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New Releases: January 2025

So Not My Type by Dana Hawkins (January 5th) Sophie Black has clawed her way up from coffee runs to project manager at a top Seattle ad agency. She’s laser-focused on her career—until the CEO’s daughter, Ella Northwood, joins the team. Forced to work together on a high-stakes campaign, sparks fly as Sophie’s scrappy determination clashes with Ella’s polished privilege. But there’s more to both…

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Books read in 2024 📖

I read a total of 41 books, around 15,500 pages (average book length 376 pages).

⋆ Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

⋆ Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

⋆ Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas

⋆ Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas

⋆ The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas

⋆ Queen of Shadows by Sarah J Maas

⋆ The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

⋆ Empire of Storms by Sarah J Maas

⋆ A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

⋆ Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

⋆ Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas

⋆ Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas

⋆ House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas

⋆ House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas

⋆ House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas

⋆ Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Philips

⋆ Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

⋆ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

⋆ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

⋆ The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

⋆ Bride by Ali Hazelwood

⋆ My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine

⋆ Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

⋆ Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

⋆ You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry

⋆ Book Lovers by Emily Henry

⋆ Happy Place by Emily Henry

⋆ Daisy Miller by Henry James

⋆ Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

⋆ The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore

⋆ The September House by Carissa Orlando

⋆ The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

⋆ Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

⋆ The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

⋆ A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

⋆ Dracula by Bram Stoker

⋆ Recitatif by Toni Morrison

⋆ Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

⋆ The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

⋆ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

⋆ The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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List of books I read in 2024

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005 by Alice Notley

El diario de Tita by Laura Esquivel

Accident by Danielle Steel

The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Collected Poems by Lynda Hull

Felicity by Mary Oliver

The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland, edited by Cillian Murphy, Pat Dolan, Gillian Browne & Mark Brennan

Broken Harbor by Tana French

The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub

Beowulf by Unknown, translated by Seamus Heaney

Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

A Literary Tea Party: Blends and Treats for Alice, Bilbo, Dorothy, Jo, and Book Lovers Everywhere by Alison Walsh

Cassandra by Christa Wolf

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Drowning Instinct by Ilsa J. Bick

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish

Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems by Dulce María Loynaz

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston

When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson

Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson

The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton by Linda Gray Sexton

Disclosure by Michael Crichton

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson

The Exploits of Moominpappa, Described by Himself by Tove Jansson

The September House by Carissa Orlando

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Insomnia by Stephen King

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

Del amor y otros demonios by Gabriel García Márquez

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

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2024 Roundup - books read

Fiction

Stone Blind: Medusa's Story - Natalie Haynes

Atonement - Ian McKeown (re-read)

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands - Heather Fawcett

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (re-read)

The Marvelous Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Ozma of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

The Road to Oz - L. Frank Baum

The Emerald City of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire (re-read)

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Orlando: A biography- Virginia Woolf

Sappo: Poems & Fragments - Sappo (translated by Josephine Balmer)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (translated by Henry Frith)

The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne (translated by Jordan Stump)

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley (re-read)

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy (re-read)

Sir Percy Leads the Band - Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy (re-read)

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Mass

Best Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen (translated by Jean Hersholt)

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (re-read)

Non-Fiction

A year in the life of Ancient Egypt and the real lives of the people who lived there - Donald P Ryan

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings - Lloyd LLewellyn-Jones

American Prometheus: The Tragedy and Triumph of J Robert Oppenheimer- Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth - Natalie Haynes

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the bombing of London - Erik Larson

The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age - Frank Welsh

Pagan Britain - Ronald Hutton

Unruly: A History of England’s Kings and Queens - David Mitchell

Burn it Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Maureen Ryan

Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction - William H Hamlin

Essays: A Selection - Michel de Montaigne (translated and edited by M.A. Screech)

Hey Honey, I’m Homo: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture - Matt Baume

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent - Judi Dench (with Brendan O’Hea)

What I Ate in One Year (and related thoughts) - Stanley Tucci

What I liked

I enjoyed most of what I read this year, including revisiting some older books with new eyes, finally getting around to some classics from my TBR list (with a few detours), and general mix of history and biography/memoir.

My favourite book of the year, and now up there with my favourite books of all time, is Piranesi, something that has been on the list a while and yet something I have successfully avoided spoilers for. I went in completely blind and so glad I did because the way this story washed over me is one of those very rare things and I loved loved loved reading this book.

I also really enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow (the tv adaptation was sadly a bit of a disappointment). There’s a fine line between whimsical and twee and while that line likely differs for everyone, for me it successfully kept just on the side of whimsy - or maybe I just love a literary reference and this was full of them. It also inspired me to check out the works of Montaigne which I found interesting in context.

On the non-fiction front, American Prometheus is a good companion to the Oppenheimer film, and Burn it Down was an excellent but rage-inducing peak behind the Hollywood curtain, but The Man Who Pays the Rent was my other favourite read this year. Rather than ghostwritten, this takes the format of question and answer between Judi Dench and actor/director Brendan O’Hea, each chapter focussing on a different Shakespeare play and the characters Dench performed. It’s a beautiful insight into the acting process, theatre history, and Shakespeare’s female characters. Dench is so compelling and charming and the format allows her voice to leap off the page (more memoirs should take this approach tbh). I love Shakespeare but hardly consider myself an expert, so her perspective on the works and the characters was insightful - one of those books you look forward to returning to at the end of the day.

What I didn’t

When I tell people I’m writing a fantasy novel they often ask if I’ve read A Court of Thorns and Roses and I’m kind of sick of seeming uninformed about this faeriecore juggernaut, so finally gave it a go. It’s…not for me, really, despite it being generally keyed into my interests. I just found it…kind of boring? Feyre is dumb as rocks difficult to care about, and Tamlin, despite the cute nod with the name, is stock beast archetype with no other discernible personality.

