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Gender & Pronouns: Cis woman, she/her

Date of Birth: April 20th, 1982 (38)

Place of Birth: Catalina Island, California

Neighborhood: Ventura

Length of Residency: Native

Occupation: Veterinarian and Owner of Livingston Veterinary Clinic

Face Claim: Sophia Bush

BIOGRAPHY

TRIGGERS: Postpartum, Infidelity, Death.

When Jonathan and Sylvie Livingston announced they are expecting their first child, a girl, the shrieks of excitement from the end of the telephone lines deafened the expectant parents as they contacted those near and dear to them. The couple has always spoken about having a big family ─ three minimum, five the maximum. After all, Sylvie grew up with two older brothers, who worked alongside their sister in their family business, Carmichael Roses, which had been started by their great-grandfather in the 1870s. As for Jonathan, a successful Professional Golfer with heaps of PGA titles under his belt, he was the youngest of three: an older brother who passed in his early twenties during his one military tours, and a sister three years older than John, who happens to be the head of cardiothoracic at Catalina Medical Center. It only made sense the couple wanted a larger than life family. It’s all they knew and grew up with.

On April 20th, after twenty-three hours of gruesome labor, the protruding stomach the couple had spoken to over the nine months was finally able to hold their first child, Georgina Scarlett Livingston. Their daughter, something Jonathan and Sylvie couldn’t stop repeating it until both of their mouths grew to despise the concept of them talking, was an image of perfection. Georgina cried every time she was hungry or when it was sleep time. Otherwise, the eldest Livingston child had never been a hassle to the parents. It almost felt too perfect. After all, both of them have witnessed their close friends and how their kids grew up to be, so in a way, they were expecting a nightmare and nights of endless sleep. It was the opposite.

As Georgina grew up, her life was everything but ordinary. It was extraordinary from all of the places she could travel due to her parent’s work and face she could meet because of the trips. The majority of the people she came across were all people of high-power. Celebrities, athletes, and designers that both of her parents knew and treated as family, as the bodies always felt at home with the Livingstons in their Catalina manor. Considering who both of her parents happen to be, they have been in the limelight and remained humble to the core, and planned on teaching their children the same lessons. So, after a family dinner and a curious Georgina stared groggily at Donna Karan, who happens to be her godmother, Jonathan began to tell his eldest daughter about the life that she was born into ─ the money.

She knew that her parents would purchase items without remorse or panic about it, affecting their bank account, but the girl never took their money for granted. She knows they worked hard for their fortune as well. But because of the capital, it gave her opportunities that many will never be able to experience. It got her and her younger brother and sister into the best private schools, as they started to attend them from pre-school and would until they went off to college. But, one of the many things that Geo is grateful for is her parent’s brutal honesty. They expected only the best from their children in terms of success regardless of what profession they ventured down. While the surname could get them through any door, the children needed to take life by the horns and control it, or else they’ll feel trapped to a list of assumptions due to past generations. Those words instantly consumed Georgina. The eldest daughter dreamed of doing incredible things in this world and nothing less than. So, it wasn’t a surprise when a ten-year-old Georgina started bringing stray pets home as she held them out to her and said, “Mommy, I’m going to be a veterinarian, and I’d love to keep this puppy if I can take care of him.”

Jonathan and Sylvie supported her daughter’s promise to raise the family dog, Gordo. After all, it was difficult for them to say no to those doe-eyes they fell in love with those years ago ─ the same feeling that captured the couple when they had their two youngest children. But, all of the years and all of the lessons both of them taught the kids, the importance of being responsible while remaining humble regardless because of their circumstances, allowed Georgina to take a leading role as dog-owner. Ultimately, this decision would cement the kind of woman she will grow up to be, and it did. Not only did it make her want to become a veterinarian, but every time she saw a stray on the side of the road, the young girl felt the need to bring it home with her and nurture them. It would always make her mother beam proudly because the amount of love her daughter has for animals didn’t wither over the years. The sight alone made Jonathan and Sylvie put their minds together in encouraging their sixteen-year-old daughter to apply for the local veterinary receptionist position. The opportunity to work and earn money for herself, knowing that money didn’t come from trees, further enhanced her decision to become a vet and keep the girl on track of applying to the families’ alma mater ─ Stanford University.

