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BUFFY READING LIST

As promised @possession1981 and I have compiled a list of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel) related academic text and books. I think this is a good starting point for both a long time fan and for someone just getting into the show, or just someone interested in vampire lore. I have included several books about the vampire lore and myth in general as well. Most of these are available online.

BOOKS

Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox & David Lavery

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy - Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale by James B. South

Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television, edited by Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo & James B. South

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor and Morality by Mark Field

Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Gregory Stevenson

Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Elana Levine

The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Matthew Pateman

Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks by Emily Pohl-Weary

Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Ronda Wilcox

Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz

The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction, and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Milly Williamson

Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel by Jes Battis

Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan by Lorna Jowett

Diseases of the Head: Essays on the Horrors of Speculative Philosophy; edited by Matt Rosen (chapter 2 Death of Horror)

Public Privates: Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces by Marcia R. England (chapter 1 Welcome to the Hellmouth: Paradoxical Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead From the Enlightenment to the Present Day; edited by Sam George and Bill Hughes (chapter 8 ‘I feel strong. I feel different’: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The Contemporary Television Series; edited by Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon (chapter 9 Television, Horror and Everyday Life in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays; edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III

Buffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One by Valerie Estelle Frankel

The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity by J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 Years of Slaying: The Watcher's Guide Authorized by Christopher Golden

Reading the Vampire Slayer: The Complete, Unofficial Guide to 'Buffy' and 'Angel' by Roz Kaveney

Hollywood Vampire: The Unnoficial Guide to Angel by Keith Topping

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book by Christopher Golden

Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon by Michael Adams

What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide by Jana Riess

ARTICLES, PAPERS ETC.

Bibliographic Good vs. Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by GraceAnne A. DeCandido

Undead Letters: Searches and Researches in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by William Wandless

Weaponised information: The role of information and metaphor in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jacob Ericson

Buffy, Dark Romance and Female Horror Fans by Lorna Jowett

My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, "Perfect" Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance by Ananya Mukherjea

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer as Spectacular Allegory: A Diagnostic Critique by Douglas Kellner

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer": Technology, Mysticism, and the Constructed Body by Sara Raffel

When Horror Becomes Human: Living Conditions in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" by Jeroen Gerrits

Post-Vampire: The Politics of Drinking Humans and Animals in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight", and "True Blood" by Laura Wright

Cops, Teachers, and Vampire Slayers: Buffy as Street-Level Bureaucrat by Andrea E. Mayo

"Not Like Other Men"?: The Vampire Body in Joss Whedon's "Angel" by Lorna Jowett

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Domestic Church: Revisioning Family and the Common Good by Reid B. Locklin

“Buffy vs. Dracula”’s Use of Count Famous (Not drawing “crazy conclusions about the unholy prince”) by Tara Elliott

A Little Less Ritual and a Little More Fun: The Modern Vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Stacey Abbott

Undressing the Vampire: An Investigation of the Fashion of Sunnydale’s Vampires by Robbie Dale

"And Yet": The Limits of Buffy Feminism by Renee St. Louis & Miriam Riggs

Meet the Cullens: Family, Romance and Female Agency in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight by Kirsten Stevens

Bliss and Time: Death, Drugs, and Posthumanism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rob Cover

That Girl: Bella, Buffy, and the Feminist Ethics of Choice in Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Catherine Coker

A Slayer Comes to Town: An Essay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Scott Westerfeld 

Undead Objects of a “Queer Gaze” : A Visual Approach to Buffy’s Vampires Using Lacan’s Extended RSI Model by Marcus Recht

When You Kiss Me, I Want to Die: Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Ananya Mukherjeea

Necrophilia and SM: The Deviant Side of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Terry L. Spaise

Queering the Bitch: Spike, Transgression and Erotic Empowerment by Dee Amy-Chinn

“I Want To Be A Macho Man”: Examining Rape Culture, Adolescent Female Sexuality, and the Destabilization of Gender Binaries in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Angelica De Vido

Staking Her Claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive Woman Warrior by Frances H. Early

Actualizing Abjection: Drusilla, the Whedonversees’ Queen of Queerness by Anthony Stepniak

“Life Isn’t A Story”: Xander, Andrew and Queer Disavowal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Steven Greenwood

S/He’s a Rebel: The James Dean Trope in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Kathryn Hill

“Once More, with Feeling”: Emotional Self-Discipline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Gwynnee Kennedy and Jennifer Dworshack-Kinter

“The Hardest Thing in This World Is To Live In It”: Identity and Mental Health in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Alex Fixler

"Love's Bitch But Man Enough to Admit It": Spikes Hybridized Gender by Arwen Spicer

Negotiations After Hegemony: Buffy and Gender by Franklin D. Worrell

Double Trouble: Gothic Shadows and Self-Discovery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Elizabeth Gilliland

'What If I'm Still There? What If I Never Left That Clinic?': Faërian Drama in Buffy's "Normal Again" by Janet Brennan Croft

Not Gay Enough So You’d Notice: Poaching Fuffy by Jennifer DeRoss

Throwing Like A Slayer: A Phenomenology of Gender Hybridity and Female Resilience in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Debra Jackson

“You Can’t Charge Innocent People for Saving Their Lives!” Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Matt Davies

Ambiguity and Sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Sartrean Analysis by Vivien Burr

Imagining the Family: Representations of Alternative Lifestyles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Vivien Burr and Christine Jarvis

Working-Class Hero? Fighting Neoliberal Precarity in Buffy’s Sixth Season by Michelle Maloney-Mangold

A Corpse by Any Other Name: Romancing the Language of the Body in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the Adam Storyline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Amber P. Hodge

Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility by Claire Knowles

"It's good to be me": Buffy's Resistance to Renaming by Janet Brennan Croft

Death as a Gift in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work and Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Gaelle Abalea

“All Torment, Trouble, Wonder, and Amazement Inhabits Here": The Vicissitudes of Technology in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by James B. South

Staking Her Colonial Claim: Colonial Discourses, Assimilation, Soul-making, and Ass-kicking in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jessica Hautsch

“I Run To Death”: Renaissance Sensibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Christine Jarvis

Dressed To Kill: Fashion and Leadership in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Christine Jarvis and Don Adams

Queer Eye Of That Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp by Cynthea Masson and Marni Stanley

“Sounds Like Kinky Business To Me”: Subtextual and Textual Representations of Erotic Power in Buffyverse by Lewis Call

“Did Anyone Ever Explain to You What ‘Secret Identity’ Means?”: Race and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel  by Cynthia Fuchs

“It’s About Power”: Buffy, Foucault, and the Quest for Self by Julie Sloan Brannon

Why We Love the Monsters: How Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wound Up Dating the Enemy by Hilary M. Leon

Why We Can’t Spike Spike?: Moral Themes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Richard Greene and Wayne Yuen

Buffy, the Scooby Gang, and Monstrous Authority: BtVS and the Subversion of Authority by Daniel A. Clark & P. Andrew Miller

Are Vampires Evil?: Categorizations of Vampires, and Angelus and Spike as the Immoral and the Amoral by Gert Magnusson

BOOKS ABOUT VAMPIRE LORE AND MYTH IN GENERAL

The Vampire Lectures by Laurence A. Rickels 

Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach

Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber

The Secret History of Vampires: Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes by Claude Lecouteux

The Vampire Cinema by David Pirie

The Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies by Gregory A. Waller

Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend by Mark Jenkins

Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead by Bruce A. McClelland

The History and Folklore of Vampires: The Stories and Legends Behind the Mythical Beings by Charles River Editors

Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology by Theresa Bane

Vampires of Lore: Traits and Modern Misconceptions by A. P. Sylvia

The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom

Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella by Christopher Frayling

Race in the Vampire Narrative by U. Melissa Anyiwo

Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods by Dale Hudson

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'Nominations for the 2024 Oscars will be announced on Tuesday, after a huge year for cinema which saw Barbie and Oppenheimer dominate the box office.

Poor Things, The Holdovers and Killers of the Flower Moon are also expected to feature heavily when the nominations are announced from 13:30 GMT.

Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr and Da'Vine Joy Randolph are all likely to score acting nominations.

Jimmy Kimmel will host this year's ceremony from Los Angeles on 10 March.

The Barbenheimer phenomenon, a viral trend which saw thousands of fans book tickets to see both films on the same day last summer, makes this year's Oscars far more accessible than usual.

While several Academy Awards ceremonies in recent years have recognised films which had little breakthrough with the general public, producers will be hoping Barbie and Oppenheimer's likely inclusion will result in a surge in interest and viewers.

Which films are competing for best picture?

...There is general consensus that Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon and The Holdovers will all score nominations...

Who's in the acting race?

...The frontrunner is Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, a film which sees him play a grumpy teacher who must stay in his boarding school over Christmas to supervise the pupils who aren't going home for the holidays.

Cillian Murphy is also in the race for his portrayal of theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, while Bradley Cooper could be recognised for his performance as composer Leonard Bernstein in Maestro.

Meanwhile, Rustin's Colman Domingo is a strong contender for his depiction of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and Jeffrey Wright could be recognised for his role as a frustrated author in American Fiction.

Other possible but slightly less likely contenders include Killers of the Flower Moon star Leonardo DiCaprio, Saltburn's Barry Keoghan, The Iron Claw's Zac Efron and Andrew Scott for All of Us Strangers...

What about the supporting categories?

The Holdovers star Da'Vine Joy Randolph is the safest bet of all the acting categories - she has dominated at all the precursor ceremonies and is very likely to win best supporting actress at the Oscars.

She could be joined in the category by The Color Purple star Danielle Brooks, Oppenheimer's Emily Blunt, Nyad's Jodie Foster and Ferrari's Penélope Cruz...

The supporting actor race will almost certainly be led by Oppenheimer's Robert Downey Jr. But there is competition from Barbie's Ryan Gosling, American Fiction's Sterling K Brown and May December's Charles Melton...

What about the directors?

Several Oscars stalwarts released films this year and will almost certainly show up in this category - such as Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon, and Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer...'

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Michael J. Fox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Henry Winkler Big Additions To FAN EXPO Philadelphia, June 2-4

FAN EXPO Philadelphia today announced several huge additions to its celebrity lineup across numerous fandoms, including icon Michael J Fox, his Back to the Future costar Tom Wilson, Vincent D’Onofrio (“Daredevil,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”), Henry Winkler (“Happy Days,” “Barry”), Peter Weller (Robocop, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension), Katee Sackhoff (“The Mandalorian,” “Battlestar Galactica), Bonnie Wright (Harry Potter) and Emily Bett Rickards (“Arrow,” “The Flash”). They are part of a growing, standout roster appearing June 2-4 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

Advanced Tickets for FAN EXPO Philadelphia are on sale through May 18 at www.fanexpophiladelphia.com, with discounts on individual day, 3-day and Ultimate Fan Packages available for adults, youths and families. VIP packages are also available now, with dozens of special benefits including priority entry, limited edition collectibles, exclusive items and much more.

The announcement of the eight new guests follows last month’s initial wave of Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”), Christina Ricci (“The Addams Family,” “Wednesday”), Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man), Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings, Rudy) and Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, “Taxi”), already committed to the event. Additional celebrities, voice actors, creators, cosplayers exhibitors and programming for this major comics, sci-fi, horror, literary, anime and gaming convention will be announced closer to the event.

From the Back to the Future franchise to TV hits like “Family Ties” and “Spin City,” Michael J. Fox has thrilled and moved millions with his performances as well as his work on behalf of Parkinson’s disease research. He won his first significant role as the lovable conservative Alex P. Keaton on NBC’s enormously popular “Family Ties” (1982-89). The five-time Emmy winner (three for “Family Ties,” one for “Spin City” and one for a guest role on “Rescue Me”) recently received an honorary Oscar for his commitment to Parkinson’s research.

Tom Wilson is a character actor, writer and comedian with more than 100 film and TV credits. Wilson burst into the BTTF movies as the now iconic bully “Biff,” his grandson “Griff,” and even his own great grandfather, gunslinger Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen, for which he won the Saturn Award for best supporting actor. He’s also known for iconic roles in “Freaks and Geeks,” "Wing Commander,” April Fool’s Day, “Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous” and “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

In addition to starring as “Wilson Fisk” opposite Charlie Cox in the Netflix series “Daredevil,” Vincent D’Onofrio has a resume of more than 100 roles, most popularly as the lead detective “Bobby Goren” in the long-running NBC drama “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” His notable film credits include Full Metal Jacket, Dying Young, Men in Black, Mystic Pizza, Jurassic World and The Break Up.

Henry Winkler first captured the nation’s attention as the leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding “Arthur Fonzarelli,” a.k.a. the “Fonz” in the iconic series “Happy Days.” He has gone on to produce TV shows like “MacGyver,” direct several movies, act in plays and feature films, and write the popular Hank Zipzer children’s book series, with co-author Lin Oliver, about the adventures and misadventures of the ever resourceful, but struggling student named Hank.

Accomplished actor, director, voice over artist and occasional professor Peter Weller’s amazing career has taken him from the mean streets of old Detroit to the final frontier of space. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television series, notably in the title role in 1987’s RoboCop and its sequel RoboCop 2 and as the title character in the quirky 1984 sci-fi cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Katee Sackhoff is a favorite at FAN EXPO events for her portrayal of “Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace” on “Battlestar Galactica” as well as “Bo-Katan Kryze” on “The Mandalorian” and “Niko Breckenridge” on “Another Life” among more than 60 film and TV credits. Her extensive voice acting work includes “Robot Chicken” and “Star Wars: Rebels.”

Bonnie Wright first appeared as “Ginny Weasley” in a small part in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001 and has gone on to play the character in a much larger role in the franchise for the next decade. She also portrayed young “Agatha Christie” in Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures and co-starred alongside David Warner and Tom Sizemore as “Phoebe” in the drama Before I Sleep.

