#Myra Smith my daughter

[myearts-uwu]

Happy Birthday, Myra!

I had so many ideas in mind for what to draw for Myra's birthday but when one of my moots suggested to use Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a reference? I knew I had to take this chance and I'm so glad I did because holy crap I'm so proud with how this turned out.

Had to include all of her husbands in this piece. And it was so much fun just drawing all of them like I'm so happy with how handsome they all look??!

[ginevrastilinski-ocs]

New Ocs!

I have new ocs to introduce, some that aren’t on my masterlist yet (but I’ll add them soon, I promise) (I have too many Gotham ocs, I know that I’ll probably scrap some of them, but until then...)

Shadowhunters

Marceline Seymour - Mundane (with Sight); future Elys’ girlfriend

Her faceclaim is Holland Roden!

Vincent “Vice” Verlac - Shadowhunter; Nico’s best friend (and ex boyfriend); just wants to be a singer; doesn’t care about fighting;

His faceclaim is Charlie Gillespie!

Descendants

Esme Balthazar - daughter of Edgar Balthazar; cat lover; her and Carlos are besties; ship TBD

Her faceclaim is Maria Ehrich!

Celestine - daughter of Blue Fairy

Her faceclaim is Maude Apatow!

Bernadette “Bernie” Poppins - daughter of Mary Poppins and Bert; twin sister of Armie

Her faceclaim is Millie Bobby Brown!

Armie Poppins - child of Mary Poppins and Bert; twin brother of Bernie

His faceclaim is Noah Schnapp!

Gavin - son of the White Knight; sweetest boy ever; 

His faceclaim is Matt Cornett!

Brielle - daughter of the Red Knight

Her faceclaim is Sadie Soverall!

Rowan Cheshire - child of the Cat of Cheshire and Redacted; 

Their faceclaim is Joy Sunday!

Glee

Jean St James - sister of Jesse St James; the sweetest girl in town; already famous singer

Her faceclaim is Olivia Rodrigo!

Maya Puckerman - younger sister of Noah Puckerman; Cheerio; New Directions memeber; wasn’t there for the first season for reasons lmao

Her faceclaim is Alexia Demie!

Mirabelle Ryder - Cheerio; no plot just vibes

Her faceclaim is Sofia Carson!

Morgan Smith - Cheerio; one of the Originals New Directions member; future Broadway star; (maybe a Rachel ship... tbd)

Her faceclaim is Lili Reinhart!

Melanie Jay - Football Player at McKinley (the only girl in the team); New Directions Memeber; basically girly girl who likes to play football and sing and that can kick your ass

Her faceclaim is Hailee Steinfeld!

Dulcinea “Dulcie” Klempt - niece of Isabelle Wright; famous dancer

Her faceclaim is Kristine Froseth!

Ezekiel “Zeke” Wright - son of Isabelle Wright; hates being famous; just wants a normal teenage life; hides in Lima for not handle New York shit

His faceclaim is Dylan Sprayberry!

Stranger Things

Effie Munson - Eddie Munson’s younger sister; probably a Robin ship (TBD)

Her faceclaim is Emma Mackey!

Sunny Henderson - Dustin Henderson’s older sister; Steve ship

Her faceclaim is Haley Lu Richardson!

Ethan Clifford - sweetest guy in all Indiana; ends up in the middle of the Hawkins Supernatural Chaos by accident

His faceclaim is Joshua Bassett!

Gotham

Annalise Pennyworth - niece of Alfred Pennyworth; Bruce (potential Bruce x Selina) ship

Her faceclaim is McKenna Grace (and probably Meg Donnelly when she’s older but... TBD)!

Margaret Gordon - young sister of Jim Gordon; the darling of the GCPD (does she work there? No) 

Her faceclaim is Florence Pugh!

Virginia Falcone - daughter of Carmine Falcone; sister of Sofia and Mario Falcone; (don’t know about her for the vigilante thing... I’m more towards yes but not sure yet)

Her faceclaim is Zoey Deutch!

Karina Wayne - aunt of Bruce Wayne; Wayne Enterprices’ heiress (at least half of it); future vigilante (name tbd)

Her faceclaim is Anne Hathaway!

Vera Wayne - twin sister of Bruce Wayne (or at least this is what they think... spoiler: she isn’t)

Her faceclaim is Millie Bobby Brown!

Myra “Hel” Mooney - niece of Fish Mooney; rich bitch energy 

Her faceclaim is Savannah Lee Smith!

Penelope Fisher - private detective; just wants to know what the fuck is going on in Gotham; the law can’t stop her lmao

Her faceclaim is Emma Stone!

Elijah Crow - no plot just vibes; vigilante for sure but name TBD

His faceclaim is Dominic Sherwood!

Mireille Lacroix - first and only daughter of an elite family of Gotham; future vigilante (name TBD)

Her faceclaim is Dove Cameron!

[literarypilgrim]

Read Like a Gilmore

All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls” 

Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)

1. 1984 by George Orwell  2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse    41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber    51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn  73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy  108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky  109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell  110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford 

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers    121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III    131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss  134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland  135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg  136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo  137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres  139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote  140. Inferno by Dante 

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken  160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin  186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor  187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman  188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret  189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon  239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  240. Quattrocento by James Mckean 

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand  267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir  268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd  269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman  270. Selected Hotels of Europe 

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron  293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner  294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach  296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller  297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams  298. Stuart Little by E. B. White  299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway  300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust 

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare    311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields  320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

[thechurchwithjoshua]

Blog 5 – DA LADIES!!!!!

BROWN SUGAR IN EFFECT LIKE IT AIN’T NO THANG!!!!!!

           Now let’s talk about the ladies that defined this era of Black television. Let’s talk about the women that possessed the style, charisma, personality, beauty, swagger, spirit, and sisterhood that is so synonymous with this era. Let’s talk about Queen Latifah in all her glory. And just like Will Smith, was a hip-hop artist prior to hitting the television screen. Rapped the song in the opening credits of her show like Will Smith too. Queen Latifah played the character “Kadijah” on “Living Single” and she was so cool. Let’s talk about the cool sassiness of Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell who played “Pam” and “Gina” on “Martin”. As “Gina” and “Pam” I like how Campbell and Arnold were elegant and rambunctious at the same time. And let’s not forget about Lark Voorhies who was the only Black cast member of “Save by the Bell” and but still represented for the young Black girls all across the world. And speaking of Black girls, we cannot forget about Tia and Tamera Mowry from “Sister, Sister”, their characters on “Sister, Sister” were the complete opposite. And also. Kellie Williams and Cherie Johnson who played “Laura” and “Maxine” from “Family Matters” they showed us what sisterhood is all about. Now since I mention Williams and Johnson who played teenage characters, I have to mention the late great Michelle Williams who was a grown woman when she played the teenage character “Myra” on “Family Matters”. She is a primary example of “Black Don’t Crack” because Williams was in her early 30’s when she played that role. Williams’ maturity and youthfulness leads me to mention the other lovely actresses on “Family Matter”, ant that is Jo Marie Payton and Telma Hopkins who were sisters and mothers on “Family Matters”.  Me mentioning Payton and Hopkins leads me to bring up Janet Hubert and Daphne Reid who both played the “Vivian Banks” on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”. I loved Both ladies as the role of “Vivian Banks” so I refused to pick one over the other. There are so many awesome women that I did not cover in this post which just shows you how full and awesome this era of Black tv is. And while I am at the end of this post, I want to dedicate it to Suzzanne Douglas who played “Jerri” who was the mother and wife on “Parent’Hood”. I want to also show some love to Reagan Gomez-Preston who played Douglas’ daughter “Zaria” on “Parent”Hood”.

