#Frank Westerman

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D.O.D (=de onregelmatige dosis): Paustovski

In De ingenieurs van de ziel van Frank Westerman ging het vooral over het Rusland van Konstantin Paustovski (1892-1968) en zijn avonturen in Kara-Bogaz. Paustovski is een schrijver die bij voortduring een rol opeist in mijn leven. Op minder gezette tijden en als de aandacht voor zijn werk verslapt, is daar ineens weer een werk van hem dat me onder ogen verschijnt. In dit recente geval was het De…

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Recensione: "Noi, umani" di Frank Westerman

Buongiorno a tutti sono Elena e vi ringrazio di essere su Life Is Like A Wave Who Rises and Falls! Dopo un lungo periodo fatto di poche letture e ancora meno recensioni pubblicate, spero piano piano di riuscire a pubblicare le recensioni dei libri letti perché è una consuetudine che voglio mantenere nonostante gli impegni lavorativi. Ecco che allora vi parlo di: Noi, umani di Frank…

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Libros relacionados con la represión en la Unión Soviética y las regímenes comunistas en general. 

El vértigo, de Eugenia Ginzburg

El infierno de los jemeres rojos, de Denise Affonço

La gran hambruna en la China de Mao, de Frank Dikötter

Regreso de la URSS, de André Gide

Viaje a la revolución, de Bertrand Russell

La matanza de Katyn, de Thomas Urban

Yo, comunista en Rusia, de Ettore Vanni

El Terror bajo Lenin, de Jacques Baynac

La vida cotidiana durante el estalinismo, de Sheila Fitzpatrick

Las redes del terror, de José M. Faraldo

En el país de la mentira desconcertante, de Ante Ciliga

Cartas desde el gulag, de Luiza Iordache Carstea

Gulag: historia de los campos de concentración soviéticos, de Anne Applebaum

El mito bolchevique, de Alexander Berkman

Dos años en Rusia, de Emma Goldman

Mi viaje al a Rusia sovietista, de Fernando de los Ríos Urruti

Así es Rusia, de Johann Philipp

La palabra arrestada, de Vitali Shentalinski

Un Estado contra su pueblo: violencias, temores y represiones en la Unión Soviética, de Nicolas Werth

Insumisa, de Yevguenia Yaroslavskaia-Markon

La mentalidad soviética, de Isaiah Berlin

Un mundo aparte, de Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

Ingenieros del alma, de Frank Westerman

¡... Así es Moscú!, de Joseph Douillet

La tortura del silencio, de Guido Barella

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Si la quête que j’ai menée sur l’essence de l’humain m’a appris quelque chose, c’est que nous sommes condamnés à rectifier sans cesse ce que nous croyons savoir. Seule la fiction peut donner l’illusion que la réalité est exacte, de façon éphémère. Tout autre écrit devra toujours laisser une porte ouverte, le début d’autre chose. Version après version. C’est justement la rectification, comme figure de style, qui nous différencie des autres espèces. La version finale n’existe pas.

Frank Westerman, Nous, les humains

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Owned TBR-list of Doom

Or; I own too many books and I have too little time to get to them all.

I want to say that I’ll entirely pull my reads this year off my own shelves, but it’s rather unlikely to actually happen. Mood reader and all that.

Shamelessly stealing @lettersfromthelighthouse ‘s formatting - bold is started, strikethrough is finished. Imagine that the titles are italicised; tumblr refuses to copy formatting done in another file. I hope I shall keep updating this post, but I am notoriously forgetful, so there’s that.

Sorted into categories, but no alphabetical order under the cut:

Non-fiction, historic:

The Illustrated Red Baron, Peter Kilduff

Crossroads, Reizen door de Middeleeuwen, David Abulafia (red.)

