#karen booth

[hellooldsmelly]

[libertyreads]

Book Review #128 of 2023--

A Christmas Negotiation by Karen Booth. Rating: 2.5 stars.

Read from November 3rd to 4th.

I want to start by saying that the title of this one may have the word Christmas in it, but this is kind of far from a Christmas Romance in my opinion. The only thing that even kind of feels festive is that the two of them decorate a tree at one point. Everything else about the story could have taken place at any other time of the year. As someone who loves Christmas and is trying to fit in as many Christmas Romances as possible between now and the New Year? It wasn't great for me. It also didn't help that I could tell the characters had chemistry, but when they were apart I didn't understand why they were so fixated on the sex they've had in the past. That could be an asexual me thing. I always mention that I'm an asexual reader who likes reading some spice sometimes, but can have trouble understanding some character motivations because of it. For me, the one night stand they had wasn't particularly mind blowing. It felt like a pretty generic sex scene, but the characters are so overwhelmed by their memories of that night over the next couple of days. Which I cannot understand at all. There were some cute moments that involve our two love interests but also a cat and her kittens which was so sweet and kept me reading. I'm not sure what's up with my Christmas Romance choices this year but I'm hoping that I can pick up a couple more before the end of the month and that they knock it out of the park for me.

[assassinsmusical]

you know john wilkes booth’s life was wild when he was stabbed in the face by a lover and it’s not even one of the top ten wildest things that happened to him

[moeblob]

There was a post I saw about someone who mutually ghosted a guy after a date and kept matching with him and they're not interested but it's the longest "relationship" the person had been in at that point and I'm like. Karen would mutually ghost someone.

She doesn't really tell Brent/Right/Evelyn/Chris his name (he has a double first name, Patrick is not his last name) and just refers to him as "My Guy". Like "Ah damn, My Guy matched again. End my suffering." And when she tries to explain it to Right who does NOT understand how it's different, her logical answer is "it's my God given right to ghost a polite man!"

Also I just imagine her confiding in Paul about Rick and he's like "is his name Patrick" and she's like "kinda". And after that, Paul calls him "Pattycakes" cause he's never even seen the guy so why not give him a funny little nickname. He's allowed to do so at this point probably.

[star-burrry]

Ended up on Kathy Reich’s Twitter (don’t ask) AND IM??!?! GONNA THROW UP. IM ACTUALLY HYPERVENTILATING THERE IS NO WAY. SOMEONE SAVE ME. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

[brokehorrorfan]

Terror Threads has released two The Return of the Living Dead shirts designed by Casey Booth and Yannick Bouchard. Priced at $30, they'll ship by October 28.

[socialcarcrash]

I completely agree with you about Sweets! His death was such a shame. How do you think he would have changed the dynamics in seasons 10 through 12 if he was still alive with the plots and characters (like Aubrey and Karen)?

AUBREY: im an aubrey-sweets friendship truther at heart, so first thing to acknowledge is the thing with aubreys dad.

We all know sweets has a slight obsession/ interest (depending on the perspective) with his friends childhoods, and that’s understandable. I can see him really helping him out at that time, and providing a perspective that would hopefully relieve the guilt he experiences after turning his dad in. also really random idea that popped into my brain!! aubrey is the most adhd coded guy ive ever seen, so i can see sweets waltzing past his desk and dropping off snacks and drinks to help him focus :)

i just think those two could have got super close. Aubrey clearly felt out of place when he first joined, a feeling that sweets shared and grew from so maybe he would have just provided that extra support for him!

KAREN: i havent got so much on this, cause i dont know her as well as i should, however; i know those ‘is psychology a real science’ debates would have got way more heated!!! its now 2v2, b&b and sweets and karen, i can see them sitting in the diner having the most heated debate ever seen and the rest of the diner is just sat silently like ‘what the fuck 0-0’.

I also think at first, sweets struggled having someone who pushed him and knew a lot about ‘his’ field, which comes with lots of special interests. (i get quite stressed if i meet a person who is into the same fields of physics that i am, especially if i am the person who is known for liking it amongst my group, and i think sweets probably has the same think). But he learns to talk with her and infodump about their theories and cases together! a form of healthy competition forms i think, one that eventually encourages them to work harder.

ZACK: i felt like it was important to mention him,even though i mentioned him in the last one, so ill just expand on this one a bit.

I just want to know what the team would have thought about sweets knowing all along that zack was innocent. What would they have felt? betrayed? understanding? sad? Maybe sweets would never have told them during this time, maybe he kept it a secret until he testified on the stand.

Sometimes i think the death of sweets is what prompted Zack to admit to never having killed anyone, so maybe if he was still alive Zack would still be there and no-one would ever know. That could give way for another new plot line where sweets lets it slip that zack was innocent, but maybe not. who knows :)

(now an extra cause i wanted to do him hes the loml)

HODGINS: this is a big one, cause the poor guy really goes through it (*cough* the doom in the boom *cough*). I love this arc, it gets way to much hate. disabled hodgins for the win!!

I think sweets totally understands his anger, and allows him to feel it (as he should!). But i think he would have put a stop to him taking it out on angela, cause it’s counterproductive to build barriers between those you love when you’re struggling. I can see hodgins (after the usual pestering from sweets for a while) just rocking up at his office looking ready to murder someone (so real) and sweets just lets him talk, and shout and probably cry a bit too.

I just think the adjustment wouldn’t have been easier, but he would have had a way to handle it better and that would mean so much!!!

okay cool im done (for now- i might revisit this idea later with a few other characters) :)

[shakespearenews]

This can resonate in summary, with characters giving repeated performances—like the hundreds of portrayals of Richard III and Hamlet in Karen Joy Fowler’s Booth, building up like tragic poison in John Wilkes Booth’s familial bloodstream; like the similarly toxic academic drilling of theatrical artifice of in M. L. Rio’s If We Were Villains, in which an overcommitment to the study of Shakespeare leads to a real-life murder—or, again, in Choi’s Trust Exercise. (Choi wins a particular genre-bending medal for having both a meta-play and a meta-novel in her work.)

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[johnadamsnotquincy]

Reading an historical fiction about Booth and his family. I’m only forty-five pages in and the book’s already giving me emotions/pos. This isn’t like those Leon Czolgosz books y’all have been reading.

[helena-edits-in-real-time]

There's a Deal You Can Make on a Midnight Walk Alone

Karen makes a deal to bring Keith home. *Stands alone as an OTH fic; knowledge of TBATE is not needed.

Read it here.

[gayhomebody]

Just finished Karen Joy Fowler's novel 'Booth' and I absolutely loved it. For a book I bought on a whim, knowing nothing of it, this was a complete winner and I am so glad I picked it up. I had my worries before I began that it would handle the story of John Wilkes Booth's family in a crass or saccharine or apologistic manner, but my fears were pretty much immediately assuaged when I began reading- Fowler handles her material so deftly and has produced a human and believable picture of the development of a right-wing terrorist and its impact on the people around him without a hint of weepy excuse or justification for the awful actions of John Wilkes.

Naturally, in writing this book Fowler had her eye not just on the Civil War but also on the events of the Trump presidency and beyond, and the reader can't help but think about all the terrorist outrages of recent years in America, like Charlottesville, January 6th, and the regular mass shootings at schools and public events, while reading Booth. It's recommended reading for an election year that looks set to be full of social conflict.

Up next, I'm thinking of trying out East of Eden by John Steinbeck, as my friend really loves it! I read Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row around a decade ago in a neat little double paperback from Penguin, so it will be good to get back into some Steinbeck again after all this time.

[lesbianstarlightglimmer]

The one fucking thing I wanted at this craft fair and somebody bought the whole set

[the-phooey]

In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.

Karen Joy Fowler, Booth

[familyabolisher]

I've walked past the Barbie branded selfie booth, sat through the reel of old commercials that precede the previews, and watched Margot Robbie learn to cry, and I’m still not sure what “doing the thing and subverting the thing,” which Greta Gerwig claimed as the achievement of Barbie in a recent New York Times Magazine profile, could possibly mean. This was the second Gerwig profile the magazine has run. I wrote the first one, in 2017, which in hindsight appears like a warning shot in a publicity campaign that has cemented Gerwig’s reputation as so charming and pure of heart that any choice (we used to call them compromises) she makes is justified, a priori, by her innocence. This is a strange position for an adult to occupy, especially when the two-hour piece of branded content she is currently promoting hinges on a character who discovers that her own innocence is the false product of a fallen world. But—spoiler alert!—the point of Barbie’s “hero’s journey” is less to reconcile Barbie to death than to reconcile the viewer to culture in the age of IP.

“Doing the thing and subverting the thing”: I haven’t finished working out the details, but I think the rough translation would be Getting rich and not feeling feel bad about it. (Or, for the viewer: Having a good time and not feeling bad about it.) One must labor under a rather reduced sense of the word “subvert” to be impressed with poking loving fun at product misfires such as Midge (the pregnant Barbie), Tanner (the dog who poops), and the Ken with the earring, especially given that the value of all these collectors’ items has, presumably, not decreased since the film opened. Barbie may feature a sassy tween sternly informing Robbie’s Stereotypical Barbie that the tiny-waisted top-heavy billion-dollar business she represents has made girls “feel bad” about themselves, but if anyone uttered the word “anorexia,” I missed it. (There was a reason Todd Haynes told the story of Karen Carpenter’s life and death with Barbies, and it wasn’t because an uncanny piece of molded plastic has the magical power to resolve the contradictions of girlhood and global capitalism.) There’s a bit about Robbie going back into a box in the Mattel boardroom, but Barbies aren’t made in an executive suite; they come from factories in China. On the one hand, it’s weird for a film about a real-world commodity to unfold wholly in the realm of ideas and feelings, but then again, that’s pretty much the definition of branding. Mattel doesn’t care if we buy Barbie dolls—they’re happy to put the word “Barbie” on sunglasses and T-shirts, or license clips from the movie for an ad for Google. OK, here’s my review: When Gerwig first visited Mattel HQ in October 2019, the company’s stock was trading at less than twelve dollars a share. Today the price is $21.40. 

Christine Smallwood, Who Was Barbie?

[lilianeruyters]

Karen Joy Fowler – Booth

I had my doubts about Booth before I even started reading. I had not been a big fan of previous Fowler’novels, I was not that keen to involve myself in the murder of Lincoln. Still, I decided to give Booth a chance. Unfortunately the novel failed to impress me. In the novel Fowler heads towards the murder of Lincoln steadily. His murderer, John Wilkes Booth, was born into a family of famous…