Best known as “Felicity Smoak” in the long-running CW series “Arrow,” “The Flash” and “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” and animated series “Vixen,” Emily Bett Rickards also gained notice for roles in the family drama Dakota’s Summer and hit romance film Brooklyn. She starred as the lead character “Alice” in last year’s comedy feature We Need to Talk.

Philadelphia is the eighth event on the 2023 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

ABOUT FAN EXPO HQ FAN EXPO HQ is the largest comic con producer in the world. Collectively it hosts nearly 1 million fans annually at FAN EXPO New Orleans, FAN EXPO Portland, FAN EXPO Vancouver™, Toronto Comicon, FAN EXPO Cleveland, MEGACON Orlando, Calgary Comics & Entertainment Expo, FAN EXPO Philadelphia, FAN EXPO Dallas™, FAN EXPO Denver, FAN EXPO Boston™, FAN EXPO Chicago, FAN EXPO Canada™, Edmonton Comics & Entertainment Expo, Dallas FAN FESTIVAL, and FAN EXPO San Francisco. The latest schedule of events is available here, along with up-to-date ticket information. Discover. Celebrate. Belong.

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The Blonde Who Got Away 

By Emily J. Wright

Publication Date: March 13th 2019 Genres: New Adult, Romance, Suspense

Synopsis:

Brandon

Brandon Bryce.

The name just doesn’t have a nice ring to it, but it’s a way of living.

His life motto—pleasing every woman with multiple orgasms and making them beg for more.

His only hobby—swinging on a sex swing with a voluptuous woman.

His favorite vacation—drinking ‘Sex on the beach’ in his Jacuzzi while a woman goes down on him hard.

All he wants is sex—anytime, any day, with no strings attached, and no commitment.

As for settling down, he doesn’t believe in marriage, nor has time for something as stupid as love. He has a business to run too, you know. How else could he afford the lifestyle he has worked so hard for?

It was not easy for him to make way from a modest suburb of Chicago to a penthouse in the upper east side of New York. He had to push people around. He dipped his toes into blackmailing. He broke the trust and hearts of hundreds.

Is he proud of his actions?

Yes, of course.

Will he do it again?

Fuck, yeah.

Is he afraid of the Karma?

Nah…He is a Chicago born and bred. He’ll make Karma his bitch before she could do the same.

Brandon 2.0

“Fuck you, Brandon.”

‘Love thy neighbor.’ That’s what Brandon thought the Bible say. But some women from the neighboring building threw shoes at him which made him believe otherwise. That’s not the welcome home present he was expecting.

Asshole.

Jerk.

Douche.

That’s some of the kind words he has been called on his first day back from the hospital.

It has been brought to his attention that he wasn’t the nicest person to be around. He broke ties with his parents because he found them too clingy. His friends are ungrateful bastards. And he has no one left to share his life with.

But good for him that he doesn’t remember any of it. He lost his memory in an accident that put him in a coma for two months.

Now, he is determined to get his life back on track. To make amends to those who he has wronged. But only if he could stop getting distracted by the beautiful blonde whom he fell in love with when he was in a coma.

He is hallucinating according to his doctor. His butler says she is a flicker of his imagination. But she is real to Brandon, and he will find her by any means possible.

While the debate still continues about her existence with no agreement in sight, they all, however, agree on calling her ‘the blonde who got away.’

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Excerpt:

She is moaning and chanting my name again and again. I can’t blame her for being a fan; I am a superstar down there, plowing her field for the final touchdown.

As I move my tongue in and out, tongue-fucking her like never before, I can feel her whole body trembling and pussy clenching. She is about to have an orgasm, and the way she is scratching me with her toenails, it’s going to be a big one. Her stiff body lightens as she comes on my face, giving me what I wanted in return for my efforts.

It’s over for her—but not for me.

I remain under her sweatshirt, with my tongue inside her, cleaning her out like a Roomba. I give a final deep kiss to her pussy and then pull my head out.

She is in the euphoric state—heavily breathing, body quivering, profusely sweating, mouth agape, eyes wide open.

Yes, I blew her brains out. A job well done. Thank you. Thank you very much.

I snap my fingers before her face to bring her back to her senses. “How was it?”

“One of the best—no, probably the best—no, the best.”

I was so good that she couldn’t decide. She is flustered.

“Glad you like it.” I smooch her, letting her taste herself as I gently run my fingers through her hair. And then I rest my head on the softest pillows I could find: her bosoms.

While she strokes the back of my head, I bury my face deep into her soft breasts. She embraces me in her arms, and with a kiss, places her chin right on the top of my head.

“This is just the beginning of our anniversary.” I turn my head and kiss her boobs. “Wait till I show you what I have planned for you in the morning, afternoon, evening and night.”

“Huh . . . sounds like you have done a lot of planning for this day,” she says coldly.

Not much enthusiasm. I don’t know why? Maybe she is just tired, or probably mad that I teased her too much before finishing her off.

“Yes, I did,” I say, rubbing my face against her breasts.

“So, you fed me, eat me, and also have an entire day planned for me, but don’t want anything in return? Not even a tie pin? Are you that selfless?”

And there is that tone again. What has gotten into her today? Did I offend her someway?

And how selfish does she think I am?

Okay, I am a bit selfish when it comes to her boobs . . . or pussy . . . Never mind.

“You are the first and last thing I truly wanted. Your presence in my life is everything for me. I don’t have any desire left for anything else in my—”

“You jerk!” she shouts, grabbing my hair, and yank me off her breasts. She is breathing heavily on my face, practically huffing.

I am not a fool. I know she is mad at me. But why? What did I do to deserve this?

She pulls my hair harder and again screams at my face. “Tell me what you want!”

All right. I get it now. She thinks I am rubbing it in her face that I have an entire itinerary planned while she failed to even remember this day.

Yeah, that must be it.

She can be a little immature sometimes. By now, she should have realized that I am the prisoner of her love. I am doing this for her to have a nice and memorable day.

“Calm down, sweetheart,” I say, trying to cup her face.

But she slaps my hand away and shouts, “Don’t call me sweetheart!”

“Okay . . . listen. Just like a wedding is all about the bride, and the groom is more or less like a prop, same goes for the anniversary. I am just here to serve you. It’s your day. It’s all about you.”

“All about me, huh?” She let go of my hair, and her face breaks into a smile—an evil smile.

“Absolutely. You can do anything you like,” I say with sheer determination.

“Sounds good,” she says, smacking her lips. Must be enjoying her pussy taste the same way I did.

Finally, I am successful in putting some sense into her that this is . . .

Holy fucking cow!

Out of nowhere, she shoves me away, all the way to the sink. I regret paying for her classes now—especially the kickboxing one. As her gaze meets mine, I nervously gulp down.

Now, what does she have in mind? Am I wrong in loving her more than anything in this world, my life included?

She jumps down from the kitchen counter and kicks her panty out of the way. “Now, I am going to do to you whatever I like.” She comes closer, and in the blink of an eye, she is in my arms.

What is she, a daredevil? That was quite a long jump.

Before I could wrap my mind around what just happened, her legs are tightly wrapped around me, and I am getting kissed all over my face.

I don’t know what led her to do this. It may be my romantic gesture, or she is returning the favor for eating her, or I am some kind of symbolic gold medal for her record-breaking jump.

Either way, I am really liking what she is doing to me.

She is biting my lips, scratching my neck, and hugging me like a bear. With her lips in a friendly battle against mine, and her tongue shoved deep in my throat, I have no chance but to surrender. I tap on her shoulder, requesting a moment to breathe, but she ruthlessly denies.

I consider myself a generous lover. Gets rough a little bit only when I am told to. Sure, I like to tease, but only because it builds up an explosive orgasm.

But I am nothing like her.

When her horniness reaches the saturation point, she becomes inconsiderate, wild, passionate, and without limits. In simple words, she becomes a horny slut.

I tap on her shoulder too many times, but then my hands just become cold and motionless. I see a white light before my eyes, calling my name, asking me to join it.

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Author Bio:

Emily J. Wright had her life planned out from the start. She graduated from high school, went to college, did her CPA and got a corporate job as an analyst. But one thing she didn’t plan for was finding clumps of hair in her shower drain. That’s when she realized that the numbers in her head can’t co-exist with the stories forming in her head. So, for the sake of her hair, and not appear sleeping with open eyes in every office meeting when her mind drifts away to think a plot twist to bring the protagonist together with the heroine, she puts fingers to the wireless keyboard and starts putting together the stories.

While the rest seems busy writing about the alpha males with abs that can be used as a grater, she writes about the wild, sassy heroines who can be only tamed by the grand, sweep of the floor romantic gesture of a man with abs that can be used as a grater. PS: She loves abs.

In the world where quiet is a luxury, she found her home in the peaceful suburbs of Dublin, Ohio, where she lived with Zeus, her Labrador, and her cat, Mimi, who makes Zeus miserable by day but sleeps with him in his bed at night.

Yes...she is still single by choice. She is waiting for someone with whom she can share the same chemistry that Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt had in ‘Mad About You.’ Damn it! That show has ruined her. Fingers crossed, this year she gets what she wanted.

And one more thing, for a millennial, her social media skills sucks, so she would appreciate if you stop by her pages to give her some tips.

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I finally finished the 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge!

REFLECTIONS

I found out about this challenge in December 2017 and quickly decided I wanted to try it. I spent days coming up with books to read for each prompt, though I’m quite sure each one has changed multiple times over the year. I was half-way through my final year of university when I really properly started the challenge, so the first five months were spent reading assigned books and trying to fit them into a prompt. By the time I’d finished university this year, I’d read a lot of books but not many towards the list, so I had a lot of catching up to do. For the last three or so months of 2018, I pretty much solely read books that would fit my remaining prompts. I really enjoyed doing the challenge, it definitely pushed me to read things I may not have normally picked up before, but I also found it quite limiting and felt like I couldn’t read other books I really wanted to because I felt the pressure to finish before the year was up! I probably wouldn’t have felt like this if I didn’t have to do so much catch up in the second half of the year, but I don’t think I’d do a year-long challenge again!

Anyone else does the challenge this year? Or any other year-long challenge? I’d love to know how you got on with it!

STATS

5 STAR READS: 20 4 STAR READS: 10 3 STAR READS: 8 2 STAR READS: 2 1 STAR READS: 0

NON-FICTION: 7 FICTION: 33

That’s a lot of 5 star books and I’m not sure whether it means I’m too generous with my ratings or whether I’m just really good at picking books I know I’ll like... Also around half of these were interspersed between required reading whilst I was still at university, some of which I hated, so maybe I was rating relative to the terribleness of other books I’d forced myself through for class. I’ve really enjoyed reading non-fiction this year but it definitely wasn’t easy to fit many non-fic books into these prompts.

THE LIST

I didn’t start this blog until June, so I’ve only reviewed some of the books I read for this challenge. I’ve included links to my reviews where I did so.

1 - A book made into a movie you’ve already seen

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Review) - 5 STARS

2 - True crime

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich - 5 STARS

3 - The next book in a series you started

A Murder of Magpies by Mark Edwards - 4 STARS

4 - A book involving a heist

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright - 3 STARS

5 - Nordic noir

Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö - 4 STARS

6 - A novel based on a real person

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Review) - 5 STARS

7 - A book set in a country that fascinates you

Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Idridason (set in Iceland) - 5 STARS

8 - A book with a time of day in the title

4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie (Review) - 3 STARS

9 - A book about a villain or antihero

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - 4 STARS

10 - A book about death or grief

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward - 5 STARS

11 - A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (pseudonym of J. K. Rowling) (Review) - 2 STARS

12 - A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall - 5 STARS

13 - A book that is also a stage play or musical

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry - 5 STARS

14 -  A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - 5 STARS

15 - A book about feminism

Women and Power by Mary Beard - 4 STARS

16 - A book about mental health

Hunger by Roxane Gay - 4 STARS

17 - A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift

Becoming by Michelle Obama (Review) - 4 STARS

18 - A book by two authors

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - 5 STARS

19 - A book about or involving a sport

Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Review) - 3 STARS

20 - A book by a local author

The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews (Review) - 5 STARS

21 - A book with your favourite colour in the title

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - 3 STARS

22 - A book with alliteration in the title

After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie by Jean Rhys - 3 STARS

23 - A book about time travel

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (Review)  - 5 STARS

24 - A book with a weather element in the title

Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake (Review)  - 3 STARS

25 - A book set at sea

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (Review) - 3 STARS

26 - A book with an animal in the title

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Review) - 4 STARS

27 - A book set on a different planet

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (Review) - 5 STARS

28 - A book with song lyrics in the title

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (song by Roy Smiles) (Review)  - 3 STARS

29 - A book about or set on Halloween

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (Review) - 2 STARS

30 - A book with characters who are twins

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Review) - 5 STARS

31 - A book mentioned in another book

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling  (mentioned in Harry Potter) - 5 STARS

32 - A book from a celebrity book club

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (SJP book club and recommended by Barack Obama) - 5 STARS

33 - A childhood classic you’ve never read

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 5 STARS

34 - A book that’s published in 2018

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (Review) - 5 STARS

35 - A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Non-fiction, 2010) (Review) - 5 STARS

36 - A book set in the decade you were born

Forgive Me If I've Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters (‘89-’93) (Review) - 4 STARS

37 - A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - 5 STARS

38 - A book with an ugly cover

Trumpet by Jackie Kay - 4 STARS

39 - A book that involves a bookstore or library

Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence (Review) - 4 STARS

40 - Your favourite prompt from a previous POPSUGAR challenge

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (prompt was a book that’s becoming a movie this year) - 5 STARS

[khalilhumam]

10 things we learned at Brookings in October

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10 things we learned at Brookings in October

By Olivia Tran, Fred Dews In October, voting in the U.S. presidential election began nationwide, with early voting hitting new records in some states. Brookings remained busy with experts publishing research on a range of policy issues including the election, trans-Atlantic relations, to how the next presidential administration can reduce polarization in America. Here is a selection of 10 items from the month for your consideration.