To all the jazzy Black women who defined this era, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[juniaships]

Is there a list of all your OCs or something that keeps track of them? I know about Jora and a few others but I know you have more and I wanna read about them.

I'm working on a list so I'm only going to put my main OCs and their associated canon love interests 😁😁

- Jora Holiday (Ben10): Shy and sweet nature lover with death powers, and uses her gifts to protect people. Ben's love interest.

- Kendrix: Ben & Jora's daughter from at least two varied timelines; was born with a different element of Life and was a pretty selfish person before her redemption arc. Not shipped with anyone at all.

- Myra Hopewell (GenRex): EVO who has technical control over her own nanites esp. water. Rex's love interest.

- Noelani (Sonic the hedgehog): Orphan from the lower class part of Station Square who became an errand girl to make ends meet. Eventually Sonic&co brought much needed joy in her life; Sonic's love interest plz sonally & sonamy fans dont kill me!

- Rosslyn Smith & Penny Paine (Alpha Teens On Machines): Rosslyn is the down-to-earth medic of the team & Penny is the preteen rebel with a good heart. Ross is Axel Manning's love interest and Penny is notn shipped with anyone.

- Kaysha Wallace (TMNT): Bubbly teenager who works amd studies to be taken as a serious kunoichi & opposes the Purple Dragons; Leo's love interest.

- Vanessa Marbles-Whittaker (Adventures in Odyssey): former nun turned artist/amateur sleuth who works at Whit's End; Jason Whittaker's love interest.

- Nicola Holden (DC): Protector of her working class neighborhood & "Lady of Light" in Gotham; also likes to "break the fourth wall", Bruce Wayne's love interest

- Maria Sanchez (Zordon Era Power Rangers): Purple MMPR and ACTUAL teenager with attitude and who jumpstarted the family tradition of joining Ranger teams; Jason Lee Scott's love interest

- Mikayla Jordan (Loonatics): Long lost princess of Freleng, former delinquent who turns her life around by joining the team as its "blue" member; Ace Bunny's love interest.

- Piper, Jetta, Odette & Rhea (Ninjago) + Padma (Monkie Kid): Piper is a chi expert, Jetta is the loner & weapons expert, Odette is the Elemental Master of Love & former gang member, and Rhea is a ballet dancer& the team's moral support. Rhea is shipped with Cole, Jetta is with Zane, and Piper is with Kai; Lloyd and Odette are also a thing.

- Eureka Jones (Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons): Guardian of Music, joins the other guardians on her quest to revive Mother Nature. Shipped with Jack Frost.

- Paige Walters (Descendants): Commoner from tbe US who got a scholarship to Auradon for her ability to decipher runes. Shipped with Ben Florian.

- Samara (W.I.T.C.H.): Elyon's mentor, and the guardian of shadows. For a time she was acting queen of Elyon's realm; also somehow managed to redeem Phobos :/

- Arusi (Xiaolin Showdown): A metalhead from Nigeria who like Samara above, has shadow powers and called the Dragon of Darkness. She's mostly harmless and uses her powers to entertain folks with puppets& her element makes her immune to the Heylin; paired with Raimundo.

Barb, Anjel, & Tamika: Three OCs for Hot Wheels Acceleracers, they're female street racers & mechanics who work with Dr. Tezla to save the world from Gelorum - and to prevent the Teku and Metal Maniacs from killing each other! Barb is with Vert, Anjel is apparently the middle of a love triangle involving Kurt & Markie Wylde spoilers she rejects them both, and Tamika is with Tork Maddox. Basically if the show had more GORLZ.

[18thcenturysoul]

the ultimate rory gilmore book guide

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

13. Atonement by Ian McEwan

14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

16. Babe by Dick King-Smith

17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

23. The Bhagava Gita

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

25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

30. Candide by Voltaire

31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

32. Carrie by Stephen King

33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

35. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

36. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

37. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

52. Cujo by Stephen King

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

54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

61. Deenie by Judy Blume

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

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

64. The Divine Comedy by Dante

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

66. Don Quixote by Cervantes

67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

73. Eloise by Kay Thompson

74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

75. Emma by Jane Austen

76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

79. Ethics by Spinoza

80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

83. Extravagance by Gary Krist

84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

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

88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

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

90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

92. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

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

103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

112. The Graduate by Charles Webb

113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

116. The Group by Mary McCarthy

117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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

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

120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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

123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

125. Henry V by William Shakespeare

126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

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

128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

137. The Iliad by Homer

138. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

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

151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

153. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

169. The Love Story by Erich Segal

170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

173. Marathon Man by William Goldman

174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

179. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

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

190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

196. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

197. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

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

203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

206. Night by Elie Wiesel

207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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

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

210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

212. Old School by Tobias Wolff

213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

219. Othello by Shakespeare

220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

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

232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

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

236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

237. Property by Valerie Martin

238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

244. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

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

246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

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

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

251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

253. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

256. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

258. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

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

263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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

270. Selected Hotels of Europe

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

272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

275. Sexus by Henry Miller

276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

277. Shane by Jack Shaefer

278. The Shining by Stephen King

279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

282. Small Island by Andrea Levy

283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

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

286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

289. Songbook by Nick Hornby

290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

292. Sophie's Choice by William Styron

293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

298. Stuart Little by E. B. White

299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

300. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

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

302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

306. Time and Again by Jack Finney

307. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

312. The Trial by Franz Kafka

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

314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

316. Ulysses by James Joyce

317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

318. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

319. Unless by Carol Shields

320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

323. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

327. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

334. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

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

336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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A Woman on a Mission

A/N: this is my first fanfic of Red Dead Redemption 2! So I hope you guys enjoy it and let me know what you think!

Ship: Charles Smith x OC

Prompt: While Hunting, Arthur and Charles Run into a camp, They run into a woman who lived there! She was strong and bull headed, What will Happen to Charles and Arthur? What if she’s the long lost daughter to the “man with a plan” Dutch Van Der Linde, who’s tracking down her father? Will they trust her..? Find out 😏👌🏻

Later that day after getting done with a mission for Dutch, Arthur sighed and rode into camp, and hitched his Horse Beau to the hitching post. He sighed and patted him, “ya did good boy..you did very good.”

Arthur removed the saddle from him, and rubbed him down and fed beau! Beau was this beautiful American Paint. Arthur gave him one last pat and walked over to where his tent was.

“Hey Arthur” Charles Called out to him, Arthur grunted.

“What is it now Charles” he sighed as he turned to him, as re rubbed his forehead.

Charles chuckled, “don’t need to be that way,” Arthur sighed and shook his head

“listen’ I’m sorry Charles..don’t mean to be that way towards ya’”

“It’s okay Arthur we all have shitty days” he chuckled, making Arthur crack a smile.,

“Anyway what did you need Charles.”Arthur sighed.,Charles looked to him and sighed.

