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List of books read in 2019

Another year is almost over, and here’s the list of all the books I read. 119 books. 31,512 pages.

David Adam- The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and The True Story of a Life Lost in Thought

Kurt Anderson- Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire

Julian Barnes- The Only Story

Rob Bell- What Is The Bible?

Roberto Bolano- The Spirit of Science Fiction

Charles Brandt- I Heard You Paint Houses

William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg- Don’t Hide The Madness

Ernest Callenbach- Ecotopia

Stephen Chbosky- Imaginary Friend

Leonard Cohen- The Favorite Game

Phil Collins- Not Dead Yet

Francis Ford Coppola- Live Cinema and It’s Techniques

JM Coetzee- The Schooldays of Jesus

His Holiness The Dalai Lama- An Appeal To The World

Stephanie Danler- Sweetbitter

Michelle Dean- Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Anthony DeCurtis- Lou Reed: A Life

Lean Dieterich- Vanishing Twins: A Marriage

Nick Drnaso- Sabrina

Bret Easton Ellis- White

Dave Eggers- The Parade

Bart D Ehrman- The Triumph of Christianity

Nathan Englander- Kaddish.com

Mark Epstein- Psychotherapy Without The Self: A Buddhist Perspective

Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru- League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for the Truth

Laurence Ferlinghetti- Little Boy

Pope Francis- The Name of God is Mercy

Pope Francis- Our Father

Mary Gordon- On Thomas Merton

Andrew Grant Jackson- 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music

Allen Ginsberg- Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties

Laurence Grobel- Al Pacino in Conversation with Laurence Grobel

John Green- Turtles All The Way Down

Edward L. Greenstein- Job: A New Translation

Rita M Gross- Buddhism Beyond Gender

Thich Nhat Hanh- Living Buddha, Living Christ

Joy Harjo- An American Sunrise

Jason Heller- Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded

Don Hertzfeldt- The End of The World

Nathan Hill- The Nix

John Hodgman- Medallion Status

Jessica Hopper- Night Moves

Elton John- Me

Han Kang- Human Acts

Han Kang- The White Book

Chuck Klosterman- Raised in Captivity

Karl Ove Knausgaard- So Much Longing in so Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch

Herman Koch- The Ditch

David Koepp- Cold Storage

Robert Kolker- A Cinema of Loneliness

Ann Lamott- Stitches

Ann Lamott- Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Ursula K. Le Guin- So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014-2018

Mark Leibovich- Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times

Jill Lepore- The Secret History Of Wonder Woman

Jill Lepore- These Truths: A History of The United States

Jill Lepore- This America: The Case For The Nation

Greil Marcus- The Manchurian Candidate

Anthony McCarten- The Pope

Gretchen McCulloch- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules Of Language

Thomas Merton- The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton- Life and Holiness

Thomas Merton- Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings

Stephen Mitchell- Joseph and The Way Of Forgiveness

Sarah Moss- Ghost Wall

Flannery O’Connor- A Prayer Journal

Mary Oliver- Devotions

Robert Olmstead- Far Bright Star

Michael Ondaatje- The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

Elaine Pagels- The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels, Karen L King- Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and The Shaping of Christianity

Elaine Pagels- Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation

Elaine Pagels- Why Religion?: A Personal Story

Maria Popova- Figuring

J.R. Porter- The Lost Bible: Forgotten Scriptures Revealed

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman- Good Omens

Casey Rae- William S. Burroughs and The Cult Of Rock N Roll

Brian Raftery- Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew up The Big Screen

Robert Reich- The Common Good

Jerry Roberts- The Complete History Of Film Criticism

Richard Rohr- The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

Bill Romanowski- Romo: My Life on The Edge

George Saunders- Fox 8

Peter Schjeldahl- Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light,: 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

Shea Serrano- Movies (and Other Things)

William H. Shannon- Thomas Merton: An Introduction

David Shields- The Thing about Life is that One Day You’ll be Dead

David Shields- Nobody Hates Trump more than Trump: An Intervention

David Shields- The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power

David Small- Home After Dark

Charles Simic- The Lunatic

Charles Simic- Scribbled in the Dark

Danez Smith- Don’t Call Us Dead

Patti Smith- Auguries of Innocence

Patti Smith- Year of The Monkey

Rebecca Solnit- Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit- The Mother of All Questions

Rebecca Solnit- Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Jill Soloway- She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling The Patriarchy

Nic Stone- Dear Martin

Donna Tart- The Goldfinch

Tegan and Sara- High School

David Thomson- Sleeping With Strangers

Chogyam Trungpa- The Path of Individual Liberation

Jeff Tweedy- Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)

Loudon Wainwright III- Liner Notes

Ossian Ward- Look Again: How to Experience the Old Masters

John Williams- Stoner

Damon Young- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker

Ed. Marcus Borg- Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Saying

Ed. Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley- Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

Ed. Jonathan Weinberg- Art After Stonewall

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Cool Cosplay: Batman '66, Tidus, And More!

Cool Cosplay: Batman ’66, Tidus, And More!

Batman ’66: Riddler, Catwoman, The Joker, Batman, Henchman, Batgirl, And Robin by Kelly Mark Delcambre, Valerie Perez, Bob Mitsch, Scott Sebring, Unknown, Sara Raftery, and Sam McClellan, Photography by Chris Pizzello

Guts From Berserk by Gym Cosplay

Tidus From Final Fantasy X by Danielle Beaulieu

Winter Soldier by Callie Cosplay

Feel free to click on the models’ names to view more of their work.

[twistedtwinsproductions]

Mary Rangel is a young filmmaker from Southern California whose passion for the Horror genre spans throughout her work in the Haunt and Film industries. Alongside her team of amazing friends and boyfriend who share the same passion for the genre and to bring scary stories to life, she has written and directed a total of five short Horror films, including the latest, The Red Death, for WIHM Blood Drive PSA’s 2018. She is involved in many Horror/Sci-Fi projects in many roles including Hellevator Seasons 1 & 2, John Carpenter’s Utopian Façade Music Video, Into The Black short film, Mystic Cosmic Patrol, amongst many others. The Red Death is a short horror film inspired by The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. This is Mary’s favorite Poe tale and The Red Death is one of her favorite symbols in the genre. With that, it seems a perfect match to UNLEASH a tale of The Red Death imbued with witchcraft, cults, an Elizabeth Bathory inspired villain named Theda played by Sara Raftery and Rachael Tucker, terror, Love for the Horror genre and with the message to encourage people to donate blood. It is truly a wonderfully Sanguine Nightmare. The main team of production for the project consists of Mary Rangel (Writer/Director), Timothy Dennison (Producer), Natalie Molina (Script Supervisor/1st AD), Jenn Langley (Key Makeup/SPFX Artist), and Christopher Blake Hannan (Melodies of the Macabre Composer). With an amazing cast including but not limited to Olivia Grace Morales as the lead/protagonist Pamela and Daisy Hydar as The Red Death, together they conquer the evil that is Theda. Hope you enjoy the story this team created together with the passion for the genre, have a wonderfully spooky time. Thank you and be sure to donate blood this month and save lives. #ItsInYouToGive #BeAHero #WiHM9

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Sara Raftery