1. HOW THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION CAN CONFRONT AMERICA’S DIVISIONS

E.J. Dionne, Jr. and Melissa Rogers provide analysis of how “misunderstanding and mistrust have reached toxic levels” in the U.S., and suggest how the president sworn into office in 2021 can address these critical issues. In their report from the Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings, they look at the causes of polarization, including religion. The next president, Dionne and Rogers argue, must recognize the immense power of religious leaders in sharing responsibility to seek solutions together. “When the next administration takes office, it will confront a pandemic, the scourge of systemic racism, a deep economic recession, and a dangerously warming planet,” they explain. “Government must act boldly in all these spheres, yet government will not succeed alone.”

2. TRANS-ATLANTIC SCORECARD ON THE EVE OF THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

A new edition of the Trans-Atlantic Scorecard produced by the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings evaluates the state of U.S. relations with Europe overall, plus with five key countries and the European Union itself. As Center Director Thomas Wright observes, U.S.-European relations have remained strained with slight upward or downward ticks in only a few areas. “Facing a historic presidential election,” Wright says, “the potential outcome of which could set the United States and Europe on dramatically different paths – a ‘wait and see’ mood combined with a sense of anxious optimism regarding the prospect of a Biden administration has descended on the trans-Atlantic relationship.”

3. HAS TRUMP REALLY DONE MORE FOR BLACK AMERICANS THAN ANYBODY (EXCEPT LINCOLN)?

Rashawn Ray and Keon Gilbert deconstruct Trump’s repeated claim, “I have done more for Black Americans than anybody, except for the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln,” by exploring several key areas where Black Americans have been failed by Trump’s policies, including the economy, implicit bias training, criminal justice reform and policing, judges and the courts, COVID-19 response, and affordable health care. “What do you have to lose?” Trump asked Black voters in 2016. “Well,” Ray and Gilbert respond, “what Black people have to lose are their lives as well as those of their loved ones if stuck with four more years of a Trump administration.”

4. YOUNGER GENERATIONS WILL TRANSFORM AMERICA’S ELECTORAL FUTURE

The electorate and the American political landscape will inevitably change as younger generations step up to create a larger share of eligible voters. Rob Griffin, William Frey, and Ruy Teixera produced a series of future election simulations to investigate how America’s youngest generations, including Millennials and Generation Z, which are both more racially diverse than older generations, appear to be more Democratic leaning than their predecessors were at the same age. “The projected growth of groups by race, age, education, gender and state tends to be more robust among Democratic-leaning groups, creating a consistent and growing headwind for the Republican party,” they write. “This will require the GOP to improve their performance among key demographic groups, election after election, just to keep their vote share competitive.”

5. SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR POOR CHILDREN CAN COMBAT US CHILD POVERTY

Melissa Kearney explores the idea of abolishing child poverty in the U.S. by giving poor children Social Security benefits, similar to benefits given to older Americans. She points out that COVID-19 has exacerbated the need to “prioritize the protection of our nation’s most vulnerable children.” The long-term consequences of low-income and special needs children in virtual learning, combined with childhood hunger and maltreatment, will have lasting effects on these children and the nation. “If we gave each child living in poverty the average Social Security benefit received by a Social Security recipient age 65 and over – that’s $17,112 annually,” Kearney argues, “the rate of childhood poverty in this country would fall to less than 1 percent.”

6. AN IMMIGRATION BAN COST FORTUNE 500 FIRMS $100 BILLION

On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued an executive order suspending new work visas for skilled immigrants, banning nearly 200,000 foreign workers and shutting down the pipeline for a large workforce for Fortune 500 companies. In their new report, Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon find that the ban “statistically and economically significantly caused negative [cumulative average abnormal returns] of up to 0.45 percent, the equivalent of over $100 billion of losses, based on the firms’ valuation before the event.” These results were pronounced for American companies that had maintained or increased their demand for skilled immigrant workers.

7. PLAYFUL LEARNING PROMOTES 21st-CENTURY SKILLS IN SCHOOLS

A new report from Policy 2020’s Big Ideas series explores a new framework for education reform based on a playful learning approach centered on the 6 Cs: collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence. Authors Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Helen Shwe Hadani, Roberta Golinkoff, and Elias Blinkoff explain the critical role of playful learning in all stages and discuss how the 6 Cs can be incorporated in the classroom. “It is time for a scalable, evidence-based education reform that puts student engagement, educator expertise, and equity at the center,” they write. “Specifically, we recommend adopting a method for keeping students engaged in the classroom, reflecting the latest evidence on how children learn best.”

8. CHINA’S GROWING ROLE IN GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS

The final series of papers from the Global China initiative analyzes China’s increasingly larger role in influencing international institutions, norms, and rules, and what other nations should do to answer Beijing’s ambitious efforts. The new papers, introduced by Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, and Emilie Kimball, examine China’s approach to global governance, including its growing power to bend rules and norms in its preferred direction, while America has stepped back in recent years. The papers provide policy prescriptions for how the U.S. can be more effective at protecting its status and interests in the world. “In some areas, such as climate change, the [paper] authors call for the United States to explore deeper collaboration with China… In other areas, such as democracy promotion, the authors urge the United States to pursue a more competitive approach to blunting China’s efforts to advance its ambitions.”

9. WHY COVID-19 HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY HARMFUL FOR WORKING WOMEN

Nicole Bateman and Martha Ross examine COVID-19’s especially negative effects on working women, for reasons ranging from being disproportionately represented in low-wage jobs to childcare systems not meeting the needs of working mothers. COVID-19 has increased the pressure on working mothers who shoulder both work and family obligations with access to solutions that provide only temporary support. “COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. economy is hard on women,” they observe, “and this virus excels at taking existing tensions and ratcheting them up.”

10. RETIREMENT TONTINES: AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF RETIREMENT INCOME?

Preparing for retirement poses complex challenges, from accumulating enough savings during working years to spending wisely after retiring. The latter challenge includes the problem of not running out of income as aging continues. J. Mark Iwry, Claire Haldeman, William Gale, and David John analyze a new way to manage income in retirement: a tontine. “Tontines are investment pools where members commit funds irrevocably and where the resources and income claims of members who die are given to members who survive,” they explain. Tontines can be adapted to fit a variety of financial structures, they add, but were outlawed “in response to corrupt insurance company management.”

[all-my-books]

2017 Reading

262 books read. 60% of new reads Non-fiction, authors from 55 unique countries, 35% of authors read from countries other than USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Asterisks denote re-reads, bolds are favorites. January: The Deeds of the Disturber – Elizabeth Peters The Wiregrass – Pam Webber Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi It Didn't Start With You – Mark Wolynn Facing the Lion – Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton Before We Visit the Goddess – Chitra Divakaruni Colored People – Henry Louis Gates Jr. My Khyber Marriage – Morag Murray Abdullah Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines – Margery Sharp Farewell to the East End – Jennifer Worth Fire and Air – Erik Vlaminck My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me – Jennifer Teege Catherine the Great – Robert K Massie My Mother's Sabbath Days – Chaim Grade Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me – Harvey Pekar, JT Waldman The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend – Katarina Bivald Stammered Songbook – Erwin Mortier Savushun – Simin Daneshvar The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran Beyond the Walls – Nazim Hikmet The Dressmaker of Khair Khana – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck *

February: Bone Black – bell hooks Special Exits – Joyce Farmer Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose Bright Dead Things – Ada Limon Middlemarch – George Eliot Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey Medusa's Gaze – Marina Belozerskaya Child of the Prophecy – Juliet Marillier * The File on H – Ismail Kadare The Motorcycle Diaries – Ernesto Che Guevara Passing – Nella Larsen Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers The Spiral Staircase – Karen Armstrong Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi Defiance – Nechama Tec

March: Yes, Chef – Marcus Samuelsson Discontent and its Civilizations – Mohsin Hamid The Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Patience and Sarah – Isabel Miller Dying Light in Corduba – Lindsey Davis * Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman * The Shia Revival – Vali Nasr Girt – David Hunt Half Magic – Edward Eager * Dreams of Joy – Lisa See * Too Pretty to Live – Dennis Brooks West with the Night – Beryl Markham Little Fuzzy – H. Beam Piper *

April: Defying Hitler – Sebastian Haffner Monsters in Appalachia – Sheryl Monks Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho The Man Without a Face – Masha Gessen Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh Flory – Flory van Beek Why Soccer Matters – Pele The Zhivago Affair – Peter Finn, Petra Couvee The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake – Breece Pancake The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson Chasing Utopia – Nikki Giovanni The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer * Young Adults – Daniel Pinkwater Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel – John Stubbs Black Gun, Silver Star – Art T. Burton The Arab of the Future 2 – Riad Sattouf Hole in the Heart – Henny Beaumont MASH – Richard Hooker Forgotten Ally – Rana Mitter Zorro – Isabel Allende Flying Couch – Amy Kurzweil

May: The Bite of the Mango – Mariatu Kamara Mystic and Rider – Sharon Shinn * Freedom is a Constant Struggle – Angela Davis Capture – David A. Kessler Poor Cow – Nell Dunn My Father's Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett * Elmer and the Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett * The Dragons of Blueland – Ruth Stiles Gannett * Hetty Feather – Jacqueline Wilson In the Shadow of the Banyan – Vaddey Ratner The Last Camel Died at Noon – Elizabeth Peters Cannibalism – Bill Schutt The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry The Food of a Younger Land – Mark Kurlansky Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue Words on the Move – John McWhorter John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville – John Ransom Such a Lovely Little War – Marcelino Truong Child of All Nations – Irmgard Keun One Child – Mei Fong Country of Red Azaleas – Domnica Radulescu Between Two Worlds – Zainab Salbi Malinche – Julia Esquivel A Lucky Child – Thomas Buergenthal The Drackenberg Adventure – Lloyd Alexander Say You're One of Them – Uwem Akpan William Wells Brown – Ezra Greenspan

June: Partners In Crime – Agatha Christie The Chinese in America – Iris Chang The Great Escape – Kati Marton As Texas Goes... – Gail Collins Pavilion of Women – Pearl S. Buck Classic Chinese Stories – Lu Xun The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West The Slave Across the Street – Theresa Flores Miss Bianca in the Orient – Margery Sharp Boy Erased – Garrard Conley How to Be a Dictator – Mikal Hem A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini Tears of the Desert – Halima Bashir The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs The First Salute – Barbara Tuchman Come as You Are – Emily Nagoski The Want-Ad Killer – Ann Rule The Gulag Archipelago Vol 2 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

July: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz – L. Frank Baum * The Blazing World – Margaret Cavendish Madonna in a Fur Coat – Sabahattin Ali Duende – tracy k. smith The ACB With Honora Lee – Kate de Goldi Mountains of the Pharaohs – Zahi Hawass Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Chronicle of a Last Summer – Yasmine el Rashidi Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann Mister Monday – Garth Nix * Leaving Yuba City – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams A Corner of White – Jaclyn Moriarty * Circling the Sun – Paula McLain Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken Believe Me – Eddie Izzard The Cracks in the Kingdom – Jaclyn Moriarty * Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg * One Hundred and One Days – Asne Seierstad Grim Tuesday – Garth Nix * The Vanishing Velasquez – Laura Cumming Four Against the Arctic – David Roberts The Marriage Bureau – Penrose Halson The Jesuit and the Skull – Amir D Aczel Drowned Wednesday – Garth Nix * Roots, Radicals, and Rockers – Billy Bragg A Tangle of Gold – Jaclyn Moriarty * Lydia, Queen of Palestine – Uri Orlev *

August: Sir Thursday – Garth Nix * The Hoboken Chicken Emergency – Daniel Pinkwater * Lady Friday – Garth Nix * Freddy and the Perilous Adventure – Walter R. Brooks * Venice – Jan Morris China's Long March – Jean Fritz Trials of the Earth – Mary Mann Hamilton The Bully Pulpit – Doris Kearns Goodwin Final Exit – Derek Humphry The Book of Emma Reyes – Emma Reyes Freddy the Politician – Walter R. Brooks * Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey * What the Witch Left – Ruth Chew All Passion Spent – Vita Sackville-West The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde The Curse of the Blue Figurine – John Bellairs * When They Severed Earth From Sky – Elizabeth Wayland Barber Superior Saturday – Garth Nix * The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt – John Bellairs * Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal The Philadelphia Adventure – Lloyd Alexander * Lord Sunday – Garth Nix * The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull – John Bellairs * Five Little Pigs – Agatha Christie * Love in Vain – JM Dupont, Mezzo A Little History of the World – EH Gombrich Last Things – Marissa Moss Imagine Wanting Only This – Kristen Radtke Dinosaur Empire – Abby Howard The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett *

September: First Bite by Bee Wilson The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander Orientalism – Edward Said The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan – Carl Barks The Island on Bird Street – Uri Orlev * The Indifferent Stars Above – Daniel James Brown Beneath the Lion's Gaze – Maaza Mengiste The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde * The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi The Drunken Botanist – Amy Stewart The Turtle of Oman – Naomi Shahib Nye The Alleluia Files – Sharon Shinn * Gut Feelings – Gerd Gigerenzer The Secret of Hondorica – Carl Barks Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller The Abominable Mr. Seabrook – Joe Ollmann Black Flags – Joby Warrick

