#deborah sloan

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

This really spoke to me. Something I make no apology for on this blog is sharing stuff about the times when Christmas - when winter in general - is difficult. Because it is for a lot of us, and the experience of trying to celebrate a bit differently is sometimes less visible between the twin narrative poles of mainstream commercial excess, and just ignoring the whole business to do your own thing on 25th December. Sometimes the good times are haunted by the bad, and the things we love and still want to be able to enjoy are just really hard. This is about those times.

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Friday The 13th movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Friday The 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (1985) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #fridaythe13th #fridaythe13thpart5 #fridaythe13thpartvanewbeginning #seanscunningham #jason #jasonvoorhees #coreyfeldman #JohnShepherd #shavarross #DeborahVoorhees #tiffanyhelm #DominickBrascia #CarolLocatell #ripcarollocatell #richardyoung #juliettecummings #markventurini #dickwieand #RonSloan #TomMorga #melaniekinnaman #sonnyshields #miguelanunezjr #jerrypavlov #bobdesimone #richardlineback #vernonwashington #coreyparker #anthonybarille #marcostjohn #williamcaskey #johnrobertdixon #vintage #VHS #80s

[bookishfeylin]

just saw your anti booktok post from june 11 2023 and yeah. the way white authors write self-insert fantasies clearly for only white people. The way white audiences will eat it up because it has them as the mcs. the way fae fantasy/fairytale retellings only really focuses on white women. The awkward silence of being a woc and not being able to imagine yourself in the fantasy protagonist's shoes because how can you, they're all white. why would you step into a world where you're made to choose between a golden-haired good white boy and an abusive white bad boy with black hair. they are not even appealing to you. the way alina starkov and mal oretsev being made poc for shadow and bone was met with so much anger and imo violence from white women, cause they could no longer self-insert onto the protagonist because their fantasy of her being a white mc had been shattered. the sobbing and screaming in comments of youtube sections asking why couldn't alina starkov be white even though white people already have everything. and she's not even fae. the entitlement that comes with white privilege and therefore booktok. i'm tired

Hi anon! I assume you are referring to this post and yes, yes I wholeheartedly agree. There��s another post on here about the politics of escapism, and I feel like that really applies to booktok. Who gets to escape in fantasy? Who gets to read about characters that look like them go on adventures and fight monsters and ride dragons and practice magic? Who is included in their world? And who isn’t? Who is relegated as always to a servant, a competing love interest, a jealous ex, a side character in someone else’s story? Who can turn they brain off and ignore all the racism in fantasy and sci-fi—and who can’t because we live with that stuff day in and day out in the real world and it jumps out at us when we see it in our entertainment too?

And it’s so painfully apparent because whenever the same shallow writing is used but with a person of color as a protagonist, or even when the writing is solid and intense but a person of color is the protagonist, white people struggle to relate to them or argue they “have no personality” and couldn’t connect with the character (and even with side characters of color as well). For example, I recently read Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye and it was brutal and intense and a wonderful look into the psychology of child soldiers and how they are broken and what they will do to survive all from a fantasy perspective. But a lot of the (white) reviewers on goodreads say they can’t relate to Sloane, the mc, or that she’s nothing more than a cardboard cut-out who is ~traumatized~, or that the plot makes no sense, etc. The book is objectively well written, but it only has a 3.5 star rating on goodreads and people are much more critical of every aspect of the book than they are of, say, Sarah J Maas’s books when almost of these criticisms are even more applicable in her case. The double standard—the increased scrutiny of and disconnect with and dislike of characters of color—jumps out in booktok in particular because of how low the standards are for white-led and focused books and how much higher they are for POC-led and focused books. And for those of us who want to see ourselves in fantasy, it’s hard.