Most of the book was an absolute slog until it finally got semi-interesting 3/4 in, but we’re stuck in Feyre’s pov and therefore unable to explore anything approaching compelling or nuanced. I’ve been told it actually gets good in the second book (and have been spoiled about the whole Rhysand thing), but I’m not really inspired to give it any more effort.

I also had mixed feelings about Emily Wilde - while of better quality than ACOTAR and I really loved the worldbuilding and some of the fae characters (Poe my beloved!) the central romance fell completely flat for me (maybe I’m just immune to the charms of faerie lords?) and I find the narrative is limited by the epistolary style. However I enjoy the fae plotline enough that I will likely get around to the third book at some stage.

On the point of mixed feelings, it’s interesting how much I enjoy Natalie Haynes’ non-fiction work on Greek myth while finding that her fiction completely misses the mark. Essentially a collection of essays, Divine Might is engaging and thought-provoking on the various depictions of Greek goddesses and their place within the mythos both then and now. On the other side of the coin, Stone Blind is ostensibly Medusa’s story, but mostly told through other perspectives and (much like with her previous effort A Thousand Ships) Haynes is preoccupied with recreating the whole of the myth which ultimately subsumes women, and therefore fails in its premise to showcase the female perspective. It’s just so odd that she can’t bring any of her insights from her compelling analysis to an actual narrative.

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*✧ — may 2023 wrap up

you know how i said the things i said last month. yeah lmao my reading went up while my mental health declined 😬✌️ anyway, here we are. it is what it is, even though my thesis is no where near where it should be. welp.

2023 goal: 99/100 books

as alway, feel free to drop book recs, questions, or opinions in my inbox; i am always happy to talk to you about books!

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follow my goodreads | follow my storygraph | previous wrap ups

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty | 4.5★ 

Atalanta by Jennifer Saint | 3.75★ 

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo | 3.5★

Ayiti by Roxane Gay | 3.5★ 

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler | 4★ | review

The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo |  3.5★ 

My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura | 4.5★ | review

Writers & Lovers by Lily King | 4.5★ | review

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf | 4★

* Happy Place by Emily Henry | 5★ | review

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino | 5★

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid | 3.5★

Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet | 2★ | review

Spell Bound by L.F. Lukens | 3.75★ | review

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | 4★

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu | 3.5★

Passing by Nella Larsen | 5★

Orlando by Virginia Woolf | 4.25★

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster | 4.5★

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt | no rating | review

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca | 3★

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rereads

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo | 2.5★

Why God is a Woman by Nin Andrews | 4★ | review

In. by Will McPhail | 5★

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead | 5★ | review

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“TIL I FEEL NO PAIN” is the lead single/track from @lovers.guilt’s forthcoming EP titled ‘Enveloped In Smoke’ (6/21) & it finds Brian Vega’s LA-based project dreamily popping across 4 mins of synthetically ethereal & dark_waving GothPop.

“OYSTER CUTS” is the second single/title-track from @quiversss’ forthcoming LP (8/9 @mergerecords) & it finds the Melbourne-based quartet of Bella Quinlan (vox/bass), Sam Nicholson (vox/guitar/keys), Michael Panton (vox/guitar) & Holly Thomas (drums/vox) bringing a 4:20 clip of indie_popped goodness.

“BREATHE” is the latest single from @rinseband’s forthcoming EP titled ‘Starfish’ (6/20 @cohort.records) & it finds Joe Agius’ Melbourne-based project precously new_waving across 4 ½ mins of aesthetically dialed, deliciously dreamy & earnestly soared SoftPop.

@sanguisugabogg are here w/ a brand new standalone single, the aptly titled “PERMANENTLY FUCKED” (@centurymediarecords) & it finds the Ohio-based quartet of Cody Davisdon, Devin Swank, Ced Davis & Drew Arnold laying waste to our sorry asses across a blitzed 4:41 clip of brutally BPM’d DeathMetal.

“IF WE DIDN’T CRY” is the lead track from @smushcore’s forthcoming debut LP titled ‘if you were here i’d be home now’ (6/15 @candlepin_records) & it finds the “sensitive” ཐི♡ཋྀ Vancouver-based trio of Emily Borrowman (bass/vox), Atley King (guitar) & Jay Christie (drums) soft_grunging across 4+ mins of quietly/loud AltRawk.

“SILO” is the lead track on @vile_form’s recently released EP titled ‘Unending’ & it finds the Pennsylvania-based quartet of Paul J Herzog (vocals/bass), Jason M Herrmann (guitar), Jeffrey V Daniels (guitar) & Josh R Orlando (drums) setting the tone across 4+ mins of metallicized DeathFusion.

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Le Novità Di Dicembre Su Rakuten TV

Dicembre è il mese dei regali per eccellenza, e su Rakuten TV non potevano mancare! In arrivo questo mese tanti titoli freschi di sala cinematografica, nuovi episodi del già iconico talent show di hairstyling HairStyle, The Talent Show, una libreria di contenuti gratuiti da vedere e rivedere e promo festive per tutti i gusti. Il Natale è già arrivato!

Rakuten TV – I film in arrivo a dicembre 2023

Oppenheimer, L’esorcista e Io Capitano

Molte le novità nella sezione TRANSACTIONAL della piattaforma. Disponibile per l’acquisto dal 21 dicembre il campione d’incassi Oppenheimer, fresco di sala cinematografica, del visionario Christopher Nolan. La storia dello scienziato americano J. Robert Oppenheimer e del suo ruolo nello sviluppo della bomba atomica, con star del calibro di Cillian Murphy, nel ruolo di protagonista, Emily Blunt e Matt Damon per citarne solo alcuni. Per gli amanti del genere horror, su Rakuten TV è in arrivo L’esorcista – Il credente, terrificante sequel dell’iconica pellicola del 1973 ed il primo in cui l’attrice Ellen Burstyn riprende il ruolo di Chris MacNeil dopo il primo capitolo.

