#Gail Giles

[aliesafenlock]

Found a programme for the London production of Rebecca das Musical on ebay, so I got it scanned in case someone would like to see. All 30 pages are attached below. It doesn't have a lot of photos, but it has full cast and song lists which I haven't seen anywhere else. Feel free to inbox me for a PDF copy that's easier to read. Enjoy!

Ich/I - Lauren Jones

Maxim de Winter - Richard Carson

Mrs. Danvers - Kara Lane

Mrs. van Hopper - Shirley Jameson

Beatrice - Sarah Harlington

Giles - Neil Moors

Frank Crawley - Piers Bate

Clarice - Emily Apps

Frith - Nigel-Joseph Francis

Jack Favell - Alex James-Ward

Ben - David Breeds

Colonel Julyan - Nicholas Lumley

Ensemble: Melanie Bright (u/s Mrs. Danvers), Rosie Glossop, Gail Mackinnon, James Mateo-Salt, Scott McClure, Tarisha Rommick, Elliot Swann

Directed by Alejandro Bonatto

Conducted by Robert Scott

Choreography by Ron Howell

[musingsofmonica]

August 2023 Diverse Reads

August 2023 Diverse Reads

•”Happiness Falls” by Angie Kim, August 29, Hogarth Press, Literary Mystery 

•”Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare” by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, August 29, Bloomsbury Publishing, Short Story Collection — Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology (Hawaiian Identify) 

•”The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride, Riverhead Books, Historical

•”Family Lore” by Elizabeth Acevedo, August 1, Ecco Press, Literary/Magical Realism

“A Council of Dolls” by Mona Susan Power, August 7, Mariner Books, Literary — Coming of Age/Native American & Aboriginal/Magical Realism

•”Tomb Sweeping: Stories” by Alexandra Chang, August 8, Ecco Press, Short Story Collection — Asian American  

•”The End of August” by Yu Miri, Translated by Morgan Giles, August 1, Riverhead Books, Historical/Saga 

•”Holler, Child: Stories” by Latoya Watkins, August 29, Tiny Reparations Books, Short Story Collection — African American  

•”Vampires of El Norte” by Isabel Cañas, August 15, Berkley Books, Gothic Thriller/Horror/Suspense 

•”Las Madres” by Esmeralda Santiago, August 1, 

Knopf Publishing Group, Literary

•”Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women” by Sandra Guzman, August 15, Amistad Press, Anthology — American: Hispanic & Latino

•”Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls” by Kai Cheng Thom, August 01, Dual Press,  Nonfiction/Poetry/Motivation

•”The Art of Scandal” by Regina Black, August 1, Grand Central Publishing, Romance

•”Her Radiant Curse” by Elizabeth Lim, August 29, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, Fantasy/Fairy Tales/Folklore 

•”The Apology” by Jimin Han, August 1, Little Brown and Company, Family Saga/Magical Realism

•”The Water Outlaws” by S. L. Huang, August 22, Tordotcom, Fantasy

•”The Queen of the Valley” by Lorena Hughes, August 22, Kensington Publishing, Historical

•”I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani, August 1, Hogarth Press, Contemporary — Coming of Age/LGBTQ+/Muslim

•”The Peach Seed” by Anita Gail Jones, August 1, Henry Holt & Company, Literary 

•”Lush Lives” by J. Vanessa Lyon, August 1, Roxane Gay Books, Literary

Happy Reading!

Mo✌���

[finalmemesx]

What Happened to Cass McBride?

By Gail Giles.

“You don’t know how I like the quiet. I don’t get much of it. It’s a luxury.”

“You don’t think I know film noir?”

“I didn’t touch anything.”

“Is that all you got?”

“Stop, please. Don’t do that again.”

“I don’t know how long you’ve got either.”

“Do you have flying dreams?”

“Do you think I should call them?”

“Who the hell is that?”

“You guys gonna let me tell the story the way I need to tell it now?”

“Do you think there’s alligators in that water?”

“The place is seriously in the swamp.”

“Where did you come into the picture?”

“What do you need to know?”

“Where are you going?”

“Do me the courtesy of not interrupting until I’m through.”

“Tell me you guys have something.”

“You stayed away a little too long and missed all that.”

“I won’t tell you to help you feel better.”

“I’ll do it to make you suffer.”

“Are you going to do all the talking or can I ask you anything?”

“Get the bad news out of the way.”

“Tell me you guys have something.”