“We need to gather food, Pearson’s food wagon is slowly going down, we only have enough food for this week’ so we need to hunt.” Charles looked to Arthur.

“So your tellin’ me that me and you need to go huntin’” Arthur sighed, with his hands on hips.,

Charles nodded towards Arthur, Arthur shook his head.

“A’right, Let’s Go c’mon.” Arthur stated towards Charles, who nodded to Arthur.

Arthur and Charles walked over to their horses, Charles hopped on his, as Arthur put the saddle back on Beau, and hopped on. He grabbed the reigns and clicked as he spurred the horses side. Beau let out a Whinney as he trotted along, soon Charles came up besides Arthur.

“So what are we huntin’ this time” Arthur looked over to Charles, Charles looked over to Arthur.

“Well I was thinkin’ about takin’ a look at the Bison herd that I seen earlier today” Charles looked over to Arthur as they Galloped to the spot where Charles seen them.

“We can do that” Arthur nodded his head, they both clicked their tongues and spurred their horses to a gallop faster.

“Are you okay Arthur..you seem..out of it today” Charles asked, Arthur sighed “nothin’ just thinkin’ about how Dutch is..just..I don’t know” he chuckled “it could all be me..but I swear he’s changing Charles.” Charles nodded at the statement, “I do too have the feelin’ that he’s changing..all the time I have been with the gang..it seems like he is..slowly changing.”

“Exactly, my point..he is changing..and I don’t like it one bit.”

“I know Arthur, I know I have seen many things..but this..just..” Charles didn’t finish his sentence when he saw the heard of Bison running, Arthur and Charles both slowed their horses down and watched them Run.

“I wonder what has them spooked” Arthur grumbled with his deep southern Voice, Charles mumbled “I don’t know but whatever it is..we got to check it out..”

They both clicked their tongues and spurred their horses, they galloped away when they heard a gunshot. The horses spooked, “Easy Boy..Easy” Arthur patted Beau’s Neck,

“It sounded like it came this way come on,” Charles galloped away as fast as he could, With Arthur behind him. Charles stopped his horse as did Arthur, and watched from a far, it looked like a woman, who killed a Bison, and was using everything. Charles smiled, “see I like when people use every part of the animal.” Arthur gave a hearty laugh “of course you do..Charles”

“C’mon let’s follow her.” Arthur chuckled “and see where she goes” Charles nodded as they both followed the woman from behind, which lead them into the woods, and then to her camp. They pulled the horses to the stop, from a distance and watched, “I never seen her around these parts..” Arthur mentioned to Charles.

“I don’t think she is either,” Charles watched her every move, soon she was gone but left her horse. Charles stood up and walked over to her camp.

Arthur looked around and stood up “what in the hell are you doin’ Charles..get back here” he whispered to him, but of course he didn’t listen. Arthur sighed and followed Charles into the woman’s camp. Charles was amazed at this fine creature he was starring at, “Arthur do you see this..”

“Yeah I see it.. now c’mon before we get killed” Charles smirked at Arthur’s statement.

“Aww is Arthur scared of a woman” Arthur blushed and shook his head and chuckled, “no..no I’m not..I just don’t wanna die at this moment”

Charles shook his head, as he went to go pet the horse, The woman was standing there with her gun cocked and loaded,

“What are you folks doin’ here” she growled, Charles and Arthur raised their hands into the air.

“I’m s’rry miss..my friend here..can’t follow orders..he was mesmerized by your horse here” Arthur choked out, Charles looked to Arthur with a look. The woman stood their with the gun still pointed at them, “who are folks anyway” she asked the two.

Charles and Arthur looked at the woman, then looked to each other. Charles was the one who spoke up first,

“Names Charles Smith..This is my Friend, Arthur Morgan” Charles pointed to himself and then pointed to Arthur, who nodded his head.

“What’s your name miss” Arthur spoke up, the woman put her gun down but kept an eye on them.

“Names Myra, Myra Black” she smiled towards Charles, seeing that he was part Native American like her.

“What are you doin’ around here anyway, miss Myra” Arthur asked, She chuckled and looked to him.

“None of your business,” she scuffed, Arthur didn’t like that response, Charles just stood back from this argument.

“Excuse me..what did you say” Arthur growled, Myra stood up with her arms crossed over her chest and sighed.

“I said it’s not any of your damn Business Cowboy”

Arthur grumbled and sighed as he rubbed his forehead, Charles looked over to the horse.

“This..horse..is very rare..beautiful...can I pat it” Charles looked to Myra, who smiled and chuckled.

“Sure go ahead.”

Charles nodded and started to pat the horse, who let out a snort, who turned his face towards Charles to smell who that was. The horse turned back around and licked his lips. Myra watched Charles, she started to like him even more..even though they just met, he was really sweet and nice..unlike someone., she then looked over to Arthur who stood by a tree and kite a cigarette.

“Again..miss Myra, I’m going to ask..why are you here.” Arthur asked her, she rolled her eyes and stomped her way over.

“Okay you wanna know why..a’right I’ll tell you..Have you ever heard of the Man Dutch..Dutch Van Der Linde”

Arthur coughed on his cigarette, along with Charles, he stopped patting the horse and walked closer to Arthur starring at Myra.

“Excuse me, what did you say” Arthur growled, “why do you need to know..are you some spy from the pikertons”

Myra rolled her eyes..”do I look like I could be one of them..Of course not!!” She shook her head.

“Then why are you lookin’ for Dutch then” Arthur eyed her up and down. Myra sighed and looked down.

“Because Charles and Arthur if you really wanna know why..because he’s..my father.”

Arthur and Charles looked at each in shocked. How would Dutch Handle this news about this new kid, would he believe them. How would he react when they bring Myra into Camp.

[lifements-blog]

Reto de Lectura Rory Gilmore

Sé que llego tarde a este reto de lectura pero nunca me había animado a tomarlo, lo descubrí hace años no recuerdo donde y ahora que me topé con el de nuevo en  BlackWhite Read Books y queria intentarlo.

Gilmore Girls fue una gran parte de mi adolescencia vi todos los capítulos más de una vez y me identificaba con Rory, su amor por la lectura y su vida cotidiana, es una serie que siempre vivirá en mi corazón y es más que una serie para mí, me enseño muchas cosas y me ayudo con muchas más.

El reto de lectura consiste en leer todos los libros que Rory leyó a lo largo de la serie, los cuales son muchos, entre ellos existen muchos clásicos como Alicia en el País de las Maravillas y El Diario de Anna Frank, la mayoría de libros en esta lista no están siquiera en mi lista TBR la cual es otra de las razones por las que quiero intentarlo, la lista consiste de 339 libros por lo que no me pondré propósitos irreales como leerlos todos durante este año (2016), en dos años o en cinco, simplemente me propondré terminar esta lista algún día y divertirme con ella.

