#Geoffrey Burgess

[godinvent]

So I saw this post about how in the books, Dracula is actually an old man and I always imagined Dracula looked like older Christopher Lee, who played him while he was a kid. While looking him up I accidentally discovered that Christopher Lee was the coolest person in the universe and there is a non-zero chance he was actually Dracula in real life

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (May 27th 1922 - June 7th 2015), Sir because he was knighted in 2009 for his charity and his contributions to cinema

So first of all, I saw that he actually knew 8 LANGUAGES (English, Spanish, French, Swedish, Italian, German, Russian and Greek) and was also a staggering 6 feet 5 inches in height. Born in Belgravia in London, one of the most Dracula sounding places I’ve ever heard of, here’s some insane facts about him

•His father, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, fought in the Boer War and World War 1

•His mother, Countess Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano) was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan

•Lee's maternal great-grandfather, Jerome Carandini, the Marquis of Sarzano, was an Italian political refugee

•Jerome’s wife was English-born opera singer Marie Carandini (née Burgess), meaning that Lee is also related to famous opera singer Rosina Palmer

•His parents would divorce when he was four and his mother would marry Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, banker and uncle of Ian Fleming, making the author of the James Bond books Lee’s step cousin. Fleming would then offer him two roles as the antagonist in the film adaptations of his books, though he was only able to land the antagonist role in The Man With the Golden Gun. It’s believed his role in the film is significantly better and more complex than his book counterpart, played as “a dark side of Bond”

•His family would move and they lived next door to famous silent film actor Eric Maturin

•One night, before he was even 9 years old, he was introduced to Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, THE ASSASSINS OF GRIGORI RASPUTIN, WHOM LEE WOULD GO ON TO PLAY MANY YEARS LATER

•Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview was in the presence of the ghost story author M.R. James, who is considered one of the best English language ghost story writers in history and who widely influenced modern horror

•He only missed by King’s Scholar by one place by being bad at math, one of the only flaws God gave him

•Due to lack of working opportunities, Lee was sent to the French Riviera and stayed with his sister and her friends while she was on holiday, and on the way there he stopped briefly in Paris with journalist Webb Miller, a friend of his step father. Webb Miller was an American journalist and war correspondent and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the execution of the French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, also known as BLUEBEARD. He also helped turn world opinion against British colonial rule of India

•While staying with Miller he witnessed Eugen Weidmann’s execution by guillotine, the last public execution ever performed in France

•Arriving in Menton, Lee stayed with the Russian Mazirov family, living among exiled princely families

•When World War 2 began, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish Army against the Soviet Union in the Winter War, and a year later, Lee would join the Home Guard. After his father died, he would join the Royal Air Force and was an intelligence officer and leading aircraft man and would later retire as a flight lieutenant in 1946

•While spending some time on leave in Naples, Lee climbed Mount Vesuvius, which erupted only three days later

•After nearly dying in an assault on Monte Cassino, Lee was able to visit Rome where he met his mother’s cousin Nicolò Carandini, who had fought in the Italian Resistance Movement. Nicolò would later go on to be the Italian Ambassador to Britain. Nicolò was actually the one to convince Lee to become an actor in the first place

•Oh yeah Christopher Lee was seconded to the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects where he was tasked with HELPING TRACK DOWN NAZI WAR CRIMINALS

•Lee’s stepfather served as a captain in the Intelligence Corps

•He was actually told he was too tall to be an actor, though that would honestly help him considering one of his first roles was as The Creature in The Curse of Frankenstein

•He was cast in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N (1951) as a Spanish captain due to not only his fluency in Spanish but also he knew how to fence!

•Lee’s portrayal of Dracula had a crucial aspect of it which Bela Lugosi’s didn’t have: sexuality, a prime aspect of the original novels.

•While being trapped into playing Dracula under Hammer Film Productions, Lee actually hated the script so much that he would try his best to sneak actual lines from the original novel into the script

•Ironically, he was rejected from playing in The Longest Day because “he didn’t look like a military man”

•Christopher Lee was friends with author Dennis Wheatley, who “was responsible for bringing the occult into him”. He would go on to play in two film adaptations of his novels

•His biggest regret in his career is not taking the role of Sam Loomis from Halloween when offered to him

•Christopher Lee was the only person involved with the Lord of the Rings movies to have actually met J.R.R Tolkien

•When playing Count Dooku, he actually did most of the swordsmanship himself

•Christopher Lee was the second oldest living performer to enter the Billboard Top 100 charts with the song “Jingle Hell” at 91 years old. After media attention, he would get No. 18, and Lee became the oldest person to ever hit the Billboard Top 20 chart

I really am leaving some stuff out here and I may go on

[tummacademia]

Some readings and resources for further exploration of medieval literature, history, and art

"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

"Beowulf" translated by Seamus Heaney

"The Song of Roland" translated by Dorothy L. Sayers

"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

"The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio

"The Book of Margery Kempe" by Margery Kempe

"The Lais of Marie de France" translated by Glyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby

"The History of the Kings of Britain" by Geoffrey of Monmouth

"The Mabinogion" translated by Sioned Davies

"The Romance of Tristan and Iseult" translated by Joseph Bédier

In addition to these literary works, here are some resources for further exploration of medieval history and art:

"A Short History of the Middle Ages" by Barbara H. Rosenwein

"The Civilization of the Middle Ages" by Norman F. Cantor

"The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" by Ian Mortimer

"The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe" edited by George Holmes

"Medieval Art" by Veronica Sekules

"A Medieval Life : Cecilia Penifader and the world of English peasants before the plague" by Judith Bennett

"The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe" by Judith M. Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of medieval art and artifacts

The British Library's collection of medieval manuscripts and documents

The Medieval Academy of America's resources and publications on medieval studies

The International Center of Medieval Art's resources and publications on medieval art

These resources should provide a good starting point for further exploration of medieval literature, history, and art.

[spicebiter]

Reading List (Latest Update Nov. 6, 2024)

The full list of books I'm interested in reading. Spoiler before you open the read-more: This list has 500+ entries so it's a tad long.

I'm pretty much constantly adding things to all of my lists- hence why I'm amending when this was last updated to the title itself- and will update this post anytime I update the wheel I use to randomize my next choice, which usually happens after I've added or subtracted a significant number of options.

