#anna x biography.

[enobariasdistrict2]

so i remembered the scene in book!thg where katniss observes cato's manic reaction to her blowing up the supplies and clove/marvel trying to point to the sky to suggest that the person that did it is most likely dead and try to calm him down... and now i'm just like thinking of a hilarious dynamic established between cato and clove where cato has his anger issues and clove has gotten to know him so thoroughly, having had to experience the arena with him as her ally/partner and being forced to spend several weeks together, that she becomes one of the few people that can use logic and rationality to appease him, and frequently uses these strategies. and he in turn encourages her sadistic side and allows her to give in to her own rage. they would have such a good push and pull dynamic, riling one another up but also bringing each other back down to earth.

[howifeltabouthim]

It may be, if the time comes, that all this will be gone: house, child, husband, church. Or will I fall asleep in this grave?

Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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Laurens's papers

Recently @46ten's posts got me hooked on the question surrounding what happened to Laurens's papers after his death, and who took hold of them. And you should check them out because they mention things I won't here, I've reblogged a few before posting this for reference. Anna (@my-deer-history) also made a valid point here, if you're interested. But here I will be diving into different subjects;

Additionally, JCH mentions that the Oct 1780 letter and the Apr 1779 letter are “the only one which has met our inquiries.” [x] Then are there are mentions of Elizabeth handing out the copies of the Oct 1780 to her biographers that she hired;

I see a common false assumption that Hamilton's family had them, but there only seems to have been two in their hold (Or at least that they published and didn't destroy). We know John C. “partly” published the April 1779 letter in Volume 1 of Life of Alexander Hamilton—I say partly because he cut out a large amount of paragraphs, he included everything from “Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships...” to “There is a total stagnation of news here...” but swiftly cuts out all the other paragraphs until “Fleury shall be taken care of. All the family send their love.”, but published the postscript. And does the same in The Works of Alexander Hamilton. He also had the physical original letter since there is a note and some censors on the letter presumably in one of the Hamilton boys handwriting.

But other than that, the only other Hamilton+Laurens letter that appears in John's work is the 11 October 1780 letter about Arnold and Andre. And many copies of the letter were made; “This letter was sent as an enclosure by H to Elizabeth Schuyler on October 11, 1780. The original letter sent to Laurens was probably intercepted, for there is a copy with three minor notations by Sir Henry Clinton in the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan. This letter, with relatively unimportant deletions, was printed in the New York Evening Post, July 23, 1802.” [x]

But [Elizabeth Hamilton] determined not to be outdone in this respect, and has submitted to me various manuscripts in the handwriting of her husband. The first is a letter addressed by him to Col. Laurens, then in France, giving a very particular account of the treason of Arnold, the capture, trial and execution of André, and of various personal interviews with him prior to his execution.

Source — Letters of George W. Strong, by George Washington Strong · 1922

With a little bit of digging, I found an interesting story about William Gilmore Simms. He was an American writer and politician from the South who was a “staunch defender” of slavery (Ironic considering who he wrote about). And also a poet, novelist, and historian. He also wrote The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens. As ardent a southerner as he was, Simms's engagement with history was never cynical or narrowly utilitarian. He thought of his historical scholarship as a genuine effort to understand the past and to propagate that understanding to others. His passion for history was obviously linked to his identity as a South Carolinian. He certainly believed that to be of value, history should be written to inform and instruct the present, but all who seriously study the past believe so.

Apparently it is unknown just when and how Simms acquired the Laurens papers, but on the 11th February, 1845, Simms expressed an interest in producing; “a series of papers made up of brief biographies of distinguished men of the Revolution in the South, interspersed with their original Letters” [x] Simms planned to write about both Henry Laurens and John Laurens, but also other influential figures like, John Rutledge, Horatio Gates, William Heath, Arthur Lee, and Patrick Henry. To which he then proposed a series.

Moving on, Simms began his research for a volume on John Laurens soon after the exchange of these letters, and that research continued into 1846. On the 21st of December, he wrote to editor and critic, Rufus W. Griswold, asking about an article touching upon John Laurens which had appeared in the 2nd of December, 1784, issue of the Independent Chronicle of Boston. But after this, there was no more mentions of the papers or series, and it appears Simms began to work on other projects. Nonetheless, Simms never abandoned the idea of writing about Laurens or the other figures with his manuscript collection.

Which actually leads to an interesting story of where Laurens's papers could have been completely lost to history due to a fire;

The Civil War and its aftermath would do much to determine the fate of Simms's collection of John Laurens papers. In his 31 May 1862 letter to William J. Rivers, Simms expressed his anxiety that the war would threaten his plantation with its large library and manuscript collection. “I wish to save my library,” he told Rivers, “but my first regard is for these valuable old documents,” a collection of “very rich” material. Simms had good reason to be anxious. In October of the previous year Union forces began their conquest of the South Carolina coast, and Simms feared that if Charleston should fall, his property, a mere 70 miles inland, would soon afterward be exposed. He therefore implored Rivers, a professor of Greek literature at South Carolina College in Columbia, to receive his Revolutionary War manuscripts and be “the custodian of these treasures.” Simms told Rivers that, “I had proposed Lives of Henry and John Laurens,” with “selections from their correspondence & a running commentary.” Noting further that he had “made notes of them, & examined them carefully” but had nonetheless, “made few draughts upon their contents,” Simms suggested Rivers could assist him in preparing them for publication.

Source — Reading William Gilmore Simms; Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon, 2017

Simms had reason to be nervous about losing his library and manuscripts at this time because on the 29th of March, 1862, only two months before writing to Rivers, his house had caught fire. Although fortunately, it was put out successfully and there weren't endangering damages. Simms had only recently added a separate wing to the house to serve as his library. Probably completed no more than a month before the fire, which may have very well saved the manuscripts found in The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens from destruction. Simms did confirm when writing to close friend William P. Miles afterwards that; “I have saved all my MS.S and nearly all my library. The wing was saved.” [x]

Later in 1864, at Woodlands, Simms was preparing to evacuate, packing up his manuscript collection and other selected items for shipment to Columbia, as threats of the Union Army coming had reached. While he had hoped to save his entire library, the manuscripts were his highest priority. Because the Union army appeared in Barnwell District, Simms was unable to return to Woodlands. In Columbia, he and his family were not present at Woodlands when it was burned down from Sherman's army. The library was entirely destroyed but at least the manuscripts had been saved.