As the year and a half passed, awaiting the nerve-wracking results on whether or not she got into any of the university that she applied for, her younger sister came rushing through the door with the mail. The sound of a high-pitched sequel of a pre-teen growing into her body pulled the eldest sister right off the couch as she almost slipped on the polished hardwood floors to the kitchen: Loyola, Stanford, Georgetown, Princeton. All of these schools that she applied to resulted in flying colors. However, even though the rest happened to be her back-ups for the worst-case scenario, there was no point for her to second guess her decision. The firstborn will be chanting the known Stanford Hymn in the fall time at her first-ever college football game.

Conquering four years of her undergraduate degree in Biology while enduring an endless amount of hours of studying in her dorm room, Georgina graduated with summa cum laude. It was one accomplishment upon the journey that she had ahead of herself. It was a big deal for her to graduate from Stanford and honor the legacy of her family. All she could remember throughout her years is how her father told her to fight for the dreams that keep her captive. It had been her parents who instilled words of confidence as it allowed her to fight. Her life and story has always been about doing something for herself and to make her way in this world. She could’ve worked alongside her mother and the business. Or she could’ve been a professional female golfer with support from her father. These would’ve been the most comfortable option, but they weren’t for her. So it’s why she focused like no other and prayed each day since taking her MCAT that it will guarantee her a post in Stanford’s Medical School Program.

It did.

It would take her another four years until Georgina could walk across the Stanford stage once more with the title: Degree of Veterinary Medicine. It’s another step toward her dream from the age of ten years old. Although this time… things were different; the woman was madly in love and was engaged to be married in the following springtime. It almost felt like a dream come true. Her parents loved her future-husband. Her brother and younger sister were always glued to the new couple’s side ─ insisting on them to go and grab drinks once the parents’ bore went to sleep, which would cause a reaction from Jonathan and Sylvie of no other. It was all that she could dream of (even though she hadn’t focused too much on relationships over the years, but that’s a detail she doesn’t share). Everything felt good. All she has ever known is a life of stability.

And it was good for quite a bit of time. Married, in love, and back on the ground of her upbringing. Life in Catalina continued like no other, and her career as a vet started to take off as she opened her veterinary hospital ─ Livingston Veterinary Hospital in Avalon. As things progressed with her business and word traveled around town to the eventual mainland California, she earned a new title nine-months later to a beautiful boy named Asher. It had been in that moment when she understood what her parents felt when she had entered their world those years ago. It would only be two years later when Asher became a big-brother to Joanna. Though, she grew numb after both of her pregnancies and became difficult to be around, and would barely move unless it was for the kids who would jolt her back to reality. Some days she’d be full of anger, and other days, the new mother would spend all day on the couch crying as if this was the end of the world. It could’ve been one of the reasons why her husband pulled away when she got diagnosed with postpartum depression. Throughout the years, Georgina had been stable and a head on her shoulders with goals one after another. Then boom, her body decided to start a war with her and would fall to make her pits of hell as she has more responsibilities more than anything. She felt lost at sea and needed her husband more than anything.

He found love in another and lied to her.

So, when the truth came out about his affairs, it was just a slap in Georgina’s face and their family. Even though she’s a woman that would never seek vengeance for the agony she suffered and had to get through it alone. Although, she felt like the universe did her wonders in looking out for her when the cops showed up on her front doorstep with news about her husband’s passing in an automobile accident in Los Angeles with his mistresses and the secret child. Long now, the thought of who she married became numb to her that the news caused her to blink a few times to process the information. After all, it’s always been Georgina, Asher, and Joanna for the last few years, and it’s almost like nothing is missing from the picture. But, she knows everyone has been expecting her to suffer. In a way, it’s a show that she gave others for the first couple of months before wanting nothing to do with her past.

PERSONALITY

Positive: Respectful | Open-minded | Tranquil

Negative: Bossy | Picky | Cautious

Georgina Livingston is portrayed by Steph.

#all #female #ventura #postpartum tw #infidelity tw #death tw #sophia bush

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haveamagicalday · 5 years

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My 2019 reads

My top ten reads can be found here

4 Stars

All the Bad Apples by Moria Fowley-Doyle

Deena’s family is cursed. Any “rotten apple” in the family is doomed for a a tragic end. When Deena’s sister Mandy goes in search of the cause of the curse, Deena and friends go after her. This book alternates with stories from the past and present dealing with strong feminist themes throughout.

