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Summer, summer, summertime

Summer is in full swing here in Chicago, so there's no better time to reflect on some warm weather quotes from the past few centuries.

"Happy to join you for a walk on the wild side. I am thinking of turning existentialist for the summer!" - Frank Walsh to Jack Conroy (1958)

"I love the summer, the warm, pleasant summer, when the very thought of the cold frosts of winter brings a smile almost of derision to our faces." - Unidentified compositions, Everett family writings (ca. 1850s-1870s)

"I want you should have a good long summer to rest, recruit, and get fat & strong." - Isaac Stevens Metcalf to his wife, Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (1866)

"I wish you both could visit me this summer and eat some of the lovely cherries that are coming." - Katharine Kerr Moore to her mother, May Walden (1915)

"This summer I found a new way to go broke." - Mary Ann Heller to Jack Conroy (1965)

"Our summer is passing away -- swiftly, & upon silent wings." - Edward A. Barnes diaries (1876)

(tag yourself I'm "I found a new way to go broke")

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Providing In-Depth Horoscope and Personality Analysis for May 12 Birthdays

They are individuals with a cordial, very serene and respectful disposition. Close to home, delicate: they show dependability in their connections. They can adjust to life circumstances. They can accomplish huge advantages through associations with others. Genuine companions will help you particularly. They can resolve their lives in an agreeable manner. They are truly keen on singing and music. Because of these interests, they even become craftsmen, painters, or scholars. They show extraordinary adroitness in manual work, which permits them to acquire amazing outcomes in the applied expressions. They can likewise be astounding specialists. Your endeavors and difficult work will ultimately be delegated with progress. They have a fundamental energy in overabundance, and they have it in sports, love or work. A side interest that can hurt them is gastronomic, in light of the fact that it could cause liver or kidney illnesses. Likewise, they frequently show a propensity to put on weight. People brought into the world at sunrise are better and stronger. Imperfections: The lacking sort rapidly ejects out of resentment. He is eccentric, constrained by his interests. Albeit languid, he is fit for playing around. Imperious, excessively basic. Providing In-Depth Horoscope and Personality Analysis for May 12 Birthdays 

