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irisbleufic · 5 years

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Happy 2020! Can I tag you to do that 2019 Fic Year in Review thing?

Happy New Year to you, too! Sure thing. I can’t remember the last time I did one of these; since 2019 is the end of a decade, it feels fitting. Here goes…

14 February 2019: After spending 14 of my 15 years (2020 marks the start of my 16th year) in Good Omens fandom working on it, I finally finished and posted the 75th and final installment of Crown of Thorns [The Walls, the Wainscot, and the Mouse] ’Verse. LiveJournal was still the fandom’s primary posting hub when I posted the first-ever installment, A Better Place, on 1 October 2005. The series didn’t get its second installment (The Walls, the Wainscot, and the Mouse) until 2010, but work on the series from that point forward was pretty much constant. 2012 saw a higher number of CoT updates than any year previous; that was also the year I transferred it to AO3.

25 February 2019: I finished and posted the last chapter of my third Good Omens collaborative fic ’verse with @procrastinatingbookworm, Turn In Your Arms. We couldn’t believe there was no Good Omens fusion with Tam Lin, so we went for it. Given our first collaboration in 2018 was a Good Omens fusion with Groundhog Day (Game Over, Insert Coin), that wasn’t a stretch.

27 February 2019: @aspiringjedi and I posted the first of our two Good Omens meta-essays, Making An Effort: Queer (Trans) Masculinity in the Ethereal & Occult Beings of Good Omens. Yes, it’s 1,990 words due to the novel’s publication year. When you’re just under 2,000 words anyway, why not?

28 February 2019: @procrastinatingbookworm and I followed up Turn In Your Arms with a brief sequel, Burn After Reading. All of our collaborations to date have ended up as multi-story mini ’verses.

25 March - 20 April 2019: I went about as livid over Gotham’s Season 5 as I did over Season 3 and wrote Darkroom to address how dirty the show did Bruce and Jeremiah. I had a stand-alone Season 4 fix-it story (focusing on Oswald and Edward, like most of my other Gotham work) called Triage from 2018 that had never quite felt like it was meant to be a stand-alone. Triage and Darkroom became the first two installments of a series called Playing for Keeps, to which I added another 6 stories by April 20th. Darkroom somehow got more traffic than any of my other Gotham pieces since When You Find It, Run over in DDO ’Verse (although those two stories are keystone pieces in much larger series, they can both be read as stand-alones).

4 April 2019: In the midst of working on the aforementioned, @aspiringjedi posted our second Good Omens meta-essay, Southern Pansies: Subversive (Trans) Masculinity in the Ethereal & Occult Beings of Good Omens.

8 May 2019: Brief blip back into Pacific Rim fic! I posted a missing Anthology correspondence/inset ficlet called L’amour, c’est comme la guerre. For anyone who ever wanted more of the email correspondence in Anthology’s final chapter, this fills in some gaps you didn’t know were there.

16 May 2019: Thanks to some behind-the-scenes persuasion from several really tenacious Gotham readers who didn’t want me to abandon it / shut down DDO ’Verse, I completed The Knights’ Tour after almost a year on hiatus from it. This turned out to light a fresh fuse on DDO, because TTK didn’t end up being the final story in the series like I had once planned.

18 May 2019: The only His Dark Materials fic I’ve ever written, also a Gotham fusion, got a belated new final chapter. Gold Dust is sort of an alternate take on DDO ’Verse, one in which Dust and daemons are present.

23 May 2019: I posted what I thought would be a stand-alone Gotham story called The Meaning of This City. It manages to be a marginally less dark and complicated take on the Bruce-and-Jeremiah situation (than Darkroom over in PfK ’Verse, that is) without sacrificing some of the most difficult features of what they need to overcome. More on why this didn’t remain a stand-alone in a bit.

6 June 2019: Good Omens requests came around, one of which led me to follow the Imagine Hastur Ficlets (which themselves exist thanks to the accidental prompts at @imaginehastur) interlude in CoT with The Imagine Hastur Epilogue. This was a sort of neat in-narrative way to deal with having gradually come out about my biological (inter)sex and (nonbinary) gender identity over the 14 years I worked on CoT.

15 June - 1 July 2019: I posted another Good Omens collaboration-set with @procrastinatingbookworm called Have Faith at the series-title level. The two stories in it, You Bloody Snake and Enough of a Bastard, focus almost entirely on Hastur and Ligur. Seeing Aziraphale and Crowley through different (and less favorable) eyes was a weird pleasure; seeing people indignantly realize they were enjoying fic about Hastur and Ligur was even more of one!

15 August 2019: @verumx persuaded me to watch Jamie Marks Is Dead with her and @one-eyed-bossman, and then implored me to fix it. Using Our Words is the stand-alone that resulted, which is no shock given I can’t resist ghost stories. It’s unique among this year’s stories in that it may be the only genuine stand-alone aside from the Gotham piece called Gold Dust.

17 August 2019: After an experimental in-character snail mail letter-writing exchange that lasted about 6 weeks, @verumx and I transcribed the letters and framed them in a piece of collaborative Gotham fic, We Were All Forgiven. Since about late April, I had been getting progressively sicker and sicker (didn’t know yet that I had cancer). Keeping busy as things got worse helped at least in the psychological sense, but by mid-August my exhaustion and difficulty eating were hitting their peak. I was hiding it from everyone except my partner.

1 September 2019: Returning to two stories I’d written for Batman: Europa, I created a series umbrella called Once Is Not Enough and explicitly placed London (Letting Go) and Five Love Affairs under it as companion pieces. Between Thursday Friday of this particular week, I experienced an increasingly more frightening set of symptoms that landed me in the ER and got a sequence of diagnostic tests finally rolling.

22 October 2019: After receiving a diagnosis of colon cancer on 10/1/19 and starting medical leave Monday of Halloween Week, I decided to complete the sequel to The Meaning of This City, which was a Gotham piece I’d left hanging mid-progress for weeks. The Maze of Your Ingenuity was hard for me to complete due to constant blood tests, CT scans, and outpatient procedures in the lead-up to my Thanksgiving Week major inpatient surgery, but I did it.

23 September - 11 December 2019: My longest Gotham fic ’verse (Delicate, Dangerous, Obsessed, a.k.a. DDO), having refused to die even once The Knights’ Tour was complete, got an entirely new ending stretch of stories focusing on, of all people, Jerome Valeska and Five (514A). They were the only two characters from canon who I had mentioned and/or shown briefly in passing earlier in DDO, but whose arcs from canon (and onward into my fic) I had done nothing to wrap up. Challengers, Thicker Than Blood, Take This Waltz (It’s Yours Now), Finally Fair (In Love and War), and What We’re For (And What We Want) may, collectively, be the best writing I did during the entirety of 2019 (unless you count what I wrote in February to finish CoT). The experience of terrifying, unexplained illness and harrowing treatment was entirely too timely to one of my two protagonists in this set of stories. They were worth their weight not just in distraction, but also in catharsis. Five survived, and so did I.

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endofjunee · 5 years

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🍃 I think I'm falling (I'm falling for you) by @beau-soleil-louis Louis is a disaster gay on a skateboard. Harry is a beautiful, quirky stranger on a bicycle. Their first encounter really makes a splash. 📘 when you say you love me, know i love you more by @jimmytfallon Louis discovers one of Harry's insecurities and happily soothes it away.

🍃 Falling For Me Won't Be A Mistake by @all-these-larrythings Harry is married to his job and so overworked that he doesn't know how to stop. All it takes is a forced Hawaiian get-a-away, the warm tropical breeze of the island, and the most beautiful, elusive man he's ever seen to make him remember what living is like outside of work. Well, that, and the little souvenir he accidentally takes home with him.

