#Jo Graham

[jeannereames]

The second of the requested Booktoks on Alexander the Great fiction, this time covering Melissa Scott's A Choice of Destinies, Jo Graham's Stealing fire, and Scott Oden's Memnon. (With honorable mention of another book by each.)

[abigailspinach]

3, 5, 8, and 19 for the reading asks? :D

DNF With Prejudice: Book(s) you didn't finish on purpose

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorn

The Ones We Burn - Rebecca Mix

Ooops maybe authors named Rebecca were not in the cards for me? I rarely DNF but these debut novels weren't doing it for me. Flat characters, bland worldbuilding, I got bored

Crowd Pleaser: Book you would recommend to almost anyone

Hand of Isis - by Jo Graham. Man, she needs a bigger fandom.

"Set in Ancient Egypt, Hand of Isis is the story of Charmian, a handmaiden, and her two sisters. It is a novel of lovers who transcend death, of gods who meddle in mortal affairs.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Historical fantasist Graham (Black Ships) heads to Egypt with this elegant, engaging memoir of Charmian, half-sister and handmaiden to Cleopatra. The two young women and their other sister, Iras, are inseparable from childhood, getting one another into and out of numerous mishaps. As teenagers, they vow to Isis that they will protect Egypt from the covetous Romans, and in return for their devotion, the goddess rewards Cleopatra with the throne. Graham never resorts to melodrama even at the murder of Julius Caesar or to cliché when Charmian recalls her past lives, and she supplies plenty of superb historical detail, but doesn't let it overwhelm the narrative. Charmian's shy hopes, failures and devotion to Cleopatra and Isis make her one of the most memorable witnesses to history to emerge from fantasy in quite some time."

Blorbo Of The Year: Perhaps not your favorite of the year, but contains The Character

It's a reread and I'm going with "The Curse of Chalion" for the one two punch of Iselle and Cazaril. Cazaril as the lead gets more screen time but Iselle is so wonderfully clever. Cazaril is a favorite type of character. Honorable, intelligent, stubborn, kicked around by life, but still kind. Iselle is young, intelligent, willing to learn, and a canny player of politics. LOVE THEM

Favorite old(er) book you read this year

I did a reread of 6 of the 8 the Anne of Green Gables series... so that would be the oldest. I do enjoy Rilla of Ingleside for being "Teen Mom: Canadian WW1 Edition." Actually, I'm going for Emily Climbs instead. I Emily isn't as beloved as Anne but she's a touch more gothic and psychic and I love her sassy diary entries. So "Emily Climbs" by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Which is free online:

"And just as Emily was ready to slip into her high black bedstead a sudden inspiration came—a splendid new idea for a story. For a minute she shivered reluctantly: the room was getting cold. But the idea would not be denied. Emily slipped her hand between the feather tick of her bed and the chaff mattress and produced a half-burned candle, secreted there for just such an emergency.

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor ever will pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

She lighted her candle, put on her stockings and a heavy coat, got out another half-filled Jimmy-book, and began to write by the single, uncertain candle which made a pale oasis of light in the shadows of the room. In that oasis Emily wrote, her black head bent over her book, as the hours of night crept away and the other occupants of New Moon slumbered soundly; she grew chill and cramped, but she was quite unconscious of it. Her eyes burned—her cheeks glowed—words came like troops of obedient genii to the call of her pen. When at last her candle went out with a splutter and a hiss in its little pool of melted tallow, she came back to reality with a sigh and a shiver. It was two, by the clock, and she was very tired and very cold; but she had finished her story and it was the best she had ever written. She crept into her cold nest with a sense of completion and victory, born of the working out of her creative impulse, and fell asleep to the lullaby of the waning storm."

Thanks @cheriboms

[gatutor]

Helen Walker-James Brown "The good fellows" 1943, de Jo Graham.

[eilidh]

The three covers I made for Jo Graham's The Calpurnian Wars series, published by Candlemark & Gleam. It's been an honour and a joy to work on these and bring Jo's characters to life.

