#The New Ashton Chronicles

[frsoutherlandauthor]

The New Ashton Chronicles on Amazon

Meet the residents of New Ashton, Virginia—where the strange is everyday normal. Witches, demons, hunters, vampires, and all the Others join together for fight or play. In a town like theirs, where magic and mayhem run wild, just living their lives is easier said than done.

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[normallyxstranger]

Remember when I said new things were coming? Here we go! October 2, 2023! Stay tuned!

Roughly a decade before Andy Foster became the badass witch she is today, she was a mixed-up, magic-addicted sixteen-year-old. Newly returned from the clutches of the Hallowed Circle Coven, she struggles with her crushing guilt. Then she meets Neoma Myles, another troubled, mystically inclined teen with her own dark history. Drawn inexplicably to one another, the two form an incredible bond through recovery... but will it survive the truths of their pasts?

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[normallyxstranger]

TNAC book covers <3

[disabilityshowdown]

Disability Showdown Full Bracket

Alright! No more mystery, we've got our list for the tournament!

For people new to this tournament, how this works is this: We narrowed our character list down from about 600 to 131 (it was gonna be 128 but we had three ties, so those have been reworked into three-character polls). The top 64 have been seeded into the bracket by number of nominations. The bottom 67 however, all got roughly the same amount of nominations, so those have been assigned places via random number generator, to remove any bias that I the poll runner may have about which characters I want to succeed

(I am so sorry if your obscure blorbo ends up against a super popular kid in round one, that's unfortunately the luck of the draw here, but I am keeping a record of characters that lose but whose fans fight the hardest for them, and we may do something with those kids later, so it's still worth campaigning for your faves!)

I will make an image for the bracket once we get past the first round or two, but right now I have no idea how to make a visual bracket containing 131 characters, upload it to tumblr, and still have it be at all useful

So for the first round, I'll just give the matchups by name, in a list under the cut. We'll be working through this list 8 polls at a time (my pinned post will stay updated with the current 8 once the tournament starts), and good luck everyone!

Eda Clawthorne (Owl House) vs Cassandra Cain (DC)

Hiccup and Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) vs Peppermint (Hi-Fi Rush)

Barbara Gordon (DC) vs Demoman (Team Fortress 2)

Toph Beifong (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Finn Tidestrider (Just Roll With It)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Red (Pokemon)

Ashton Greymoore (Critical Role) vs Walter White Jr (Breaking Bad)

Finn Mertens (Adventure Time) vs Wade Wilson (Marvel)

Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Jean Havoc (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Matt Murdock (Marvel) vs Ellen (The Witch's House)

Clint Barton (Marvel) vs Maedhros (The Silmarillion)

Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society) vs Jancy True (Drawtectives)

Donatello (TMNT: Rise, IDW) vs Black Raisin Cookie (Cookie Run)

Octavio Silva (Apex Legends) vs Dr Carmilla (The Mechanisms)

Crutchie (Newsies) vs Nemo (Finding Nemo)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Renarin Kholin (Stormlight Archives)

Amaya (The Dragon Prince) vs Long John Silver (Treasure Planet)

Charles Xavier (Marvel) vs Dagen Underthorn (Critical Role)

Viktor (Arcane) vs Cecil Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)

Taimi (Guild Wars 2) vs Eli Vance (Half Life)

Johnny Joestar (JJBA) vs Floofty Fizzlebean (Bugsnax)

Vash the Stampede (Trigun Stampede) vs Sunny (OMORI)

Drey Ferin (Just Roll With It) vs Kizuna Chieda (AI: The Somnium Files)

Geordi LaForge (Star Trek) vs Phosphophyllite (Houseki No Kuni)

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs Zuko (Avatar: the Last Airbender)

Melanie King (The Magnus Archives) vs Eugenides (Queen's Thief)

Snake (Zero Escape) vs Malenia (Elden Ring)

Future Leo (ROTTMNT) vs Edgar Jomfru (Metalocalypse)

Janice Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Wylan Van Eck (Six of Crows) vs Linh Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)

Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Peter Sqloint (Just Roll With It)

Bucky Barnes (Marvel) vs All Might (Boku No Hero Academia)

Della Duck (Ducktales) vs Maya Lopez (Marvel)

Jayfeather (Warrior Cats) vs Isabella Paretti (ValorPUNK)