Tanto drammatico quanto toccante, disponibile per l’acquisto dal 21 dicembre Io Capitano di Matteo Garrone. Premiato all’80ª Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica di Venezia per la miglior regia: il viaggio di Seydou e Moussa, due giovani senegalesi che lasciano il loro Paese per raggiungere l’Europa affrontando il deserto, i centri di detenzione in Libia e la traversata nel mar Mediterraneo.

Last Film Show, L���Ordine Del Tempo e Paw Patrol

Dai toni drammatici anche Last Film Show. Storia di Samay, un bambino di nove anni che vive in un remoto villaggio dell’India con la passione per il cinema. Per perseguire il suo sogno dovrà lasciare ogni cosa che ama e andare via. Poi L’ordine del tempo di Liliana Cavani, presentato fuori concorso alla Biennale di Cinema di quest’anno, con Claudia Gerini, Alessandro Gassmann ed Edoardo Leo: un gruppo di amici si ritrova ogni anno in una villa per una festa di compleanno ma quest’anno scoprono che potrebbero mancare solo poche ore alla fine del mondo. Di tutt’altro stampo Paw Patrol: Il Super Film. Secondo film d’animazione basato sulla serie animata PAW Patrol creata da Keith Chapman che divertirà grandi e piccini!

Una Commedia Pericolosa, Il Mio Grosso Grasso Matrimonio Greco 3 e tutti gli altri

Per gli amanti della commedia, ecco arrivare due titoli irresistibili su Rakuten TV. Con Enrico Brignano, Leandro Amato e Fortunato Cerlino, Una commedia pericolosa, in cui un uomo responsabile della sicurezza di un centro commerciale sogna di diventare un agente segreto e dalla finestra sul cortile di casa sua spia i condomini in cerca di azione.

In arrivo anche Il mio grosso grasso matrimonio greco 3. Il terzo capitolo del franchise, storia della famiglia greco-americana dei Portokalos, che, dopo la morte del patriarca Gus, si reca in Grecia per ritrovare le proprie origini. Un viaggio nel passato toccante, divertente e pieno d’amore! E ancora, gli appassionati del genere action rimarranno incollati allo schermo con The Creator, ambientato in un futuro post-apocalittico che coinvolge un mondo colpito da una guerra tra umani e intelligenza artificiale, e l’adrenalinico Gran Turismo, adattamento cinematografico dell’omonima serie di videogiochi e con David Harbour, Orlando Bloom e Archie Madekwe, che segue la storia vera di Jann Mardenborough, adolescente giocatore di eSport che diventa un pilota professionista della Nissan grazie alla sua bravura nei videogiochi.

Già disponibile per l’acquisto e dal 6 dicembre anche per il noleggio, il campione d’incassi Assassinio a Venezia. Il terzo capitolo della saga su Hercule Poirot diretta e interpretata da Kenneth Branagh. Nella Venezia del secondo dopoguerra, Poirot, ora in pensione e in esilio, partecipa con riluttanza a una seduta spiritica.

Rakuten TV – Il film e gli show già disponibili

Quale miglior modo di attendere l’uscita dei vostri film preferiti sul grande schermo se non con una bella maratona? Già disponibile in piattaforma per l’acquisto e per il noleggio una variegata selezione di titoli da vedere e rivedere. Da Diabolik e Diabolik – Ginko all’attacco dei Manetti Bros., in attesa dell’uscita in sala del terzo capitolo. Per arrivare alla saga di Ghostbusters a partire dall’iconica pellicola del 1984 Ghostbusters – Acchiappafantasmi, Ghostbusters II. Fino al più recente Ghostbusters: Legacy, e dall’universo DC disponibile anche Aquaman, per prepararsi al meglio all’uscita di Aquaman e il regno perduto.

La sezione FREE di Rakuten Tv

Ad arricchire la sezione FREE di questo mese una libreria di titoli per tutti i gusti. Già disponibile dal 16 novembre, con un nuovo episodio ogni settimana, il primo talent show di hairstyling HairStyle, The Talent Show. Condotto dal Maestro Rossano Ferretti e dal Global Hairstylist Rudy Mostarda. Il programma vede dieci parrucchieri professionisti provenienti da tutta Italia dimostrare il loro talento, abilità e creatività. Chi riuscirà ad aggiudicarsi il premio del valore di 150.000 euro e realizzare il sogno di aprire il proprio salone?

Con Colin Firth e Nicole Kidman, in arrivo a dicembre il drammatico Le Due Vie del Destino – The Railway Man. L’adattamento cinematografico dell’omonima autobiografia di Eric Lomax, scrittore e militare scozzese che, nel 1942, fu fatto prigioniero in un campo di prigionia giapponese. Per gli amanti del brivido, disponibili questo mese i primi tre capitoli della saga cinematografica horror Hellraiser con protagonista il demone Pinhead e i suoi seguaci Cenobiti.

