#joseph wrede

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thanks for the book answer! would you share your fiction favorites in general?

Hi anon,

I'll post a few but I think to clarify - this is also kind of just going to be a list. I meant more like...are you looking for book recs? If so are you looking for specific things (eg: queer characters, fantasy and if so which subtype, sci fi and ditto, literary fiction, etc.) Or do you just like, want a list of books I have liked.

Anyway this is a list of a handful of books/series/authors that I'd count as favorites, loosely grouped, but I didn't go into any details about anything.

Fantasy I read a teen and has permanently shaped how I interact with fantasy fiction; some of this is YA

a large swathe of what Diana Wynne Jones has written

The Belgariad and Mallorean by David Eddings

The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix

Sorcery and Cecelia by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede (this came up on the comfort reads panel I watched yesterday and it is indeed a comfort read for me) and Mairelon the Magician by Patricia Wrede (set in the same sort of world)

Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

I read some of the Patternist series by Octavia Butler as a teen but then didn't revisit it until adulthood

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Piranesi is very different and also excellent but that came out when I was an adult, but it's still a favorite)

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (I also read a bunch of her fairy tale-based books which I don't know if I'd call them favorites still but I do think they're an influence)

Sandman by Neil Gaiman

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Middlegrade/YA fiction I read as a kid that also permanently shaped something

Several Ellen Raskin books but especially The Westing Game

Elizabeth Enright's books but especially the ones about the Melendy family and Gone-Away Lake

Fantasy and SF I read as an adult and would consider exceptional/a favorite

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisen

The City and the City by China Mievelle

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

Phedre's trilogy of the Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey (have not read the others in the series so this isn't saying they're bad, I just can't speak to them)

The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin

Arcadia by Iain Pears

The Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Night Watch books from Discworld by Terry Pratchett; I have read like, one other Discworld book and it didn't have Sam Vimes in it so I didn't really care

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delaney

Literary fiction/not sf I read as a teen or adult

(there's notably a lot less of this because I do lean heavily towards fantasy but)

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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Favorite books I read in 2023

The Ones I Loved

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo - (genre: horror) idk what to tell you about this book, but you should read it. It's about ghosts and grief and Nashville and relearning how to be alive. The romance in it is gay and slowburn. If you love the All For the Game series, this book is for you.

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri - (genre: fantasy) One of the cleverest fantasies about empire and rebellion I've read in a long time. The female characters are fantastic and complicated, and it's so fun to be inside their heads. The gay romance at the heart of this book is tender and fucked up in all the best ways. Highly, highly recommend.

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles - (genre: regency romance) Lovers to enemies to allies to lovers! A poor lawyer inherits an Earldom and discovers that the leader of the local smugglers is someone he is intimately familiar with. Very sweet and well written gay regency romance.

A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by K.J. Charles - (genre: regency romance) A grumpy, embattled new Earl with a heart of gold meets a lonely, competent smuggler-turned-secretary with a ulterior motives. I can't overstate how much I loved this book, the characters and their relationship, the way they make each other's lives better and fuller, the way they come to make each other better people gah it's so good ;-; make sure to read the first book in this series first, even though it focuses on other characters

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar - (genre scifi/fantasy) I went into this book knowing nothing about it besides the meme, and I highly recommend that approach. It is gay, the writing is very lyrical and flower, and you will need to let go of the typical scifi genre expectation that the world in which the story takes place will be explained to you.

The Ones I Enjoyed a lot

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher - (genre: horror) relatable 30-something divorcee and 50-something gay barista find a passageway to another world. The world they find...is bad.

The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research by Dorsey Armstrong - (genre: nonfiction) summary of the latest research on the plague! V interesting and well explained. Originally a video but the audiobook is available on Hoopla.

Life in a Medieval Village by Francis Gies and Joseph Gies - (genre: nonfiction) great little deep dive into the daily life of Medieval peasants from how the legal system worked to marriage customs.

Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie - (genre: scifi) the main character is the AI consciousness of a ship trapped in one of her ancillary bodies and her sidekick is one of her former lieutenants who was accidentally frozen for 1000 years and is having a very hard time about it.

Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer - (genre: regency era fantasy romance) this was a re-read from my childhood and it held up!

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen - (genre: nonfiction) did you know that "lady" evolved from the old english word for "loaf maker" and "lord" evolved from "loaf guardian"?

Role Model by Rachel Reid - (genre: romance) gay hockey romance between a hockey player and his new team's social media manager. Pretty standard romance novel but fun!

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh - (genre: fantasy) the green man of the forest is minding his own business when a young man shows up on his doorstep. english mythology vibes, also gay.

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid - (genre: romance) gay hockey players, enemies to lovers/fuck buddies to lovers romance. if this was originally geno/sid rpf i would not be surprised.

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Peter von Hess

The German artist Peter von Hess performed in the forties of last century by the special order of Tsar Nikolay I of Russia twelve canvases describing different episodes of the Patriotic war. All these canvases are in the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg.

Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (29 July 1792 – 4 April 1871) was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence.

Peter von Hess initially received training from his father Carl Ernst Christoph Hess. He accompanied his younger brother Heinrich Maria to Munich in 1806, and enrolled at the Munich Academy at the age of sixteen. He also trained under Wilhelm von Kobell.

During the Napoleonic Wars, he was allowed to join the staff of General Wrede, who commanded the Bavarians in the military operations which led to the abdication of Napoleon. There he gained novel experiences of war and a taste for extensive travel. During this time, von Hess painted his first battle pieces. In 1818, he spent some time in Italy where he painted landscapes and various Italian scenes and travelled to Naples with Joseph Petzl and a group of other Bavarian artists.

In 1833, at King Ludwig I of Bavaria's request, he accompanied Otto of Greece to the newly formed Kingdom of Greece, where at Athens he gathered materials for pictures of the war of liberation. The sketches which he then made were placed, forty in number, in the Pinakothek, after being copied in wax on a large scale by Nilsen, in the northern arcades of the Hofgarten at Munich. King Otho's entrance into Nauplia was the subject of a large and crowded canvas now in the Pinakothek, which Hess executed in person. Sources. Peter von Hess, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Welcome to Santa Fe, folks. FIERI: My dear friend, there is always more to lose when chef and owner Joseph Wrede is in the house, 'cause he's putting his passion right onto every plate. Now when I'm out, he's there with an amazing staff of people he's hired since 1978, including Jim, Dave, Bill and Eric. His wonderful culinary background, his willingness to share his time, his enthusiasm at making, his passion for business, and his passion for life on this very special earth has been a source of great joy for me.

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My current bookshelves, more or less in the actual order they appear! Deets below the cut. ( I really want to know what people believe about me based on what’s on these shelves...)

Top Left:

Richard Adams: Watership Down

Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor x2 (1 copy is signed)

Elizabeth Alder: The King’s Shadow

Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face Of War

Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales

Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak

K.A. Applegate: Animorphs: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, Animorphs: The Andalite Chronicles

Kang Chol-hwan: The Aquariums Of Pyongyang

Margaret Atwood: Cat’s Eye

Lundy Bancroft: Why Does He Do That? Inside The Minds Of Angry And Controlling Men

Brooke Barker: Sad Animal Facts

J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan (illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman)

Peter S. Beagle: Giant Bones, The Last Unicorn x2 (1 copy illustrated by Peter B. Gillis)

Robert Jackson Bennet: City Of Stairs, City Of Blades, City Of Miracles

Allan Bérubé : Coming Out Under Fire: The History Of Gay Men And Women In World War II

Carol Birch: Jamrach’s Menagerie

Isabella Bird: A Lady’s Life In The Rocky Mountains

Pierre Boulle: The Bridge Over The River Kwai

Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles

Paul Brickhill: The Great Escape

Bonus: my grandpa’s mug from the FBI, a picture book of sloth wisdom

Second Left:

Gillian Bradshaw: The Beacon At Alexandria, The Wolf Hunt

Assorted Brontës: The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Villette, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Shirley, The Professor