After the war, Simms resumed his efforts to publish the Laurens papers. He spent the summer of 1866 in New York City trying to establish new and reestablish old connections with publishers and friends, disrupted as they had been by the Civil War. This included seeking a publisher for the Laurens papers as well as other pieces he had written or planned to write. With the help of Duyckinck, an agreement was reached with The Bradford Club (Founded in 1859 by John B. Moreau in New York City, The Bradford Club, named after William Bradford the first printer in the colony of New York, met periodically and published volumes on topics related to American history) to publish a portion of Laurens's papers.

These volumes were printed in a limited quantity and distributed to the club's members and subscribers. It published seven volumes from 1859-1867, before the club dissolved. Although there was a non-numbered volume by Duyckinck titled Memorial for John Allen and was published by the club in 1864. It was probably his previous connection that accounts for Duyckinck's apparent ease in arranging for The Bradford Club to publish Simms's The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens which was the seventh and last volume published. Furthermore it was, in Simms's words, a “plan proposed by” Duyckinck which determined the form the volume would take.

In New York with the Laurens papers at hand, Simms began work immediately after the agreement had been reached. He asked Duyckinck for materials which would assist him in preparing a memoir of Laurens, that he planned to publish before the selection of letters to were included in the volume. Specifically, he requested a copy of the volume of D. Appleton and Company's The New American Cyclopedia, which Duyckinck had co-edited and also contained biographical sketches of Henry and John Laurens, both authored previously by Simms. Other references to other sources can be found in the “Memoir” included in The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens.

On 28 September 1866 Simms wrote to Duyckinck; “I have prepared in a rough penciled draft, the memoir of Laurens,” and would begin revising and copying the next day. [x]

The contents he outlined in this letter would be the final contents of the volume. In addition to the Memoir is an 1824 letter from John Church Hamilton, an historian and the fourth son of Alexander Hamilton, which described Laurens's military and diplomatic career. Simms then also placed a poem, Lines on the Death of Colonel Laurens by Philip Freneau, whom Simms described as; “the poet par excellence of the American Revolution.”

Although the Memoir does not offer the same as a comprehensive biography of Laurens would, it does provide sufficient context for the letters which follow it. Those letters, what Simms called “Laurens' camp letters,” span the period from 13 August 1777 to 18 October 1778, and are all addressed to his father. While Simms did possess other of Laurens's letters - some of which he does quote in the Memoir - he never directly addressed his decision to set these particular letters apart in the finished volume. It is speculated that perhaps he thought that because these letters were addressed to Laurens's father during the period he served as president of the Continental Congress, and they were written by the son from roughly the time he began his service with Washington to before he transferred to South Carolina; Simms believed they comprised a set with a loose but coherent narrative. This was, after all, the period during which Laurens first experienced the war and began to demonstrate those qualities which would merit his posthumous fame.

Following the Civil War, Simms had realized that his personal finances were in a dire condition—With a house to rebuild, and a family to care for he was eager to establish sources of income wherever they could be found. While still in New York during the summer of 1866, Simms sold some of his Washington papers for $250 to an unknown buyer. Then in May of 1867 - after having finished editing The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens, but not yet seeing the printed volume - he became desperate, and was beginning to consider selling the Laurens papers. With assistance coming again from Duyckinck, as well as John Jacob Bockee, the papers were sold - probably sometime before July of 1867 - for $1,500 to the Long Island Historical Society. Which in 1985, changed its name to the Brooklyn Historical Society. Those papers were transcribed and microfilmed and sold some time in the 1960s, and today Simms's collection of Laurens papers is located at The South Caroliniana Library of the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Something I came across when digging through the manuscripts of Hamilton's and Laurens's letters was that on the back of Hamilton's letter to Laurens, 30 June 1780, there is a note on the back that reads; "Letters from diverse persons to J.L. antecedent & subsequent to his appointment as Special Minister, &c."

Source Library of Congress, Digital Collections. Image 35 of Alexander Hamilton Papers: General Correspondence, 1734-1804; 1780

Meaning someone was filtering through Laurens's letters, but I'm not sure who. As all previously presented, Laurens's papers were placed in many hands. It looks nothing like Simms's, as seen below with the first inage—nor, Evert A. Duyckinck's the second image.

But George L. Duyckinck's is seemingly of closer resemblance;

I also don't think Simms had any of the Hamilton+Laurens letters, as the Memoir only really contains letters from Laurens to his father. But that's not to say Simms never had these letters, rather he just focused on them. It could have been part of his collection but he didn't publish them, although I'm more inclined to believe these were part of the Coffin's sale. Moving on, according to Founders and other websites, Laurens's papers are scattered between several societies and libraries throughout the country, most in South Carolina, some in Massachusetts, etc.

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[richmond-rex]

Hi there!

I was wondering if you have any book recommendations about Elizabeth of York? You always cite a lot of different authors/books/articles in your posts, and I was wondering which ones you would recommend, or consider the best.

Hi! I've mentioned a few recs for Elizabeth of York before here and elsewhere but I will put them all together in this ask since there aren't so many of them after all and I will mention a few articles or chapters that are useful too. Obligatory disclaimer that I don't agree 100% with everything that is said in those books/articles/chapters etc but they're all useful sources of information that allow you to draw your own conclusions.