October: Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 – Naoki Higashida To the Bright Edge of the World – Eowyn Ivey Why? - Mario Livio Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jodi Taylor The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman Blindness – Jose Saramago The Book Thieves – Anders Rydell Reality is not What it Seems – Carlo Rovelli Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell * The Witch Family – Eleanor Estes * Sister Mine – Nalo Hopkinson La Vagabonde – Colette Becoming Nicole – Amy Ellis Nutt

November: The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing The Children's Book – A.S. Byatt The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta Who Killed These Girls? – Beverly Lowry Running for my Life – Lopez Lmong Radium Girls – Kate Moore News of the World – Paulette Jiles The Red Pony – John Steinbeck The Edible History of Humanity – Tom Standage A Woman in Arabia – Gertrude Bell and Georgina Howell Founding Gardeners – Andrea Wulf Anatomy of a Disapperance – Hisham Matar The Book of Night Women – Marlon James Ground Zero – Kevin J. Anderson * Acorna – Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball * A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel * The Age of the Vikings – Anders Winroth The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction – Helen Graham A General History of the Pyrates – Captain Charles Johnson (suspected Nathaniel Mist) Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L. Sayers * The Lonely City – Olivia Laing No Time for Tears – Judy Heath

December: The Unwomanly Face of War – Svetlana Alexievich Gay-Neck - Dhan Gopal Mukerji The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See Get Well Soon – Jennifer Wright The Testament of Mary – Colm Toibin The Roman Way – Edith Hamilton Understood Betsy – Dorothy Canfield Fisher * The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Vicente Blasco Ibanez Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O'Brien SPQR – Mary Beard Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild * Hogfather – Terry Pratchett * The Sorrow of War – Bao Ninh Drowned Hopes – Donald E. Westlake * Selected Essays – Michel de Montaigne Vietnam – Stanley Karnow The Snake, The Crocodile, and the Dog – Elizabeth Peters Guests of the Sheik – Elizabetha Warnok Fernea Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg Wicked Plants – Amy Stewart Life in a Medieval City – Joseph and Frances Gies Under the Sea Wind – Rachel Carson The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia – Mary and Brian Talbot Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey * The Treasure of the Ten Avatars – Don Rosa Escape From Forbidden Valley – Don Rosa Nightwood – Djuna Barnes Here Comes the Sun – Nicole Dennis-Benn Over My Dead Body – Rex Stout *

[ilovemovieposters]

Most Popular Celebs, 25th Sept

Bill Skarsgård - It

Sophie Lillis - It

Alicia Vikander - Tomb Raider

Alexandra Daddario - Baywatch

Harry Dean Stanton - Twin Peaks

Adrianne Palicki - The Orville

Halston Sage - The Orville

Alexander Skarsgård - Big Little Lies

Gal Gadot - Wonder Woman

Taron Egerton - Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Finn Wolfhard - It

Jennifer Lawrence - mother!

Elisabeth Moss - The Handmaid’s Tale

Laura Haddock - Transformers: The Last Knight

Eiza Gonzalez - Baby Driver

Yvonne Strahovski - The Handmaid’s Tale

Jaeden Lieberher - It

Lily James - Baby Driver

Darren Aronofsky - mother! (director)

Shailene Woodley - Big Little Lies (!)

Danielle Panabaker - The Flash

Karen Gillan - Jumanji

Emilia Clarke - Game of Thrones

Pedro Pascal - Narcos (!)

Sofia Boutella - Kingsman 1

Sam Heughan - Outlander

Laura Vanderbvoort - Jigsaw

Tom Hardy - Dunkirk

Tim Curry - It

Christian Serratos - The Walking Dead

Tatiana Maslany - Orphan Black

Alexis Bledel - The Handmaid’s Tale (!)

Millie Bobby Brown - Stranger Things

Kaya Scodelario - Pirates of the Caribbeans 5

Anna Chlusmky - Veep

Amber Tamblyn

Ann Down - The Handmaid’s Tale (!)

Ella Purnell - ?

Maggie Grace ?

Kelly Rohrbach - Baywatch

Jeffrey Dean Morgan - The Walking Dead

Ana de Armas - Blade Runner 2049

Tom Cruise - American Made

Jack Dylan Grazer - It

Alison Brie - BoJack Horseman

Hilarie Burton ?

Isabela Moner - Transformers: The Last Knight

Sophie Cookson -  Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Jon Bernthal - Baby Driver

Holliday Grainger - Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

Emma Stone - Battle of the Sexes (!)

Linda Hamilton ?

David Cross ?

Evan Rachel Wood - Westworld

Katheryn Winnick - Vikings 

Dylan O’Brien - American Assassin

Jennifer Tilly ?

Reese Witherspoon - Big Little Lies (!)

Elizabeth Debicki -  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 

Margot Robbie (!) - Suicide Squad

Margarita Levieva - The Deuce

Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies (!)

Jeremy Ray Taylor - It

Pom Klementieff - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2

Lena Headey - Game of Thrones

Teresa Palmer - Hacksaw Ridge

Ariel Winter - Modern Family

Ansel Elgort -  Baby Driver

Emily Meade - The Deuce (!)

Haley Bennett - The Maginificent Seven 

Johnny Depp -  Pirates of the Caribbeans 5

Morena Baccarin - Gotham

Stephen King - It (author)

Stellan Skarsgård - ?

Tom Felton - The Flash

Nicholas Hamilton - It

Jimmy Tatro - American Vandal

Cassandra Peterson ?

Mackenzie Davis - Black Mirror

Leonardo DiCaprio - ?

Robin Wright - Blade Runner 2049

Christina Hendricks - Tin Star

Sophie Loren ?

Kate Mara - House of Cards

Camren Bicondova - Gotham

Blake Lively - All I See Is You

Jessica Biel - The Sinner

Michelle Pfeiffer - mother!

Noomi Rapace - What Happened to Monday

Caitriona Balfe - Outlander

Charlie Hunnam - King Arthur

Hanna Alström - Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Donald Glover - Atlanta

Lorenza Izzo ?

Javier Bardem - mother!

James Franco - The Deuce

Jason Momoa - Justice League

Zoë Kravitz - Big Little Lies

Annabelle Wallis - King Arthur

Jake Gyllenhaal - Nocturnal Animals

[diverseladybookproject]

I’m doing things a little different this month so I can do a final update for the Run Away with the Circus reading challenge and my Snarky Reading Recap. I’m just going to dive right in by giving you the rating system!

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0 Dogs Petted: DNF, I couldn’t get through this book. It’s not a good day.

1 Dog Petted: It was an okay day. I mean, I got to pet a dog. But it could have been better.

2 Dogs Petted: A solid effort. May recommend.

3 Dogs Petted: A really good day, tbh. Would recommend willingly to friends and family.

4 Dogs Petted: Best day. Will be recommending to all the people.

4+ Dogs Petted: A unicorn of a day! Pet all the dogs! Read this book!

I’m going to keep with the formatting from the Run Away with the Circus weekly updates and add the doggies in as I go. Of note, before we get started – July was a little nuts. As I mentioned in one of my reviews, I am currently living in Puerto Rico, and there has been some political unrest here that has led to less time available for me to read this month. Plus, I moved! So there has been a lot going on. Don’t judge too harshly, please. ❤

A Snarky Reading Recap + Run Away with the Circus Reading Challenge

Menagerie: Read a book with an animal in the title: In Progress

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean [Read the review!]

So… I wrote the review for this one without finishing the book, which is something I RARELY do. And I could only do it for this particular book because a) it’s romance, and the tropes allow me to sort of predict what’s going to happen, and b) Sarah MacLean is always wonderful and I have faith that her books are going to always make me happy in the end. But I didn’t technically finish this before the end of July, so no rating will be given until next month. I know, I KNOW! I don’t do this! But I had reviews to write!

Big Top: Read a book with red and white on the cover: Complete!

Destroy All Monsters by Sam J. Miller [Read the review!]

I can’t describe this one in a couple of sentences – you should read the full review. Sam J. Miller writes so well. He’s become one of my instant-read authors – you know those authors where you’ll buy the book without reading the synopsis? Yeah, he’s on my list now.

Rating: 4 dogs petted.

Cotton Candy: Read a light and fluffy book: Complete!

Betraying the Billionaire by Victoria Davies [Read the review!]

So light. So fluffy. This book was the beginning of all the romance that I read in the month of July, and I have absolutely no regrets about it. The full review will sum things up best!

Rating: 3 dogs petted.

Flyers: Read a book about/set in space: Complete/DNF

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed [Read the review!]

Mehh on this one. Another DNF, but I might go back to it at some point in the future. It just wasn’t what I needed in such a turbulent month.

Rating: 0 dogs petted.

Grandstand: Read a hyped book: Complete!

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover [Read the review!]

I’ve been meaning to read another Colleen Hoover book since I read Slammed back in 2016, but Slammed was so problematic and poorly written that I wasn’t sure I wanted to read another one. I’m glad we read this one for book club, because it was much better! And a really fun, easy read as a palate cleanser.

Rating: 3 dogs petted.

Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry [Read the review!]

OOOOOOKAAAAAYYYY don’t hate me, but I did the same thing with this book that I did with Brazen and the Beast… I haven’t finished it yet! I was getting down to the wire for the reviews I’d committed to, so I’m more than halfway through both of them and I just have to FINISH! Because they’re both so good! This is another one that I just trusted from the point I got to onward in order to write the review because I love both of these authors. I WON’T DO THIS AGAIN, I SWEAR. Rating coming next month!

Ringmaster: Read the first book in a series or a standalone: Complete!

The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright [No review planned on the blog]

I listened to this one on audio, and it was very interesting, and clearly super well-researched. Lawrence Wright knows what he’s talking about. It was such an excellent expose on Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and I cried the entire time he was talking about the day of September 11th. If you’re interested in how al-Qaeda and some of the other big terrorist groups came to be in the years leading up to 9/11, this is a really good option. I would highly recommend, if you can stomach it.

Rating: 3 dogs petted.

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean [Read the review!]

SO GOOD. SO GOOD. SO GOOD. Oh, sorry, we’re not singing Sweet Caroline? But seriously, this book is just exactly my thing – the grump and walking sunshine. Omg, I just LOVE that trope so much. So anyway, read the review if you want!

Rating: 4 dogs petted.

A light month, but sometimes that’ll happen. I anticipate more light months ahead as life gets busy again, but it’ll taper off at some point. It always does, and I always come back, because I love the book reviewing life.

Happy reading!

Run Away with the Circus Reading Challenge Final Update + A Snarky Reading Recap – July 2019 I'm doing things a little different this month so I can do a final update for the Run Away with the Circus reading challenge and my Snarky Reading Recap.

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Cover Reveal ~ Dreamy Distraction by Emily J. Wright

Cover Reveal ~ Dreamy Distraction by Emily J. Wright

  Title: Dreamy Distraction Series:  Quest for Love #1 Author: Emily J. Wright Genre: Romantic Comedy Release Date: July 29, 2019

  Brandon Bryce has forgotten himself. The memories of his past are lost. But in this obscurity, he remembers someone. A woman he doesn’t know much about but know enough that he wants to be with her. Will he get what he wants?A worn-out sex swing in the sex…

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Renewal Flash Fiction Anthology

QSF has a new book out, the latest in our series of flash fiction anthologies: Re.new.al (noun) 1) Resuming an activity after an interruption, or 2) Extending a contract, subscription or license, or 3) Replacing or repairing something that is worn out, run-down, or broken, or 4) Rebirth after death. Four definitions to spark inspiration, a limitless number of stories to be conceived. Only 110 made the cut. Thrilling to hopeful, Renewal features 300-word speculative fiction ficlets about sexual and gender minorities to entice readers. Welcome to Renewal.

I got an honorable mention! If you’re into queer sci-fi things, you should check it out!