[ekaterin1701]

The previous posts reminded me to repost this quote from one of the post-SGA books 😆

I was very amused to find out this conversation made it into an official Stargate: Atlantis tie-in book (written by Jo Graham) 😆

[readingoodbooks]

"Moebius Squared" di Jo Graham e Melissa Scott

Alla ricerca di Egeria, la antica regina dei Tok’ra, la squadra di Cameron Mitchell torna indietro nel tempo nell’Antico Egitto dove trova un’altra versione dell’SG-1, intrappolata nel passato dopo aver aiutato gli egiziani a rovesciare Ra… Moebius Squared (Fandemonium, 2012) Moebius Squared, scritto a quattro mani da Jo Graham e Melissa Scott e pubblicato da Fandemonium nel dicembre 2012, è…

[closetofcuriosities]

Twin Peaks (1990-2017)

[hawkwinglb]

Jo Graham's A Blackened Mirror

A brief review of Jo Graham's A Blackened Mirror:

Crossposted from Patreon and Substack. Jo Graham, A Blackened Mirror. Cambridge MA: Candlemark & Gleam. 2023. Cover art for A Blackened Mirror Blackwell’s affiliate link. I’ve really enjoyed Graham’s space opera, Sounding Dark and Warlady. A Blackened Mirror is historical fantasy with a romantic turn, set in Rome in 1489 and told from the point of view of the adolescent Giulia Farnese: later…

[damonalbarn]

JO: There's a moment when you are all together and Damon breaks down crying, how was that for you? GRAHAM: Funny! No, no, it wasn't funny, I was very concerned because both of us had very heavy times, and you know, and I just got to Devon, and it's the first playback of him having got all his vocals together. And it's all very well, you know, writing words down in the back of a taxi or whatever, thinking "yeah that'll work" and sing it, but it's a really weird thing with lyrics when you suddenly breathe life into them, singing them into a microphone and having them play back to you, it gains this tremendous power. I completely understand why he felt uncomfortable or emotional. JO: Damon is very complex, you never know what Damon you're gonna get… GRAHAM: It's always the same one to me. JO: Is it? Which is…? GRAHAM: Which is... Hang on a minute. JO: What is he to you? GRAHAM: He is always very caring, very generous, mischievous. And I suppose within that mischievous is where he's talking about. JO: He gets angry a couple of times… GRAHAM: We all had a good paddy. I love when Damon just lets it go, that's probably needed for him, because it was stressful, and some of my funniest memories are from Damon just losing it, having a massive tantrum. He comes out of it pretty quick, but at the time, the intensity of it… is just... you can't do much more than just laugh at it. We are beyond offending each other, that's the thing about Damon, he is pretty unoffendable, and me too.

Graham talking to Jo Whiley on BBC 2 for the release of blur docu To The End. (x)

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

if there is one thing I really want to thank Chris Chibnall for it is the companion support group

seriously, if the BBC wants to film a series of short webisodes featuring whichever former companions that are willing to come back,I would happily watch all of them

[bluesourkiwi]

GPDA Meeting, 1969 South African GP

[jeannereames]

So, for those who wanted a booktok on some Alexander fiction, here's one that features the work of Judith Tarr, primarily, although I also mention David Gemmell (setting Judy's book(s) against his duology), as well as Jo Graham and Harry Turtledove in passing. I chose Judy to begin as she's written more than one book on Alexander (including one on Olympias), and she's good at incorporating ancient views on magic and myth appropriately into her stories. Most of these also have some (het) romance, although I didn't say a lot about that. In Lord of the Two Lands (and Queen of the Amazons) she treats Hephaistion well, and he is shown as ATG's lover.

I'll do some more, largely on books I liked, to highlight them, as well as on some unusual (and old) ones I have in my collection. As I say in the video, I've been collecting ATG fiction for a very long time now (since the late 80s, in fact).

[jessmalia]

Mal's Gilmore Girls rewatch: The Bracebridge Dinner 2.10

[cloudberrylane]

Series 9:

Series 15:

TMNZ Series 4:

Added context for those who haven't seen TMNZ, they wore one another's task outfits:

[pizzacade]

U.N.I.T. got majorly confused when they learned Graham O'Brien had started the support group for The Doctor's companions as seen in The Power of The Doctor. From The Gold Archive book.

Enlarged image of the laptop for better clarity.

Either U.N.I.T. wasn't made aware of Jackie's current status of being stuck in Pete's World, or they somehow gained communication, which explains why she's a (non-)attendee. Anyway, this detail was borrowed from the script where it says this.

This also explains how Mel got to be hired by U.N.I.T. by the time of The Giggle.

[christiangeistdorfer]

1960s F1 DRIVERS SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS + THEIR SIGNATURE