#Anya Kaye

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Title: The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

Rating: R

Director: Kang Hei Chul

Cast: Doug Cockle, Joey Batey, Christina Wren, Emily Carey, Camrus Johnson, Simon Templeman, Mallory Jansen, Anya Chalotra, Ray Chase, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Ramon Tikaram, Kari Wahlgren, Stephen Fu, George Ackles, Brian George, Maury Sterling

Release year: 2025

Genres: fantasy, action

Blurb: Mutated monster hunter Geralt of Rivia is hired to investigate a series of attacks in a seaside village, and finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict between humans and merpeople. He must count on friends - old and new - to solve the mystery before the hostilities between the two kingdoms escalate into an all-out war.

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the full voice cast for sirens of the deep (via RI):

Doug Cockle as Geralt of Rivia

Joey Batey as Jaskier

Christina Wren as Essi Daven

Anya Chalotra as Yennefer

Emily Carey as Sh’eenaz

Camrus Johnson as Agloval

Mallory Jansen as Melusina

Ramon Tikaram as King Basim

Cynthia Kaye McWilliams as Queen Dahut

Ray Chase as Zelest

Simon Templeman as King Usveldt

Kari Wahlgren as Zmarra

Stephen Fu as Deroua

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The graduation class without retcons and in the proper years.

1992 - Archie Simpson, Caitlin Ryan (skipped a grade), Lucy Fernandez (valedictorian), Simon Dexter, Alexa Pappadopolos-Dexter, Christine Nelson, Derek Wheeler, Michelle Accette, Bryant Thomas, Heather Farrell, Erica Farrell, Lorraine Delacorte (left before graduation; leukemia), Liz O'Rourke, Amy Holmes, Allison Hunter, Shane McKay (left before graduation; brain damage), Stephanie Kaye (left before graduation; transferred to private school), Voula Grivogiannis (left before graduation; moved away), Joey Jeremiah (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Rick Munro (held back, wasn't gonna graduate with this class; left before graduation), Tim O'Connor, Nancy Kramer

1993 - Caitlin Ryan (skipped a grade later), Susie Rivera (left before graduating), Kathleen Mead, Melanie Brodie, Arthur Kobalewscuy, Yick Yu, Alex Yankou (probably valedictorian), Diana Economopoulos, Maya Goldberg, Joey Jeremiah (repeated), Rick Munro (repeated; left before graduating), Tessa Campanelli, Luke Matthews, Scooter Webster, Bartholomew Bond, Wai Lee, Trudi Owens , Trish Skye 

2004 - Dylan Michalchuck

2006 - Hazel Aden, Jimmy Brooks (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Sean Cameron (held back; expelled), Marco Del Rossi (valedictorian), Ashley Kerwin (left before graduation), Craig Manning (left before graduation), Spinner Mason (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Paige Michalchuk, Ellie Nash, Alex Nuñez (repeated one semester), Heather Sinclair, Fareeza, Amy Peters-Hoffman, Rick Murray (held back, wasn't gonna graduate with this class; died before graduating), Terri MacGregor (left before graduation)

2007 - Jimmy Brooks (Repeated), Damian Hayes, Toby Isaacs, Spinner Mason (repeated), Emma Nelson, Manny Santos, Liberty Van Zandt (valedictorian), Rick Murray (repeated; died before graduation), Chris Sharpe, Lucas Valieri (dropped out), J.T. Yorke , Ashley Kerwin (took a year off; dropped out), Sean Cameron (repeated)

2008 - Johnny DiMarco, Peter Stone, Danny Van Zandt,Jane Vaughn (Valedictorian), Bruce the Moose (Not seen graduating), Kendra Mason , Nadia Yamir, Darcy Edwards (left before graduation), Derek Haig (Not seen graduating), Mia Jones (held back, wasn't gonna graduate with this class; left before graduation), Chantay Black 

2009 - Sav Bhandari, Fiona Coyne (held back; didn’t graduate with this class), Anya MacPherson, Zane Park Holly J. Sinclair (valedictorian), Riley Stavros, Ethan McBride, Heather Poulette, Trish, Leia Chang (not seen graduating), Blue Chessex (not seen graduating), Declan Coyne (left before graduation), Mia Jones

2010 - Fiona Coyne (repeated; valedictorian), Mike Dallas (chose to stay back; didn't graduate with this class), Bianca DeSousa, Eli Goldsworthy, Marisol Lewis, Jake Martin, Mo Mashkour, Katie Matlin, Owen Milligan, Imogen Moreno (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Drew Torres (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Mark Fitzgerald (expelled), Julian Williams