Here are some teasers for the stories included! Because these stories are only 300 words each, we’re not supplying long excerpts, but here are the first lines of several of the stories. Enjoy! “Griselda pulled the weeds from between the rows of Valerianella locusta plants in the garden, careful not to disturb the buds that would grow into the babies that were her only real income-producing crop.” —The Witches’ Garden, by Rie Sheridan Rose “I didn’t know how truly the world was in trouble until I went journeying to look for Anisette’s bluebonnets.” —Bluebonnets, by Emily Horner “The ship’s drive malfunctioned at the worst possible time.” —The Return, by Andrea Speed “Before we continue, there’s a rather macabre fact about me I should share.” —Rejuvenation, by Christine Wright “When I died they buried me at the bottom of the garden and returned to the fields.” —Below the Hill, by Matthew Bright “The world is ending and I can’t look away from your eyes.” —Sunrise, by Brigitte Winter ““Losing one’s superpowers to your arch nemesis sucks donkey nuts, I tell ya. And trust me when I say I suck a lot of them.” —Rainbow Powers, by Dustin Karpovich “The day I was born again was damp, rainy—a good day for rebirth, all things considered.” —The Birthing Pod, by Michelle Browne “Intwir's twelve eyes roved over the container, taking in the cracked outer lock and the elasticated fabric stretched tightly over its exterior.” —In a Bind, by S R Jones “‘You’ve reached Androgyne HelpLine. Press one to start service. Press two to interrupt or cancel service. Press three—’” —Auto-Renew, by Ginger Streusel “The doctor tells me that my wife is dying, but I already know.” —I Will Be Your Shelter, by Carey Ford Compton “‘San Francisco was the first to go dark, followed by Los Angeles.’” —When Light Left, by Lex Chase “My fingers lingered on the synthetic skin, trailing soft patterns across my work.” —Miss You, by Stephanie Shaffer Included Authors 'Nathan Burgoine A.M. Leibowitz A.M. Soto Abby Bartle Aidee Ladnier Alexis Woods Andi Deacon Andrea Felber Seligman Andrea Speed Andrea Stanet Anne McPherson Bey Deckard Brigitte Winter Carey Ford Compton Carol Holland March Carrie Pack Catherine Lundoff CB Lee Christine Wright Colton Aalto Daniel Mitton Dustin Blottenberger Dustin Karpovich E R Zhang E.J. Russell E.W. Murks Ell Schulman Ellery Jude Eloreen Moon Elsa M León Emily Horner Eric Alan Westfall F.T. Lukens Fenrir Cerebellion Foster Bridget Cassidy Ginger Streusel Hannah Henry Irene Preston J. Alan Veerkamp J. P. Egry J. Summerset J.S. Fields Jaap Boekestein Jackie Keswick Jana Denardo Jeff Baker Jenn Burke Joe Baumann John Moralee Jon Keys Jude Dunn K.C. Faelan Kelly Haworth Kiterie Aine Kristen Lee L M Somerton L. Brian Carroll L.M. Brown L.V. Lloyd Laurie Treacy Leigh M. Lorien Lex Chase Lia Harding Lin Kelly Lloyd A. Meeker Lyda Morehouse M.D. Grimm Martha J. Allard Mary E. Lowd Matt Doyle Matthew Bright Mia Koutras Michelle Browne Milo Owen Mindy Leana Shuman Naomi Tajedler Natsuya Uesugi Nephy Hart Nicole Dennis Ofelia Gränd Patricia Scott Paul Stevens PW Covington R R Angell R.L. Merrill Rebecca Cohen Redfern Jon Barrett Reni Kieffer Richard Amos RL Mosswood Robyn Walker Rory Ni Coileain Rose Blackthorn Ross Common S R Jones Sacchi Green Sarah Einstein Shilo Quetchenbach Siri Paulson Soren Summers Stephanie Shaffer Steve Fuson Tam Ames Terry Poole Tray Ellis Vivien Dean Wendy Rathbone Xenia Melzer Zen DiPietro Zev de Valera

[lesbian-books]

Lesbian Authors

A.J. Adaire  Pat Adams-Wright  Dorothy Allison  S.W. Anderson  Elizabeth Andre  Mavis Applewater  Ann Aptaker  J.A. Armstrong  Michelle Arnold  Clare Ashton  K. Aten  Victoria Avilan  Darla Baker  Roslyn Bane  Ann Bannon  Solia Panche Bealti  Alison Bechdel  Georgia Beers  Sharon Marie Bence  Bridget Birdsall  Harper Bliss  Andrea Bramhall  Jaye Robin Brown  Anna Burke  Amalie Cantor  Brandee Carbo  Suzie Carr  Dawn Carter  C.L. Cattano  Becky Chambers  Kate Charlton  Sharon Cho  Barbara L. Clanton  Hannah Abigail Clarke  Shelby Cochran  Helen Corcoran  Jeanne Córdova  Audrey Coulthurst  Delores Cremm  Maggie Dane  Emily M. Danforth  Sandra de Helen  Barbara Dennis  Nicole Dennis-Benn Stefani Deoul  K.E. DePalmenary  T.L. Dickerson  Jennifer Diemer  Sarah Diemer * Jane DiLucchio  J.M. Dragon  Moondancer Drake  K.B. Draper  Cassandra Duffy  A.L. Duncan  Nann Dunne  Sarah Ettritch  Lillian Faderman  Sara Farizan  Leslie Feinberg  Anna Ferrara  Fannie Flagg  Jane Fletcher  Laura Foley  Katherine V. Forrest  Diane Fortier  Giselle Fox  Anna Furtado  Elisa M. Galbreath  Lynn Galli  S.L. Gape  Nancy Garden  Lyn Gardner  S. Anne Gardner  Pauline George  Ana B. Good  Parker Gordon  Erin Gough  Kimberly Cooper Griffin  Nicola Griffith  Agnes H. Hagadus  Anne Hagan  Radclyffe Hall  S.M. Harding  Ellen Hart  Nancy Ann Healy  Fran Heckrotte  Natasja Hellenthal  Dotti Henderson  Claire Highton-Stevenson  Gerri Hill  E.M. Hodge  Dayna Ingram  Isabella  Jae  Adiba Jaigirdar  Jo Jennings  Heather Rose Jones  E.A. Kafkalas  Karin Kallmaker  Riley LaShea  Stacey-Leanne  Lez Lee  Malinda Lo  Ann-Marie MacDonald  Renee MacKenzie  Prudence MacLeod  Lise MacTague  Lucy J. Madison  Rachel Maldonado  Siera Maley  Laurie J. Marks  Julie Maroh  Michelle Marra  Paula Martinac  Arkady Martine  Q.C. Masters  Andi Marquette  Pamela Mauldin  Robbi McCoy  M.K. McGowan  Gill McKnight  Ann McMan  Heather McVea  Mary Meriam  Ronni Meyrick  Martha Miller  Rogena Mitchell-Jones  K.A. Moll  Sallyanne Monti  Annette Mori  Bonnie J. Morris  Jaycie Morrison  Niamh Murphy  Charlene Neil  Natasha Ngan  Nik Nicholson  Baren Nix  Ocean  Paula Offutt Chinelo Okparanta  Chris Parsons  Angela Peach  Julie Anne Peters  B.J. Phillips  Ashley Quinn  Radclyffe  Cheryl Rainfield  Adan Ramie  Nina Revoyr  Rhavensfyre  Julia Diana Robertson  Nita Round  Morgan Routh  Joanna Russ  Laurie Salzler  Shamim Sarif  Lacey Schmidt  Sarah Schulman  Tina Sears  Cass Sellars  Merry Shannon  Fiona Shaw ** Kaden Shay  Djuna Shellam  Jen Silver  Jennis Slaughter  Adrian J. Smith  E.H. Smith  Vanessa Snyder  Alison R. Solomon  Raven J. Spencer  Ali Spooner  Rose Stone  Carren Strock  Rebecca Sullivan  Leandra Summers  Mariko Tamaki  Michelle L. Teichman  Keira Michelle Telford  Rae Theodore  M.E. Tudor  Vanda  Elle Vaughn  Missouri Vaun  Anastasia Vitsky  Tillie Walden  Sarah Waters  HollyAnne Weaver  Laney Webber  Louise Welsh  Caren J. Werlinger  K.D. Williamson  B.L. Wilson  Catherine M. Wilson  Barbara Winkes  Lee Winter  Jeanette Winterson  Chris Anne Wolfe  T.J. Wolfe  Jacqueline Woodson  Fiona Zedde  Kristen Zimmer 

* Also writes under the pen names Elora Bishop and Bridget Essex

** Not to be confused with the Irish actress of the same name

This list is subject to changes. Compiling a list of lesbian authors is a challenge because not all authors are out and my sources of information are limited. I had to rely on finding author bios, interviews, tweets, etc. in which an author mentions her sexual orientation. I also got many of these names from the Lesbian Authors Guild. 

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Des concerts à Paris et alentour

Avril 02. Lydia Lunch & Ian White : lecture musicale de "So Real It Hurts" – The University of Chicago Center (gratuit sur résa) 02. Schtum + Shit & Shine (fest. Sonic Protest) – Mona Bismarck American Center 02. Steve Gunn + Papercuts – Petit Bain 03. Sheik Anorak + Mister Bishop + BaBa YaGe – Les Nautes 02. Ballaké Cissoko & Vincent Segal (fest. Les Rares Talents) – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 03. Han Bennink + Jean-François Pauvros + Anne-Laure Pigache & Anne-Julie Rollet + Parlophonie (fest. Sonic Protest) – théâtre de Vanves 04. Os Noctambulos + The Shazzams + Veenus – L'Alimentation g��nérale (gratuit) 04. Shannon Wright + Anna Calvi + Requin Chargin + Kate NV (fest. Les femmes s'en mêlent) – Trabendo 04. Dust Breeders & Mattin + Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado jouent Suicide et Alan Vega + Anna Zaradny (fest. Sonic Protest) – église Saint-Merry ||COMPLET|| 05. Duncan + Nicolbolas – Le Zorba (gratuit) 05. Zoe McPherson – Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (gratuit sur résa) 05. Beirut – Le Grand Rex 05. Asian Dub Foundation : cinéconcert sur "La Bataille d'Alger" de Gillo Pontecorvo – Auditorium|Palais de la porte Dorée 05. Nadia Lauro & Zeena Parkins : Stichomythia – Centre Pompidou 05. Camilla Sparksss + Georgia UK + Emily Wells + Tiny Ruins + Emilie Zoé (fest. Les femmes s'en mêlent) – Trabendo 05. Defekt + Blush Response + Sinus 0 + Kino + Koddi – NF-34 05. Rendez-Vous + Qual – Gaîté lyrique ||COMPLET|| 05. Bégayer + France + Frédéric Blondy joue "Occam XXV" d'Éliane Radigue (fest. Sonic Protest) – église Saint-Merry ||COMPLET|| 06. Ujjaya – Médiathèque Georges-Wolinski (Noisy-le-Grand) (gratuit sur résa) 06. Nadia Lauro & Zeena Parkins : Stichomythia – Centre Pompidou 06. Regina Demina + Ionnalee + Pongo + Sink Ya Teeth + Oh Mu + Dope Saint Jude + Silly Boy Blue (fest. Les femmes s'en mêlent) – Trabendo 06. The Hacker + Kittin + Arnaud Rebotini + Djedjotronic + David Caretta + Cardopusher – Terminal 7 06. Molecule – Gaîté lyrique 06. These New Puritans + Scintii – Petit Bain 06. Kokoko! + Teknomom  – Badaboum 06. Dylan Carlson + Julien Clauss + Hermine + Lee Patterson + Ut + Blenno Die Wurstbrücke (fest. Sonic Protest) – Cirque électrique 07. Tashi Wada Group + Julia Holter + Corey Fogel – Lafayette Anticipations 08. The Specials – La Cigale 08. The Ex + Massicot – Petit Bain 09. Young Widows + Nesseria – Petit Bain 10. The Flying Luttenbachers – The University of Chicago Center (gratuit sur résa) 10. Jeff Mills : cinéconcert sur "Paris qui dort" de René Clair – Cinémathèque 10. Daughters – Point FMR ||COMPLET|| 11. Foudre + Krampf (dj) + Qoso (dj) (no 100 de Mouvement) – CN D (Pantin) (gratuit sur résa) 11. Areva + The Rabblers – Le Zorba 11. Claus & Clausen + Tatu Rönkkö (Pølar fest.) – Église Saint-Merry 11. Ancient Methods + Thomas Delecroix – NF-34 12. Jad Wio + Jean-Pierre Kalfon – Black Star 12. Femminielli noir + Vomir Rollet + dj Moyo – Treize 12. Orchestra of Constant Distress + Arnaud Rivière + Oliver Brisson – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 13. Bracco + Ellah a. Thaun + Balladur + Le Groupe obscur + FTR + Brace Brace + San Carol + Yen Yen + UVB76 (dj) (Disquaire Day) – Point FMR (gratuit) 13. Toner Low + Ambassador 21 + The Fat + Orso + Evil Grimace + Gurt + Ddent + Froe Char + End of Mankind + McLane + Suprême Mycosaure (Monospace fest.) – Petit Bain 13. Author & Punisher – Espace B 13. Broken English Club + Dactylo + Nizar + Pipi de Freche – NF-34 14. Arnaud Rebotini joue la BO de "120 Battements par minute" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 14. Chocolat Billy + Monsieur Thibault – Cirque électrique 15. Tim Shaw + Phill Niblock – La Générale Nord-Est (gratuit) 16. Bazooka + En attendant Ana + Seppuku – Espace B 16. Mimi Kawouin + Oculus Tapageur + FLF – tba 16. Poutre + Tabatha Crash + AVC –  Le Picolo (Saint-Ouen) 17. Teenage Fanclub – Trabendo 17. Soap&Skin – Le Trianon 17. Cave + Derinëgolem + Korto – Cirque électrique 17. Der Blutarsch & The Infinite Church of the Lending Hand + Mongolito – Black Star 17. Apparat – Gaîté lyrique ||COMPLET|| 18. Chrysta Bell – Supersonic (gratuit) 18. Kompromat – Trabendo 18. Bendik Giske + Kristina Männikkö + Denzel b2b Justus Valtanen b2b J.Lindroos b2b Daniel Kayrouz... (Pølar fest.) – La Station 18. Laurence Wasser + Pratos – Le Zorba 19. Hocico + Heerschaft – Gibus 19. Ho99o9  – Trabendo 20. Vincent Epplay + Black Zone Myth Chant & High Wolf + Domotic + Jean Benoît Dunckel + NSDOS + Erol Alkan + Tim Glass + Roscius + Sahalé + Golden Bug + Pouvoir magique + Cät Cät + RA+RE + Wael Alkak + Molecule (Inasound fest.) – Palais Brongniart 20. Michael Rother joue "Harmonia" de Neu! + Steeple Remove – La Maroquinerie 20. Gazelle Twin + Rkss (dj) + Hante + Kritzkom – Gaîté lyrique 20. Rien virgule + Pardans + Ellah a. Thaun – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 20. The Horrorist + {KRTM} + 14anger + David Asko – Rex Club 20. Margaret Dygas + Shackleton + rRoxymore + Leyf – Concrete 20. I Hate Models + Airod + Thomas P. Heckmann + Dax J + Parfait – tba 21. Wolfgang Flür – Supersonic 21. Plaid + NSDOS + Myako & Basses Terres + Jonathan Fitoussi + Danton Eprom + La Fraîcheur + Edouard Rostand + Prieur de la Marne + The Supermen Lovers + Panteros666 & Inès Alpha + Matt Black + Sara Zinger (Inasound fest.) – Palais Brongniart 22. Fontaines D.C. – Point FMR 23. Lambchop – La Maroquinerie 23. Octopoulpe + Boucan + Von Stroheim – La Cantine de Belleville 24. Talky Nerds + PenG + Electric Retro Spectrum – Gare XP 24. Saint Titus + Guilhem All + Les Lumières – Le Zorba 25. Lali Puna + Surma + Zalfa – Petit Bain 25. Kap Bambino – Trabendo 25. Guili Guili Goulag + Flingué – L'International 26. Art brut + Les Olivensteins – Petit Bain 26. Demdike Stare + Eliza McCarthy joue Mica Levi – Église Saint-Merry 26. Nous Deux + David Fenech & Laurent Perrier + Olga Bost – Le Zorba 26. Truss + Nkisi + 747 + Lacchesi – Rex Club 26. Remco Beekwilder + Speedy J + Nur Jaber – La Machine 27. She Past Away + Isolated Youth + Potochkin – La Machine 27. Chloé : Lumières noires – Le 104 27. Cocaine Piss + Tôle froide + Avale – Petit Bain 27. Thharm + Harpon + Heimat + TG Gondard – Cirque électrique 27. Bérengère Maximin, Fred Firth & Heike Liss – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 27/28. Alva Noto + Anetha + Antigone & Shlømo + Ciel + Clara 3000 + Daniel Avery + Deena Abdelwahed + Djrum + Kink + Lanark Artefax + Octo Octa b2b Eris Drew + OKO + Red Axes + Sentiments + The Pilotwings + Tryphème + Park Hye Jin (Weather fest.) – La Seine musicale (Boulogne-Billancourt) 30. The Undergound Youth + Dune Messiah – Petit Bain 30. Low Jack b2b Simo Cell + Kekra + AZF (RBMA fest.) – Gaîté lyrique 30. Couloir Gang + Descendeur + Yellow Magic Harpsichord – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 30. Shifted b2b Sigha + Lotus Eaters (Lucy & Rrose) + Von Grall + Clotur + Emissär + Vâyu – Concrete