📘 Sun Means The Sky'll Be Blue by @twoheartsbeating As the only singleton under thirty attending his cousin's five-day wedding, Harry is desperate to find a date, or at least a reason to get people's questions about his love life off his back. So when Louis, Harry's old uni roommate and fellow wedding attendee waltzes back into his life, Harry seizes the opportunity, pretending Louis is his ex-boyfriend and that it's a sore subject not to be mentioned.

If it's a little bit closer to the truth than Harry would like, well, he's a master at living in denial.

So cue a mess of trudged-up feelings, past misunderstandings, a rekindled summer romance and a whole lot of sexually-charged bickering. 🍃 i was getting kinda used to being someone you loved by @werebothstubborn His hand clamps down over Louis’ mouth as firmly as he can manage. “What do you want? C'mon, you have my full attention now. What. Do. You. Want.”

Louis manages to look apologetic as he licks slobbery circles around Harry's palm until he lets go. “Pretend to be my boyfriend,” he says, dramatically gulping in as much air as he can breathe.

“I’m sorry, what?”

“This bloke just came up to me, said he’d give us fifty quid to be in his music video.”

“And you said what? ‘Sure, just let me coerce my friend into it with uncomfortable amounts of PDA and blackmail’?”

Or, Louis has a brilliant idea. Harry begs to differ. Until he doesn't. 📘 say that you can see me (i'll speak up i swear) by @coffeelouis “Well, it’s not like anyone really RSVPs,” Liam defends when Harry turns back to him, “No one takes Facebook events seriously.” Harry rolls his eyes, still finding it within himself to get annoyed in his moment of panic. Liam has been complaining about the lack of accountability Facebook events have bred in their generation since their freshman year. Harry glances back to the gallery entrance. Yep, still there and moving closer.

“But aren’t you guys friends?” Harry asks, trying to convey the urgency in his tone.

“Well, I mean, I talk to him when he stops by the office for supplies sometimes,” Liam reasons, “But I wouldn’t say we’re friends, exactly. Maybe more like, friendly acquaintances?”

Harry groans. “You’re the fucking worst.”

Or, the liberal arts COLLEGE AU where Harry knows Louis as the best friend of the boy he has been hopelessly in love with for years now and Louis knows Harry as this boy he wished would look away from Zayn long enough to notice him. 🍃 Light My Fire, Blow My Flame by @goldbootsandvans “In New York, you can be a new man.” Broadway actor Louis Tomlinson has it all. An amazing flat, a wonderful friend group, a Tony under his belt, and the world at his fingertips. Yet there’s one thing that’s missing. And it might be in the shape of the curly haired lawyer who becomes Zayn’s new roommate.

Or, Louis is a Broadway actor, Harry is a newly graduated lawyer, Liam is a radio DJ, Zayn is an English Professor at NYU, and Niall is a music producer. A Friends AU. 📘 you move like water (yeah and you broke like waves) by @wankerville He gets it, he gets that he's weird, and clumsy, and his hair always seems to be a little greasy. He gets that he talks too slow and has a terrible movie taste and falls too fast, whatever. He can understand that Louis sees him as no more than a friend, and he can live with it. But he can't live with just being a fuck to him, thats something you say about a stripper, or a one night stand, but thats not them. They are best friends who have slept with each other three times already. He could at least call it ‘platonic love making’ or something other than a fuck.

Or, the four times harry sleeps with louis and wakes up alone and the one time he doesnt. 🍃 If the Surface Begs You Home by @becomeawendybird Harry is a mermaid from the underwater kingdom of Mercadia who is a little too fascinated by life above the surface. He's kicked out of his home after he winds up pregnant, and has to figure out how to make his way in the world.

Louis is the darling of the small neighbouring seaside village who came home after university to take over their local library, and can't seem to stay away from the mysterious pregnant mermaid his friends introduce him to. 📘 No Love Like Your Love by @all-these-larrythings When it comes to saving the world from itself and convincing rich CEOs of environmentally harmful companies to go green, there's nobody better than Harry Styles. That is, until Louis Tomlinson, his ex and former Alpha, is involved. 🍃 Watch the Sun Coming Up by @sadaveniren As Louis approaches his thirtieth birthday his pack is desperate for him to find a mate.

Harry has always expected one day he may settle down with a nice alpha and they would continue to live in his small hometown.

Together they somehow will make this work. 📘 Consequences by @allwaswell16 Two years ago Harry let his powerful family come between him and the love of his life, something he deeply regrets. Louis has tried to move on from their devastating break up. Sometimes, he even thinks he has. It only takes one moment to freeze them back in time.

An amnesia au. 🍃 Becoming Us by @sweariwouldnt Married at First Sight is a television show in which hopefuls looking for The One are matched by experts deeming them to be the perfect match. The twist? They meet each other for the first time at the altar. When they exchange their 'I do's'. And get married for real.

One Harry and Louis find each other at the altar. They have five weeks to make or break the set-up marriage. 📘 A Taste of Desire by @casuallyhl “As forward as I have been with you this evening, I am also aware this dinner party isn’t the place to conduct business.” Mr. Tomlinson chuckles quietly to himself, shooting a subtle glance across the table towards their hostess. “And besides, I am sure our hostess would be horribly disappointed to learn that we went away this evening with a business agreement and not a mating one.”

Harry, who had been sipping his wine, coughs harshly at this. He splutters, unaccustomed to such blatant statements about mating.

Mr. Tomlinson continues to laugh quietly, clearly pleased at Harry’s reaction.

“Mrs. Humphreys promised that there was an alpha attending the dinner tonight that I would certainly get on well with,” Mr. Tomlinson continues, voice teasing. “She assured me that we would have much in common since we both work with mills.” Mr. Tomlinson glances at Harry, eyes flashing with mirth. “Little did she know that would be where our mutual interests began and ended.”

Or, a Victorian ABO where Harry is the owner of the most successful cotton mill in Manchester, and Louis is an opinionated social activist about to disrupt Harry’s world. 🍃 You're My Only Hope by @chloehl10 Harry and Louis have been hoping to start a family for a while, but it hasn't happened for them just yet. With the surprise arrival of a newborn baby on the doorstep at work, are their family dreams about to become reality? 📘 freaks from the internet by @jaerie Harry sells his breast milk to freaks on the internet. Louis turns out to be one of those freaks. He also happens to be Harry's ex. 🍃 Stealing Flowers by @lululawrence When Louis finally arrived, he walked in and grabbed an apron. Without even saying hello, he immediately approached Jesy and said, “Sexy Stranger steals flowers.”

She kept pouring the Tanqueray shots she had lined up in front of her, but her face screwed up in confusion. “I’m sorry, he what? Did you finally talk to him and that was what you learned?”

He nodded to another couple of tourists and welcomed them to the Way Station as they eagerly made their way to the Tardis restroom.

“No, I didn’t actually talk to him, but—”

“Then how do you know he steals flowers?”

She was wiping down the bar and stacking the empty glasses to take back to the dishwasher when Louis realized maybe he should help too. After all, he was there to work, not just talk to her about his maybe crush.

“I saw a poster.”

Or the one where Louis pines after the Sexy Stranger on the Subway and almost asks him out. That's when the strange posters start showing up around Brooklyn. 📘 hard for me to know i might see you around by @coffeelouis The next profile shows a guy and his horse both crashing into the ground, the bio below reading:

"Hi, I'm Louis, I suck at riding horses so I ride dick."

Harry rolls his eyes and swipes left, but before he can consider the next profile in his feed, there’s a quiet “Oof” from right behind him.

Or, a TINDER AU where Harry swipes left on Louis' joke of a profile, then ends up stuck next to him on a trans-Atlantic flight. 🍃 Hey, Mr. DJ by @allwaswell16 Harry really, really does NOT want to go out to a club tonight and be hassled by a bunch of alpha knotheads, but against his better judgement, he finds himself alone on the dance floor, barefoot, with an orange in his hand. This is all Niall's fault. At least the DJ is the most strikingly gorgeous alpha he's ever seen... 📘 2,870 Miles by @sadaveniren Harry hated the BT Sports commentators, but considering he couldn’t fly to Baku while eight months pregnant this was all he had if he wanted to watch his husband in the Europa League final. 🍃 one man in his time by @bottomlinsons “We’re fake-dating and I’m supposed to publicly break up with you but you’ve been irritating me lately so instead of dumping you I publicly proposed to mess up your plan and now we’re getting married, fuck” au.