“Don’t try to mess with me.”

“Don’t even star that shit with me.”

“Not everybody is like you.”

“You’re a piece of shit.”

“Let’s have a listen.”

“You know what I think it means?”

“I have a gun and I will use it.”

“I saved you for the good stuff.”

“You don’t seem worried.”

“I don’t have a dress.”

“Why would you want me to do that?”

“What are you then?”

“Oh, I can’t live until you tell me.”

“What the fuck are you laughing at?”

“I understand why you have to go, but please call me.”

“It’s not about money.”

“Hey, are you asleep or dead?”

“You sound like crap.”

“What’s that mean?”

“What do you mean?”

“And that’s where you came in.”

“Who has access to new drugs on the market?”

“One more scream and I’ll slit your throat.”

“Let’s see what’s happening here.”

[kwebtv]

Game, Set and Match - ITV - October 3, 1988 - December 19, 1988 / PBS - March 23, 1989 - June 8, 1989

Drama (13 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Ian Holm as Bernard Samson

Mel Martin as Fiona Samson

Michael Culver as Dicky Cruyer

Michael Degen as Werner Volkmann

Gottfried John as Eric Stinnes

Anthony Bate as Bret Renssalaer

Frederick Treves as Frank Harrington

Amanda Donohoe as Gloria Kent

Hugh Fraser as Giles Trent

Gail Harrison as Tessa Kozinski

Gary Whelan as George Kozinski

Brigitte Karner as Zena Volkmann

Alan MacNaughtan as Sir Henry Clevemore DG

Michael Aldridge as Silas Gaunt

Peter Vaughan as David Kimber-Hutchinson

Eva Ebner as Frau Lisl Hennig

Jeremy Child as Henry Tiptree

Ralf Wolter as Juri Rostov

[incorrectghostfiles]

Hi! So ive got a few book recs

Her royal highness by rachel hawkins, ya romance

They both die in the end/the first to die in the end by Adam silvera, ya romance

The pirate captains daughter by Eve bunting, ya pirate book with a side of very cute romance(I hope you can find it, I legit I now clue how i got a copy or where to find one)

Because of Mr terupt & series by rob buyea, youth fiction, a personal favorite of mine, dives into some pretty deep topics for a youth novel

The city of ember & series by Jeanne DuPrau, somewhere between youth a ya dystopian novel another personal fav of mine

The seven husbands of Evelyn hugo by taylor Jenkins reid, romance-ish one or two kinda spicy scenes, but not enought that I wouldn't recomend it to like my grandma

One of us is lying/next by Karen McManus, ya mystery series, some queer rep, side dish of romance, and a twist ending of both of the book

Shattering glass by Gail giles, ya mystery, dude this book fucked me up, the suspence keeps building and the end is holy shit, DO NOT read unless you have something really feel good to read after, but it is incredibly well written

All for the game trilogy by nora sakavic, i believe it's self published, sports mafia gay, nearly every trigger known to man(be careful) great fandom

And really anything louis Lowry

I'll make sure to check those out, thank you very much ~!

[iggydabirdkid]

TAG GAME

I was tagged by @just-a-tiny-goldfish . This is the first time I've done one of these so bare with me 😅

Last Song: Your Needs My Needs by Noah Kahan. He released his extended Stick Season album not too long ago and I've been listening to the above mentioned song, Dial Drunk, Paul Revere, Call Your Mom and View Between Villages (extended) on repeat since it came out 😂

Currently Watching: American Dad. My friend got me to start watching it a while back while we were building Lego and now I'm up to season 12 😅 it's a great background show when drawing

Currently Reading: (Does having to reread my own book over and over to edit it count? 😂) Sadly I don't read much anymore, and I honestly can't remember the last thing I read which, oof, is sad because I used to read so much. But I can tell y'all one book I really enjoy that I read in highschool and book after because I liked it so much. Right Behind You by Gail Giles. I also think The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan is amazing.

Current Obsession: Fallen Hero for sure. That and just text based games in general at the moment. So many cool ideas,I wish I had the motivation and skill to make my own 😭

Now I gotta tag some people

@rockboci @kissingagrumpygiant @lydiaalin @disastersteps @ladyshivs @raptorofwar @autistic-sidestep @depressed-sock

[awkwardgtace]

25, 26 and 32

writer ask game

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

Mikhail is awful at video games.

