#don book club

[brotherslayer]

My heaven, my hell are in your gaze.

[penwl]

I found 3 book's to read!! I'm not sure which one you guys would prefer so I'm gonna see which one you guys like best!

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megneto once more,,, based on the first ever sketch i did of them hehe

took way too long bc i couldnt decide what colors to shade with

[waku-waku-week]

[melodysbookhaven]

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

[funnuraba]

Anyone who tries to tell you that fandom used to be chill before Kids These Days came along is lying to you, because I've been in the trenches going through old zines from the very beginning of organized science fiction fandom in the 1930s, and let me tell you, it was the autism Thunderdome. They were calling each other Hitler, getting into physical fights, writing into letter columns suggesting that other fans kill themselves.

To give the briefest of summaries: the first convention happened in 1936 with about 9 guys, and within three years they and all of sci-fi fandom had split in two over who got to plan the cons and who was a card-carrying Communist. By 1943 they'd had the first attempted fandom cult and the first faked suicide. Two different sex offenders were exposed, one the attempted cult leader and one a major player in the Communism feud. Another sex offender was only exposed in the 21st century after his death; in the 1940s he publicly proposed to a lesbian Satanist in the pages of A FANZINE and she had to politely suggest that this was best discussed in private. Everyone kept making fun of a teenage Ray Bradbury for being a terrible writer. They would tear their own friends' work to absolute shreds in public if they didn't like it!

Two young men got to the Chicago Worldcon by stowing away on boxcars and riding in the freezing cold for 30 hours (they got an award and cash prize for doing this). All this is taking place at a time where there were maybe 50 genuinely active fans, and they all knew each other and had to pay money to mail their fights to each other. It was wild out there, my friends.

[excessivebookshelf]

Summer Saturday (coffee + chivalry)

[brotherslayer]

@notenderhands, @penwl, @the-lord-of-springs when it's my turn to choose a novel for the book club can I pick The Pattern Scars? 👉👈According to reviews it's about an orphan with the gift of prophecy who is groomed and magically entrapped into helping an insane Seer named Teldaru practice blood magic/necromancy in order to try to ignite a war with a neighboring county.

[darkcrowprincess]

It book thoughts:

Adrian and Don were so fucking cute and sad. Plus Adrian wanted to be a writer! He was writing a book! He loved the Maine country side and he loved Don! Like fuck fuck fuck! Their whole fucking story was so sad. Because they were so happy.

One postive news. Derry has a gay bar. And the owner did not care his bar was one. He was actually a decent person. So like losers club Fandom and fan writers heres a little nugget for you, Derry had a gay bar that was really nice and was a safe haven for gay men. Even though all the assholes kept saying mean rumors about it. But I'm just imagining fanfiction where the losers go to that bar when they're teenagers. The falcon(lol I love that name!) Or the bar is still there when they come back 27 years later and its one of the few safe spots in Derry for people that are different.

(Don't like don't read. Post hate and I'll block you)

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this is how pretty much every conversation ive written for them goes

either that or:

[vavuska]

It's not important if your nickname is Don Quixote rather than Tyler Durden, because both of them have something in common: they make automatically your argumentations invalid. Don Quixote was insane and had hallucinations, while Tyler Durden is the hallucination produced by a disturbed mind.

On one hand Don Quixote lives in a mythologized past that never existed and, instead of trying to understand the evolutions of society and questioning his “ancient” way of thinking, he escapes from a reality, a present that he doesn't understand anymore (or doesn't feel as his own), on the other hand Tyler Durden is the unrealistic ideal of masculinity diffused by media and created by the same consumeristic and capitalistic culture Tyler Durden fights. They are both illusions, intrinsically contradictory falsehoods.

[melodysbookhaven]

“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

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A Transformative Masterpiece - The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Unleash the transformative power of "The Four Agreements"! Dive into our latest blog review and embark on a journey of peace, inspiration, + personal growth. Join us at Lit Lounge and unlock the secrets to living a life of harmony. Click to read more!