 Assuming your birthday is on May 12, your zodiac sign is Taurus May 12 - character and character character: immaculate, kind, determined, erratic, forceful, antagonistic; calling: humanist, nurture, writer; colors: purple, brown, white; stone: lapis lazuli; creature: snail; plant: nasturtium; fortunate numbers: 10,15,23,26,39,54 very fortunate number: 3 Occasions and observances - May 12 Worldwide Fibromyalgia Day. Worldwide Nursing Day. Worldwide Day of the Section of Beginning wine development. May 12 VIP Birthday. Who was conceived that very day as you? 1900: Pedro Puig Adam, Spanish mathematician (f. 1960). 1900: Helene Weigel, German entertainer (d. 1971). 1907: Katharine Hepburn, American entertainer (d. 2003). 1910: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, English scientific expert, 1964 Nobel Prize victor for science (d. 1994). 1910: Johan Ferrier, Surinamese president (d. 2010). 1910: Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (d. 2010). 1913: Jamelao, Brazilian samba player (f. 2008). 1914: Bertus Aafjes, Dutch author (d. 1993). 1918: Julius Rosenberg, American covert agent (d. 1953). 1918: Mary Kay Debris, organizer behind the beauty care products organization Mary Kay Beauty care products (d. 2001). 1920: Vilდ©m Flusser, Czech author (d. 1991). 1921: Joseph Beuys, German craftsman (d. 1986). 1922: Marco Denevi, Argentine author (f. 1998). 1924: Claribel Alegrდ­a, Nicaraguan author. 1925: Yogi Berra, American baseball player. 1926: Luis Molowny, Spanish footballer and mentor (d. 2010). 1928: Burt Bacharach, American arranger. 1929: Sam Nujoma, Namibian legislator. 1929: დ?gnes Heller, Hungarian logician. 1930: Jesდºs Franco, Spanish movie producer (d. 2013). 1930: Tirofijo (Manuel Marulanda Vდ©lez), Colombian guerrilla, commandant of the FARC (d. 2008). 1935: Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player. 1936: Guillermo Endara Galimany, Panamanian legislator and attorney, president somewhere in the range of 1989 and 1994. 1936: Honest Stella, American painter. 1937: George Carlin, American comic (d. 2008). 1942: Michel Fugain, French vocalist. 1945: Alan Ball, English footballer. 1945: Claudia Sauce, Spanish entertainer brought into the world in Zaire. 1948: Guillermo Pდ©rez Villalta, Spanish painter. 1948: Richard Riehle, American entertainer. 1948: Steve Winwood, English performer, of the band Traffic. 1950: Gabriel Byrne, Irish entertainer. 1958: Eric Artist, American performer, of the groups Kiss and Alice Cooper. 1959: Ving Rhames, American entertainer. 1962: Emilio Estდ©vez, American entertainer. 1962: Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist. 1962: Einar Arnaldur Melax, Icelandic artist and writer, of the band The Elgar Sisters. 1963: Stefano Modena, Italian Equation 1 driver. 1963: Gavin Hood, South African producer. 1963: Beatriz Valdდ©s, Cuban-Venezuelan theater, film and TV entertainer. 1966: Stephen Baldwin, American entertainer. 1966: Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian artist. 1966: Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian entertainer. 1967: Paul D'Amour, American bassist, of the band Device. 1968: Tony Bird of prey, American skater. 1970: Samantha Mathis, American entertainer. 1971: Alejandro Irarragorri, Mexican money manager. 1972: Antonio Bosch Conde, Spanish author. 1972: Yadhira Carrillo, Mexican entertainer. 1975: Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player. 1978: Sied van Riel, Dutch DJ and maker 1978: Jason Biggs, American entertainer. 1978: Malin Akerman, Swedish entertainer, model and vocalist. 1979: Joaquim Rodrდ­guez, Spanish cyclist. 1980: Keith Bogans, American b-ball player. 1980: Silvestre Dangond, Colombian vocalist lyricist of Vallenata music. 1980: Paula Woyzechowsky, Venezuelan entertainer and model. 1980: Alexandra de la Mora, Mexican entertainer. 1981: Rami Malek, American entertainer. 1981: Erica Campbell, American model. 1981: Andre Brown, American ball player. 1983: Alina Kabდ¡yeva, Russian athlete. 1983: Axel Hervelle, Belgian ball player. 1983: Domhnall Gleeson, Irish entertainer. 1984: Justin Williams, American ball player. 1985: Jaime Gavilდ¡n Martდ­nez, Spanish footballer. 1985: Paolo Goltz, Argentine footballer. 1986: Emily VanCamp, Canadian entertainer. 1986: Mouhamed Sene, Senegalese ball player. 1986: Victor Liz, Dominican ball player. 1988: Marcelo Vieira, Brazilian soccer player. 1991: Joe Dombrowski, American cyclist. 1992: Malcolm David Kelley, American entertainer. 1995: Luke Benward, American entertainer.

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I was tagged by @valenshawke (thanks!).

Last song I listened to: I am deaf, and do not listen to music. Music sets off my tinnitus, and what I can hear of it sounds like a crisp bag rattled in front of a microphone.

Currently Reading: Currently re-reading James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, which is even more excellent than I remember. I have also been reading Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America by Steven J. Ross. I have Being Henry, by Henry Winkler (whom I utterly adore) sat on my table and really want to get to it, but I haven't got to it yet.

Currently Watching: I have Leverage playing in the background as I write, but I am not paying much attention to it-- it's just for the flashing colours. It's fine, I don't dislike it, but I'm not invested in it cos it's just flashy colour. Mostly I rewatch older things. I've rewatched Star Trek Prodigy a few times because it's on Netflix and definitely the best new Trek. I also enjoy woodturning videos, like this one from Sprague Woodturning. It's relaxing and calm, almost as enjoyable as Bob Ross. And North of the Border is a fabulous Canadian artist based in Scotland making crazy things like a T-Rex with flame throwers!! So, you know. Check them out.

Currently obsessed with: Hiding from the horrors of politics I keep seeing on the news, I guess. I don't know how to reply to this. Most of the things I'm properly obsessed with, I've been so for a very long time. M*A*S*H, Twilight Zone, Bugs Bunny, Groucho Marx, Queer Golden Age cinema (especially with Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lucille Ball, Marlene Dietrich, etc.). I also have a great and permanent affection for Star Trek, tho it's primarily focussed on DS9. Fashion, gothics, camp and queerness, aesthetics and identity are always something in the back of my mind. I think about Joseph Heller's Catch-22 at least several times a day. But really I spend most of my time working on a story that I've been working on for way too long, and will probably never finish. If I'm not thinking about these things, or my dog, I'm thinking about this story.