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

ok so I've thought about this for a while. It sort of happens naturally. I think about the setting and the scene I want to create. Then who I think will give the best view of that scene. Then I just kind of start writing it in my head.

So an example would be siren's song. I needed Melody to set it up with her past and what she knows so I started with her. How do I introduce her past? A bad dream. Show the relationships she currently has, what's strongest. Then I figured Kyrie would be better next. To show his intentions and what his thoughts are as Melody suffers.

In general I think I sort of just naturally fall into their minds. I don't think I've had a character I regret going into, maybe one that I knew meant I needed a break. I've found myself getting anxious/worked up as I write something (like the end of Delphia Rising) or swinging my head along when saying someone's sick/dizzy.

It probably helps that as a kid (and now) I had a habit of falling so into the characters of a book I'd stop reading and feel like I just woke up. I think answering this one took some time because I don't exactly have to. When I write if I see it and it feels wrong or unlike them I rework it to be more like the character I'm writing. Could also be easier cause I'm a dnd player, gamer, and game dev so I have a preset kind of need to jump in between characters and mindsets.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

So I think actually Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut has stuck with me. I read it back in I want to say like 2007 or 2008. It's not the exact line (I checked my copy), but I've always remembered 'It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet?'

I was given this book by my older sister who I have always looked up to a lot. This line was something so new and strange coming off of authors like Lemony Snicket, Ellen Hopkins, Gail Giles, and more young adult authors. It was my introduction to Vonnegut and one of the stories that I think shaped my interest.

When I read it I was very young to be reading it (somewhere from 10-12) and everyone warned me I might struggle to understand the concepts. Looking back I probably didn't take everything as strongly as I should have, but it never left my mind.

I guess it's a connection to my sister who gave me a book she liked, a connection we shared when we have always had extremely different lives. We're super close despite it all and it means a lot. Reading it and understanding what I did back then proved I wasn't how so many people expected, something I still have to show today so many years later. Then just the book itself telling me the opening and ending? It was such a foreign concept to me. I can still see young me reading that and immediately flipping to the back of the book and finding Poo-tee-weet? I realized that knowing the ending something I always found bad still left me curious because how does everything connect to that weird nonsense?

[ulkaralakbarova]