Mai 02. Master Musicians of Jajouka – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 03. Les Boucles étranges + Badbad + Mechanical heaven + Jeanne – Le Klub 03. Atari Teenage Riot (dj) + Rebeka Warrior + Haj 300 – Rex Club 04. Covenant – Petit Bain 04. Tomoko Sauvage – tba 04. Belmont Witch + Dragon's Daughters + Petra Pied de biche (God Save The Chicks! fest.) – Mains d'oeuvre (Saint-Ouen) 04. Headless Horseman + Shxcxchcxsh + Ghost in the Machine + Mayeul + Evil Grimace + Kuss – tba 04. Arnaud Rebotini (dj) + SNTS + Antigone – 42 av. Louis-Roche (Gennevilliers) 07. dEUS – La Cigale 07. Le Prince Harry + UVB76 + Container + Techno Thriller + Succhiamo – Petit Bain 08. Sneaks – Supersonic (gratuit) 09. Bill Nace & Samara Lubelski + Michiyo Yagi & Tony Buck – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 10. The ChameleonsVox + Varsovie – La Boule noire 10. Vox Low + Pion + David Chalmin – La Maroquinerie 10. Exchpoptrue + Pita (dj) + Vicnet + dj Aï – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 10. House of Echo + Hyperactiv Leslie + Alfa Mist (fest. Switch) – théâtre de Vanves 10. Kas:st + Hadone + Michal Jablonski + Cvrdwell – Rex Club 10/11. Casse Gueule + Cyclicweetos + Clafoutis Club + Daisy Mortem + Gargäntua + Mss Frnce + Princess Näpalm + Süeür + Titus d'enfer (Fauché fest.) – Espace Albatros (Montreuil) 10/11. Dead Can Dance – Grand Rex ||COMPLET|| 11. Christina Vantzou + Eiko Ishibashi + Jan Jelinek + NPVR (Nik Void & Peter Rehberg) – Le 104 12. Massimo Toniutti + François Bayle – Le 104 13. Foals – Bataclan 14. Romain Berteau + Claus & Clausen + Borja Flames + Ambeyance (fest. Switch) – théâtre de Vanves 14. Erikm & Anthony Pateras + Dieb13 & Burkhard Stangl – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 16. Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt : "Chronostasis" + Quatuor Impact & Giani Caserotto + Open Women Orchestra (fest. Switch) – théâtre de Vanves 17. Philip Glass : Études pour piano – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 17. Jacco Gardner + Chris Cohen + Eerie Wanda + Tonn3rr3 + Discovery Zone (Le Beau fest.) – Trabendo 17. Hen Ogledd + Faune – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 18. Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper : Glasstronica – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 18. Eliane Radigue : musique (diff.) pour "Continuum" de Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves – Centre Pompidou 18. Planningtorock – Gaîté lyrique 18. Thurston Moore +  HAHA Sounds Collective + L'Éclair + Luis Ake + Domotic + Pantin Plage (dj) (Le Beau fest.) – Trabendo 18. Brandt Brauer Frick + Collectif sin ~ + Axel Rigaud (fest. Switch) – théâtre de Vanves 19. Julien Claus – Ancienne Brasserie Bouchoule (Montreuil) (gratuit) 22. Housewives – Supersonic (gratuit) 23. Lots in Kiev + Thot + Brusque – Petit Bain 23. 1919 + Guerre froide + Pest Modern + Warum Joe – Gibus 24. Beak> + TVAM – Gaîté lyrique 24. Shonen Knife – Petit Bain 24. Antichildleague + Corps + Geography of Hell – Les Voûtes 25. Sydney Valette + Blind Delon + Ruines – Supersonic (gratuit) 25. Xeno & Oaklander + Automelodi + Void Vision – Petit Bain 26. Jérôme Poret – Ancienne Brasserie Bouchoule (Montreuil) (gratuit) 27. Me Donner + Somaticae + Nani ∞ Guru –  Black Star 28. Alice in Chains + Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Olympia 29. Flotation Toy Warning + Raoul Vignal – Petit Bain 29. Big Brave + My Disco + Tu brûles mon esprit – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 31. François Bonnet + Knud Viktor + Jim O'Rourke + Florian Hecker (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio

Juin 01. Eryck Abecassis & Reinhold Friedl + Hilde Marie Holsen + Anthony Pateras + Lucy Railton (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 01. Millimetric + Phase fatale + Terence Fixmer + Dersee + Raffaele Attanasio – Studio de Lendit (La Plaine-Saint-Denis) 01/02. Metronomy + Laurent Garnier + Ricardo Villalobos + Mr Oizo + Bonobo (dj) + Yves Tumor + Marie Davidson + Pond + Sleaford Mods... (fest. We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 02. Bernard Parmegiani + Jean Schwarz (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 05. Shellac – La Maroquinerie 05. Institute + Last Night + The Cherry Bones – L'International 05. Otzeki – Safari Boat 06. Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble + Mondkopf + Kelly Moran (Villette sonique fest.) – Cabaret sauvage 07. Danny Brown (Villette sonique fest.) – Périphérique 08. Julia Holter + Cate Le Bon (Villette sonique fest.) – Trabendo 08. Deena Abdelwahed + David August + Ross from Friends + Objekt (dj) + Apollo noir (dj) (Villette sonique fest.) – Grande Halle 08/09. Aïsha Devi + Belmont Witch + Black Midi + Borja Flames + Bracco + Corridor + Coucou Chloé + Crack Cloud + Efrim Menuck + Fontaines DC + Front de cadeaux + Juan Wauters + Krampf (dj) + Maria Violenza + Mdou Moctar + Musique chienne + Myako + Nova Materia + Nyoko Dokbaë + Novelist + Shanti Celeste + Sinkane + Szun Waves + The Messthetics + Tiger Tiger + Warm Drag + Wiki Zaltan (Villette sonique fest.) – parc de la Villette (gratuit) 09. Stereolab + Jonathan Bree + Anémone (Villette sonique fest.) – Grande Halle 12. The Soft Moon – Safari Boat 12. Matmos + John Wiese – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 13. Christian Death + Little Nemo – Gibus 13. Fat White Family – Élysée Montmartre 14/15. Jessica 93 + Year of No Light + Hangman's Chair + JC Satan + Vox Low + White Heat (15 ans de New Noise) – Trabendo 15. Karen Gwyer + Gudrun Gut + Dorit Chrysler joue Laurie Spiegel – Gaîté lyrique 16. Siglo XX + The Arch – La Maroquinerie 18. Simon Whetham + Estelle Schorpp – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 19. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – La Gaîté lyrique 22. The Intelligence + Flatworms – La Maroquinerie 23. La Pince + Leon + Howdoyoudance + Polar Polar Polar Polar – Cirque électrique 26. Magma – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 26. Cannibale – Safari Boat 26. Caterina Barbieri + SKY H1 – La Gaîté lyrique 26. Pigalle – La Maroquinerie 26. Daniel Menche + Point invisible + Tzii – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 28/29. Rammstein – La Défense Arena (Nanterre) ||COMPLET||

Juillet 02. Interpol – Olympia 04. Cat Power + H-Burns (fest. Days off) – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 05. Klimperei, Sacha Czerwone, David Fenech, Denis Frajerman & Christophe Micusnule – Chair de poule (gratuit) 05. Pantha du Prince (fest. Days off) – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 05. I Hate Models + Jardin + Mount Kimbie + Oktober Lieber + Rodhad + Mor Elian + Olivia... (The Peacock Society fest.) – Parc floral 05. The B-52's – Olympia 06. Jonsi & Alex Somers jouent "Riceboy Sleeps" (fest. Days off) – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 06. Helena Hauff b2b DJ Stingray + Jon Hopkins + Motor City Drum Ensemble + Len Faki + Robert Hood + Octavian + The Black Madonna + Clara! + Nicola Cruz... (The Peacock Society fest.) – Parc floral 07. Jonsi, Alex Somers & Paul Corley : "Liminal Soundbath" (fest. Days off) – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 07. Ministry – La Machine 07/08. Thom Yorke (fest. Days off) – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 08. Gossip – Salle Pleyel 11. Full of Hell + The Body + Pilori – Gibus 11. Masada + Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman + Mary Halvorson quartet + Craig Taborn + Trigger + Erik Friedlander & Mike Nicolas + John Medeski trio + Nova quartet + Gyan Riley & Julian Lage + Brian Marsella trio + Ikue Mori + Kris Davis + Peter Evans + Asmodeus : John Zorn's Marathon Bagatelles – Salle Pleyel 11>13. Kraftwerk (fest. Days off) – Philharmonie 13. The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble (fest. Days off) – Le Studio|Philharmonie 13. Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova : "Sequenza" + Apparat (fest. Days off) – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 17. Grand Blanc – Safari Boat 18. Neurosis + Yob – Bataclan

Août 23>25. The Cure + Aphex Twin... (fest. Rock en scène) – parc de Saint-Cloud 28. Arnaud Rebotini – Safari Boat

Septembre 05. Oh Sees – Bataclan 14. Patti Smith – Olympia 14. Clan of Xymox + Plomb – Gibus 14. Danny Elfman & le Grand Orchestre d'Ile-de-France : cinéconcert sur "Alice au Pays des merveilles" de Tim Burton – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 20. Spiral Stairs + Canshaker Pi – Olympic café 23>25. John Cale – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Octobre 05. Nuit de l'orgue avec des œuvres d'Éliane Radigue, Arvo Pärt, Olivier Messiaen, Phillip Glass, Nico Muhly, Jonathan Fitoussi... (Nuit blanche) – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie (gratuit) 14. King Gizzard & Tle Lizard Wizard – Olympia 18. Dream Syndicate – Petit Bain 19. Sisters of Mercy – Bataclan

Novembre 08. Bedroom Community – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 10. Amiina : cinéconcert sur "Fantomas" de Louis Feuillade – Le Studio|Philharmonie 10. Ôlafur Atnald + Hugar – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 17. Nitzer Ebb – La Machine 24. The Young Gods + Les Tétines noires – La Machine

Décembre 06. Phillip Glass Ensemble : cinéconcert sur "Koyaanisqatsi" de Godfrey Reggio – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 07. Phillip Glass Ensemble : cinéconcert sur "Powaqqatsi" de Godfrey Reggio – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 08. Phillip Glass Ensemble : cinéconcert sur "Naqoyqatsi" de Godfrey Reggio – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie

2020

Janvier 04. Rokia Traoré + Ballaké Cissoko & Vincent Segal – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie

Février 16. Orchestral Manoeuvre in the Dark – La Cigale

Mars 07. Ensemble intercontemporain joue Steve Reich : cinéconcert sur un film de Gerhard Richter – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie  20. Ensemble Dedalus joue "Occam Ocean" d'Éliane Radigue – Le Studio|Philharmonie 21/22. Laurie Anderson : "The Art of Falling" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Mai 08. Max Richter : "Infra" + Jlin + Ian William Craig – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 09. Max Richter : "Voices" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 10. Max Richter : "Recomposed" & "Three Worlds" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 24. Damon Albarn – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

[lesliewofford83-blog]

MORE CELEBRITIES THAT DIED BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO LESLIE WOFFORD AND HER KIDS AND HER FAMILY AND WITH PAGAN’S DYING IT WILL TAKE OUT ANY DEMON THAT HATED OR CONSPRIRED AGAINST LUCIFER. APPLY’S TO DEVIL’S TOO, UNLESS LUCIFER WAS LESLIE’S RUINER, AND THOSE ONES WERE TRYING TO KILL HIM TO STOP HIM FROM HURTING LESLIE’S CHILDREN OR KILLING OFF HER FAMILY.