Tagging: @veronicascreenwriter @kira-nerys-rocks @aceofwands @thequeeninyellowlace @silver-lily-louise @jedipirateking @snugglyeldritchjellyfish

Get to know you game! Answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better.

I was tagged by @captainhunnicutt (thanks!).

Last song I listened to: "Ghost River" by Nightwish. Such conflicted feelings to this band. Admittedly, they were one of two that got me through grad school, but firing Tarja and Anette, losing Jukka and Marko... I don't know.

Currently Reading: Okay... so... how much I read is based on two factors. How much work is interfering with things and where my headspace is. And, uh... yeah. I'm really behind on 3 series. The last book I read was Unbreakable by Mira Grant. I need to catch up on the Wayward Children and InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire. And a whole bunch of others on my to-be-read pile (spreadsheet).

Currently Watching: In terms of anime, Nana. In terms of movies, this weekend if *John Wick* 2 through 4 and probably The Glass Menagerie since Sam Waterston is in it. Live action TV: I tried Bates Motel and I stopped after six episode. I'll try to get back to it.

Currently obsessed with: *gestures at mess of a blog* Arcane, Blue Eye Samurai. Pretty much been, "No thoughts, only Arcane/Blue Eye Samurai."

Tagging: @albatrossisland @radarsteddy @anisaanisa @blue-scorpion-king @claremikas @haxo-wolfie @s0lareuat @ancientrimer @wallowingnewt

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Coming up this week on Hit Play!

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Look at this beautiful cast. ♥️🐺♥️

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Read Like a Gilmore

All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls” 

Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)

1. 1984 by George Orwell  2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse    41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber    51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn  73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy  108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky  109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell  110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford 

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers    121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III    131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss  134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland  135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg  136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo  137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres  139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote  140. Inferno by Dante 

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken  160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin  186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor  187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman  188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret  189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon  239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  240. Quattrocento by James Mckean 

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand  267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir  268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd  269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman  270. Selected Hotels of Europe 

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron  293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner  294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach  296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller  297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams  298. Stuart Little by E. B. White  299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway  300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust 

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare    311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields  320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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i made a list of books i have on me that are unread and i’m gonna try and randomize them, but if there are any you think deserve priority, here’s the list under the cut. ignore the large amount of video game novels i was working on a project and then remembered i can’t read. * are books i only have on digital

The Haunting of Brynn Wilder - Wendy Webb *

Spellbreaker - Charlie N. Holmberg *

The Lending Library - Aliza Fogels *

The Upside of Falling Down - Rebekah Crane *

The Silence - Daisy Pearce *

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Monster City - Michael Arntfield *

Something Wonderful - Todd S. Purdum *

A Killer’s Mind - Mike Omer *

The Last of the Stanfields - Marc Levy *

I’m Fine and Neither Are You - Camille Pagan *

The Mermaid’s Sister - Carrie Anne Noble *

Drops of Cerulean - Dawn Adams Cole *

The Shadow Queen - C.J. Redwine *

The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg *

The Fever King - Victoria Lee *

The Library Book - Susan Orlean

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Crossings - Alex Landragn

The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Dragon Age: The Calling - David Gaider

The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

The Alienist - Caleb Carr

The Crown’s Game - Evelyn Skye

The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater

Pieces and Players - Blue Balliett

The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

The Female of the Species - Mindy McGinnis

Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Disney War - James B. Stewart

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Howl’s Moving Castle - DIane Wynne Jones

The Wren Hunt - Mary Watson

Vicious - V. E. Schwab

Vassa in the Night - Sarah Porter

Girls Made of Snow and Glass - Melissa Bashardoust

The Thousandth Floor - Katharine McGee

Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery

Perfect Murder Perfect Town - Lawrence Schiller

Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne - David Gaider

Bioshock: Rapture - John Shirley

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey - Gordon Doherty

Far Cry: Absolution - Urban Waite

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

The Princess Bride - William Goldman 

Six Cats a Slayin’ - Miranda James (this was a christmas gift from my mom because i like cats and murder mysteries do not judge me)