Mandatory biography: Elizabeth of York by Arlene Okerlund (alternatively, Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence)

Elizabeth of York and her six-daughters-in-law by Retha Warnicke

The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 by Joanna L. Laynesmith

 In Bed With the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I by Amy Licence

From Birth till Death: Royal Ceremony in the Life of Elizabeth of York, Queen of England (article) by Anna Duch

Margaret Tudor, Countess of Richmond, and Elizabeth of York: Dynastic Competitors or Allies? (chapter) by Retha Warnicke

The Queen’s Grace: English Queenship 1464-1503 (MA thesis) by Derek Neal

Elizabeth of York (chapter) in Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain by Michelle Beer

All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display by Nicola Tallis

Happy reading 🤍x

[britneyshakespearess]

2023 Recap

Goal: 35 books

Books read: 50 11 nonfiction 39 fiction

Pages read: 15,896

My 5 star reads (in order by which I read them):

The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden

The Catcher in the Rye (reread) J.D. Salinger

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer

Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier

White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor)

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover

Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy

Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong

Best book I read this year:

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Worst book I read this year:

In the Woods Tana French

The books I thought I was going to love but didn't:

The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls

Idlewild James Frankie Thomas

Biography of X Catherine Lacey

How Music Works David Byrne

Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller

The book I didn't expect to love but did:

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

The books I haven't stopped thinking about:

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich Lament for Julia Susan Taubes

The complete list and my ratings (in order by which I read them):

Ninth House Leigh Bardugo (reread) 4/5 Hell Bent Leigh Bardugo 3.5/5 The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden 5/5 What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller 4/5 Spells for Forgetting Adrienne Young 3/5 Elektra Jennifer Saint 3/5 How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm 4.5/5 Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson 4.5/5 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger (reread) 5/5 Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine 4.5/5 The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World Malcom Gaskill 4/5 Milk Fed Melissa Broder 4.5/5 Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh 3.5/5 Bunny Mona Awad 3.5/5 Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer 5/5 A Crack-Up at the Race Riots Harmony Korine 4/5 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros 5/5 Delta of Venus Anais Nin 4.5/5 The Only One Left Riley Sager 4/5 Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Rachel Aviv 4/5 The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier 5/5 A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas 4/5 At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich 4.5/5 How Music Works David Byrne 3.5/5 Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises Rebecca Solnit 3/5 Boy Parts Eliza Clark 4/5 White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods 5/5 Lament for Julia Susan Taubes 4.5/5 In the Woods Tana French 2/5 Biography of X Catherine Lacey 4/5 The Near Witch Victoria Schwab 4/5 Divine Rivals Rebecca Ross 4.5/5 We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) 5/5 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 5/5 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 3/5 Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino 4.5/5 Jawbone Monica Ojeda 5/5 Small Favors Erin A. Craig. 3/5 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 4/5 Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller 3.5/5 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros 4.5/5 Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan 5/5 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 5/5 Educated Tara Westover 5/5 The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls 3.5/5 Idlewild James Frankie Thomas 4/5 The Guest List Lucy Foley 4/5 Ruthless Vows Rebecca Ross 4/5 Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy 5/5 Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong 5/5

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Books I Read in 2023

Wilde Child By Eloisa James (Romance)

Looking for Me…in this Great Big Family By Betsy R. Rosenthal (Middle Grade Verse)

My Last Duchess By Eloisa James (Romance)

Wilde in Love By Eloisa James (Romance)

Our Souls at Night By Kent Haruf (Fiction)

Too Wilde Too Wed By Eloisa James (Romance)

Nick and Charlie By Alice Oseman (YA Novella)

Born to Be Wilde By Eloisa James (Romance)

The Woman in the Purple Skirt By Nasuko Imamura (Fiction)

Say No to the Duke By Eloisa James (Romance)

Crumbs By Dance Stirling (Graphic Novel)

The Reluctant Countess By Eloisa James (Romance)

Demon in the Wood By Leigh Bardugo & Dani Pendergast (Graphic Novel)

Write for Your Life By Anna Quindlen (Non-Fiction)

Let There By Laughter By Michael Krasny (Humor)

Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein By Lita Judge (Biography in Verse and Pictures)

Soft Thorns By Bridgett Devoue (Poetry)

Wolfed: Cursed By Love: Book One By Leia Stone (Urban Fantasy Romance)

Constantine: Distorted Illusions By Kami Garcia & Isaac Goodhart (Graphic Novel)

A Life Force By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

Dropsie Avenue By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

Love & Other Words By Christina Lauren (Romance)

The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On By Franny Choi (Poetry)

The Valentine’s Hate By Sidney Halston (Romance)

Fagin the Jew By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

Autoboyography By Christina Lauren (YA)

You Are Here By Dawn Lanuza (Poetry)

Wolfed: Book Two: Promised to Him By Leia Stone (Urban Fantasy Romance)

New York: The Big City By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

To the Heart of the Storm By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton (Classic YA) [Re-read]

True Beauty By Yaongyi (Graphic Novel)

The 13 Clocks By James Thurber (Verse and Pictures)

Chasing Cassandra By Lisa Kleypas (Romance)

Banned Book Club By Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada (Graphic Novel)

Coven By Jennifer Dugan (Graphic Novel)

Exes & O’s By Amy Lea (Romance)

2 Am Thoughts By Mackenzie Campbell (Poetry)

My Greenhouse By Bella Mayo (Poetry)

Unterhaken By Leela Corman (Graphic Novel)

Morning Haikus By Carin Weisman Crook (Poetry)

HER: Volume 3 By Pierre Alex Jeanty (Poetry)

These Are My Big Girl Pants By Amber Vittoria (Poetry)

When in Rome By Sarah Adams (Romance)

Mr. Wrong Number By Lynn Painter (Romance)

Hollow By Brandon Boyer-White & Shannon Waters (Graphic Novel)

Set on You By Amy Lea (Romance)

The Sun & the Star By Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro (Middle Grade)

Practice Makes Perfect By Sarah Adams (Romance)

Haikus for Jews By David M. Bader (Poetry) [Re-read]

LVOE By Atticus (Poetry)

Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen: The Story By Bill Brownstein (Non-Fiction)

Spy X Family Vol. 1 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

My Hero Academia Vol. 1 By Kohei Horikoshi (Manga)