Marcare mi progreso en este post y quizá haga una reseña de ellos, los mencione en mis libros del mes o en GoodReads pero primordialmente será aquí.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

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

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

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Inferno by Dante

The Divine Comedy by Dante

1984 by George Orwell

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

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

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Adventures of Huckleberry by Mark Twain

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Babe by Dick King-Smith

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

Candide by Voltaire

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Christine by Stephen King

Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cujo by Stephen King

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Deenie by Judy Blume

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

Eloise by Kay Thompson

Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

Emma by Jane Austen

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethics by Spinoza

Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Extravagance by Gary Krist

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

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

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

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

Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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

Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Marathon Man by William Goldman

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

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

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

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

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

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

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

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

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

New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Night by Elie Wiesel

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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

Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Old School by Tobias Wolff

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Othello by Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

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

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Property by Valerie Martin

Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Quattrocento by James Mckean

Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

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

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

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

Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Selected Hotels of Europe

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

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

Sexus by Henry Miller

Shane by Jack Shaefer

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

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

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

Songbook by Nick Hornby

Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stuart Little by E. B. White

Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

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

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

Time and Again by Jack Finney

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

The Art of Fiction by Henry James

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bhagava Gita

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

The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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

The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

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

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

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

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

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

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

The Graduate by Charles Webb

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Group by Mary McCarthy

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

The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The Iliad by Homer

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Love Story by Erich Segal

The Manticore by Robertson Davies

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

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

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

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

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

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

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

The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Shining by Stephen King

The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

The Trial by Franz Kafka

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

The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Year of Magical Thinkinf by Joan Didion

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Ulysses by James Joyce

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unless by Carol Shields

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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

What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

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

(Post original en: http://lifements.blogspot.com/2016/01/el-reto-de-lectura-rory-gilmore.html )

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Pitchfork 1998

Hét éve nyomjuk az éves visszatekintő listákat a Recnél, néha valamelyik magazin csinál random egy ilyent, most a fork találta fel.

https://pitchfork.com/news/announcing-pitchforks-50-best-albums-of-1998/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

Úgyhogy, nem jöhet más, mint megtippelni a kiszámítható magazin, kiszámítható top 10-ét, cél a 8/10 (továbbra is szokásosan nem helyezést, hanem top10-ben szereplést szeretnék eltalálni).

1. Neutral Milk 2. Outkast 3. Boards Of Canada 4. Massive Attack 5. Air  6. Beta Band 7. Mercury Rev 8. Silver Jews   9. Tortoise 10. Boredoms (és persze a Godspeed is, ha azt 98-asnak veszik, nem 97-esnek)

Itt meg az én listám (igen, minden évről van ilyen, tudom, tudom...). Alkalomadtán felül is vizsgálom ezeket, ez ennél majd nyilván valamikor ősszel lesz, amikor szoktuk csinálni a recorderes összeállítást, de az elejét nagyjából most is így szeretem (hülyén töri a szöveget, de mindegy).

1998

Mercury     Rev: Deserter’s Songs

R.E.M.:     Up

OutKast:     Aquemini

Manu     Chao: Clandestino

Beastie     Boys: Hello Nasty

Pulp:     This Is Hardcore

Tortoise:     TNT

Byron     Stingily: The Purist

Mark     Hollis: Mark Hollis

Lauryn     Hill: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

Alain     Bashung: Fantasie Militarie

Sunhouse:     Crazy On The Weekend

UNKLE:     Psyence Fiction

Lo-Fidelity     Allstars: How To Operate With A Blown Mind

Hole:     Celebrity Skin

The     Boo Radleys: Kingsize

4Hero:     Two Pages

Mansun:     Six

PJ     Harvey: Is This Desire?

Black     Box Recorder: England Made Me

Underground     Resistance: Interstellar Fugitives

The     Beta Band: The Three EPs

Herbert:     Around The House

Eels:     Electro-Shock Blues

Beck:     Mutations

Air:     Moon Safari

Silver     Jews: American Water

The     Afghan Whigs: 1965

Boredoms:     Super Ae

Turbonegro:     Apocalypse Dudes

The     Coup: Steal This Album

Black     Star: Mos Def & Talib Queli Are The Black Star

Placebo:     Without You I’m Nothing

Sparklehorse:     Good Morning Spider

Elliott     Smith: XO

Arab     Strap: Philophobia

E-Dancer:     Heavenly

Jurrasic     5: LP

Billy     Brag & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue

Boards     Of Canada: Music Has Right To The

Neutral     Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Belle     And Sebastian: The Boy With The Arab Strap

Cat     Power: Moon Pix

Unbelievable     Truth: Almost Here

Sonic     Youth: A Thousand Leaves

Moodymann:     Mahogany Brown

Guy     Chadwick: Lazy, Soft & Slow

Roddy     Frame: The North Star

Tom     Zé: Fabrication Defect

Leila:     Like Weather

Plastikman:     Consumed

Gas:     Zauberberg

Dalek:     Negro Necro Nekros

Garbage:     Version 2.0

Massive     Attack: Mezzanine

Death Cab For Cutie: Something About     Airplanes

Asian     Dub Foundation: RAFI’s Revenge

Terry     Callier: Timepeace

The     Divine Comedy: Fin de Siécle

Babybird:     There’s Something Going On

Hefner:     Breaking God’s Heart

Delakota:     One Love

Gorky’s     Zygotic Mynci: Gorky 5

Julie     Ruin: Julie Ruin

Stina     Nordenstam: People Are Strange

Björn     Torske: Nedi Myra

Global     Communication: Pentamerous

Squarepusher:     Music Is Rotted

Third     Eye Foundation: You Guys Kill Me

Maxwell:     Embrya

Add     N to (X): On The Wires Of Our Nerves

Muslimgauze:     Mullah Said

Pole:     cd1

Jon     Spencer Blues Explosion: ACME

Fugazi:     End Hits

Gang     Starr: Moment Of Truth

Big     Pun: Capital Punishment

Autechre:     LP5

Refused:     A Shape Of Punk To Come

At     The Drive-In: In/Casino/Out

Six     By Seven: The Things We Make

Quickspace:     Precious Falling

Motorpsycho:     Trust Us

Midnight     Choir: Amsterdam Stranded

Pascal     Comelade: L’argot du bruit

Nits:     Alankomaat

Hood:     Rustic Houses

Gastr     del Sol: Camoufleur

Mouse On Mars: Glam

Tricky:     Angels With Dirty Faces

Destroyer:     City Of Daughters

Quasi:     Featuring Birds

Royal     Trux: Accelerator

  Aloof:     Seeking Pleasure

Esthero:     Breath From Another

Soulvax:     Much Against Everyone Advice

MDK:     Open Transport

Barry     Adamson: As Above, So Below

Queens     Of The Stone Age: st

Sleep:     Jerusalem

Marion:     The Program

Embrace:     The Good Will Out

John     Martyn: Church With One Bell

Goldie:     Saturnz Return

Ed     Rush & Optical: Wormhole

Ash:     Nu-Clear Sounds

Jeff     Buckley: Sketches

Rufus     Wainwright: st

Manic     Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Madonna:     Ray Of Light

Rachid     Taha: Diwan

Dirty     Three: Ocean Songs

Pram:     North Pole Radio Station

Gomez:     Bring It On

Saint     Etienne: Good Humor

High     Llamas: Cold And Bouncy

Idlewild:     Hope Is Important

Lampchop:     What Another Man Spills

Calexico:     The Black Light

Spoon:     A Series Of Snakes

Sophia:     The Infinite Circle

Bright     Eyes: Letting Off The Happiness

Tripping     Daisy: Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb

Notwist:     Shrink

Tarwater:     Silur

Talvin     Singh: Ok

Fatboy     Slim: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Freestylers:     We Rock

Cardigans:     Grand Turismo

Grant     Lee Buffalo: Jubilee

Lucinda     Williams: Car Wheels On Fire

Ian     Brown: Unfinished Monkey Business

Puressence:     Only Forever

Delgados:     Peloton

Aluminium     Group: Plano

Jack:     The Jazz Age

Amon     Tobin: Permutation

Wagon     Christ: Tally Ho!