Beowulf

Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism; Third Edition

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by H.C Andersen

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Animorphs Series by K.A Applegate

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Emma by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Bunny by Mona Awad

Borderline by Mishell Baker

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

Crash by J.G Ballard

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac

The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear

Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir

The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

Art of Fiction by Walter Besant and Henry James

Pushkin; A Biography by T.J Binyon

The Etched City by K.J Bishop

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen

In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette De Bodard

Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen

Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown

Sonnets From The Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner

The Serpent and the Rose by Kathleen Bryan

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Notes of a Dirty old Man by Charles Bukowski

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess

Song of the Simple Truth by Julia de Burgos

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler

American Predator by Maureen Callahan

A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre

Through the Woods by Emily Carrol

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Vorrh by B. Catling

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Moliere Biography by H.C Chatfield-Taylor

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-en

Wicket Fox by Kat Cho

The Awakening by Kat Chopin

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

Finna by Nino Cipri

The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark

Pranesi by Susanne Clarke

Parasite by Darcy Coates

The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Inherit the Wind by Linda Cushman

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Dreadnought by April Daniels

The Devourers by Indra Das

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

The Collected Stories by Welty Eudora

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate

A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

A Passage to India by E.M Forster

The Diary of Anne Frank

Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

At Fear’s Altar by Richard Gavin

Count Zero by William Gibson

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

The Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Marathon Man by William Goldman

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

The Library of the Unwritten by A.J Hackwith

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

Empire of Light by Alex Harrow

The Little Locksmith by Katherine Butler Hathaway

City of Lies by Sam Hawke

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

Dune Series by Frank Herbert

Cover-Up by Seymour M. Hersh

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Rule of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

The Iliad by Homer

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Songbook by Nick Hornby

To Escape the Stars by Robert Hoskins

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Warrior Cats Series by Erin Hunter

The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Daisy Miller by Henry James

False Bingo by Jac Jemc

The City We Became by N.K Jemisin

The Fifth Season by N.K Jemisin

Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Out of Control by Kevin Kelly

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Liu Ken

Ironweed by William Kennedy

You By Caroline Kepnes

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Very Best of Caitlin R Kiernan

Carrie by Stephen King

Christine by Stephen King

Cujo by Stephen King

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Gidget by Frederick Kohner

The Cipher by Kathe Koja

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Extravagance by Gary Krist

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

Babel by R.F Kuang

The Poppy War by R.F Kuang

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

False Hearts by Laura Lam

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Changeling by Victor Lavelle

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by David Herbert Lawrence

Lies of the Fae by M.J Lawrie

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Jade City by Fonda Lee

Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee

The Dirt; Confessions of the Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Small Island by Andrea Levy

A Ruin of Shadows by L.D Lewis

Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

Let the Right One In by John Lindquist

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Hike by Drew Magary

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gregory Rabassa

A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

Property by Valerie Martin

The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

The Group by Mary McCarthy

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Rapture by Claire McGlasson

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Quattrocento by James McKean

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

Terms of Endearment Larry McMurtry

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi

A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L Mencken

My Life as Author and Editor by H.L Mencken

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

The Life of Edna by St. Vincent Millay

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Sexus by Henry Miller

Slade House by David Mitchell

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Jr.

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Ritual by Adam Nevill

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Ringworld by Larry Niven

Vurt by Jeff Noon

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W Ocker

Revenge by Yoko Ogawa

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Flowers of the Sea by Reggie Oliver

Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen

How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

Certain Dark Things by M.J Pack

The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim

The Song the Owl God Sang by Benjamin Peterson

A Mankind Beyond Earth by Claude A. Piantadosi

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodie Piccoult

We Owe You Nothing by Punk Planet

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

Witchmark by C.L Polk

Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Truth and Beauty by Ann Pratchett

Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett

The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

Sybil by Schreiber Flora Rheta

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Stiff by Mary Roach

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry M. Robert

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder

The Planet Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder

The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful by Milo Rossi

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D

The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Sallinger

Franny and Zooey by J.D Sallinger

The Man Who Collected Machen by Mark Samuels

Ariah by B.R Sanders

Blindness by Jose Saramago

Shane by Jack Schaefer

Vicious by V.E Schwab

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Bhagavad Gita by Graham M. Schweig

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Love Story by Erich Segal

The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Unless by Carol Shields

City Come A-Walkin’ by John Shirley

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Crush by Richard Siken

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

The Terror by Dan Simmons

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Oil! by Upton Sinclair

Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Flinch by Julien Smith

Chlorine by Jade Song

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria

Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Last Breath by Peter Stark

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

City Under the Moon Hugh Sterbakov

Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susane

Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Walden by Henry D. Thoreau

An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley

Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima

The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Crier’s War by Nina Varela

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne

The Last Empire- Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

Candide by Voltaire

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Fire in the Sky; The Walton Experience by Travis Walton

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L Wang

The Graduate by Charles Webb

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells

The Invisible Man by H.G Wells

The Time Machine by H.G Wells

The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Prophesy Deliverance by Cornel West

Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

The Code of the Woosters by P.G Wodehouse

Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

The Electric Koolaid Test by Tom Wolfe

Old School by Tobias Wolff

John Dies at the End by David Wong

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf

Bitch; In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

The Black Tides of Heaven by Jy Yang

Negative Space by B.R Yeager

Beneath the Moon by Yoshi Yoshitani

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Tomorrow, and Tommorow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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I libri nominati da Rory Gilmore

1 – 1984, George Orwell

2 – Le Avventure di Huckelberry Finn, Mark Twain

3 – Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carrol

4 – Le Fantastiche Avventure di Kavalier e Clay, Michael Chabon

5 – Una Tragedia Americana, Theodore Dreiser

6 – Le Ceneri di Angela, Frank McCourt

7 – Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoj

8 – Il Diario di Anna Frank

9 – La Guerra Archidamica, Donald Kagan

10 – L’Arte del Romanzo, Henry James

11 – L’Arte della Guerra, Sun Tzu

12 – Mentre Morivo, William Faulkner

13 – Espiazione, Ian McEvan

14 – Autobiografia di un Volto, Lucy Grealy

15 – Il Risveglio, Kate Chopin

16 – Babe, Dick King-Smith

17 – Contrattacco. La Guerra non Dichiarata Contro le Donne, Susan Faludi

18 – Balzac e la Piccola Sarta Cinese, Dai Sijie

19 – Bel Canto, Anne Pachett

20 – La Campana di Vetro, Sylvia Plath

21 – Amatissima, Toni Morrison

22 – Beowulf: una Nuova Traduzione, Seamus Heaney

23 – La Bhagavad Gita

24 – Il Piccolo Villaggio dei Sopravvissuti, Peter Duffy

25 – Bitch Rules. Consigli di Comune Buonsenso per donne Fuori dal Comune, Elizabeth Wurtzel

26 – Un Fulmine a Ciel Sereno ed altri Saggi, Mary McCarthy

27 – Il Mondo Nuovo, Adolf Huxley

28 – Brick Lane, Monica Ali

29 – Brigadoon, Alan Jay Lerner

30 – Candido, Voltaire

31 – I Racconti di Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer

32 – Carrie, Stephen King

33 – Catch-22, Joseph Heller

34 – Il Giovane Holden, J.D.Salinger

35 – La Tela di Carlotta, E.B.White

36 – Quelle Due, Lillian Hellman

37 – Christine, Stephen King

38 – Il Canto di Natale, Charles Dickens

39 – Arancia Meccanica, Anthony Burgess

40 – Il Codice dei Wooster, P.G.Wodehouse

41 – The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty

42 – La Commedia degli Errori, William Shakespeare

43 – Novelle, Dawn Powell

44 – Tutte le Poesie, Anne Sexton

45 – Racconti, Dorothy Parker

46 – Una Banda di Idioti, John Kennedy Toole

47 – Il03 al 09/03 Conte di Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas

48 – La Cugina Bette, Honore de Balzac

49 – Delitto e Castigo, Fedor Dostoevskij

50 – Il Petalo Cremisi e il Bianco, Michel Faber

51 – Il Crogiuolo, Arthur Miller

52 – Cujo, Stephen King

53 – Il Curioso Caso del Cane Ucciso a Mezzanotte, Mark Haddon

54 – La Figlia della Fortuna, Isabel Allende

55 – David e Lisa, Dr.Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56 – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

