#Patricia McCullough

[deadpresidents]

So, sorry to bother but, are there absolutely any books you could recommend on Theodore Roosevelt? I plan to read The River Of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, but have already read Mornings On Horseback + the entire Edmund Morris trilogy 1-3.

So outside of those books (+ A Bully Father, forgot to mention), are there any you could recommend? If not that's fine!

You're off to a great start! In my opinion, you've already checked off the best of the bunch with Edmund Morris's trilogy (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt; Theodore Rex; and, Colonel Roosevelt). David McCullough's Mornings On Horseback would have been right at the top of my recommendations, as well. I'd also suggest picking up T.R.: The Last Romantic (BOOK | KINDLE) by H.W. Brands.

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (BOOK | KINDLE) by Doris Kearns Goodwin is excellent, and also explores the fascinating relationship between TR and his hand-picked successor (and eventual bitter rival during the 1912 campaign), William Howard Taft.

The relationship and rivalry between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson during TR's post-Presidency and World War I is also a captivating subject and the focus of two other great books: The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt by John Milton Cooper Jr., and TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy (BOOK | KINDLE) by David Pietrusza.

You mentioned that you're planning to read Candice Millard's The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (BOOK | KINDLE) and that's definitely another book I would have suggested. PBS's American Experience also made a great documentary called Into the Amazon about that dangerous trip by Roosevelt. Another really good book about Theodore Roosevelt's post-Presidency and final years before his death is When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House (BOOK | KINDLE) by Patricia O'Toole.

There are scores of great books about TR because he was an endlessly fascinating character, so I'm undoubtedly forgetting to mention a bunch of books that I'd strongly recommend, but hopefully this helps. As I mentioned, I think the Edmund Morris trilogy is the definitive work on Roosevelt's life, so you've got a solid foundation already.

[theantonian]

The Antonian Reading List

Mark Antony: A Life by Patricia Southern (Highly recommended!)

Mark Antony: A Biography by Eleanor Goltz Huzar (Highly recommended!)

The Life and Times of Marc Antony by Arthur Weigall (Recommended)

Marc Antony: His Life and Times by Allan Roberts (Recommended)

Marc Antony by Mary Kittredge

Antony & Cleopatra by Patricia Southern

Antony & Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy (By far the most negative book on Antony by a modern historian, the Cleopatra portion is better)

Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man by Paolo de Ruggiero (Recommended)

Mark Antony and Popular Culture: Masculinity and the Construction of an Icon by Rachael Kelly

Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor by Stephen Dando-Collins

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum (Highly recommend!)

Mark Antony & Cleopatra: Cleopatra's Proxy War to Conquer Rome & Restore the Empire of the Greeks by Martin Armstrong

Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War by Robert Alan Gurval

The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme (Recommended)

Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra by W. W. Tarn

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley (Highly Recommended!)

Cleopatra by Michael Grant (Highly Recommanded!)

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Highly Recommended!)

Cleopatra - A Biography by D. Roller

Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston

Cleopatra by Alberto Angela (Recommended)

Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

Cleopatra the Great by Joann Fletcher

Cleopatra and Egypt by Sally-Ann Ashton

Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E. E. Kleiner

Cleopatra Her History Her Myth by Francine Prose

Cleopatra Histories, Dreams, and Distortions by Lucy Hughes Hallett (Recommended)

Cleopatra’s Daughter Egyptian Princess by Jane Draycott

The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Good for beginners)

The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard

Robicon by Tom Holland

Alesia 52 BC: The final struggle for Gaul (Campaign) by Nic Fields

Actium 31 BC: Downfall of Antony and Cleopatra (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Pharsalus 48 BC: Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Philippi 42 BC: The death of the Roman Republic (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Mutina 43 BC: Mark Antony's struggle for survival (Campaign) by Nic Fields

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss

The Battle of Actium 31 BC: War for the World by Lee Fratantuono

Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40–20 BC by Gareth C Sampson

Rivalling Rome: Parthian Coins and Culture by Vesta Curtis

Classical sources:

Plutarch’s Lives

Cicero: Philippics, Ad Brutum, Ad Familiares

Appian, The Civil Wars

Dio Cassius, The Roman History

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War

Livy, The Early History of Rome

Tacitus, Annals and Histories

Friction:

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by Willian Shakespeare

All For Love or The World Well Lost by John Dryden

The Siren and the Roman – A Tragedy by Lucyl

Caesar and Cleopatra by George Berbard Shaw

Cleopatra (play) by Sardou

Antony by Allan Massie

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

I, Cleopatra by William Bostock

Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard

Cleopatra by Georg Ebers

Kleopatra (Vol I & II) by Karen Essex

Last Days with Cleopatra by Jack Lindsay

The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough

Caesar's Soldier: Mark Antony Book I by Alex Gough (Ongoing series)

The Antonius Trilogy by Brook Allen

The Last Pharaoh series by Jay Penner

Throne of Isis by Juith Tarr

Hand of Isis by Jo Graham

Woman of Egypt by Kevin Methews

The Ides of Blood 01-06 (Comics)

Terror - Antonius En Cleopatra (Erotic yet pure love, Dutch comics)

Cleopatra - Geschiedenisstrip (Dutch comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Marc Antonie (French comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Cleopatre (French comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Julius Caesar (French comics)

Cléopâtre (French Manga)

 Ils Ont Fait L'histoire - Cléopâtre (French Graphic Novel)

[ilaw-at-panitik]

Banaag at Sikat first appeared as a serial in the Tagalog newspaper Muling Pagsilang (Renaissance) in 1904 and then was published as a book by Santos in 1906. While Banaag at Sikat is now recognized as the most prominent work of the period known as the Golden Age of the Tagalog novel (1905-1921) and a milestone in the history of Tagalog fiction for its engagement with social issues, it was a complete commercial disaster as a book. Santos has 10,000 copies in newsprint ("papel na ekonomiko o papel-diyaryo") and 1,000 in book paper ("papel na pinado") printed with the Imprenta McCullough, which cost him fifty centavos per copy. He sold the books in newsprint at one peso and in book paper at one peso and fifty centavos each. He managed to sell only 4,000 copies. Being unable to pay for the rest of the unsold books, Santos was charged in court by the printer and ordered to relinquish various possessions, including fifteen cows, as partial payment for his printing bill. The Imprenta McCullough put up for auction the remaining 7,000 copies of Banaag at Sikat. A Chinese merchant purchased the books and sold them at twenty centavos apiece. Santos spent many years paying off the rest of his debt to the printer. As he recalls, the publishing of Banaag at Sikat was meant to uplift his financial situation, instead it left him more impoverished than ever.

Patricia Jurilla, from "Tagalog Best Sellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines" (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008)

[mongrelmutt]

My books read list for 2023! For the first time I met my goal of at least one book a week!! 😁

1. "A Conspiracy of Kings" -- Megan Whalen Turner

2. "Thick as Thieves" -- Megan Whalen Turner

3. "Return of the Thief" -- Megan Whalen Turner

4. "Vatican II" -- John O'Malley

5. "The Catholic Church: A Short History" -- Hans Küng, translated by John Bowden

6. "Confessions" and "Letter to Coroticus" -- St. Patrick

7. "Through the Brazilian Wilderness" -- Theodore Roosevelt

8. "The Wind in the Willows" -- Kenneth Grahame

9. "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" -- Kate Clancy

10. "Star Wars: Padawan" -- Kiersten White

11. "Star Wars: Master and Apprentice" -- Claudia Gray

12. "Deep Down Dark" -- Héctor Tobar

13. "The Lost World" -- Michael Crichton

14. "Provida Mater Ecclesia: Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII Concerning Secular Institutes" (English translation) -- Pope Pius XII

15. "Frankenstein" -- Mary Shelley

16. "Kenobi" -- John Jackson Miller

17. "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" -- Mary Roach

18. "Trigun" and "Trigun Maximum" -- Yasuhiro Nightow

19. "Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution" -- Andrew M. Wehrman

20. "Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith" -- Eve Tushnet

21. "The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth" -- Beth Allison Bar

22. "Turtles All The Way Down" -- John Green

23. "All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1)" -- Martha Wells

24. "Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries #2)" -- Martha Wells