2011 - Becky Baker, Alli Bhandari, Mike Dallas (victory Lap), Connor DeLaurier (valedictorian), Clare Edwards, Jenna Middleton, Imogen Moreno (repeated), Drew Torres (repeated), Fab Juarez, Liam Berish, Ingvar Andersson, Bo Andersson, Hannah Belmont, Cliff Jacobs, Reese, Jess Martello, Luke Baker (expelled), Wesley Betenkamp (not seen graduating), K.C. Guthrie (left before graduation), Adam Torres, Dave Turner (not seen graduating)

2012 - Jonah Haak (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Jack Jones (left before graduation), Tori Santamaria (held back; left before graduation), Campbell Saunders, Jess Martello (retconned to Class of 2014), Sadie Rowland

2013 - Tristan Milligan, Maya Matlin, Zig Novak, Zoë Rivas (valedictorian), Miles Hollingsworth III, Winston Chu, Grace Cardinal, Tiny Bell, Jonah Haak (repeated), Esme Song (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Goldi Nahir (salutatorian), Tori Santamaria (repeated; left before graduation), Damon Carter (not seen graduating)

2014 - Frankie Hollingsworth, Hunter Hollingsworth, Lola Pacini, Shay Powers, Baaz Nahir, Yael Baron, Vijay Maraj, Saad Al'Maliki, Rasha Zuabi, Esme Song (repeated), Keisha, Arlene Takahashi

2015 - Abra Al'Maliki

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Martin Meister, feat. Anya Kaye - Music in You single. Photography by Philipp Jelenska. Artwork and graphic by Martin Meister. Music in You features special guest voice part by actor Nikita Dendl. Music in You (Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, YT Music) is written and produced by Martin Meister.

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The Hardy Boys  -  Hulu / YTV  -  December 4, 2020 - Present

Mystery / Drama (13 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Rohan Campbell as Frank Hardy

Alexander Elliot as Joe Hardy

James Tupper as Fenton Hardy

Keana Lyn Bastidas as Callie Shaw

Linda Thorson as Gloria Estabrook

Bea Santos as Aunt Trudy

Adam Swain as Chet Morton

Atticus Mitchell as JB Cox

Riley O'Donnell as Elizabeth "Biff" Hooper

Laara Sadiq as Kanika Khan

Recurring

Janet Porter as Laura Hardy

Cristian Perri as Phil Cohen

Stephen R. Hart as The Tall Man

Saad Siddiqui as Rupert Khan

Rachel Drance as Stacy Baker

Jennifer Hsiung as Jesse Hooper

Frank Licari as Paul McFarlane

Bill Lake as Ezra Collig

Philip Williams as Wilt

Ric Garcia as Stefan

Charolette Lai as Sandra

Jim Codrington as Sam Peterson

Sean Dolan as Ern Cullmore

Tara Peterson as Shawna Meyer

Joan Gregson as Anya Kowalski

Mark Sparks as Nigel

Philip Craig as George Estabrook

Marvin Kaye as Sergei Nabokav

Jivay Mehta as Ahmed Kahn

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Hey, novel anon here! Both English and Chinese are good (as long as the Chinese is translated pretty well into English and it is completed so I can binge). Also I love historical if that helps! I just want to get super into a book couple. Thanks!

Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age

Jenna Moreci, The Savior's Champion

Dorothy Dunnett, King Hereafter

Phil Tucker, Chronicles of Black Gate (fantasy but a quasi-medieval world)

Joanna Hathaway, The Glass Alliance trilogy (fantasy take on WWI)

Anything by Grace Draven or Amanda Bouchet, Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Curse tirlogy (it's fantasy but period flavored)

Rachel Bach, Paradox Trilogy (this is scifi tho)

Pamela Belle, Wintercombe

MM Kaye, Far Pavilions

Anya Seton, Katherine

Anna Belfrage series set in the reign of Edward II

Auryn Hadley, When We Were Kings (fantasy take on ancient rome, it's a trilogy. I don't care for anything else by this author because she normally does reverse harem but this is 1v1 otp and is good.)

I only did het since not sure you like BL and the reason there aren't any web novels on it is because no het web novel otp ever made me rabid.

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Photos from the original Broadway production of Anya The Musical Musical. As far as I know, this show is the first musical adaptation of the Anastasia myth. It is primarily based on Marcelle Maurette’s original play Anastasia. The show’s music is based off of music by Rachmaninoff. Constance Towers starred as the titular character, and Lilian Gish played Maria Feodorovna, the former empress of Russia. Derided as an old fashioned operetta, the show opened on November 29th 1965, and closed after only 16 performances. It was reworked many times under many different names, most notably as The Anastasia Affaire. This production had a cast recording released in 1992 which featured such notable names as Judy Kaye, Len Cariou, and Steve Barton. Interestingly, one of the last names this show was marketed under was Anastasia, the musical.