57 – Il Codice Da Vinci, Dan Brown

58 – Le Anime Morte, Nikolaj Gogol

59 – I Demoni, Fedor Dostoevskij

60 – Morte di un Commesso Viaggiatore, Arthur Miller

61 – Deenie, Judy Blume

62 – La Città Bianca e il Diavolo, Erik Larson

63 – The Dirt. Confessioni della Band più Oltraggiosa del Rock, Tommy Lee – Vince Neil – Mick Mars – Nikki Sixx

64 – La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri

65 – I Sublimi Segreti delle Ya-Ya Sisters, Rebecca Wells

66 – Don Chischiotte, Miguel de Cervantes

67 – A Spasso con Daisy, Alfred Uhvr

68 – Dr. Jeckill e Mr.Hide, Robert Louis Stevenson

69 – Tutti i Racconti e le Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

70 – Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook

71 – Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

72 – Lettere, Mark Dunn

73 – Eloise, Kay Thompson

74 – Emily The Strange, Roger Reger

75 – Emma, Jane Austen

76 – Il Declino dell’Impero Whiting, Richard Russo

77 – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective, Donald J.Sobol

78 – Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

79 – Etica, Spinoza

80 – Europe Through the back door, 2003, Rick Steves

81 – Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

82 – Ogni cosa è Illuminata, Jonathan Safran Foer

83 – Stravaganza, Gary Krist

84 – Farhenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

85 – Farhenheit 9/11, Michael Moore

86 – La Caduta dell’Impero di Atene, Donald Kagan

87 – Fat Land, il Paese dei Ciccioni, Greg Critser

88 – Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas, Hunter S.Thompson

89 – La Compagnia dell’Anello, J.R.R.Tolkien

90 – Il Violinista sul Tetto, Joseph Stein

91 – Le Cinque Persone che Incontri in Cielo, Mitch Albom

92 – Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce

93 – Fletch, Gregory McDonald

94 – Fiori per Algernon, Daniel Keyes

95 – La Fortezza della Solitudine, Jonathan Lethem

96 – La Fonte Meravigliosa, Ayn Rand

97 – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

98 – Franny e Zooeey, J.D.Salinger

99 – Quel Pazzo Venerdì, Mary Rodgers

100 – Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut

101 – Questioni di Genere, Judith Butler

102 – George W.Bushism: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President, Jacob Weisberg

103 – Gidget, Fredrick Kohner

104 – Ragazze Interrotte, Susanna Kaysen

105 – The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

106 – Il Padrino, Parte I, Mario Puzo

107 – Il Dio delle Piccole Cose, Arundhati Roy

108 – La Storia dei Tre Orsi, Alvin Granowsky

109 – Via Col Vento, Margaret Mitchell

110 – Il Buon Soldato, Ford Maddox Ford

111 – Il Gospel secondo Judy Bloom

112 – Il Laureato, Charles Webb

113 – Furore, John Steinbeck

114 – Il Grande Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald

115 – Grandi Speranze, Charles Dickens

116 – Il Gruppo, Mary McCarthy

117 – Amleto, William Shakespeare

118 – Harry Potter e il Calice di Fuoco, J.K.Rowling

119 – Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale, J.K.Rowling

120 – L’Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio, Dave Eggers

121 – Cuore di Tenebra, Joseph Conrad

122 – Helter Skelter: La vera storia del Caso Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi e Curt Gentry

123 – Enrico IV, Parte Prima, William Shakespeare

124 – Enrico IV, Parte Seconda, William Shakespeare

125 – Enrico V, William Shakespeare

126 – Alta Fedeltà, Nick Hornby

127 – La Storia del Declino e della Caduta dell’Impero Romano, Edward Gibbon

128 – Holidays on Ice: Storie, David Sedaris

129 – The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton

130 – La Casa di Sabbia e Nebbia, Andre Dubus III

131 – La Casa degli Spiriti, Isabel Allende

132 – Come Respirare Sott’acqua, Julie Orringer

133 – Come il Grinch Rubò il Natale, Dr.Seuss

134 – How the Light Gets In, M.J.Hyland

135 – Urlo, Allen Ginsberg

136 – Il Gobbo di Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

137 – Iliade, Omero

138 – Sono con la Band, Pamela des Barres

139 – A Sangue Freddo, Truman Capote

140 – Inferno, Dante

141 – …e l’Uomo Creò Satana, Jerome Lawrence e Robert E.Lee

142 – Ironweed, William J.Kennedy

143 – It takes a Village, Hilary Clinton

144 – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

145 – Il Circolo della Fortuna e della Felicità, Amy tan

146 – Giulio Cesare, William Shakespeare

147 – Il Celebre Ranocchio Saltatore della Contea di Calaveras, Mark Twain

148 – La Giungla, Upton Sinclair

149 – Just a Couple of Days, Tony Vigorito

150 – The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander

151 – Kitchen Confidential: Avventure Gastronomiche a New York, Anthony Bourdain

152 – Il Cacciatore di Aquiloni, Khaled Hosseini

153 – L’amante di Lady Chatterley, D.H.Lawrence

154 – L’Ultimo Impero: Saggi 1992-2000, Gore Vidal

155 – Foglie d’Erba, Walt Whitman

156 – La Leggenda di Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield

157 – Meno di Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

158 – Lettere a un Giovane Poeta, Rainer Maria Rilke

159 – Balle! E tutti i Ballisti che Ce Le Stanno Raccontando, Al Franken

160 – Vita di Pi, Yann Martell

161 – La piccola Dorrit, Charles Dickens

162 – The little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway

163 – La piccola fiammiferaia, Hans Christian Andersen

164 – Piccole Donne, Louisa May Alcott

165 – Living History, Hilary Clinton

166 – Il signore delle Mosche, William Golding

167 – La Lotteria, ed altre storie, Shirley Jackson

168 – Amabili Resti, Alice Sebold

169 – Love Story, Eric Segal

170 – Macbeth, William Shakespeare

171 – Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

172 – The Manticore, Robertson Davies

173 – Marathon Man, William Goldman

174 – Il Maestro e Margherita, Michail Bulgakov

175 – Memorie di una figlia per bene, Simone de Beauvoir

176 – Memorie del Generale W.T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman

177 – L’uomo più divertente del mondo, David Sedaris

178 – The meaning of Consuelo, Judith Ortiz Cofer

179 – Mencken’s Chrestomathy, H.R. Mencken

180 – Le Allegre Comari di Windsor, William Shakespeare

181 – La Metamorfosi, Franz Kafka

182 – Middlesex, Jeoffrey Eugenides

183 – Anna dei Miracoli, William Gibson

184 – Moby Dick, Hermann Melville

185 – The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, Jim Irvin

186 – Moliere: la biografia, Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187 – A monetary history of the United States, Milton Friedman

188 – Monsieur Proust, Celeste Albaret

189 – A Month of Sundays: searching for the spirit and my sister, Julie Mars

190 – Festa Mobile, Ernest Hemingway

191 – Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

192 – Gli ammutinati del Bounty, Charles Nordhoff e James Norman Hall

193 – My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Seymour M.Hersh

194 – My Life as Author and Editor, H.R.Mencken

195 – My life in orange: growing up with the guru, Tim Guest

196 – Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978, Myra Waldo

197 – La custode di mia sorella, Jodi Picoult

198 – Il Nudo e il Morto, Norman Mailer

199 – Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco

200 – The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

201 – Il Diario di una Tata, Emma McLaughlin

202 – Nervous System: Or, Losing my Mind in Literature, Jan Lars Jensen

203 – Nuove Poesie, Emily Dickinson

204 – The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay

205 – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

206 – Notte, Elie Wiesel

207 – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

208 – The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, William E.Cain, Laurie A.Finke, Barbara E.Johnson, John P.McGowan