Lily Brooks-Dalton: Good Morning, Midnight

Allie Brosch: Hyperbole And A Half

Carol Rifka Brunt: Tell The Wolves I’m Home

Bill Buford: Heat

Lois McMaster Bujold: The Curse Of Chalion, Cordelia’s Honor

Joseph Campbell: The Hero With A Thousand Faces

Novella Carpenter: Farm City

Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell

Susann Cokal: Breath And Bones

C.J. Cherryh: Rider At The Gate, Cloud’s Rider, Rusalka, Chernovog

Bonus: two Willow Tree figures and my ABRA-CA-FUCK-YOU cross-stitch 

Third Left:

C.J. Cherryh: Alternate Realities, Foreigner, Invader, Inheritor, Precursor, Defender, Explorer

Henry Chancellor: Colditz: The Definitive Story

Evan Dahm: Rice Boy

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling: The Year’s Best Fantasy And Horror (#16)

Tiffany DeBartolo: How To Kill A Rock Star

Gavin DeBecker: The Gift Of Fear

Tom DeHaven: Sunburn Lake

Charles DeLint: Dreams Underfoot

Seth Dickinson: The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Carole Nelson Douglas: Exiles Of The Rynth

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World

Brendan Duffy: House Of Echoes

William Faulkner: The Sound And The Fury, Flags In The Dust, Selected Short Stories

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea: Guests Of The Sheik

M.K. Fisher: How To Cook A Wolf

Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes At  The Whistle Stop Cafe

Fourth Left:

James Gurney: Dinotopia

Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects

Anker Frankoni: Mexican Eskimo

Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain

Nancy Garden: Annie On My Mind

Maeve Gilmore: A World Away

William Goldman: The Princess Bride

Nicola Griffith: Ammonite

Marie Haskell: The Princess Curse

Frank Herbert: Dune

Victor Hugo: Les Miserables

Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived In The Castle

Mira Jacob: The Sleepwalker’s Guide To Dancing

Paulette Jiles: Enemy Woman

Susan Kay: Phantom

Brian Jacques: Martin The Warrior, Mossflower, The Outcast Of Redwall, Mariel Of Redwall, Pearls Of Lutra, Salamandastron

Stephen King: Duma Key, Rose Madder, Hearts In Atlantis

Bottom Left:

Stephen King: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The Gunslinger x2, The Drawing Of  The Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard And Glass, Wolves Of The Calla, Song Of Susannah, The Dark Tower, Lisey’s Story

Andrew Lang: The Green-, Olive-, Yellow-, Orange-, Red-, Pink-, and Grey Fairy Books

Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books

Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air

Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand Of Darkness

Madeline L’Engle: A Wind In The Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted

C.S. Lewis: Til We Have Faces, Out Of The Silent Planet

Lois Lowry: The Giver

James W. Loewen: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

George MacDonald: The Light Princess & Other Stories, The Princess And The Goblin, At The Back Of The North Wind

Helen MacDonald: H Is For Hawk

Top Right:

Marie Manilla: The Patron Saint Of Ugly

Yann Martel: Life Of Pi

Gavin Maxwell: Ring Of Bright Water

Bernadette McCaughrean: Peter Pan In Scarlet

Patricia McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld

Robin McKinley: The Hero And The Crown, The Blue Sword, Spindle’s End, Rose Daughter

Water M. Miller Jr.: A Canticle For Leibowitz

Herman Melville: Moby Dick x2 (1 copy is abridged and illustrated for children)

China Miéville: The Scar

Rand Miller: Myst: The Book Of Ti’Ana, Myst: The Book Of Atrus, Myst: The Book Of D’Ni

Hayao Miyazaki: Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, The Art Of Nausicaa, The Art Of Castle In The Sky

Elizabeth Moon: Remnant Population

Lady Murasaki: The Tale Of Genji

Audrey Nieffenegger: The Time-Traveler’s Wife

Bonus: “but you are not weak” embroidery, hand-painted page from H Is For Hawk

Second Right:

Sena Jeter Naslund: Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer

Patrick Ness: The Knife Of Never Letting Go, The Ask And The Answer, Monsters Of Men

Garth Nix: Sabriel

Naomi Novik: Temeraire, Throne Of Jade, Black Powder War, Empire Of Ivory

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto

Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast

Julie Ann Peters: Far From Xanadu

Patrick O’Brian: Master And Commander, Post Captain, HMS Surprise, The Mauritius Command, Desolation Island, The Fortune Of War, The Far Side Of The World

Bonus: pottery my dead friend made, pottery I made, slab of picture jasper, my “Fun Things To Believe In” cross-stitch

Third Right:

Edgar Allen Poe: Stories

Phillip Pullman: The Golden Compass

Lawrence Raab: The Collector Of Cold Weather

Erich Marie Remarque: All Quiet On The Western Front

Mary Renault: The Charioteer x2 (1 first edition)

Alistair Reynolds: Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

David L. Robbins: War Of The Rats, The End Of War, Last Citadel

Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow, Doc

Karen Russell: Swamplandia!

Alexander Afanasyev: Russian Fairy Tales

Louis Sachar: Holes

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher In The Rye

Sarah N.B.: It Begins In A Garden

William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Gene Stratton Porter: A Girl Of The Limberlost

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Caitlin Starling: The Luminous Dead

Noelle Stevenson: Nimona

Fourth Right:

Bram Stoker: Dracula x2 (1 illustrated by Becky Cloonan)

Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers (x2), The Return Of The King, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales

Elizabeth Whalen Turner: The Thief, The Queen Of Attolia

Catherynne M. Valente: Deathless, The  Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, The Orphan’s Tales: In The Cities Of Coin And Spice

Sheldon Vanauken: A Severe Mercy

Brian K. Vaughn: Saga (#1)

Tillie Walden: On A Sunbeam

Jen Wang: The Prince And The Dressmaker

Helene Wecker: The Golem And The Jinni

Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity

T.H. White: The Once And Future King

Simon Winchester: The Professor And The Madman

Bottom Right:

Gary Trudeau: The Doonesbury Chronicles

Adam Edgerton: Rediscovering Adak

Walt Whitman: Leaves Of Grass

Jane Yolen: Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Daniel Woodrell: Winter’s Bone

Patricia C. Wrede: Dealing With Dragons, Calling On Dragons, Searching For Dragons

Malcolm York: Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold

Bonus: assorted DVDs and 1 lonely VHS tape, any manga I didn’t purge, plus some children’s books and self-published comics by high school friends

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Top 5 books

dealing with dragons by patricia c. wrede

the paper bag princess by robert munsch

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams

the fly in the ointment: 70 fascinating commentaries on the science of everyday life by joseph a. schwarcz

much ado about nothing by william shakespeare 

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What other fandoms are you familiar enough with to use as an AU prompt? Pokemon Trainer AU? Homestuck AU (they'd still probably die but at least there are lots of ways to come back to life)?

I’m not that familiar with Homestuck, definitely not enough to do an AU.  I read the novelizations of the Pokemon show as a kid but never saw the show or played any of the video games.  I did play the super-obscure Pokemon board game, but most of my trading cards were printed in Japanese (I had a strange childhood), so my experience there is, uh, probably not quite overlapping with everyone else’s.