Mass Effect: Revelation - Drew Karpyshyn

[kmionfilm]

usted se tiene que arrepentir de lo que dijo

Cada año, para la temporada de premios, el catálogo de películas a disposición de los espectadores es tan amplio y tan diverso que no es inusual que no se llegue a ver o apreciar en su totalidad, incluso una vez realizado el recorte de las categorías. Siempre hay una que, a pesar de haber estado nominada a mejor película, mejor guión o alguna terna importante de actuación, pasa técnicamente desapercibida ya sea por críticos o el público general. Para esta nota me refiero particularmente a Can You Ever Forgive Me?, película dirigida por Marielle Heller que obtuvo nominaciones a mejor guión, mejor actriz y mejor actor de reparto en los premios Óscar del año pasado, pero que finalmente no se llevó ningún galardón.

La película cuenta la historia de Lee Israel, una escritora especializada en biografías que hace tiempo dejó de tener éxito y atraviesa problemas económicos. Al ser despedida por su editorial y desesperada por la enfermedad de su gata y un alquiler que lleva unos tres meses atrasados, comienza a vender cualquier objeto de valor que tenga.  Al tocar fondo, Lee decide desprenderse de una carta escrita a mano para ella por Katharine Hepburn, por la cual recibe una suma de dinero importante. Ante esto, Lee decide aprovechar su talento para falsificar correspondencia entre personas famosas y vendérselas a coleccionistas.

Una noche, ahogando sus penas en un bar, Lee conoce a Jack Hock, un hombre que busca ganarse la vida de cualquier forma posible, actualmente dedicado a la venta de cocaína, y entablan una peculiar amistad. A medida que avanza el film, se convierten en compañeros de trabajo: Lee prepara las cartas y Jack se encarga de venderlas por ella. Las cosas se complican cuando algunos coleccionistas comienzan a recibir quejas de sus clientes, y la autenticidad de las cartas se pone en duda.

El punto fuerte de la película es su sutileza tanto en el manejo de sus temas como en la caracterización de sus personajes. Lee y Jack son personas que no están exactamente en el mejor momento de sus vidas, y ambos están, por propia admisión, completamente solos.  Lee mira televisión y comenta los programas a su gata, Jack no ha tenido pareja en mucho tiempo.  Sin embargo, en la mayoría del film los vemos juntos: van a bares, trabajan, y hacen bromas por teléfono. Es fácil olvidarse que estas dos personas están tan tristes. Es fácil subestimar la profundidad de la soledad que los rodea: una casa que está siempre vacía y fría, no tener a quién acudir cuando las cosas se ponen difíciles. No tener quién se preocupe por si están bien o no. No tener quién los llore al momento de la muerte.

Otro aspecto en el que entra en juego la sutileza, es en la sexualidad de sus personajes: sus dos protagonistas son homosexuales, sus intereses amorosos son homosexuales, y los personajes sobre los que escriben son, usualmente, homosexuales también. No se le presta mucha atención, ningún personaje tiene una salida del closet monumental o sufre un ataque homofóbico o es enviado a terapia de conversión, como se acostumbra en otras películas del género. Un hombre coquetea con el mesero que lo atiende. Una mujer invita a otra a tomar un café. Y eso es todo. Es, como ya mencioné, muy sutil, y sin embargo que se trate de una película donde la mayoría de sus personajes sean homosexuales implica un impacto mucho más grande que trasciende la misma pantalla y las páginas del guión.

Mi interés por esta película surgió a raíz de una lista de recomendaciones de películas de temática LGBT que encontré, buscando alguna que no haya visto no sólo para educarme más sino también para no ver una y otra vez las películas que ya conocía y disfrutaba. Supuse que al ser una película biográfica este aspecto no sería el eje central del film, como suele ser, y que quizás fuera por esto que no estuviera tan presente en otras listas. Pero al verla me encontré bastante sorprendida y me pregunté por qué sería entonces que esta película no era recomendada por todo el mundo al hablar de esta temática, y después lo entendí: Lee y Jack son personas muy adultas, tienen el pelo lleno de canas y arrugas en la cara. Además, Lee es una mujer gorda. Esta problemática se encuentra muy presente dentro de la comunidad de espectadores: constantemente se exige que se realicen películas más diversas, pero cuando éstas existen se las ignora. Títulos como Carol o Call Me By Your Name son considerados nombres familiares, mientras que films como Rafiki o Pariah se encuentran en un nivel inferior al que acceden sólo aquellos que buscan este tipo de films en particular. No quiero decir que el hecho de que una película sea conocida o considerada mainstream automáticamente disminuya su calidad, ni que una película sea mejor que la otra simplemente por ser menos masiva, o por ser independiente, o de culto o lo que fuere. A lo que voy es que al no darle una oportunidad, es imposible saber si estas películas son o no mejores, o si son de nuestro agrado. Nos quejamos de que todas las películas tienen protagonistas blancos y hegemónicos al punto de sentir que estamos viendo siempre la misma película, pero cuando se nos es presentada otra cosa no la miramos, o no se la recomendamos a nuestros amigos, o no iniciamos una conversación. Las películas se realizan en base a la demanda y a la respuesta del público, y si no le damos un espacio a este tipo de films, si no los apoyamos, después no deberíamos tener el tupé de demandar películas más diversas, o más inclusivas. Con esto tampoco quiero decir que las películas con protagonistas blancos y hegemónicos estén mal. Lo que quiero decir es que podemos tener ambas, y así disfrutar de un cine que se renueve, que busque nuevas historias, que se transforme, y de esta forma nos transforme a nosotros como espectadores también.  

[18thcenturysoul]

the ultimate rory gilmore book guide

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

13. Atonement by Ian McEwan

14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

16. Babe by Dick King-Smith

17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

23. The Bhagava Gita

24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

30. Candide by Voltaire

31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

32. Carrie by Stephen King

33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

35. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

36. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

37. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

52. Cujo by Stephen King

53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

61. Deenie by Judy Blume

62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

64. The Divine Comedy by Dante

65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

66. Don Quixote by Cervantes

67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

73. Eloise by Kay Thompson

74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

75. Emma by Jane Austen

76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

79. Ethics by Spinoza

80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

83. Extravagance by Gary Krist

84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

92. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

112. The Graduate by Charles Webb

113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

116. The Group by Mary McCarthy

117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

125. Henry V by William Shakespeare

126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

137. The Iliad by Homer

138. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

153. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

169. The Love Story by Erich Segal

170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

173. Marathon Man by William Goldman

174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

179. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

196. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

197. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

206. Night by Elie Wiesel

207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

212. Old School by Tobias Wolff

213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

219. Othello by Shakespeare

220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind

236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

237. Property by Valerie Martin

238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

244. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

253. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

256. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

258. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

270. Selected Hotels of Europe

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

275. Sexus by Henry Miller

276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

277. Shane by Jack Shaefer

278. The Shining by Stephen King

279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

282. Small Island by Andrea Levy

283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

289. Songbook by Nick Hornby

290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

292. Sophie's Choice by William Styron

293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

298. Stuart Little by E. B. White

299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

300. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

306. Time and Again by Jack Finney

307. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

312. The Trial by Franz Kafka

313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

316. Ulysses by James Joyce

317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

318. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

319. Unless by Carol Shields

320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

323. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

327. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

334. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

[nyneofuturists]

Episode 21: Yours, Mine, And Ours

Strange/r by Katie Kay Chelena

Hairy Neos and the Better Days of He Who Must Not Be Named by Anooj Bhandari

Summer Jam for the 14.7% Like Me by Colin Summers

This is how we’ll tell it by Yael Haskal

For Good White Americans, Recorded in a Single Breath by Lee LeBreton

Finding treasure in my phone, your phone, our phones: a collage by Anthony Sertel Dean

Episode 22: Chlortrille

The 0th Annual Totally Arbitrary Not-A-Word Spelling Bee by Michaela Farrell

The Normal: It Is New by Katharine Heller

Meanwhile Rob drinks the 2nd to last beer from his fridge and hangs a small shelf for keys & masks by his door... by Rob Neill

You’re the expert by Jeffrey Cranor

***Cecil Baldwin presents an Audio Crime

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Katharine (@spkheller) joins the show to finally knock Disney’s Belle down a peg and Allison shares her evolving feelings on Netflix’s The Punisher. Also, Donald Trump Jr. to talk to House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors, Matt Lauer fired by NBC amid sexual misconduct allegations and his very shitty “apology,” Geraldo Rivera’s weird defense of Lauer and the “flirty business” of news and video surfaces of Bette Midler in 1991 talking about Riveradrugging and groping her without consent, Garrison Keillor fired after allegations of improper behavior one day after dismissing Al Franken groping women as “low comedy,” fifth woman has accused Franken of sexual misconduct, woman in the UK reports rape to police and is arrested on immigration charges, Wall Street may have found a way to profit off addressing workplace sexual harassment, White House reportedly plans to replace Rex Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, Trump’s weird obsession with conspiracy theories including Obama’s birth certificate, Trump reportedly once bragged to a reporter about “first-rate pussy“, and retweets inflammatory Islamophobic videos

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[jonmercer]

lourizatronco BTS #TheOrder #Netflix Clearly no fun was allowed 🙄

[spoonie-living]

Here’s a real weird one that hit our radar thanks to Katharine Heller of The Struggle Bus podcast.

While this article says you’d need a fairly large protrusion or skin-level cyst, this is definitely worth being aware of---both as a person with known cysts/hernias and as a person who sets off these machines as a matter of course (might be time to check in with a doctor).

Travel safe, and maybe with supporting medical records.

[magicpotiondaily]

Oscar 2019 - Best Looks ♥

~Regina King, Marta Nieto, Nadine Labaki, Marielle Heller, Amy Adams, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Molly Sims, Anita Dobson, Michelle Yeoh, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Amandla Stenberg, Kate Biscoe, Leslie Bibb, Eva Melander, Glenn Close, Lisa Bonet, Shangela, Emilia Clarke, Kacey Musgraves, Kiki Layne, Meagan Good, Marie Kondo, Maya Rudolph, Angela Bassett, Julia Roberts, Sarah Paulson, Helen Mirren, Hannah Beachler, Jennifer Hudson, Rachel Weisz, Marina de Tavira, Serena Williams, Ashley Graham, Jaime Ray, Lady Gaga, Giuliana Rancic, Elsie Fisher, Allison Janney, Carol Ribeiro, Gabriela Rodriguez, Holland Taylor, Donna Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Danai Gurira, Emma Stone, Constance Wu, Tonya Lewis, Katharine Ross, Yalitza Aparicio, Elaine Welteroth, Laura Harrier, Charlize Theron, Tina Fey, Octavia Spencer, Deborah Davis, Domee Shi, Jessica Oyelowo, Kelly Ripa, Melissa McCarthy.

[quimeraradiomx]

Reseña: Can you ever forgive me?

Antes de comenzar, ¿Podemos ver que nos dice el póster?

Díganme si me equivoco, pero a simple vista pareciera una película policíaca, un thriller, todo menos una película biográfica de una escritora.

Es el segundo largometraje de Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) y en esta ocasión dirige la adaptación de la novela biográfica de Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) A cargo de Nicole Holofcener y Jeff Whity. La cuál nos habla de una escritora que un tiempo vendió muchos libros biográficos de celebridades como Katharine Hepburn, Dorothy Kilgallen, etc. Y ahora su agente ya no quiere publicar su nuevo libro por falta de originalidad y frescura para la época, cabe señalar que la historia transcurre a principios de los 90’s.

Luego de que la despiden de su empleo, y sin el apoyo de la editorial, se empiezan a complicar las cosas para Lee, en tanto por su alcoholismo, deudas, su gata se enferma y sin mencionar el poco interés por su imagen y aseo personal, es así como comienza a generar dinero por cualquier vía, pero todo cambia cuando se encuentra en un bar y un viejo conocido llega a saludarla, pronto surge una camadería entre Jack (Richar E. Grant) y Lee, esto sumado al afortunado “hallazgo” de una carta hecha por Fanny Brice, (su próximo personaje a escribir) que decide vender a un coleccionista y descubre que esta puede ser su fuente de ingreso más fácil, el falsificar cartas de personalidades que puede vender en la elite de coleccionista de Nueva York.

Más allá de contar la historia de cómo una escritora en el olvido vuelve a las andadas a través de la falsificación, la película también nos va a mostrar ese lado “culto” de Nueva York de los 90’s. Así mismo tocará el tema de la homosexualidad, apoyado en el personaje de Jack que Richar E. Grant lo hace de manera muy acertada, así mismo como Mellissa McCarthy que ambos están nominados a los premios de la Academia, dudo que se lleven la estatuilla, pero al menos se reconoce su trabajo.

También podemos ver el otro lado de los escritores, sus procesos creativos, la parte de la aceptación, la amistad, encontrar ayuda en los lugares menos esperados y como dos personas marginadas entradas en los 50 pueden tener un nuevo aire y conducir su vida hacia un nuevo camino.

