#helen sewell

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Pen and ink drawing for "These happy golden years" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Stamped and handwritten on back: "From 'These happy golden years.' Please return to Harper & Brothers, Juvenile Dept." Handwritten on back: "No. 2. Laura set herself lessons." From a collection of twenty-four original pen and ink drawings by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle used in the first editions of books from the "Little house" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. 1943.

Rare Book Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Helen Sewell (1896-1957), ''A Book of Myths: Selections from Bulfincher's Age of Fable'', 1942 Source

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Milestone Monday

On this day, October 30, 1811, Jane Austen’s (1775-1817) Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously as written “by a Lady.” Austen's brother negotiated the printing with publisher Thomas Egerton who agreed to publish the book on commission at Austen’s financial risk. With presumed great relief, Sense and Sensibility received favorable reviews and the first printing of 750 copies sold out in 1813. A second printing was run later that year, and the novel has been in continuous publication ever since.  

In honor of Sense and Sensibility’s publication anniversary, we’re looking at both of the Special Collections copies! The first was published in 1856 by Richard Bentley (1794-1871). Bently purchased the copyrights to Austen’s work after her death and began publishing her novels as part of his Standard Novel Series in 1833. He hired illustrator Ferdinand Pickering (c. 1811-1882) to create an engraved frontispiece as illustration for each novel. This was the first time Austen’s work was released in collected editions and the first time her novels were illustrated.  

Sense and Sensibility has since been illustrated many times over, shedding a contemporary light on Austen’s characters, including our second holding published by the Limited Editions Club. Limited Editions Club printed 1,500 copies of Sense and Sensibility in 1957 for its members. It includes a contemporary introduction by novelist Stella Gibbons and distinct pen and ink illustrations by Caldecott Medal honoree Helen Sewell. The edition was designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by him at the Spiral Press in New York. Our copy is from the collection of long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.   

View other Milestone Monday posts here.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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RUFUS SEWELL as AGAMEMNON in HELEN OF TROY (2003)

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B7 Comics “Hancock - The Lad Himself” launched at London’s Museum of Comedy

B7 Comics “Hancock - The Lad Himself” launched at London’s Museum of Comedy

B7 Comics limited first edition of Hancock – The Lad Himself got a special launch at London’s Museum of Comedy last night, attended by the graphic novel’s creators, writer Stephen Walsh and artist Keith Page,alongside celebrities such as comedian Jon Culshaw, and actors John Altman and Kevin McNally. B7 Media’s Helen Quigley, preceded on stage by a brief appearance by Andrew Mark Sewell,…

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The Man in the High Castle - Amazon Prime Video - January 15, 2015 - November 15, 2019

Science Fiction Drama (40 episodes)

Running Time: 45 - 70 minutes

Stars:

Alexa Davalos as Juliana Crain

Rupert Evans as Frank Frink (seasons 1–3)

Luke Kleintank as Joe Blake (seasons 1–3)

DJ Qualls as Ed McCarthy (seasons 1–3)

Joel de la Fuente as Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Nobusuke Tagomi (seasons 1–3)

Rufus Sewell as John Smith

Brennan Brown as Robert Childan (seasons 2–4; recurring season 1)

Callum Keith Rennie as Gary Connell (season 2)

Bella Heathcote as Nicole Dörmer (seasons 2–3)

Chelah Horsdal as Helen Smith (season 3–4; recurring seasons 1–2)

Michael Gaston as Mark Sampson (season 3; recurring season 1; guest season 2)

Jason O'Mara as Wyatt Price, also known as Liam (season 3–4)

Frances Turner as Bell Mallory (season 4)

A complete list of cast members

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Interview, people.com

Rufus Sewell Says He 'Struggled' Being Cast as the Bad Guy But Jokes It 'Suited the Shape of My Face' (Exclusive)

The 'Diplomat' star tells PEOPLE that, for "a long period" in his career, "I would be sent a lot of, if not evil, kind of stoic and silent personages"

Rufus Sewell doesn’t think he has the swag of a lot of the bad guys he’s played.

“I'm not naturally assured,” Sewell, 57, tells PEOPLE. “I actually have a frenetic nervous, people-pleasing disposition. I'm not a cool guy. I'm quite warm.”