209 – Racconti 1930-1942, Dawn Powell

210 – Taccuino di un Vecchio Porco, Charles Bukowski

211 – Uomini e Topi, John Steinbeck

212 – Old School, Tobias Wolff

213 – Sulla Strada, Jack Kerouac

214 – Qualcuno Volò sul Nido del Cuculo, Ken Kesey

215 – Cent’Anni di Solitudine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216 – The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Amy Tan

217 – La Notte dell’Oracolo, Paul Auster

218 – L’Ultimo degli Uomini, Margaret Atwood

219 – Otello, William Shakespeare

220 – Il Nostro Comune Amico, Charles Dickens

221 – The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan

222 – La Mia Africa, Karen Blixen

223 – The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

224 – Passaggio in India, E.M.Forster

225 – The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Donald Kagan

226 – Noi Siamo Infinito, Stephen Chbosky

227 – Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

228 – Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

229 – Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington

230 – Le Avventure di Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi

231 – Please Kill Me: Il Punk nelle Parole dei Suoi Protagonisti, Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain

232 – Una Vita da Lettore, Nick Hornby

233 – The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker

234 – The Portable Nietzche, Fredrich Nietzche

235 – The Price of Loyalty: George W.Bush, the White House, and the Education on Paul O’Neil, Ron Suskind

236 – Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Jane Austen

237 – Property, Valerie Martin

238 – Pushkin, La Biografia, T.J.Binyon

239 – Pigmallione, G.B.Shaw

240 – Quattrocento, James Mckean

241 – A Quiet Storm, Rachel Howzell Hall

242 – Rapunzel, I Fratelli Grimm

243 – Il Corvo ed Altre Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

244 – Il Filo del Rasoio, W.Somerset Maugham

245 – Leggere Lolita a Teheran, Azar Nafisi

246 – Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

247 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin

248 – The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

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In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Edward Pierce: Sean Connery Robert Agar: Donald Sutherland Miriam: Lesley-Anne Down Edgar Trent: Alan Webb Fowler: Malcolm Terris Sharp: Robert Lang Clean Willy: Wayne Sleep Burgess: Michael Elphick Elizabeth Trent: Gabrielle Lloyd Emily Trent: Pamela Salem Barlow: George Downing Harranby: James Cossins McPherson: John Bett Station Despatcher: Peter Benson Maggie: Janine Duvitski Trent’s Butler: Brian de Salvo Judge: André Morell Prosecutor: Donald Churchill Captain Jimmy: Brian Glover Connaught: Noel Johnson Putnam: Peter Butterworth Burke: Patrick Barr Lewis: Hubert Rees Woman on Platform: Agnes Bernelle Rail Guard: Joe Cahill Chaplain: Cecil Nash Emma Barnes: Susan Hallinan Ratting Assistant: Oliver Smith First Pickpocket: John Altman Second Pickpocket: Paul Kember Third Pickpocket: Geoff Ferris Woman on Strand: Jenny Till Urchin on Strand: Craig Stokes Policjant na stacji przy moście londyńskim: Frank McDonald Film Crew: Novel: Michael Crichton Original Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Editor: David Bretherton Producer: John Foreman In Memory Of: Geoffrey Unsworth Camera Operator: Gordon Hayman Production Design: Maurice Carter Art Direction: Bert Davey Costume Design: Anthony Mendleson Makeup Artist: Basil Newall Music Editor: Michael Clifford Assistant Director: Anthony Waye Casting: Mary Selway Hairstylist: Elaine Bowerbank Set Dresser: Hugh Scaife Wardrobe Master: Rebecca Breed Executive Producer: Dino De Laurentiis Still Photographer: Laurie Ridley Action Director: Dick Ziker Draughtsman: Jim Morahan Movie Reviews: Wuchak: _**Robbing a train of a shipment of gold in Victorian England**_ Written/directed by Michael Crichton and released in 1978/79, “The Great Train Robbery” was loosely based on the real-life Great Gold Robbery of 1855 that took place in England. Sean Connery plays the mastermind, Lesley-Anne Down his girlfriend and Donald Sutherland a safecracker with whom they team-up. I generally don’t like caper films because the protagonists are criminals, but Crichton wisely makes the characters played by Connery and Sutherland likable rapscallions; meanwhile Down is babelicious, in particular in her jaw-dropping first scene. Crichton intentionally made the movie more farcical compared to his novel and I appreciated the wit and low-key humor. I didn’t expect to like this movie, but it won me over. The film runs 1 hour, 51 minutes, and was shot primarily in Ireland (Dublin, Bray, Cork & Moate), but also Pinewood Studios, England. GRADE: B-/B JPV852: Seen this once before many years ago but decided to check out the new Blu-ray from Kino Lorber. A solid heist-thriller though what struck me was these thieves were stealing gold meant for British soldiers, so not exactly stealing from some corporation, and our lead played by Sean Connery had no issue murdering a guy. Even so, still found it entertaining and some suspense-filled scenes, among them a great sequence with Connery on top of a moving train. **3.75/5**

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Charlotte Bach Festival Ends in Splendor, With Roaring Trumpets and a Double Dose of Oratorios

Charlotte Bach Festival Ends in Splendor, With Roaring Trumpets and a Double Dose of Oratorios

Review: Bach’s Easter and Ascension Oratorios By Perry Tannenbaum June 18, 2022, Charlotte, NC – Founded in 2017 with the North Carolina Baroque Festival, Bach Akademie Charlotte presented a precocious and ambitious first edition of the Charlotte Bach Festival in June 2018. Unmistakably modeled after the renowned Oregon Bach Festival, where Akademie artistic director Scott Allen Jarrett has…

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Superman (1978) directed by Richard Donner cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth

Spider-Man (2002) directed by Sam Raimi cinematography by Don Burgess

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I’m going to start blogging about my reading adventures. I’ve never really read any of the classics other than those read in school, which is a decent amount since I’ve taken 4 Humanities courses in college. However, I really want to dedicate myself to these pieces of literature. I’m also a huge fan of the Gilmore Girls, so I’m going to be attempting the Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge, listed below. It contains every book referenced throughout the show, 400+. It contains many classics, along with some more contemporary titles. If I’ve read anything on this list before, I will be rereading it at my own pace (most of the books I’ve read from here were rushed due to deadlines). So far, while working towards this (the last month or so), I’ve read Wurthering Heights, Cinderella (all the Grimm fairytales actually), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Of Mice and Men. Not included on this list, but still a classic that I’ve read in the last month, is Treasure Island. I’m also watching the movie adaptation of these books upon completion. Super stoked to log all my progress and thoughts along this rather long upcoming journey.