Imogen, Obviously By Becky Albertalli (YA)

Spy X Family Vol. 2 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Spy X Family Vol. 3 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

True Love Experiment By Christina Lauren (Romance)

A beautiful composition of broken By r.h. Sin (poetry)

Spy X Family Vol. 4 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Spy X Family Vol. 5 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business By Mel Brooks (Memoir)

Whiskey words & a shovel By r.h. Sin (Poetry)

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself By Alan Alda (Memoir)

Spy X Family Vol. 6 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

The Unhoneymooners By Christina Lauren (Romance)

The Soulmate Equation By Christina Lauren (Romance)

M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors By Richard Hooker (Fiction)

Mixed Blessings By William & Barbara Christopher (Memoir)

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and Other Things I’ve Learned By Alan Alda (Memoir)

Red, White, & Royal Blue By Casey McQuiston (Romance)

Spy X Family Vol. 7 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

SOTUS Vol. 1 By Bittersweet (Manga)

SOTUS Vol. 2 By Bittersweet (Manga)

While the Duke Was Sleeping By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

Beach Read By Emily Henry (Romance)

Spy X Family Vol. 8 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Spy X Family Vol. 9 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

The Scandal of it All By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

Not That Duke By Eloisa James (Romance)

Unorthodox Love By Heidi Shertok (Romance)

The Duke Buys a Bride By  Sophie Jordan (Romance)

This Scot of Mine By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

Kissing Kosher By Jean Meltzer (Romance)

The Duke’s Stolen Bride By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

My Roommate is a Vampire By Jenna Levine (Romance)

The Virgin and the Rogue By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

The Duke Effect By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

SOTUS Vol. 3 By Bittersweet (Manga)

Percy Jackson: Chalice of the Gods By Rick Riordan (Middle Grade)

Tiny Dancer By Siena Cherson Siegel (Graphic Novel)

Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend By Alys Arden (Graphic Novel)

Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels By Sarah Wendell (Non-Fiction)

The Roommate Pat By Allison Ashley (Romance)

Spy X Family Vol. 10 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Two Rogues Make a Right By Cat Sebastian (Romance)

The Things They Carried By Tim O’Brien (Fiction)

Count Your Lucky Stars By Alexandria Bellefleur (Romance)

The Bromance Book Club By Lyssa Kay Adams (Romance)

Mockingjay By Suzanne Collins (YA)

The Official Quotable Doctor Who: Wise Words from Across Space & Time By Cavan Scott and Mark Wright (Quote Book)

God Plays Hide and Seek Poems By Greta Elbogen (Poetry)

Women Holding Things By Maira Kalman (Poetry/Verse/Photos)

The Little Liar By Mitch Albom (Fiction)

Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust: A Daughter’s Memories By Judith Koeppel Steel (Non-Fiction)

Himawari House By Harmony Becker (Graphic Novel)

Undercover Bromance By Lyssa Kay Adams (Romance)

Unordinary By uru-chan (Graphic Novel)

Son of : A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices By Most Hassan Yousef (Memoir)

Love & Latkes By Stacey Agdern (Romance)

Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in New Israel By Ethan Michaeli (Non-Fiction)

Never on Shabbas! By Henry Leonard (Political Cartoons)

The Little Guide to Taylor Swift: Words to Shake It Off (Quote Book)

This Winter By Alice Oseman (Novella)

Heartstopper Volume 5 By Alice Oseman (Graphic Novel)

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth By Noa Tishby (Non-Fiction)

Counting the Cost By Jill Duggar (Memoir)

How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation BY E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Non-Fiction)

Two Tribes By Emily Bowen Cohen (Middle Grade Graphic Novel)

Foster By Claire Keegan (Novella)

[mysymmetry]

2023 Reading List updated Jan 8 March 13 April 10 May 29 July 5

Read So Far: Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion All of This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankham Matthews Readme.txt, Chelsea Manning The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, Stuart Ross Burntcoat, Sarah Hall The Best American Essays 2022, ed. Alexander Chee Easy Beauty, Chloe Cooper Jones Very Cold People, Sarah Manguso Son of Elsewhere, Elamin Abdelmahmoud Happy Place, Emily Henry Couplets, Maggie Millner Strange Loops, Elizabeth Harmer Milk Fed, Melissa Broder

Currently Reading: Tides, Sara Freeman (lib yes - placed hold) Ace, Angela Chen (lib yes - placed hold) Ripe, Sarah Rose Etter Pathological, Sarah Fay Biography of X, Catherine Lacey The Best American Poetry 2019, ed. Bliss Montage, Ling Ma The Carrying, Ada Limon Death in Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon A Single Rose, Muriel Barbery The Power of Geography

Want to Read: Foster or Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (lib yes for both, recom from bookseller at Different Drummer!) The Light Room, Kate Zambreno No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood Lurch, Don McKay No Archive Will Destroy You, Julietta Singh The Story of Our Lives, Ted Chiang

HALF FINISHED The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline Animal Person, Alexander MacLeod My Face in The Light, Martha Schabas Pure Colour, Sheila Heti Satched, Megan Gail Coles A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes The Country of Marriage, Wendell Berry

Minique, Anna Maxymiw We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, Tsering Yangzom Lama Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Anna Maria Alberghetti Actress Vintage 1964 Theatre Theater Program Cast Musical.

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MOVIES I WATCHED THIS WEEK (#198)

MASTER, A BUILDING IN COPACABANA (2002) is considered one of the best Brazilian movies of all time, and justifiably so. The large 'Edifício Master' is a 12 story apartment building situated in a lower middle class area of Copacabana of Rio. Important documentary director Eduardo Coutinho rented one of the small 1-bedroom units there for a month, so that he could meet and interview dozens of the tenants who live there. In a sparse, simple and unadorned manner, they each talk about their lives, which often were filled with pains, loneliness, hardships and separation. Many of the stories are emotionally sad, some even tragic, and all very human. But so many of them also recite some of the poetry they write, or sing some of the samba songs they compose, and generally opens up without pretensions. Simple and non-judgemental. 9/10.