Anyway, if you want list of all my fandoms… Boy howdy.  I don’t think I can come up with them all.  However, I can list everything that comes to mind between now and ~20 minutes from now when I have to end my procrastination break and go back to dissertating.  So here it is, below the cut:

Okay, there is no way in hell I’ll be able to make an exhaustive list.  But off the top of my head, the fandoms I’m most familiar/comfortable with are as follows:

Authors (as in, I’ve read all or most of their books)

Patricia Briggs

Megan Whalen Turner

Michael Crichton

Marge Piercy

Stephenie Meyer

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Neil Gaiman

K.A. Applegate

Ernest Hemingway

Tamora Pierce

Roald Dahl

Short Stories/Anthologies

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Dubliners, James Joyce

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Who Goes There? John W. Campbell

The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson

Flatland, Edwin Abbott

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

To Build a Fire, Jack London

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bier

At the Mountains of Madness/Cthulu mythos, H.P. Lovecraft

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Close Range: Wyoming Stories, E. Annie Proulx

The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Bartleby the Scrivener (and a bunch of others), Herman Melville

Books (Classics)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Secret Annex, Anne Frank

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Atonement, Ian McEwan

1984, George Orwell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

The Time-Machine, H.G. Wells

The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas Stoppard

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Books (YA SF)

Young Wizards series, Diane Duane

Redwall, Brian Jaques

The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix

The Giver series, Lois Lowry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

Unwind, Neal Shusterman

The Maze Runner series, James Dashner

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Poppy series, Avi

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Tithe, Holly Black

Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer

Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Haunted, Gregory Maguire

Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

East, Edith Pattou

Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien

The Looking-Glass Wars, Frank Beddor

The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

The Landry News, Andrew Clements

Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer

The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner

A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb

Generation Dead, Daniel Waters

Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale

Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Define Normal, Julie Anne Peters

Hawksong, Ameila Atwater Rhodes

Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde

Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken

The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Daughters of the Moon series, Lynne Ewing

The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman

Island of the Aunts, Eva Ibbotson

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray

A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs

The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Hope was Here, Joan Bauer

Bunnicula, James Howe

Wise Child, Monica Furlong

Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg

The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles

The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer

Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie Faria Stolarz

Mystery of the Blue Gowned Ghost, Linda Wirkner

Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn

I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block

City of the Beasts series, Isabelle Allende

Summerland, Michael Chabon

The Geography Club, Brent Hartinger

The Last Safe Place on Earth, Richard Peck

Liar, Justine Larbalestier

The Doll People, Ann M. Martin

The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron

Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

The Tiger Rising, Kate DiCamillo

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards

Storytime, Edward Bloor

Magic Shop series, Bruce Coville

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Veritas Project series, Frank Peretti

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Raven’s Strike, Patricia Briggs

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, Gregory Maguire

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

Half Magic, Edward Eager

A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle

The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan

Maximum Ride series, James Patterson

The Edge on the Sword, Rebecca Tingle

World War Z, Max Brooks

Adaline Falling Star, Mary Pope Osborne

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

Parable of the Sower series, Octavia Butler

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Neuomancer, William Gibson

Dune, Frank Herbert

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth

The Martian, Andy Weir

Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac

Comics/Manga

Marvel 616 (most of the major titles)

Marvel 1610/Ultimates

Persepolis

This One Summer

Nimona

Death Note

Ouran High School Host Club

Vampire Knight

Emily Carroll comics

Watchmen

Fun Home

From Hell

American Born Chinese

Smile

The Eternal Smile

The Sandman

Calvin and Hobbes

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

TV Shows

Fullmetal Alchemist

Avatar the Last Airbender

Teen Titans (2003)

Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Defenders/Daredevil/The Punisher

Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter

Supernatural

Sherlock

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

American Horror Story

Ouran High School Host Club

Orange is the New Black

Black Sails

Stranger Things

Westworld

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Movies

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jurassic Park/Lost World/Jurassic World/Lost Park?

The Breakfast Club

Cloverfield/10 Cloverfield Lane/The Cloverfield Paradox

Attack the Block

The Prestige

Moon

Ferris Bueler’s Day Off

Django Unchained/Kill Bill/Inglourious Basterds/Hateful 8/Pulp Fiction/etcetera

Primer

THX 1138/Akira/How I Live Now/Lost World/[anything I’ve named a fic after]

Star Wars

The Meg

A Quiet Place

Baby Driver

Mother!

Alien/Aliens/Prometheus

X-Men (et al.)

10 Things I Hate About You

The Lost Boys

Teen Wolf

Juno

Pirates of the Caribbean (et al.)

Die Hard

Most Disney classics: Toy Story, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s New Groove, etc.

Most Pixar classics: Up, Wall-E, The Incredibles

The Matrix

Dark Knight trilogy

Halloween

Friday the 13th

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Descent

Ghostbusters

Ocean’s Eight/11/12/13

King Kong

The Conjuring

Fantastic Four

Minority Report/Blade Runner/Adjustment Bureau/Total Recall

Fight Club

Spirited Away

O

Disturbing Behavior

The Faculty

Poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marge Piercy

Thomas Hardy

Sigfried Sassoon

W. B. Yeats

Edgar Allan Poe

Ogden Nash

Margaret Atwood

Maya Angelou

Emily Dickinson

Matthew Dickman

Karen Skolfield

Kwame Alexander

Ellen Hopkins

Shel Silverstein

Musicals/Stage Plays

Les Miserables

Repo: The Genetic Opera

The Lion King

The Phantom of the Opera

Rent

The Prince of Egypt

Pippin

Into the Woods

A Chorus Line

Hairspray

Evita

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Fiddler on the Roof

Annie

Fun Home

Spring Awakening

Chicago

Cabaret

The Miser

The Importance of Being Earnest

South Pacific

Godspell

Wicked

The Wiz

The Wizard of Oz

Man of La Mancha

The Sound of Music

West Side Story

Matilda

Sweeney Todd

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Nunsense

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown/Snoopy

1776

Something Rotten

A Very Potter Musical

Babes in Toyland

Carrie: The Musical

Amadeus

Annie Get Your Gun

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Final Battle

Rock of Ages

Cinderella

Moulin Rouge

Honk

Labyrinth

The Secret Garden

Reefer Madness

Bang Bang You’re Dead

NSFW

War Horse

Peter Pan

Suessical

Sister Act

The Secret Annex

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Disclaimer 1: Like a lot of people who went to high school in the American South, my education in literature is pretty shamefully lacking in a lot of areas.  (As in, during our African American History unit in ninth grade we read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn… and that was it.  As in, our twelfth-grade US History class, I shit you not, covered Gone With the Wind.)  There were a lot of good teachers in with the *ahem* Less Woke ones (how I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye) and college definitely set me on the path to trying to find books written/published outside the WASP-ier parts of the U.S., but the overall list is still embarrassingly hegemonic.

Disclaimer 2: There are a crapton of errors — typos, misspelled names, misattributions, questionable genre classifications, etc. — in here.  If you genuinely have no idea what a title is supposed to be, ask me.  Otherwise, please don’t bother letting me know about my mistakes.

Disclaimer 3: I am not looking for recommendations.  My Goodreads “To Read” list is already a good 700 items long, and people telling me “if you like X, then you’ll love Y!” genuinely stresses me the fuck out.

Disclaimer 4: There are no unproblematic faves on this list.  I love Supernatural, and I know that Supernatural is hella misogynistic.  On the flip side: I don’t love The Lord of the Rings at all, partially because LOTR is hella misogynistic, but I also don’t think that should stop anyone else from loving LOTR if they’re willing to love it and also acknowledge its flaws. 

[bookbeani]

OCTOBER 2018

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad ★★★☆☆

Howards End by E.M. Forster ★★★☆☆

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ★★☆☆☆

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi ★★★★☆

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows ★★★★☆

Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede ★★★☆☆

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White ★★★★☆

Heist Society by Ally Carter ★★☆☆☆

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir ★★★☆☆

Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill ★★★☆☆

My October reads were a mixed bag, but I read a few books that turned out to be absolute gems. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, My Plain Jane, and A Very Large Expanse of Sea are a few of my favourite reads from the entire year. Others were a bit of a disappointment, but overall it was a pretty productive month, reading-wise and I got to a lot of books that I had been meaning to read for a while. 

[fieriframes]

[Welcome to Santa Fe, folks. FIERI: My dear friend, there is always more to lose when chef and owner Joseph Wrede is in the house, 'cause he's putting his passion right onto every plate.]