July 2002[edit source]

Unknown date - Catmando, 7, British Cat and Politician and joint Leader of the Monster Raving Looney Party

2 – Earle Brown, 75, American composer.

2 – Ray Brown, 75, American bassist.

3 – Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher.

4 – Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American physicist.

4 – Sir Jake Saunders, 84, British banker.

4 – Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, oldest living survivor of the Titanic.

4 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, African-American General.

5 – Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

5 – Katy Jurado, 68, Mexican actress.

6 – Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman.

6 – John Frankenheimer, 74, American film director.

6 – Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright.

6 – Stuart Shorter, 33, British homeless activist.

7 – Decherd Turner, 79, American librarian and book collector.

8 – Sir Robert Bellinger, 92, former Lord Mayor of London.

8 – Ward Kimball, 88, Disney animator.

8 – Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, former Bishop of Oxford.

9 – Laurence Janifer, 69, science fiction writer.

9 – William Robinson, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ottawa.

9 – Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.

9 – Dave Sorenson, 54, former NBA and Ohio State University basketball player.

9 – Rod Steiger, 77, American actor, kidney failure.

10 – John Wallach, 59, journalist and philanthropist.

11 – Roy Orrock, 81, British World War II pilot.

12 – Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union.

12 – Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist.

13 – Yousuf Karsh, 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa".

13 – Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.

14 – Joaquín Balaguer, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic.

15 – Gavin Muir, 50. British actor and musician.

15 – Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.

16 – Alan Charles Clark, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate.

16 – John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist, key figure in the development of RISC architecture.

16 – Cletus Madsen, 96, American Roman Catholic priest.

16 – Jack Olsen, 77, American "True crime" writer.

17 – Charles I. Krause, 90, American labor leader.

18 – Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and one time politician

19 – Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter.

19 – Alexander Ginzburg, 65, leading Soviet dissident.

19 – Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.

21 – John Cunningham, 84, British World War II fighter pilot.

21 – Antti Koivumäki, 25, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko)

22 – Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer.

22 – Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer.

22 – Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.

22 – Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.

22 – Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer.

23 – Bill Bell, 70, New Zealand cricketer.

23 – Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.

23 – Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor.

23 – William Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries.

23 – Chaim Potok, 73, American author.

24 – Maurice Denham, 92, British actor.

24 – Mike Clark, 61, former NFL kicker.

25 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.

27 – Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice-President (1997–2002).

29 – Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor.

30 – Fred Jordan, 80, British folk singer.

31 – Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.

31 – Sir Maldwyn Thomas, 84, Welsh businessman and politician.

August 2002[edit source]

1 – Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper.

1 – Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.

3 – Kathleen Hughes-Hallett, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer.

3 – Peter Miles, 64, American actor.

3 – Carmen Silvera, 80, UK television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!).

5 – Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor ("Timmy" on Passions).

5 – Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960.

5 – Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman).

5 – Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player.

6 – Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver.

6 – Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist.

7 – Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.

9 – George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.

10 – Doris Wishman, 90, American film director, producer and screenwriter.

12 – Sir John Rennie, 85, British diplomat.

12 – Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

12 – Dame Marjorie Williamson, 89, British university administrator.

14 – Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor.

14 – Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.

14 – Dave Williams, 30, singer of Drowning Pool.

15 – Jesse Brown, 58, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

15 – George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.

15 – Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician.

16 – Abu Nidal, 65, terrorist.

16 – Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.

16 – Johnny Roseboro, 69, American baseball player.

18 – Dame Elizabeth Chesterton, 86, British architect and town planner.

18 – Edward Crew, 84, British air marshal.

18 – David Keynes Hill, 87, British biophysicist.

19 – Sunday Silence, 16, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

20 – Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.

22 – Allan George Bromley, 55, computer scientist, historian of computing.

22 – Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, 66, Portuguese wine maker.

23 – Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.

23 – Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player who played for nine different teams and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

24 – Wayne Simmons, 32, American Football player.

25 – Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat.

25 – Dorothy Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.

27 – Edwin Sill Fussell, 80, American scholar of English literature.

27 – George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).

27 – John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic.

29 – Elizabeth Forbes, 85, New Zealand athlete.

29 – Paul Tripp, 91, American musician and TV host.

30 – Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.

30 – Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer.

30 – Roy Wright, 73, Austrian rules football player.

31 – Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician.

31 – Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.

31 – George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

September 2002[edit source]

1 – Peter Ramsden, 68, British rugby league player.

2 – Sir Robert Wilson, 75, British astronomer.

3 – Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.

3 – Ted Ross, 68, American actor.

3 – Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.

4 – Frankie Albert, 82, American National Football League star.

4 – Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper.

5 – Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematician.

5 – William Cooper, 92, English novelist.

5 – Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor.

5 – David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist.

7 - Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages

7 – Uziel Gal, 78, designer of the Uzi submachine gun.

7 – Don Smith, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.

8 – Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder (last seen on this date).

9 – Geoffrey Dummer, 92, British engineer.

11 – Johnny Unitas, 69, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

12 – Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress (played "Stella Kowalski" in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire).

13 – Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.

13 – George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.

14 – Paul Williams, 87, American saxophonist.

15 – Robert William Pope, 86, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Gibraltar.

16 – Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal.

16 – Nguyễn Văn Thuận, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate.

17 – Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.

18 – Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

19 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide.

19 – James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-born Australian ornithologist.

20 – Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.

20 – Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist.

21 – Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

21 – Angelo Buono, Jr., 67, the "Hillside Strangler".

21 – Robert L. Forward, 70, physicist and science fiction author.

22 – Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.

22 – Jan de Hartog, 88, novelist and playwright.

22 – Anthony Milner, 77, British musician.

23 – Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.

24 – Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame).

24 – George Wilson, 86, British cricketer.

25 – Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.

26 – Thomas S. Smith, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.

27 – David Granger, 99, American bobsledder.

27 – Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.

30 – Robert Battersby, 77, British soldier and politician.

30 – Arthur Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, 92, British cricketer and soldier.

30 – Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swiss mycologist.

30 – Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.

30 – Sir Jock Taylor, 78, British diplomat.

October 2002[edit source]

1 – Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher and philanthropist.

1 – Ted Serong, 86, Australian soldier.

2 – Norman O. Brown, 89, American classicist.

2 – Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-born American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.

2 – Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.

3 – John Erritt, 71, British civil servant.

3 – Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film producer.

4 – Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics.

4 – Barbara Fawkes, 87, British nurse.

4 – Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.

5 – Sir Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.

5 – Morag Hood, 59, Scottish actress.

6 – Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.

6 – Claus von Amsberg, 76, Dutch diplomat; husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

8 – Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress.

9 – Jim Martin, 78, American football player.

9 – Aileen Wuornos, 46, convicted of killing six men, lethal injection.

10 – Joe Wood, 86, American baseball player.

11 – William J. Field, 93, British politician.

12 – Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89. British general.

12 – Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver.

12 – Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.

12 – Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.

13 – Stephen Ambrose, 66, historian and author of "Band of Brothers".

13 – Keene Curtis, 79, American actor.

13 – Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.

14 – S. William Green, 72, American politician.

15 – Jack Lee, 89, British film director.

15 – Ze'ev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.

16 – William Macmillan, 75, Scottish minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

17 – Derek Bell, 66, member of The Chieftains, harpist.

17 – Henri Renaud, 67, French jazz pianist and record company executive.

18 – Sir Cecil Blacker, 86, British army general.

18 – Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong canto-pop singer.

19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.

20 – Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress.

20 – Elisabeth Furse, 92, German-born British war-time agent.

20 – Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player.

21 – Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.

22 – Richard Helms, 89, American former CIA director.

23 – David Henry Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.

24 – Winton M. Blount, 81, last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet.

24 – Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.

24 – Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder.

25 – Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor.

25 – René Thom, 79, French mathematician.

25 – Paul Wellstone, 58, United States Senator (D-MN).

28 – Margaret Booth, 104, Academy Award-winning film editor.

28 – Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.

28 – Sir Patrick Russell, 76, British jurist.

29 – Chang-Lin Tien, educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

29 – Richard Jenkin, 77, Cornish nationalist politician.

29 – Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian film animator.

30 – Jam Master Jay, 37, DJ of Run DMC, murdered.

30 – Sir William Mitchell, 77, British physicist.

31 – Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.

31 – Sir Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.

31 – Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.

November 2002[edit source]

1 – Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer.

1 – Sir Charles Wilson, 93, British political scientist.

2 – Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan.

2 – Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.

2 – Lo Lieh, 63, Hong King actor.

2 – Dame Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.

2 – Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.

2 – Charles Sheffield, 67, science fiction author and physicist.

3 – Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician.

3 – Sir John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.

3 – Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space.

3 – William Packard, 69, American poet and author.

3 – Sir Rex Roe, 77, British air force officer.

4 – Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.

5 – Billy Guy, 66, American singer.

5 – Mushtaq Qadri, 35, Pakistani religious poet.

6 – Brian James, 61, English cricketer.

6 – Sid Sackson, 82, board game designer.

7 – Rudolf Augstein, 79, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel.

8 – Dorothy Mackie Low, 86, British novelist.

9 – Dick Johnson, 85, American test pilot.

9 – Merlin Santana, 26, actor.

9 – William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.

10 – Steve Durbano, 50, ice hockey player, lung cancer.

11 – Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.

11 – David Steel, 92, Scottish minister.

13 – Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet and political activist.

13 – Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League.

14 – Eddie Bracken, 87, actor.

14 – Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection in Virginia.

15 – Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess.

15 – John Joseph Stewart,79, New Zealand rugby coach.

16 – Rupert E. Billingham, 81, British biologist.

16 – Sir George Gardiner, 67, British politician.

17 – Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister.

18 – James Coburn, 74, Oscar-winning actor, heart attack.

18 – Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.

19 – Prince Alexandre de Merode, 68, International Olympic Committee member, lung cancer.

19 – George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.

20 – George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.

20 – Ben Webb, 45, Canadian journalist.

20 – Zhang Shuguang, 82, Chinese politician

21 – Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince

21 – Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer.

21 – Arturo Guzman Decena founder of Los Zetas

21 – J. Roger Pichette, 81, Canadian politician.

22 – Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.

22 – Christine Marion Fraser, 64, Scottish novelist.

23 – Roberto Matta, 91 Chilean artist.

24 – Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer.

24 – John Rawls, 81, political theorist.

25 – Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician.

25 – David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.

26 – Verne Winchell, 87, founder of Winchell's Donuts (nicknamed "The Donut King").

27 – Stanley Black, 89, British musician.

27 – Ronald Gerard Connors, 87, American Roman Catholic bishop in the Dominican Republic.

28 – Billy Pearson, 82, American jockey.

29 – David Weiss, 93, American novelist.

30 – Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling, heart attack.

December 2002[edit source]

1 – Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player.

1 – José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.

1 – Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.

2 – Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.

2 – Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.

2 – Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.

2 – Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.

3 – Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel).

5 – Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football and Nightline).

5 – Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.

6 – Father Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist.

6 – Charles Rosen, 85, pioneer in artificial intelligence.

7 – Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian artist.

7 – Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

8 – Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.

8 – Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.

9 – Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.

9 – To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.

10 – Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.

10 – Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player.

10 – Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.

10 – Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.

10 – Ian MacNaughton, 76, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

11 – Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor.

12 – Dee Brown, 94, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).

12 – Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.

12 – Jay Wesley Neill, 37. convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.

13 – Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist.

13 – Zal Yanofsky, 57, Canadian member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.

14 – Jack Bradley, 86, English footballer.

15 – Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.

15 – Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player.

17 – John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.

17 – Hank Luisetti, 86, basketball star and innovator.

18 – Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.

18 – Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.

18 – Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.

18 – Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.

19 – Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.

19 – Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.

19 – Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.

19 – Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.

19 – Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.

20 – Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (1980s).

20 – James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.

22 – Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.

22 – Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.

22 – Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.

22 – Kenneth Tobey, 85, prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).

23 – Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.

24 – James Ferman, 72, American film censor.

24 – Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.

24 – V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.

24 – Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.

25 – Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.

25 – William T. Orr, 85, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV).

25 – Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress.

26 – Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.

26 – Armand Zildjian, 81, cymbals manufacturer.

27 – George Roy Hill, 81, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).

28 – Meri Wilson, 53, American singer.

29 – Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.

29 – Sir Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.

30 – Mary Wesley, 90, novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn.

31 – Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.

31 – Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew).

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Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle (born February 3, 1972) is an American author who was raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York. He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus and three novels, The Ecstatic,Big Machine and The Devil in Silver. LaValle writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and The Washington Post, among others.

Slapboxing with Jesus was published in 1999 by Vintage Books. The eleven interconnected stories deal mostly with the lives of young black and Latino men living in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection went on to receive wide critical praise. It won the author a PEN Open Book Award and the Key to Jamaica, Queens.

The Ecstatic was published in 2002 by Crown Publishing Group. The novel continues the story of Anthony James, a character from LaValle's collection of stories. Anthony is a morbidly obese college dropout who may also be experiencing the first signs of schizophrenia. The novel follows the exploits of his family, who are trying their best to save Anthony, but who might be in need of a little saving themselves. The subject matter is dark, and even shocking, but a gallows humor runs throughout. This book received even wider critical acclaim, earning comparisons to writers such as Ken Kesey, Chester Himes, and John Kennedy Toole. In 2003 the novel was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.

Big Machine was published in 2009 by Spiegel & Grau. The novel tells the story of Ricky Rice, an ex-junkie survivor of a suicide cult whose life is changed when a mysterious letter arrives summoning him to a remote compound in Vermont. The novel was widely praised upon its release, making many national top ten lists. It also won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2009, as well as the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and an American Book Award in 2010.