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Joe Reaves: Anthony LaPaglia Rex Manning: Maxwell Caulfield Jane: Debi Mazar Lucas: Rory Cochrane A.J.: Johnny Whitworth Debra: Robin Tunney Gina: Renée Zellweger Marc: Ethan Embry Berko: Coyote Shivers Warren: Brendan Sexton III Corey Mason: Liv Tyler Eddie: James ‘Kimo’ Wills Mitchell Beck: Ben Bode Croupier: Gary Bolen Woman at Craps Table: Kimber Sissons High Roller: Tony Zaar Reporter: Patt Noday Kathy: Julia Deane Autograph Girl: Kessia Embry Cop #1: Michele Seidman Cop #2: Diana Taylor Cop #3: Bernard Granger Cop #4: Michael Harding Lead Singer: Dave Brockie Flower Delivery Guy: Kawan Rojanatavorn Roulette Table Man: Corey Joshua Taylor Ballet Dancer: Melissa Caulfield Veronica: Lara Travis Film Crew: Director: Allan Moyle Screenplay: Carol Heikkinen Editor: Michael Chandler Production Design: Peter Jamison Art Direction: John Huke Set Decoration: Linda Spheeris Costume Design: Susan Lyall Producer: Tony Ludwig Producer: Arnon Milchan Producer: Michael G. Nathanson Producer: Alan Riche Co-Producer: Paul Kurta First Assistant Director: Joel Segal Second Assistant Director: Philip A. Patterson Camera Operator: Mitchell Amundsen Steadicam Operator: Rick Raphael First Assistant Camera: John Verardi Second Assistant Camera: Ken Hudson “B” Camera Operator: Jeff Moore Still Photographer: Jim Bridges Second Unit Director of Photography: Carolyn Chen Director of Photography: Walt Lloyd Casting: Gail Levin Music Supervisor: Mitchell Leib Negative Cutter: Mo Henry Color Timer: Bob Putynkowski Music Consultant: Karen Glauber Music Editor: Sally Boldt Supervising Sound Editor: Randle Akerson Sound Effects Editor: Joe Earle Sound Effects Editor: Linda Keim Sound Effects Editor: David M. Horton Dialogue Editor: Adam Sawelson Dialogue Editor: Benjamin Beardwood Assistant Sound Editor: Jonathan Phillips Assistant Sound Editor: Bill Ward ADR Supervisor: Linda Folk ADR Editor: Sukey Fontelieu ADR Mixer: Dean Drabin ADR Mixer: Paul J. Zydel ADR Mixer: Christina Tucker ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris Foley Supervisor: David Horton Jr. Foley Mixer: Brian Ruberg Foley Artist: Sarah Monat Foley Artist: Robin Harlan Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary Alexander Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Don Digirolamo Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Scott Ganary Dolby Consultant: Douglas Greenfield Dialogue Coach: Naomi Joy Todd Craft Service: Theresa Honeycutt Transportation Coordinator: William “Bill” Pitts Transportation Captain: Jeff Long Construction Coordinator: Jeffrey Schlatter Construction Foreman: Ralph Woollaston Location Manager: Mary Weisgerber Meyer Location Manager: Molly Allen Casting Associate: Tricia Tomey Stunt Coordinator: Jery Hewitt Key Makeup Artist: Jeff Goodwin First Assistant Makeup Artist: Rick Pour Key Hair Stylist: Aaron F. Quarles First Assistant Hairstylist: Lizz Scalice Costume Supervisor: Carolyn Greco Costumer: Sevilla Granger Special Effects Coordinator: Greg Hull Sound Mixer: Douglas Axtell Boom Operator: Robert Maxfield Key Grip: Randy Tambling Best Boy Grip: Dennis Zoppe Dolly Grip: Rufus Granger Jr. Dolly Grip: Clarence Brown Gaffer: George Ball Rigging Gaffer: Scott Graves Production Coordinator: Cynthia Streit Assistant Production Coordinator: Amy Chance Script Supervisor: Annie Welles Second Second Assistant Director: Stefania Girolami Goodwin Unit Publicist: Alex L. Worman Production Accountant: Karen Eisenstadt Assistant Accountant: Rick Baer Property Master: Robert Beck Assistant Property Master: Beth Giles Assistant Art Director: John Frick Set Designer: Evelyne Barbier Set Designer: Tim Eckel Set Designer: Alan Hook Set Dresser: Colleen Broderick Art Department Coordinator: Susan Agnoff First Assistant “B” Camera: Joe D’Alessandro First Assistant Editor: Thomas J. Nordberg Assistant Editor: Pamela Jule Yuen Movie Reviews: Filipe Manuel Neto: **An animated film, full of rebellion and energy.** Remember the stores that sold...

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.9

Beer Birthdays

Peter Barbey (founder, Peter Barbey & Sons Brewery, Reading, Pennsylvania; 1825)

Jack Curtin

Five Favorite Birthdays

Gail Borden; dairyman, inventor (1801)

Hedy Lamarr; actor, inventor (1913)

Carl Sagan; scientist, writer (1934)

Anne Sexton; writer (1928)

Ed Wynn; actor (1886)

Famous Birthdays

Spiro T. Agnew; disgraced U.S. vice-president (1918)

Benjamin Banneker; mathematician, astronomer (1731)

Hermann Conring; German philosopher (1606)

Dorothy Dandridge; actor (1923)

Sandra "Pepa" Denton; pop singer (1964)

Edwin Drake; discovered oil in Pennsylvania (1819)

Marie Dressler; actor (1869)

David Duvel; golf player (1971)

Lou Ferrigno; actor, bodybuilder (1951)

Tom Fogerty; rock singer (1941)

Robert Frank; Swiss-American photographer (1924)

J. William Fulbright; politician, fellowship creator (1905)

Gigo Gabashvili; Georgian painter (1862)

Bob Gibson; St. Louis Cardinals P (1935)

Whitey Herzog; baseball player (1931)

Allama Muhammad Iqbal; Indian poet, philosopher (1877)

Velimir Khlebnikov; Russian poet and playwright (1885)

Nick Lachey; pop singer (1973)

Bohdan Lepky; Ukrainian author and poet (1872)

Elijah Lovejoy; abolitionist (1802)

Phil May; English singer-songwriter (1944)

Roger McGough; English author, poet, and playwright (1937)

Arthur Rudolph; German scientist and engineer (1906)

James Schuyler; poet and author 1923)

Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed red telephone box (1880)

Sisqó; singer-songwriter and actor (1978)

Mikhail Tal; Latvian-Russian chess player (1936)