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Unmissable International Crime Fiction Novels from August 2021

3 August: The Night Singer by Johanna Mo, translated by Alice Menzies, Penguin Books

Police detective Hannah Duncker didn’t expect to return to her native Öland. She fled after her father’s murder conviction and returns to make peace with her shame. She has a new job with the local police and a nosy new partner. A fifteen-year-old’s death catapults her into a murder investigation that resurrects ghosts from her previous life. As she hunts for the truth, she must confront the people she abandoned. Not all are pleased to see her back home, and she soon learns that digging through the past comes with consequences.

5 August: The Soul Breaker by Sebastian Fitzek, translated by Jamie Bulloch, Head Of Zeus

He doesn’t kill them, or mutilate them. But he leaves them completely dead inside, paralysed and catatonic. His only trace is a note left in their hands. There are three known victims when suddenly the abductions stop. The Soul Breaker has tired of his game, it seems. Meanwhile, a man has been found in the snow outside an exclusive psychiatric clinic. He has no recollection of who he is, or why he is there. Unable to match him to any of the police’s missing people, the nurses call him Casper. My review of Passenger 23:

Fiction From Afar

Passenger 23 by Sebastian Fitzek Passenger 23 By Sebastian Fitzek Translated by Jamie Bulloch Head Of Zeus “Every year on average 23 people

The Woman in the Blue Cloak by Deon Meyer, Hodder

The brilliant two-time-frame novella The Woman in the Blue Cloak has not appeared before in mass-market paperback. It is joined here by several shorter stories, published for the first time in book form.

The title story features Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel at a key moment in his relationship with his new love, Alexa.

The Bucket List: An Agent John Adderley Novel by Peter Mohlin & Peter Nystrom, The Overlook Press

The Bucket List starts when undercover FBI Agent John Adderley wakes up in a hospital bed in Baltimore with extensive gunshot wounds. He knows he’s lucky to be alive. And just a few beds away is the man who 24 hours ago pointed a gun to his head.

10 August: Cold Sun by Anita Sivakumaran Dialogue Books

Bangalore. Three high-profile women murdered, their bodies draped in identical red saris. When the killer targets the British Foreign Minister’s ex-wife, Scotland Yard sends the troubled, brilliant DI Vijay Patel to lend his expertise to the Indian police investigation. Stranger in a strange land, ex-professional cricketer Patel must battle local resentment and his own ignorance of his ancestral country, while trying to save his failing relationship back home.

17 August: Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Jo Fletcher Books

1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes from her humdrum life in the stories of passion and danger that fill the latest issue of Secret Romance. She is deeply envious of her neighbour, Leonora, a beautiful art student who lives the life of excitement and intrigue Maite craves – so when she disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite jumps at the chance to uncover Leonora’s secrets.

No Honour by Awais Khan, Orenda Books

A young woman defies convention in a small Pakistani village, with devastating results for her and her family. A stunning, immense beautiful novel about courage, family and the meaning of love, when everything seems lost

19 August: Come Hell Or High Water by Christian Unge, MacLehose Press

The first in a new Swedish crime series featuring Tekla Berg – a fearless doctor with a remarkable photographic memory. With 85% per cent burns to his body and a 115% risk of dying, it’s a miracle the patient is still alive. That he made it this far is thanks to Tekla Berg, an emergency physician whose unorthodox methods and photographic memory are often the difference between life and death.

Bread: The Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio de Giovanni, Europa Editions

Sometimes it takes facing a formidable adversary to truly know one’s worth. The Bastards of Pizzofalcone may have found just that: when the brutal murder of a baker rattles the city, they are ready to investigate. There’s nothing they wouldn’t do to prove themselves to their community. But this time the police are divided: for the special anti-mob branch, the local mafia is doubtlessly responsible for the crime, but the Bastards are not so sure and think there may be another reason for the murder of the renowned artisan, whose traditionally baked bread attracted customers from far and wide. A rivalry between the policeman and the magistrate is formed, one that, in the end, will extend to more than just their work lives.

Of Fangs and Talons by Nicolas Mathieu, Sceptre

When a factory that employs most of a small town is scheduled to close - to the despair of the workers and disdain of the overlords - things start to fall apart. The disenfranchised factory workers have nothing left to lose. Martel, the trade union rep with innumerable tattoos and Bruce, the body-builder addicted to steroids resort to desperate measures. A bungled kidnapping on the streets of Strasbourg goes horribly wrong and they find themselves falling prey to the machinations of the criminal underworld.

End Of Summer by Anders De La Motte, trans Neil Smith , Zaffre

Summer 1983: Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again.

Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to turns with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend's disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time?

Resilience by Bogdan Hrib, translated by Marina Sofia, Corylus Books

Stelian Munteanu has had enough of being an international man of mystery: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when the notorious Romanian businessman Pavel Coman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more in what proves to be a tangled web of shady business dealings and political conspiracies. Moving rapidly between London, Newcastle, Bucharest and Iasi, this novel shows just how easy it is to fall prey to fake news and social media manipulation.

31 August: My Name is Jensen by Heidi Amsinck, Muswell Press

Guilty. One word on a beggar’s cardboard sign. And now he is dead, stabbed in a wintry Copenhagen street, the second homeless victim in as many weeks. Dagbladet reporter Jensen, stumbling across the body on her way to work, calls her ex lover DI Henrik Jungersen. As, inevitably, old passions are rekindled, so are old regrets, and that is just the start of Jensen’s troubles. The front page is an open goal, but nothing feels right….. When a third body turns up, it seems certain that a serial killer is on the loose. But why pick on the homeless? And is the link to an old murder case just a coincidence? With her teenage apprentice Gustav, Jensen soon finds herself putting everything on the line to discover exactly who is guilty …

2 September: The Second Woman by Louise Mey, translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie, Pushkin Vertigo

Missing persons don’t always stay that way. Sandrine lives alone, rarely speaking to anyone other than her colleagues. She is resigned to her solitary life, until she sees on TV a man despairing for his wife who has mysteriously disappeared. Sandrine is drawn to him and eventually the two strike up a relationship. When the man’s wife reappears, Sandrine is forced to confront the truth about him.

The Wrong Goodbye by Toshihiko Yahagi, translated by Alfred Birnbaum, MacLehose Press

In a nod to Raymond Chandler, The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession hit Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long washes up in midsummer near Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base, Futamura meets a strange customer from Tran’s bar. Vietnam vet pilot Billy Lou Bonney talks Futamura into hauling three suitcases of “goods” to Yokota US Air Base late at night and flies off leaving a dead woman behind. My review:

The Wrong Goodbye

The Wrong Goodbye An Eiji Futamura Investigation by Toshihiko Yahagi #JanuaryInJapan The Wrong Goodbye An Eiji Futamura Investigation by Tos

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28 September

The Ice Coven by Max Seeck, Berkley

Investigator Jessica Niemi is in a race against time to find the link between a body with strange markings that has washed up on a frigid shore in Finland and two mysterious disappearances in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch Hunter.

30 September

The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbo, Harvill Secker

This outstanding collection of short stories showcases all the writing skill that has made Jo Nesbo the undisputed ‘king of all crime writers’ (Daily Express) and a repeat Sunday Times #1 bestseller. Filled with dark intrigue, twists and unforgettable characters, these page-turners will have you reading late into the night.

Wild Shores by Maria Adolfsson, Zaffre

One terrible truth will create a perfect storm. While her colleagues enjoy the seasonal festivities, DI Karen Hornby is called to investigate a suspicious death on the northernmost island of Doggerland. But how close to home is the truth of the case...