[emitheesimmer]

Thread: BHMCAS Challenge

Days 15-27

Day 15 // Black Sitcom - Living Single: (l to r) Kyle Barker, Maxine Shaw "Attorney at Law," Khadijah James, Regine Hunter, Synclaire James-Jones, and Overton Wakefield Jones

Day 16 // 90s: Shawn Stockman (forgot to write down his info smh 🤦🏽‍♀️ but he was inspired by Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men)

Day 17 // Coquette: Renni Ridley / Perfectly Pristine / Good, Neat, Proper

Day 18 // Royalty: Grand Duchess Miliani / Successful Lineage / Proper, Loyal, Family-oriented

Day 19 // City Girl: Kelsie Ruffin / City Native / Materialistic, Non-committal, Out-going

Day 20 // Old Hollywood: Dottie Bryant / Master Actress / Overachiever, Romantic, Ambitious

Day 21 // Mystical: Amina Giles (Spellcaster) / Spellcraft & Sorcery / Creative, Hot-headed, Perfectionist

Day 22 // Black Icon: Sade Adu / Musical Genius / Creative, Music Lover, Art Lover

Day 23 // Church Fashion: Deborah Riggs / Neighborhood Confidante / Generous, Proper, Cheerful

Day 24 // Model/Runway: Sloane Samuels / World Celebrity / Self-assured, Ambitious, Insider

Day 25 // Carnival: Sonya StJohn / The Curator / Dance Machine, Child of the Islands, Party Animal

Day 26 // Black Occult: Nathaneal Owens (Vampire) / Master Chef / Foodie, Hot-headed, Non-committal

Day 27 // Old Money/Vintage: Harper Humphries and Mochi / Fabulously Wealthy / Old Money, Snob, Kleptomaniac

[arokel]

please I need your all the presidents men wips I need them even if they aren’t finished. Think of the children

ask and ye shall receive :>

i'm usually very secretive about my wips BUT i will lower the veil of secrecy for a bit in the service of the children. looooong post under the cut!

wip 1 (with the creative working title of "sloan's wife")

“That’s what I’m trying to tell you,” Bob said emphatically. His own beer had been knocked over by a particularly vehement sweep of the arm a while ago and he had been stealing sips of Carl’s ever since. “What’s Sloan gonna say when we ask to put his name on a story that’s just about how pretty his wife is?”

“He’ll say I’m right, she is very pretty, and everyone who buys the book should know it.”

Bob snorted, hiding his smile behind the page of praises to Sloan’s admittedly lovely wife. Stupid, drunken arguments with Carl were always more fun when Carl played along. “He’ll probably just be thankful you didn’t write about how pretty he is. The biggest miracle of Watergate is that he never said anything about you staring at him all the time.”

“Nonsense,” Carl said, tapping his beer against Bob’s lips through the paper. Bob obligingly lowered it and opened his mouth to let Carl pour several drops onto his tongue with drunken precision. “I’ve only got eyes for you.”

“Aw, shucks, don’t say that. You’ll make me blush.”

Carl shrugged. “Alright, I won’t.”

The words brought Bob up short. Despite Carl’s careful pouring, a few drops had landed on his chin. He wiped them off with the back of his hand and studied Carl’s easy, open expression. Not teasing. Not a joke.

“Don’t say that now,” Bob clarified, a distinction that made perfect sense to him in the moment but probably wouldn’t hold up under sober examination. “Let me think about it.”

“Alright. Tell me what’s so wrong about calling Deborah pretty again,” Carl said, with a smile and another shrug, as if he hadn’t just changed everything between them.

wip 2 aka chapter 3 of Not all things forever are hidden

Everything since the break-in had been such a whirlwind that Bob hadn’t even noticed the time passing until Mel, shrugging off his coat in Bob’s front hallway, had asked, “so who’s this Carl Bernstein guy you’re replacing me with?”

“Not a replacement,” Bob had said, laughing, “a colleague.” But it had felt wrong, and he had changed the subject quickly. He hadn’t wanted to talk about Carl with Mel.

Mel heaved himself off of Bob’s chest with a groan and began to gather his scattered clothing. Bob watched him, sleepy-eyed, and forced the words please stay down his throat until they stopped coming back up and instead sat queasily just below his breastbone. It wasn’t Mel’s company that he wanted, just someone’s. Just not to be alone.

“Well,” Mel said, lingering with his hand on the doorknob. “See ya next time. Tell Carl Bernstein hi for me.”

“I will,” Bob said, unthinkingly. He wouldn’t.

Carl was out of town, anyway. That was why Bob had taken the night off in the first place, and why he hadn’t just called up Carl to come over and go over leads again when he felt the loneliness starting to creep in at the edges of his vision. That was why he didn’t want Mel to leave.

wip 3 which is. just filth

“I can do better,” Carl says opaquely, hoisting his bag over his shoulder. “Yours or mine?”