I titoli action

Da vedere tutta d’un fiato una selezione di titoli action imperdibili di Rakuten TV:

The Rover, con Guy Pearce e Robert Pattinson. Storia di un uomo solitario che, 10 anni dopo un crollo economico globale, insegue gli uomini che gli hanno rubato la sua unica proprietà, per poi catturare uno dei fratelli dei ladri e formare con lui un legame difficile;

Borning: Corsa senza regole, in cui il protagonista Roy è stato sfidato a partecipare alla Street legal, la corsa illegale di auto sportive che percorre duemila chilometri attraverso la Norvegia da Oslo a Capo Nord;

Assalto a Wall Street, dai toni thriller, in cui il newyorkese Jim, che vive con una moglie malata, perderà ogni cosa in seguito ad un improvviso crollo dell’economia. Colmo di rabbia, mediterà vendetta per la vita che gli è stata portata via.

Infine tra i contenuti free di questa imminente stagione festiva non possiamo non ricordare la commedia per famiglie S.O.S. Natale con Jim Broadbent: l’avventura di un padre e un figlio che si uniscono per salvare il Natale quando scoprono che Babbo Natale dorme nel loro garage, dopo essersi schiantato con la sua slitta e in fuga dalla polizia.

La sezione FAST di Rakuten TV

Nella sezione FAST della piattaforma, che include televisione in streaming gratuita con pubblicità, non poteva mancare 100% Natale. Il nuovo canale pop-up dedicato interamente ai film del periodo più magico dell’anno! E per gli amanti della commedia, già disponibili Sansone, Fantastic Mr. Foxe tanti altri film per tutta la famiglia.

Le promo

Infine da segnalare una serie di promo da non perdere su Rakuten TV. Dal 4 dicembre e per tutto il mese una selezione di film tra cui Il grande Lebowski, Atomica Bionda, Casper e Il miglio verde, sarà in offerta per l’acquisto a 3.99€. Quale miglior modo per festeggiare il Natale se non con una bella maratona? A partire dal 18 dicembre e per tutte le feste fino all’8 gennaio, sconti fino al 60% sui titoli family, kids e animation con la promo natalizia. Per finire, i più nostalgici non resisteranno ad un rewatch dei propri Cinepanettoni preferiti. In promozione per l’acquisto a partire da 4.99€: Vacanze di Natale a Cortina, Vacanze di Natale ’95, Natale a New York, Natale sul Nilo, e Natale in Crociera vi aspettano!

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New Fiction 2023 - October

Another October in the can! And now I wish I could snooze through the real horror that is the holiday season. Maybe I'll stay in October forever... forever... forever...

Here's the long version (since Tumblr blocks too many links in one post).

The TL;DR:

Short Stories

"Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

"The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

"The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

"The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

"CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

"Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

"The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

"The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

"The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

"The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

"The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

"The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

"Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

"Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

"Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. James D. Jenkins (2020)

"Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

"The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

"The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

"The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

"The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

"Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

"Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

"The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

"The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

"The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

"The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

"The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

"The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

"Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Audio

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Comics

"Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

"The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

"Do You Know... the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

"Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

"For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

"Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

"Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

"The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

"Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

"A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

"The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

"The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

"Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

"Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

"The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

"Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

"Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

"Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

"Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

"Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

"A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

"The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

"Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

"The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

"The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

"The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

"Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

"Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

"The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

"Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Video Games

Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

D dev. Warp (1995)

Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Movies

It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Television

Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

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my jr top 15 best dancer tda (Vegas/Orlando) predictions

roxie - regan - isabella k - diana k - sara vr - esme - berkeley - skylar - kinsley s - delilah h - francesca j - emily p - helena o - zoe f - ??

mentioning some who don't compete in tda or just can't compete this year!

i could see that!!

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“The future belonged to the showy and the promiscuous”: Why the 21st Century Loves Edith Wharton

Emily J. Orlando

E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences and Professor of English

Fairfield University

Photo: John Singer Sargent, Sybil Frances Grey, later Lady Eden 1905.

If ever there were a good time to read the American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937), who published over forty books across four decades, it’s now. Since the Wharton revival of the late 20th century, when directors were adapting (the Pulitzer-Prize winning) The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The Buccaneers, and The House of Mirth, her star has continued to rise. As I yesterday prepared to teach The Custom of the Country, which many have called Wharton’s greatest novel, a friend texted me Sofia Coppola’s article on the surprising appeal of its social-climbing heroine. Coppola is developing Undine Spragg’s story for Apple TV. A kind of Gilded Age Material Girl, Undine has been ready for her close-up for years.

Coppola joins an impressive roster of contemporary admirers of Wharton that includes Roxane Gay, Laura Bush, Lisa Lucas, Peggy Noonan, Jennifer Egan, Stephin Merritt, Claire Messud, Meg Wolitzer, Mindy Kaling, Doug Hughes, Brandon Taylor, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ali Benjamin, Vendela Vida, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Kristin Hannah. At a time when publishing houses are compelled to scale back, new editions of Wharton’s books are appearing in print with introductions by Coppola, Egan, and Taylor.

Photo: Sofia Coppola.

Those who think they don’t know Wharton might be surprised to learn they do. A reverence for Wharton’s writings informs Sex and the City (whose pilot welcomes us to “the Age of Un-Innocence”), Gossip Girl, Downtown Abbey (whose “Lady Edith” suggests a nod to Wharton), and HBO’s The Gilded Age which, like Downton, is created by the Wharton-appreciating Julian Fellowes. His Bertha and George, after all, are named for the power couple from The House of Mirth.  

But why Wharton? Why now? Perhaps it’s because for all its new technologies, conveniences, and modes of travel and communication, our own “Gilded Age” is a lot like hers. For the post-war and post-flu-epidemic climate that engendered The Age of Innocence is not far removed from our post-COVID-19 reality. In both historical moments, citizens of the world have witnessed a retreat into conservativism and a rise of white supremacy. Fringe groups like the “Proud Boys” and “QAnon” and deniers of everything from the coronavirus to climate change and Sandy Hook are invited to the table in the name of free speech, and here Wharton’s distrust of false narratives resonates particularly well. Post-9/11 calls for patriotism and the alignment of the American flag with one political party harken back to Wharton’s poignant questioning, in a 1919 letter, of the compulsion to profess national allegiance:

how much longer are we going to think it necessary to be “American” before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?[i]

Her cosmopolitan critique of nationalist fervor remains instructive to us today.