Night Hunters by Oliver Bottini, MacLehose Press

Over the course of several days one hot summer, a female student from Freiburg disappears, a father is murdered in a brutal attack, a teenage boy drowns in the Rhine in suspicious circumstances. It soon becomes evident to Chief Inspector Louise Boni and her colleagues at Freiburg’s criminal police that the three cases are connected – and that others are now in terrible danger.

The Antarctica of Love by Sara Stridsberg, MacLehose Press

A heartrending existential drama by the acclaimed Swedish writer Sara Stridsberg, The Antarctica of Love is an unfliching testament of a woman on the margins, a tale of family lost and found, and a report of a murder in the voice of the victim. This novel of life after death unfolds in brief vignettes, brimming with unexpected tenderness and hope.

7 October: The Stoning: Peter Papathanasiou, MacLehose Press

A small town in outback Australia wakes to a crime of medieval savagery.A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb’s northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and Aboriginals, between immigrants and the towniesStill mourning the recent death of his father, Detective Sergeant George Manolis returns to his childhood hometown to investigate.

Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun House Of Zeus

Focusing on the unsolved murder of teenage girl, this literary crime novel offers insights into gender, class and religion. In the summer of 2002, my big sister Hae-on was murdered. She was beautiful, intelligent, and only nineteen years old. Two boys were questioned, but the case was never solved. Her killer still walks free.

The Survivors by Alex Shulman, Little Brown Dog

Three brothers return to the family cottage by the lake where, more than two decades earlier, a catastrophe changed the course of their lives. Now, they are here to scatter their mother’s ashes – young men, estranged but bound together by the history that defines them. Their lives have been spent competing for their father’s favour and their mother’s love, in a household more like a minefield than a home. What really happened that summer day when everything was blown to pieces?

12 October: The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock Crooked Lane Books

It’s early September in Copenhagen, the rain has been coming down for weeks, and 36-year-old journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. And then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and ominous letters from an alleged killer.

14 October Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri, MacMillan

The long-awaited last novel in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series “At eighty, I foresaw Montalbano’s departure from the scene, I got the idea and I didn’t let it slip away. So I found myself writing this novel which is the final chapter; the last book in the series. And I sent it to my publisher saying to keep it in a drawer and to publish it only when I am gone.” –Andrea Camilleri

The Lonely Ones by Hakan Nesser, MacMillan

Begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died thirty-five years before

28 October The Hideout by Camilla Grebe, Zaffre

Inertia is an eerie psychological thriller from the award-winning Swedish bestselling author Camilla Grebe. When 18-year old Samuel finds himself at the centre of a drug deal gone wrong, he is forced to go underground to escape the police and an infamous drug lord.

The Commandments by Oskar Gudmundsson Corylus Books

On a cold winter morning in 1995, Anton, a 19-year-old boy, met a priest outside Glerárkirkja in Akureyri. After that, he was never seen again. Two decades later a priest is found murdered in the church in Grenivík. When the police investigate the case, they finds that a deacon has also been executed inside Akureyri.

Punishment of a Hunter: Yulia Yakovleva, Pushkin Vertigo

1930s Leningrad: As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to investigate a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless murders. In each case the victim is curiously dressed and posed in extravagantly arranged settings.

Hilde Vandermeeren: The Scorpion’s Head Pushkin Vertigo

Shortly after a fractious weekend away with her family, Gaelle wakes up injured in a psychological hospital in Berlin. Her son is is a coma and the police suspect her of attempting to murder him. With no memory what happened but convinced of her innocence Gaelle escapes and begins a determined hunt for the truth

28 October Cold as Hell by Lilja Sigurdardottir, Orenda Books

Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren‘t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realizes that her sister isn’t avoiding her … she has disappeared, without trace.

Here is my review of Betrayal:

Crimes In Translation

Betrayal by Lilja Sigurðardóttir Betrayal by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Quentin Bates, Orenda Books 2020 This is the second book

The Rabbit Factor by Antti Toumainen, Orenda Books

What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother – its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters … and some dangerous men are very keen to get their money back.

2 November Bricklayers: Selva Almada, Charco Press

Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pájaro and Marciano, Ángelito’s older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between life and death, they recall the events that forced them to pay the price of their fathers’ petty feud.

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Dead Girls By Selva Almada Dead Girls By Selva Almada Translated by Annie McDermott, Charco Press Billed as journalist fiction, “Dead Gi

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4 November The Night Will Be Long Santiago Gamboa, Europa Editions

When a horribly violent confrontation occurs outside of Cauca, Colombia, only a young boy is around to witness it. But no sooner does the violence happen than it disappears, vanished without a trace. Nobody claims to have seen anything. Nobody claims to have heard anything. That is, until an anonymous accusation catalyzes a dangerous investigation into the deep underbelly of the Christian churches present today in Latin America.

11 November The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee Harvill Secker

When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge.

Turf Wars: Oliver Norek, translated by Nick Caistor, MacLehose Press

Since Capitaine Coste and his team’s last case, calm appears to have returned to the SDPJ93 – but not for long. The summary execution of three young dealers – one them shot in the head in full view of a police surveillance team – is the signal for hell to be unleashed in the suburb of Seine-Saint Denis.

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The Lost And The Damned by Olivier Norek The Lost And The Damned Olivier Norek, translated by Nick Caistor, MacLehose Press Aside from th

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16 November The Deathwatch Beetle by Kjell Eriksson, Minotaur Book

Four years have passed since Cecilia Karlsson disappeared from the island of Gräsö in Roslagen. When Ann Lindell receives a tip that she has been seen alive she cannot help getting involved, even though she is no longer with the police.

25 November Question of Guilt by Jorn Lier Horst, Penguin

In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder. 20 years later William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests the wrong man was convicted for Tone’s death and the real murderer is still out there, and could kill again. . .

December Will To Kill: RV Rama Pushkin Vertigo

Aging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris –a mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths; a colonial edifice that stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman. But Bhaskar has other, more practical problems to deal with.

Skin Deep by Antonia Lassa, translated by Jacky Collins, Corylus Books

The corpse of an elderly millionaire is discovered brutally scarred with acid burns. Her young lover is the chief suspect but the authorities admit they are baffled. It will take the intervention of private detective Albert Larten to explore all the complexities of desire, and ultimately reveal the truth.

Erin by Cyril Carrère, trans David Warriner

Erin Silva is struggling to get a grip. She’s young, naive, and has a deep connection to those she loves. But she’s not as fragile as she seems. As she prepares to take over the family business—in spite of some maternal reticence—she finds herself caught up in a chain of ill-fated events. It’s distressing for Erin to stir up the pain of the past, but she’s determined to find out the truth as she sets out to track down those responsible and make them pay. Even if it means letting go of the last illusions that remain of the life she once knew.

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2017 Reading Round-Up, #6-10

6. The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, trans. Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions, 2008, original 2006)

Ferrante’s last short novel before embarking on the Neapolitan quartet. The seeds of that project are planted here - a woman trying to make sense of her life after her daughters have grown up and left home. There’s a tension throughout as she watches a Neapolitan family on the beach every day, relating to a woman playing with her daughter, and also sensing the violence that could erupt when the patriarch is around, a tension that increases as she becomes involved in a strange way. A visual theme emerges of dark insects marring a picture-perfect scene (a black moth in a seaside bedroom, a worm coming out of a doll’s mouth) that seem pointed and unflinching, like much of Ferrante’s work.

7. Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott (Yale University Press, 2013)

A full transcription of a multi-part interview Cott conducted with Sontag in 1978, which was only excerpted at the time. (It ends up stretching into a book of 130 pages!) Sontag seems fun, and funny, via this interview. She admits her own contradictions, because of her commitment to constant change. She talks about how rock and roll (Bill Haley and the Comets), the energy of it, made her change her life and find the one she actually wanted to live in the late 50s (leaving her marriage and the academic life behind). They toss around fascinating takes on stuff like: how and why the fragment speaks particularly to our time; what is a miracle; why ritual require silence; loving both “high” and “low” art; being fundamentally Californian or East Coast; how people want to drift towards (over)simplifying, and why complexity has to be kept alive, etc…

8. Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto (Vintage, 2013)

This was a fun history of the city - not comprehensive, as the title indicates, but rather exploring the roots of Amsterdam’s liberalism, in the widest sense of the word (including capitalist enterprise, for example). The author pipes up with his own opinions and as a character, in a way, in the history he’s telling. This personal authorial intervention isn’t too obnoxious, but I wouldn’t say is entirely necessary either.

9. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead, 2017)

This novel was definitely written in response to the migrant crisis, and I liked how he pushed it into a speculative space of new possibility, rather than simply reflecting the depressing present. I had some minor quibbles - the epilogue, for example, which I had to pretend didn’t exist, the book ended so well otherwise. I also wondered at his very deliberate choice to keep his protagonists from being specifically Syrian or Muslim (although based on the details they might as well have been described as such). I guess this was underscore their “everyman-ness,” but in a way, it has the opposite effect. It would have been a strong statement to have “openly” Muslim characters in a novel with a largely Western readership, especially when every other location and character was grounded in specifics (named cities and nationalities). I remember a beautiful passage about what prayer meant, and had meant over time, to the more devout male character, for example, that made me understand Muslim prayer better. Anyway, a powerful novel, and I’m glad it’s gotten a lot of attention and people are reading it.

10. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (Canongate, 2005)

Essays on what it means to get lost, both purposefully (like Baudelaire in the city), and unintentionally, as a Spanish explorer separated from his group in pre-conquest America, and what you find when you’re found. Lost in a color, as Yves Klein, lost in another person. Solnit’s a phenomenal writer. I think she’s stronger when she writes about subjects other than herself (and she mostly doesn’t write about herself), perhaps because she maintains a final filter, a reticence to fully reveal her personal life. My favorite essay was on Cabeza de Vaca, and her own re-telling and re-contextualizing of what the “new world” was when the Spanish arrived, and how they missed it altogether. I love the way she is open to any subject, draws connections, and parallels. Her curiosity and love of history, art, anthropology, fiction, film, etc. etc. is invigorating. (She is also one of my favorite activist voices at the moment - everyone should follow her on FB.) I’ve read a lot of her work online, but this is the first book of hers I’ve read, and I’m excited there are many more to eat up.

#book list #rebecca solnit #exit west #mohsin hamid #amsterdam #russell shorto #susan sontag #elena ferrante

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Bi- oder Pansexuell?

Bin ich bisexuell oder pansexuell veranlagt?

Kann ich nicht mal genau sagen, weil ich die Unterscheidungen zwischen Beiden nicht ganz kapiere.

Als Bisexueller pflege ich, neben den sexuellen Kontakten zur Weiblichkeit, auch sexuelle Kontakte zur Männlichkeit. In Beide Geschlechter lassen sich auch Transexuelle einordnen, je nach dem, ob sie sich als weiblich oder als männlich verstehen und unabhängig von ihrem, aktuellem körperlichem Zustand. (Vielleicht eine kleine Anmerkung an alls M’s: Ich bin bei Analverkehr grundsätzlich nur passiv. Betrifft sogar auch W’s, die bräuchten ‘nen Strap-On.)

Worin besteht da der Unterschied zu pansexuell? Ich sehe da Keinen.

Wikipedia dazu: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexualit%C3%A4t

Ich habe weiter gesucht, und diesen Interessanten Artikel dazu gefunden:

- Zitat Anfang -

Pan vs. Bi

Veröffentlicht am 23. Oktober 2016 in Allgemein // 3 Kommentare

„Sag mal, warum definierst du dich eigentlich als Bisexuell“, fragte mich vor einiger Zeit ein Mitmensch „und nicht als Pansexuell. Bisexuell das ist doch voll Binär und gegen Menschen welche die Geschlechterrollen ablehnen und schließt Trans* und Inter* aus." Mich trieb diese Frage seitdem um, so richtig habe ich keine Antwort darauf gefunden und schwanke zwischen politischen Aktivismus und der Realität. Ich hörte mich darauf in der Community um und stellte die Frage: „Was haltet ihr eigentlich von der pansexuellen Bewegung?“ Als Antwort kam darauf oft, dies sein ein Teil der Bisexuellen, die Pans spalten die eh schon schwache Community auf. Sehr oft wurde ich gefragt „Was ist Pansexuell?“

Eine ganz gute Erläuterung des Begriffes findet sich im Genderglossar, hier nur ein Ausschnitt als Zitat:

„In einem queer-politischen Zusammenhang wird Pansexualität als Gegenkonzept zur ‚Natürlichkeit‘ heterosexueller Zweierbeziehungen verstanden. Ähnlich wie dem Begriff queer (Kraß, 2003; Degele, 2008) liegt auch dem der Pansexualität eine gewollte Unbestimmtheit, eine „fluidity in sexual orientation and gender expression“ (Lenius, 2011, S. 424) zugrunde. In dieser Perspektive auf Pansexualität werden dichotomisierende Kategorien von sex, gender und Sexualität bzw. Begehren abgelehnt (Myers, 2009). Pansexualität ist so gegen Bisexualität abzugrenzen, welche zwar die Wahl zwischen zwei Geschlechtern bzw. Geschlechtspartner_innen transportiert, letztlich aber die binäre Mann/Frau-Opposition sowie die vermeintliche Kohärenz von sex und gender nicht in Frage stellt (Myers, 2009, S. 422). Häufig wird Pansexualität als Polyamorie (‚Viel-Liebe‘) (miss-)verstanden, wobei letztere sich auf den Bereich intimer Beziehungen und die Anzahl der beteiligten Partner_innen bezieht (Herbert, Radeva & Zika, 2013) und einen alternativen L(i)ebensentwurf zur Monogamie bzw. Monoamorie darstellt. Im Unterschied zum pansexuellen Konzept wendet sich Polyamorie nicht zwangsläufig gegen Vereindeutigungen von Geschlecht und Geschlechtsidentitäten.“

Einfach ausgedrückt, Pannsexuelle unterscheiden in ihren Sexual- und Liebesbeziehungen nicht nach Geschlechts bzw. Geschlechtssidentitäten. Die aktuelle Verwendung von Pansexualität, der wie Bisexualität aus der Soziologie und Psychologie stammt, wird bestimmt durch den Genderdiskurs und der Trans*-Bewegung und viele Menschen die sich damit Identifizieren verwenden ihn entsprechend.

Als Reaktion darauf haben bisexuelle Aktivisten begonnen neue Definitionen von Bisexuell zu bilden, welche Unterstreichen sollen das Bi mehr als Zwei ist. Solche Definitionen sehen oft wie folgt aus:

Bisexuell bedeutet, sowohl gleich- als auch andersgeschlechtlich zu begehren. Das Begehren richtet sich jedoch nicht nur auf Männer und Frauen, sondern auch auf nicht binär verortete Personen.

Diese Definition wird wiederum von Pansexuellen Aktivisten abgelehnt und es beginnt der Kampf um das Wort. Beide Gruppen bestehen zum Teil auf ihre Deutungshoheit der Begriffe ohne auf die andere Gruppe einzugehen. Der Begriff Bisexuell ist langläufig bekannt, wird von der LBGTQI* getragen und ist im gesellschaftlichen Kontext ehr akzeptiert. Abgelehnt wird ehr vor allem von jungen Menschen die sich mit Transidententhemen und Gendertheorie auseinandersetzen. Da der Begriff Bisexuell den nicht binären Teil (als alle Menschen die sich nicht als Bio Mann oder Bio Frau definieren) der Gesellschaft unsichtbar macht. Eine Zwickmühle wo man meiner Meinung nach mit Political Correctness nicht weiterkommt. Den es geht hier um Emotionen, Sichtbarkeit und Wortklauberei.