Heiti Talvik; Estonian poet (1904)

Susan Tedeschi; singer-songwriter (1970)

Lio Tipton; actor and model (1988)

Mary Travers; folk singer (1936)

Ivan Turgenev; Russian writer (1818)

Tom Weiskopf; golf player (1942)

Hermann Weyl; German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1885)

Stanford White; architect (1853)

[emotional-trashcan]

What Happened to Cass Mcbride? // Gail Giles

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Shattering Glass #OutOfContext

[quiet-librarian]

Shattering Glass

‘Shattering Glass’ By: Gail Giles

Description:

“Simon Glass was easy to HATE.  I never know exactly why, there was too much to pick from.  I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn’t realize it until the day we killed him.

Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the high school ladder.  Everyone picks on him -- until Rob Haynes shows up.  Rob, the charismatic and undisputed leader of the senior class, enlists the help of his crew and decides to turn the sniveling class nerd into Prince Charming.

But as Simon rises to the top of the social ranks, he shows a new confidence and a devious side that power-hungry Rob did not anticipate.  And when Simon uncovers a dangerous secret, events darken.  The result is disquieting, bone-chilling… and brutal.”

My Thoughts:

So…  This is a bit of a darker book, I will admit.  To which even I was not expecting.  My Communications teacher suggested this to me and I was shocked at the ending.  ‘Shattering Glass’ is also a shorter read, with two hundred and fifteen (215) pages.  It happens fast, and happens unexpectedly.  Even though it’s right in the description of the book, I wasn’t expecting it to be so…  Brutal, I guess is the term they used.

I did enjoy this book, even though it wasn’t what I was expecting.  But sometime that’s a good thing with books.  And as much as I don’t enjoy romance segments -- that’s a total lie I live for them -- I loved the parts with the main character and his girlfriend.  I thought they were really cute.

I thought it was a bold choice for the author to not talk about the main character in the description, because I was completely expecting this to be in Rob Hayne’s point of view, but I was pleasantly surprised.

[starswhogaze]

Nah cause why is there a Bob AND a Rob in this story.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

No, You Don’t Automatically Owe Your Parents Love and Respect: A Reading List

Bug’s recent post about Turning Red, and especially all the thoughtful responses, made me decide to put together a list of Middle Grade and YA novels in which the parents are negligent, imperfect, judgmental, narrow-minded, and/or some combination of all four, and aren’t shown to be in the right by the end of the story. More importantly, while the child protagonist may face pressure from other characters to help/accept their parent, the book overall doesn’t suggest this is automatically The Right Thing To Do. I decided to leave off books where parents are straight-up abusive (like A Step From Heaven, What Jamie Saw, Rules of Survival, and The Great Gilly Hopkins,) because the parent(s) in those stories are unambiguously in the wrong—it’s clear to the reader, if not the protagonist, pretty much from the beginning that these are not good parents. This list obviously isn’t exhaustive, and I tried to include as many books as possible that were “genre fiction” (fantasy, sci fi, mysteries, adventures, most historical fiction) that subverts putting the burden on the child to accept their parent’s flaws, because those stories aren’t nearly as common as realistic fiction that tackles the imperfect parent.

The first section are Middle Grade novels, the second are YA novels and the last section are novels for adults that have child protagonists and are Alex Award recipients, an award “given to books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults”. I also tried to list the books in sections one and two approximately in order of suggested reading age, from youngest to oldest. Even though I have a bee in my bonnet about Middle Grade books being retroactively labelled as YA, I did include a few Middle Grade novels in the YA category (like Silent to the Bone and Homecoming,) which would almost certainly have been published as YA if the category had existed when the books came out. Animorphs isn’t included because I’m assuming if you’re reading this you’re already a fan of the series.

Final Caveat: I would strongly recommend all of these books, but some have aspects that haven’t aged well, ie, The Planet of Junior Brown was published in 1971 and its attitude towards mental illness is accordingly outdated, and The Letter, The Witch, and the Ring’s portrayal of gender exploration is similarly outdated, but again, it came out in 1972, and for the time it was incredibly subversive and ground-breaking.  