Still, the British actor has found himself playing a lot of not-so-angelic characters, including his latest roles as Prince Andrew in Scoop and Hal Wyler in The Diplomat.  

“When I first started working, the kind of roles that I usually did were very, very, very far from me,” Sewell says. “When I left drama school, I'd always played little old men and a hunchback. That's how it made my mark. There was a long period when I would be sent a lot of, if not evil, kind of stoic and silent personages.”

ewell didn’t think those roles played to his strengths, though.

“That category of part didn't actually suit what I was best at,” Sewell says. “But it kind of suited the shape of my face, so I kept my mouth shut. It's only ever been irritating when people who should know better in the industry send me scripts according to something that I really struggled to do.”

The Emmy nominee feels like he started to see a shift after he starred in 1994’s Middlemarch, “where I was playing someone my age who didn't have a hunchback, who wasn't like a pervert or a weirdo or psychopath,” says Sewell, who’s also been the antagonist in Bless the Child, Helen of Troy, The Illusionist, A Knight’s Tale and The Legend of Zorro. “Then people started to see me a certain way, and I just went in the opposite direction for a long time.”

Sewell shares that when he did take on villainous roles, he felt like he “could do something different” with them. “It felt like I was trying to make the best of the same kind of category of part for a long time,” he continues.

The father of two says he found playing Prince Andrew “easier, in a way” than previous roles because “there wasn't any expectation that it was my kind of thing.”

“I think the opposite is often true with parts that I'm casting because of other parts that I've told,” Sewell says. “People might think that things are just what I'm like when really it takes a lot of work.”

Sewell confesses he hasn’t gotten “anywhere near” the kinds of roles he really wants to take on. “I suppose you could say I love it when people think they're miscasting me,” he says. “I really, really enjoyed doing theater and comedy, and Hal has a bit of both. That's why it's so much fun, because it's got a bit of everything.”

Hence why, ahead of the release of The Diplomat’s second season, Sewell says he feels secure in his career for the first time.

“This is the only time, really, that I feel safe during a long-term series,” he adds. “It's only the third show I've ever done that has had a possibility of continuing, the third long-term thing I've ever done. There's an anxiety that you need to keep an eye on the writing because it could change, the voices could change so it makes for periods when you don't sleep in the same way. Now I look forward to getting scripts because I don't care what happens story-wise because I completely trust that what the show is.”

Despite more than 30 years in Hollywood, Sewell says he doesn’t always get recognized while out and about, for which he considers himself “quite lucky.”

“I get recognized a lot in the couple of months after something I'm in has been out, and then it just kind of recedes, which is very nice,” he says. “You get people coming up and saying nice things, but it doesn't really hinder my progress around town. What happens more often, which I always try to be nice about, is when people come up and ask me to tell them where they know me from.”

Sewell can usually guess. “I can often tell if maybe people recognize me as Jasper from The Holiday or if they're gonna recognize me from The Man in the High Castle where I play an American Nazi,” he says. “But most of the time I fail to come up with what they know me from and I send them on their way as in as friendly a fashion as I can. But it doesn't bother me at all.”

In fact, being unrecognizable to many makes it easy for Sewell to enjoy his favorite type of day off: grabbing a coffee and diving into a good book.

“I always have a pile of books that I read one after another. If I did have time off, I like to find little cafes and where I can just sit in the corner,” Sewell, who's currently filming The Diplomat season 3 in New York City, says. “That's why it's quite nice that most people don't recognize me. That's totally fine.”

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BBC Big Read List

Many years ago, I first started tallying the books from the BBC Big Read list, seeing how my reading and interests correllate. I don't take it as the "one truth" on which books are worth reading or "good", I just find it interesting which ones I agree with. Let's go!