Bob knows what he’s really saying. “Stop off at yours first? Most of your notes are still at mine.”

They don’t fuck at Carl’s place, for the simple reason that Carl’s walls are thinner. Watergate has turned them both into cautious people, people who speak in code. Grab a change of clothes, Bob is saying, and spend the night with me.

“Sounds good. Want to stop for something on the way?” Carl says with a shrug, as if he’s read nothing into Bob’s words beyond the surface.

“I’m not very hungry,” Bob says. I can’t wait, he means. I want you as soon as I can have you.

Carl’s grin is sharp. “Me neither.”

Carl lets his hand rest just behind the gearshift the whole drive back to his place and then to Bob’s, the tips of his fingers brushing continuously against Bob’s thigh as if by accident. Bob stays in the car while Carl grabs a briefcase secretly carrying an extra set of clothes, too turned on to follow without embarrassing himself.

He holds it together until they’re safely inside his own apartment with the door locked behind them, and then he shoves Carl against the wall beside it, panting frustrated breaths against Carl’s neck as Carl laughs.

“You’re a goddamn terrible driver, you know that?”

“You were distracting me,” Bob growls, betraying his own anger by nosing Carl’s shirt collar aside to press a wet, openmouthed kiss against his collarbone. He’s not angry, per se, but there is an energy fizzing beneath his skin, a restlessness seeking an outlet. “Stroking my thigh and moaning the whole time - “

“I was humming along to the radio.”

Bob lifts his head to glare. “No one hums like that.”

Carl hums again - moans; really, no one hums like that outside of sex - and pulls Bob in, finally, to kiss him, deep and wet, fucking his tongue into Bob’s mouth, and even though he has Carl backed against a wall, suddenly Bob is the one who feels trapped.

wip 4 aka cuddling for warmth

“Hey, I just finished for the night, are you busy? I have something - maybe big, maybe nothing, but I want to talk it out before I sleep on it. Can I swing by?”

“Don’t worry, I canceled all my plans already since I figured you were going to call. I sensed it,” Carl said, affecting a tone Bob could only describe as mystical. “Come on over, I’ll make coffee. But dress warm.”

“Very funny. See you in a few.”

Carl’s apartment, while just as sad and cluttered as Bob’s, had two radiators, and Carl kept them both on full blast at all times in the winter. “Come on,” he would say, whenever Bob chided him about the waste of energy, “do you really think they turned down the heat in the White House? I bet it’s like a sauna in there,” and Bob hadn’t yet found a good comeback. At least when Johnson had turned the lights out you could see it.

But in that moment Carl’s energy inefficiency was exactly what Bob wanted, and so he was both startled and disappointed by the chill that greeted him when Carl opened the door and stepped back to let Bob inside, bundled in a quilt and looking miserable.

Bob stepped over the trailing edge of the quilt and, shivering, listened for the familiar clicking of the radiators. They were silent.

“Jesus Christ,” he said. “You know Nixon said sixty-eight degrees, not off.”

“Heat’s out in the whole building,” Carl said. “I think they let Liddy out of prison so he could take a sledgehammer to the furnace to spite me personally.”

“Somebody smashed up the furnace?”

“Well, probably not. But if anyone did my money’d be on Liddy.”

[musingsofmonica]

February 2024 Diverse Read

February 2024 Diverse Reads:

•”My Beloved Life” by Amitava Kumar, February 27, Knopf Publishing Group, Historical/Literary/World Literature/India

•”Whiskey Tender: A Memoir” by Deborah Taffa, February 27, Harper, Personal Memoirs/Women/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Native American & Aboriginal

•”I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both” by Mariah Stovall, February 13, Soft Skull, Contemporary/Coming of Age/Friendship/African American/Women

•”Private Equity: A Memoir” by Carrie Sun, February 13, Penguin Press, Personal Memoirs/Women in Business/Business/Finance/Wealth Management/Investments & Securities

•”Village in the Dark” by Iris Yamashita, February 13, Berkley Books, Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural/Thriller/Suspense/Women

•”Redwood Court” by Délana R. a. Dameron, February 06, Dial Press, Literary/Coming of Age/Women/African American/Southern

•”Wandering Stars” by Tommy Orange, February 27, Knopf Publishing Group, Literary/Cultural Heritage/Native American & Aboriginal

•Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-Reum & Shanna Tan (Translator), February 20, Bloomsbury Publishing, Contemporary/City Life/World Literature/Korea

•”Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays

Aisha Sabatini Sloan, February 20, Graywolf, Essays/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/African American & Black/LGBT/Anthropology/Cultural & Social

•”The Things We Didn't Know” by Elba Iris Pérez, February 06, Gallery Books, Literary/Coming of Age/World Literature/Puerto Rico/20th Century

•“The Fox Maidens” by Robin Ha, February 13, Harperalley, Comics & Graphic Novels/Historical/Fairy Tales/Folklore/Legends & Mythology Fantasy/Romance/LGBT/World Literature/Korea

•”Hope Ablaze” by Sarah Mughal Rana, February 27, Wednesday Books, Magical Realism, Poetry/Religious/Muslim/Social Themes - Activism & Social Justice

•“ASAP” by Axie Oh, February 06, Harperteen, YA/Romance/Contemporary/Coming of Age/Asian American

•”Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories” by Amitav Ghosh, February 13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nonfiction/Historical/Travelogue/Memoir/Family History/Essay in History/Globalism/Capitalism

•”Fathomfolk” by Eliza Chan, February 27, Orbit, Fantasy/Action & Adventure/Dragons & Mythical Creatures/East Asian Mythology 

•”Ours” by Phillip B. Williams, February 20, Viking, Literary/Historical/African American/Magical Realism

•”Neighbors and Other Stories” by Diane Oliver, February 13, Grove Press, Short Stories/Literary/Historical/African American & Black

•”Greta & Valdin” by Rebecca K. Reilly, February 06, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, Literary/Romcom/Family Life/LGBT/Cultural Heritage/World Literature/New Zealand/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Russian-Maori-Catalonian/Indigenous/Polynesian 

•”The American Daughters” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, February 27, One World, Historical/Civil War Era/Saga/African American/Women

•”My Side of the River: A Memoir” by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez, January 13, St. Martin's Press, Personal Memoirs/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Hispanic & Latino/Public Policy - Immigration

[sporadiceagleheart]

Start of September edits Rachel Marie Jones Arana, Ana Rose “Nortie Grace” Huntley, Ahnika Elaine Clark, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Judith Eva Barsi (1978 - 1988), JonBenét Ramsey, Meika Dawn “Peeka” Jordan, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Olivia Pratt-Korbel, Liliana Marie “Lily” Peters, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Audrii Danielle Cunningham, Norah Lee Howard, 5-year-old Mercedes Losoya, Little Lucy Morgan, Sloan Ella Mattingly, Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg, Louis XVII Dauphin of France, Athena Presley Monroe Strand, Pauline “Paultje” Adelaar, Angellika Nicole “Angie” Arndt, Niña Sophia Gabrielle Corullo or Sophie,Charlotte Helen “Char” Bacon, Charlotte Louise Dunn, Kylie Ann Rosset, Naomi Reese Dunmire, Deborah Anne “Debbie” Bricca, Kyleigh Rampley, Kyleigh Leann Rampley, Eliahna “Ellie or Elle” Torres, Layla Marie Salazar, Alexandria Aniyah “Lexi” Rubio, Tess Marie Mata, Makenna Lee “Kenna” Elrod Seiler, Jacklyn Jaylen “Jackie” Cazares, Ahnika Elaine Clark, Ana Rose “Nortie Grace” Huntley, Rachel Marie Jones Arana, Emilie Alice “Em” Parker, Grace Lillian Ford, Three-year-old twins Aisha and Lailani Ford, Leiliana Wright, Arabella McCormack, MCKENNA CLAIRE WETZEL, Olivia Rose “Liv or Livie” Engel, Olivia Twenty Dahl, Olivia-Leigh Picton, Jaquita Mack, Bella Skye “Bellz” Edwards, Natalia Victoria Wallace, Bella Claire Callaway,Delyza Alyze Ortiz Hernandez, Mia Ugalde-Jorris, Mary Beatrice “Mary Bea” Perez, Hope Arismandez, Angel Hope Herrera, Danielle Marie “Danny” Franklin, Emma Catherine Grace Thompson, Katelynn Elizabeth Stinnett, April Sue-Lyn Jones, April Marie Tinsley was an eight-year-old, Cody Paul Chama, Star Hobson, Karla Isabelle Ruth “Karly” Sheehan, Opal Jo Dace Jennings, Amber Rene Hagerman, Lois Janes, Sarah Payne, Alicia Lynn Clark, Tristyn Bailey, Rosalie Avila, Elizabeth Shelley,