House of Salt and Sorrow by Eria A. Craig

A darker more horror story retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses. Personally, I felt that connection to the original fairy tale was kinda weak and this could have been pitched as its own fairy tale. It was definitely creepy and kept you on your toes throughout.

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

Riley Sager is becoming one of my favorite thriller authors but this one was probably my least favorite of his 3 books so far. Don’t get me wrong, it was still really good but while the twist was good, I figured it out fairly early on. I kept waiting for another twist that would blow me away but it never happened. Still, this was fun to read and I still stand by the 4 star rating.

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

After Cinderella leaves with her prince, her stepsisters are left in shame. This story covers the stepsisters lives after happily ever after, and maybe they will get their happily ever after too. This book was sweet and creative. Isabelle, are evil stepsister, was a flawed character but still deeply likable. There was some magic and greek mythology woven in that really made this story stand out for me.

The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen does it again in this heartfelt tale of a teenager trying to find her place in the world. Emma Saylor’s mother was an addict and now that she’s gone, Emma only has her stories to remember her by. So where does Emma’s life fit in to these stories and how does the story end?

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

A non witch detective is called in to a high school for the magically gifted to solve a gruesome murder. This was a fun and unique read. It plays out like a typical mystery but the added element of a modern day world with mages and a magic boarding school made it it's own thing. I would actually love to read a series in this world as it was well built and intriguing. A big strength of this novel was I actually was interested in the main character's storyline as I was with the mystery. Sometimes with mysteries, the main character is just there to solve the mystery and nothing more. This was not the case for this book.

The Window by Amelia Brunskill

Jess’s twin sister is dead. She fell out their window one tragic night. But what was Anna doing sneaking out of their window? In this thrilling and emotional book, Jess discovers some of her twin’s secrets and sets out to learn what really happened that fateful night.

The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm by Christopher Paolini

A fun short read that brought me back to my middle school years. Eragon holds a special place in my heart and this was a welcome return to the world. It hints at more in the future and I'm excited to see were this story will continue to go. I will admit though that I preferred the in between chapters with Eragon than the short stories themselves. The Urgal story was probably the best but it seems like Paolini is setting up for another full sized novel in the series and it really had nothing to do with the story at all. Still, it was enjoyable!

The Dark Days Deceit by Alison Goodman

A satisfying ending to the Lady Helen trilogy. There was a twist about the main villain that I honestly would have hated in any other book but it worked so well in this one. I’m going to miss this fun series.

3.5 Stars

Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Echo North is a retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon. This one had its deviations but was more of straight retelling of the fairytale. There are two parts to this book. The first one is about 280 pages and the last part is the last 120 pages. I think I would have preferred if they were an equal length. The first part could have been shorter and the second part could have been longer. There was a lot of interesting content in the second part that I would have loved to explore more. Still, this was a lovely read and a good retelling of the popular fairytale

Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Berube

Skye is our main character. A high school girl that moved to a new town and just wants to be normal, maybe even date her cute neighbor? What stands in her way is her 13 year old sister Dierdre. Deirdre is weird, she’s creepy and she refuses to grow up. And now she is missing. All in all, I thought this was a worthwhile and exciting read. While I was personally left a tad disappointed in the direction it took, I know there are a lot of others that will absolutely love it. And the strength of the first half and the themes it deals with, is enough for me to recommend it! Read my full review here.

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Based on Russian mythology and lore. This is a perfect fairy tale to read on a cold winter night. The characters are well developed and the conflict is subtle. It's a slow build up but never felt boring at all.

Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

For the most part, I really enjoyed this book! It was quick paced and kept you guessing. However, while I didn't think the ending was predictable, I did think it was a bit cliched. I was surprised by the twist but but it still felt cheesy. The rest of the book was really solid though. There were plenty of red herrings that kept you guessing and it was an enjoyable read with good characters. I liked that this one only had two main characters as opposed to One of Us Is Lying had the four but if I had to pick one though I would say One of Us Is Lying is the stronger book.

3 Stars

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

A retelling of the fairytale of the same name. It was such a sweet story! I thought that Ani/Isi's transformation and growth throughout the story was very well done. The romance was put on the back burner but I didn't mind. It was cute but a little rushed too. It was also very obvious who Geric really was but I don't think it was suppose to be this amazing twist or anything so I didn't mind. I liked the added elements that Hale put into the fairytale. Ani's wind talking ability was a great addition whereas in the fairy tale, she just talks to the wind and it’s never explained why. It stuck to the fairy tale very closely and I really enjoyed reading it.

Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma

Chloe lives with her older sister Ruby, the girl everybody wants to be. But when a night of fun with Ruby goes wrong, Chloe is taken to live with her father, leaving Ruby behind. But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back and make things right for her. This was a strange book. I read it quickly because I wanted to know what was going on but the ending just left me more confused. I don't understand what the point of any of this was? However, the writing was beautiful and I loved the creepy and hazy atmosphere.

Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich

This was pitched as a Faust retelling but I found little connection between it? I loved the Dead House by Kurtagich but her next book was a disappointment for me. While this one was better, I was still left wanting more. It’s strange that the story in the past is the main one, whereas the one in the present is done through transcribed video recordings and journal entries. Honestly, she probably could have done away with the story set in the present. I think many would like this book but it just wasn’t for me.

Twice Dead by Caitlin Seal

Naya lives in a world where necromancy is common, but the wraiths they come back are treated as second class citizens. When a solo trading mission goes wrong, Naya awakens to find herself the very thing she always found disgust in. Wholly creative with lots of twists, this was a strong debut novel.

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

I read Bardugo’s series of short stories A Language of Thorns last year and absolutely loved it. I was...surprised this was written by the same person. It was a very basic YA novel with a love triangle and super special main character. I think I would have enjoyed this a lot more if I had read it as a younger teen.

Truly Devious/The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

I went into this book expecting a lot of murder and creepy riddles left behind. That's not exactly what I got though. This book was just a tad bit too slowly paced. The murder doesn't happen until a little after the half way mark so the first half of the book felt unnecessary. I feel like 100 pages or so could have been chopped. What I really liked was the mystery behind the school that happened in the 1930s. For me that was the strongest part and I'm more interested in that than the modern day mystery. Which was sort of solved by the end anyway? I think there's more to it but if not it's rather underwhelming. Overall though, I enjoyed the book and the sequel was enjoyable too. Oh, and I need to set the record straight, there's a line in the sequel where someone mentions that the country bear jamboree doesn't have a movie based on it... but it does!!!

Hidden Pieces by Paula Stokes

Embry is the town hero for saving a homeless guy from a fire at an abandoned hotel late one night. But what would the town think if they knew she was the one who started the fire in the first place? Now Embry is receiving notes from someone who knows what she did. Now she must choose between letting the truth get out or given in to her mysterious tormentor’s demands. Hidden Pieces was a fairly solid mystery but it bordered on unrealistic at most times. Still, it was definitely a page turner.

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy

This is one of those rare cases where I found that the movie was better than the book. Don’t get me wrong, it was still a good book but the movie fine tuned it a lot. The book was surprisingly long and the movie cut out some unnecessary stuff. I was surprised that there was two love interests in the book and I honestly preferred the one that was cut from the film. He was a much better fit for Willowdean and Bo in the book was much more of a jerk who was initially put off by being seen with Willowdean. The fight that Willowdean and her best friend have was much bigger and more dramatic and Ellen was actually pretty nasty throughout it. The movie definitely fleshed out these characters in a much softer light. The relationship with her mother was also much sweeter in the movie than in the book. It felt kind of emotionless and less inspirational here.

Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy

Popular girls are turning up dead and our main character, Penelope, fears she may be next. I went into this expecting more serious take on Scream Queens. I read this back in September and I honestly don’t remember much other than the characters barely reacted to their classmates/friends deaths and the murderer was impossible to guess and was utterly lame. If the killer has to explain their motives with brand new information that was not found anywhere else in the book, it’s not a good twist.

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

This had a lot of potential and I know a lot of people have loved it but it fell flat for me in some places. The book is based on and sort of a sequel to the short story The White People. You definitely need to have read the short story first or this will make zero sense to you. Our main character, Mouse, spends much of the first third of the book cleaning out a hoarder’s house. It gets very tedious but picks up pace when the Twisted Ones are introduced. There are some good moments of tension but Mouse tends to ruin these moments attempting to be funny (which she’s not). The White People works best as a type of horror that is never truly explained but this book does just that. It’s at this point that the book lost me again. I think it’s mostly a matter of taste but I just wasn’t in to it.

Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake

I loved this series as a whole but I did not like the ending. Mostly because my least favorite characters ended up as the “winners”. That’s all I’ll say about that.