Five Miles High & Forty Below, Bill Williams

Vergeten volkeren, Philip Matyszak

The Discovery of Middle Earth, Graham Robb

Nobel Streven, Frits van Oostrom

The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey

The Histories, Herodotus

Where Poppies Blow, John Lewis-Stempel

Een paleis voor de doden, Herman Clerinx

The Edge of the World, Michael Pye

The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan

Danubia, Simon Winder

De uitvinding van de natuur, Andrea Wulf

Vriend Over Vijand, Peter van Damme

Non-fiction, historic equine:

Dressage, Sylvia Loch

The Royal Horse of Europe, Sylvia Loch

The Warhorse 1250-1600, Ann Hyland

The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, John Clark

The Horse in the Ancient World, Ann Hyland

The Horse in the Middle Ages, Ann Hyland

The Medieval Warhorse, From Byzantium to the Crusades, Ann Hyland

Non-fiction, equine training manuals:

True Horsemanship Through Feel, Bill Dorrance & Leslie Desmond

Grondwerk met paarden, Inge Teblick

Pferde Gymnastizieren mit dem Clicker, Viviane Theby

Gymnasium of the Horse, Steinbrecht

Basic Training of the Young Horse, Ingrid & Reiner Klimke

The Scales of Training Workbook, Claire Lilley

Non-fiction, miscellaneous:

Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith

Dier, bovendier, Frank Westerman

The Old Ways, A Journey On Foot, Robert Macfarlane

Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

The Travels, Marco Polo

J.R.R. Tolkien Artist & Illustrator, Hammond & Scull

Zout, Vet, Zuur, Hitte, Samin Nosrat

Fiction, ‘classics’:

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Don Quixote, Cervantes

The Master & Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Maurice, E.M. Forster

The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Metamorphosen, Ovidius

Fiction, ‘classic sci-fi’:

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

The Great Science-Fiction, H.G. Wells

Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, R.L. Stevenson

Het geheimzinnige eiland, Jules Verne

Michael Strogoff, Jules Verne

Fiction, fantasy:

The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison

Het helse paradijs, Thea Beckmann

Kinderen van moeder aarde, Thea Beckmann

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James

Beren and Luthien, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fall of Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt

Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch

The Story of Kullervo, J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction, sci-fi:

Hyperion, Dan Simmons

The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood

Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey

Fiction, historic:

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry

Butcher’s Crossing, Jon Williams

The Last English King, Julian Rathbone

Parade’s End, Ford Maddox Ford

Heer Belisarius, Robert Graves

De naam van de roos, Umberto Eco

Fiction, anthologies:

Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman

The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson, W.H. Hodgson

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft

Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman

Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson (ed.)

Fiction, Poetry:

Shelley, Shelley (too lazy to check for the editor, it’s not on the cover)

The War Poems of Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen

Fiction, Miscellaneous:

Overstory, Richard Powers

Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson

How to be Both, Ali Smith

De Hills, Matias Faldbraken

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Full List of 172 Republicans Who Opposed the Violence Against Women Act