All diesen Begriffen stammen aus den Anfängen der Psychologie und dienten zur Pathologisierung der Sexualität.Die Begriffe mit der wir unsere Sexualität definieren und uns gegenseitig um die Ohren hauen haben irgendwelche weißen europäischen Männer in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts / Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts erfunden.

Angefangen hat dies mit Karl Maria Kertbeny um 1869. In seinen Schriften prägte Kertbeny das Wort „homosexual“ als Bestandteil für für die Klassifikation von sexuellen Typen von Männern. Sexualwissenschaftler wie Richard von Krafft-Ebing und Magnus Hirschfeld etablierten die Begriffe Homosexuell und Heterosexuell und begannen die Sexualität des männlichen Menschen zu katalogisieren und zu definieren. Eine Zweiteilung der männlichen Sexualität war geboren. Damals gab es den Begriff Bisexualität noch gar nicht in seiner heutigen Form. Erst durch Sigmund Freud und die Psychoanalyse durfte Bisexuell langsam ihre heutige Bedeutung gekommen sein. Für viele Psychologen vor allem Analytiker ist Bisexualität nur eine Phase in der Pubertät und schon Freud hatte seine Probleme mit den Menschen die mehr als ein Geschlecht lieben können.Ursprünglich (in der Psychologie / Medizin bis heute) bedeute Bisexualität Doppelgeschlechtlichkeit. Vorhanden sein von Geschlechtsorganen bzw. Geschlechtsorganen beider Geschlechter bei einem Individuum.

Der Begriff Pansexualität ist ursprünglich von Otto F. Kernberg, ein Wiener Psychoanalytiker. Er bezeichnet Pansexualität als ein diagnostisches Symptom bei der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung.Irgendwann wurde dann der Begriff soweit umgedeutet bis er die heutige Definition hat und eine Community ihn sich als seine Bezeichnung gibt für ihre Ansicht hat über ihre Sexualität.

Frauen kamen selten in den Betrachtungen vor, der männlichen Wissenschaftler in den Anfängen der Sexualwissenschaft und der Erforschung der Sexualität. Von Menschen die sich jenseits der Geschlechternormen von Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts bewegen müssen wir erst gar nicht reden.

Für mich stellen sich daraus folgende Fragen die wir gemeinsam beantworten sollten und in den Diskurs gehen:

1.) Haben nicht beide Gruppen mehr gemeinsam als trennend und kann man nicht einfach zusammen für die Sichtbarkeit streiten, füreinander und die Begriffe dürfen gleichberechtigt nebeneinanderstehen und der eine meint auch das andere, meint alle Wesen der Spezies Mensch die sich lieben?

2.) Sind die beiden Begriffe emotional nicht verbrannt? Angefangen von ihren Mehrfachbedeutungen und vor allem der mit den Begriffen verbundenen Pathologisierung und wie stark darum gestritten wird. Wird es nicht Zeit sich selbst schöne Worte zu geben als Begriff, als Gemeinschaft, ein Begriff für Liebe, Begehren und Geschlechtsverkehr über die normalen Geschlechter- und Rollenbilder hinaus? Ein Begriff der verbindet und nicht trennt, sich nicht in dem Mausoleum der Geschichte alter weißer europäischer Männer bewegt. Durch eine neue Wortschöpfung den eigenen Weg breiter macht oder wollen wir um Begriffe in der Zukunft kämpfen als um unsere Freiheit mit wem wir ficken, zusammenleben und lieben wollen?

Die Antworten heißt es wirklich zu finden. Ich sehe und spüre, dass der Kampf um die Wahrheit der Begriffe erst begonnen hat. Er könnte für die Gemeinschaft der Menschen die frei lieben und wählen möchten sehr schmerzhaft werden und dafür sorgen das wir uns auf die falschen Gegner, nämlich uns selbst fokussieren. Der eigentliche Gegner ist aber die Konservativität und antisexuelle Stimmung und stellt sich gegen die Freiheit nicht wählen zu müssen zwischen den sichtbaren Schubladen Homo und Hetero.

Quelle: http://www.bisexualitaet.org/2016/10/pan-vs-bi/

- Zitat: Ende -

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Forecast and bet on the match Zarya – Buducnost 1 August 2019

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Forecast and bet on the match Zarya – Buducnost 1 August 2019

The match Zarya – Buducnost will be held on 1 August at 19:00 GMT at the stadium “Slavutich-arena” in the second qualifying round of the Europa League. What factor can make a bet on the game “Dawn” against “Buducnost”.

“Dawn“

“Dawn” at the start of the current season managed to hold only two meetings. So in the first duel with “Buducnost” club managed on the road to win a Victoria 3-1, which virtually guarantees him a place in the next round. At the beginning of the match twice at the guests scored the thunderings, and the point after the break put Arveladze.

Before wards Skrypnyk was launched in the Ukrainian Premier League, having beaten on departure Vorskla 1-0. Already on the third minute Zorya goal scored by Lednev, and further on the field was an equal fight, in which the visitor team managed to keep their advantage.

Buducnost

Buducnost started its journey to LE with the first qualifying round, which was confidently passed the Estonian “Narva TRANS”. The Montenegrin team first departure has made Victoria a 2-0 lead and after a week at home and won 4-1.

In his first match against Zorya squad of Brnovich failed start, then efforts Perovic pulled one back, but in the end still missed.

Also note that the team unlike their opponents this weekend played, and he had a week to prepare for the return leg.

Statistics of personal meetings “dawn” – “Buducnost”

A match between two teams a week ago, is the only full-time in the history.

The odds on the match from the bookmaker

The victory of FC Zoria BK Fonbet offers a quote of 1.25, and a draw the outcome of the meeting and Victoria “Buducnost” in turn, is estimated at a 6.0 and 11.0 in. Also bet on TB to 3.5 by factor of 2.3, and TM 3,5 – according to 1.63.

Bet on the match Zarya – Buducnost

In the first meeting of Zarya showed that higher level, having surely dealt with an opponent, and virtually ensuring his place in the next round. After all, it is hard to believe that Buducnost in guests can score the Ukrainian squad three times. It is quite likely that the “dawn”, having a comfortable advantage, will not force the issue, going from the first minutes the big forces forward, and accordingly particularly high productivity in a match we probably will not see.

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Miss Trans Europa 2019, alla Mostra d’Oltremare di Napoli il concorso LGBT http://dlvr.it/R7Kyw1 http://dlvr.it/R7Kyw1

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La nobile mission di Stefania Zambrano

Dare voce alla comunità LGBTQper permettere a tutti i suoi membri di acquisire i diritti che sono stati loro negati per tanto tempo. E’ questa la missione primaria di Stefania Zambrano, attrice di teatro e volto di tanti cortometraggi e lungometraggi, tra cui Robinù di Michele Santoro e La Parrucchiera di Stefano Incerti. L’attività della Zambrano per i diritti delle persone omosessuali e…

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Watch Me When I Kill (1977) AKA Il gatto dagli occhi di Giada, The Cat's Victims (U.K.), Terror in the Lagoon (France) and The Vote of Death (Germany)

Directed by Antonio Bido

Screenplay by Antonio Bido

Music by Trans Europa Express

Country: Italy

Running Time: 110 minutes

CAST

Corrado Pani as Lukas

Paola Tedesco as Mara

Franco Citti as Pasquale Ferrante

Fernando Cerulli as Giovanni Bozzi

Giuseppe Addobbati as Judge

Gianfranco Bullo as Santoro, the pharmacist's assistant

Jill Pratt as Signora Dezzan (as Yill Pratt)

Bianca Toccafondi as Esmeralda Messori

Inna Alexeievna as Old woman

Paolo Malco as Carlo

Cristina Pirasas as Pasquale Ferrante's wife

Roberto Antonelli as Michele

Gaetano Rampin as Dott. Peretti

Giuseppe Pennese as Marco

Giovanni Vannini as Biagio Dezzan, the pharmacist (as Giovanni Vanini)

Watch Me When I Kill may be an unsavoury invitation in normal circumstances, but here it’s one well worth taking up, since it is also a particularly satisfying 1977 giallo. It’s a giallo from early in the cycle so it also works as a movie normal people might also like; there is still enough room amongst the stylistic tics for Antonio Bido to smuggle in what is basically a proper thriller movie. Very much like Short Night of the Glass Dolls (1971) and The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), Watch Me When I Kill exceeds genre expectations; largely because the genre trappings are a lure rather than being the whole point (which is what happens to later giallo; not a criticism, just an observation).