Out of the BBC's "The Big Read" list from 2005, which ones did you read, plan to read or started to read, but didn't finish? The ones I read are fat, the ones I still want to read are in italics, the ones I started but didn't finish are crossed out and all the other ones I have either never heard of before or never wanted to read them.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (and I thought it was horrible. But I wanted to finish it!) 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (and I love it) 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck (didn't finish it in school but want to try again) 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome 102.Small Gods, Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach, Alex Garland 104. Dracula, Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks 109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 119. Shogun, James Clavell 120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy 124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett 127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison 128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession, A. S. Byatt 130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl 133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck 134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 144. It, Stephen King 145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile, Stephen King 147. Papillon, Henri Charriere 148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett 149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian 150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz

151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett 152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement, Ian McEwan 155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 162. River God, Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx 165. The World According To Garp, John Irving 166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches, Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White 171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (I've read excepts for uni) 172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco 175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder 176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl 178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery 181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner, George Eliot 185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis 186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith 187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (I stopped after the toilet-scene. Too disgusting) 188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine 189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri 190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons 193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett 194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett 198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle 200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews

Read: 57 Want to read: 60

Some of the books to read I know very little about except the title and that they're classics, some others I know a lot about (and I even have "Men at Arms" on my TBR pile for when the mood strikes me next). I like reading classics once in a while, but especially older ones I can't read too often, I need to be in the right mood for that style of writing.

The last time I updated this was in 2015 and I had read 44 and wanted to read 72 - so 15 books in 9 years xD Like I said, it's not a challenge or a goal to read all of them, just a convenient way of keeping track of which classics I want to read eventually.

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i realised that on my last reblog i forgot some things! also i was forced to omit a few things bc i ran out of tag space oops ("nobody cares, lamorna" - shut up i need to document this correctly)

so let's explain:

saw belinda lang in present laughter (also saw serena evans in that!! and david from cold feet robert bathurst, but he's less important to me); the reluctant debutante (also saw jane asher in it!!); and single spies

old times: met kristin scott thomas, saw lia williams + rufus sewell

the audience: met helen mirren + haydn gwynne (this was also the day when i chased jenny agutter accidentally, and i saw anne reid + stephen tompkinson going through the stage door)

passion play: met sam bond, zoe wanamaker, and lyndsey marshal (she wasn't in the play, she was just there with zoe), saw owen teale

the weir: saw dervla kirwan, met ardal o'hanlon + brian cox

private lives: met anna chancellor

the importance of being earnest: met cherie lunghi + nigel havers

relatively speaking (i went to an ayckbourn play for felicity. this is true love and dedication) met felicity kendal

the national theatre masterclasses: went to penelope wilton + david hare's one, saw them (saw penelope out front beforehand!!), met penelope afterwards

also went to amelia bullmore's masterclass, along w lots of my lovely mutuals 💖; we all met her and talked to her at length

kiss me, kate: saw hannah waddingham

guys and dolls: saw sophie thompson, and phyllida law (her + emma's mother) was in the audience

a damsel in distress: saw summer strallen

mrs. pat: saw penelope keith

oklahoma!: saw josie lawrence (also saw her + paul merton at the comedy store one time)

me and my girl: saw caroline quentin, also matt lucas

fleetwood mac: i've seen them live twice, once with chris mcvie

once there was an event that a choir my mum + i used to be in were invited to sing at, and a lot of the other performers / organisers were famous people: julie graham was one of the organisers, so i saw her, alison moyet was performing (i'd already been to one of her concerts, but not met her yet), so i met her then (she hugged me!!!!) and emma kennedy was there bc she and alf are best friends so i stood near her awkwardly; and caitlin moran was also a speaker so i saw her (backstage and onstage) too; and my mum spoke to her

my mum once won tickets to see a bbc show being filmed, and it happened to be upstart crow (you don't choose what you see, you just get allocated something by the bbc people), so we were on set with david mitchell, liza tarbuck, gemma whelan

i've told the story of being caught in the fire w the new tricks actors + sarah beeny SO many times, but i will tell it again if anyone else wants to hear it

comedians/-ennes i've seen live: ed byrne (twice), alan davies, omid djalili, rich hall (i wasn't that keen on seeing omid or rich but my mum made us all go with her and they were better than i'd expected them to be), zoe lyons, tim vine

and finally: i live in the same town as dave benson phillips (of get your own back, british blue's clues, various other children's television), and he used to be (might still be, for all i know) the next door neighbour of a family friend, so i met him at a party at their house once as a child

[kingbryancroidragon]

Favourite Performances from the 2003 Miniseries "Helen of Troy"

Rufus Sewell as Agamemnon, although he is villainized beyond belief, he still feels like a real person to me, not like a cardboard demon.