(I want to see his 'Jogo De Cena' but I can't find a copy online with English subtitles! - HELP, please!)

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PIROSMANI (1969) is my first Georgian masterpiece which was not made by Sergei Parajanov. It's an awe-inspiring biography of Nikolai Pirosmanashvíli. He was a self-taught, naïve Georgian painter who lived during Vincent van Gogh's time, and like him, died destitute and unappreciated by his piers, only to find prominence decades after his death. (Japanese Trailer Above.)

It's an absorbing and visually-stunning film, composed of rural tableaux and primitive folk setting, a mixture of Henri Rousseau, Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Bruegel and Jodorowsky. A sad, slow and formal composition, full of sublime pathos and simplicity. Best film of the week!

After watching it, I discovered an excellent explainer from a YouTube channel called 'Plan-Séquence' (which offer similar analyses about other less-known masterpieces).

(Pirosmani later was also the inspiration for a Russian pop song called 'A million roses', which apparently became a big hit in the 1980's).

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2 CZECH MASTERPIECES:

🍿 First watch: ECSTASY (1933), the controversial, groundbreaking erotic romance, the film that Hitler banned throughout Nazi Germany. Gorgeous, young Hedy Lamarr swimming naked, running naked, showing her breasts, making love and having an orgasm (off screen) was far too indecent for "proper" society to see.

The drama played in a silent movie style, with very sparse dialogue. I saw it in the original German, but there were also French and Czech versions. It also contained an early example of 'Smoking after sex', long before 'The Graduate' and even before 'Now, Voyager'.

Good for Hedy [Not 'Heddy'!] to have invented Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS), which enabled code-division multiple access (CDMA) communications in World War 2.

🍿 Mr. Prokouk: A Horseshoe for Luck (1946), my earliest slapstick film by famed Czech stop-motion animator Karl Zeman. It introduced the character of Mr. Prokouk, which became an 'Everyman' symbol in Czechoslovakia, as popular as 'The Tramp' and Mr. Hulot. An anti-superstition fable, but also a PSA for recycling.

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I previously only saw 'Larisa', Elem Klimov's biography of his wife, Larisa Shepitko. THE ASCENT (1977), a harrowing World War 2 nightmare, is my first searing masterpiece by her, and the last film she finished before dying young at a car accident. Two Russian partisans starving in the snow, fighting the Nazis, going through hell and losing their souls. it's as heavy as the most depressing Dostoevsky novel, and a prelude to her husband's even darker 'Come and see'. The film was shot outdoors at forty degrees below zero, and you freeze just by watching it. [*Female Director*]

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ANNA KENDRICK X 2:

🍿 WOMAN OF THE HOUR, her new, directorial debut is an ominous feminist nightmare masquerading as a true crime thriller about a sadistic serial killer.

This light comedy about a stupid television show is transformed into a creepy tale of systematic misogyny and degradation. Women led to live in a watchful state of fear wherever they went, always assessing everything and everybody around them, lest they be harmed. The men, and not only the creepy-as-fuck killer, were casually abusive, contemptuous and sexually-harassing. In 1978, it was in the air and water, and completely unremarkable. Thank God it's not like that any more, and women don't have to 'Choose the Bear over Bachelor Number Three'... /s.

Technically, it was well done, with menacing sound track of White Noise ambiance. 7/10. [*Female Director*]

🍿 She's my crush from 'A simple favor', 'Up in the air' and 'Alice, darling' but I didn't realize that she started as a talented child actor and that she could sing (''Ladies who lunch" at 17), and dance as well as act.

THE CALL (2014) was just a little improve thingy where she plays herself in a pink sweater and in an office setting.

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'Color guard' is a combination of cheer-leading/baton twirling/marching band/spinning choreography and high-school dancing competition.

David Byrne staged a big event in 2016 and produced the documentary music performance CONTEMPORARY COLORS because he found this less-known art form fascinating. And he brought in other artist friends to spice it up, like The Beastie Boys, St. Vincent, and Nelly Furtado. Apparently, the making of this production led him to the format of ‘American Utopia’, which was much better, and which I now want to re-watch one more time.

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2+ CHAPLIN MUTUALS FROM 1916:

🍿 THE PAWNSHOP, Chaplin's 6th film at Mutual, and one of his funniest two-reelers. For 25 minutes, he clowns, pratfalls, slapsticks and pantomimes. Edna Purviance is also lovely here. Perfection! 10/10.

🍿 THE RINK (Colorized) was his 8th (out of 12) film for Mutual Films. He plays a clumsy waiter, as well as a master skater, calling himself Sir Cecil Seltzer, C.O.D. Later on, he will show his skating skills again in 'Modern Times'.

🍿 Bonus: I never heard of his home movie NICE AND FRIENDLY from 1922. It's a 10-minutes improvised sketch he made as a wedding present to his friends, the Mountbattens. Strange and private, it's not on a level of any of his 'finished' productions. It features 8 year old Jackie Coogan, a year after 'The Kid', and it ends with the title card: "All of which goes to prove something very profound but we are not quite sure just what it is".

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Max Barbakow's 'Palm Springs' had been one of my favorite Guilty Pleasures in the last few years, and I've seen it 15 times or more, and enjoyed it every time. I just love everything about it. So I was waiting to see what he will cook up next. But the only commonality with his new comedy BROTHERS was the one-time use of the slur name 'Shitbird'... There were simply zero redeeming qualities to this flat, unfunny, formulaic suckface, not even the scene where Josh Brolin was jerking off that orangutan. One point for this being T. Emmett Walsh's last movie. 2/10.

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GEOFFREY JONES X 2:

🍿 LOCOMATION (1975), a terrific British industrial documentary about the transformative history of trains, from it "primitive" beginning in 1825, and how it altered the landscape, the world. It uses a montage of prints, paintings, lithographs, photographs and and clips set to electronic music, but without any words. 7/10

🍿 Jones must have been working for British Rail. His riveting crisp SNOW (1963) was also about the excitement of train riding. From a group of railwaymen shoveling snow on the tracks, to the cozy fun ride in a blizzard, this too was a wonderful hymn to traveling by train. If he was American, this film would be selected to the National Film Registry. Great rhythmic collage, and jazzy soundtrack too.