[tradingmysorrows]

"I love you, Sloane. I love you so much I'd die for you." I shouldn't listen to him. I shouldn't allow him to sacrifice himself for me. I should choose death over a life of eternal slavery. Because if I do what Theo is asking of me, I know I will always be a slave to my guilt. I know it deep in my soul. Yet, my sobs pierce the gloom of the steel chamber as I utter the words, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

Deborah Falaye, Blood Scion

[critical-quoter]

March Books

If I keep up at this pace, I'll probably double my reading goal. But such is life, I guess. lol Also, I'm starting to realize that I may be way too generous with my ratings.

Lover Eternal - J. R. Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lover Awakened - J. R. Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fortress of the King - Dakotah Fox ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fortress of the Queen - Dakotah Fox ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lover Revealed - J. R. Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fae Gods: Maze - Phillina Wood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Faking with Benefits - Lily Gold ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Savage Favour - Layla Simon ⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Darling Bride - Isla Madden-Mills ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tempt Our Fate - Kat Singleton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ You're So Bad - Angela Casella ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Time with Mr. Silver - Elle Nichol ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sicko - Amo Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Throne of the Fallen - Kerri Maniscalo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Famous Last Words - C. W. Farnsworth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Good Billionaire - Deborah Garland ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Deviant Hearts - Jagger Cole ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dante - Sadie Kincaid ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Our Ride to Forever - Julie Olivia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Under His Mask - Eden Webber ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Desire or Defense - Leah Brunner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Twisted Devotion - Poppy St. John ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Strictly Business - Carrie Elks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When Heroes Fall - Giana Darling ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When Villains Rise - Giana Darling ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Queen and the King - Jeanette Rose & Alexis Rune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Twisted Emotions - Cora Reilly ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Secret Baby for the Bratva - Isla Brooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Touch of Chaos - Scarlett St. Clair ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lincoln - V. H. Nicolson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Varsity Dad Dilemma - Lex Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wild About You - Rebecca Jenshak ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Always My Comfort - Taylor Jade ⭐️⭐️⭐️ City of Darkness - Karina Halle ⭐️⭐️⭐️ There Are No Saints - Sophie Lark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There Is No Devil - Sophie Lark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Protected and Punished - V. T. Bonds ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Indigo Ridge - Denver Perry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When We Touch - Carrie Elks ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Spring Breeze - Lily Alexander ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Off Limits - Chelle Sloan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beneath These Dark Skies - Ria Wilde ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bride - Ali Hazelwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bound by Fate - F. D. Fair ⭐️⭐️ Trying to Hate the Player - Tia Souders ⭐️⭐️ For Him - R. L. Atkinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What I Should Have Said - R. L. Atkinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ On the Line - Naomi Loud ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ On the Line - Julia Connors ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Kiss Keeper - Krista Sandor ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pucking Revenge - Brittanee Nicole ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Abandoned - A. M. Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tailgates and Truck Dates - Haley Rhoades ⭐️⭐️⭐️ When She Loves - Gabrielle Sands ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tailgates and Heartaches - Haley Rhoades ⭐️⭐️ The Turnover - Piper James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tailgates & First Dates - Haley Rhoades ⭐️⭐️ Keeping My Captive - Angela Snyder ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Prince of Demons - Hana Hahm ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shadow Game - Christine Feehan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Takeover - T. L. Swan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Summons - Aquila Thorne ⭐️ God Complex - Darcy Dahlia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Forbidden Freedom - Jasmin Miller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Hue of Blu - Marie-France Leger ⭐️ Solace - Cat Austen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Spite - Cat Austen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Pucking Wrong Number - C. R. Jane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Technically Yours - Denise Williams ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Two of a Kind - Alexa Rivers ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beat by Beat - Kaylee Ryan ⭐️⭐️ Puck Pact - Kristen Granata ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Scoring the Player - Rebecca Jenshak ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

73 total books read for March 2024. I think that's a personal monthly record!

[scribnibbler]

Blood Scion - Deborah Falaye - Finished.

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4/5 🌟

Wow.

So I loved this book. I loved the world, the characters, the plot pretty much everything.