Today marks a significant milestone: 820 consecutive meditation days for Mark and me. This intentional practice became our sanctuary after the death of my mother in 2021 which left me feeling untether. Meditation continues to be an anchor for both of us and helped ground us as we were submersed again in family tragedy and grief this past year. In our quest for solace and enlightenment, we…

[adamwatchesmovies]

Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I wish I liked these Book Club movies more. No, wait. Let me change that to “I wish these Book Club movies were better”. It’s a treat to see actresses who would normally get relegated to the role of “the protagonist’s grandma” in a main role. Nonetheless, I have the feeling most viewers will recognize Book Club: The Next Chapter as the kind we'd dismiss altogether if it featured performers in their 20s and 30s. Why should we make an exception because the cast are Hollywood veterans?

When Diane (Diane Keaton), Sharon (Candice Bergen) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) learn that Arthur (Don Johnson) and Vivian (Jane Fonda) are finally get married, the girls decide to go on a bachelorette party tour of Venice.

Production snapshots during the end credits make two things pretty clear. 1) The cast and crew had a great time making this movie. 2) They had a particularly good time making it in Venice. The shots of Italy are not quite as egregious and commercial-y as you’ve seen in other films, but come on, we all know this was sort of a working vacation for everyone. The ladies get to wear some beautiful wedding-themed dresses even though there’s no reason for them to - except Vivian, of course. They tour museums, get wined and dined... all of which are realistic things for them to do on a vacation, but it's still a vacation.

All the ladies get their own little stories. They range from the semi-dramatic to the romantic and the goofy. The recently-retired Sharon catches the eye of Ousmane (Hugh Quarshie), who all but serenades her in a scene that’s fun until it ends with a lame recurring gag. It involves a police officer (Giancarlo Giannini) the women constantly bump into - even when they leave the city he’s patrolling and travel hours away. It’s not nearly as corny as Diane’s story, which involves her dead husband’s missing ashes.

I’m not sure which of the women gets the worst sub-plot. Vivian’s journey is the most realistic. She's firmly established who she is. Now, she’s having reservations about changing it all by tying the knot. There’s actuallly something there. Too bad it’s frequently buried beneath lame gags. In one scene the ladies’ car breaks down in the middle of the road and Vivian thinks the police officer who shows up to help is a stripper. Does she think her friends are putting her through The Game? As if anyone would purposely fake engine troubles in the middle of the countryside so this hunky guy could show up on-cue. It makes no sense.

Similarly, there’s a single gag involving Carol that completely ruins her story. She used to have the hots for this chef (her diary describes how much she wanted to put his meatballs into her mouth, which should give you an idea of what the writing is like). When they reconnect, they flirt. He shows her this old van in his garage. In the next shot, it’s rocking like there’s something naughty happening inside but then we see that they’re just vigorously kneading bread. Firstly, that's been done a thousand times. Secondly, she’s married. Was the idea of them getting it on spontaneously despite her being married supposed to be supposed? Was the intent to horrify the audience and they *psyche!*? I’m guessing the movie just didn’t think things through, that it never even ocurred to writer/director Bill Holderman (who co-writes with Erin Simms) that a rocking car gag was anything but mandatary.

While the actresses in Book Club: The Next Chapter raise the material, they can only do so much. Like its predecessor, this film is firmly aimed towards a specific audience of older viewers who want to see a comedy that's a little racy but not too racy. Even for them, this is a letdown. (Theatrical version on the big screen, May 12, 2023)

[sognareleggiesogna]

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[darknightwolves]

Episode 148: Book Review 6 | Creative Writing Club

https://youtu.be/WUGSY0hX7oQ https://open.spotify.com/show/0BX9Z6IfApWiXjzzNPJWK7 On this week’s episode, I decided to do a long-awaited book review since I haven’t done one in nearly 2 years. The books I chose to review are: ‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ trilogy by Holly Jackson (Audio) ‘Top Ten’ by Katie Cotugno (Book) ‘Don’t Hate The Player’ By Alexis Nedd (Book) ‘The House Across The…