Edith Wharton seems to have foreseen the excesses, obsessions, and spectacles of our current moment. The scandals documented in Wharton’s narratives serve as harbingers of the sensations that flash across our hand-held screens. Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking touches on the same nerve as the sexual exploitation of minors in Wharton’s Summer (1917) and The Children (1928). The quid pro quo run-in between Wharton’s Lily Bart and Gus Trenor looks uncomfortably forward to Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo. The rise to power of Donald Trump would not surprise Edith Wharton.

Photo: “Vanity,” by Auguste Toulmouche, circa 1870.

Wharton’s tenacious Undine Spragg—as horrifying to progressive era readers as she is admired by Generation Z—can be conceived of as the original social media influencer conscious of her brand. For Undine and her creator know that “the future belonged to the showy and the promiscuous”[ii] and that the turn-of-the-century “world where conspicuousness passed for distinction”[iii] foreshadows our own. Wharton would describe Undine in terms we might use for a “Real Housewife of Park Avenue”: “If only everyone would do as she wished she would never be unreasonable” (162). Undine’s world encourages her to aspire to the rank of trophy wife and the sexual double standard dictating that “genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair”[iv] would apply to Wharton herself who, on the 150th anniversary of her birth, would be assessed by a male novelist in terms of how she sizes up to Grace Kelly or Jackie Kennedy.[v]  The writer who would declare, in her wildly popular interior design manual The Decoration of Houses, privacy “one of the first requisites of civilized life”[vi] would be appalled by what is broadcast across social media. Wharton also would’ve anticipated the racism directed at Meghan Markle and why granting Oprah an interview would not help relations with her spouse’s family. Children forcibly separated from families due to morally dubious immigration policies echo the plight of war refugees for whose welfare Edith Wharton labored, while the distrust of the cultural other echoes the writer’s own complicated nationalist allegiances.[vii]  

Ten years ago, Lev Raphael took the temperature of Wharton studies declaring in the Huffington Post: “Edith Wharton is hot.” She is now positively on fire. I offer below a short excerpt from the introduction to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton, which appears in print today.

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The image gracing the cover of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton, capturing a scene on the terrace of Edith Wharton’s French home, reflects the cultural work that this book takes as its task. The writer is in her element: she cradles in her lap her beloved dogs, she sits outdoors at a well-appointed property she lovingly transformed, she surrounds herself with fashionably dressed cosmopolitans, and she smiles. The moment validates an idea expressed in The Age of Innocence: that “the air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” As host, Wharton, by this point an internationally acclaimed artist, has brought together representatives of an admiring generation from diverse backgrounds that would outlive and perhaps learn from her. That sunlit terrace is doing something we hope this book will do: provide a foundation for future conversations with Edith Wharton at the center.

Photo: Edith Wharton publicity shot.

Around the time this photograph was taken, Wharton would reflect in A Backward Glance that “[t]he world is a welter and has always been one; but though all the cranks and the theorists cannot master the old floundering monster, . . . here and there a saint or a genius suddenly sends a little ray through the fog, and helps humanity to stumble on, and perhaps up” (379). Wharton’s writings arguably send a ray and help humanity stumble on and up in our own Gilded Age. It is the aim of this collection of essays, produced by leaders in the field at a time of global crisis, to make a meaningful contribution to the scholarship on and dialogue about the work of Edith Wharton and to open up new possibilities for understanding and embracing a writer whose corpus is as enormous as it is resonant. To borrow from Wharton’s preface to her anthology The Book of the Homeless (1916), in which she conceives of her volume, as she so often does, as a house: “You will see from the names of the builders what a gallant piece of architecture it is. . . . So I efface myself from the threshold and ask you to walk in.”[viii]

Emily J. Orlando is the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences and Professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton. She is currently preparing for publication a new edition of Edith Wharton’s first book, The Decoration of Houses.

[i]Lewis, Letters, 424.

[ii]Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, New York, Penguin, 2006, 117.

[iii]Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, ed. Elizabeth Ammons, 2nd Norton Critical ed. (New York: Norton, 2018), 186.

[iv]Edith Wharton, The Touchstone, in Wharton, Edith, Collected Stories, 1891-1910, ed. Maureen Howard (New York: Library of America, 2001), 170.

[v]Jonathan Franzen, “A rooting interest: Edith Wharton and the problem of sympathy,” The New Yorker, February 5, 2012.

[vi] Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897), 22.

[vii]See Melanie Dawson, “The Limits of Cosmopolitan Experience in Wharton’s The Buccaneers.” Legacy 31.2 (2014): 258-80. Print.

[viii]Edith Wharton, Preface to The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-foyer) (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916), xxiv-xxv.