The Devil in Silver published by Spiegel & Grau August 21, 2012, is the story of Pepper, a sane man sent for observation to a mental hospital. There he encounters a monster roaming the nighttime halls. He teams up with some of the other inmates to fight the mental confusion of the drugs he is required to take, the staff, and the monster.

The Ballad of Black Tom was published by Tor on February 16, 2016.

LaValle graduated with a degree in English from Cornell University and a Master of Fine Arts Program of Creative Writing at Columbia University.

LaValle is an Assistant Professor and the Acting Fiction Director at the Columbia University School of the Arts. He lives in New York with his wife, novelist Emily Raboteau, son and daughter.

Awards and nominations

2010-2011 Dutch Foundation for Literature, Writer-in-Residence, Amsterdam

2010 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

2010 American Book Awards - Winner

2009 Shirley Jackson Award - Winner - Best Novel

2009 John Nichols (journalist) 2009 list of picks: Most Valuable Fiction Book

2009 Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2009

2009 Los Angeles Times Best Science Fiction of 2009

2009 Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction of 2009

2006 United States Artists Ford Fellowship

2004 Whiting Award

2003 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, Finalist (The Ecstatic)

2003 PEN/Faulkner Award, Finalist (The Ecstatic)

2002 PEN/Open Book Award, Winner (Slapboxing with Jesus)

2000 Breadloaf Writer's Fellowship

1998 Fine Arts Work Center, Fiction Fellow

Works

Books

Slapboxing with Jesus: Stories. Vintage. 1999. ISBN 978-0-375-70590-8. 

The Ecstatic. Crown. 2002. ISBN 978-0-609-61014-5. 

Big Machine. Spiegel & Grau. 2009. ISBN 978-0-385-52798-9. 

The Devil in Silver. Spiegel & Grau. 2012. ISBN 978-1-400-06986-6. 

The Ballad of Black Tom. Tor. 2016. ISBN 978-0-765-38786-8. 

Essays

"Long Distance". Granta (110: Sex). Spring 2010. 

Wikipedia

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For your Christmas time, I wish you many blessings, much happiness, and even more love; I am grateful for you and your thoughtfulness. Merry Christmas Wishes For You!

A little smile, a word of cheer a bit of love from someone near a small gift from one held dear, best wishes for the coming year.

Warmest greetings of this festive season and best wishes for Merry Christmas and Happiness in the New Year

Beneath the hustle and bustle of the festive season, there is the true beauty of connecting with loved ones. May this beauty and joy lift you during Christmas and the New Year!

I hope Santa is useful to you this year because you only deserve the best. Merry Christmas wishes from our family to yours.

May this Christmas end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year. Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Gift of Christmas is a precious reminder that we are loved! I am so lucky to have someone I love so much at my side this festive season.

Best friends are to a friendship like Merry Christmas wishes are to the other celebrations: always on top. Have a merry one.

Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a beautiful Christmas and a Happy New Year. May peace, love and prosperity follow you always

To a joyful present and a well-remembered past. Best wishes!

Best wishes, for Happy Holidays and a magnificent New Year.

Fill your heart with the warmth that is the closeness of your family, friends, and loved ones this holiday season and forever.

May all the sweet magic of Christmas conspire to gladden your heart and fill every desire. Merry Christmas!

I wish you a joyous Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.

Some people want to throw their arms around you simply because it is Christmas; other people want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. Which one are you?

The pure heart of Christmas is one of wonder and warmth. May any festive stress you feel fade away and be replaced with this. Merry Christmas!

There is no more fabulous gift this festive season than spending time with family all around the Christmas tree.

I wish you all the blessings of a wonderful Christmastime, and I hope you feel all the job this holiday season has to offer.

Christmas is not a time for celebration, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and kindness, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. Savor and enjoy the moment. Merry Christmas!

I have you as my friend makes me feel as if it is Christmas every day. Merry Christmas to my dear friend, may this season be filled with joy and laughter for you and your family.

Christmas is a particular time to enjoy with, All your loved ones, To spread the divinity and cheer around, Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!

May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. I wish you lots of love, joy, and happiness. MERRY CHRISTMAS

May this festive season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round. Merry Christmas!

Christmas is a particular time to enjoy with all your loved ones, spreading divinity and cheer around, Merry Christmas wishes, and a happy new year!

May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill, And may the year ahead be full of contentment and joy.

Wish you a Merry Christmas and may this festival bring abundant joy and happiness in your life!

May you feel all the love and joy I have for you throughout this festive season and all year round. I am having you as my friend brings me great pleasure.

May this Christmas end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year. Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron

Christmas is really a time for families to unite. It is time to share all the laughter and cheers. Without you, this family will not be called a family. You complete our lives. Merry Christmas!!!

May your heart and home be filled with all of the joys the festive season brings. Here is a toast to a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!

A silent night, a star above, a blessed gift of hope and love. A Merry Christmas to you and your whole family.

May the closeness of friends, the comfort of home, and the unity of our nation, renew your spirits this festive season. Merry Christmas wishes to your family.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. Let’s buckle up and enjoy the ride.

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all but softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.

You make the stars shine brighter and the winter days warmer just by being in my life. Merry Christmas wishes to my favorite person in the world.

Celebrate the Wonder and the Joy of the Festive Season. Merry Christmas

The gift of love. The gift of peace. The gift of happiness. May all these be yours at Christmas.

On Christmas, there’s a reason to be happy and a reason to smile, and there’s a reason why I’m sending Christmas wishes your way. You’re it.

During this festive season of giving, let us take time to slow down and enjoy the simple things. May this wonderful time of the year uniquely touch your heart. I wish you much happiness not just today, but throughout the New Year.

This festive season is so much more than Christmas parties and gift-giving. May your Christmas be filled with the real miracles and meaning of this wonderful time.

‘Tis the season to wish one another joy and love and peace. These are my wishes for you, Merry Christmas, our dear friends, may you feel the love this special day.

Christmas is the time to touch every heart with love and care. Christmas is the time to receive and send blessings. It is time to breathe the magic in the air. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.

17 Best Merry Christmas Quotes

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures. ― Sir Winston Churchill

You know you’re getting old when Santa starts looking younger. ― Robert Paul

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ― Erma Bombeck

From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas bring us closer to each other. ― Emily Matthews

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ― Hamilton Wright Mabie

He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree. ― Sunshine Magazine

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ― Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ― Oren Arnold

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas. ― Benjamin Franklin

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ― Thomas Tusser

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ― W. T. Ellis

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. ― Unknown

If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away. ― Unknown

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ― W. J. Cameron

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirits in jars and open a jar of it every month. ― Harlan Miller

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. ― Mary Ellen Chase

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still. ― Sir Walter Scott

18 Best Merry Christmas Messages For Husband

I have loved you ever since I saw you, and this Christmas season reminds me how lucky I am to have you by my side. Merry Christmas, my love.

Christmas is about gifts, unique people, and lots of love. I think we’ve been doing a great job up to this point. Let’s keep it going! Merry Christmas, Hubby!

A husband like you is everything I need to have for a beautiful Christmas. Merry Christmas hubby.

When I celebrate Christmas with you, I understand why they say marriage is done in heaven. Merry Christmas to my favorite husband.

Merry Christmas To My Adorable Hubby. I’m not sure how I was picked to hit the “hubby lottery,” but I’m so happy that I did! I love you!

Christmas always brings fantastic moments and tons of beautiful memories. Spending those special times with you are the moments that make my life and my holiday even more glorious! Merry Christmas!

Living with you is like a dream, and I do not want to wake up. Tonight is Christmas, and I only want to be with you. Merry Christmas, dear husband.

You are the man in my life. On this Christmas Eve, I can’t imagine any other person I want to be with. Merry Christmas!

A Merry Christmas is a must, or else, you’ll have to deal with this elf right here! To my Santa from his elf.

I have loved you, I do love you, and I always will love you. That’s a gift that you will get every year, no matter if it’s Christmas or not.

I wish that I could live forever to celebrate Christmas again and again and again with you. Merry Christmas wishes, my Love.

You turned my life to a river that flows through the hearts of my dears, And the rhythm of the flow rejoiced them — wishing you a Merry Christmas!

I have been so blessed to know the love of a husband like you and to be able to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Merry Christmas!

This Christmas, I want to wish you all the happiness in the world and continuing good health. I am so blessed to have you here by my side. Merry Christmas!

Looking at our children, I can’t help but smile and feel blessed that I chose to spend my life loving you. They are evidence of how much we enjoyed and how long we stayed in love — looking forward to a much happier life with you! Merry Christmas!

Every day spent with you is like Christmas because you always make it unique. But unlike Christmas, you make me feel loved all year, not just once a year.

I wish you a Merry Christmas from my heart. Let’s celebrate the season of love and peace. Feeling you near me makes me happy.

As long as we are together this Christmas season, nothing else will matter. You are everything to me, my love.

21 Lovely Merry Christmas Messages to Wife, Boyfriend, Girlfriend

You are my love and hope, and Everything seems fine when you’re around. I hope this love will be forever. Merry Christmas, dear.

If I could package my heart and send it to you for Christmas, I would. Since I can’t, this card will have to do.

The best thing about Christmas is to hug you, looking at the sky and watching the fireworks. Thank you for making me the happiest girlfriend of all. I wish you a Merry Christmas.

How many Christmases until we start looking like each other?

Christmas is a great time to spend time with family. Even though you are not technically family, I feel like you are. Merry Christmas!

It makes me very happy to have a boyfriend like you, someone who always keeps an eye on what happens to me, and who always gives me love and makes me very happy. At midnight tonight, I want to be with you to let you know I also love you with all my heart. Merry Christmas.

All my love for you will be my Christmas gift. I love you, and I want us to celebrate Christmas Eve together at midnight tonight. Merry Christmas.

Knowing that you and I both have Jesus living in our hearts makes the distance between us a little more bearable. That’s the true meaning of Christmas for me this year.

Merry Christmas wishes to a special girl, Who has stolen my heart. Enjoy Christmas with party and dance

My feet may get cold, but my heart will always be warm with love for you.

I do not want you to get me any presents. I only want to have you with me, and I will be delighted. Your presence is enough to have a Merry Christmas.

All I want for Christmas this year is your presence. I don’t need any presents from you.

It’s not just the Christmas lights; it’s also your smile. My heart feels so much warmth when you make my Christmas bright.

If you were turned into a snowman by an evil witch, I’d like us my magical kiss to turn you back into the man you are. Then I’d make you snuggle with me to warm me up.

There have been many tests to our love, but it is all over now. We are happy today, and I want you to come to my house and welcome Christmas together. I love you

Love is heavenly, and Christmas is a divine Festival, So I am having a great pleasure to send you Merry Christmas Wishes sweetheart!!

For the most special woman in my life, Who loves me unconditionally, Who cares for me Who cherishes me Merry Christmas!

We may not be together this Christmas But remember that in my heart You will always be around Together, by heart and soul, we will celebrate Christmas. Merry Christmas wishes, and Happy New Year!

This is but a message. These are but words. But these spring from core of my soul To wish you all the best this season holds. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones!

Christmas time is a great time to be your boyfriend/girlfriend. I get spoiled by you a lot anyway, let alone at Christmas time.

You make me happy in many ways, but tonight you only need to be with me and welcome the son of God in our hearts. Merry Christmas.

20 Beautiful Merry Christmas Wishes to Love Ones

This Christmas is Special for me, and I have a special person to think about Merry Christmas my love

This Christmas, I’m sending you a LOVE CAKE baked with 1 cup of love, 2 cups of trust, 1 cups of devotion, And a dash of charm, Merry Christmas, enjoy your gift!

I love Christmas because everybody is peaceful and love is everywhere. Let us be happy and together tonight. I love you. Merry Christmas.

My Christmas is more colorful this year Because this year I am having your love Merry Christmas My Dear

Tonight I will dress up and look very pretty for you. I want you to look at me and feel glad to be my boyfriend. I want us to hold hands and share, the Merry Christmas wishes with a kiss.

I’ve enjoyed making great Christmas memories with you, and I look forward to more to come.

I can’t think of anyone I would rather spend Christmas with than you. I feel blessed as if I have been given a great present.

Ever since I am your girlfriend, I feel fortunate. Everything is going well, and I am happy to be alive. This Christmas, I want to thank you for making me so happy. Merry Christmas.

No need to pull my pointy ears. I’ll be your Christmas elf this year.

Before I met you, all the days were the same for me. Now that you are my boyfriend, it is important to be together every calendar day and show you how much I love you. Merry Christmas wishes for you!

Your kiss can be my best Christmas gift. Come tonight and kiss me to feel all your love.

Just seeing you brightens my Christmas.

You are my true love, and I am blessed that I won your heart Merry Christmas

Christmas brings happiness not because I can celebrate, But I know it brings joy and cheers to my sweetheart Merry Christmas wishes My Dear

I may not always say this, but I want you to know that you’re the most awesome person I know. The person who captured my heart And imprisoned me in her heart. Wishing you the best Christmas ever!

Having you lets me be sure that I won’t be lonely or unloved this Christmas, just like having Jesus, makes me confident that I’ll never be alone or unloved any time of year.

Even though you drive me crazy sometimes, you can still drive me wild too.

Good thing, I have you as my own personal heater.

You make me feel like a child waiting to open Christmas presents, even when it isn’t Christmas time. Of course, when it is Christmas time, I think that way even more. I like hanging out with you a lot.

Come down the chimney! I have a special Christmas present for you.

We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New year!

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Oh bring us some figgy pudding,

And bring it right here!

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We won’t go until we get some,

So bring it right here!

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We all like our figgy pudding,

with all its good cheer.

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New Year!

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