25. "Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries #3)" -- Martha Wells

26. "Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries #4) -- Martha Wells

27. "Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5) -- Martha Wells

28. "Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) -- Martha Wells

29. "Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History" -- Erik Larson

30. "The Johnstown Flood" -- David McCullough

31. "The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World" -- Riley Black

32. "Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel" -- Nancy F. Castaldo

33. "The Rise and Reign of Mammals: A New History from the Shadows of the Dinosaurs to Us" -- Steve Brusatte

34. "Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Dog" -- John Bradshaw

35. "Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (or Don't)" -- Alex Bezzerides

36. "Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive" -- Philipp Dettmer

37. "Catholicism and ADHD: Finding Holiness Despite Distractions" -- Alex R. Hey, PCAC

38. "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery" -- Sam Kean

39. "An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" -- Ed Yong

40. "Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig" -- Mark Essig

41. "The Mind's Eye" -- Oliver Sacks

42. "Loveless" -- Alice Oseman

43. "The Monkey Trial: John Scopes and the Battle Over Teaching Evolution" -- Anita Sanchez

44. "The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet" -- Henry Fountain

45. "Kiki's Delivery Service" -- Eiko Kadono (translated by Emily Balistrieri)

46. "Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas" -- Jennifer Raff

47. "Ancillary Justice" -- Ann Leckie

48. "An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives" -- Matt Richtel

49. "System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries #7)" -- Martha Wells

50. "Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures" -- Nick Pyeson

51. "Howl's Moving Castle" -- Diana Wynne Jones

52. "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" -- Shirley Jackson

53. "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" -- Patricia MacLachlan

54. "The Haunting of Hill House" -- Shirley Jackson

55. "All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings" -- Gayle Boss (illustrated by David G. Klein)

[outlookindiacom71]

Pennsylvania’s Parx Casino believes a Wednesday ruling by the Commonwealth Court means that skill-game machine company Pace-O-Matic

In a press release issued Wednesday in the wake of the ruling, Parx, which was not a party in the case, called on authorities to immediately “halt the proliferation of thousands of illegal Pennsylvania Skill slot machines.”

POM says nothing could be further from the truth and the casino’s “outrageous claim” was no more than a “desperate attempt to paint this decision in a false light.”

So what did the court actually say?

Judge Patricia McCullough wrote that the machines found in convenience stores, bars and restaurants throughout the Keystone State fitted the definition of slots as described in the Gaming Act.

But she declined to grant a summary judgment to the state that the company was in violation of the Gaming Act. That’s because the Gaming Act is not applicable to unlicensed slot machines, she ruled.

She also declined to be drawn on whether the machines constituted “illegal gambling devices.”

POM Sues, State Sues Back POM had always argued that its games could not be defined as slots or illegal gambling games because the element of skill involved outweighed the element of luck. A Commonwealth Court ruling in 2014 backed that up.

The machines employ features that require players to repeat intricate patterns to maximize their scores or include bonus games with arcade-style shooting sequences that require quick reflexes.

In June last year, POM sued the state and the City of Philadelphia after the city conducted 11 separate raids on its operations, arresting employees and seizing funds.

The company asked for declaratory judgment that its games were legal under Pennsylvania law and that the city lacks the authority prosecute it and seize its games.

The department and city countersued, seeking a declaration the machines were slots and that the manufacture, possession, and operation of slot machines are regulated by the Gaming Act and illegal unless a license has been issued by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

What the Ruling Means “The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court’s ruling left no doubt Pace-O-Matic’s Pennsylvania Skill games are not regulated by the Gaming Act as argued by the state and asserted by other parties in subsequent legal filings,” said POM’s attorney Matt Haverstick.

This decision means POM of PA’s Pennsylvania Skill games are not regulated by the Gaming Act and terms defined in code, such as slot machines, do not apply to our devices.

“Additionally, the Commonwealth Court states they did not decide our claim regarding the legal status of our game,” he added. “This means that our current ruling from [2014] stating Pace-O-Matic’s Pennsylvania Skill devices are games of predominant skill is still the law in Pennsylvania. Any entity attempting to publicly paint us in a false light risks legal action.”홀짝게임

POM is believed to have around 5,000 machines in operation across the state. It said Thursday that it remained “committed to continuing to work with the legislature to regulate, tax and provide strict enforcement of the legal skill game industry.”

[zorknogg]

Books I Read in 2023

Ranging from the terrible (Altered Carbon) to the great (Elena Ferrante is one of the GOAT) to the Hunger Games.

The List:

-Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

-The Road by Cormac McCarthy

-The Hunger Games 1-3 by Suzanne Collins

-Soft Inheritance by Fawn Parker

-Strong Towns by Charles Marohn Jr.

-Speech Acts by Laura McCullough

-Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré

-The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

-Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

-The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran

-The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

-Salmon by Sebastian Castillo

-The Moan Wilds by Caroline Rayner

-The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert Caro

-The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent by Robert Caro

-The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan

-I'd Rather Be Lightning by Nancy Lynée Woo

-The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart

-Politics by Aristotle

-The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

-No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

-Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

-Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl

-June 30th, June 30th by Richard Brautigan

-Real Life by Brandon Taylor

-Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan

-Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados

-Normal People by Sally Rooney

-Jack by Marilynne Robinson

-Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

-All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

-Passing by Nella Larsen

-Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

-The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

-The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

-Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil

-(re-read) The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein

-Stalinist Confessions by Igal Halfin

-A History of Russian Thought by William Leatherbarrow

-Dream Work by Mary Oliver

-House of Light by Mary Oliver

-Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan

-Call for the Dead by John le Carré

[ironymous]

Dr. McCullough Reveals More Bad News About the COVID Jabs.

The Expose Patricia Harrity· Dr. McCullough Reveals More Bad News About the COVID Jabs. “We’re seeing a disturbing continued trend of cardiac arrests in people who have taken the vaccine,” reported world-renowned cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough to Real America’s Voice Friday. “Now we have data from Nakahara in a human cardiac PET […]

[truck-fump]

Judge who ruled for <b>Trump</b> on 2020 election loses Pennsylvania primary - MSNBC News

New Post has been published on https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/patricia-mccullough-pennsylvania-supreme-court-rcna84844&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjUzM2UwMTY5ZmFhZTIwMGQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw29T3qSj4k1Cn6yWz34hH_c

Judge who ruled for Trump on 2020 election loses Pennsylvania primary - MSNBC News

Patricia McCullough was apparently too Trumpy even for Republicans. On Tuesday, Pennsylvania primary voters rejected her bid for the state’s …

[deadpresidents]

GROVER CLEVELAND •Grover Cleveland: A Study In Courage by Allan Nevins (BOOK) •An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. Paul Jeffers (BOOK | AUDIO) •A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland by Charles Lachman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

BENJAMIN HARRISON •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior, 1833-1865 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman, 1865-1888 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier President, 1889-1893 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK)

WILLIAM McKINLEY •In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (BOOK) •President McKinley: Architect of the American Century by Robert W. Merry (BOOK | KINDLE) •William McKinley and His America by H. Wayne Morgan (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

THEODORE ROOSEVELT •The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Edmund Morris Trilogy •The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Mornings On Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •T.R.: The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT •The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •William Howard Taft: An Intimate History by Judith Icke Anderson (BOOK) •Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft Betwixt the White House and Supreme Court by Lewis L. Gould (BOOK | KINDLE)

WOODROW WILSON •Wilson by A. Scott Berg (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Gene Smith (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson by Herbert Hoover (BOOK) •The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WARREN G. HARDING •The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell (BOOK) •The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren G. Harding by Andrew Sinclair (BOOK) •1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding by Charles L. Mee Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE)

CALVIN COOLIDGE •Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election by Garland S. Tucker III (BOOK | KINDLE)

[pancreasnostalgia]

The Wild Year, by Patricia Hermes. Book three for Joshua. Like the previous book, one aspect would have been handled differently had it been written today instead of 2003. Some other historical details were off, like with the Whitman massacre.

The timing and spacing of entries doesn’t always make sense and Joshua gets very repetitive.

Goodreads star rating: 2/5

[franticvampirereads]

✨Urban Fantasy Recommendations ✨

I’m hosting an urban fantasy readathon for the month of April and I thought I’d share some recs and match them up with the prompts!

YA:

The Percy Jackson series & it’s spin-offs by Rick Riordan (gods from multiple pantheons, familiars/animal companions, ghosts, lgbtq+ rep, unique magic system)

Any of the books under the Rick Riordan Presents imprint (bipoc authors, gods, unique magic systems)

The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon (witches, the fae, lgbtq+, bipoc author)

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (witches, lgbtq+, unique magic system)

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (unique magic system, witches, ghosts, lgbtq+)

The Black Blade series by Jennifer Estep (unique magic system, the fae)

Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda & Valynne E. Maetani (gods, ghosts/hauntings)

The Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon (vampires, shifters, gods, witches, unique magic system, ghosts)

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (lgbtq+, vampires, witches)

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Meade (vampires, unique magic system)

The Price Guide to the Occult by Leslye Walton (unique magic system, lgbtq+)

Any of the Shadowhunter books by Cassandra Clare (unique magic system, vampires, werewolves, the fae, ghosts, lgbtq+, animal companion)

Adult:

The Adam Binder series by David R. Slayton (unique magic system, the fae, lgbtq+, animal companion, gods)

Wolf Gone Wild by Juliette Cross (paranormal romance, werewolf, vampires, witches)

Girls Weekend by C. M. Nascosta (paranormal romance, the fae, cozy)

Morning Glory Milking Farm by C. M. Nascosta (paranormal romance, cozy)

The Witches Wolves by Ellie Mae MacGregor (lgbtq+, witches, werewolves)

Spooky Smutty Stories 1 & 2 by Claire Cray (lgbtq+, paranormal romance, witches, vampires, werewolves, ghosts/hauntings)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (cozy, lgbtq+, paranormal romance, unique magic system)

The October Daye series, the InCyptids Series, the Wayward Children series, and pretty much everything else by Seanan McGuire (the fae, shifters, unique magic systems, paranormal romances, ghosts/hauntings, lgbtq+)

The Jane Yellowrock Series and the Soulwood series by Faith Hunter (vampires, shifters, witches, ghosts, the gods, animal companions, paranormal romances)

The Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs (shifters, vampires, witches, ghosts/hauntings, paranormal romance)

The Green Creek Series by TJ Klune (lgbtq+, werewolves, witches)

Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. by Angela Roquet (the afterlife, gods, ghosts, unique magic system, paranormal romance, animal companion)

The Chicagoland Vampires series and the Heirs of Chicagoland series by Chloe Neill (vampires, shifters, paranormal romances, witches, the fae)

The Elemental Assassin series (unique magic system, paranormal romance)

The Whisper Hollow series by Yasmin Galenorn (shifters, witches, vampires, ghosts/hauntings, the afterlife, the fae, paranormal romance)

The Otherworld Series and the Fly By Night series by Yasmin Galenorn (paranormal romance, lgbtq+, polyamory, witches, vampires, shifters, the gods, the fae)

Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts (lgbtq+, shifters, witches, the gods, paranormal romance, unique magic system)

Norse Code by Greg Van Eekhout (bipoc author, the gods, ghosts/hauntings, the afterlife, unique magic system)

WebMage by Kelly McCullough (the gods, the fae(?), unique magic system, familiars)

Graphic Novels/Comics/Manga:

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (lgbtq+, werewolves)

The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill (unique magic system, lgbtq+, cozy, animal companion)

NORA: The Last Chronicle of Devildom by Kazunari Kakei (ghosts/hauntings, unique magic system)

Fangs by Sarah Anderson (vampires, werewolves, cozy)

Fangs by Billy Balibally (vampires, lgbtq+, animal companion, bipoc author) {please note this one is explicit and 18+}

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker (lgbtq+, witches, werewolves)

Taproot by Keezy Young (lgbtq+, ghosts/hauntings, the afterlife)

Moonstruck by Grace Ellis (lgbtq+, shifters, vampires, witches, cozy)

*as always, please check content and trigger warnings before diving into any of these*

I can’t wait to see what you’ve all got planned for the readathon! And if you’ve got more recs, please add them!

[simplysummers]

i'm kinda blind and very interested in history, could you list the authors and titles of the books on the post "Calling out to the AmRev fandom. I need your help." thanks

Hey there, anon! I’d be more then happy to do that for you!

These are the majority of my amrev books, sparing a few tucked away under my bed, and maybe a couple I just missed off the shelf, the majority of them are amrev bios, with a few historical fictions and stories thrown in for good measure.

I’ve tried to priorities them all into certain categories of person/event/time, and they are listed left-to-right below each photo! Hope this helps!

General events:

Founding Fathers (by Captivating History)

The Founding Fortunes (by Tom Shachtman)

The Glorious Cause (by Robert Middlekauff)

Valiant Ambition (by Nathaniel Philbrick)

Redcoats and Rebels (by Christopher Hibbert)

General Events:

(From left to right)

The British are coming (by Rick Atkinson)

Rebels & Redcoats (by Hugh Bicheno)

1776 (by David McCullough)

Scars of independence (by Holger Hoock)

General events/key figures:

American Revolutions - a continental history 1750 - 1804 (By Alan Taylor)

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge - The Baron de Steuben and the making of the American army (by Paul Lockhart)

Revolutionary Characters (by Gordon S. Wood)

George Washington’s secret six - the spy ring that saved the American revolution (by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger)

Key figures (Laurens, Arnold and Hale.):

Duty and Inclination (by Rebecca Dupont)

John Laurens and the American revolution (Gregory D. Massey)

Benedict Arnold (by Robert Zubrin)

The Martyr and the Traitor (by Virginia DeJohn Anderson)

Alexander Hamilton centric:

Alexander Hamilton (by Ron Chernow)

Alexander Hamilton - Adultery and Apology (forwarded by Robert P Watson)

Hamilton and Peggy - a revolutionary friendship (by L.M Elliott)

Hamilton’s choice (by Jack Casey)

George Washington centric:

Washington - A life (by Ron Chernow)

Washington’s Crossing (by David Hackett Fischer)

Adopted Son - Washington, Lafayette and the friendship that saved the revolution (by David A. Clary)

Martha Washington - An American life (by Patricia Brady)

Eliza Schuyler Hamilton Centric:

(The second and third book on this list are supposed to be historical fiction, but just take the accuracies with a grain of salt, if you will)

The Founding Mothers (by Thomas Jacobs)

I, Eliza Hamilton (by Susan Holloway Scott)

My Dear Hamilton (by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie)

Marquis De Lafayette Centric:

Hero of Two Worlds (by Mike Duncan)

Lafayette (by Harlow Giles Unger)

Lafayette comes to America (by Louis R. Gottschalk (this book was a bitch to find in Europe, I tell ya.))

The Marquis - Lafayette reconsidered (by Laura Auriccho)

Political texts:

Common Sense, Rights of Man and other essential writings (by Thomas Paine)

The federalist papers (by John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton)

The penguin guide to the American constitution (by Richard Beeman)

The Declaration of Independence - with short biographies of its signers. (No designated author.)

Key figures (Hamilton, Adams and Jefferson.):

The Patriots (by Winston Groom)

Hamilton (by Tony Williams)

Thomas Jefferson - the art of power (by John Meacham)

John Adams (by David McCullough)

Aaaand that’s all I have on hand for now, Anon! I sure hope this helped you out! (I’m also blind as hell so I struggle to see authors and titles on photos alone also! So I get you completely!)

[mia-decorative]

Sideboard, George Grant Elmslie, 1915, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

For display and to replicate them for the Purcell-Cutts house, Mia borrowed this sideboard and chairs, and also the suite’s table, in 1992. In 2011, the museum acquired the suite, along with two more original chairs. In 2013 the chairs were conserved and reupholstered in period-appropriate fabric, a project made possible by generous contributions from Linda Ahlers, Darlene Carroll, Theresa Carufel, Ann Davis, Beverly Fiman, Carrie Herrera, Julie Kollitz, Sally Lehmann, Mary Lou Marsh, Patricia McCullough, Jennifer Komar Olivarez, Barb Pinto, Hope Thornberg, and Victoria Veach. Size: 35 1/4 x 44 x 22 7/8 in. (89.54 x 111.76 x 58.1 cm) Medium: Mahogany, glass, silver-plated metal

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/6299/

[thediverismylove]

every book i read in 2020

books i read for school are bolded, rereads are starred

paradise rot by jenny hval 

tin man by sarah winman

we were feminists once by andi zeisler

little weirds by jenny slate 

a girl is a half formed thing by eimear mcbride 

deaf republic by ilya kaminsky

reverie by ryan la sala 

the year of magical thinking by joan didion 

on beauty by zadie smith

dark and deepest red by anna-marie mclemore 

black dog of fate by peter balakian 

the elements of style by william strunk jr & eb white

tell the wolves i’m home by carol rifka brunt

long live the tribe of fatherless girls by t kira madden 

the fact of a body by alex marzano-lesnevich 

lovely war by julie berry 

foul is fair by hannah capin 

the king of crows by libba bray

the end we start from by megan hunter

uprooted by naomi novik 

the monster hypothesis by romily bernard 

the line becomes a river by francisco cantu

the queen by josh levin 

red hood by elana k. arnold 

the lying game by ruth ware 

bunny by mona awad

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake 

citizen by claudia rankine 

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh 

the vacationers by emma straub 

their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston 

the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides

*dare me by megan abbott

the water cure by sophie mackintosh 

the chronology of water by lidia yuknavitch 

the subversive copyeditor by carol fisher saller 

*on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong 

how to do nothing by jenny odell 

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski 

future home of the living god by louise erdrich 

the nightingale by kristin hannah 

*a great and terrible beauty by libba bray

*rebel angels by libba bray 

the fountains of silence by ruta sepetys 

*the sweet far thing by libba bray 

the bluest eye by toni morrison 

the paper wasp by lauren acampora 

piecing me together by renee watson 

get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert

you’ll miss me when i’m gone by rachel lynn solomon 

the widow of pale harbor by hester fox

passing by nella larsen

my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell 

kindred by octavia butler 

beach read by emily henry 

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson 

the guest list by lucy foley 

the magic toyshop by angela carter 

the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires by grady hendrix 

catherine house by elisabeth thomas 

home before dark by riley sager 

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert 

what we lose by zinzi clemmons 

the burning girl by claire messud

godshot by chelsea bieker 

the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield

such a fun age by kiley reid

the party upstairs by lee conell 

my education by susan choi

the city we became by nk jemisin

the lightness by emily temple 

followers by megan angelo 

temporary by hilary leichter

the kingdom of back by marie lu 

the lady’s guide to celestial mechanics by olivia waite 

mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia 

the bloody chamber & other stories by angela carter 

burn our bodies down by rory power

dangerous alliance by jennieke cohen

i’m thinking of ending things by iain reid 

pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier

i’ll be gone in the dark by michelle mcnamara 

the ghost map by steven johnson

luster by raven leilani

blood water paint by joy mccullough 

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

cemetery boys by aiden thomas 

madame bovary by gustave flaubert 

exciting times by naoise dolan 

blood countess by lana popović

the hazel wood by melissa albert 

jane doe by victoria helen stone

problem child by victoria helen stone 

eight perfect murders by peter swanson

heart berries by terese marie mailhot 

the austen playbook by lucy parker 

take me apart by sara sligar 

salt slow by julia armfield

the vanishing half by brit bennett

the price of salt by patricia highsmith

the last by hanna jameson

the comeback by ella berman

horrid by katrina leno

the clique by lisi harrison 

another brooklyn by jacqueline woodson

the great believers by rebecca makkai

heartburn by nora ephron

spoiler alert by olivia dade 

memorial by bryan washington 

will my cat eat my eyeballs?: big questions from tiny mortals about death by caitlin doughty

the lying life of adults by elena ferrante 

plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

days of distraction by alexandra chang 

*bunheads by sophie flack

what we don’t talk about when we talk about fat by aubrey gordon 

pet by akwaeke emezi 

know my name by chanel miller 

the glass hotel by emily st. john mandel 

leave the world behind by rumaan alam 

a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers 

because internet by gretchen mcculloch 

writers & lovers by lily king 

averno by louise glück