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NWSL 2018, Week 1: A Summary

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2022 in books

january:

the architecture of happiness by alain de bottom

an american marriage by tayari jones

filter house by nisi shawl

february:

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the worst best man by mia sosa

the hating game by sally throne

utopia avenue by david mitchell

march:

people we meet on vacation by emily henry

it happened one summer by tessa bailey

hook, line, and sinker by tessa bailey

the unhoneymooners by christina lauren

the spanish love deception by elena armas

minor detail by adania shibli

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

act your age, eve brown by talia hibbert

born to run by bruce springsteen

homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh

the kiss quotient by helen hoang

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood

boy parts by eliza clark

fix her up by tessa bailey

before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi

april:

tools of engagement by tessa bailey

nausea by jean-paul sartre

the fine print by lauren asher

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

happy hour by marlowe granados

love and other words by christine lauren

may:

fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson

lolita by vladimir nabokov

june:

atonement by ian mcewan

an enchantment of ravens by margaret rogerson

six of crows by leigh bardugo

house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas

house of sky and breath by sarah j. maas

breakfast at tiffany’s & other voices, other rooms: two novels by truman capote

bunny by mona awad

when he was wicked by julia quinn

rebecca by daphne du maurier

fight club by chuck palahtniuk

july:

yolk by mary h.k. choi

milk fed by melissa broder

junky by william s. burroughs

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

august:

breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut jr

animal by lisa taddeo

one last stop by casey mcquiston

the antichrist by friedrich nietzsche

shop girl by steve martin

a room with a view by e.m. forster

a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas

a court of wings and ruin by sarah j. maas

september:

orlando by virginia woolf

coraline by neil gaiman

book lovers by emily henry

october:

almond by sohn won-pyung

l.a. woman by eve babitz

catch-22 by joseph heller

exciting times by naoise dolan

november:

tender is the flesh by augstina bazterrica

a grief observed by c.s. lewis

little birds by anaïs nin

cultish: the language of fanaticism by amanda montell

december:

role models by john waters

the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

the awakening by kate chopin

reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies by bell hooks

tales from the cafe by toshikazu kawaguchi

[pop-pop-pop-popculture]

My MET Gala List

Anya Taylor-Joy

Zendaya

Sadie Sink

Elle Fanning

Dakota Fanning

Margot Robbie

AnnaSophia Robb

Sarah Hyland

Lily Collins

Madelaine Petsch

Camila Mendes

Saoirse Ronan

Melissa McCarthy

Florence Pugh

Rebecca Ferguson

Halle Berry

Keke Palmer

Miranda Cosgrove

Madison Pettis

Millie Bobby Brown

Awkwafina

Amy Adams

Jessica Alba

Jessica Chastain

Phillipa Soo

Lupita Nyong’o

Gal Gadot

Anna Kendrick

Blake Lively

Jessica Biel

Ariel Winter

Winona Ryder

Zoe Saldana

Charlize Theron

Natalia Dyer

Nicole Kidman

Emilia Clarke

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Idina Menzel

Viola Davis

Emily Blunt

Sofía Vergara

Meryl Streep

Anne Hathaway

Amanda Seyfried

Constance Wu

Elizabeth Olsen

Ana de Armas

Karen Gillan

Beanie Feldstein

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hugh Jackman

Daveed Diggs

Jared Leto

Finn Wolfhard

Tom Holland

James McAvoy

Leslie Odom Jr.

Regé-Jean Page

Ryan Reynolds

Chris Hemsworth

KJ Apa

Idris Elba

David Harbour

Caleb McLaughlin

Bill Skarsgård

Alexander Skarsgård

John Krasinski

Stanley Tucci

Charlie Heaton

Robert Downey Jr.

Taron Egerton

Selena Gomez

Ariana Grande

Beyoncé

Rihanna

Halle Bailey

Chloe Bailey

Alessia Cara

Alicia Keys

Céline Dion

Taylor Swift

Lady Gaga

Ciara

Cassie

Elton John

The Weeknd

Lily-Rose Depp

Cara Delevingne

Taylor Hill

Elsa Hosk

Josephine Skriver

Romee Strijd

Jasmine Tookes

Lais Ribeiro

Sara Sampaio

Heidi Klum (does she even still model?)

Candice Swanepoel

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Behati Prinsloo

Miranda Kerr

Adut Akech

Paloma Elsesser

Kaia Gerber

Adriana Lima

Alessandra Ambrosio

Gisele Bündchen

Valentina Sampaio

Karlie Kloss (does she even still model?)

Gigi Hadid

Bella Hadid

Kendall Jenner

Lily Aldridge

Soo Joo Park

Paris Jackson

Daphne Groeneveld

Blanca Padilla

Sophie Turner

Nick Jonas

Jennifer Lopez

Billie Eilish

Billy Porter

Zoë Kravitz

Tiffany Haddish

Dakota Johnson

Kerry Washington

Mindy Kaling

Donatella Versace

Anna Wintour

Vera Wang

Tory Burch

Benedict Cumberbatch

Serena Williams

Kasey Musgraves

Katy Perry

Frank Ocean

Julianne Moore

Michael B. Jordan

Jordan Peele

Janelle Monáe

Ashley Graham

Mary-Kate Olsen

Ashley Olsen

Jennifer Connelly

Irina Shayk

Diane von Furstenberg

Gabrielle Union-Wade

Jeremy Scott (designer for Moschino)

Katie Holmes

Emily Ratajkowski

Gwen Stefani

Julia Garner

Angelina Jolie

Alicia Vikander

Lizzo

Adwoa Aboh

Jourdan Dunn

RuPaul

Solange Knowles

Billie Lourd

Daisy Ridley

John Boyega

Emma Stone

Bri Larson

Rita Ora

Dua Lipa

Naomi Scott

Law Roach

Kate Moss

Victoria Beckham

David Beckham

Mila Kunis

Natalie Portman

Zoey Deutch

Halsey

Michelle Williams

Kiernan Shipka

Rachel McAdams

Florence Welch

Danielle Bernstein (@weworewhat on Instagram)

Grace Elizabeth

Joey King

Dan Stevens

Christian Siriano

Jeremy Scott

Alessandro Michele (designer for Gucci)

Miuccia Prada

Elie Saab

Iris Van Herpen

Han Chong (designer for Self-Portrait)