The “My Teacher” series by Bruce Coville, especially My Teacher Is an Alien

The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring by John Bellairs

Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson

ParaNorman from LAIKA Studios

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn  

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

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Silverwing and Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel

His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (although The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage unfortunately ret-cons this to some extent)

Silent to the Bone by E.L Konigsburg

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton

Homecoming by Cynthia Voight

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters by Gail Giles

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

Hero by S.L. Rottman

Burning Up by Caroline B. Cooney (a lot of Cooney’s books subvert the Mother Knows Best trope)

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell (not a sequel to The Secret Life of Bees : )

Help for the Haunted by John Searles

[queerism1969]

Here are 50 books Texas parents want banned from school libraries:

"Drama," by Raina Telgemeier

"When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball," by Mark Weakland

"Lawn Boy," by Jonathan Evison

"Better Nate Than Ever," by Tim Federle

"Five, Six, Seven, Nate!" by Tim Federle

"The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison

"Out of Darkness," by Ashley Hope Pérez

"Ghost Boys," by Jewell Parker Rhodes

"l8r, g8r," by Lauren Myracle

"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," by Jesse Andrews

"White Bird: A Wonder Story," by R.J. Palacio

"Ground Zero: A Novel of 9/11," by Alan Gratz

"Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic," by Alison Bechdel

"Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)" by L.C. Rosen

"City of Thieves," by David Benioff

"Gender Queer," by Maia Kobabe

"This One Summer," by Mariko Tamaki

"We Are the Ants," by Shaun David Hutchinson

"The Breakaways," by Cathy G. Johnson

"All Boys Aren't Blue," by George M. Johnson

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky

"Michelle Obama: Political Icon," by Heather E. Schwartz

"Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You," by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

"New Kid," by Jerry Craft

"Class Act," by Jerry Craft

"Salvage the Bones," by Jesmyn Ward

"Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice," by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Olivia Gatwood

"Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness," by Anastasia Higginbotham

"How to be an Antiracist," by Ibram X. Kendi

"A Good Kind of Trouble," by Lisa Moore Ramée

"We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices," by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson

"On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God," by Louise Rennison

"The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini

"It's Perfectly Normal," by Robie H. Harris

"Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out," by Susan Kuklin

"Monday's Not Coming," by Tiffany D. Jackson

"Happier Than Not," by Adam Silvera

"George," by Alex Gino

"What Girls Are Made Of," by Elana K. Arnold

"I Am Jazz," by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings

"So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed," by Jon Ronson

"King and the Dragonflies," by Kacen Callender

"Go With the Flow," by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann

"Last Night at the Telegraph Club," by Malinda Lo

"Weird Girl and What's His Name," by Meagan Brothers

"Flamer," by Mike Curato

"Milk and Honey," by Rupi Kaur

"A Court of Mist and Fury," by Sarah J. Maas

"47," by Walter Mosley

"Girls Like Us," by Gail Giles

[awkwardgtace]

26&27 for the writer's ask list please!!

Ty Ty <3 I tried really hard to think of favorites cause I'm so bad at that lol

26. What are your favourite books?

Omg favorite anything is always so hard for me lol

Stormlight archives series by Brandon Sanderson for sure is up there, it just has been so good and is one of the few series i put down and try to guess what's coming up

SlaughterHouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I read it when i was like... 11 (ugh that's like 16 years ago) and it just stuck with me. Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut too.

Childhood book was Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. I used to make my family read it to me sooo much until I learned to read.

oh man there was a book i read forever and ever ago called Right Behind You by Gail Giles. I can't say it stands up but it was intense for preteen me.

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are some favorites too

The Ellen Hopkins Crank series was really powerful for me too. Hit home in a number of ways. A lot of her stories were good for me tbh

Last one I'll go with as a favorite was Every You Every Me by David Levithan. The story was really interesting from what I remember.

Admittedly most of these are from a long time ago though so idk if they'd stand up as favorites now lol

27. What are your favourite movies?

oof this one is even harder. well at least this one I have an obvious one lol

Nightmare Before Christmas. It's my family's christmas movie. Grew up in love with this.

uhh you could say In The Heights. I've been listening to the soundtrack a lot and sometimes just play the movie in the background.

Beauty and the Beast like in general. The movies like that get me so hard!

Oh, Epic! I like rewatching that cause the idea of small moves like hummingbird fast is so so cool!

Thumbelina too, I loved it growing up....now realizing might be some inspo for ocs lol

I do also love horror movies and gotta admit one of my favorites is As Above So Below I love the way that whole movie hits.

omg I almost forgot The Iron Giant that movie still gets me

Last ones I can think of The Addams Family movies. Another one that I grew up on and just have always loved.