Morcheeba:     Big Calm

David     Gray: White Ladder

Pearl     Jam: Yield

System     Of A Down: st

Cowboy     Junkies

Propellerheads

Hooverphonic

New     Radicals

Earl     Brutus

Rocket     From The Crypt

Fun     Lovin’ Criminals

Cake

Catatonia

Faithless

Therapy?

Marilyn     Manson

Smashing     Pumpkins

++++

Spiritualized:     RAH live

Portishead:     Roseland NYC Live

Swans:     Swans Are Dead live

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Gilmore Girls Reading List

Here is the list I will attempt to get through. I don’t think I will follow it in order but I will definitely number the book commentaries.

1.       1984 by George Orwell

2.       Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3.       Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4.       The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

5.       An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6.       Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7.       Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8.       The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9.       The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

10.   The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11.   The Art of War by Sun Tzu

12.   As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

13.   Atonement by Ian McEwan

14.   Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

15.   The Awakening by Kate Chopin

16.   Babe by Dick King-Smith

17.   Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

18.   Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

19.   Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

20.   The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21.   Beloved by Toni Morrison

22.   Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

23.   The Bhagava Gita

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

25.   Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

26.   A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

27.   Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

28.   Brick Lane by Monica Ali

29.   Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

30.   Candide by Voltaire

31.   The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

32.   Carrie by Stephen King

33.   Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34.   The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

35.   Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

36.   The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

37.   Christine by Stephen King

38.   A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

39.   A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

40.   The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

41.   The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

42.   A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

43.   Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

44.   The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

45.   Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

46.   A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

47.   The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

48.   Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

49.   Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

50.   The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

51.   The Crucible by Arthur Miller

52.   Cujo by Stephen King

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

54.   Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

55.   David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56.   David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57.   The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

58.   Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

59.   Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

60.   Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

61.   Deenie by Judy Blume

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

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

64.   The Divine Comedy by Dante

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

66.   Don Quixote by Cervantes

67.   Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

68.   Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

70.   Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

71.   The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

72.   Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

73.   Eloise by Kay Thompson

74.   Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

75.   Emma by Jane Austen

76.   Empire Falls by Richard Russo

77.   Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

78.   Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

79.   Ethics by Spinoza

80.   Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81.   Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

82.   Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

83.   Extravagance by Gary Krist

84.   Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

85.   Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

86.   The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

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

88.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

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

90.   Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

91.   The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

92.   Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

93.   Fletch by Gregory McDonald

94.   Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

95.   The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

96.   The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

97.   Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

98.   Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

99.   Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

100.   Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

101.   Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

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

103.   Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

104.   Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

105.   The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

106.   The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

107.   The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

108.   Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

109.   Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

110.   The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111.   The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

112.   The Graduate by Charles Webb

113.   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

114.   The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

115.   Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

116.   The Group by Mary McCarthy

117.   Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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

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

120.   A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

121.   Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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

123.   Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

124.   Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

125.   Henry V by William Shakespeare

126.   High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

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

128.   Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

129.   The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

130.   House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

131.   The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

132.   How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

133.   How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

134.   How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

135.   Howl by Allen Ginsberg

136.   The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

137.   The Iliad by Homer

138.   I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

139.   In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

140.   Inferno by Dante

141.   Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

142.   Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

143.   It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

144.   Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

145.   The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

146.   Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

147.   The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

148.   The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

149.   Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

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

151.   Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152.   The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

153.   Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

154.   The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

155.   Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

156.   The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

157.   Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

158.   Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

159.   Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

160.   Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161.   Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

162.   The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

163.   The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

164.   Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

165.   Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

166.   Lord of the Flies by William Golding

167.   The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168.   The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

169.   The Love Story by Erich Segal

170.   Macbeth by William Shakespeare

171.   Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

172.   The Manticore by Robertson Davies

173.   Marathon Man by William Goldman

174.   The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

175.   Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

176.   Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

177.   Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

178.   The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

179.   Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

180.   The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

181.   The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

182.   Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

183.   The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

184.   Moby Dick by Herman Melville

185.   The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

186.   Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187.   A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

188.   Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

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

190.   A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191.   Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

192.   Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

193.   My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

194.   My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

195.   My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

196.   Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

197.   My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

198.   The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

199.   The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

200.   The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

201.   The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

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

203.   New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

204.   The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

205.   Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

206.   Night by Elie Wiesel

207.   Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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

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

210.   Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211.   Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

212.   Old School by Tobias Wolff

213.   On the Road by Jack Kerouac

214.   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215.   One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216.   The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

217.   Oracle Night by Paul Auster

218.   Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

219.   Othello by Shakespeare

220.   Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

221.   The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

222.   Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

223.   The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

224.   A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

225.   The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

226.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

227.   Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

228.   The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

229.   Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

230.   Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

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

232.   The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

233.   The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

234.   The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

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

236.   Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

237.   Property by Valerie Martin

238.   Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

239.   Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

240.   Quattrocento by James Mckean

241.   A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

242.   Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

243.   The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

244.   The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

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

246.   Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

247.   Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

248.   The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

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

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

251.   R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

252.   Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

253.   Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

254.   Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

255.   Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

256.   A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

257.   A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

258.   Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

259.   The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

260.   Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

261.   Sanctuary by William Faulkner

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

263.   Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

264.   The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

265.   The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

266.   Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

267.   The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268.   The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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

270.   Selected Hotels of Europe

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

272.   Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

273.   A Separate Peace by John Knowles

274.   Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

275.   Sexus by Henry Miller

276.   The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

277.   Shane by Jack Shaefer

278.   The Shining by Stephen King

279.   Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

280.   S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

281.   Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

282.   Small Island by Andrea Levy

283.   Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

284.   Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

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

286.   The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

287.   Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

288.   The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

289.   Songbook by Nick Hornby

290.   The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

291.   Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

292.   Sophie's Choice by William Styron

293.   The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

294.   Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

295.   Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

296.   The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

297.   A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

298.   Stuart Little by E. B. White

299.   Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

300.   Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

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

302.   Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

303.   A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

304.   Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

305.   Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

306.   Time and Again by Jack Finney

307.   The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

308.   To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309.   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

310.   The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

311.   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

312.   The Trial by Franz Kafka

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

314.   Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

315.   Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

316.   Ulysses by James Joyce

317.   The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

318.   Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

319.   Unless by Carol Shields

320.   Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321.   The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

322.   Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

323.   Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

324.   The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

325.   Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

326.   Walden by Henry David Thoreau

327.   Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

328.   War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

329.   We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

330.   What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

331.   What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

332.   When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

333.   Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

334.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

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

336.   The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

337.   Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

338.   The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

339.   The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Wish me luck!!

[myearts-uwu]

I feel like I wanna write about this again (I remember talking about this in an older post) but MYRA LIKES TO USE KAOMOJIS WHEN MESSAGING HER LOVED ONES.