Maria Grazia Chiuri (designer for Christian Dior)

Anthony Vaccarello (designer for Saint Laurent)

Silvia Ventura Fendi

Giambattista Valli

Zuhair Murad

Virginie Viard (designer for Chanel)

Ben Affleck

Elaine Welteroth

Nina Garcia

Imaan Hammam

Sara Paulson 

Julia Roberts

Brandon Maxwell

Pierpaolo Piccioli (designer for Valentino)

Yara Shahidi

Gemma Chan

Laverne Cox

Lucy Boynton

Naomi Campbell

Penelope Cruz

Salma Hayek

Gwyneth Paltrow

Rami Malek

Sienna Miller

Aurora James

Carey Mulligan

Charli XCX

Alexa Chung

Stella Maxwell

Sofía Sánchez Barrenechea

Dapper Dan

Aquaria

Normani

Camila Coelho

Deepika Padukone

Tommy Hilfiger

Violet Chachki

Nasiba Adilova

Shailene Woodley

Ansel Elgort

Joe Jonas

Megan Fox

Laura Haddock

Orlando Bloom

Willow Smith

Jason Sudeikis

Ewan McGregor

Coco Rocha

Ralph Lauren

BTS - Jungkook, V, Park Ji-min, Jin, Suga, RM, J-Hope

Blackpink - Jennie, Lisa, Rosé, Jisoo

Doja Cat

Sam Claflin

Kiera Knightley

Alexina Graham

Rachel Zegler

Sophia Lillis

Sam Smith

Mimi Cuttrell 

Aubrey Plaza

Adam Driver

Kate McKinnon

Aidy Bryant

Thomasin McKenzie

Maddie Ziegler

Kristen Bell

Idina Menzel

Michelle Dockery

Chris Evans

Peter Dinklage

Luke Evans

Liam Hemsworth

Robert Pattinson

Christian Louboutin

Stuart Weitzman

Nicola Glass (designer for Kate Spade)

Michael Kors

Manolo Blahnik

Alberta Ferretti

Kim Jones (designer for Fendi)

Viktor Horsting

Rolf Snoeren

Richard Madden

Giorgio Armani

Isabel Marant

Nicky Zimmermann

Simone Zimmermann

Gimmo Etro

Austin Butler

Abigail Breslin

Lana Del Rey

Natalia Dyer

Molly Ringwald

Adele

Giambattista Valli

Tamara Ralph

Michael Russo

Isla Fisher

Anastasia Soare (founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills)

Charlotte Tilbury

Allan Avendaño

Danielle Priano

Pier Gelardi (founder of Refinery29)

Philippe von Borries (founder of Refinery29)

Christene Barberich (founder of Refinery29)

Justin Stefano (founder of Refinery29)

Sara Moonves (editor-in-chief for W Magazine)

Arnaud de Contades (CEO of Marie Claire Magazine)

Anne Fullenwider (editor-in-chief of Marie Claire Magazine)

Lauren Conrad

Miles Socha (editor-in-chief of Women’s Wear Daily)

Jay Penske (CEO of Women’s Wear Daily)

Jessica Pels (editor-in-chief for Cosmopolitan Magazine)

Rob Zangardi

Mariel Haenn

Michael Fassbender

Elliot Page

Betsey Johnson

Jonathan Groff

Anna Faris

Meryl Streep

Brie Larson

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Cindy Crawford

Nicholas Hoult

Zac Posen

Taraji P. Henson

Joan Smalls

Samira Nasr (editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine)

Lily James

Thandiwe Newton

Ciara Bravo

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Phoebe Dynevor

Allison Janney

Daniel Levy

Claire Foy

Lisa Eldridge

Kale Teter

LaQuan Smith

Lacy Redway

Alexandra DiRoma

Alex White (fashion director for Elle Magazine U.S.)

Carine Roitfeld (founder and editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book)

Carine Backoff

Zoey Grossman

Tyler Shields

Greg Williams

Cass Blackbird

Kacey Musgraves

Owen Gould

Tobi Henney

Marc Eram

Charlotte Prevel

Romy Soleimani

Rebecca Minkoff

Joseph Altuzarra

Gabriela Heart (designer for Chloé)

Hedi Slimane (designer for Céline)

Phoebe Philo (designer for Céline)

Jonathan Anderson (designer for Loewe)

Saweetie

Kelsey Deenihan Fisher

Lorde

Demna Gvasalia (designer for Balenciaga)

Anok Lai

Precious Lee

Storm Reid

Jennifer Hudson

Maisie Williams

Tom Ford

Iman Abdulmajid

Ella Emhoff

Pete Davidson

Regina King

Amandla Stenberg

Eiza González

Stella McCartney

Vittora Ceretti

Leslie Grace

Alton Mason

Mary J. Blige

Carey Mulligan

Ming Xi

Donald Glover

Brooke Shields

Tracee Ellis Ross

Maya Hawke

Symone

Chiara Ferragni

Laura Dern

Anthony Mackie

Pharrell Williams

Frank Ocean

Joe Alwyn

Queen Latifah

Jason Wu

Shawn Mendes

Camila Cabello

(358-390 are new! If I think of ten more, then I’ll reblog this post and add them. I had this in the drafts for too long and I still could not think of anyone...)