1. Robert Aderholt (AL) 2. Rick Allen (GA) 3. Mark Amodei (NV) 4. Kelly Armstrong (ND) 5. Jodey Arrington (TX) 6. Brian Babin (TX) 7. Don Bacon (NE) 8. James Baird (IN) 9. Jim Banks (IN) 10. Andy Barr (KY) 11. Cliff Bentz (OR). 12. Jack Bergman (MI) 13. Andy Biggs (AZ) 14. Gus Bilirakis (FL) 15. Dan Bishop (NC) 16. Lauren Boebert (CO) 17. Mo Brooks (AL) 18. Vern Buchanan (FL) 19. Ken Buck (CO) 20. Larry Buschon (IN) 21. Ted Budd (NC) 22. Tim Burchett (TN) 23. Michael Burgess (TX) 24. Ken Calvert (CA) 25. Kat Cammack (FL). 26. Jerry Carl (AL) 27. Madison Cawthorn (NC) 28. Steve Chabot (OH) 29. Liz Cheney (WY) 30. Ben Cline (VA) 31. Michael Cloud (TX) 32. Andrew Clyde (GA) 33. James Comer (KY) 34. Eric Crawford (AR) 35. John Curtis (UT) 36. Warren Davidson (OH) 37. Scott DesJarlais (TN) 38. Byron Donalds (FL) 39. Jeff Duncan (SC) 40. Neal Dunn (FL) 41. Tom Emmer (MN) 42. Ron Estes (KS) 43. Pat Fallon (TX) 44. Randy Feenstra (IA) 45. A. Drew Ferguson (GA) 46. Michelle Fischbach (MN) 47. Scott Fitzgerald (WI) 48. Charles Fleischmann (TN) 49. Jeff Fortenberry (NE) 50. Virginia Foxx (NC) 51. Scott Franklin (FL) 52. Russ Fulcher (ID) 53. Matt Gaetz (FL) 54. Mike Gallagher (WI) 55. Andrew Garbarino (NY) 56. Mike Garcia (CA) 57. Bob Gibbs (OH) 58. Louie Gohmert (TX) 59. Tony Gonzales (TX) 60. Bob Good (VA) 61. Lance Gooden (TX) 62. Paul Gosar (AZ) 63. Kay Granger (TX) 64. Garret Graves (LA) 65. Sam Graves (MO) 66. Mark Green (TN) 67. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) 68. H. Morgan Griffith (VA) 69. Glenn Grothman (WI) 70. Brett Guthrie (KY) 71. Jim Hagedorn (MN) 72. Andy Harris (MD) 73. Diana Harshbarger (TN) 74. Vicky Hartzler (MO) 75. Kevin Hern (OK) 76. Yvette Herrell (NM) 77. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA) 78. Jody Hice (GA) 79. Clay Higgins (LA) 80. J. Hill (AR) 81. Ashley Hinson (IA) 82. Trey Hollingsworth (IN) 83. Richard Hudson (NC) 84. Bill Huizenga (MI) 85. Ronny Jackson (TX) 86. Mike Johnson (LA) 87. Bill Johnson (OH) 88. Dusty Johnson (SD) 89. Jim Jordan (OH) 90. John Joyce (PA) 91. Fred Keller (PA) 92. Trent Kelly (MS) 93. Mike Kelly (PA) 94. David Kustoff (TN) 95. Darin LaHood (IL) 96. Doug LaMalfa (CA) 97. Doug Lamborn (CO) 98. Robert Latta (OH) 99. Jake LaTurner (KS) 100. Debbie Lesko (AZ) 101. Billy Long (MO) 102. Frank Lucas (OK) 103. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO) 104. Nancy Mace (SC) 105. Tracey Mann (KS) 106. Thomas Massie (KY) 107. Brain Mast (FL) 108. Kevin McCarthy (CA) 109. Lisa McClain (MI) 110. Tom McClintock (CA) 111. Patrick McHenry (NC) 112. David McKinley (WV) 113. Daniel Meuser (PA) 114. Mary Miller (IL) 115. Carol Miller (WV) 116. John Moolenaar (MI) 117. Alexander Mooney (WV) 118. Barry Moore (AL) 119. Blake Moore (UT) 120. Gregory Murphy (NC) 121. Troy Nehls (TX) 122. Dan Newhouse (WA) 123. Ralph Norman (SC) 124. Devin Nunes (CA) 125. Jay Obernolte (CA) 126. Burgess Owens (UT) 127. Steven Palazzo (MS) 128. Gary Palmer (AL) 129. Greg Pence (IN) 130. Scott Perry (PA) 131. August Pfluger (TX) 132. Bill Posey (FL) 133. Guy Reschenthaler (PA) 134. Tom Rice (SC) 135. Cathy Rodgers (WA) 136. Mike Rogers (AL) 137. Harold Rogers (KY) 138. John Rose (TN) 139. David Rouzer (NC) 140. Chip Roy (TX) 141. John Rutherford (FL) 142. Steve Scalise (LA) 143. David Schweikert (AZ) 144. Austin Scott (GA) 145. Pete Sessions (TX) 146. Jason Smith (MO) 147. Adrian Smith (NE) 148. Christopher Smith (NJ) 149. Lloyd Smucker (PA) 150. Victoria Spartz (IN) 151. Michelle Steel (CA) 152. Elise Stefanik (NY) 153. W. Gregory Steube (FL) 154. Chris Stewart (UT) 155. Van Taylor (TX) 156. Claudia Tenney (NY) 157. Glenn Thompson (PA) 158. Thomas Tiffany (WI) 159. William Timmons (SC) 160. Michael Turner (OH) 161. Beth Van Duyne (TX) 162. Ann Wagner (MO) 163. Tim Walberg (MI) 164. Jackie Walorski (IN) 165. Michael Waltz (FL) 166. Randy Weber Sr. (TX) 167. Daniel Webster (FL) 168. Bruce Westerman (AR) 169. Roger Williams (TX) 170. Robert Wittman (VA) 171. Steve Womack (AR) 172. Lee Zeldin (NY)