[theintexp]

The Battle of Valutino on 19 August 1812 by Peter von Hess

The Battle of Valutino (also called the battle of Lubino) took place on 19 August 1812, between a corps of French and allied troops led by Marshal Ney, about 35,000 strong, and a strong rear-guard of General Barclay de Tolly's Russian army of about 25,000, commanded by the general himself. The Russians were strongly posted in marshy ground, protected by a small stream, about 20 kilometers east of Smolensk. The French, attacking resolutely, captured the Russian position in the face of considerable physical obstacles. Napoleon's hopes of trapping General Barclay's army were dashed when he discovered that the Russian force awaiting the French was a rearguard under General Tuchkov. Barclay's main force of three infantry and one cavalry corps was strung out near Smolensk, trying to get away from the French after the Battle of Smolensk. The rearguard then turned around to fight the French on the Stragan river. After a heavy bombardment, Ney launched an assault against the Russians, crossing the Stragan but failing to capture the crest. Murat's cavalry attacks were bogged down in marshy ground and accomplished nothing. General Junot's force was close to the battlefield and was urged to attack the Russians by Murat. Junot did not engage, and the opportunity for a decisive victory passed. A few hours later, Ney launched the last French attack. General Gudin led the assault and was hit by a cannonball, which removed one leg. He died three days later from infection. The French managed to capture the crest after hard fighting. By that point the majority of Barclay's army had escaped and was heading towards Lubino. The French suffered around 7,000-8,800 casualties. The Russians lost about 6,000. Napoleon was furious after the battle, realizing that another good chance to trap and destroy the Russian army had been lost. Sources. French invasion of Russia, The Battle of Valutino, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter von Hess The German artist Peter von Hess performed in the forties of last century by the special order of Tsar Nikolay I of Russia twelve canvases describing different episodes of the Patriotic war. All these canvases are in the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg. Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (29 July 1792 – 4 April 1871) was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence. Peter von Hess initially received training from his father Carl Ernst Christoph Hess. He accompanied his younger brother Heinrich Maria to Munich in 1806, and enrolled at the Munich Academy at the age of sixteen. He also trained under Wilhelm von Kobell. During the Napoleonic Wars, he was allowed to join the staff of General Wrede, who commanded the Bavarians in the military operations which led to the abdication of Napoleon. There he gained novel experiences of war and a taste for extensive travel. During this time, von Hess painted his first battle pieces. In 1818, he spent some time in Italy where he painted landscapes and various Italian scenes and travelled to Naples with Joseph Petzl and a group of other Bavarian artists. In 1833, at King Ludwig I of Bavaria's request, he accompanied Otto of Greece to the newly formed Kingdom of Greece, where at Athens he gathered materials for pictures of the war of liberation. The sketches which he then made were placed, forty in number, in the Pinakothek, after being copied in wax on a large scale by Nilsen, in the northern arcades of the Hofgarten at Munich. King Otho's entrance into Nauplia was the subject of a large and crowded canvas now in the Pinakothek, which Hess executed in person. Sources. Peter von Hess, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[alynshir]

1, 3, 8, and 15?

1 has been answered!

3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. (for contrast I’m gonna add favorite character as well! so like ID character / favorite character)

A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre Archeron / Amren

Throne of Glass: Celaena (but not Aelin), Elide Lochan / Manon Blackbeak

Overwatch: Lena Oxton / Amélie Lacroix

Kingdoms of Amalur: my own protagonist, Niamh. if that counts / ALYN SHIR

Dragon Age: Alistair Theirin OR Leliana OR Merrill this was hard / Morrigan

Mass Effect (trilogy): Miranda Lawson / JANE SHEPARD

Mass Effect (Andromeda): Peebee / Vetra Nyx AND Jaal Ama Darav

Book of Deacon: Deacon and Ivy / AYNA WHO ARE WE KIDDING HERE

The Witcher: Dandelion / YENNEFER OF VENGERBERG

8. what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime?

Jasmine Thompson, Florence + the Machine, Mandy Harvey, Alanis Morrissette, Halsey, Alessia Cara, Marina and the Diamonds, the original cast of Wicked. all of them

15. five most influential books over your lifetime (in order from earliest in life to latest, a bit about why they’re influential, and if it’s a series it cOUNTS AS ONE).

Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling) - the catalyst to me becoming a voracious and lifelong reader, gave me friends where I didn’t have them, literally was where I learned most of my social cues from?? is that bad?? maybe

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Patricia Wrede) - had all of the elements of a fantasy story that I loved: princesses, dragons, swords, magic, fairytales - but instead of a typical damsel story, it gave us a badass princess protagonist who did not want any part in being a damsel at all. introduced me to feminist fantasy! the best kind!!!! inarguably!!!! also so many dragons!!!!!!!!!! I also discovered them at a library. if you ever get them make sure it’s with the old fashioned, harsher cover art and not the cartoony one. just do it. for me

The Book of Deacon (Joseph Lallo) - I found this on Amazon after literally typing in ‘fantasy’ in the books category, in like…middle school. AND HERE WE ARE GUYS. Another awesome example of feminist fantasy, with badass ladies EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK. including when you look at dragons. and the author is a super cool, stand up dude, and really my first experience with an author interacting with his readerbase? which I thought was extremely cool. ALSO!!!!!!! had a massive massive impact on my art skills improving - the first fanart I ever drew and posted was of Ayna, one of his characters (AND STILL MY FAVORITE, WHERE IS HER STANDALONE NOVEL), and ever since then I’ve been drawing like mad. tru story. Please go check his stuff out! if I recall correctly the first book is free on Amazon for kindle/the kindle app on your phone!

The Witcher (Andrzej Sapkowski) - what a fuckin INCREDIBLE world this man has built. honestly has inspired me with my worldbuilding with something like The Witcher as my end goal. His protagonists are truly characters who interact with the world, someone who could have been selected at random to tell stories about - the world is that fleshed out and rich and well done. Also has YENNEFER OF VENGERBERG, who aside from being a badass sorceress, is every bit as developed and complex as Geralt (as she should be), and is not nice and appealing for the audience!!! She’s selfish and dismissive and brusque and can be cruel and manipulative and she IS NOT FUCKIN SORRY!!!!!!!!! I love her!!!! what a gal!

A Court of Thorns and Roses - completely just re-lit my creative bonfire. What characters. W h a t c h a r a c t e r s. Talk about a romance done fuckin WELL! Where I love the love interest just as much if not more than the protagonist! Not to mention, the raw emotions addressed in this were always things I was like, afraid to talk about in stories? Nervous how they’d be received if I discussed them for more than a few seconds? Realistic relationships (if u look past the soulmates stuff come on it’s high fantasy shh) and FRIENDSHIPS!!! ARE SO GOOD!!! the characters fuck me up in summary. So wonderfully done. I’ve reread them 2.5 (on book 2/3) times in three months.

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‘Brutopia. De dromen van Brussel’ van Pascal Verbeken: ronddwalen in een onbemind oerwoud tot je de nieuwe wereld ziet

In zijn nieuwste boek Brutopia. De dromen van Brussel ontleedt schrijver, reporter en ‘sprokkelaar van verhalen’ Pascal Verbeken (°1965) zijn haat-liefdeverhouding met de ongrijpbare hoofdstad van België. Samen met zijn debuut Arm Wallonië (2007) en het bejubelde wandelboek Grand Central Belge. Voetreis door een verdwijnend land (2012) vormt Brutopia Verbekens zogeheten Belgische trilogie. Zijn onderzoek voert Verbeken als vanouds te voet en door te luisteren naar wie z’n pad kruist — een beproefde tactiek die hij perfectioneerde in Grand Central Belge.