It would of got 5 but I found that the writing at the beginning of this book was far far to slow you really have to persevere with it but once you hit that near mid way mark. Wow. Wow.

SPOILER

Sloanes journey will keep you gasping. The training process of the Lucis is brutal the amount of loss the character experiences is tremendous. Being a child soldier she is not aloud to have nothing for herself everything is a secret everything has to be controlled but as the reader it's the realisation that everything your so happy she gained just gets coldly ripped away.

The relationships that are built throughout this story felt like for sloane they was hard to acquire. To be able to trust was such a big deal. Just the fact that if someone just knew who she really was that in itself was a death wish.

I'm not going to go over the plot massively but just my views or how I felt but the ending... that's her dad?? Him? And Baba??? I have so many questions about the ending where she is going to go? Is Shango just a one time deal of had she become a vessel for him?

I cannot wait for the second installment coming out this year. So so worth the read.

[curlyhairedbibliophile]

March Satisfiction Unboxing 📚📦

Finally had the chance to peak inside my March Satisfiction box and everything is great as usual! 😍 I’ve heard nothing but wonderful things about Blood Scion so I’m really excited to have it on standby for when I finish my current stack of reads. 

I’ve been more busy than usual with work lately, but I can’t wait to try everything inside when I get the chance - especially the journal 😊

📚 FEATURED BOOK: Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

ALSO INCLUDED: 🩸 Sloane Candle BY COLVON 🩸 Wild Rose Bath Truffle by Bloom Bath Co. 🩸 Love Frequency Body Oil by Self Goddess 🩸 Nourishing & Firming Sheet Masks by Maskeraide 🩸 Intention Mental Wellness Notebook by Cloth & Papier

[ulkaralakbarova]

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.  Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Peter Appleton: Jim Carrey Elvin Glyde: Bob Balaban Mayor Ernie Cole: Jeffrey DeMunn Congressman Doyle: Hal Holbrook Adele Stanton: Laurie Holden Harry Trimble: Martin Landau Sheriff Cecil Coleman: Brent Briscoe Kevin Bannerman: Ron Rifkin Emmett Smith: Gerry Black Doc Stanton: David Ogden Stiers Stan Keller: James Whitmore Irene Terwilliger: Susan Willis Mabel: Catherine Dent Carl Leffert: Brian Howe Bob Leffert: Karl Bury Avery Wyatt: Chelcie Ross Sandra Sinclair: Amanda Detmer Leo Kubelsky: Allen Garfield Federal Agent Ellerby: Daniel von Bargen Jerry the Bartender: Mario Roccuzzo Newsreel Announcer (voice): Earl Boen Roland the Intrepid Explorer: Bruce Campbell The Evil But Handsome Prince Khalid: Cliff Curtis Kindly Old Professor Meredith: Michael Sloane Studio Executive (voice): Garry Marshall Studio Executive (voice): Paul Mazursky Studio Executive (voice): Sydney Pollack Studio Executive (voice): Carl Reiner Studio Executive (voice): Rob Reiner Luke Trimble (voice): Matt Damon Film Crew: Supervising Sound Editor: Richard L. Anderson Casting: Deborah Aquila Producer: Frank Darabont Original Music Composer: Mark Isham Director of Photography: David Tattersall Costume Design: Karyn Wagner Makeup Department Head: Bill Corso Editor: Jim Page Production Design: Gregory Melton First Assistant Editor: Tracey Wadmore-Smith Screenplay: Michael Sloane Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mel Metcalfe Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Terry Porter Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dean A. Zupancic First Assistant Editor: Vince Filippone Set Production Assistant: Jacob Cooney Boom Operator: Tom Hartig Set Decoration: Natalie Pope Script Supervisor: Lyn Matsuda Norton Still Photographer: Ralph Nelson Jr. Steadicam Operator: David Emmerichs Music Editor: Thomas A. Carlson Gaffer: H. Mark Vuille Script Supervisor: Susan Malerstein Production Sound Mixer: Mark Ulano Rigging Gaffer: Todd Sater Production Supervisor: Alison Harstedt Stunts: Katie Rowe Movie Reviews: GenerationofSwine: It’s time for the Majestic review…. …RED SCARE!!!! It makes a play at it in the very start of the film. It loudly proclaims that, HEY, WATCH THIS MOVIE, IT’S ABOUT FREE SPEECH AND THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST!!!!! And it does it as loud as it can… …and then it kind of forgets what the movie is about up until the last 15 minutes. However, the bulk of the movie does seem like the kind of film that would fit in the Hollywood Blacklist Era. The plot, the acting, the setting, all seems to be very much a 1950s feel good movie… …and then it veers off again and delivers on the 1st Amendment moral to end the film with a light heavy hand…if that makes sense. So, it feels disjointed, but in a way that oddly fits the premise to begin with. Almost as if it is trying to be a movie in a movie, which might have been the point. Watch it once, it will entertain you. Watch it more than once and you’ll be bored.