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-172-republicans-opposed-violence-against-women-act-1577029

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Westerman and Puma Blue Come to Rough Trade NYC on Wednesday

According to AllMusic, as Westerman, (above, performing live for Paste Studios) London singer-songwriter Will Westerman “makes low-key, atmospheric indie pop with a cerebral bent à la Steely Dan, one of his influences.” Last fall he put out the EP Ark (stream it here). “Pop music with empathy,” says the Fader. “Ark is the sound of an artist finding his feet as the ground shifts beneath him.” Westerman’s currently touring the U.S. with another like-minded English musician, Jacob Allen, doing business as Puma Blue. “This south London Sinatra melds jazz, electronica and shoegaze to seductive effect,” raves the Guardian. He also put out an EP, Blood Loss (stream it here), last fall. “Puma Blue offers up another gorgeous slice of murky, jazz-inflected musings,” reports DIY Mag. Catch both engaging performs live at Rough Trade NYC on Wednesday night. Charlottesville, Va., singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger opens the show.

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Weekend Edition: Indigenous People’s Day, Part 2

We are continuing our celebration of Indigenous People’s Day today by highlighting recent works of fiction, poetry, and a memoir by Indigenous authors. To discover more must-reads, visit the First Nations Development Institute’s #NativeReads page. Almost all of the books on their 10 Featured Books for 2020 are held at OCL (and we’re ordering the one we’re missing!). Just search OBIS by title to find the ones you’d like to read. 

New Poets of Native Nations edited by Heid E. Edrich

A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth--long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics--and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now. Poets included are Tacey M. Atsitty, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Laura Da', Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Eric Gansworth, Gordon Henry, Jr., Sy Hoahwah, LeAnne Howe, Layli Long Soldier, Janet McAdams, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Margaret Noodin, dg okpik, Craig Santos Perez, Tommy Pico, Cedar Sigo, M. L. Smoker, Gwen Westerman, and Karenne Wood.

There There by Tommy Orange

Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. Tommy Orange delivers a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. A multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.

Future  Home of the Living God: a Novel by Louise Erdrich

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.  

Heart Berries: a Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father-an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist-who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world."-- Provided by publisher

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confirmation - westerman, sodom south georgia + resurrection fern - iron and wine, holocene / flume - bon iver, i wanna be good - the walters, nikes - frank ocean, cherry wine - hozier,

THANK U!!!!

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De ingenieurs van de ziel

De ingenieurs van de ziel

Schrijvers en totalitaire systemen is het thema van het boek Ingenieurs van de ziel van schrijver Frank Westerman (1964, Emmen). En speciaal schrijvers binnen het sovjetsysteem. Wat ingenieurs van de ziel zijn (bedacht door Stalin), wordt in het eerste hoofdstuk uitgelegd. Daarin volgen we het spoor van schrijver Maksim Gorki (1868-1936, Novgorod, Rus). Op deze foto lijken schrijver Maksim Gorki…

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«Ingenieros del alma», de Frank Westerman

Obra a camino entre el ensayo y el reportaje en la que el autor narra la situación de los escritores bajo el régimen soviético a la vez que investiga la vida en particular de uno de ellos. La verdad es que yo hubiese preferido un estudio en el que tratase de forma general el tema más que esta combinación poco lineal y llena de desviaciones, pero aun así es un libro que permite conocer bien el estado constante de amenaza y coacción que tenían que soportar todos aquellos que quisiesen dedicarse a la literatura (y, en realidad, a todo tipo de escritura) en la Unión Soviética. El título del libro —tomado de un discurso que dio Stalin en una reunión de escritores— está doblemente bien elegido, porque el autor dedica una buena cantidad de páginas a contar la historia de distintas obras de ingeniería desarrolladas en el país y a mostrar cómo estas también reflejan lo autoritario del régimen. Por cierto, esa misma reunión en la que Stalin llamó a los escritores a implicarse en la transformación de almas sirve de ejemplo para lo que fue el estalinismo: de los cuarenta que participaron, once terminarían siendo asesinados. El siguiente pasaje demuestra que estuvieron lejos de ser los únicos represaliados:

Ha llegado a nuestros días un informe interno sobre los logros conseguidos por la GlavLit [Dirección General de Literatura] en los años 1938-1939. En él se puede leer que, durante aquel período, el órgano central de censura retiró 7.806 obras «políticamente perjudiciales» de 1.860 escritores diferentes. Otros 4.512 títulos fueron reciclados, al ser considerados «de ningún valor para el lector soviético». En total fueron destruidos 24.138.799 ejemplares.