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I love Ali Wong and seen all her stuff more than once or twice. In her 4th nasty standup which just dropped, ALI WONG: SINGLE LADY she continues to overshare in specific details her intimate and depraved sex-life, but none of it is new or shocking. I still admire her taboo-breaking feminist strength, her constantly-horny independence, and the fact that she doesn't take shit from anybody. But the Chinese-American version of the abject materialism she revels in is not so funny any more. From her decade-long public confessions, I feel sorry for her ex-husband. 4/10.

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3 SHORTS:

🍿 THE GOALKEEPER, a fine mime piece by Jacques Tati. Not sure when or where it is from.

🍿 ESSUN DORMA (1987) was directed by Ken Russell, part of the British anthology music film, 'Aria'. Ten filmmakers were tasked with interpreting a piece of classic opera. M'eh: You could get away with a lot back then.

🍿 ANÉMIC CINÉMA (1926) was the only avant-garde "film" made by dadaist Marcel Duchamp, basically showing some spinning disks like a Seriograph with superimposed dirty, nonsensical proverbs. As offensive as the urinal 'Fountain'.

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BOOKWORM is a new family film from New Zealand about a gifted girl of 11 and her estranged father on an adventure trip out in the wilderness. It started well enough, and I'm a sucker for this plot line, (I watched the similar, and much better, story 'Gifted' with Chris Evans - twice!) - as the girl reminded me of somebody I know... But then I took a break right in the middle of it, and when I returned to it the next day, the whole thing crumbled into a disappointing, unbearable mush. Kiwi nature shots were lovely, and the film was coated with a filter of A.I. sheen, the kind you see on r/midjourney. 2/10.

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2 POLITICAL DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT JAMES CARVILLE:

🍿 "I'm the son of a great salesperson. We have come to devalue salesmanship. But if you're not willing to sell, you're not willing to win."

CARVILLE, WINNING IS EVERYTHING, STUPID is my 3rd documentary by Matt Tyrnauer (After 'The Reagans' and 'Where's my Roy Cohn?'). It's a CNN-produced and CNN-deep exposition, slick and watchable, that can be consumed in the background while doing the dishes. It was made during the last 6 months of Biden's campaign until his bumbling debate in June 2024.

🍿 And, being a completist, and not expecting much from it, I thought I'll also sit through D. A. Pennebaker's (and wife) 1993 THE WAR ROOM, the behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign. But this is the difference when you have a 'good' filmmaker behind the camera.

It's odd to relive this whole sordid affair a generation later, when all the players were young, unpolished, and relatively untarnished. Fascinating to see how things were done then - as compared to now! 8/10.

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I started watching Elaine May's celebrated A NEW LEAF a couple of times before, and failed. This time, I promised myself that I'll sit through it. Unfortunately, in spite of gritted teeth and frequent stops, I could only tolerate 46 minutes of this overrated 'comedy', before throwing in the towel. I hated everything about it: Walter Matthau as a romantic but asexual anti-hero "playboy", the hoity-toity lifestyle of the ultra-rich class of 1971 Manhattan and herself as the fumbling spinster with her awkward round glasses. Unfunny to the core, annoyingly cringey. Couldn't finish it. [*Female Director*]

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(ALL MY FILM REVIEWS - HERE).

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Downton Abbey OC Masterlist (wip)

Hero Debenham

Full Name: Hero Debenham

Nickname(s): N/A

Face Claim: Ashleigh Cummings

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 24 in 1939/born 1915

Title: Miss Debenham

Position: Governess to Miss Catherine Crawley

Family: Mary Arbuthnot (sister)

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Caty Crawley

Full Name: Catherine Anna Crawley

Nickname(s): Caty, Catydid

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 14 in 1939/born 1925

Title: Miss Catherine Crawley

Position:

Family: Lady Mary Crawley (mother), Matthew Crawley (father), Lavinia Crawley née Swire (mother), Elizabeth Crawley (older sister) Theodore Crawley (oldest brother), William Crawley (older brother)

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Will Crawley

Full Name: William Reginald Crawley

Nickname(s): Will

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 16 in 1939/born 1923

Title: Mr William Crawley

Position:

Family: Lady Mary Crawley (mother), Matthew Crawley (father), Lavinia Crawley née Swire (mother), Elizabeth Crawley (older sister) Theodore Crawley (older brother), Catherine Crawley (younger sister)

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Lizzy Crawley

Full Name: Elizabeth Cora Crawley

Nickname(s): Lizzy, Liz

Face Claim: Anna Bamford

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 20 in 1939/born 1919

Title: Miss Crawley

Position:

Family: Lady Mary Crawley (mother), Matthew Crawley (father), Lavinia Crawley née Swire (mother), Theodore Crawley (younger brother), William Crawley (youngest brother), Catherine Crawley (younger sister)

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Theo Crawley

Full Name: Theodore Robert Crawley

Nickname(s): Theo, Teddy

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 18 in 1939/born 1921

Title: Mr Crawley

Position:

Family: Lady Mary Crawley (mother), Matthew Crawley (father), Lavinia Crawley née Swire (mother), Elizabeth Crawley (older sister), William Crawley (younger brother), Catherine Crawley (younger sister)

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Roisin Branson

Full Name: Roisin X Branson

Nickname(s): N/A

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 16 in 1939/born 1923

Title: Miss Roisin Branson

Position:

Family: Lady Sybil Crawley (mother), Tom Branson (father), Saoirse Branson (older sister), Coilin Branson (younger brother)

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Coilin Branson

Full Name: Coilin X Branson

Nickname(s): N/A

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 14 in 1939/born 1925

Title: Mr Branson

Position:

Family: Lady Sybil Crawley (mother), Tom Branson (father), Saoirse Branson (oldest sister), Roisin Branson (older sister)