Photos are from The New York Public Library.

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   𝑾𝑬𝑳𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑬  𝑻𝑶  𝑨𝑼𝑹𝑶𝑹𝑨 ,   brae  ,  m  ,  pea  ,  sydney  ,  jules  !  don’t  forget  to  read  over  our  pages  and  our  checklist.  you  have   twenty - four  hours to  send  in  your  account  or  you’ll lose  your  chance  at  paradise  !   we  hope   [  james  potter  ,  geralt  of  rivia  ,  sabrina  spellman  ,  illyana  rasputin  ,  arianne  martell  ,  rachel  amber  ,  esme  cullen  ,  katherine  pierce  ,  mark  sloan  ,  marinette  dupain-cheng  ,  alexis  kaye  ]    will  enjoy  their  say  at  aurora island .   SMASH  THAT  FOLLOW BUTTON  !

「    dev  patel   ,   twenty - eight   ,   cis - male  +  he / him    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    PRONGS’    real  name  is    JAMES  POTTER     ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     enthusiastic    ,  but  also     egotistical    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     SPORTS  JOURNALIST     and  come  from     HARRY  POTTER    .  you  can  hear   DON'T  STOP  ME  NOW  by  QUEEN   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  LETTING  PETER  BECOME  THE  SECRET  KEEPER .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    WIRE - RIMMED  ROUND  GLASSES   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    brae  .

「    henry  cavill   ,   thirty - eight  /  one hundred  &  three   ,   cis - male  +  he / him    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    THE  WHITE  WOLF’S    real  name  is    GERALT  RIVIA     ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     loyal    ,  but  also     apathetic    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     SECURITY / BODYGUARD  FOR  HIRE     and  come  from     THE  WITCHER    .  you  can  hear   INDESTRUCTIBLE  by  WELSHLY  ARMS   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  CIRI  RUNNING  INTO  HIS  ARMS  IN  THE  FOREST .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    WOLF  HEAD  NECKLACE   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    brae  .

「    kiernan  shipka   ,   twenty   ,   cis female  +  she/her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    HEARALD OF HELL’S      real  name  is    SABRINA SPELLMAN     ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     adroit    ,  but  also     perverse    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     WRITER     and  come  from     THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA    .  you  can  hear   PLAY WITH FIRE  by  SAM TINNESZ   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  SACRIFICING HERSELF TO SAVE HER LOVED ONE’S FROM THE VOID .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    GOLDEN LOCKET   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    m  .

「    anya  taylor-joy   ,   twenty-two   ,   cisfemale  +  she  /  her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    MAGIK’S    real  name  is    ILLYANA  NIKOLIEVNA  RASPUTIN     ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     resolute    ,  but  also     caustic    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     GRAD  STUDENT     and  come  from     MARVEL  COMICS    .  you  can  hear   STFU!  by  RINA  SAWAYAMA   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  TAKING  CHARGE  OF  THE  NEW  MUTANTS .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    SOULSWORD   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    pea  .

「    sobhita  dhulipala   ,   twenty-eight   ,   cisfemale  +  she  /  her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    THE  QUEENMAKER’S    real  name  is    ARIANNE  NYMEROS  MARTELL     ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     astute    ,  but  also     beguiling    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     HEIRESS     and  come  from     A  SONG  OF  ICE  AND  FIRE    .  you  can  hear   WHAT  KIND  OF  MAN  by  FLORENCE  +  THE  MACHINE   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  TRAVELLING  TO  THE  STORMLANDS .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    CROWN  OF  COPPER  SUNS   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    pea  .

「    madelyn  cline   ,   twenty   ,   cisfemale  +  she  /  her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    RACH’S    real  name  is    RACHEL  DAWN  AMBER     ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     spirited    ,  but  also     irascible    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     ACTING  STUDENT     and  come  from     LIFE  IS  STRANGE    .  you  can  hear   VICTORIA  FALLS  by  FLYTE   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  DYING  IN  THE  DARK  ROOM .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    BLUE  JAY  FEATHER  EARRING   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    pea  .