So expect a message like “Hope you have a good day at work today (´,,•ω•,,)♡” or “What do you want to have for dinner later??? (´• ω •`)” from her.

[fyeahjofro]

Nearly two years after Downton Abbey finally heaved itself to a climax, I find Joanne Froggatt sitting in a hotel lobby bar in London ordering a dirty martini with two olives in it and extra brine. It’s 5.20pm, but she’s “had a bit of a week”, so I order one as well and begin sizing up television’s most clandestine superstar. Let’s not forget Downton was a hit in 220 territories worldwide, with episodes regularly pulling in 120m viewers. Froggatt was the only non-Maggie Smith cast member to pick up a Golden Globe, for her extraordinary work in series 4, when her character, Anna Bates, a lady’s maid, was raped by a visiting valet. The storyline so shocked the doilies-and-teapot brigade who made up the show’s core fans that it became front-page news. Now she is set to fire up the national debate all over again.

Tomorrow, Froggatt, 37, will reclaim her crown as queen of ITV drama with Liar. The six-part series is a thorny, modern he said/she said mystery, in which Froggatt plays a woman who claims she was date-raped after a nice first-date meal that ended up with a second glass of wine at her house.

Froggatt is in fantastic everywoman mode — her character, a teacher with a history of light mental illness. Meanwhile, in a shrewd bit of casting, Ioan Gruffudd (Prince Charming incarnate) plays the seemingly lovely surgeon she accuses. By the end of episode 1, I had both shed a tear watching her endure the brutal formalities of the rape kit (they used a real nurse instead of an actor for the scene), yet couldn’t shake the feeling she had made the whole thing up.

So, stand by your water coolers — buzz is through the roof, not least because it’s been written by the brothers Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing) and promises a big reveal. Froggatt is giving nothing away. She has another sip of her cocktail and wryly points out that, either way, it’s “another victim” for her CV. Fair point. Alongside Suranne Jones and Vicky McClure, she makes up a holy trinity of British actresses who have mastered small-screen misery. But while her peers look as though they can give as good as they get, there is something disconcertingly fragile about Froggatt. Partly, it’s her size — 5ft 2in and sparrow thin. Partly, it’s how normal she seems. The daughter of northern shopkeepers, there’s no Rada-induced sense of entitlement, and certainly no luvvie waffle with her. She lives in a small town in the home counties with a husband she met at the pub.

I wonder if the fact she has both feet squarely in reality is what makes her performances so devastating? She causes not one flicker of recognition in the bar. I could barely pick her out myself, even though we’ve met a couple of times before. I last saw her in LA, a few weeks after the final Downton Abbey aired, when she was full of trepidation. Was it hard watching the others — Dan Stevens, Jessica Brown Findlay — leave the show early and get big film careers? “You always wonder, don’t you, but I think I made the right decision for me. We were contracted for three series to start with, then they asked for four and five ...” She hadn’t felt series 3 had been particularly great for Anna, so she stuck it out and the following year Anna’s rape story became worldwide news.

Despite 244 complaints to Ofcom (and 200 more to ITV), she is very proud that the world’s favourite chocolate-box period drama dared to tackle the subject. Far from being sensationalist, sexual assault was rife for women in service, she points out. But with Liar, we are firmly in the now — where modern gender politics, social media and untraceable date-rape drugs can put a question mark over who the victim even is. “It brings home the point of how difficult it is to prove any given situation when it’s one person’s word against another,” she says. “Or the way my character just posts everything online and you go, ‘Oh God, no, don’t do that!” When I read the first script, I really didn’t know who was telling the truth.”

Did she bring her personal feminist take to the issues? “Absolutely. Of course I have strong opinions about it, although I’m not sure I can voice them right now,” she says, keen to leave jeopardy there for viewers. “One thing I will say is that, with any sensitive issue, it’s all about education. I can’t imagine anyone, having watched the first episode, not having a discussion about it.”

It can’t have been easy filming the post-assault examination. “Yeah,” she says, and takes another sip. “That day, James [Strong, the director] did shoot it in a documentary-style way. I was kept away from everybody else and we didn’t rehearse it.” The real-life nurse went about it as she would any other case, telling her to put her underwear in a plastic bag, swabbing her mouth and nails. “She had never met me before and I had never met her. I just came in and she had to react to me like she would on a normal day at work, while I just got followed by the camera. It was brilliant.”

Growing up, she was “quite determined — though I wasn’t always the most confident child”. Her father had a confectionery warehouse and a mini supermarket in Scarborough, but when that proved slim pickings the family moved to a farm outside Whitby, although he later retrained as a local civil servant with the police while her mother became a government trainer. “My brother and I have both learnt a very strong work ethic from our parents.” Her ambition — and make no mistake, Froggatt is madly ambitious — is all her own, however. Weaned on old films in the front room, she was adamant she was going to become a star from the age of five. “I’d heard about The Stage newspaper, so used to get my local newsagent to order it in for me especially. That’s where I got the idea for stage school. I think my parents were hoping I’d be a vet.”

She sent off for all the prospectuses and settled on Redroofs, all the way in Berkshire (and where a young Kate Winslet was then a pupil). On the open day, her mother’s “heart sank” when she saw how happy Jo was running around with all the other girls. It sank further when she got in. “I remember opening the letter with my parents. Mum and Dad were still in bed, and I could see their faces go, ‘Oh God.’ ”

“They couldn’t afford to pay for the school fees and the boarding fees, so it was a matter of contacting the council.” There were no grants for kids her age, but they asked her to go in for an audition and amazingly gave her a grant to cover the school fees. “The whole process took about 2½ years” — which tells you everything you need to know about her tenacity. “I was 13, nearly 14, so I spent my last two years of school there.”

She hated it at first. “I hadn’t realised how strong my accent was,” she says of her (still) long vowel sounds. “Like, ‘Nooo’ and ‘Jooo’.” She felt incredibly homesick. But half a term in she was settled, and still counts her best friends as the girls from her year. “I’m back living in the same sort of area that I was at school, we all see each other all of the time. I’m godmother to their children, and that’s how I met my husband. I was out with friends from school and met him in a bar.” Someone took a photo of them the night they met, which is now in a frame at home. He’s in IT and often works remotely, so he can follow her about. I suppose they might like children of their own at some point, but for now the vodka martini speaks for itself.

Anyway, she left school at 16 and ended up working in WHSmiths back up north. But she still had plenty of hustle and got auditions for The Bill and Coronation Street in quick succession. She starred in the latter as the teenage mum Zoe Tattersall until 1998. She became an industry darling, wowing at the Old Vic and playing Myra Hindley’s sister in the 2006 TV drama See No Evil — but it took 12 years after leaving Corrie for her to become a household name, thanks to the double whammy of In Our Name (a brilliant low-budget film about a female soldier with PTSD, which won her a British Independent Film award) and, of course, Downton Abbey.

There’s still endless talk of a Downton film. “We all want to do it, it’s just getting our schedules together,” she says. But it’s hard not to imagine how a career must always feel a little on the slide after such a big hit. Never count Froggatt out, though. She’s still as determined as ever. “Yeah, I’m quite impatient. I loved Anna Bates, loved her, but I didn’t want to play another nice housemaid after that. I get bored really easily,” she says, picking up her glass and looking me straight in the eye. A second later, the cocktail is gone.