The Invited by Jennifer McMahon

Helen and Nate decide to leave their cozy life behind to build (literally build) their own little house in a small superstitious town. Problem is, the land they’ve bought is where Hattie Breckenridge a women accused and murdered for witchcraft, lived a hundred years ago. This reads more like a murder thriller that just happens to have ghosts in it than a true ghost story. There were some great twists but it was slow in some places. Like learning about all the ins and outs of what goes into constructing your own house from scratch. Helen and Nate also suffer some martial problems, brought on by the ghost, that just made me anxious and probably wasn’t necessary. I know it adds to the drama and suspense but ugh.

The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu

There’s a murder. There’s a mystery. But that’s not really what this book is about. Remy’s boyfriend is dead and her best friend Elise is the one who killed him. But it was self defense. Probably. The majority of the book takes place in flashbacks starting with Remy and Elise meeting and becoming friends. What starts as a normal friendship slowly turns into a toxic and emotionally abusive codependent relationship. Ultimately, that’s what the book is about. It’s honestly a fantastic portrayal. It’s toxic on both sides but you understand why they care about each other and stay friends. Not all toxic relationships end with a death though and perhaps this would have packed more of a punch had our main character came to some conclusions about her best friend in another way.

Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw

Nora is a Walker and Walkers are witches. How do I know this? Because she mentions it every other page. For the most part this book was enjoyable but extremely predictable. I would still pick up the next book this author writes though.

2 Stars

The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin

A modern day retelling about Henry and his 6 wives but this time they are high schoolers. The story is narrated by Annie “Cleaves” Marek, Henry’s fourth wife girlfriend. I'm pretty much assuming everybody knows about Henry and his 6 wives at this point. So where the book really lost me was at the half way point where it turns into a murder mystery type book. If you know your history, you know who did the murder in this book. So the murder mystery angle doesn't work here, The characters don't know for sure, but we the readers do. It becomes somewhat tedious honestly. Our main character also sucked. Cleves was your typical quirky girl. She says witty things that really aren't witty. She claims to be a hardcore feminist but demonstrates this by kind scolding Henry when he says something sexist...and that's about it. This book was entertaining enough to keep me reading but I had my problems with it. Especially the second half. I think there are some people that will really like this spoofy tongue in check retelling but it just wasn't for me. You can read my full review here.

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Let me just start by saying that I don't get the hype for this book. It’s an interesting concept but this book just did not work for me. It's somehow not long enough but nothing really happens throughout. The girls were not very "wild" and I don't know what the point of any of this was. This book has been called "feminist horror" and I don't understand that at all. The tox didn't empower them in any way and there wasn't any feminist themes throughout. The gore/body horror was minimal and not very creepy or disgusting at all. Overall, this book was not for me.

The Missing Season by Gillian French

Our lead character moves to a small town where kids go missing every year. The adults find logical reasons for these disappearances but the children of the town believe it is a monster named The Mumbler taking them. Interesting concept that wasn't fully realized. Nothing happens in this book until the last 20 pages. there's no build up or clues that led up to the big twist in the end. When the climax finally happens, it's over within ten pages and then the book ends another ten pages later. Minor plot points lead to nothing and the mumbler was barely played up to make this book suspenseful.

The Babysitter’s Coven by Kate Williams

Adventures in babysitting meets Buffy. Sorta. I went into this super excited and was hoping for something akin to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I did not get that. This reads more like a middle school book and was overly cheesy. I think younger teens would enjoy but I wasn’t a fan.

How She Died, How I Lived by Mary Crockett

Kyle texted five girls one night. Only one responded and met up with him. He killed her that night. Our unnamed narrator was one of the girls who didn’t answer his text and now she’s dealing with the aftermath of knowing it could have been her. f this book had ended differently, I would have rated it higher. I had major issues with the romance. The narrator starts a relationship with the slain girl’s boyfriend and it was so insanely toxic though it was written to be romantic.

Rereads

Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen (5 stars)

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (5 Stars)

Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray (5 Stars)

Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (5 Stars)

Heartless by Marissa Meyer (4 Stars)

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (5 Stars)

The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente (5 Stars)

Short Stories

The White People by Arthur Machen (2 stars)

I like the story itself but the way it was written was horrendous and hard to follow. It was a huge rambling block of text.

Bridal Boot Camp by Meg Cabot (4 Stars)

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn (5 Stars)

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