1984 by George Orwell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer

The Art of Fiction by Henry James

The Art of Living by Epictetus

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Babe by Dick King-Smith

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beowulf

The Bhagavad Gita

The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

Candide by Voltaire

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

Christine by Stephen King

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

(X) Cinderella by Brothers Grimm

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

The Complete Novels of Dawn Powell

The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

Contact by Carl Sagan

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Cujo by Stephen King

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Deenie by Judy Blume

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson

Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

Emma by Jane Austen

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethics by Spinoza

Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

Extravagance by Gary Krist

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Bears Should Share! by Alvin Granowsky

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

The Graduate by Charles Webb

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Group by Mary Mccarthy

Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Henry VI by William Shakespeare

He’s Just Not That into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

Horton Hears A Who! by Dr. Seuss

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephron

The Iliad by Homer

I’m with the Band by Pamela Des Barres

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Indiana by George Sand

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Ironweed by William J. Kennedy

It Takes A Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 by William Manchester

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932–1940 by William Manchester

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 by William Manchester

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand

Letters of Edith Wharton by R. W. B. Lewis

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Love Story by Erich Segal

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Manticore by Robertson Davies

Marathon Man by William Goldman

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Memoirs of A Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir

The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken

The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Misery by Stephen King

Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin

Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

Molloy by Samuel Beckett

A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister by Julie Mars

Motley Crue by Seamus Craic

The Mourning Bride by William Congreve

A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken

My Life in Orange: Growing up with the Guru by Tim Guest

Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe by Myra Waldo

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Nancy Drew and the Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene

The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin

Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Night by Elie Wiesel

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism edited by Jeffrey J. Williams, et al.

Notes of A Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

Novels, 1930–1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell

Oedipus Rex by Sophicles

(X) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of A Writing Life by Amy Tan

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Othello by William Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

Out of Africa by Isak Dineson

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

The Portable Nietzsche by Fredrich Nietzsche

The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Primary Colors by Joe Klein

Property by Valerie Martin

The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford

Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Quattrocento by James Mckean

A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

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

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem

Richard III by William Shakespeare

R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

The Rough Guide to Europe

Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913–1965 by Dawn Powell

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Sexus by Henry Miller

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruíz Zafon

Shane by Jack Shaefer

The Shining by Stephen King

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

Snow White and Rose Red by Brothers Grimm

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Songbook by Nick Hornby

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos

“Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

(X) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Stuart Little by E.B. White

Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

Tevya the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Time and Again by Jack Finney

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unless by Carol Shields

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Velvet Underground’s the Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by Joe Harvard

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker

What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles

What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

(X) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne

[riceli]

BANNED CLASSICS

Banned Classic Books - banned in various countries, time periods, etc. Non-fiction, children's, modern, etc.

How many have you read?

1

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

2

The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)

3

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

4

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

5

The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

6

Ulysses (James Joyce)

7

Beloved (Toni Morrison)

8

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

9

1984 (George Orwell)

10

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

11

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

12

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

13

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

14

Animal Farm (George Orwell-1945)

15

The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

16

As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

17

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

18

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)

19

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

20

Song of Solomon (The Song of Songs, also Song of Solomon or Canticles, is one of the megillot found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim, and a book of the Old Testament.)

21

Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

22

Native Son (Richard Wright)

23

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Ken Kesey)

24

Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

25

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

26

The Call of the Wild (Jack London)

27

Go Tell It on the Mountain. (James Baldwin)

28

All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)

29

The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)

30

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

31

Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)

32

A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

33

The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

34

In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

35

Sophie's Choice (William Styron)

36

Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)

37

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

38

Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)

39

Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)

40

Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)

41

The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)

42

Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)

43

An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)

44

Rabbit, Run (John Updike)

45

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

46

Candide (Voltaire)

47

Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)

48

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haley and Malcolm X)

49

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)

50

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

51

Howl ( Allen Ginsberg - a poem)

52

Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)

53

Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

54

Our Bodies, Ourselves (a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective)

55

The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)

56

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

57

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell R. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin)

58

Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert a Heinlein)

59

A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

60

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

61

Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)

62

The Crucible (Arthur Miller)

63

Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

64

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

65

Arabian Nights (Richard Francis Burton & Geraldine McCaughrean)

66

Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)

67

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)

68

Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

69

Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)

70

A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)

71

Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)

72

The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)

73

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)

74

Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling)

75

The Giver (Lois Lowry)

76

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

77

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

78

Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)

79

The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)

80

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (lMark Twain)

81

That Was Then, This Is Now (S.E. Hinton)

82

The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)

83

Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)

84

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

85

The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)

86

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis)

87

The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)

88

James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)

89

Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm)

90

The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson)

91

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Alvin Schwartz

92

Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)

93

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)

94

The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka -1915)

95

Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

96

The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)

97

The Well of Loneliness (Radclyffe Hall)

98

All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)

99

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

100

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

“A book banned” sounds like a joke.

Are people a bunch of idiots that have to be controlled by some System that decides what can be read and what can not?

It is ridiculous.

[henryfitzempress]

“Roger of Hoveden: The Last Days and Death of Henry II, 1189, from The Chronicle.~

In the year of grace 1189, being the thirty-fifth and last year of the reign of king Henry, son of the empress Matilda, the said Henry was at Saumur, in Anjou, on the day of the Nativity of our Lord, which fell on the Lord’s day, and there he kept that festival; although many of his earls and barons, deserting him, had gone over to the king of France and earl Richard against him. 

After the feast of Saint Hilary, the truce being broken, which existed between the before-named kings, the king of France, and earl Richard and the Bretons, (with whom the said king of France and earl Richard had entered into covenants, and had given sureties that if they should make peace with the king of England, they would not omit to include them in that peace) made a hostile incursion into the territories of the king of England, and ravaged them in every direction.

On this, the cardinal John of Anagni came to the before named kings in behalf of our lord the pope, and sometimes with kind words, sometimes with threats, exhorted them to make peace. Moved by his urgent entreaties, the said kings, by the inspiration of the Divine grace, gave security that they would abide by the decision of himself, and of the archbishops of Rheims, Bourges, Rouen, and Canterbury, and named as the day for a conference to be held near La Ferte Bernard, the octave of Pentecost; on which the before-named cardinal, and the four archbishops above-mentioned, pronounced sentence of excommunication against all, both clergy and laity, who should stand in the way of peace being made between the said kings, the persons of the kings alone excepted.

On the day of the conference, the king of France, and the king of England, earl Richard, the cardinal John of Anagni, and the four archbishops before mentioned, who had been chosen for the purpose, and the earls and barons of the two kingdoms, met for a conference near La Ferte Bernard. 

At this conference, the king of France demanded of the king of England, his sister Alice to be given in marriage to Richard, earl of Poitou, and that fealty for his dominions should be sworn to the said Richard, and that his brother John, assuming the Gross, should set out for Jerusalem. 

To this the king of England made answer that he would never consent to such a proposal, and offered the king of France, if he should think fit to assent thereto, to give the said Alice in marriage to his son John, with all the matters previously mentioned more at large, more fully and more completely than the king demanded. 

The king of France would not agree to this; on which, putting an end to the conference, they separated, mutually displeased. However, the cardinal John of Anagni declared that if the king of France did not come to a complete arrangement with the king of England, he would place the whole of his territory under interdict; to which the king of France made answer, that he should not dread his sentence and that he cared nothing for it, as it was supported upon no grounds of justice. 