Bijzonder is dat hij deze keer op zoek gaat naar wat had kunnen zijn: het utopische Brussel, zeg maar. Slenterend door ’s werelds bekendste hellhole volgt hij als een volleerde flaneur ‘het oude dromenspoor van de stad dat leidt naar de nieuwe wereld’. Verbeken is de ongekroonde koning van het sprekende verhaal en de ‘herinneringsreportage’: hij heeft het absolute patent op een meeslepende, geëngageerde en begeesterende vertelstijl die het midden houdt tussen onderzoeksjournalistiek, geschiedschrijving en literatuur. Met Brutopia levert de Vlaamse Ryszard Kapuściński een even lucide als bevlogen stadsbiografie af.

Brussel, een wees en een droomfabriek

Brutopia start met een geestdriftig voorwoord van Sint-Michaël, beschermengel van Brussel en een tiental andere steden, streken en bisdommen. De patroonheilige staat al sinds 1455 op de toren van het Brusselse stadhuis op de Grote Markt en ziet werkelijk alles. Niets, maar dan ook niets ontgaat hem:

Ik zie de spriet gras tussen de kasseien van een kade waar niemand meer komt, ik zie het weggegooide metroticket dat opwaait door een voorbijrijdende taxi. Ik zie het laatste restje bloed in een heroïnespuit, weggegooid achter een elektriciteitscabine. Ik zie het geblonken tafelzilver van de Club des Nobles glanzen in verwachting van een Europees banket, en tegelijkertijd zie ik families uit verre landen in de laadbak van vrachtwagens de westelijke voorsteden binnenrijden.

Net omwille van dit uitgelezen vantage point vraagt ‘de schrijver van dit boek’ de strijdvaardige maar ietwat kregelige aartsengel om een voorwoord. Hoewel het heft van het zwaard hem beter in de hand ligt dan de pen, stemt hij toe. In krachtige maar niet van enige ironie gespeende bewoordingen schetst de heilige de hoofdlijnen van Brutopia, hier en daar vergezeld van een persoonlijke commentaar of opinie. Brussel, zo stelt hij, is een stad met een groot hart voor aangespoelden, maar is zelf ‘een wees’. Sinds mensenheugenis heeft de stede af te rekenen met gevoelens van angst en afkeer. Sint-Michaël spreekt in dat verband over Bruxellofobie: ‘In het verdeelde Belgi�� zijn Vlamingen en Walen zelfs broederlijk verenigd in hun aversie tegen Brussel, de stad die bizar genoeg het land bijeenhoudt wegens haar onsplitsbaarheid.’ Aan de hand van een captatio benevolentiae vergoelijkt Sint-Michaël het feit nooit van zijn toren te zijn neergedaald. De Brusselse straten invliegen is immers het voorrecht van de auteur van Brutopia: ‘Vele schoenzolen heeft hij versleten op trottoirs, bij dag en bij nacht. Als wandelaar, zonder plattegrond of stappenteller.’

In tien thematische hoofdstukken schetst Verbeken een onverbloemd en bij momenten ontluisterend beeld van Brussel, ‘een lappendeken van ongeveer honderdtachtig nationaliteiten’, ‘een centrifuge van globalisering’. De methodieken die hij hanteert, zijn de doorgewinterde Verbeken-lezer niet onbekend: de reporter neemt de voorliggende situatie in zich op, kijkt om zich heen, laaft zich aan de geschiedenis en richt zijn blik op een specifiek aspect van de hem omringende werkelijkheid — in casu de stad Brussel, het hellegat van Europa. In een grondige analyse van de situatie zet Verbeken de bakens uit, terwijl hij aan de hand van sfeerscheppende beschrijvingen de lezer zo dicht mogelijk bij het beschreven thema betrekt. Zijn uitgelichte observaties krijgen steeds een uitgebreide actuele en historische omkadering. Een geprivilegieerde getuige, een expert ter zake of een toevallige passant komt aan het woord en zorgt voor nog meer context. Zodoende heeft de lezer constant het gevoel het beschrevene mee te maken ‘van op de eerste rij’. De lezer als bevoorrechte toeschouwer, de auteur als gids.

In zijn beroemde gedicht ‘Le cygne’ deed Charles Baudelaire de wrede uitspraak dat de stad sneller verandert dan het hart van een mens: ‘Le vieux Paris n’est plus (la forme d’une ville / Change plus vite, hélas! que le coeur d’un mortel)’. Het zijn deze constante en onhoudbare cycli van gedaanteverwisselingen die Verbeken in Brutopia ‘de dromen van Brussel’ noemt. Hier treedt hij in de voetsporen van ‘de dromers van Brussel’ en gaat op zoek naar het Brussel dat er ooit geweest of nooit gekomen is. De Belgische hoofdstad als droomfabriek en utopische stad, in onophoudelijke ontwikkeling, in voortdurende evolutie. De volledige constellatie van Brussel in een boekvorm gieten, is uiteraard onbegonnen werk. Verbeken maakt noodgedwongen selecties en staat stil bij pleisterplaatsen die hij tijdens zijn wandelingen tegenkomt: ‘Een stad die slordig met haar verleden omspringt, heeft één voordeel: er valt altijd iets te ontdekken.’

Wandel mee. En struikel

Voorin Brutopia prijkt een schetsmatige overzichtsplattegrond van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest met zijn 19 gemeentes. De titelpagina van ieder hoofdstuk toont een meer gedetailleerde kaart van de gemeentes die aan bod komen tijdens de bewuste ‘wandeling’. Tien hoofdstukken lang bestrijkt Verbeken op deze intuïtieve manier grote delen van Brussel: de vlaggetjes die hij prikt op zijn persoonlijke stafkaart, vormen samen een narratief netwerk, een persoonlijke kijk op een complexe stad, die geschiedenis ademt maar tegelijkertijd weinig respect lijkt te tonen voor zijn verleden: ‘Wandel mee. En struikel.’ Hier en daar is die ‘persoonlijke kijk’ overigens vrij letterlijk te nemen, want er staan enkele door Verbeken zelf genomen foto’s in Brutopia. De andere illustraties komen uit diverse archieven.

Een eerste wandeling start in de Verbondstraat in Sint-Joost-ten-Node, ‘een getto van één vierkante kilometer met dezelfde bevolkingsdichtheid als Bombay.’ Verbeken herinnert zich een voorval van een tiental jaar geleden, toen hij toevallig in de buurt rondliep: een Duits echtpaar vroeg hem de weg naar de Verbondstraat waar volgens hen het huis van Karl Marx zou staan. Na wat gezoek vonden ze samen de straat en het huis op nummer 5. Niets wees er echter op dat Marx hier had gewoond: geen gedenkplaat of muurbordje, niets. Met zijn illustere buurman op nummer 7 Friedrich Engels had Marx nochtans op die specifieke plek Het communistisch manifest geschreven, een van de meest gedrukte teksten ooit: ‘Marx vergat Brussel, zoals Brussel Marx vergat.’ Deze anekdote is voor Verbeken de perfecte aanleiding om Marx’ verblijf in Brussel historisch te kaderen en verder op te zoek te gaan naar mogelijks andere Brusselse sporen van ‘de donderprofeet van de ongelijkheid’. Sint-Joost-ten-Node is al jaren de armste gemeente van België.

Frappant is hoe Verbeken aantoont dat Marx’ doemtheorieën ironisch genoeg het nadrukkelijkst waarheid werden op de plaats waar ze geconcipieerd werden en bij uitbreiding in de zogenoemde croissant pauvre (de armoedegordel rond het kanaal waartoe ook delen van Molenbeek, Laken, Schaarbeek, Vorst en Sint-Gillis behoren). Een geprivilegieerde getuige van hoe Sint-Joost veranderde is monsieur Martin, die meer dan vijftig jaar lang een frituur hield op het gemeenteplein. Ook econoom en filosoof Philippe Van Parijs (die eveneens opdraafde in Grand Central Belge) komt aan het woord. Hij breekt een lans voor de ten voordele van Marx in de vergetelheid geraakte Brusselaar Joseph Charlier, een van de eerste pleitbezorgers van het basisinkomen.

De volgende wandeling brengt Verbeken naar de Heizel, Laken en de historische Vijfhoek. Onvermijdelijk is hier natuurlijk de Heizelvlakte waar ruim 60 jaar geleden Expo 58 meer dan 40 miljoen bezoekers lokte. Graficus en veelvoudig Expo-bezoeker Ever Meulen — de keizer van de klare lijn — heeft het over zijn schatplicht aan de toen gevestigde Atoomstijl. Aangrijpend is het verhaal van Frans Cools, de toenmalige werfleider van het Atomium: de bovenmenselijke prestatie die zijn team en hijzelf leverden om ‘de verchroomde rammelaar’ op tijd af te krijgen, wordt in geen enkele bron vermeld en is verdwenen in de nevels van de geschiedenis. Het stuk over het nagebouwd Afrikaans dorp (‘zoo humain’) op de expo is onthutsend en verbijsterend. Een weetje is dat Patrice Lumumba op de Expo bedrijvig was als persfotograaf.

Het hoofdstuk over Elsene — de gemeente die ik zelf het beste ken omdat ik er tien jaar heb gewoond, meer bepaald in de Matongé — focust op de Europese wijk en de instellingen van de EU, ‘het meest succesvolle politiek-utopische project van de twintigste eeuw’. Verbeken behandelt founding father Robert Schuman, de sloopwerken om de Europawijk te kunnen bouwen, het Hortapaviljoen in het Jubelpark en een van de markantste plekken in Brussel, het Museum Antoine Wiertz. Europacorrespondent voor NRC Handelsblad, Caroline de Gruyter geeft als expat haar boeiende kijk op Brussel, net als docent Europees recht Luuk van Middelaar. Jammer dat Verbeken niet even stopte in de Jean-Felix Hap tuin, een betoverende groene long in de Europese wijk, of bij Maison Antoine, het legendarische friethuis op het Jourdanplein. Misschien zat er in een bezoek aan het geboortehuis van actrice Audrey Hepburn ook wel een mooi verhaal?

Het volgende hoofdstuk, ‘In de Apenhoofdstad’, gaat over de markante Brussel-passage van Charles Baudelaire. Brussel — ‘een hoofdstad voor de grap’ — werd ‘zijn afdaling, zijn ondergang, zijn dood.’ Baudelaire, de vleesgeworden bruxellofobie én de geestelijke vader van het flaneren, schreef zijn afkeer voor de Belgische hoofdstad neer in het virulente schotschrift Pauvre Belgique: terwijl syfillis zijn lichaam sloopte, werd hij de grootste Brusselhater uit de geschiedenis. Hoewel Baudelaire-kenners weinig nieuws zullen leren, demonstreert Verbeken hier zijn grote vertelkracht met een straf stuk literatuurgeschiedenis, dat start in het centrum en eindigt in het Ukkelse café Au Vieux Spijtigen Duivel waar Baudelaire-vertaler Rokus Hofstede zijn opwachting doet. Uiteindelijk zou Brussel Baudelaire evenzeer ‘vergeten’ als Marx: nergens is er een spoor van zijn verblijf in de hoofdstad. Hoewel, in 2017 liep er in het Broodhuis een tentoonstelling over de ultieme poète maudit.

Wat frappeert, bijblijft of ontroert

Het Baudelaire-hoofdstuk maakt de lezer benieuwd wat Verbeken had kunnen maken van het verhaal van twee andere coryfeeën van de Franse literatuur, Arthur Rimbaud en Paul Verlaine, die net als de auteur van Les fleurs du mal duistere tijden meemaakten in Brussel. Zo komen er nog zaken voor de geest waarvan de Brusselkenner of -liefhebber zich zal afvragen waarom ze niet aan bod komen in Brutopia, maar de auteur wil een persoonlijk verhaal vertellen, het utopische Brussel tonen. Hij diende zich bijgevolg te beperken. Hij streeft geen volledigheid na, noch wil hij een reisgids samenstellen. Nee, hij schrijft over wat hem frappeert, bijblijft of ontroert. Een mooi voorbeeld is het vijfde hoofdstuk waarin Verbeken een hallucinant beeld optrekt van de Noordwijk. In zijn ballade door de Quartier Nord — ‘een desolaat, maar intens fascinerend niemandsland’ — laat hij zien hoezeer Brussel voor hem bij uitstek ‘de verhevigde versie van België’ is: ‘Veel ongerijmdheden die het land samenhouden komen samen in dit verhaal: charlatanerie, ritselarij, geschipper en zelfoverschatting die flirt met zelfverachting.’

In hoofdstuk 6 begeeft Verbeken zich in de Kanaalzone en Molenbeek. Hij probeert te achterhalen waar de oorsprong ligt van Molenbeeks omwenteling van ‘continental Manchester’ tot ‘jihadi capital’. Een mogelijke verklaring is misschien te zoeken bij het inferno van de Innovation in 1967:

Na de brand in de Brusselse Inno in 1967 waarbij 323 bezoekers omkwamen, bood de Saudische koning Faysal financiële hulp aan de slachtoffers. Geroerd door dit genereuze gebaar schonk koning Boudewijn de Saudi’s het Oosters Paviljoen dat gebouwd werd in het Jubelpark voor de Wereldtentoonstelling van 1897. In het gebouw kwam de Grote Moskee van Brussel, met plaats voor vierduizend gelovigen, annex een islamitische school. […] Veel Marokkaanse moslims kwamen op die manier onder invloed van een strikt puriteinse islam. Vandaag beleeft het salafisme een ongekende bloei en heeft het de mainstream soennitische islam veranderd.

Een van de sterkhouders van de Molenbeekse industrie was de ijzergieterij Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles, producent van veel patriottische monumenten, zoals Manneken Pis. Om onverklaarbare redenen noemt Verbeken ook ‘Brabo op de Antwerpse Groenplaats’, maar dit monument staat al lang iets verder, op de Grote Markt. Interessant is hoe Verbeken steeds het groter plaatje schetst, in een poging een urbanistisch overzicht te bewaren:

In Brussel woont tien procent van de Belgen op nauwelijks een half procent van het territorium. De helft daarvan zit samengepakt in een van de ongeveer driehonderd achtergestelde buurten zoals Oud-Molenbeek. De geografie van de stad, gebouwd op zeven heuvels, spiegelt al eeuwen de sociale situatie. Nog altijd leven de armen in de lager gelegen stadsdelen.

Het gesprek met jihaddeskundige en radicaliseringsexpert Montasser AlDe’emeh is evenzeer revelerend. Segregatie is en blijft een kernwoord, ook van Vlaamse kant bekeken. De gemiddelde Vlaming begrijpt de gemiddelde Brusselaar niet, laat staan de gemiddelde moslim:

Vlamingen houden niet van Brussel. Een understatement. De stad is het symbool van het perfide, Franstalige Belgische establishment dat generaties Vlamingen onder de knoet hield en hun taal miskende. Dat gebeurde nergens op brutere wijze dan in Brussel zelf. En hoe meer de stad zich sinds de jaren zestig ontwikkelde tot een multiculturele metropool van 183 nationaliteiten, hoe meer de belgo-belges van de stad vervreemd raakten, inclusief de Brusselaars zelf.

Niets vergaat, niets blijft

Hoofdstuk 7 gaat over de onvermoeibare Paul Otlet en zijn Mundaneum, een utopische bibliograaf die de wereldvrede tot stand wilde brengen door het delen van kennis. In dit onwaarschijnlijke verhaal toont Verbeken zich nog maar eens van zijn beste kant: gepassioneerd, helder, gezwind. Een volgende wandeling brengt de auteur tot in Anderlecht en het centrum, waarrond na de Eerste Wereldoorlog in de vorm van een cirkel maar liefst 20 zogenaamde cités jardins of sociale tuinwijken werden gebouwd om de schrijnende woningnood te lenigen. In die tijd was ‘het volksverheffende socialisme’ de religie van veel Brusselaars. De socialisten hadden zelf hun eigen ‘kathedraal van licht’, het Volkshuis ontworpen door sterarchitect Victor Horta. Dat dit architectonisch hoogstandje in 1965 werd gesloopt om de Zaveltoren, een wolkenkrabber van 26 verdiepingen, te kunnen plaatsen, is samen met de drooglegging van de Zenne, een van de grootste schandvlekken op het blazoen van de Brusselse stedelijke ontwikkeling en ruimtelijke ordening.

In ’Een roerig bos’, het voorlaatste hoofdstuk van Brutopia, krijgt een ander soort lichtkathedraal alle aandacht: het grootse Zoniënwoud, een oerbos van eeuwenoude beuken waar grootheden als Jan van Ruusbroec en Hugo van der Goes hun heil vonden. Verbeken neemt de lezer mee naar een plek die weinig Brusselaars of Belgen kennen: een merkwaardige clairière tussen de beuken onthult 32 berken in een cirkel. Landschapsarchitect Bas Smets ontwierp dit openluchtmonument ter nagedachtenis van de 32 slachtoffers van de aanslagen op 22 maart 2016. Een ander boeiend verhaal dat in het bos tot rijping kwam, is dat van de anarcho-communistische kolonie ‘L’Expérience’ die zich in 1905 in het Zoniënwoud vestigde om een nieuwe Ideale Maatschappij in het leven te roepen.

In het slothoofdstuk hopt Verbeken op de trein en snijdt een favoriet thema aan: de ijzeren weg. Na de eerste rit op het Europese continent op 5 mei 1835 aan de Brusselse Groendreef begon de Belgische spoordroom. In enkele decennia bouwde België het dichtste spoorwegennet van de wereld. En toch was er een ernstig hiaat, een cruciale missing link: Spoorlijn 0, de verbinding tussen het Brusselse Noord‑ en Zuidstation. De gevolgen van dit gigantisch bouwproject zijn tot op vandaag voelbaar:

Het werd het langst aanslepende bouwproject in de Brusselse geschiedenis dwars door mythische volksbuurten als de Putterij en de Marollen. Nog altijd is de spoortunnel een litteken in de stad. En langs het traject liggen veel gebroken dromen. De stations op Spoorlijn 0 (of de Jonction, zoals Brusselaars zeggen) zijn schuilplekken voor daklozen, asielzoekers en migranten op weg naar Engeland.

De kaalslag die nodig was om de verbinding te maken baarde daarentegen wel een meesterwerk van de Vlaamse literatuur, Louis-Paul Boons Vergeten straat. De getuigenissen die Verbeken sprokkelt aan het Noordstation, ‘een dagasiel voor Oost-Afrikaanse transmigranten’, gaan door merg en been. Tussendoor krijgt de lezer nog de geschiedenis mee van ‘Horta’s spoorkathedraal’, Brussel Centraal. Beschermheilige Sint-Michaël sluit Brutopia af met een uitgeleide, ‘dan zwijg ik weer als het graf, voor minstens vijfhonderd jaar.’ Veranderlijkheid en onbestendigheid maken voor hem het wezen van de stad uit: ‘Daar komt de Nieuwe Wereld. Hij is er al. Alles stroomt. Niets vergaat. Niets blijft.’ Maar er is één standvastig ijkpunt, weinig Brusselaars kennen het. De Brusselse meridiaan is samen met Sint-Michaël op z’n toren een van de weinige symbolen van standvastigheid:

’s Middags, als de zon op haar hoogste punt staat, vallen de stralen recht door een oculus in het brandraam van de naar mij genoemde kathedraal tegenover het Centraal Station. Ze maken een vlek van licht op de kerkvloer, precies op de plek waar een streep van messing in de vloertegels begint.

Verbeken sluit Brutopia af met een bibliografie. Geen saaie lijst, maar een poging om de indrukken, invloeden en leeservaringen die zijn Brussel-beeld bepaalden, gestalte te geven. Zo somt hij enkele auteurs op die Brussel als decor of zelfs als personage gebruikten in hun boeken: in de eerste plaats de vroege Boon, maar ook Jeroen Brouwers, Willem Frederik Hermans, Herman Teirlinck, Willem Elsschot, Benno Barnard, Kamiel Vanhole of Eric de Kuyper, om er maar een paar te noemen, lieten Verbekens Brusselse gemoed vollopen. Naast deze ‘schaduwbibliotheek’ geeft Verbeken per hoofdstuk de boeken mee die hij als bron gebruikte en hem inspireerden. In die laatste categorie zitten — hoe kan het anders — enkele onvermijdelijke Brussel-klassiekers zoals onder andere Arm Brussel (1992) van Geert van Istendael, De eeuw van Brussel (2013) van Eric Min of Een gehucht in een moeras (2017) van de Brusselse Ahasverus Marc Didden. Brutopia kan vanaf heden prompt en rechtmatig bij dit selecte rijtje incontournables worden gerekend. Wie Brussel beter en van een andere, ‘vergeten’ zijde wil leren kennen, laat zich best door deze ongenaakbare brutopist op sleeptouw nemen.

Verschenen op: Mappalibri, mei 2019

Brutopia, de dromen van Brussel van Pascal Verbeken, De Bezige Bij 2019,  ISBN 9789403144306, 336 pp.

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A couple weeks back I asked the internet for help finding something to read, and man did the internet pull through! This is a masterpost of answers I got. If you’re tagged in it, it’s just so I can tell you this: thank you for responding! I got some recommendations I’ve already read, some that have been on my list for ages, some I’ve never heard of before and am excited to have learned about! It was fun seeing such a variety, and now I have a nice list here to come back to next time! If you’re wondering which I ended up reading, the answer is actually that my wife reminded me that I’d been meaning to read Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, so I played favorites and took that suggestion. But I just finished it, so, I’ll try to pick one of these for the next thing!

@metalpannda​ answered: John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series.

@vivaciouscactus​ answered: Jewels of the Rebellion is one of my favorite fantasy novels. Its only $3 on Amazon, too.

@theneuroknight​ answered: The Fionavar Tapestry. Recommended by a friend. Not sure what I think of it yet. You might like.

@rabiastudies​ reblogged this from suchprettypride and added:

The Catcher in the Rye

@janeandthehivequeen​ reblogged this and added:

The giver series by Lois Lowry maybe? It’s kind of quiet fantasy, the plot can’t really be described as action at all. Death does enter the plot at one point but it doesn’t dwell on it. You can start at any book in the series and read any of them as a stand-alone as well.

But like, everyone has read that so you probably already have too lol

Oh, there’s the princess bride, which is hilarious and fantasy. There’s action but it’s not action packed, and it’s self-aware and campy and fun. If you’ve seen the movie, it’s like that, but with a very self-aware frame narrative.

Howl’s Moving Castle is like a subversion of different fantasy tropes, also very funny and also relatively light-hearted. The main character has been turned into an old lady so there’s little action.

@jannhpps​ reblogged this from youthbookreview and added:

Little Women by Louise May Alcott is one of my favorites.

@linguist25  reblogged this and added:

I have few palate cleanser books for you @suchprettypride. You might like….

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Roz Chast (Illustrations)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre #1) by Gail Carson Levine

The Unicorn Sonata by Peter S. Beagle

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 by Linda Medley, Jane Yolen

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles by Kim Newman

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link etc.

The Wizard’s Promise (The Hanna Duology #1) by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Spirit’s Key by Edith Cohn

Alistair Grim’s Odditorium (Odditorium #1) by Gregory Funaro (Goodreads Author), Vivienne To (Illustrator)

Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and Other Magical Fiction by Kelly Ann Jacobson etc.

Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School #1) by Jen Calonita

Cranky Ladies of History by Tehani Croft Wessely etc.

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix

The Marvels by Brian Selznick

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Topper (Topper #1) by Thorne Smith

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats

Plain Kate by Erin Bow

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Foxheart by Claire Legrand (Goodreads Author), Jaime Zollars (Goodreads Author)(Illustrations)

My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies #1)  by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton (Goodreads Author), Jodi Meadows

Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi

The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, Richard Francis Burton (Translator)

The 10th Kingdom by Kathryn Wesley

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1-2) by Lewis Carroll

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables #1) by L.M. Montgomery

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Folktales) by Robin McKinley

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket #1) by Roald Dahl

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

East by Edith Pattou

I hope one of these books serves as a good in-between read. Happy reading to you!

@12minutestomidnight​ reblogged this and added:

This book is pretty well-known, but if you haven’t yet read it: try Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami. It’s fantasy, and it’s a contemporary book - so it might be post-modern, though I’m not sure what counts as a post-modern book to you.

@readingbooksinisrael​ reblogged this and added:

I just took out a bunch of Edward Eager books because I needed exactly what you are talking about. They are children’s books about groups of kids who suddenly find magic. They are all great.

Recommended reading order:

Half-Magic-summer of 1924, four kids find a magic coin on the ground that only grants wishes in halves.

Magic By the Lake-summer of 1925, same four kids go to vacation at a summer house near a lake, and find a talking turtle who can grant wishes

Knight’s Castle-the children of the four in the two previous books have to spend a summer together, and end up adventuring much of it when they are turned tiny

The Time Garden-same children go vacation at a summer house near a lake with a thyme garden. they discover the thyme can take them through time

Seven-Day Magic-five kids from a different universe discover a book that takes them on hazardous adventures when they make a wish on it

Magic or Not?-two kids move to a new neighborhood during the summer, and discover a wishing well and try to do Good Deeds

The Well-Wishers-same kids come upon a magic desk, and immediately lose it to the bully of the street

And these sound generic, but they’re not, and every chapter is action-packed, and the characters are great. If you like E. Nesbit’s books, these are based on those. And the illustrations are great! (at least in my copies)

@anassarhenisch​ reblogged this and added:

Orlando by Virginia Woolf - Modern, not post-modern, with a definite fantasy slant and slower pace; about an Elizabethan immortal who slides between genders Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon - About a twelve-year-old girl auditioning to be the Wicked Witch of a castle, with a fair bit of whimsy and humour; fast-paced because it’s a kids’ book but it doesn’t feel frantic in the same vein, the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede, about a princess who volunteers as a Dragon’s Princess because it’s the only accepted role that allows her independence Uprooted by Naomi Novik - slow burn of a fantasy, occasionally creepy and with fast sections and side character deaths, but the focus is on friendship and saving the kingdom and fighting evil Robin McKinley’s fairy tale retellings if you’re looking for something big, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, which is basically Austen does fantasy; there are deaths and depression but again, I wouldn’t say they’re the focus; it’s two wizards fighting Napoleon, reinventing magic, and messing with forces they can’t control

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WordPress 5.1 “Betty”

A Little Better Every Day

Version 5.1 of WordPress, named “Betty” in honour of acclaimed jazz vocalist Betty Carter, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard.

Following WordPress 5.0 — a major release which introduced the new block editor — 5.1 focuses on polish, in particular by improving the overall performance of the editor. In addition, this release paves the way for a better, faster, and more secure WordPress with some essential tools for site administrators and developers.

Site Health

With security and speed in mind, this release introduces WordPress’s first Site Health features. WordPress will start showing notices to administrators of sites that run long-outdated versions of PHP, which is the programming language that powers WordPress.

When you install new plugins, WordPress’s Site Health features will check them against the version of PHP you’re running. If the plugin requires a version that won’t work with your site, WordPress will keep you from installing that plugin.

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Introduced in WordPress 5.0, the new block editor continues to improve. Most significantly, WordPress 5.1 includes solid performance improvements within the editor. The editor should feel a little quicker to start, and typing should feel smoother.

Expect more performance improvements in the next couple of releases.

Developer Happiness

Multisite Metadata

5.1 introduces a new database table to store metadata associated with sites and allows for the storage of arbitrary site data relevant in a multisite / network context.

Cron API

The Cron API has been updated with new functions to assist with returning data and includes new filters for modifying cron storage. Other changes in behavior affect cron spawning on servers running FastCGI and PHP-FPM versions 7.0.16 and above.

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Miscellaneous improvements include:

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New test config file constant in the test suite, new plugin action hooks

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A new human_readable_duration function

Improved taxonomy metabox sanitization

Limited LIKE support for meta keys when using WP_Meta_Query

A new “doing it wrong” notice when registering REST API endpoints

…and more!

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Keepers of Tradition Reprint Bundle 2

Publisher: Black Chantry Productions

Keepers of Tradition reprint bundle 2

The firm hand rules all

The Camarilla is an exclusive organization of vampires that speaks for and legislates its members all over the world (at least, in theory). Bound by a number of Traditions detailing the creation, behavior and destruction of Kindred, the sect also strives to hide to existence of all vampire activity from mortal eyes. This deception, called the Masquerade, is at the core of the Camarilla's existence; the struggle to universally uphold the Masquerade is what drives much of the sect's policy and direction.

This set is a fixed assortment of 120 cards for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle – 35 library cards and 85 crypt cards of clans Toreador, Tremere, Ventrue and the outcast Caitiff. All were first created for the original Keepers of Tradition expansion 2008, since long out of print and in great demand among players.

Note: Two of the crypt cards, Gwendolyn Fleming and Hiram “Hide” DeVries, were left out of the original Keepers of Tradition print run and are here made available for the first time.

Contents:

CRYPT CARDS:

CAITIFF 1 Alex Wilkins 1 César Holfield 1 Count Zaroff 1 Donald Cargill 1 Dr. Solomon Grey 1 Freddy Gage 1 Iris Bennett 1 Johan Wrede 1 Walker Grimes TOREADOR 2 Allanyan Serata 2 Andre LeRoux 2 Bethany Ray 2 Epikasta Rigatos 1 Eugene 2 Gwendolyn Fleming 1 Kateline Nadasdy 1 Lindsay Yates 1 Masdela 2 Montecalme 2 Philippe de Marseilles 2 Rafael de Corazon 1 Sean Andrews 1 Sheva Carr 1 Thomas De Lutrius 2 Tyler McGill 1 Vasily TREMERE 1 Aidan Lyle 2 Andrew Stuart 1 Claus Wegener 2 Dr. John Dee 1 Ezra Hawthorne 1 Frank Weisshadel 2 Gabrielle di Righetti 2 Gerald Windham 1 Lord Ephraim Wainwright 1 MacAlister Marshall 1 Miguel Cordovera 2 Mistress Fanchon 2 Rutor 1 Tarrence Moore 1 Troius 1 William Thorbecke 2 Zane VENTRUE 1 Beth Malcolm 2 Bulscu 1 Emily Carson 2 Graham Gottesman 2 Gotsdam, The Tired Warrior 1 Gustav Breidenstein 2 Hardestadt 2 Hiram "Hide" DeVries 1 Jack Tredegar 1 Jackson Asher 1 João Bilé 1 Johannes Castelein 1 Joseph DiGiaccomo 2 Lodin (Olaf Holte) 2 Mary Anne Blaire 1 Pedrag Hasek 1 Portia 2 Victor Donaldson Crypt cards subtotal: 85 LIBRARY CARDS:

1 Agate Talisman 1 Arcane Appraiser 2 Blood of Sandman 2 Charismatic Aura 1 Ephor 2 Eyes of Argus 2 Fleetness 2 Force of Personality 2 Kevlar Vest 2 Light Intensifying Goggles 2 Mouthpiece 2 Perfect Paragon 1 Persona Non Grata 1 Ponticulus 2 Rego Motus 1 Scourge of the Enochians 2 Steadfastness 2 Soul Scan 1 Target Retainer 2 Torrent 2 Villein Library cards subtotal: 35 Grand total: 120

  Copyright © 2018 White Wolf Entertainment AB. All rights reserved. Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and Vampire: The Masquerade® are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of White Wolf Entertainment AB. All rights reserved.

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