NOT Invited

Justin Bieber

Hailey Baldwin

Cole Sprouse

Lili Reinhart

Kim Kardashian

Khloé Kardashian

Kris Jenner

Caitlyn Jenner

Kylie Jenner

Emma Chamberlain

Addison Rae

Charlie D'Amelio (she’s a minor anyhow, but even if she was 18 or older, she still doesn’t deserve to be invited. 😊)

Dixie D'Amelio

James Charles

Cardi B

Nicki Minaj

Miley Cyrus

Priyanka Chopra

Jeffree Star

ALL social media influencers (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram)

Lena Dunham

John Legend

Chrissy Teigen

Kanye West

Demi Lovato

Doutzen Kroes

Ezra Miller

Winnie Harlow

Chloë Grace Moretz

Johnny Depp

Amber Heard

Armie Hammer

Kristen Stewart

Travis Scott

Emma Roberts

Tom Cruise

Olivia Rodrigo

Hailee Steinfeld

Henry Cavill

Alida Morberg (Bill Skarsgård’s problematic “girlfriend”)

David Dobrik

Madison Beer

Domenico Dolce

Stefano Gabbana

Dove Cameron

Sabrina Carpenter

Lil Nas X

Harry Styles

Olivia Wilde

Alexander Wang

Justin Timberlake

Madonna

Justin Timberlake

Adam Levine

Sebastian Stan

Alejandra Onieva

Machine Gun Kelly

21 Savage

Barbara Palvin

French Montana

Chris Pratt

Bella Thorne

Scarlett Johansson

Jennifer Lawrence

Emma Watson

Vanessa Hudgens

Sacha Baron Cohen

Dylan Sprouse

Ashton Kutcher

Sarah Jessica Parker

Zayn Malik

Olivia Jade

Kid Cudi

Channing Tatum

Paris Hilton

Nicky Hilton

A$AP Rocky

Jeremy O. Harris

Timothée Chalamet

John Mulaney

Olivia Munn

Elon Musk

♡ September 12, 2021 November 25, 2021 ♡

[youngfcs]

Crackship | Masterlist

(TODOS|ALL)

[ A ]

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Adelaide Kane

Alberto Rosende

Alexia Fast

Alfie Enoch

Alicia Vikander

Alina Kovalenko

Ana de Armas

Andrew Lees

[ B ]

Barbara Palvin

Beau Mirchoff

Becky G

Ben Barnes

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benjamin Wadsworth

Bill Hader

Bill Skarsgård

Blake Shelton

Bob Morley

Brandon Flynn

Brant Daugherty

Brie Larson

Bruna Marquezine

[ C ]

Cailin Russo

Caitlin Stasey

Camila Mendes

Chace Crawford

Charlie Hunnam

Chris Evans

Chris Wood

Cody Christian

Cody Fern

Cole Sprouse

Colton Haynes

Courtney Eaton

Crystal Reed

[ D ]

Dacre Montgomery

Daisy Ridley

Dane Dehaan

Daniel Sharman

Danielle Rose Russell

Daria Sidorchuk

David Oakes

Dianna Agron

Dominic Sherwood

Douglas Booth

Dua Lipa

Dustin Clare

Dylan O'Brien

[ E ]

Eiza Gonzalez

Elizabeth Gillies

Elle Fanning

Elsa Hosk

Emeraude Toubia

Emilia Clarke

Emily Browning

Emmy Rossum

[ F ]

Francisco Lachowski

François Arnaud

Froy Gutierrez

[ G ]

Gabriella Wilde

Gemma Arterton

Gemma Chan

Gina Rodriguez

Grant Gustin

Gwilym Lee

[ H ]

Halston Sage

Hande Erçel

Harry Styles

Hera Hilmar

Herman Tommeraas

Holland Roden

[ I ]

Isabelle Fuhrman

[ J ]

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jamie Campbell Bower

Jared Padalecki

Jemima West

Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Lawrence

Jensen Ackles

Jesse Lee Soffer

Jessica Chastain

Jon Kortajarena

Jordan Barrett

Joseph Morgan

Justine Skye

[ K ]

Katherine Langford

Katie Stevens

Kaya Scodelario

Kit Harington

Kristine Froseth

Kriti Sanon

[ L ]

Lana Condor

Leighton Meester

Liam Hemsworth

Lili Reinhart

Lily Collins

Lily James

Luca Hollestelle

Lucky Blue Smith

Lucy Hale

Luke James

Lyrica Okano

[ M ]

Madchën Amick

Madelaine Petsch

Madison Beer

Maisie Williams

Manny Montana

Manu Rios

Marie Avgeropoulos

Martin Freeman

Matthew Daddario

Matthew Goode

Maxence Danet-Fauvel

Melissa Benoist

Michael Malarkey

Molly Quinn

[ N ]

Nam Joo-Hyuk

Naomi Scott

Natalie Dormer

Nathaniel Buzolic

Nick Robinson

Nina Dobrev

Norman Reedus

[ O ]

Olivia Holt

Orlando Bloom

[ P ]

Park Jimin

Park Min-hyuk

Paul Wesley

Paulina Singer

Phoebe Tonkin

[ R ]

Rachel Keller

Rami Malek

Remy Hii

Richard Madden

Robert Downey Jr.

Ross Lynch

Ruby Rose

Ryan Destiny

Ryan Reynolds

[ S ]

Sabrina Carpenter

Sam Claflin

Scarlett Leithold

Sebastian Stan

Shawn Mendes

Shay Mitchell

Shelley Hennig

Skeet Ulrich

Sofia Boutella

Sophie Turner

Stefanie Scott

Stella Maxwell

[ T ]

Tanner Buchanan

Taron Egerton

Taylor Swift

Tessa Thompson

Timothée Chalamet

Toby Regbo

Tom Hiddleston

Tom Holland

Tuppence Middleton

Tyler Hoechlin

[ V ]

Valentina Zenere

[ W ]

Will Tudor

Winona Ryder

[ Z ]

Zayn Malik

Zendaya

Zoey Deutch