Liar begins on ITV tomorrow at 9pm

[heshefamilytree]

I TOO AM A GREAT GRANDAUGGTER OF MARK PRICE DAVIS:

It has been 2 ½ years since my precious grandmother passed away, transitioning to the other side, and receive her glory in heaven, where she feels pain no more, and is reunited with her beloved husband, parents, and family. Oh how I miss her so.

Once again I was sorting through her folders and I came across an absolutely incredible set of papers-handwritten no less. It was a copy of Mark Price Davis’ Will (1829). Mark Price Davis was my 5th great grandfather, father of Rebecca and Martha, the sisters discussed in the previous stories: “The Letter, 1862” and “The Mystery of the Smith Graveyard.”

Although the Will was incredible, it was the gem at the bottom of paper that took my breath away. It stated:

“Copied August 16th, 1963… by Emma Barrett Reeves, a great granddaughter of Mark Price Davis, thru his daughter Martha Christian Davis, who m Geo Blakey Smith.”

The next line said, “I too am a great granddaughter - by daughter Rebecca Myers Farmer Lyon,” signed Dollie Myra Lyon Echols.

Reading further on, the document stated, “I too am a great great granddaughter - thru the line of Edward Lyon & Rebecca Price Davis,” signed Mary Effie Pinkston Rainford.

When I read these beautiful women’s names and realized I was looking at the signatures of my 5th great auntie’s (Martha) granddaughter, my great grandmother Mary Effie and her “mother,” Dolly Echols, all added to Mark’s Will, wanting to be accounted for and remembered by anyone that came along and found the document in future generations…I was overcome with emotion trying to comprehend all that I was feeling. I had an overwhelming need to add my name to that list of great women.

Tears fell down my cheeks as I added my name and declaration, “I too am a 5th great granddaughter of Mark Price Davis, through Rebecca Myers Price Davis, my 4th great grandmother, and then Mary Effie Pinkston Rainford, my great grandmother, Julia Lynch, thankful to be part of something so magnanimous.

[princess-of-gen0via]

The Rory Gilmore Book Challenge

1.) 1984 by George Orwell 2.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3.) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4.) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5.) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6.) Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7.) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8.) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9.) Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10.) The Art of Fiction by Henry James 11.) The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12.) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13.) Atonement by Ian McEwan 14.) Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15.) The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16.) Babe by Dick King-Smith 17.) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18.) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19.) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20.) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21.) Beloved by Toni Morrison 22.) Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23.) The Bhagava Gita 24.) The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25.) Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26.) A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27.) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28.) Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29.) Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30.) Candide by Voltaire 31.) The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32.) Carrie by Stephen King 33.) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34.) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35.) Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36.) The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37.) Christine by Stephen King 38.) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39.) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40.) The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41.) The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty 42.) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty 43.) A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 44.) Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 45.) The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 46.) Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 47.) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 48.) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père 49.) Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac 50.) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 51.) The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 52.) The Crucible by Arthur Miller 53.) Cujo by Stephen King 54.) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 55.) Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 56.) David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 57.) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 58.) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 59.) Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 60.) Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61.) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 62.) Deenie by Judy Blume 63.) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 64.) The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, America by Erik Larson 65.) The Divine Comedy by Dante 66.) The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 67.) Don Quijote by Cervantes 68.) Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 69.) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 70.) Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 71.) Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 72.) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 73.) Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 74.) Eloise by Kay Thompson 75.) Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 76.) Emma by Jane Austen 77.) Empire Falls by Richard Russo 78.) Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 79.) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 80.) Ethics by Spinoza 81.) Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves 82.) Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 83.) Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 84.) Extravagance by Gary Krist 85.) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 86.) Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 87.) The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 88.) Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 89.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 90.) The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R.       Tolkien 91.) Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 92.) The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 93.) Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 94.) Fletch by Gregory McDonald 95.) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 96.) The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 97.) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 98.) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 99.) Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 100.) Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 101.) Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 102.) Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 103.) George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 104.) Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 105.) Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 106.) The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 107.) The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 108.) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 109.) Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 110.) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 111.) The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford 112.) The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 113.) The Graduate by Charles Webb 114.) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 115.) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 116.) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 117.) The Group by Mary McCarthy 118.) Hamlet by William Shakespeare 119.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 120.) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 121.) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 122.) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 123.) Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 124.) Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 125.) Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 126.) Henry V by William Shakespeare 127.) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 128.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 129.) Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 130.) The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 131.) House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr) 132.) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 133.) How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 134.) How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 135.) How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland 136.) Howl by Allen Gingsburg 137.) The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 138.) The Iliad by Homer 139.) I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres 140.) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 141.) Inferno by Dante 142.) Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 143.) Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 144.) It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton 145.) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 146.) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 147.) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 148.) The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 149.) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 150.) Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 151.) The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 152.) Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 153.) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 154.) Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 155.) The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 156.) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 157.) The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 158.) Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 159.) Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 160.) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 161.) Life of Pi by Yann Martel 162.) Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 163.) The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 164.) The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 165.) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 166.) Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 167.) Lord of the Flies by William Golding 168.) The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 169.) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 170.) The Love Story by Erich Segal 171.) Macbeth by William Shakespeare 172.) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 173.) The Manticore by Robertson Davies 174.) Marathon Man by William Goldman 175.) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 176.) Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 177.) Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 178.) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 179.) The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 180.) Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 181.) The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare 182.) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 183.) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 184.) The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 185.) Moby Dick by Herman Melville 186.) The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 187.) Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 188.) A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 189.) Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 190.) A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 191.) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 192.) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 193.) Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 194.) My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 195.) My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 196.) My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 197.) Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 198.) My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 199.) The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 200.) The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 201.) The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 202.) The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 203.) Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 204.) New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 205.) The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 206.) Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 207.) Night by Elie Wiesel 208.) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 209.) The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 210.) Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 211.) Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski 212.) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – READ 2009. 213.) Old School by Tobias Wolff 214.) On the Road by Jack Kerouac 215.) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 216.) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 217.) The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 218.) Oracle Night by Paul Auster 219.) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 220.) Othello by Shakespeare 221.) Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 222.) The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 223.) Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 224.) The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 225.) A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 226.) The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 227.) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 228.) 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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 249.) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 250.) Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 251.) The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien 252.) R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 253.) Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 254.) Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 255.) Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 256.) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 257.) A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 258.) A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 259.) Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 260.) The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 261.) Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 262.) Sanctuary by William Faulkner 263.) Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 264.) Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 265.) The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 266.) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 267.) Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 268.) The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 269.) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 270.) Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 271.) Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272.) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273.) A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274.) Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275.) Sexus by Henry Miller 276.) The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277.) Shane by Jack Shaefer 278.) The Shining by Stephen King 279.) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280.) S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281.) Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282.) Small Island by Andrea Levy 283.) Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284.) Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285.) Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286.) The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287.) Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288.) The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289.) Songbook by Nick Hornby 290.) The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291.) Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292.) Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 293.) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 294.) Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295.) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 296.) The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 297.) A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 298.) Stuart Little by E. B. White 299.) Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 300.) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust 301.) Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302.) Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303.) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304.) Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305.) Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306.) Time and Again by Jack Finney 307.) The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308.) To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309.) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310.) The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 311.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312.) The Trial by Franz Kafka 313.) The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314.) Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315.) Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316.) Ulysses by James Joyce 317.) The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318.) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319.) Unless by Carol Shields 320.) Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 321.) The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322.) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323.) Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324.) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325.) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326.) Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327.) Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328.) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329.) We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330.) What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331.) What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332.) When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333.) Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson 334.) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335.) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336.) The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337.) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë – READ 2009. 338.) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339.) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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East Falls: Friends of Mifflin, Principal Work Together To Drive Community Involvement

 Added on November 27, 2018  Geneva Heffernan  Community , East Falls , Festival , Fundraiser , Leslie Mason , Mifflin School , principal , School , Thanksgiving , Thomas Mifflin Elementary School , Thomas Mifflin School

Wind howled and rain pelted down on East Falls, but inside the warm gymnasium at Thomas Mifflin Elementary School, smiling children ran around in colorful costumes to the sound of popular tunes put on by DJ Mighty Flip Side at the Mifflin Fall Festival and Carnival on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Principal Leslie Mason (pictured above) bravely faced whipped crème pies as eager students lined up for the chance to throw.