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Ned Gregson

Full Name: Stephen Edward Gregson

Nickname(s): Ned, Neddy

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 15 in 1939/born 1924

Title: Mr Gregson

Position:

Family: Lady Edith Crawley (mother), Michael Gregson (father, deceased), Beatrice Gregson (younger sister), Henrietta Gregson (younger sister)

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Bea Gregson

Full Name: Beatrice Helen Gregson

Nickname(s): Bea

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 10 in 1939/born 1929

Title: Miss Beatrice Gregson

Position:

Family: Lady Edith Crawley (mother), Michael Gregson (father, deceased), Stephen Gregson (older brother), Henrietta Gregson (twin sister)

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Henny Gregson

Full Name: Henrietta Anne Gregson

Nickname(s): Henny, Henry

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 10 in 1939/born 1929

Title: Miss Henrietta Gregson

Position:

Family: Lady Edith Crawley (mother), Michael Gregson (father, deceased), Stephen Gregson (older brother), Beatrice Gregson (twin sister)

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Joyce Bates

Full Name: Joyce X Bates

Nickname(s): Joy

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 16 in 1939/born 1923

Title: Miss Bates

Position:

Family: Anna Bates née Smith (mother), John Bates (father), Lady Mary Crawley (godmother)

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Walter Lang

Full Name: Walter X Lang

Nickname(s): Walt

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 17 in 1939/born 1922

Title: Mr Bates

Position:

Family: Henry Lang (father)

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Diana Winters

Full Name: Diana X Winters

Nickname(s): Di

Face Claim: Frances O'Connor

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 20 in 1939/born 1919

Title: Miss Winters

Position:

Family:

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Harold Napier

Full Name: Harold X Napier

Nickname(s): Harry

Face Claim: TBD

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 19 in 1939/born 1920

Title:

Position: The Honorable Harold Napier

Family: Evelyn Napier (father), Charlotte Napier (younger sister)

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Charlotte Napier

Full Name: Charlotte X Napier

Nickname(s): Charlie, Coco (only by family)

Face Claim: Lily Dodsworth-Evans

Fic Title: As the world turns

Age: 17 in 1939/born 1922

Title: The Honorable Charlotte Napier

Position:

Family: Evelyn Napier (father), Harold Napier (older brother)

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01 Work, The Canals of Venice, Anna Lubchik's Venice painting on canvas Italy Boats, with footnotes #119

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THE STAR

The universe abundantly blesses you. We are continually attracting what we desire through our beliefs and thoughts. When the Star arrives in the upright position, it usually follows a difficult change or traumatic event. Going through something challenging can take the wind out of our sails and cause us to feel like things will never be the same. This might be true. Death, loss, heartbreak, and other painful events can change us forever. This doesn’t mean we can’t build something better. What is it that you’re trying to heal from? The Upright Star wants you to open your heart, realize your inner strength, and have faith that the best is yet to come.

STATISTICS

BIRTH NAME :  Gale Cornelius Nolan Peterson PROFESSIONAL NAME: Sheriff Peterson ALIAS : - AGE : 39 DATE  OF  BIRTH : October 21st, 1985 RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Widowed; Single HOMETOWN : Kismet Harbor, OR, USA TIME IN KISMET HARBOR : All his life RESIDENCE : Driftwood Haven FACECLAIM : Aaron Tveit

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EDUCATION : Police Academy OCCUPATION :  Sheriff at the Kismet Harbor Police Department GENDER : Cis-Male PRONOUNS : He/Him SEXUALITY : Straight

HAIR COLOR : Dirty Blond EYE  COLOR : Blue HEIGHT : 6'0" BUILD : Lean, Muscular. ACCENT : American LANGUAGES : English, Spanish, German, ASL, DGS TATTOOS : A foot imprint of Klaus at birth on his left bicep./ a larger and small dragon on his wrist SCARS: a scar next to his left eye and on his rightside neck as well as a large one on his chest above his heart.

ZODIAC : Libra LOVE LANGUAGE : Quality time, words of affirmation CLOTHING : high fitted pants and a shirt or sweater tucked in. Hoodies at home. CURRENT HAIR STYLE + BEARD: ( x ) CONDITIONS : cartilage tear in his right shoulder ALLERGIES : None EATING HABITS : Big eater, small portions but goes for seconds or thirds. Loves vegetables. EXERCISE HABITS : weights and mountain biking SLEEPING HABITS : Sleeps bad when alone, side sleeper.

ADDICTIONS : None DRUG  USE : None ALCOHOL USE : Special occasions only.

POSITIVE  TRAITS : Protective, loyal, determined NEGATIVE TRAITS: Bossy, pride, sarcastic PHOBIAS : None FEARS : Losing his family, failing Klaus, losing his job as sheriff. HOBBIES : Golf, riding his motorcycle, boardgames, mountain biking. HABITS : taps his heel on the ground, chews on something when bored, running his fingers along the scar next to his eye when thinking. USUAL TEMPERAMENT : Confident.

FATHER : Gus Peterson MOTHER : Kathy Peterson SIBLINGS : Nicole Peterson PARTNERS : Anna Peterson (2013-2017; deceased) CHILDREN : Klaus Peterson-Ruiz (may 10th, 2011; with Liesl), PETS : -

BIOGRAPHY

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TIMELINE

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Episode 165 - Favourite Reads of 2022

This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Favourite Fiction

For the podcast

Anna

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby

Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction

Jam

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies

Matthew

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu

Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction

Meghan

Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler

Episode 164 - Military Fiction

Not for the podcast

Jam

Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh

Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy

Matthew

Semiosis by Sue Burke

Meghan

Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Anna

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Favourite Non-Fiction

For the podcast

Matthew

Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley

Episode 141 - Architecture Non-Fiction

Meghan

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque

Episode 149 - Astronomy & Space

Anna

Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner

Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism

Jam

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King

Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction

Not for the podcast

Meghan

Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes

Anna

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv

Jam

Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey

Matthew

X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor

Other Favourite Things of 2022

Anna

Tasting History with Max Miller

Debunking the Myths of Leonardo da Vinci

Jam

Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday”