For he said, it was not the duty of the Church of Rome to punish the kingdom of France by its sentence or in any other manner, if the king of France should think fit to punish any vassals of his who had strewn themselves undeserving, and rebellious against his sway, for the purpose of avenging the insult to his crown; he also added, that the before-named cardinal had already smelt the sterling coin of the king of England. Then closing the interview, the king of France departed thence, and took La Ferte Bernard, and then Montfort, and next Malestroit, Beaumont, and Balim.

After this he came to Le Mans, on the Lord’s day, pretending that he was going to set out for Tours on the ensuing Monday; but when the king of England and his people seemed to have made themselves at ease as to the further progress of the king of France, he drew out his forces in battle array, for the purpose of making an assault upon the city. 

This being perceived by Stephen de Tours, the seneschal of Anjou, he set fire to the suburbs. The fire, however, rapidly gaining strength and volume, running along the walls, communicated with the city; seeing which, the Franks approached a bridge of stone, where Geoffrey de Burillun and many with him of the party of the king of England met them with the intention of pulling down the bridge; on which, a desperate conflict took place, and a great part of the armies were slain on both sides, and in the conflict, the before named Geoffrey was taken prisoner, and wounded in the thigh; many others also of the king of England’s army were taken, while the rest immediately tool to flight, with the intention of betaking themselves to the city, but the Franks entered it with them.

The king of England seeing this, and being in a state of desperation, contrary to his promise when he came, took to flight with seven hundred of his knights. For he had promised the inhabitants of that city that he would not forsake them, giving it as his reason, that his father rested there, as also, the circumstance that he himself was born there, and loved that city more than all others. 

The king of France pursued him for three miles; and if the stream which the Franks forded had not been very wide and deep, they would hare pursued them as they feed with such swiftness, that they would have been all taken prisoners. In this flight, many of the Welch were slain. 

The king of England, however, with a few of his men, got to Chinon and there took refuge within the fort. The rest of the household of the king of England who were surviving, took refuge within the tower of Le Mans; immediately on which, the king of France laid siege to the town, and, partly through his miners, partly the assaults of his engines, the tower was surrendered to him within three days, together with thirty knights and sixty men at arms.

Marching thence, he took Mont Double by surrender of the castle and its lord. For the viscount of this castle had been the means, indeed, the especial cause, of this catastrophe; for, lying in ambush, he had, armed, fallen upon Geoffrey, the earl of Vendôme, who was unarmed, and had wounded him so seriously, that at first his life was despaired of, though by the grace of God he afterwards entirely recovered from the effects thereof. 

The king of France was the more vexed at his acting thus, because the before-named viscount had strictly bound himself to the king of France, by a promise that he would injure none of his people either in going or returning, or annoy him while engaged in the siege of Le Mans. The king departing thence, the castle of Trou was surrendered to him, together with Roche l’Eveque, Montoire, Chateau Carcere, Chateau Loire, Chateau Chaumont, Chateau d’Amboise, and Chateau de Roche Charbon. 

At length, on the sixth day of the week after the festival of the Nativity of Saint John, on the day after the feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul the Apostles, the king of France came to Tours. On the Lord’s day next after this, Philip, earl of Flanders, William, archbishop of Rheims, and Hugh, duke of Burgundy, came to the king of England, who was then at Saumur, for the purpose of making peace between him and the king of France. 

The king of France had, however, sent him word before they set out, that from Chateau Saint Martin, whither he had betaken himself by fording the Loire, he should make an attack upon the city. Accordingly, on the ensuing Monday, at about the third hour, applying their scaling ladders to the walls on the side of the Loire, which on account of the small quantity of the water, was much contracted and reduced, the city was taken by storm, and in it eighty knights and a hundred men at arms. To their great disgrace, on the one side, the Poitevins were planning treachery against their liege lord the king of England, and on the other the Bretons, who had joined the king of France, and had obtained from him letters patent, to the effect that he would never make peace with the king of England unless the Bretons were included in the treaty. 

Accordingly, the king of England, being reduced to straits, made peace with Philip, king of France, on the following terms:

  "Upon this, the before-named king of France and king of England, and Richard, earl of Poitou, with their archbishops, bishops, earls, and barons, about the time of the feast of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, held a conference between Tours and Arasie, where the king of England wholly placed himself under the control and at the will of the king of France. 

The king of England then did homage to the king of France, although at the beginning of the war he had renounced the lordship of the king of France, and the king of France had quitted all claim of his homage. It was then provided by the king of France that Alice, his sister, whom the king of England had in his charge, should be given up and placed in the charge of one of five persons, of whom earl Richard should make choice. 

It was next provided by the king of France that security should be given by the oath of certain men of that land that his said sister should be delivered up to earl Richard on his return from Jerusalem, and that earl Richard should receive the oath of fealty from his father’s subjects on both sides the sea, and that none of the barons or knights who had in that war withdrawn from the king of England and come aver to earl Richard should again return to the king of England, except in the last month before his setting out for Jerusalem; the time of which setting out was to be Mid-Lent, at which period the said kings and earl Richard were to be at Vezelay. 

That all the burgesses of the vills, demesne of the king of England, should be unmolested throughout all the lands of the king of France, and should enjoy their own customary laws and not be impleaded in any matter, unless they should be guilty of felony. The king of England was to pay to the king of France twenty thousand marks of silver; and all the barons of the king of England were to make oath that if the king of England should refuse to observe the said covenants, they would hold with the king of France and earl Richard, and would aid them to the best of their ability against tile king of England. 

The king of France and earl Richard were to hold in their hands the city of Le Mans, the city of Tours, Chateau Loire, and the castle of Trou; or else, if the king of England should prefer it, the king of France and earl Richard would hold the castle of Gisors, the castle of Pasci, and the castle of Novacourt, until such time as all the matters should be completed as arranged above by the king of France. 

While the before-named kings were conferring in person hereon, the Lord thundered over them, and a thunderbolt fell between the two, but did them no injury; they were, however, greatly alarmed, and separated accordingly, while all who were with them were astonished that the thunder had been heard so suddenly, seeing that no lowering clouds had preceded it. 

After a short time the kings again met together for a conference, on which a second time thunder was heard, still louder and d more terrible than before, the sky retaining its original sereneness; in consequence of which, the king of England, being greatly alarmed, would have fallen to the ground from the horse on which he was mounted, if he had not been supported by the hands of those who were standing around him. 

From that time he entirely placed himself at the will of the king of France, and concluded peace on the terms above written, requesting that the names of all those who, deserting him, had gone over to the king of France and earl Richard, should be committed to writing and given to him. This being accordingly done, he found the name of his son John written at the beginning of the list.

Surprised at this beyond measure, he came to Chinon, and, touched with grief at heart, cursed the day on which he was born, and pronounced upon his sons the curse of God and of himself, which he would never withdraw, although bishops and other religious men frequently admonished him so to do. 

Being sick even unto death, he ordered himself to be carried into the church, before the altar, and there devoutly received the communion of the body and blood of Christ; and after confessing his sins, and being absolved by the bishop and clergy, he departed this life in the thirty-fifth year of his reign, on the octave of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, being the fifth day of the week; after a reign of thirty-four years, seven months, and four days. After his death, having plundered him of all his riches, all forsook him, so true it is that just as flies seek honey, wolves the carcass, and ants corn, this crew followed not the man, but his spoils. At last however, his servants returned, and buried him with royal pomp. On the day after his death, when he was being carried out for burial in the Church of the Nuns at Fontevraud, earl Richard, his son and heir, came to meet him, and, smitten with compunction, wept bitterly; immediately on which the blood flowed in streams from the nostrils of the body at the approach of his son. His son, however, proceeded with the body of his father to the abbey of Fontevraud, and there buried him in the choir of the Nuns, and thus it was that he was "among the veiled women as one wearing the veil."

