s Peril by E.K. Johnston (Lucasfilm Press) / The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson (HarperTeen) / The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth  (HarperTeen)
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The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho (Tor.com) / Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch (Riverhead) / Vera Kelly is not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht (Tin House Books) / I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee (Katherine Tegen Books)
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Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press) / Night Owls and Summer Skies by Rebecca Sullivan (Wattpad) / Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
July
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Or What You Will by Jo Walton (Tor Books) / Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey (Berkley) / The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press) / Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power (Delacorte Press)
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The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig (Feiwel & Friends) / A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee (St. Martin’s) / Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell ( Random House) / Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (Doubleday)
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Afterland by Lauren Beukes (Mulholland Books) / The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen (Henry Holt and Co.) / The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (HarperAvenue) / Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor Books)
August
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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com) / Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles (Wednesday Books) / Little Threats by Emily Schultz (G.P. Putnam’s Son) / Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Dial Books)
Most Anticipated 2020 Summer Reads May Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) / Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner  / …
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Hey there! I was hoping to get a reading on how to handle my situation with my best friend. We had a fight months ago and haven’t talked since. I just wanted to know if it would be worth it messaging her to apologise and talk things through or leave things as they are and walk away. Her initials are Z.E. and she’s an Aquarius. Mine are E.K. and I’m a Sagittarius. Thank you so much x
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Four of Cup
This card tends to symbolize greed and discontent. It is basically saying to not take situations for granted or the people who supported you along the way. This may be asking you to reavalute whether it is worth being friends with this person again, if it is 100%, go for it, there’s nothing to loose. However there is also an opposite warning that maybe this split is a good thing. Reavaluate what you need and want and make a decision from there.
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31 Days of quietYA: 2019 YA Fantasy Books You May Not Have Heard Of
Hello friends! In continuing my posts for 31 Days of quietYA, I’m posting about some upcoming books you can pre-order. I haven’t read any of the books mentioned in this particular post, but these are all books on my wish list for the year. There are so many other books coming out that aren’t on this list, so feel free to keep poking around! But this would be a good place to start your research.
SEVEN DEADLY SHADOWS by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani THE CANDLE AND THE FLAME by Nafiza Azad THE LAST WITCHDOCTOR by Rena Barron WE RULE THE NIGHT by Claire Eliza Bartlett THE BEHOLDER by Anna Bright CASTLE OF LIES by Kiersi Burkhart WICKED FOX by Kat Cho INTO THE CROOKED PLACE by Alexandra Christo THE NEVER TILTING WORLD by Rin Chupeco THE CIRCUS ROSE by Betsy Cornwell HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROW by Erin A. Craig THE QUEEN’S SECRET by Melissa de la Cruz EMBER DAYS by Alexandra Duncan WINTERWOOD by Shea Ernshaw THE CERULEAN by Amy Ewing WE HUNT THE FLAME by Hafsah Faizal STRONGER THAN A DRAGON by Mary Fan BEWARE THE NIGHT by Jessika Fleck WHEN WE WERE MAGIC by Sarah Gailey A COURT OF MIRACLES by Kester Grant EIGHT WILL FALL by Sarah Harian DARK OF THE WEST by Joanna Hathaway DESCENDANT OF THE CRANE by Joan He GUARDIANS OF DAWN by S. Jae-Jones DARK SHORES by Danielle Jensen THE AFTERWARD by E.K. Johnston A RIVER OF ROYAL BLOOD by Amanda Joy ALL OF US WITH WINGS by Michelle Ruiz Keil A DRESS FOR THE WICKED by Autumn Krause THE HALF KING by Melissa Landers SPIN THE DAWN by Elizabeth Lim KINGDOM OF BACK by Marie Lu SERPENT & DOVE by Shelby Mahurin THE NAMELESS QUEEN by Rebecca McLaughlin WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE by Tehlor Kay Mejia ECHO NORTH by Joanna Ruth Meyer NOCTURNA by Maya Motayne THE MERCIFUL CROW by Margaret Owen NEVER-CONTENTED THINGS by Sarah Porter CROWN OF FEATHERS by Nicki Pau Preto BONE GRACE by Kathryn Purdie THE BLOOD SPELL by C.J. Redwine SORCERY OF THORNS by Margaret Rogerson THE KINGDOM by Jess Rothenberg FAR FROM AGRABAH by Aisha Saeed THE ANTIDOTE by Shelley Sackier BLOODLEAF by Crystal Smith THESE WITCHES DON’T BURN by Isabel Sterling BEYOND THE BLACK DOOR by A.M. Strickland THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT by Swati Teerdhala AN AFFAIR OF POISONS by Addie Thorley THE MERMAID, THE WITCH, AND THE SEA by Maggie Tokuda-Hall THE COLD IS IN HER BONES by Peternelle van Arsdale THE GRIEF KEEPER by Alexandra Villasante THE WAKING FOREST by Alyssa Wees SHATTER THE SKY by Rebecca Kim Wells THE GIRL KING by Mimi Yu SPECTACLE by Jodie Lynn Zdrok BLOOD HEIR by Amélie Wen Zhao