Returning from a trip abroad, bra-disdaining tango dancer Mara (Paola Tedesco) tries to pick up some pills from a pharmacist (Giovanni Vannini). Unfortunately the pharmacist has had his worried beard rubbing interrupted by being slashed to death, and it is the killer who turns Mara away claiming the shop is shut. Fearing she can identify him/her the killer then stalks Mara, leading Mara to seek the aid of affable old flame Lukas (Corrado Pani). Lukas is a sound engineer, or a detective or some combination of the two, or maybe even just someone with no job but very interesting hobbies; it’s not very clear. What is clear is that his investigations into weird phone calls received by his neighbour, Bozzi (Fernando Cerulli), may dovetail nicely with identifying Mara’s stalker. Meanwhile, a couple of creepy producer guys vie to bed Mara under the guise of attaching her to their project. Which I thought was, you know, because…the ‘70s be creepy, but then I realised it’s more because…producer guys be creepy. Kind of #METOO: 1970s edition. Winningly, Mara doesn’t put up with their shit, so she’s mostly bothered about who is trying to off her. Particularly when it becomes apparent that other people are being offed and there is a vengeful escaped convict on the loose. Mystery, murder, red herrings, historical wrongs, black gloves, switchblades, POV with an asthmatic soundtrack, romance, ridiculous coincidences, stylish shots, peppy soundtrack noodlings from Trans Europa Express, sweet fashion stylings, an impressive waterfall and, naturally, tango dancing; Watch Me When I Kill serves up a stew as giallo-tastic as the literal stew which scalds a luckless victim to death.

Just a word to potential viewers: While Mara was performing her, uh, entertaining tango act she seemed to be singing about how awful WW1 was, how big Rudolph Valentino’s ear were and something about Mata Hari being hit in the chest. Maybe that is what tango is usually about, I don’t know; it’s more familiar as a fizzy soft drink where I come from. Why yes, I am a cultureless slob. That was the most egregious example but I think it has to be (reluctantly) said that the subtitles were a bit lacking on the version I watched. The subtitler’s Italian was obviously immaculate but there was a stilted air to the English output. Which is a bit pissy , I realise, since I can barely handle my own language, but there you go. Whenever possible I watch foreign movies with the subtitles on as I like to hear the original vocal inflections, not the forced approximations of dubbing. (No offence to dubbers; it’s a tough gig.) I just don’t get people who react to subtitles like someone has threatened to push their grandma over. Have you seen them in reviews? “Switched off. Had SUBTITLES. WTF?!?” Yeah, you just ignore most of the world’s cinematic output because…reading? Is reading that big an ask these days? Wait until they discover books, they’ll shit. “Threw it away. Had WORDS! WTF?!?” But I digress, again. Where was I …big ears…tango…subtitles…okay…clues! That’s where I’m going, clues!

Yes, Watch Me When I kill actually has clues. This doesn’t sound much, but if you watch enough giallo actually finding one where there are real clues is delightfully refreshing. Giallo veterans quickly become inured to bullshit clues like the cry of a bird in the background of a phone call which, when run through a computer containing all the sounds in the history of the world, reveals the call’s source. I’m not complaining, the ridiculous clues are part of the genre fun, but equally when you find a giallo where you are not laughing out loud at the clues, but rather cursing yourself for missing them, well, it’s like a cool breeze on a hot face, possibly a face hot from being scalded by a yummy stew. The mystery actually stacks up too. I don’t condone the actions of the killer in Watch Me When I kill, but I understand the actions of the killer in Watch Me When I Kill. Usually it’s just that they are nuts. This one is nuts too, but for once you can kind of see why.

And it’s not just clues; trampling the giallo stereotype underfoot, Watch Me When I Kill has some time for characterisation. Corrado Pani as Lukas is particularly fun, looking like a jolly Charles Bronson but acting like a shambly Elliot Gould. It’s a good combination, even better when Paola Tedesco’s Mara is around. There’s a lovely light romantic-comedy/buddy-movie vibe when the two are onscreen. They are lovers but also, clearly, friends and have a charmingly blasé approach to their relationship, which they wear like a much loved, tatty jumper. It would be the equal of Hemmings and Nicolodi in Deep Red (1975), but there isn’t enough of it, alas. Unfortunately it’s the ‘70s so Lukas has to go it alone and do the manly thing of investigating, while Mara stays at home to be threatened occasionally. She’s not as bad as most ‘70s heroines though; she does figure things out, is up for a scrap and I would definitely go and watch her Celebration of WW1 & Rudolph Valentino’s Big Ears Tango show, as I’m sure, would you given half a chance. By the end though, Watch Me When I Kill becomes consumed by its mystery at the cost of its characters. They basically stand and watch the ending with us. Someone who should get out more would probably concoct some bobbins about the viewer being subsumed into the characters, blah blah etc. Normal viewers will feel a bit taken aback by the abruptness of the ending. Mind you, I’m not asking for it to end with a freeze frame of Lukas and Mara high-fiving or anything.

I’ve probably risked making it sound a bit trad, but be assured Watch Me When I Kill is very much a giallo, so there are a lot of “Say what now?!?” moments, as is only proper. Most strikingly, whenever the killer strikes we see a flash of a cat’s eyes, which I still don’t get. I liked it, but I didn’t understand it. Which is why I like giallo, I guess. It’s certainly part of why I like Watch Me When I Kill.

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Sarri’s Italian job would let Roman Abramovich save face… and cash

For Chelsea if this is Maurizo Sarri's last position, the best case scenario would be to win the Europa League and losing to Juventus .

Or Roma. Or whoever in Series A . What would you say? That was a manager who brought the team back to the Champions League through domestic mediation, who reached the end of a big domestic cup, lost undeservedly due to fines and then won a big European trophy – all in his first season in English football , at a club in a transitional state – and it still wasn't enough?

It is hardly a secret that Roman Abramovich is a demanding employer – the £ 9 million settlement with Antonio Conte has taken his compensatory pledges to managers at £ 93m since 2004.

Roman Abramovich needs a logical separation from Maurizio Sarri to prevent reputational damage "

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Yet even by Chelsea's standards, Sarri was to win in Europe and then be fired, it would be an extremely harsh judgment Rafael Benite z also left after winning the Europa League, but he was only the interim manager.

If this is the first time we've seen Roberto Di Matteo, he will barely have six months after winning the Champions League, but at least he had a short chance to take advantage of that success.

Abramovich & # 39; s way with managers has already cost him some of & # 39; the world's best coaches – Pep Guardiola is the one who was put

Take Frank Lampard for example. [Bewerken] [voeg lijst toe] Take Frank Lampard for example. As a young manager, one season in his career, is it really worth risking his reputation at Stamford Bridge?

You would imagine that the European final, the domestic final and third place would be considered a brilliant first season for Lampard in the Premier League, after they almost missed the promotion with Derby.

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Would Chelsea affiliate Frank Lampard consider risking his reputation at Stamford Bridge?