Shouko Nishimiya (A Silent Voice) vs Gary Goodspeed (Final Space)

Violet Evergarden (Violet Evergarden) vs Brightheart (Warrior Cats)

Briarlight (Warrior Cats) vs Jinx (Arcane)

Ticket Jerry (Dialtown) vs Darth Maul (Star Wars)

Yang Xiao Long (RWBY) vs Dulcinea Septimus (Locked Tomb)

Ricky Potts (Ride the Cyclone) vs Helena Adams (Identity V) vs Antonio (Identity V)

Jimmy Valmer (South Park) vs Vanellope (Wreck-It Ralph)

Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck) vs Sam Vimes (Discworld)

Bruno Madrigal (Encanto) vs Custas (Witch Hat Atelier)

Gregory House (House MD) vs Gunthrie Miggles-Rashbax (Dimension 20)

Moon Knight (Marvel) vs Splinter (TMNT)

Shanks (One Piece) vs Goro Majima (Yakuza)

Chai (Hi-Fi Rush) vs Maria Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear Solid) vs Sir Marc (Penumbra Podcast)

Izaya Orihara (Durarara) vs Hermann Gottlieb (Pacific Rim)

Finnegan Wake (Monster High) vs Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Frankie Stein (Monster High) vs Charlotte Webber (Marvel)

Sage Beldaruit (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Susie (Flight Rising)

Urakawa Mamoru (Mega Man) vs Undyne (Undertale)

Teo (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Gazelle (Kingsman)

Tavros Nitram (Homestuck) vs Dunban (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Hearthstone (Magnus Chase) vs Gabriella (Little Mermaid)

Tony Stark (Marvel) vs Mera Salamin (Epithet Erased)

Rani (Pixie Hollow) vs Haruka Sakurai (MILGRAM)

Wilt (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) vs Handy (Happy Tree Friends)

Izumi Curtis (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Nog (Star Trek: DS9) vs Spock (Star Trek: Discovery)

Juno Steel (Penumbra Podcast) vs Merle Highchurch (The Adventure Zone)

Furiosa (Mad Max) vs Massimo (Luca)

Bentley (Sly Cooper) vs Symmetra (Overwatch)

Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) vs Cyborg (Teen Titans)

Nagito Komaeda (Dangan Ronpa) vs Link (Legend of Zelda)

[hplovecraftmuseum]

For nearly the entire history of his writing life Lovecraft was refining and expanding the synthetic mythology of his tales. Though some of his critics have suggested that he had become dissatisfied with his fictional creations In his final years, Lovecraft continued to mention such themes to correspondents till the end. In the letters to Willis Conover particularly HPL continued to "improvise" upon his cosmic characters and seemed to take some pleasure in doing so. LOVECRAFT AT LAST chronicles the letters of Conover - at the time a teenager - and Lovecraft in the final 2 years of his life. Conover would go on to be an important promoter of Jazz. Below is a cover illustration of Conover's fanzine. The art was by Virgil Finlay. To the right is Conover himself as an adult. If one studies the comments made to friends like CAS and young Conover as well as statements made by Lovecraft in his origional and even ghost-written stories it is certainly evident that Lovecraft was redefining some of his more 'cosmic' entities as archetypes rather than mere tentacled and material monsters. Cthulhu, the Fungi From Yuggoth hordes, the star-headed 'Elder Things' of Antarctica, and the cone bodied "Great Race" of pre-human Australia, may be aliens from outer space and mostly material in essence, but Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth and his female counterpart Shub-Niggurath, and even Clark Ashton Smith's Tsathoggua, take on new and more ultra-material significance in his final conceptions and reevaluated proclamations. Examples of this trend will be listed here soon. (Exhibit 547)

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Future Competitions

In light of recent requests and submissions, once this competition is over, we'll be starting back up again with a whole new set of books! If you'd like to submit a title, check my pinned post and the list below to make sure your submission is eligible. I can no longer add to this list. Any further titles are being kept privately by me, but there are there, I promise! I am now tagging asks with the titles submitted.

A to Z Mysteries

Abhorsen

A Dog's Life

Adventure (Blyton)

Adventures of the Bailey School Kids

Adventurers Wanted

Alcatraz VS the Evil Librarians

Alex Rider

All-of-a-Kind Family

The American Girl Books

Amulet

Anne of Green Gables

Animal Ark

Animorphs

Applewhites

The Babysitter's Club

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

Beacon Street Girls

Beatrice Bailey

The Belgariad

Bella Sara

Betsy-Tacy

Black Beauty

The Black Stallion

The Blackwell Pages

Books of Bayern

The Borrowers

Bridge to Terabithia

The Boxcar Children

Captain Underpants

Casson Family

The Cat Club

Catwings

Charlotte's Web

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

The Chronicles of Dragon

The Chronicles of Prydain

The Circle of Magic

Clementine

The Clique

The Cloak Society

Cobble Street Cousins

The Cooper Kids Adventures

Coraline

Damar (McKinley)

The Dark Hills Divide

The Dark Is Rising

Dear America

Dear Canada

Deltora Quest

The Divide (Kay)

Dork Diaries

Dragonbreath

The Dragonfly Pool

Dragonhaven

Dragon Rider

Dragon Slayer's Academy

Earthsea Cycle

East (Pattou)

Echo (Ryan)

Edgar & Ellen

Emily (Montgomery)

Emily Windsnap

The Enchanted Castle

Encyclopedia Brown

Esperanza Rising

The Ever Afters

The Faerie Realm

Fablehaven

Fairyland (Valente)

The Faraway Tree

Ferngully

First Light (Stead)

Five Children and It

Flat Stanley

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Gallagher Girls

Geronimo Stilton

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

The Giver

Goddess Girls

Goosebumps

Graceling

The Great Brain

The Greenglass House

Gunnerkrigg Court

Half Upon a Time

The Hardy Boys

Hatchet

Heist Society

Help, I'm Trapped...

His Dark Materials

Holes

How to Train Your Dragon

The Hunger Games

Igraine the Brave

The Immortals Quartet

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place

Ingo (Dunmore)

The Inheritance Cycle

Inkheart

Iron Hearted Violet

Island of the Aunts

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Ivy & Bean

Journey to the River Sea

Julie of the Wolves

Junie B. Jones

The Kane Chronicles

The Kid Who Ran for President

Kiki Strike

Killer Unicorns

Kingdom Keepers

The Last Apprentice

The Letter for the King

La Qu��te d’Ewilan (in French)

Legend (Lu)

Les Chevaliers d’Émeraude (in French)

Leven Thumps

Liesl & Po

Little House on the Prairie

A Little Princess

Little Women

Lockwood & Co.

The Lost Conspiracy

Macdonald Hall

The Magic Thief

Magic Treehouse

The Magisterium

Magnus Chase

Malory Towers

Matt Cruse

Maximum Ride

Melissa (Gino)

Merlin (Barron)

Michael Vey

Miri and Molly

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Missing (Haddix)

Mister Max

The Mistmantle Chronicles

Misty (Henry)

Molly Moon

The Moorchild

Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

The Music of Dolphins

My Secret Unicorn

My Side of the Mountain

My Teacher Is an Alien

Nancy Drew

Nevermoor

The Neverending Story

Nimona

The Ogre Downstairs

Out of My Mind

The Penderwicks

Pendragon

Peter and the Starcatchers

The Phantom Stallion

The Phantom Tollbooth

Pillage (Skye)

Pippi Longstocking

Pixie Tricks

Poison (Zinn)

Pony Pals

Princess Academy

Protector of the Small

Rainbow Magic

Rain Reign

Ramona

Regarding the...

The Roman Mysteries

Rose (Webb)

Rowan of Rin

The Royal Diaries

Running Out of Time

Sammy Keyes

Savvy

School of Fear

The Search for Wondla

The Secret Garden

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Secret Series

Septimus Heap

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Seventh Tower

Shadow Children (Haddix)

Silver Brumby

Silverwing

Skullduggery Pleasant

Song of the Lioness

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Stardust

Stargirl

The Strictest School in the World

Swallows and Amazons

Sweet Valley High

The Swiss Family Robinson

A Tale Dark & Grimm

The Tale of Despereaux

Tales of Alderley

Tales of Magic

Ten Kids, No Pets

The Thief Lord

Tiffany Aching

Tillerman Cycle

Time Hunters

The Trumpet of the Swan

Tuck Everlasting

Tuesday McGillycuddy

The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Uglies

Un Lun Dun

Undertow

Unicorn Chronicles

Upon a Marigold

Upside-Down Magic

The Vengekeep Prophecies

The View from Saturday

The War That Saved My Life

Wayside School

The Westing Game

When You Reach Me

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wildwood Chronicles

Windsingers

Wings & Co.

Winnie the Pooh

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Worst Witch

You Be the Jury

[kalitera-stin-erimia]

Short reviews of Lovecraft RPF

One of the subsets of my Lovecraft obsession is finding and exploring fiction about Lovecraft, and I finally wrote up my short impressions of most fiction works about Lovecraft that I read/watched. Some of these definitely need larger reviews, and maybe will get them in the future, but one has to start from somewhere and these writings can at least make a foundation for them.

So, let's start. Some mild spoilers may appear.

Shadows Bend by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh: Lovecraft and Robert Howard travel the West of the USA during the Dust Bowl, persued by monsters. I'm surprised that these two meet so rarely in fiction - I mean, they never did in real life, but it still sounds like an obvious idea. Clark Ashton Smith also makes an appearence. I enjoyed the "road movie" feel of the book, and it seemed like the author tried to weave in some lore from the Bishop collaborations, which is the thing I'd love to see more often; however, the book was too plotless and the characterizations too exaggerated, too reliant on the out of date scholarship.

Gilgamesh at the Outback by Robert Silverberg: Another one about HPL and REH meeting, this time in hell. I skimmed this one, reading only the parts about them. Lovecraft is rather bland here, while REH is just bizarre. He has an over-the-top crush on Gilgamesh. WTF was going on in the Robert Howard scholarship in the eighties???

The Planet of Tastless Pleasure by Harry Harrison: One scene parodies Gilgamesh at the Outback. I enjoyed this one more than the Silverberg's book. I like Harrison's humor, what else to say?

Marblehead by Richard Lupoff: I already wrote a large review of this one. Well-researched and I guess well-characterized, but so dry that I'm afraid it doesn't live to the fullest potential. Everything just ends up feeling strangely muted, which is especially jarring in combination with the sensationalist plot and very pulp culmination.

Pages Torn from a Travel Journal by Edward Lee: Ooooof. Lee is not a bad writer, and unlike many others writing about Lovecraft, he clearly knows a lot about him and likes him very much. The other things he likes are (1) rednecks, (2) gore, (3) rape porn. The book is full of all these things and you can make a guess about how well they mix with Lovecraft. In spite of how gleefully campy the book is, the treatment of redneck characters is more sympathetic than I usually see in redneck horror, which is a plus, I guess? On the other hand, Lovecraft getting into an adventure during one of his bus travels seems such an obvious idea for a story, I'm surprised it doesn't get used often.

Trolley 1852 by Edward Lee: I liked this one less than the previous one. It's more creative though, and closer to Lovecraft's kind of horror - which is not surprising, considering that the major part of the book is supposed to be "written" by him as a book within a book (while Pages was rather, ehhh, "historical fiction".)

Pulptime by Peter Cannon: New York period Lovecraft meets aged Sharlock Holmes. Hijinks predictably ensue. A cute calm story which is probably good for removing unpleasant aftertaste of Lee's books (that's how it worked for me, anyway.) What bugged me was that the plot felt too thin for a mystery, and the author seemingly treated the anti-immigrant sentiment of The Horror at Red Hook too uncritically. Lovecraft's characterization was okay, Cannon is better at it than most, but in this book it relied on quoting too much.

The Lovecraft Chronicles by Peter Cannon: Definitely a better book than Pulptime, and the best exploration of the question "What if Lovecraft lived longer?" so far. May get too farcical at places, but I think Cannon finds a good balance between crackfic and seriousness.

The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge: A Very Intellectual postmodernist book which is also a kinda shitposty Lovecraft/Barlow slashfic. Absolutely not worth the hype it had been met with in some mainstream big journals. As far as Lovecraft's characterization goes, I'd say the author tried, however, it's still weirdly superficial and subtly mean-spirited. The treatment of Barlow is even more dissappointing - he was meant to be the center of the book, but the author seems strangely dismissive of his literary and scholarly work and desinterested in his personality. Besides, the majority of the book is not even about them, but about the dull original characters and endless cameos of other historical characters.

Night Gaunts by Brett Rutherford: The play is written by a fan from the zine fandom, and it shows: both in solid characterizations and in bad poetry. I liked this one.

The Lamp of Alhazred by August Derleth: A sentimental story about Lovecraft's legacy. One of the better Lovecraftian works by Derleth, and certainly the one with most feeling.

Balsamo's Mirror by L. Sprague de Camp: Good old "but you probably wouldn't be priviledged in your favorite historical period, gotcha". I've seen better works that poked fun at Lovecraft.

When Death Wakes Me Up to Myself by John Shirley: I was so impressed with this one that I've already reviewed it. What I like the most about it is that it's catches the cosmic wonder aspect of Lovecraft's personality, which was just as important for his life and work as cosmic horror, yet gets written about so less often.

HPL by Gahan Wilson: A story by Gahan Wilson about Lovecraft being a brain in a jar could have been more entertaining.

The Lurker in the Shadows by Nathan Carson: It starts as a very indulgent story about correspondence between the elderly Lovecraft and Stephen King in the 1970s, and then takes an unexpected turn into dark comedy about body switching. Simultaneously one of the least racist portrayals of Lovecraft and one of the most villainous ones, though I'm afraid the author didn't think it through. On the other hand, it's not often that you read about Lovecraft marrying Beyonce.

Lovecraft in Heaven by Grant Morrison: Bad trip.

Night-Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates: An examination of Lovecraft's life, or, rather, an alternative Lovecraft. Unfortunately, it's one of these tiring takes that talk about how Unhappy, Troubled and Neurotic Lovecraft was, and how Gothic and Gloomy his life was. As far as Oates stories go, this one is far from her best, very slow-going and hard to follow at times. More could have been done with the possibility of Lovecraft's father living longer than he did, though I agree he would probably leave less favorable impression on Lovecraft in such case.

The Premature Death of H.P. Lovecraft, Oldest Man in New England by Thomas Ligotti: Seems to be an another take on body hopping, but subtly so? Very short. Well-written, but I'd expect more from a Ligotti story about Lovecraft.

The Exiles by Ray Bradbury: Lovecraft appears in one version of the story, sitting near the fireplace and eating ice cream. Everyone in this story is benevolently caricatured, so I'm fine with it.

Letters from an Old Gent by W.H. Pugmire: The style reads nothing like Lovecraft (but I think it wasn't really the intention, anyway) yet it still works, somehow. Pugmire's case is similar to Lee's, that is, their fondness for Lovecraft is such that it actually improves the quality of their writing. His emotional intellect also appears to be more developed than in most other Lovecraftian writers.

Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff and Enrique Breccia: A mix of Lovecraft's biography (in the out of date interpretation) and the usual "but what if what he wrote was real???" I heard there were plans to make a Hollywood adaptation of it, and it certainly felt like one at times. The art was great, but the story was way too visceral and hysterical for either Lovecraft's biography or Lovecraftian horror.

Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows: Well-researched and well-thought out. Moore definitely cleaned out his Lovecraft game after the dissappointing Neonomicon. The comic is more about Lovecraft's characters, Lovecraft himself appears only in one issue, but plays an important role in the entire story (well, duh). His characterization is satisfying both as realism and as metafiction, though the usual Moore bullshit is still present in small amounts. Not a huge fan of art, and Lovecraft gets black hair yet another time (and looks like in his forties at 1919).

The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft by Mac Carter: I don't remember this one well, but I remember that Lovecraft here doesn't have much in common with the real one neither in personality, nor in biography, nor in looks. Some things are done with the "underappreciated artist" part of his life, but without the context of his life, they don't amount to much.

H.P. Lovecraft: He who Wrote in the Darkness by Alex Nikolavitch and Gervasio-Aon-Lee: Well, this one is a straightforward biography of Lovecraft, or, rather, his life from 1925 on. As such, it was alright. I liked the way the artist used colors, and that some people from Lovecraft's life like Loveman got more attention than they usually do.

One Night with Lovecraft (Une nuit avec Lovecraft) by Philippe Marcele and Rodolphe: A fan from the future gets a chance to hang out with Lovecraft in the 1930s. Not bad, but had too much padding at times - do we really need shortened adaptations of some Lovecraft's (and one Poe's!) stories within such kind of comic? The artist was great at drawing urban landscapes, but much worse at drawing people.

R.H.B. by Andreas and Riviere: An old French comic about Barlow, his time with Lovecraft and later life. This one would have been better if the artist knew what Barlow looked like. His real appearence would go well with the artist's style.

Rough Riders: Ride or Die by Adam Glass: Lovecraft briefly joins the main team as someone who can see ghosts. I liked the main characters, who were also historical personalities, but Lovecraft himself was super bland. At least the art was decent (and he didn't look grotesque like he often does in the comics.)

Out of Mind: The Stories of HPL: This one is memorable, but mostly because of the actor's performance. The plot is a mess.

[aliteraryprincess]

December 2023 Wrap Up

Finally posting my December wrap up, featuring the one and only Butters!

Books Read: 13

Check me out! I mean, yes, two are short stories and seven are children's books, but it's still impressive! The Doctor's Family is my new favorite of the month, and it was an absolute joy to reread The Chronicles of Narnia (even if there are some...questionable aspects). There is no least favorite because everything was lovely! Books marked with a star are audiobooks and books marked with ® are rereads.

"The Executor" by Margaret Oliphant - 3.5 stars

"The Rector" by Margaret Oliphant - 4 stars

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey - 4 stars *

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis - 5 stars ®

Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis - 4.5 stars ®

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis - 4.5 stars ®

Assembly by Natasha Brown - 4 stars

The Doctor's Family by Margaret Oliphant - 5 stars

The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis - 4.5 stars ®

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis - 4 stars ®

The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis - 4 stars ®

The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis - 4 stars ®

George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton - 4 stars

On Tumblr:

Again, check me out! We've got tons here. Quotes, lists, even a tag. And, of course, some cat photography because everyone should admire the beauties that are my boys.

November Wrap Up

Book Quotes: Assembly by Natasha Brown

Book Quotes: The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

Book Quotes: The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis

Book Quotes: The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis

Cat Photography: Butters and Pippin say hi!

Cat Photography: Basket Boys ❤️❤️❤️

Tagged: Favorite Bookish Photos From 2023

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Fairy Tales and Their Retellings Aliteraryprincess Has Read (2023)

aliteraryprincess' Books Acquired in 2023

aliteraryprincess' 50 Books to Read in 2024

aliteraryprincess' Books Read in 2023

On YouTube:

There's not quite as much here as I'd like, but I really enjoyed filming all of these, especially the two 50 books lists.

December TBR | Remember December Rereadathon & more!

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Do I Read the Books I Haul? | plus a mini book haul!

Currently Reading 12/17/23

Did I Read My 50 Books to Read in 2023?

Christmas Book Haul! 🎄🎁

2024 Reading Goals and Plans | 50 Books to Read in 2024

[abcnewspr]

HIGHLIGHTS FOR ABC NEWS’ ‘GMA3: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW,’ SEPT. 4-8

The following report highlights the programming of ABC’s “GMA3: What You Need to Know” during the week of Sept. 4-8. “GMA3: What You Need to Know” is a one-hour program co-anchored by Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan, with Dr. Jennifer Ashton as chief health and medical correspondent. The news program airs weekdays at 1:00 p.m. EDT | 12:00 p.m. CDT on ABC, and 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. EDT on ABC News Live.

Highlights of the week include the following:

Monday, Sept. 4 —(pre-taped on Aug. 17) Deals and Steals power hour with ABC e-commerce editor Tory Johnson

Tuesday, Sept. 5 — Triathlete living with ALS and author Andrea Lytle Peet (“Hope Fights Back”); Three 6 Mafia founder, rapper and author Juicy J (“Chronicles of the Juice Man”); registered dietician and nutritionist Maya Feller; comedian, radio host and social justice advocate Amanda Seales (“In Amanda We Trust”)

Wednesday, Sept. 6 — Author Mitchell S. Jackson ("FLY"); Deals and Steals with ABC e-commerce editor Tory Johnson

Thursday, Sept. 7 — ABC News correspondent LZ Granderson interviews professional tennis player Frances Tiafoe; registered dietitian and nutritionist Dawn Jackson Blatner

Friday, Sept. 8 — Faith Friday with author Lisa Whittle (“God Knows”); celebrity chef and cookbook author Alex Guarnaschelli (“Cook It Up”)

ABC Media Relations Brooks Lancaster Brooks.Lancaster@abc.com

Daniela Urso Daniela.Urso.-nd@abc.com

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Citrus Sertoma Announces Golf 4 Kids 2022 Winners

Citrus Sertoma Golf Tournament “Golf 4 Kids” held at Citrus Hills Golf and Country Club, the OaksCourse on Sunday, November 20, 2022, was a day of golf and giving back to the community. Citrus Sertoma Announces Golf 4 Kids 2022 Winners - Taking first-place was the team of: Eric Avery, Brandon Avery, Arthur Avery and not shown Bob Postelli - Second-place team of: Ashton Newhart, William Newhart, Don Boylanm, and Michael Whitaker - Third-place team of: Dennis Pfeiffer, Richard Marson, Tom Ryan, and not shown Jose Fuxa. Thanks to all the golfers and volunteers who came out today along with our many amazing localbusiness sponsors, in-kind donors, our hole-in-one sponsors: Love Honda and Como RV, lunch sponsor:Crystal River Subway, media sponsor: Citrus County Chronicle; Dixon Golf, and Citrus Hills Golf andCountry Club for an amazing day on the course Golfing 4 Kids! The Citrus Sertoma Club works hard throughout the year to give monetarily and with their time to CampEndeavor, a 501c3 summer camp for deaf and hard of hearing children; Kids Deaf Baseball Camp at theVillages; Sertoma Youth Ranch which provides youth groups from all over Florida the opportunity toenjoy the outdoors at no charge, including physically and mentally challenged children, and the SertomaFoundation mobile audiology van out of New Port Richey which provides pediatric hearing screeningsand evaluations along with fitting and dispensing hearing aids. The foundation’s focus is rural and under-served communities. The Foundation has screened over 27,000 children and 300 plus adults in the greater Tampa region, which includes Citrus County. And of course, the Club will continue to give back right here in Citrus County in many ways includingdonations to the Boy Scouts and our Citrus County School District by adopting classrooms each year andproviding funding for the Family Resource Center, C.H.I.P.S., and F.F.R.A. The public is always welcome at Citrus Sertoma meetings which are the 1 st and 3 rd Wednesday of eachmonth at 6:30pm at the Moose Lodge, 221 S Haid Terrace (off Gulf to Lake Hwy), Lecanto 34461. Formore information about Citrus Sertoma please visit our Facebook Page, @citrussertoma2.0. For more information visit: https://sertoma.org/ SERvice TO Mankind, SERTOMA. It’s more than just how we got our name, it’s been our foundation forover 100 years. Sertomans across the country are unified with a single purpose: serve our communitiesand improve the lives of those who need help. Read the full article

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The latest Broadway revival of Pinter’s Betrayal, is star studded and well acted by Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox and the remarkable Tom Hiddleston.

The play has an asture, utilitarian set by Soutra Gilmour, with glaring lights by Jon Clark. Director Jamie Lloyd has striped this 1978 play to a couple a chairs and a folding table. There is no place to hide, as the actors crawl along the walls, like ghosts of the past and present, when not in scenes. Are they perhaps embarrassed at their behavior? At least Emma (Ms. Ashton) should, since she has cheated on her husband with his best friend for seven years. To make matters even more bizarre, her husband knew about it for two of those years. it took him two more years to finally leave this sham of a 14-year marriage. Emma and Jerry (Cox) have cared nothing about Robert’s (Hiddleston) feelings and yet when Robert tells Jerry he knew, it is Jerry who is hurt.

Ashton is flirtatious, manipulative and graceful, you understand why both men are drawn to her. Cox is charming, if not a bit daft and I have to admit I did not understand why Emma ever chose him over her husband, except he had a great pickup line. After all Jerry drunkenly declares his undying love to his best friend’s wife behind his best friend’s back? However it is Hiddleston’s performance, who is utterly devastated by both his wife and his friend that has our heart. His scene with Emma, when he learns the truth, has despair written all over his face, his eyes almost brimming over. Then when he sees Jerry, he is like a tiger wanting to claw, or maul him with the scars that have obviously set in, yet not wanting to destroy his friendship, a sense of complacency sinks in. It is heartbreaking.

As the actors circle together and apart always orbiting in each others hemisphere, we see the biggest betrayal is that of oneself. Nothing really happens once we know the secret, which is how the play starts. We just go through the motion of figuring out how these incidents happen. Thank-God for good acting.

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