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Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Friday The 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (1985) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #fridaythe13th #fridaythe13thpart5 #fridaythe13thpartvanewbeginning #seanscunningham #jason #jasonvoorhees #JohnShepherd #shavarross #DeborahVoorhees #tiffanyhelm #coreyfeldman #melaniekinnaman #DominickBrascia #dickwieand #RonSloan #CarolLocatell #ripcarollocatell #juliettecummins #miguelanunezjr #jerrypavlon #richardlineback #vernonwashington #richardyoung #anthonybarille #coreyparker #marcostjohn #TomMorga #vintage #VHS #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

[executiveeducation]

Transforming Your Leadership Strategy: X-Teams for Success in a Changing World

Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Ancona is the author of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business School Press) and teaches courses involving X-team curriculum at MIT Sloan Executive Education.

[bethly126]

Quick Review: Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

Sloane is a scion in a world that has tried to erase them. She has powers believe to come from one of her people’s Gods but all traces of their heritage have been all but erased by a Colonial like authoritarian regime that has taken over her country. To make matters worst she has been drafted into a child’s army in service of her oppressors. She has to hide who she is while trying to survive…

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Here's my Tribute edit for the angels in heaven Semina Mary Halliwell, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Sidra Hassouna, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Athena Strand, Athena Brownfield, Macie Hill, Ava Jordan Wood, Skylar Annette Neese, Rachel Joy Scott, Hannah Louise Scott, Charlotte Bacon, Charlotte Louise Dunn, Riley Faith Steep, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Louis XVII, Shirley Temple, Baby LeRoy, Baby Peggy Montgomery, Peggy Cartwright, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Peaches Jackson, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman, Mildred Kornman, Lucy Morgan, Lily Rose Diaz, Colby Curtin, Jaquita Mack, Bella Bond, Opal Jo Dace Jennings, Amber Rene Hagerman, Jessica Rekos, Benjamin Wheeler, Allison Wyatt, Bella Edwards, Natalia Victoria Wallace, Sherin Mathews, Caylee Marie Mastin, Amanda Todd, Heather O'Rourke, Judith Barsi, Maria Agnes Virovacz Barsi, Michelle B. Norris, Anna D. Crnkovic, Irmgard Christine Winter, Rosalie Avila, Ashawnty Davis, Emily Grace Jones, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Norah Lee Howard, Sarah Payne, Alicia Lynn Clark, Tristyn Bailey, Aubreigh Paige Wyatt, Phoebe Prince, Gabriella Green, Millie Drew Kelly, Emilie Parker, Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner, Avielle Richman, Caroline Previdi, Daniel Barden, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Dylan Hockley, Madeleine Hsu, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Nevaeh Bravo, Layla Salazar, Jackie Cazares, Tess Marie Mata, Maite Rodriguez, Alexandria Rubio, Destiny Norton, April Jones, Anissa Jones, April Marie Tinsley, Deborah Bricca, Rylie Nicholls, Moa Leontine Björk, Mercedes Losoya, Sidra twin sister, Emily Wilding Davison Statue, Emily Hope Mason, Emily Grace Leeann Akers, Emily Ann Bryant, Emily Kate Elise Conatzer, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Ruby “Charlie” Emily, Judy Garland, Mary Pauline “Paulina” Olin, Edward Maitland Grover, John Orville Wright, Star Hobson, Breanna Leigh Rehbein, Nathan Luis Almaraz, Frank Nitti, Gonda Blindeman, Israel Blasbalg, Hedy Blum, Svetlana Blokh, Peter Blödy, Debora Rachel Sara Gertrud Bloch, Saszi Bodnar, Kuki Bodnar, Cato Rachel Boas,