But if that same resume brought the previous manager the bag, where should you go? , or someone else, seriously expect Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp to outsmart the traps?

And almost certainly without Chelsea & # 39; s best player of recent times, Eden Hazard

Pick an owner, not a club, was always the advice of Sir Alex Ferguson to young managers and Abramovich has a friendly, logical need to say goodbye to Sarri if reputation damage will not occur.

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The conversion of N & # 39 Golo Kante's best defense The screen in the world to an average midfielder is particularly enigmatic, but not the only decision that is baffled.

As soon as the novelty of his chain-smoking presence of the telephone line deteriorated, Sarri seemed cold, methodical in nature, dogmatic in his methods, with an unwavering conviction that his football brand is more valuable than gifts that an individual can possess

If this mindset had produced the type of football that his Napoli team played, there would have been less resistance.

But Chelsea is Napoli Lite – or Napoli, low powered. Too often they own the ball to no end.

Take Hazard away and this season could have turned out quite differently.

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Sarri is unloved but his first season with the Blues has been an unqualified success

Without a doubt, a timely offer from Juventus of Rome would solve a lot of problems.

Chelsea will have lost a manager instead of rejecting a manager, Sarri will have taken on more suitable work

If your last game shows you the first big trophy of his coaching career, des the better.

More troubling is what will happen if the opportunities in Italy don't come true. Chelsea then has to decide whether he will be with a manager who is not very popular for all his achievements, and who can only be weakened by the absence of Hazard next season.

Who can forget Abramovich & # 39; s face the night Chelsea won the Champions League?

Or they fire him and push the compensation payments closer to nine digits. Happy and thoroughly miserable, knowing that he has no choice but to offer Di Matteo the permanent position against his better judgment.

Could we see a repeat if the owner catches Baku and Chelsea? Is this not the impossible work?

There is a reason that Manchester United sees undercurrents of racism in the current way of depicting them as the worst of modern football.

The regeneration in the east of Manchester, the new academy, the left for the community, City was the other club confronted with punishment at that time, Paris St Germain.

It was as if they considered all Arabs, all Arab owners, all Arab countries, all Arab companies, the same. I tried to make a distinction between the clubs. It would be the same as viewing the Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United business models, worthy and possibly as interchangeable, on the grounds that their owners are all Americans.

Since when, as City's only rhetoric has best translated as & # 39; all towelheads are the same & # 39; it's duly noted, privately not publicly.

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Manchester City sees undercurrent of racism because UEFA treated them the same as PSG

With the recent joint attacks on the club, the city's president, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, no longer plays nicely and has made the decision to call the worst perpetrators.

This is why I have responded vigorously to Javier Tebas, president of The League and the last to negatively connect City and PSG on the basis of shared ethnicity.

To say that City is the trans fermarkt blew up as if they had spent Kylian Mbappe, similar to PSG's releases, and Neymar is clearly wrong.

PSG's bid for Neymar w as a game changer. City meanwhile has a record signing of £ 60million for Riyad Mahrez and do not have the highest priced goalkeeper, defender, midfielder or attacker in the Premier League – or something like that – let alone Europe.

Manchester City and PSG have football and ambition in common, but little different from the tendency to be afraid

After all, there didn't seem to be much wrong with extravagant spending when Barcelona and Real Madrid were the best and little wrong with oil money when it sponsored Atletico Madrid. ]

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Federal President Javier Tebas said that Manchester City and PSG have blown up the transfer market

Woodward cannot win with the Fergie factor

The latest criticism of Ed Woodward is that he is Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United has been alienated by not consulting him on important policy decisions.

If, after David Moyes received a six-year contract and then fired him before the first year was over, Woodward announced that he would return to Ferguson for a second recommendation, it is unlikely that he would be praised for his business acumen.

What? After that last debacle? Does the man have no ideas of his own? It is not that United has garnered universal praise, also with the willingness to embrace the past.

One of the criticisms of the appointment of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – and the proposed engagement of Mike Phelan and old boys such as Rio Ferdinand on transfer commissions – is that the club is too steep in history.

Similarly, Manchester United has not cooperated with a football director, even since Ferguson has stopped. The transfer policy is largely the responsibility of the manager.

If Ferguson was brought in on a sounding board during the biggest calls, it would make him a overseer.

And how would that turn out, given his inexorable relationship with some of the main characters? Ferguson, famous, did not agree with Mina Raiola, agent of several of the most important signatures of United.

So if Woodward went to Ferguson and Ferguson said he would not have Raiola at the club, what would he tell Jose Mourinho about the takeover of Paul Pogba or Romelu Lukaku?

It is not as simple as asking the opinion of a wise old sage. It would be an insult to ask and then ignore.

The holder of Ferguson is an ambassador and not an adviser. He is there at competitions and, someone thinks, offers his thoughts. It is clear that he has Solskjaer's ear.

But who would like to lead Manchester United with the thought that Ferguson marked his homework, rejected his signing skills, gave his employers a running commentary? the man speaks, as Ferguson would do with Sir Matt Busby – nobody deserved that – but Ferguson surrendered his right to direct policy to Manchester United when he stepped down six years ago

Sir Alex Ferguson's captain is a Ambassador and not an advisor to Man United "

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Sir Alex Ferguson's keeper is not an adviser, but he is not adviser, at Man United

A man walks into a cafe. & # 39; Evening, Jones the Sheepshagger, & # 39; says the bartender cheerfully. & # 39; What will it be? & # 39;

The man orders a beer and sits down with a heavy sigh. & # 39; That is really a nickname you have there & # 39 ;, says a stranger. & # 39; I will say & # 39 ;, the man says.

He points to the window. & # 39; See that library & # 39 ;, he says, & # 39; I built that from the ground. financed. Paid for every book. Do they call me Jones the educator? They do not.

& # 39; And do you see the hospital nearby? This city had nothing to do with it until I came by. Every stone of it is mine. Do they call me Jones the Healer? They don't do that.

& # 39; You f *** a sheep … & # 39;

The favorite joke, that. I was reminded that I read Shkodran Mustafi who complained that Arsenal never gets credit for the 90 percent of games that the defense hasn't cost this season.

Just a gentle warning from the ashes …

The warm-up defeat of England by Australia served as a small warning about complacency this summer.

He joins Steve Smith, Nathan Lyon, David Warner, Shaun Marsh, Usman Khawaja, James Pattinson, Joe and the rest of the team. Burns, Travis Head, Peter Handscomb, Peter Siddle and Glenn Maxwell play for English provinces.

In contrast, Mason Crane is the only one playing a first-class game in Australian conditions. Only that spirit. What a generous fate we are. And a trifle dim.

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Cameron Bancroft has not yet subscribed to a strong aussie contingent that adapts to English circumstances to prevent boxing the three best heavyweights in the world from finding ways to meet.

Deontay Wilder's newest title fight – if it could be called – against Dominic Breazeale took place a 20-minute walk from my hotel in Brooklyn last week.

The I It's been 13 years since the leveraged acquisition of Manchester United, but the club remains in debt of £ 496 million.

Over the past three years, £ 65 million has been paid in shareholders' dividends, mostly to the sixth Glazer brothers and sisters, including £ 22 million in the last year when another director – presumably Ed Woodward – £ Earned 4.152 million for

How fortunate that former directors of Manchester United, such as David Gill, could influence what UEFA was financially fair and

Because if a few rivals of United were to follow the rules you would think that the outcome would be quite different.

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Andy Murray has long maintained that "avoid more research"

The influence of David Gill at UEFA helps the owners of Manchester United to avoid more research one of the reasons why British tennis finds it difficult to produce champions that life is too easy.

Early on, Spanish players say what they can earn, while British players can remain part of a subsidized program for much of their career.

It is not the fault of the British tennis authorities that Katie Boulter could come to Paris last week, were injured and earned £ 20,000 in damages for not playing the French Open, but it hardly paints a picture of a system that works hard and nothing less.

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