Source: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/1189hoveden.asp (written in early 13th century)

[corallorosso]

Gli artisti reinventano la mascherina Lo storico dell'arte Geoffrey Shamos e Lauren Hartog, direttrice della Vicki Myhren Gallery dell'Università di Denver , hanno chiesto a 45 artisti che realizzano maschere di partecipare a uno spettacolo di attualità. Shamos dice che scegliere i preferiti è difficile, ma Incalculable Loss di Trey Duvall , realizzato con braccialetti ospedalieri su cui sono incisi i nomi di coloro che sono morti per complicazioni Covid, "mi colpisce ogni volta", mentre Porcupine Fish di Liz Sexton "fa sorridere i visitatori". 1 - Porcupine Fish, di Liz Sexton 2 - Our Dying Coral Reefs, di Felicia Murray 3 - Maschera per i nostri tempi, di Serge Clottey 4 - Apparato respiratorio, di Adrienne DeLoe 5 - BYOO (Bring Your Own Oxygen), di Tracy Tomko 6 - Perdita incalcolabile, di Trey Duvall 7 - Maschera di scultura classica, di Kate Marling 8 - Becco, di Elizabeth Morisette 9 - Maschera # 6, dalla serie Telephone, di Freya Jobbins 10 - Mask for Our Unseen Smiles, di Scottie Burgess

[richmond-rex]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!

Hello! I was thinking about which story I could give you a “director’s commentary” on, so I decided to turn this ask into a (late) Trivia Tuesday of sorts and give you some facts about Draw Your Swords! 🌹🌹 send in a ⭐ to ask for the “director’s commentary” on a story

One thing I had in mind when starting to write Elizabeth’s POV in this story was Henry and Elizabeth’s age difference, as well as their difference in terms of experience. Elizabeth was inarguably more sheltered than him at that point in history, and I started thinking about which manner of things she would have been taught to compensate for her lack of experience. 

Sorry, don’t take me wrong, at that point the last two years of her life had been quite traumatic, but I don’t think she would’ve liked very much to dwell on those days — which doesn’t mean memories from those times don’t get to intrude in her thoughts: we see her unwillingly thinking about her brother Richard taken away at sword-point, as well as about the time she and her family had prayed for both her brothers to be safe (in vain). I think Elizabeth might have taken Henry’s new rule as a fresh start (much like he himself was striving so hard to make England understand).

So about Elizabeth: we know that she was taught to be a queen consort pretty much since she was born (which might explain how successful she was?). Edward never really took her as his heir, and I think she received even less administrative training than other noble girls destined to become duchesses, countesses, etc since as a queen she would have had a council to take care of the affairs of her estates. We know that Elizabeth was taught music (and for sure she played the clavichord), dancing, horse riding (apparently she was quite good at that), and French as since Edward’s deal with Louis Elizabeth was called Madame la Dauphine at court. Other things we can imply: she probably was taught church Latin, and perhaps she knew how to read classic Latin as well. 

Elizabeth would also doubtless have been taught to be a good wife. During the Middle Ages, being a good wijf was such an important ideal sometimes the term would be applied to any respectful and virtuous woman, regardless if she was married or not. According to Candace Gregory, the conflation of the term:

[...] clearly reveals the association of a woman’s virtue and her identity, as well as the linkage of those two, with her marital status. The only good woman was a good wife; even nuns were the “brides of Christ” and incorporated a spiritual marital identity.

Being a good wife becomes even more important if you’ve been destined to be queen all your life (especially if we take into account the speculated prophecy that Edward IV received about Princess Elizabeth taking a crown). The nature of queenship was a supportive and complementary one where the queen would provide the gentler aspects of ruling in place of her husband the king. Being a successful queen meant acting in harmony with the king (not against him), which I think it is something that Elizabeth of York was probably mindful of.

This is why in the story we find Elizabeth thinking on the times she was told about what made a good wife, while in the first chapter we see Henry concerned about the broader aspects of ruling England. Elizabeth finds herself remembering that “all a man sought in marriage was a wife that was obedient to his bidding, meek, courteous and wise, amiable and good” and that “A woman should worship her husband both day and night, / To his bidding be obedient, and serve him without offence.”

She doesn’t know Henry very well at that point, and she does remember an instance in literature where a husband beats his wife: “Accordingly, a woman in no way ought to strive against her husband, nor answer him so that he take displeasure thereby, as did the wife of the burgess.” In fact, the story Elizabeth thinks about, The Book of the Knight of the Tower / of La Tour Laundry was a famous fourteenth-century manual describing, through various stories and homilies, proper female behaviour. It was written by a French nobleman, Geoffrey la Tour Landry, for the instruction of his own daughters. 

One thing that I discovered recently is that translation of this book into English, published by Caxton in 1484, was probably dedicated to Elizabeth’s own mother Queen Elizabeth Woodville! As she was technically Dame Grey at the time and no longer a queen (and out of favour with the new king, no less) it is possible that Caxton tried to allude to her in his dedication without naming her. Caxton said that the

This speculation was made by Nicholas Orme in his book From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066–1530 in case you want to check it out for yourself (I don’t own this book, unfortunately). Well, that’s Trivia Tuesday for you! :D  Thanks for sending your string of ⭐️s! It means a lot 🌹x

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Okay, I lied about the 50 song list being the last one of these I’d do. This will be the last one for some time, probably. Blank version here for anyone else who wants to fill this out.

(Book list below the break.)

The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann

Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker

Extinct Birds by Julian P. Hume

The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

Pterosaurs by Mark P. Witton

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

Sleeping Dogs Don’t Lay by Richard Lederer and Richard Dowis

The Palaeoartist’s Handbook by Mark P. Witton

Bird Coloration by Geoffrey E. Hill

Ereth’s Birthday by Avi

Animal by DK Publishing

The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need by... Dave Barry

The Evolution Underground by Anthony J. Martin

The Hidden Powers of Animals by Karl Shuker

Grandmother Fish by Jonathan Tweet

Where Song Began by Tim Low

All Yesterdays by John Conway, C. M. Kosemen, and Darren Naish

Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life by DK Publishing 

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Mango and Bambang: The Not-a-Pig by Polly Faber

Dinosaur Empire! by Abby Howard

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved by Darren Naish and Paul Barrett

A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs by Matthew P. Martyniuk

Abominable Science! by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero

Hawks in Flight by Pete Dunne and David Sibley

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel

The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley

The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton W. Burgess

The Bare Bones by Matthew F. Bonnan

The Monkey's Voyage by Alan de Queiroz

Animal Earth by Ross Piper

The Unfeathered Bird by Katrina van Grouw

Extreme Dinosaurs by Luis V. Rey

The Incomplete Book of Australian Mammals by Ronald Strahan

Avian Evolution by Gerald Mayr

Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages by Thomas R. Holtz Jr.