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20 questions

tagged by @noorhelmnation thank youuuu :) 

nickname: meg, megs, mags, MAHgan (specific emphasis on the ‘mah’ part) 

zodiac sign: taurus 

height: 5′10″ 

hogwarts house: ravenclaw babey 

last thing I googled: lmao lyrics to “glitter” by 070 Shake for the ask I just answered 

favorite musician: ummmm john mayer, imagine dragons, wet, young the giant, hozier, bastille, H.E.R., VÉRITÉ, SYML

song stuck in my head: I mean nothing atm bc I'm listening to music but if I wasn't probably “childs play” by SZA 

followers on this blog: um 244 

following: 120 

do I get asks: um sometimes, usually after I've posted a fic or something 

amount of sleep: um varies probs anywhere from 5-10 depending on when I go to bed and what I have to do the next day 

instruments: um I played the piano for like 6 years but not anymore lmao 

lucky number: 13 lmaooooo

what are you wearing: mom jeans and a tank top 

dream job: author babey but that’s never gonna happen bc that industry is sooo hard to get into 

dream vacation: honestly? just like three days alone by myself no probs like Alaska or Scandinavia or anywhere in the north where it’s cold and snowy and has pretty mountains and forests 

favorite song: I'm listing like eighteen bc I can’t help myself: “edge of desire” by john mayer, “deadwater” by wet, “buzzcut season” by lorde, “2″ by H.E.R., “jericho” by westerman, “redemption interlude” by zacari, “firelight” by young the giant, “amsterdam” by imagine dragons, “cruise” by zach beaver, “islands” by young the giant, “glory” by bastille, “NFWMB” by hozier, “BRB” by LANY, “pink + white” by frank ocean, “pierre” by ryn weaver, “nobody” by mitski, “follow my girl” by the japanese house, “big god” by florence + the machine 

ok I'm sorry that was so many lmao 

languages: English, a tiny bit of Spanish 

random fact: four time hs swim state champion babey 

aesthetic: tryna be grunge, hipster, and cool and failing at all three 

I'll tag @air-bison-yip-yip @bellsprincess @eleonorasmia

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Owned TBR of Doom

Or; I own too many books and I have too little time to get to them all.

Which is why I got rid of a lot of books that, when being honest, I wasn’t ever going to read. They include a lot of classics, but I’ve also put some classics I can’t bear to part with with my study books so at least they’re off the TBR, and I won’t include them here.

Here is the original list, for comparison.

Shamelessly stealing @lettersfromthelighthouse ‘s formatting - bold is started, strikethrough is finished. Imagine that the titles are italicised; tumblr refuses to copy formatting done in another file.

Sorted into categories, but no alphabetical order under the cut:

Non-fiction, historic:

Five Miles High & Forty Below, Bill Williams

The Discovery of Middle Earth, Graham Robb

Nobel Streven, Frits van Oostrom

The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey

Where Poppies Blow, John Lewis-Stempel

Een paleis voor de doden, Herman Clerinx

The Edge of the World, Michael Pye

The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan

De uitvinding van de natuur, Andrea Wulf

Non-fiction, historic equine:

Dressage, Sylvia Loch

The Royal Horse of Europe, Sylvia Loch

The Warhorse 1250-1600, Ann Hyland

The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, John Clark

The Horse in the Ancient World, Ann Hyland

The Horse in the Middle Ages, Ann Hyland

The Medieval Warhorse, From Byzantium to the Crusades, Ann Hyland

Non-fiction, equine training manuals:

True Horsemanship Through Feel, Bill Dorrance & Leslie Desmond

Grondwerk met paarden, Inge Teblick

Pferde Gymnastizieren mit dem Clicker, Viviane Theby

Gymnasium of the Horse, Steinbrecht

Basic Training of the Young Horse, Ingrid & Reiner Klimke

The Scales of Training Workbook, Claire Lilley

H.Dv.12 German Cavalry Training Manual

Non-fiction, miscellaneous:

Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith

Dier, bovendier, Frank Westerman

The Old Ways, A Journey On Foot, Robert Macfarlane

Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

The Travels, Marco Polo

J.R.R. Tolkien Artist & Illustrator, Hammond & Scull

Zout, Vet, Zuur, Hitte, Samin Nosrat

Fiction, ‘classics’:

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Fiction, ‘classic sci-fi’:

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

The Great Science-Fiction, H.G. Wells

Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, R.L. Stevenson

Fiction, fantasy:

The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James

Beren and Luthien, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fall of Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt

Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch

The Story of Kullervo, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Ninth Rain, Jen Williams

Fiction, sci-fi:

Hyperion, Dan Simmons

The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood

Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey

Fiction, historic:

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry

Butcher’s Crossing, Jon Williams

The Last English King, Julian Rathbone

Heer Belisarius, Robert Graves

Fiction, anthologies:

The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson, W.H. Hodgson

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft

Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman

Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson (ed.)

Fiction, Poetry:

The War Poems of Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen

Fiction, Miscellaneous:

Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson

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My 30 questions

Tagged by @sidespart and @artistictaurean and @constantly-fatigued

Nickname(s): in RL: Dani, Daan (from Daniëlle)

Gender: It’s ya girl

Sign: Pieces

Height: 5’7” (172 cm)

Time: At the moment, 13:03 pm

Fav band(s): I have a varied music taste. Some bands I like are Capital Kings, FOB, PAtD, Aviators, Hamilton Soundtrack, Coldplay, Owl City, Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5

Fav solo artist(s): Blackgryph0n, Dua Lipa, Dodie Clark, Thomas Sanders, Paint, Madeon, Chase Holfelder, Malinda Kathreen Reese

Song stuck in my head: Neon Trees Animal, Minor Key cover by Chase Holfelder

Last movie I saw: Catch Me If You Can

Last show I watched: I have no idea. Probably Voltron

When did I create my blog: Around november/december last year I think?

What do I post: Sanders Sides, and things that are Thomas Sanders related. Focused on Roman, Logan and Remy. I make edits, art, write headcanons and drabbles

Last thing I Googled: ‘thomas sanders twitter’ (I don’t have twitter and wanted to check something about an upcoming video)

Do I have any other blogs: Yes! @pailettehazel is my main, I also have @demi-daniel for edits, a writing blog and two more.

Do I get asks: Very rarely. I wish I would get more, ahah

Why did I chose my URL: Romana Sanders is the genderbend/fem! Version of Roman. I first used the name on the Sanders Sides Amino.

Following: 388

Followed by: 733

Average hours of Sleep: about 6-8 hours

Lucky number: 2

Instruments: Nope. I used to play flute but I forgot how to do it now.

What I am wearing: Black Jeans, “Never Stop Dreaming” T-shit, Jeans jacket.

Dream job: Media and Comminucation advisor

Dream trip: Either to America, Israel or South Africa

Fav food: Salmon in Puff Pastry

Nationality: I’m Dutch and proud

Fav song: My friend, that changes every day. At the moment, Last Of The Real Ones by FOB probably?

Last book I read: El Negro and I by Frank Westerman, for my Dutch Literature List

Top 3 fictional universes I wanna join: History Keepers, uuuh Narnia maybe? Not sure. I am pretty content with this universe.

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For my dutchtuals:

Frederik van Eeden, de kleine Johannes

Simon Vestdijk, terug tot Ina Damman

Gerard Reve, de avonden

Jan Wolkers, Turks fruit

Rascha Peper, dooi (zo enthousiast over deze)

Frank Westerman, ingenieurs van de ziel (non-fictie over literatuur onder een totalitair regime in Rusland, vet interessant)

Lale Gül, ik ga leven

Leo Tolstoj, Anna Karenina (in vertaling)

Herman Koch, zomerhuis met zwembad (lijkt me vet leuk)

Finally managed to fill my reading list for Dutch class with books I’m actually excited to read! :D motivation +10 lol