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Students from Jefferson University painted faces, monitored the bouncy house, helped children throw hula hoops over cones and cleaned paint brushes for decorating pumpkins. Adults mingled and steered little ones away from jumping in a kiddie pool filled with rubber ducks.

The Mifflin Fall Festival and Carnival raised $1,342 to fund the school’s Thanksgiving meal, an annual tradition where the hallways are lined with tables in orange tablecloths and teachers serve every student in the school. Ninety-nine percent of Mifflin’s students qualify for free or reduced lunch, so the school fundraises to support the meal.

“When I walk into a school I kinda can tell when there’s a school together,” Myra Moore, of the Philadelphia Streets Department, said while giving out free recycling bins at the fall festival. “There’s togetherness. Like some schools you feel like, ‘I’m not welcome,’ but you walk in here you see that the teachers are invested and the community is welcome.’”

Fifth grade teacher Caprice Williams worked the ticket station at the event.

“We had such great attendance,” she said. “There were parents, community members, people who might become parents. It was great!”

Alex Roman, father to 4-year-old pre-kindergartener Alice Roman (pictured above), said he believes in the value of public school education and couldn’t imagine sending his daughter to any other school.

“It is important to support our local school and events like this help,” he said.

Thomas Mifflin Elementary School now sees engagement from college students, parents, would-be parents and older East Falls residents who want to help make the public school even more successful. This varied support has grown in the past ten years under the direction of Principal Mason.

Alex Keating is co-chair of the Friends of Mifflin, a community organization that fundraises and coordinates volunteers to support the school. He is also an at-large executive committee member of the East Falls Community Council and has a 7-year-old son who attends Mifflin.

“We need to fundraise to help the administrators and the staff do what’s best for the kids, period,” Keating said. “If you put money in the hands of the teachers, resources, whatever that is, raise money for what they need like computers, that’s where I think it will benefit the kids the most.”

Tom Sauerman founded the Friends of Mifflin in 2011 with the goal of improving the reputation of Mifflin School in the community. Mason called Sauerman’s initiative an act of rebranding. He worked to acquire grants for the school, including a Picasso Project grant that brought art back into the school after city funding had been cut. Sauerman has since passed away, but the Friends of Mifflin group lives on and is growing in numbers.

“When it was founded, [Friends of Mifflin] was great and the people who did it were wonderful,” Mason said. “But there were five to eight people and there weren’t parents. At that point there weren’t current parents at all.”

When Keating and his wife were deciding where they wanted to send their children, they focused on principals. In the ten years she has worked at the school, Mason has improved Mifflin’s test scores and grown the relationship with the community. Keating said this success stems from Mason’s ability to communicate her vision and get buy-in from teachers.

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“There’s something very special about going to school with the people you see in your neighborhood,” Keating said. “They’re not being bussed in, they’re not carpooling in, they’re not commuting in, they’re literally walking to school. It’s the same people you see at the parks, that you see at the library and at the cafe and the restaurants.”

Friends of Mifflin is not the only community group supporting the school. Four years ago, East Falls Village got involved with Mifflin with a program called Read To Me! and revived Mifflin’s library, which had been closed due to lack of funding.

East Falls Village was founded by Doris Steinberg in 2011 as part of a larger national Village Movement. The organization supports the community’s elderly, helping them stay in their own homes, providing transportation and social activities to do. Recognizing need in the school, and having a group of engaged East Falls residents, the Village reached out to Principal Mason to see how they could help support Mifflin.

“We felt that we should try to give back to the community in some way, and reading is the most important thing that you can do with or for a child,” Village co-chair and former Philadelphia librarian Mary Flournoy (pictured above) said.

Through the efforts of Susan Smith, a Village member on the board of the Children’s Literacy Initiative, Read To Me! started out as a monthly program where a handful of Village members would be transported down to Mifflin to read to students or to have students read to them. Now approximately 30 members volunteer weekly to run the program for kindergarten through third grade.

“Our members love reading with the children,” said Kathi Dimenna, chair of civic engagement for East Falls Village. “Once we changed the format to be one-on-one, the members felt that they could cater to the child’s need and have a stronger impact.”

Philadelphia public schools have been closing libraries due to budget cuts and Mifflin is no exception, going for almost ten years without a librarian. Flournoy and her fellow Village leaders were determined to change that. Thus began the library program where Village members sign up to volunteer to run the library for a few hours on Monday and Friday every week.

“It fills a void that we have, because we don’t have a librarian,” first grade teacher Theresa Carle said.

Since last year, Thomas Mifflin Elementary School improved its reading standardized state test scores by 5.8 percent, which was the highest growth rate in the school’s learning network, which is made up of most of Northwest Philadelphia’s public schools. Many credit the volunteers’ focus on reading and literacy as a reason test scores increased.

Principal Mason has also been working hard to foster Mifflin’s relationship with other institutions in East Falls, such as neighboring Jefferson University.

Students from Jefferson University frequently volunteer at Mifflin events and support the school. Marcella McCoy-Deh, the director of the honors program at Jefferson, encourages her students to give back to the community through Mifflin.

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“A lot of my students are staffing the tables, so I’m here to support their service,” McCoy-Deh said at the Fall Festival. “This is a great event, with a lot of little ones having a good time. This a great community service site for us because our freshman can just walk out their back door and it’s maybe a block away.”

Although she said it will not be this year, or even next year, retirement has been something that has been on Mason’s mind. Now in remission from leukemia, Mason had chemotherapy in 2017 from July to December, through which she continued to work.

“Every year for the last couple years I have been saying I’m going to retire because this is my 32nd year with the District,” Mason said. “Each year I keep putting it off because I don’t trust anyone with my school. I’ve worked too hard, and this will be my tenth year and I don’t think so.”

Mason wants the right person to replace her and, until that time, she vows to keep working with the community to improve Mifflin.

-Text and images by Geneva Heffernan.

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Rory Gilmore Booklist

1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

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81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

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133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 140. Inferno by Dante 141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

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198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

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

203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

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205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

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207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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

210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 240. Quattrocento by James Mckean 241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 270. Selected Hotels of Europe 271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

92. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 298. Stuart Little by E. B. White 299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust 301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

319. Unless by Carol Shields 320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion