#rosemary pilkington

[thestarlightforge]

“Clerics Have Necromancy”

8/28/24

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Sometimes, I wonder—

“Promise me?” said Caroline Argo.

After stumbling from sport to sport, school to school—

“Promise me, if something should ever go wrong…” Caroline asked the Boy Detective.

From musical to musical & play to play—

“I need you,” said Wendy Darling by her bedroom window.

If, these days, I am being brave, still trying to connect, despite all that I’ve survived—

“I felt that, and I bet you did, too,” said Slightly of Neverland.

Or if I am blundering through life, collecting ghosts.

“Promise me, you’ll send me a sign, to tell me you’re somewhere?” asked Caroline.

I wonder if this is how my Cleric felt in “Dungeons and Dragons,” the first time he used the same coin for healing as he had to speak with the dead.

“Sometimes people leave you… Halfway through the wood… Others may deceive you… You decide what's good… You decide alone�� But no one is alone,” said Cinderella.

Wonder if you should let yourself laugh with the world—

“I believe in you,” said Rosemary Pilkington.

Or cry, as time and chance slip on—

“His eyes were blue. His eyes were brown. His eyes were green,” questioned the Lost Girls.

And try to memorize their faces.

“A little brush of whiskers, and that distant smile…” said Alice Spencer.

Because you’ve glimpsed at possibility, but only one you know by heart:

“In the story, there’s no moment of farewell, you know,” said Alfred Hallam.

You know?

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Aromatic Herbs and Spices Bracket !

Round 1 Part 1 Poll 3

Estragon/Tarragon :

Rosemary :

[hitchell-mope]

Insanely funny movie. I would definitely watch it again.

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

March 25th Rosemarie Pilkington Gilbert Roller and the Bindelof Case

Presented for the ParaMOOC2023 on March 25th:

Biography: Rosemarie Pilkington has been interested in psychic phenomena since childhood when she heard family stories of unexplained visions and

strange happenings. As a young adult, she immersed herself in articles,

books, and journals on the subject and attended seminars and lectures

sponsored by the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in New

York. She has a B.A. in Music and an M.S. in Education. Under the mentorship of world-renowned psychologist and parapsychologist Stanley Krippner, she earned her Ph.D. in Psychology (Consciousness Studies) from Saybrook Graduate Institute, doing her dissertation on children’s ESP. She presented the results of her experiment to the Parapsychological Association, of which she is an Associate Member.

She has imparted what she has learned and experienced to others by teaching classes in parapsychology and alternative healing methods, lecturing, and especially by writing. She was a consulting editor for the newsletter Mind and Medicine. She has written book reviews and articles for publications as varied as FATE magazine, the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, and the Journal of Scientific Exploration. She is also the author of such books as Men and Women of Parapsychology: Personal Reflections (1987) and The Spirit of Dr. Bindelof: The Enigma of Séance Phenomena (2006).

Séance Science: A Realistic Look at Paranormal Phenomena: https://seancescience.com

Parapsychology Foundation: https://parapsychology.org

Parapsychology Online: https://parapsychologyonline.org

[musical-dreamcasts]

Hadestown - Cynthia Erivo (she/her) as Persephone, requested by anon

Birthday: January 8, 1987 (age 35)

Birth Place: Stockwell, London, England

Theatre credits include: Celie Harris Johnson (The Color Purple), Deloris Van Cartier (Sister Act), Rosemary Pilkington (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), Cathy Hiatt (The Last Five Years), Dessa Rose (Dessa Rose), Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Chenice (I Can’t Sing! The X Factor Musical). Erivo also played the role of the Blue Fairy in the 2022 live action adaptation of Pinocchio. She will also play the role of Elphaba in the two-part film adaptation of Wicked.

(Pictured on the right is Lana Gordon, who is currently playing the role in the US tour production)

Credits: Terrell Mullin, Lana Gordon

[betsywolfesource]

Betsy Wolfe as Rosemary Pilkington in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

[musicaldeo-blog]

Rosemary Pilkington: A Study In Pink

Character description and discussion

About:

Rosemary Pilkington is a young secretary who works for the World Wide Wicked Company. While she may be skilled enough at her job, her mind is focused on one goal: to marry a handsome business tycoon, and live a perfectly picturesque life as a devoted wife and mother in a beautiful home outside of the city.

Our first interaction with Rosemary is when she, along with most of the other employees at WWWC, see J. Pierrepont Finch physically collide with the big boss J. B. Biggley in the centre of the business floor. Instantly impressed by his nerve, she introduces herself and makes it clear to him that she’s a friendly face who is more than happy to help him out. Hoping her best friend, Smitty, who is secretary to the personnel manager, will be able to help with Finch’s possible employment at the firm, Rosemary begins to beg Smitty to come to her aid. To her joy, however, she finds that Finch has secured employment all by himself, and the first scene ends with her singing of the life she now has planned as the future Mrs Finch.

While she may not be ambitious where her career is concerned, Rosemary is still a very driven and determined character. As soon as she clocks eyes on Finch she locks onto the goal of marrying him, which she goes after with full thrust. She is protective of this goal, and makes it very clear when she’s unhappy with lingering threats, such as those coming from the flirtatious ex-cigarette girl Hedy LaRue.

Rosemary is clearly a very emotional person, and is also not afraid to show it. When she is convinced Finch is having relations with Hedy during the big company party, she goes to find them both, hoping to catch them in the act and give them a piece of her mind. However, as upset and angry as she is upon seeing him, all of this negativity melts to happiness when Finch tells her he loves her. She flips straight from shouting at him to marveling over the idea that her dreams are finally coming true - abandoning all rational thought, and ignoring his questionable past behaviors, by instantly agreeing to marry him. She repeats this behavior later on, when she forgives Finch for making her feel unimportant compared to his career. She neglects to seriously consider his actions, because, at the end of the day, she wants that perfect life of her dreams and nothing else seems to matter.

There is no denying that though she is determined, Rosemary is also proud. The second act opens with her deciding to not only leave Finch, but also her job, after being made to feel like her hopes for a romantic connection with Finch are a lost cause. She would rather leave and start fresh somewhere else than stay and become the topic of office gossip, or be tormented at the sight of Finch every day.

It could be said she’s also a rather obsessive character. While her bouts of outrage at Finch’s behavior can either be seen as justified or unnecessary, it’s clear that she gets most upset when her plan is not going her way. She has a goal, and she knows exactly what she has to do in order to achieve it, so when things go wrong, it’s detrimental to her. An example of this is when she gets very upset when Finch refuses to kiss her and behave in the romantic way she wants after their engagement. Another is when Hedy is made Finch’s secretary - what with the common office behaviour of the time (that being business executives having affairs with their secretary), Hedy is in a better position to get closer to Finch than Rosemary is, and if Finch is going to have a romantic or sexual affair with anyone in the office, Rosemary wants it to be her!

What I like about her character:

Despite the fact that I personally would never pursue a romantic interest with the same relentlessness as her, I like that Rosemary is someone who knows exactly what she wants. She is wholly a woman of her time: she is happy with her place in the patriarchal system of the 60s, and is happy to make the best of that situation. And I mean the best. She wants to live in a lovely big mansion in a beautiful area, with a tenaciously ambitious man who will allow her to live a life of luxury and high social standing. And she gets it. She’s in no way a hero, but she gets a hero’s happy ending by achieving it herself.

I also like that she is not afraid to speak her mind. When she’s unhappy with Ponty, she makes sure he knows it. She shouts at him, tells him how she feels (though doesn’t necessarily make it clear that he is the one making her feel that way) and doesn’t worry about the consequences of doing so. There’s also a particular moment with Mr Gatch that I really like: she brushes him off when he makes another pass at her, and continues on her beeline to Ponty as if it never happens.

What I dislike about her character:

All of what I like about her, I also very much dislike. It’s easy to flip the positives over to negatives. She is obsessed with Finch and how the situation between she and him must look from the outside. While I can’t help but believe that by the end of the piece she has genuinely grown affection for Finch, I am also sure that she could have become just as infatuated with any other young businessmen carrying the same scent of success he does. I’ll go on to discuss the intricacies of their relationship later on, but on the surface, I was almost embarrassed by how keen she was to be with him. I don’t respect people who make a spectacle of themselves in real life, and Rosemary certainly does this more than once.

I also don’t like how one-dimensional her character is. Beside the fact that this musical is a period piece, set very closely to how things were in the 1960s, she is still a character who only serves one purpose: to act as an example of one of the two ways women were seen in that time (well-to-do and dreaming of being a wife and mother, while Hedy represent the other purpose - sex). In no way does Rosemary challenge anyone or force them to think differently about themselves. She cannot think for herself, and only follows what other characters tell her she should do. A strong example of this is after the song ‘Cinderella, Darling’: before the song, she had made her mind up about quitting her job and leaving Finch, but five minutes of moaning from the other secretaries, about how they want nothing more than to live vicariously through Rosemary, is enough to change her mind. Another example occurs straight after this, when she confronts Finch about how he made her feel “humiliated, ignored, upset”, he tells her that can’t be true because he hasn’t said a word to her recently, and she agrees with him! He completely invalidates her feelings, and she just goes along with it.

All in all, I see Rosemary as a character who does not present herself to be someone of much depth, and that just got on my nerves!

[cometomecosette]

“One Day More” (plus the end of “Attack on Rue Plumet”), Powderham Castle Concert, 2004. Nicholas Pound as Jean Valjean, Ramin Karimloo as Marius, Jamie Farr as Cosette, Dianne Pilkington as Éponine, David Bardsley as Enjolras, Fred Johanson as Javert, Tony Timberlake as Thénardier, Rosemary Ashe as Mme. Thénardier.

An outstanding performance from what must have been an outstanding concert on the grounds of Powderham Castle in Devon.

[starkiddreamcasting]

Starkid How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Join this benevolent brotherhood of men: the Starkid dreamcast for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! Not much to say here except it’s really fun and frantic musical that I’m not sure why it took to create with a perfect match of Starkid members!

1. Brain Rosenthal as J. Pierrepont Finch 2. Jaime Lyn Beatty as Rosemary Pilkington 3. Dylan Saunders as J.B. Biggley 4. Brian Holden as Bud Frump 5. Denise Donovan as Hedy La Rue 6. Bryce Charles as Smitty 7. Lauren Walker as Miss Jones 8. Joe Walker as Bert Bratt 9. Chris Allen as Mr. Twimble/Wally Womper 10. Jeff Blim as Mr. Ovington 11. Tyler Brunsman as Mr. Toynbee 12. Corey Dorris as Mr. Tackaberry 13. Ali Gordon as Meredith 14. AJ Holmes as Mr. Peterson 15. Janaya Mahealani Jones as Nancy 16. Lauren Lopez as Kathy/Scrub Woman 17. Robert Manion as Mr. Gatch 18. Jon Matteson as Mr. Davis 19. Curt Mega as Mr. Matthews 20. Joe Moses as Mr. Johnson/TV Announcer 21. Joey Richter as Mr. Andrews 22. Rachael Soglin as Miss Grabowski/Scrub Woman 23. Meredith Stepien as Miss Krumholtz 24. James Tolbert as Mr. Jenkins 25. Kim Whalen as Lily

Swings: Julia Albain, Clark Baxtresser, Richard Campbell, Alle Faye Monka

Understudies: Chris Allen (J.B. Biggley), Jeff Blim (Mr. Twimble/Wally Womper), Tyler Brunsman (J. Pierrepont Finch), Corey Dorris (Bert Bratt), Ali Gordon (Rosemary Pilkington), Lauren Lopez (Rosemary Pilkington), Jon Matteson (J. Pierrepont Finch, Bud Frump), Alle Faye Monka (Hedy La Rue, Smitty), Joe Moses (Bert Bratt, Mr. Twimble/Wally Womper), Rachael Soglin (Hedy La Rue, Smitty, Miss Jones), Meredith Stepien (Miss Jones), James Tolbert (Bud Frump), Joe Walker (J.B. Biggley)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.  

[gayfrasier]

you're telling me that over the 15 times I've watched the 1995 revival of how to succeed, not ONCE did it occur to me that Rosemary Pilkington was being played by Tammy Two?

[thediaryofatheatrekid]

Casting Goals: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

1. Nicholas Barasch as J. Pierrepont Finch 2. Katie Rose Clarke as Rosemary Pilkington 3. Jon Jon Briones as J.B. Biggley 4. Darren Criss as Bud Frump 5. Annaleigh Ashford as Hedy LaRue

Honorable Mentions: Brandon Uranowitz as J. Pierrepont Finch Jessie Mueller as Rosemary Pilkington Norm Lewis as J.B. Biggley

[fkakidstv]

A Theatre Department’s Response to the Internal Auditor

A Theatre Department’s Response to the Internal Auditor

Following up on last week’s post, “Why Is the Finance Office Always Hassling Us?” this internal memo explores possible responses to an internal auditor’s questions regarding the use of resources by a theatre department.* INTERNAL MEMORANDUM TO: Rosemary Pilkington, associate vice president for internal audits CC: J. Pierrepont Finch, vice president for administration and finance; Milton Gatch,…

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Any Roses submitted?

AH AH AH (/lh)

I have nearly 1000 submissions and quite a few of Roses and characters with Rose-related names (More under the cut !)

Submitted at least once : (if you want more non submitted yet rose-related names, please send another ask, this very post is already long enough !)

Rose Tyler from Doctor Who

Rose Wilson from DC

Rose Tico from Star Wars

Rose DeWitt-Bukater from Titanic

Amy Rose from Sonic the Hedgehog

Rose Nylund from The Golden Girls

Rose Walker from Sandman

Ruby Rose from RWBY

Rose Quartz from Steven Universe

Rose Lavillant from Miraculous Ladybug

Rose Vanderboom from Rusty Lake

Rose from Streetfighter

Rose from Human-B-Gone

Rose Lalonde from Homestuck

Rose of Sharon Cassidy from Fallout

Rabi En Rose from Di Gi Charat

Rose Red from The Mechanisms

Milky Rose from Precure

Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty

Chairman Rose from Pokémon

Otoribashi Rose from Bleach

Wild Rose from Sea of Thieves

Rosie Cotton from Lord of the Rings

Rosie from Caillou

Rosie from Spindle's End

Rosie from Animal Crossing

Rosie Thorne from Once Upon a Con

Rosie the Riveter from WW2 propaganda

Rosie Zampano from The Magnus Archives

Rosie Mayfield from Style Savvy

Rosette Meadows from The Land of Stories

Rozaliya from Honkai Impact 3

Cure Rosetta from Precure

Rosetta from Disney Fairies

Rosemary Harper from Wayfarers

Rosemary from Precure

Rosemary Pilkington from How to Succeed at Business Without Really Trying

Rosa from Bayonetta

Rosa from Tears of Themis

Rosa the Sea Otter from Real Life's Seattle Aquarium

Rosa from Pokémon

Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn 99

Rosalind Penderwick from The Penderwicks

Rosamund du Prix from Dimension 20

Roseluck from My Little Pony

Rosemaster from Cumcumber Quest

Rosalie Hale from Twilight

Rosaline from Romeo and Juliet

Princess Rosalina from Mario Bros

Princess Rosella from Barbie as the Island Princess

Rosaria from Genshin Impact

Rosethorn from Magic Circle

Rosencrantz from Hamlet / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Rosebud from Disney Buddies movies

Rosey from The Jetsons

Primrose Everdeen from The Hunger Games

Primrose from Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Kugisaki Nobara from Jujutsu Kaisen

Updated : 59 characters

(I know rosemary and primrose are different from roses but I think they fit here)

[hitchell-mope]

Goddammit Heddy.

[ferretly]

my 2018 reading list/challenge:

beneath the cut it’s long

(these are all options in each section; i won’t read every book in each section. if anyone has recs for which book i should read tho that would be appreciated!!)

a book made into a movie you’ve already seen

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Misery by Stephen King

Holes by Lois Sachar

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

true crime

No Place Safe by Kim Reid

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

the next book in a series you started

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Fearless by Cornelia Funke

Among the Free by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi

UnSouled by Neal Shusterman

a book involving a heist

White Cat by Holly Black

American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

nordic noir

October is the Coldest Month by Christoffer Carlsson

a novel based on a real person

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

a book set in a country that fascinates you

Ogniem i Mieczem by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

a book with the time of day in the title

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

The Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

a book about a villain or antihero

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman

a book about death or grief

The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

Sanctum by Sarah Fine

The Everafter by Amy Huntley

Ferryman by Claire McFall

Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters

a book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree

a book with an LGBT protagonist

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

a book that is also a stage play or musical

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Elliot

a book by an author of a different ethnicity than you

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (Black)

Fledgeling by Octavia E. Butler (Black)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Black)

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (Black)

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (Chinese-American)

Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older (Afro-Latino)

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Japanese-American)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alaire Saenz (Latino)

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (Latino)

The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Silvera (Latina)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Black)

a book about feminism

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

a book about mental health

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

a book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift

Accessible Gardening for People with Disabilities: A Guide to Methods, Tools, and Plants by Janeen R. Adil

Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich by Joanne D. Gilbert

Tarot: Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis

Fairest by Marissa Meyer

Poles in Wisconsin by Susan Gibson Mikos

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

a book by two authors:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

a book about or involving a sport

Wing Jones by Katherine Webber

Openly Straight by Bill Koningsberg

Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice by Karen Chen

a book by a local author

The Girl who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

a book with your favorite color in the title

The Red Chamber by Pauline A. Chen

Redheart by Jackie Gamber

Silvered by Tanya Huff

Green by Jay Larke

Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn

Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill

Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

After the Red Rain by Barry Lyga

The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky

The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring by Ruth Sanderson

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

a book with alliteration in the title

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

Tiger Burning Bright by Marion Zimmer Bradley

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman

Stray Souls by Kate Griffin

Fox Forever by Mary E. Pearson

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

a book about time travel

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

The False Princess by Ellis O’Neal

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox

a book with a weather element in the title

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Frostfire by Amanda Hocking

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

After the Red Rain by Barry Lyga

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

a book set at sea

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

Above World by Jenn Reese

a book with an animal in the title

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Tiger Burning Bright by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Lions of Al-Rasson by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Shark God by Charles Montgomery

Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

The Bees by Laline Paull

Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

Dov Arising by Karen Bao

White Cat by Holly Black

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring by Ruth Sanderson

Ferrets (Barron’s Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals) by E. Lynn Fox Morton

The Ferret: An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet by Mary R. Shefferman

Black Canary #1 by Brennden Fletcher

Lumberjanes, Vol.1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson

a book set on a different planet

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

Coyote by Alan Steele

Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan

Salvage by Alexandra Duncan

Dove Arising by Karen Bao

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

a book with song lyrics in the title

Don’t Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon

All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin

Yesterday by C.K. Kelly Martin

a book about or set on Halloween

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

a book with characters who are twins

Nightfall by Jake Halpern

Affinity by Sarah Waters

a book mentioned in another book

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

a book from a celebrity book club

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

He, She, and It by Marge Piercy

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

a childhood classic you’ve never read

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan

a book that’s published in 2018

Unearthed by Amie Kaufman

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch

Reign of the Fallen by Sara Glenn Marsh

The Apocalypse Guard by Brandon Sanderson

The Diminished by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

a past Goodreads Choice Awards winner

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

A Work in Progress by Connor Franta

a book set in the decade you were born

The Miseducation of Cameron post by Emily M. Danforth

A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar

a book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

a book with an ugly cover

Poison by Chris Wooding

Starters by Lissa Price

a book that involves a bookstore or library

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 reading challenges

Explorer: The Mystery Boxes by Kazu Kibuishi

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Lumberjanes, Vol.1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Fearless by Cornelia Funke

Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

The Boy at the End of the World by Greg Van Eekhout

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Advanced:

a bestseller from the year you graduated high school

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Dewey: the Small-town Library Cat who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

a cyberpunk book

Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Vurt by Jeff Noon

Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

a book that was being read by a stranger in a public place

lol i don’t like ... even go to public places; if anyone’s reading this do u wanna help me out

a book tied to your ancestry

Polish Roots by Rosemary A. Chorzempa

Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich by Joanne D. Gilbert

Poles in Wisconsin by Susan Gibson Mikos

a book with a fruit or vegetable in the title

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

an allegory

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Carcia Marquez

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

a book by an author with the same first or last name as you

A Dirty Rose by Nannah Marnie-Claire

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a microhistory

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Dorris Pilkington

Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of our Changing World by Fred Pearce

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexualty by Hanne Blank

a book about a problem facing society today

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

UnDivided by Neal Shusterman

a book recommended by someone else taking the reading challenge

anyone wanna help me out???

[love-little-lotte]

Grizabella Appreciation Post

“All alone with the memory, of my days in the sun”

Okay, so not all of us are big fans of Cats. But you can’t deny that its showstopper song, Memory, is one of the greatest female solos in musical theatre. It’s been covered by famous artists, including Barbra Streisand. So, here is an appreciation post dedicated to actresses who played Grizabella.

Alice Redmond

Anastasia Lange

Angelika Milster

Anita Louise Combe

Antje Monteiro

Betty Buckley

Bev Harrell

Beverley Knight

Carol Nielsson

Chimene Badi

Chrissie Hammond

Cornelia Drese

Debra Byrne

Delia Hannah

Delta Goodrem

Dianne Pilkington

Elaine Paige

Erin Cornell

Gay Marshall

Giulia Ottonello

Hilde Norga

Jane McDonald

Jessica Hendy

Joanna Ampil

Judi Dench

Kathryn Holtkamp

Kelli Provart

Kerry Ellis

Laurie Beechman

Lea Salonga

Leona Lewis

Lila Deneken

Linda Balgord

Liz Callaway

Loni Ackerman

Ma-Anne Dionisio

Madalena Alberto

Mamie Parris

Maria del Sol

Marianne Benedict

Marti Webb

Masha Karell

Melissa Grohowski

Natalia Sosa

Nicole Scherzinger

Paula Lima

Pernilla Wahlgren

Pia Douwes

Prisca Demarez

Rocio Banquells

Rosemarie Ford

Ruth Jacott

Sonia Swaby

Sophia Ragavelas

Stephanie Lawrence

Susan McFadden

Tricia Tanguy