Lo que más destaca de la cinta es sin duda la química entre sus protagonistas, pronto conectamos con ellos y nos enganchan para querer seguir viendo cómo se desarrolla la historia, así mismo los diálogos son inteligentes, dotados de humor y drama cuando se requiere, esto también le otorg�� la nominación a mejor guion adaptado.

En conclusión, no se dejen llevar por ese póster, ni porque este ahí la “gordita chistosa” en esta ocasión Melissa McCarthy nos brinda una interpretación diferente a lo que estamos acostumbrados a verle y también Richard E. Grant llama la atención, deja de ser ese actor secundario para robar foco. Es una historia poco usual que vale la pena ver.

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DOMINO

1932

Domino is a three act play written by Marcel Archard, translated into English and adapted by Grace George. 

The original production was produced by William A. Brady and staged by Stanley Logan. Grace George was the wife of producer Brady. In its original French, the play was a hit in Paris and other European cities.   The play takes place in an apartment in Paris, and a villa in Saint Cloud. The story concerns Lorette Heller, wife of a wealthy French manufacturer, who engages a young man named Domlnck, or Domino, to pose as a paramour so that her husband doesn’t discover the true identity of her actual admirer. Mr. Heller uncovers a love letter signed "Francois" among his wife's papers, and he angrily seeks the truth the mysterious affair. Domino is hired by Lorette and Francois to impersonate the mystery lover.

The cast was headed by (from top to bottom) Ron La Rocque as Dominick aka Domino, Jessie Royce Landis as Lorette, and Robert Loraine as Heller. It also featured Geoffrey Kerr, Walter Kingsford, Joan Carr, and Geraldine Wall.

The premiere of the English-language version took place on August 1, 1932 at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  But there was more than just a new play to celebrate that night.

The play was chosen to re-open Nixon’s Apollo after more than a year of being dark. (Technically, the theatre was not fully dark as it presented a season of children’s theatre.) The Mayor declared it “Atlantic City Night” and hoped that the re-opening might return Atlantic City to its glory days of being a theatrical incubator for Broadway. Author Archard came from Paris for the premiere. After the final curtain, he was introduced to the sold-out audience by Producer Brady. The Chamber of Commerce of Atlantic City had a deft hand in bringing live theatre back to Atlantic City at the Apollo, but it didn’t last long. By 1936, the Apollo began showing movies and never looked back. It closed and was demolished in the 1970’s.

After Atlantic City, Domino confidently moved up the Jersey coast for an engagement at the Savoy in Asbury Park - at popular prices! 

It opened on Broadway on August 16, 1932 at the Playhouse Theatre. Sadly, the dominos fell after just seven performances. This left the Brady-controlled Playhouse free to host yet another French translation by his wife, Mademoiselle, in which she also starred, along with their daughter Alice. It lasted more than 100 performances, likely due to the largesse of its producer / husband / father. Coincidentally, Domino was on Broadway at the same time as Of Thee I Sing, which was set partly in Atlantic City. 

Brady had originally planned to withdraw Robert Loraine from the cast of Domino after a few months so that he could star in a revival of Shaw’s Man and Superman in the role he created on Broadway in 1905 and 1912. Alas, there was no need - and there was no Man or Superman. Instead, Loraine was relegated to playing second narrator in a production of Lucrece starring Katharine Cornell.  

While Domino never made it to American screens, it was filmed in the original French in 1943 starring Ferdinand Gravey (yum!). It also was seen on the small screen in France; in 1967 and 1976. Archard died in 1974, so never saw either television Domino. If an American version had been filmed, film star Rod La Rocque would certainly have been on the short list to recreate his stage role:

“It may sound trite to say so, but despite the fact that I made my biggest success in pictures, I've always had a secret hankering for the stage. I guess that urge sent me out on tour the season before last in 'Cherries Are Ripe.' You'll probably recall we didn't come into New York. The outlying country was so good to us that we played till warm weather. Did It seem good to get back? I'll say It did. To actually feel an audience once more there's no stimulus like it."

La Rocque never did another Broadway show. Instead, he returned to Hollywood to continue his film career. 

William Brady and Grace George were together until his death in 1950. Ten years earlier, she starred in his final Broadway production, Kind Lady. 

C’est finis, mes amis!