French tacos (Wikipedia)

Matthew

Unpacking

Meghan

Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian

Runner-Ups

Anna

Video Games

Crashlands

Wobbledogs

YouTube:

Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews)

Podcasts

American Hysteria

Maintenance Phase

You Are Good

Other (Audio)Books:

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Invisible Kingdom by Patrick Radden Keefe

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

Jam

Favourite classic:

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Episode 151 - Classics

Favourite manga:

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia)

Favourite Album:

Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia)

Working for the Knife (YouTube)

Favourite AAA video game:

Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia)

Favourite indie video game:

Wytchwood

Favourite Wordle spin-off:

Worldle

Matthew

Video game

Hyper Light Drifter

Manga

Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen

My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by  Taylor Enge

lMonthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey

Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud

Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth

Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida

Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan

Graphic novels

Beetle and Hollowbones by Aliza Layne

A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, translated by Lee Douglas

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud

Books

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Meghan

Favourite new-to-me author:

Zviane

Favourite work of translation:

The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles

Podcast non-fiction runner up: 

Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder

Podcast fiction runner up:

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Non-fiction

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette

Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins

Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker

Runner up graphic novels:

Himawari House by Harmony Becker

Taproot by Keezy Young

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu

Sunny Sunny Ann! by Miki Yamamoto, translated by Aurélien Estager (French)

L'homme qui marche by Jirō Taniguchi, translated by Martine Segard (French, available in English as The Walking Man)

Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera 

Le petit astronaute by Jean-Paul Eid (French)

Tony Chu détective cannibale by John Layman with Rob Guillory (French, available in English as Chew)

Radium Girls by Cy. (French)

Queen en BD by Emmanuel Marie and Sophie Blitman (French)

Memento mori by Tiitu Takalo (French)

Enferme-moi si tu peux by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg (French)

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Episode 140 - Favourite Reads of 2021

Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

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I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (Wikipedia)

Brian David Gilbert - The Perfect PokéRap

24 Travel Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature by Kamal Abdel-Malek

Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele

Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, And Snapshots Across Colors, Cultures and Continents by Lola Akinmade Åkerström

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa

The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battuta

Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin & Cheryl J. Fish

I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes

Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee

The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills

The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul

Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham

An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth

Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun

Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith

Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori L. Tharps

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BASICS

Full name: Anna Victoria Fabray.

Nickname(s): Annie.

Preferred name: Anna.

Age: 24.

Date of birth: 10.10.94.

Religion: Christian.

Gender: Cisfemale.

Preferred pronouns: She/Her.

Sexual preference: Pansexual.

Romantic preference: Panromantic.

Occupation: Florist; Owner of The Secret Garden.

Hometown: Jamestown, Rhode Island.

Language(s) spoken: English.

RELATIONSHIPS

Father: Russell Fabray.

Mother: Judy Fabray.

Siblings: Anika & Anastacia Fabray.

Children: None.

Partner: N/A.

Other: N/A.

Pets: Tiger (therapy dog).

DETAILS

MENTAL HEALTH CW (SCHIZOPHRENIA).

If a perfect child exists, Anna Fabray was it. She was always happy, always smiling, always remembered her manners, always doing something productive. Her parents were genuinely proud of her, and even more so to show her off. In the Fabray family, appearances were important, and what better an appearance than one of perfection?

That wasn’t to say Anna didn’t have her moments. She’d act out sometimes, but if she did so where anybody could see, her parents would make excuses for her. That was a perk of being good at everything you did, you got plenty of free passes.

Although Anna always had plenty of friends, she was also extremely happy in her own company, though she never seemed to be truly alone. From as far back as she can remember, Anna had imaginary friends, people that she would talk to and who would talk to her. It wasn’t concerning, all little kids had imaginary friends, right?

The normalcy of Anna’s “friends” made it hard for anybody to realize there was something deeper going on at first. It wasn’t until she was in her teens and she got into a fight -- a very violent one on Anna’s part -- that something clicked. It wasn’t like Anna to act violently at all; but she was convinced people told her to do it. Her eventual diagnosis of schizophrenia knocked everyone for six.

Naturally, her parents wanted to keep it on the down low. When Anna had to stay in a facility for a little while, they passed it off as a retreat. The cocktail of medication she had to take, she’d take it in private. She withdrew a little bit, because it wasn’t possible for her to be herself around others anymore.

Slowly but surely, with the right mixture of medication and appropriate therapists, Anna had her condition under control. She could focus in school again, her parents could be proud of her again, and Anna was soon writing a very touching college essay including the line “I want to do something fantastic with the good part of my brain” and receiving an acceptance to Yale University, Pre-Law.

Things went well for a while, until Anna made it to law school. Her parents had never fully accepted her diagnosis, and it had kind of rubbed off on Anna. To the point where she begun to question it, then decided to prove professionals wrong by coming off of her medication and showing them that she was fine without it. Of course, that was a huge mistake.

Anna ended up in a facility again, and it took a while to find the right treatment plan for her this time. She had to put law school on hold, and her parents made her move back in with them. They said it was because they cared, but Anna is positive it was so they could keep her under the radar.

Once a new plan, one that worked for her, had been settled and begun to take affect, Anna packed up to move back out again, though her parents discouraged the idea of her going back to school. Like they said, “it was what drove you crazy again”, and Anna stupidly listened to them. In its place, because no child of the Fabrays could just work a ‘normal’ job, they had to be seen as the leader, they bought a business for her.

Anna’s flower shop, The Secret Garden, is a nice distraction for her, but in the three years since she’s had it, she has never been truly happy. She wants to be a lawyer, to go back to school, but her parents are the voices in her head now, telling her what a bad idea it is. So instead Anna has devoted her life to distracting herself -- fad diets, meaningless hookups, obsessing over stupid, irrelevant things, etc. Anything she can do to take her mind off of all of the things she wants but doesn’t get to have, she’ll take it.