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ALVAN IKOKU: WHY HIS FACE IS ON NIGERIAN CURRENCY Have you ever wondered why the face of Alvan Ikoku is in a Nigerian currency even before those of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo? Who was this great Igbo son and what were his achivements? Born on August 1, 1900 in Arochukwu, present-day Abia State, from 1911 to 1914, he was educated at the Arochukwu Government Primary School and from 1915 to 1920, he attended Hope Waddell College, Calabar where he was a student under James Emmanuel Aggrey and was mates with Akanu Ibiam and Eyo Eyo Esua. While teaching at Awka, Ikoku earned his University of London degree in Philosophy in 1928, through its external programme. In 1932, Ikoku established a Co-Educational Secondary School in West Africa: the Aggrey Memorial Secondary School, located in Arochukwu and named after his mentor James E.K. Aggrey, an eminent Ghanaian educationist. In 1946, after several constitutional changes allowing more Nigerians in the legislative chambers, he was nominated to the Eastern Nigeria House of Assembly and assigned to the ministry of education. In 1947 he became part of the Legislative Council in Lagos as one of three representatives of the Eastern Region. He is celebrated as a revolutionary educationist in Nigeria. In 1962, he called for an 'Education Bill of Rights' for primary school education to be free for six years nationwide in Nigeria. This was later accepted by the Federal Military Government as from 1976. Today free education to all primary school has been granted. The Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education in Owerri, Imo State was named in his honour and of course because he founded it, his face is emblazoned on the ten naira note (see picture). It was at this school that the first full-fledged Igbo Language Department in Nigeria was established in 1975. Also, Alvan Ikoku Crescent, University of Lagos Campus, Akoka was named after him. Same with the Alvan Ikoku Hostel at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. A road called Alvan Ikoku Way, in Maitama, Abuja (Capital of Nigeria) was also named after him. He died on November 18, 1971 at Aba general hospital. Follow us on Twitter @celesylvupdates https://www.instagram.com/p/CA03uOlJSiB/?igshid=1ilcr6zgub5kw
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books read in 2017
bold = top ten 
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler 
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 
Dark Water by Koji Suzuki
Selected Poems by Ezra Pound 
Life Under Water by Maura Dooley 
Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy 
Modern Poets II by Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, and Eavan Boland
Trilogy by H.D.  
The Inheritance by Robin Hobb 
Love by Angela Carter
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse 
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor 
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson 
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson 
Kings of Morning by Paul Kearney 
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn 
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson 
Odin’s Voice by Susan Price 
Light by Michael Grant 
The Paradise Papers by Merlin Stone 
Battle of Will by Sasha L. Miller
The Female Man by Joanna Russ 
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover 
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel by Maureen Lindley 
The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer 
Women Who Hurt Themselves by Dusty J. Miller 
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson 
Re-riting Woman by Kristy S. Coleman 
Emma by Jane Austen 
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente 
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 
Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault 
Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie 
The Celtic Twilight by W.B. Yeats 
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo 
Star-Lord by Sam Humphries
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter 
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch 
Gods and Mortals, edited by Nina Kossman 
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith 
Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly 
Monster by Robin Morgan 
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge 
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood 
Girl’s Next Door, edited by Jan Bradshaw and Mary Hemming 
Unicorn by Angela Carter and Rosemary Hill 
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch 
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy 
Nothing Mat(t)ers by Somer Brodribb 
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