Astonishing Animals by Tim Flannery

The Ghosts of Evolution by Connie Barlow

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins

Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises by Mark Carwardine

Paleogene Fossil Birds by Gerald Mayr

Owls Aren't Wise and Bats Aren't Blind by Warner Shedd

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

The Minds of Birds by Alexander F. Skutch

A Gap in Nature by Tim Flannery

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Two Empty Shells

Geoffrey Keating is thought to have been born c.1569 in County Tipperary; for a long time Burgess was believed his birthplace, but more recently an argument has been advanced for Moorstown Castle, a tower house then occupied by the Keating family. In 1603 he sailed for France where he attended the recently-founded Irish College in Bordeaux. On finishing his studies and being an ordained priest,…

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Bach Akademie Charlotte’s Epiphany Concert Includes Schütz and Amon Appetizers in a Cantata Feast

Bach Akademie Charlotte’s Epiphany Concert Includes Schütz and Amon Appetizers in a Cantata Feast

Review: Bach Akademie Charlotte’s Epiphany Concert By Perry Tannenbaum

Word has spread quickly about Bach Akademie Charlotte, their professional choir, and their polyphonic excellence. After their biggest splash last spring, the first annual Charlotte Bach Festival with its Oregon Bach aspirations, Akademie reconnected with their audience in the fall with “Priceless Treasure: Bach and the Motet…

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TIM murderers

“Woman” killed neighbor before shooting self

John “Johnny” Jacobson Jr/Skylar Deleon – Armed burglary and murder

Craig Hudson – Tortured/killed wife, fights to wear wig in prison

William Gray – Killed two women

Derek Sinden, who identifies as a woman, assaulted/killed elderly woman after invading her home                                

Mark van N. – Dentist who killed his wife and mutilated the teeth of some 100 patients

Matthew “Maddie” Smith, murder

Dr. Richard Sharpe – Killed wife during divorce

Michael Adams – Shot and killed girlfriend

Raven Navajo – Transsexual who murdered a woman

Douglas/Donna Perry – Blames shooting dead 3 prostituted women on former male identity

Jeanne Marie Druley – Transsexual who shot and killed a woman he “loved”

Geoffrey Websdale – Shot 4 people, killing 2

Matthew “Maxine” Richardson – Murdered prostituted woman

Douglas Wakefield/Tai Pilley – Murdered uncle, killed male inmate, took guard hostage, & had sexual relations with women in prison after transfer          

Paul Charles Denyer – Transsexual serial killer, who “hated women in general”

Robert/Michelle Kosilek – Murdered wife, nearly decapitating her head with piano wire

Paul Luckman – Kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered boys

Maddison Hall – Shot and killed a hitchhiker, sexually predated on women and raped his cellmate in women’s prison after transfer

Lyralisa Stevens – Shot and killed a woman

Robert/Rebecca Hilton – Murder

Michelle-Lael Norsworthy – Murder

Rodney/Shiloh Quine – Kidnapping, robbery and murder    

Wolfgang “Beate” Schmidt – Serial killer who murdered five women and one of their babies, raped bodies, and attempted attack on a 12 year old girl

Yesenia Patino – Transsexual who brutally murdered boyfriend’s wife

Hadden Clark – Serial killer, drank women/girl’s blood to “become a woman              

Transgender woman and male lover torture woman to death in sadistic fetish

LGBT Media Ignores Case of Transgender Who Killed Lesbian Couple and Son

Transsexual kills neighbor over noise and being uncomfortable with being transsexual

Nastasia Laura Bilyk is a Man serving a life sentence for murdering a Woman in 1987. He decided he was a Woman in 2008, and now wants to be transferred to a Women’s prison in Canada.

Sex-change suit by California inmate Philip Rosati (convicted of murder) OKd by court

The murder of Rita Powers and a male transgenderist’s narcissistic rage

Edmonds Tennent Brown IV, a man who identifies as a woman named Katheryn Brown, is seeking state-funded hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery (“SRS”) while serving a life sentence without parole in a South Carolina prison for the rape and murder of Mary Lynn Witherspoon. Although Brown pled guilty, he now claims he did so “under duress during an emotionally difficult time…likened to PMS.

Luis Morales/Synthia China-Blast – rape and murder of a teen girl:

Steve “Nikkas” Alamillo – murder

Thomas “Lisa” Strawn – Murder [same article as above, also mentioned]

Peter Laing/Paris Green – beat, tortured and murdered a man, moved to another women’s prison after having sexual relations with female inmates

  Mark Brooks/Jessica Brooks – murder

Melissa Young – Murders neighbor over rejecting Christmas gift

David Wesley Birrell/Bella-Christina Birrell,

Yolanda Gonzalez – Murder

Philip Taplin – Murder

Donald Geoffrey McPherson/Kimmie McPherson – Murder

Glen Robert Askeborn/Samantha Glenner – Child abuse, battery and murder

Trans-Identified Man Poses as Woman to Lure, Blackmail, & Kill Man: Alhan Khan

Cross-Dressing Soldier Murders Wife to Stop Her from Exposing His Secret: Logan Kyle

Transitioning Male Trans Teen Viciously Stabs Parents to Death on Halloween: Andrew “Andrea” Balcer

Killer Transgender Feels Oppressed by the Prison System: Jade September

Male Transgender Stalks, Stabs Driver to Death in Road Rage Incident: Derya Yıldırım

Male Transgender Kills His Uncle to Fund ‘Gender’ Surgery: Vonlee Nicole Titlow

Transgender and Prominent Trans Rights Activist Slaughters Long-time Friend: Gigi Thomas

Michael Chidgey

Liam Suleman / Lucy Edwards

William Jaggs

2016 – Jenny Swift killed Eric Flanagan

2015 – Claire Darbyshire killed Brian Darbyshire (father)

2015 – Graham Cleary-Senior killed Frances Cleary-Senior (wife)

2013 – Alan Baker/Alex Stewart killed John Weir

2013 – Colin Coates tortured and killed Lynda Spence

2010 – Christopher Hunnisett* killed Peter Bick

2010 – Senthooran Kanagasingham killed David/Sonia Burgess

2010 – Paul Hayhurst killed Alexander Toner

2008 – Gavin Boyd killed Vikki McGrand (sister in law)

2006 – Steve Wright killed Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls

2004 – Daniel Eastwood* killed fellow prisoner Paul Algae

2002 – Ian/Lian Huntley* killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman

2001 – Christopher Hunnisett* killed Ronald Glazebrook

2001 – Samantha Read killed Simon Spicer (partner)

2001 – Malcolm French killed Christopher Loftus (wife’s new partner)

2000 – Karen Lawson* killed Michael Cutler (partner)

2000 – Robert/Emma Page* killed Clive White

1995 – William Wotherspoon acquitted of killing Francis McMillan

1987 – Lennie Smith* suspected of killing of 5 children, let off on technicality:

Smith was also charged with the murder of seven year old Mark Tildesley in 1987 but charges were subsequently dropped as the person who named him as the killer (Leslie Bailey) was himself convicted of the manslaughter of the child (having confessed to having been present) and this was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction without a confession from Smith.

Smith was part of a group of paedophile men including Sidney Cooke, Robert Oliver and Leslie Bailey who are believed to have tortured, raped and killed at least 5 young boys in the 1980s. Oliver was jailed for 15 years in for the manslaughter of 14-year old Jason Swift; Smith was also arrested for the killing but never charged.