Daniel Lapaine as Hector, literally the only Hector besides John Shrapnel I did not find average at best. I found Harry Andrews average at best, I found Jacques Bergerac average at best, I found Eric Bana average at best, like their performances could have been done by literally anyone else and it would come out the same, something you don't get from Daniel Lapaine and John Shrapnel, they are fantastic performances only they could give.

John Rhys-Davies as Priam, the performances given by the actors playing Priam are typically fantastic and John is no exception.

Stellan Skarsgard as Theseus, there have been many great portrayals of Theseus and sure, this is a kinder portrayal than he would have been in that stage of life, but it feels like this is actually Theseus come to life.

Emilia Fox as Cassandra, she does a really good job and it must be in the blood since her father Edward Fox is also a fantastic actor.

Richard Durden as Tyndareus, literally the only screen portrayal of Tyndareus I've ever seen, so it isn't like there is much to choose from, but even then he does a great job with what screen time he has.

Jim Carter as Pirithous, I've always loved his work, he's in one of my favourite movies and he gives a great performance with what little screen time he has.

Overall, it is strange. I always take the Achaean side, but here I find myself taking the Trojan side, probably because out of individuals on the Trojan side, more of the best performances in the miniseries come from those on the Trojan side rather than on the Achaean side, out of my favourite performances, Agamemnon is the only Achaean who was involved in the war.

[magicalrocketships]

Boringly, this is not the BBC top 100 list, but a mash-up of that and various other ones. This is the actual list from 2003:

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

I have read 99.5 of these because a) my cousins and I decided to read them all and b) fucking Ulysses, FUCKING ULYSSES, I will never finish that fucking book and I will forever be mad at it

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[brookston]

Holidays 3.30

Holidays

Benediction de Los Animales (Blessing of the Animals; Mexico)

Check For Change In Every Coin Return You Pass Day

Demilitarization Day of Åland (Finland)

Festival of Reality Fabrication

Golf Course Day

Grass Is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day

Hairy Bitter Cress Day

"I Am In Control" Day

International Laundry Folding Day

Jeopardy Day

Land Day (Palestine)

Limited Liability Day

National Badminton Day [also 3.22]

National Becca Day

National Dining Car Day

National Doctors’ Day

National Fitness Recovery Day

National Julia Day

National Pencil Day

National Victoria Day

National Virtual Vacation Day

National Wendy Day

Newman Day (a.k.a. Newman's Day, 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.) [Kenyon College] (also 4.24 & Friday nearest 1.26)

School Day of Non-Violence and Peace (Spain)

Semana Santa begins (until 4.1; Nicaragua)

Shab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)

Sicilian Vespers Day

Smoking Ban Day (NYC; 2003)

Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)

Take A Walk In the Park Day

Torrents Day

Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day

World Bipolar Day

World Marbles Day

World Own Nothing Day

World Perspective Day

World TB-303 Appreciation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Hot Chicken Day

National Hot Dog Day [also 3rd Wednesday of July & 9.10]

Turkey Neck Soup Day

World Idli Day (India; UK)

5th & Last Saturday in March

Brothers’ and Sisters’ Day [Last Saturday]

Earth Hour (turn off your lights for 1 hour @8:30 pm local time) [Last Saturday]

Global Sisterhood Day [Last Saturday]

Start That Book [Last Saturday]

Support Women Artists Now Day [Last Saturday]

World Day for the End of Fishing [Last Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 30 (Last Week)

NanoDays (Last Weekend in March - 1st Weekend in April) [thru 4.7]

Independence & Related Days

Alaska sold to the U.S. (by Russia; 1867)

15th Amendment Day (Effective; 1870)

Texas (Re-Admitted to the Union; 1870)

New Year’s Days

Iranian New Year [Continues 13 Days with bonfires, eggs & mirrors]

Festivals Beginning March 30, 2024

Brew Woo (Worcester, Massachusetts)

Edinburgh International Science Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 4.14]

Elberta German Sausage Festival (Elberta, Alabama)

Great American Barbecue & Beer Festival (Chandler, Arizona)

Helen Trout Tournament (Helen, Georgia)

UniCon, a.k.a. Baltic Comic Con (Tallinn, Estonia) [thru 3.31]

Van Wert on Tap (Van Wert, Ohio)

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 4 (Pagan)

Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (Christian; Saint)

Anna Sewell (Writerism)

Celebration of the Marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi (Mesopotamian; Day 10 of Akitu)

Dabucuri Mirtis, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)

Dana Plato Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Day of Bau (Goddes of Healing; Mesopotamian, Sumerian)

Feast of Janus and Concordia (Ancient Rome)

Festival of Bast (Cat Goddess; Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Renenutet (Ancient Egyptian Harvest Festival)

Festival of Salus (Roman goddess of health, prosperity & public safety)

Francisco Goya (Artology)

Galen (Positivist; Saint)

John Climacus, the Scholastic (Christian; Saint)

Magha Puja Day (Buddhism)

Mamertinus of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)

Maria Restituta Kafka (Christian; Saint)

Nuin (Ash Tree; Celtic Book of Days)

Osburga (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Pagerwesi (Festival to San Hyang Pramesti Guru, god of teachers and creator of the universe; Bali)

Paul Verlaine (Writerism)

Poke Things with a Pencil Day (Pastafarian)

Poke Things with a Stick Day (Pastafarian)

Quirinus of Neuss (Christian; Saint)

Ram Navami (Rama’s Birthday; Hinduism)

Regulus (or Rieul), Bishop of Sculls (Christian; Saint)

Sacred Union of the God and Goddess (Mesopotamia; Everyday Wicca)

Thomas Son Chasuhn, Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (part of The Korean Martyrs)

Tola of Clonard (Christian; Saint)

Tom Sharpe (Writerism)

Vincent Van Gogh (Artology)

Zak (Muppetism)

Zozimus, Bishop of Syracuse (Christian; Saint)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Saturday before Easter (a.k.a. ... 

Black Saturday (Philippines)

Easter Saturday (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles)

Holy Saturday

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [37 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 89 [24 of 72]

Premieres

Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1966)

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, by E.H. Gombrich (Art Book; 1960)

Beauty Shoppe (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

Beetlejuice (Film; 1988)

Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis (Album; 1970)

Blades of Glory (Film; 2007)

The Calico Dragon (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1935)

Candida, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1894)

Chariots of Fire (Film; 1981)

Everybody Wants Some! (Film; 2016)

The Eyes Have It (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

The Fairly OddParents (Animated TV Series; 2001)

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Film; 1984)

Hippydrome Tiger (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)

I’m Mad (WB Animaniacs Cartoon; 1994)

It’s My Party, recorded by Lesley Gore (Song; 1963)

Jeopardy (TV game Show; 1964)

Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (WB Animated Film; 2019)

Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny (Novel; 1967)

The Lost City of Z (Film; 2016)

Meet the Robinsons (Animated Film; 2007)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York Art Museum; 1880)

Moon Knight (TV Series; 2022)

Old Mother Hubbard (ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)

Orphan Black (TV Series; 2013)

Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Dictionary; 1989)

Popeye for President (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1956)

Robinson Gruesome (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1959)

Romancing the Stone (Film; 1984)

Scrappily Married (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1945)

Sign o’ the Times, by Prince (Album; 1987)

Sinfonia da Requiem, by Benjamin Britten (Symphony; 1941)

Spitfire (Film; 1934)

Springtime for Thomas (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1946)

Spy Kids (Film; 2001)

The Story of Art, by E.H. Gombrich (History Book; 1950)

TableTop (Web Series; 2012)

Ten Pin Terrors (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1953)

Tom Thumb (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Amadeus, Dodo (Austria)

Amadeus, Bogoljub, Leonard, Zosim (Croatia)

Arnošt (Czech Republic)

Quirinus (Denmark)

Pille, Sibülle (Estonia)

Usko (Finland)

Amédée (France)

Amadeus, Diemut (Germany)

Zalán (Hungary)

Amedeo (Italy)

Ilgmaris, Ilgmars, Larisa, Nanija (Latvia)

Ferdinandas, Gvidonas, Meda, Rusnė, Virmantas (Lithuania)

Holger, Olga (Norway)

Amelia, Aniela, Częstobor, Jan, Kwiryn, Kwiryna (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Vieroslava (Slovakia)

Juan, Zósimo (Spain)

Holger, Holmfrid (Sweden)

Adin, Adon, Adonia, Adonis, Amada, Amadea, Amadeus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 90 of 2024; 276 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 13 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 21 (Gui-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 20 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 20 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 30 Green; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 17 March 2024

Moon: 74%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 6 Archimedes (4th Month) [Avicenna]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 12 of 92)

Week: Last Week of March

Zodiac: Aries (Day 10 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.30

Holidays

Benediction de Los Animales (Blessing of the Animals; Mexico)

Check For Change In Every Coin Return You Pass Day

Demilitarization Day of Åland (Finland)

Festival of Reality Fabrication

Golf Course Day

Grass Is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day

Hairy Bitter Cress Day

"I Am In Control" Day

International Laundry Folding Day

Jeopardy Day

Land Day (Palestine)

Limited Liability Day

National Badminton Day [also 3.22]

National Becca Day

National Dining Car Day

National Doctors’ Day

National Fitness Recovery Day

National Julia Day

National Pencil Day

National Victoria Day

National Virtual Vacation Day

National Wendy Day

Newman Day (a.k.a. Newman's Day, 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.) [Kenyon College] (also 4.24 & Friday nearest 1.26)

School Day of Non-Violence and Peace (Spain)

Semana Santa begins (until 4.1; Nicaragua)

Shab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)

Sicilian Vespers Day

Smoking Ban Day (NYC; 2003)

Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)

Take A Walk In the Park Day

Torrents Day

Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day

World Bipolar Day

World Marbles Day

World Own Nothing Day

World Perspective Day

World TB-303 Appreciation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Hot Chicken Day

National Hot Dog Day [also 3rd Wednesday of July & 9.10]

Turkey Neck Soup Day

World Idli Day (India; UK)

5th & Last Saturday in March

Brothers’ and Sisters’ Day [Last Saturday]

Earth Hour (turn off your lights for 1 hour @8:30 pm local time) [Last Saturday]

Global Sisterhood Day [Last Saturday]

Start That Book [Last Saturday]

Support Women Artists Now Day [Last Saturday]

World Day for the End of Fishing [Last Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 30 (Last Week)

NanoDays (Last Weekend in March - 1st Weekend in April) [thru 4.7]

Independence & Related Days

Alaska sold to the U.S. (by Russia; 1867)

15th Amendment Day (Effective; 1870)

Texas (Re-Admitted to the Union; 1870)

New Year’s Days

Iranian New Year [Continues 13 Days with bonfires, eggs & mirrors]

Festivals Beginning March 30, 2024

Brew Woo (Worcester, Massachusetts)

Edinburgh International Science Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 4.14]

Elberta German Sausage Festival (Elberta, Alabama)

Great American Barbecue & Beer Festival (Chandler, Arizona)

Helen Trout Tournament (Helen, Georgia)

UniCon, a.k.a. Baltic Comic Con (Tallinn, Estonia) [thru 3.31]

Van Wert on Tap (Van Wert, Ohio)

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 4 (Pagan)

Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (Christian; Saint)

Anna Sewell (Writerism)

Celebration of the Marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi (Mesopotamian; Day 10 of Akitu)

Dabucuri Mirtis, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)

Dana Plato Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Day of Bau (Goddes of Healing; Mesopotamian, Sumerian)

Feast of Janus and Concordia (Ancient Rome)

Festival of Bast (Cat Goddess; Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Renenutet (Ancient Egyptian Harvest Festival)

Festival of Salus (Roman goddess of health, prosperity & public safety)

Francisco Goya (Artology)

Galen (Positivist; Saint)

John Climacus, the Scholastic (Christian; Saint)

Magha Puja Day (Buddhism)

Mamertinus of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)

Maria Restituta Kafka (Christian; Saint)

Nuin (Ash Tree; Celtic Book of Days)

Osburga (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Pagerwesi (Festival to San Hyang Pramesti Guru, god of teachers and creator of the universe; Bali)

Paul Verlaine (Writerism)

Poke Things with a Pencil Day (Pastafarian)

Poke Things with a Stick Day (Pastafarian)

Quirinus of Neuss (Christian; Saint)

Ram Navami (Rama’s Birthday; Hinduism)

Regulus (or Rieul), Bishop of Sculls (Christian; Saint)

Sacred Union of the God and Goddess (Mesopotamia; Everyday Wicca)

Thomas Son Chasuhn, Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (part of The Korean Martyrs)

Tola of Clonard (Christian; Saint)

Tom Sharpe (Writerism)

Vincent Van Gogh (Artology)

Zak (Muppetism)

Zozimus, Bishop of Syracuse (Christian; Saint)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Saturday before Easter (a.k.a. ... 

Black Saturday (Philippines)

Easter Saturday (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles)

Holy Saturday

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [37 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 89 [24 of 72]

Premieres

Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1966)

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, by E.H. Gombrich (Art Book; 1960)

Beauty Shoppe (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

Beetlejuice (Film; 1988)

Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis (Album; 1970)

Blades of Glory (Film; 2007)

The Calico Dragon (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1935)

Candida, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1894)

Chariots of Fire (Film; 1981)

Everybody Wants Some! (Film; 2016)

The Eyes Have It (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

The Fairly OddParents (Animated TV Series; 2001)

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Film; 1984)

Hippydrome Tiger (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)

I’m Mad (WB Animaniacs Cartoon; 1994)

It’s My Party, recorded by Lesley Gore (Song; 1963)

Jeopardy (TV game Show; 1964)

Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (WB Animated Film; 2019)

Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny (Novel; 1967)

The Lost City of Z (Film; 2016)

Meet the Robinsons (Animated Film; 2007)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York Art Museum; 1880)

Moon Knight (TV Series; 2022)

Old Mother Hubbard (ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)

Orphan Black (TV Series; 2013)

Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Dictionary; 1989)

Popeye for President (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1956)

Robinson Gruesome (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1959)

Romancing the Stone (Film; 1984)

Scrappily Married (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1945)

Sign o’ the Times, by Prince (Album; 1987)

Sinfonia da Requiem, by Benjamin Britten (Symphony; 1941)

Spitfire (Film; 1934)

Springtime for Thomas (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1946)

Spy Kids (Film; 2001)

The Story of Art, by E.H. Gombrich (History Book; 1950)

TableTop (Web Series; 2012)

Ten Pin Terrors (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1953)

Tom Thumb (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Amadeus, Dodo (Austria)

Amadeus, Bogoljub, Leonard, Zosim (Croatia)

Arnošt (Czech Republic)

Quirinus (Denmark)

Pille, Sibülle (Estonia)

Usko (Finland)

Amédée (France)

Amadeus, Diemut (Germany)

Zalán (Hungary)

Amedeo (Italy)

Ilgmaris, Ilgmars, Larisa, Nanija (Latvia)

Ferdinandas, Gvidonas, Meda, Rusnė, Virmantas (Lithuania)

Holger, Olga (Norway)

Amelia, Aniela, Częstobor, Jan, Kwiryn, Kwiryna (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Vieroslava (Slovakia)

Juan, Zósimo (Spain)

Holger, Holmfrid (Sweden)

Adin, Adon, Adonia, Adonis, Amada, Amadea, Amadeus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 90 of 2024; 276 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 13 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 21 (Gui-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 20 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 20 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 30 Green; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 17 March 2024

Moon: 74%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 6 Archimedes (4th Month) [Avicenna]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 12 of 92)

Week: Last Week of March

Zodiac: Aries (Day 10 of 31)

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Some books and plays I have read that are older than me oand/or were written before I was born:

Plays:

• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

• The Tempest by William Shakespeare

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Fairy Tales and Fables:

• The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Most Incredible Thing by Hans Christian Andersen

• The Frogs and the Ox;Belling the Cat;The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse;The Fox and the Grapes;The Wolf and the Crane;The Lion and the Mouse;The Crow and the Pitcher; The Fox and the Stork;The Fox and the Leopard;The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing;The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat;The Lion's Share;The Wolves and the Sheep;The Ass in the Lion's Skin;The Farmer and the Snake; They Dog and the Oyster;The Wolf and the House Dog;Three Bullocks and a Lion; The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers;The Dogs and the Fox;The Farmer and the Cranes; and The Goose and the Golden Egg... by Aesop

• The Frog King; Cat and Mouse Partnership; The Story if the Youth Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was; The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids; Faithful John; Little Brother and Little Sister; Rapunzel; The Three Little Mean in the Wood; Hansel and Gretel; The Three Snake-Leaves; The White Snake; The Fisherman and His Wife; The Valiant Little Tailor; Cinderella; The Riddle; The Mouse, The Bird, and the Sausage; Mother Holle; The Seven Ravens; Little Red Cap; The Singing Bone; Clever Hans; The Wedding of Mrs. Fox; The Robber Bridergroom; Godfather Death; The Juniper Tree; The Six Swans; Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty); Little Snow White; Rumpelstiltskin; The Golden Bird; The Dog and the Sparrow; Frederick and Catherine; The Two Brothers; The Queen Bee; The Three Feathers; The Golden Goose; The Twelve Hunters; The Three Sons of Fortune; The Wiof and the Fox; The Fox and His Cousin; The Water Nixie; Brother Lustig; The Fox and the Geese; The Poor Man and the Rich Man; The Raven; The Peasant's Wise Daughter; Stories about Snakes; Hans the Hedgehog; The Three Brothers; Ferdinand the Faithful; One-eye, Two-eyes, and Three-eyes; The Shoes that Were Danced To Pieces; Iron John; The Lambkin and the Fish; The Lord's Animals and the Devil's; The Old Beggar Woman; Odds and Ends; The Sparrow and His Four Children; Snow White and Rose Red; The Wise Servant; The Glass Coffin; The Griffin; The Peasant in Heaven; The Bittern and Hoopoe; The Owl; Death's Messengers; The Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle; The Drummer; The Ear of Corn; Old Rinkrank... written/retold by the Brothers' Grimm

The 1800s- late 1930s set books:

• Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

• White Fang by Jack London

• Call of the Wild by Jack London

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Edgar Allan Poe Works I've Read:

• The Raven; a poem

• Annabel Lee; a poem

• Lenore; a poem

• To Helen; a poem

• The Black Cat; a short story

• The Cask of Amontillado; a short story

• Ligeia; a short story

• The Masque of the Red Death; a short story

• Morella; a short story

• The Pit and the Pendulum; a short story

• The Premature Burial; a short story

• The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether; a short story

• The Tell-Tale Heart; a short story

Oldie But Goldies; Everything Else Thst is Older Than Me That I've Read:

• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

• Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; and The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

• Redwall by Brian Jacques

• Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

There is a lot I've probably read but don't remember, but these are the literatures I can remember that are older than me, or were made before I was born, that I have read😊

[downthetubes]

Crowdfunding Spotlight: Tony Hancock - The Lad Himself

The life story of Tony Hancock, one of the UK’s most celebrated comedians, has been reimagined as a graphic novel - and a Kickstarter has just launched for a limited first edition

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[kwebtv]

Special Branch  -  ITV  -  September 17, 1969   -  May 9, 1974

 Police Drama (53 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Derren Nesbitt as Detective Chief Inspector Elliot Jordan (1969–1970)

George Sewell as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Craven (1973–1974)

Morris Perry as Charles Moxon (1969–1970)

Fulton Mackay as Detective Chief Superintendent Alec Inman (1969–1970)

Patrick Mower as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Haggerty (1973–1974)

Roger Rowland as Detective Sergeant Bill North (1969–1974)

Keith Washington as Detective Constable John Morrissey (1969–1970)

Paul Eddington as Strand (1974)

Frederick Jaeger as Commander Fletcher (1970–1974)

Wensley Pithey as Detective Superintendent Eden (1969)

Jennifer Wilson as Detective Sergeant Helen Webb (1969)