「    adelaide  kane   ,   thirty   ,   cis woman  +  she/her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    SNOW WHITE IN THE FLESH’S    real  name  is    ESME  ANNE CULLEN     ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     benign   ,  but  also     placid    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     TEACHER     and  come  from     TWILIGHT    .  you  can  hear   LOVER  by  TAYLOR SWIFT   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  SURVIVING  THE  VOLTURI’S INTERROGATION .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    WEDDING RING    and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    sydney  .

「    hande  erçel   ,   twenty three   ,   cis woman  +  she/her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    THE QUEEN OF HELL’S    real  name  is    KATHERINE  PIERCE    ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     nimble    ,  but  also     nefarious    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     CON ARTIST     and  come  from     THE  VAMPIRE DIARIES    .  you  can  hear   DO RE MI  by  BLACKBEAR   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  THE GRUESOME DISCOVERY OF HER FAMILY’S SLAUGHTER  .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    ANTIQUE  SILVER  PENDANT   and  not  think  about  them .    penned  by :    sydney  .

「    chris  evans   ,   thirty nine   ,   cis man  +  he/him    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    MCSTEAMY’S    real  name  is    MARK  EVERETT  SLOAN   ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     conscientious    ,  but  also     haughty    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     PLASTIC SURGEON     and  come  from     GREY’S  ANATOMY    .  you  can  hear   SEXY BACK  by  JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  DYING .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    PAGER   and  not  think  about  them .    penned  by :    sydney  .

「    natasha liu bordizzo   ,   twenty-three   ,   female  +  she/her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    LADYBUG’S    real  name  is    MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG   ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     innovative    ,  but  also     clumsy    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     FASHION DESIGN INTERN     and  come  from     MIRACULOUS: TALES OF LADYBUG AND CAT NOIR    .  you  can  hear   CLOUD 9  by  BEACH BUNNY   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  HEARING THE SCREAMS OF THE ONE SHE LOVES AS SHE JUMPS OVER THE SIDE OF A BUILDING TO SAVE THEM .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    LADYBUG EARRINGS   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    jules  .

「    ayça aysin turan   ,   twenty-five   ,   female  +  she/her    」 ˚╰ ❃ ╮  did  you  know    PUNCHLINE’S    real  name  is    ALEXIS KAYE   ?!    around  the  island  they  seem  to  be  quite     ingenious    ,  but  also     cruel    ,  but  it  makes  sense  given  they  are  a     CHEMICAL ENGINEER     and  come  from     DC COMICS  ( BATMAN ).  you  can  hear   NIGHTMARE  by  HALSEY   blasting  from  their  house ,  but  be  careful   !   they  can  be  agitated  as  nightmares  bring  back  memories  of  HANGING ONTO HER LIFE BY A THREAD AS SHE TRIES TO REACH FOR HER DAGGER, IT GETS HARDER TO BREATHE AS SHE SLIPS INTO BLACKNESS .  even  so ,  it’s  impossible  to  see  their    DAGGER   and  not  think  about  them .   penned  by :    jules  .

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13 Best Blumhouse Horror Movies Ranked

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Has any single person had a greater impact on horror this century than Jason Blum? The one-time Miramax executive struck out on his own in the 2000s when he founded Blumhouse Productions, a company where he remains the CEO. And in the ensuing years, Blum’s production label would define, and redefine again, the trends of horror movies and thrillers.

Operating on the philosophy that a horror film with a micro-budget will almost always turn a profit, Blum frequently allows directors broad freedom to make what they want within the genre, and in the process has kept multiplexes perpetually spooky. In 2009 Blumhouse helped reinvent the found footage horror aesthetic, and in the 2010s, the modern phenomenon of talent-focused horror gems began with Blumhouse’s gambles.

Working with filmmakers like James Wan, Scott Derrickson, Ethan Hawke, and Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions’ title card is now a promise of something different, if still eminently commercial and entertaining. It even paved the way for the controversial modern discourse around “elevated” horror, with Peele’s Get Out being the first chiller to win an Oscar for screenwriting since The Silence of the Lambs.

So with a new Blumhouse horror movie in theaters this Friday the 13th, we thought it a good time to count down the 13 best Blumhouse efforts that paid off with a bloody good time.

13. Hush

At the bottom of our top 13 is this taut thriller from Mike Flanagan, director The Haunting of series and Doctor Sleep fame. Flanagan and his co-writer and star (and also wife), Kate Siegel, wanted to make a horror movie with little to no dialogue. So they came up with this concept of a deaf-mute woman (Siegel) in a remote house, who is stalked by a killer with a crossbow. Hush is at its peak in the first 20 minutes as the masked man (10 Cloverfield Lane’s John Gallagher Jr.) realizes his quarry can’t actually hear him and begins to play games.

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The pair’s relationship with sound makes an interesting dynamic in this tense home invasion movie, though the cat and mouse chase does grow somewhat repetitive and generic as the film progresses. Still, a fine performance from Siegel and an indication of what Flanagan could do on a small budget make this very much worth checking out. – Rosie Fletcher

12. Happy Death Day

The Groundhog Day formula where an odious person is doomed to relive the same day countless times has proven remarkably flexible. And Happy Death Day is no exception with its horror-comedy blend of Punxsutawney hijinks and ‘80s slasher movie clichés. Starring a ridiculously game Jessica Rothe as Tree, the sorority girl who is constantly waking up with the hangover from hell, Happy Death Day follows the typical “Queen Bee” slasher archetype, and forces her to relive the same horror movie again and again. Until she can figure out who her masked killer is, and maybe how to be a better person, she’s condemned to die in increasingly preposterous ways. Worse still, she must also wake up in a dormitory afterward.

It’s derivative in a million different ways, but delightful in many more thanks to a cheeky atmosphere from director Christopher Landon and a very savvy, self-aware script by Scott Lobdell. Most of all though, it benefits from Rothe’s comedic talents on full display, as she backflips between initial verbal bitchiness and constant physical comedy. She even manages to find a little pathos, one stab wound at a time. – David Crow

11. The Visit

The Sixth Sense may remain M. Night Shyamalan’s masterpiece, but it was an oft-referenced moment from a different film that became key to Blumhouse pulling him back from the brink of irrelevance.

Having made four objectively terrible movies in a row, including the notoriously bad wind-smeller The Happening, Shyamalan seemingly decided to use what he’d learned from a very effective part of 2002’s Signs, where Joaquin Phoenix reacts to a tense home movie of an alien sighting, and took the next logical step: What if the director put together 90 minutes of unsettling home movie moments just like that?

Your mileage may vary with the handheld, mockumentary style of The Visit, but it’s hard to argue that this brisk, low-budget tale of two young siblings staying with some very, very odd grandparents they’ve never met before could play out more wildly than it does here. And Shyamalan certainly doesn’t pull many punches when it comes to putting those poor kids in peril during the film’s climax. – Kirsten Howard

10. Creep

No, not the one set on the subway, this Creep, directed by Patrick Brice, written by Brice and Mark Duplass, and also starring them both in a tense two-hander, is an altogether more unsettling affair. Brice plays Aaron, a videographer who answers an ad posted by Josef (Duplass), the latter saying he’s dying and wants a video diary made to leave to his son. But Josef’s behavior is weird – exactly how weird is too weird is the challenge faced by Aaron.

At just 77 mins long, this is a compact, unusual, often funny movie which picks at male relationships in the modern day, and how far kindness and politeness can override instinct. Duplass and Brice are incredibly natural in a film that’s extremely unusual, steeped in unease but not really like a traditional horror, with laughter and tension relief keeping you on your toes throughout. There’s a sequel which is good too, though if you can watch the first without spoilers it delivers a particular kind of dread that’s hard to replicate. – RF

9. Upgrade

A couple of decades ago, there were plenty of films around like Upgrade. You didn’t even have to move for fun sci-fi action movies, really! But the glory days of never having to wait for the next Equilibrium, Gattaca, Cypher, or even Jet Li’s The One are long behind us. It’s pretty tough to get a slick little concept movie made when you’re expected to compete with huge action tentpoles at the box office—unless you’re Leigh Whannell, one of Blumhouse’s integral puzzle pieces.

Whannell paid his dues at the production house for 15 years as both a writer and helmer before unleashing his sophomore directorial effort, Upgrade. The film, which follows ludicrously named technophobe Grey Trace after he loses his beloved wife in a violent mugging, sees a paralyzed hero get implanted with a chatty chip that allows him to regain the use of his whole body. Soon Trace become virtually superhuman—imagine an internal K.I.T.T.—but all is not as it seems.

It shouldn’t be as delightful as it is. Admittedly, the whole thing isn’t too far removed from an elevated episode of The Outer Limits. But if you miss old school sci-fi nonsense and feel nostalgic for a time when smart sci-fi projects didn’t end up as eight drawn out episodes on a major streaming service instead, Upgrade really scratches an itch.

Of course now might be a bad time to mention that an Upgrade TV series is in the works… – KH

8. Halloween

In resurrecting one of horror’s most enduring—yet stubbornly uneven—franchises, director David Gordon Green (working with screenwriters Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley) made the smartest move he could: He stripped away the ridiculously convoluted and nonsensical mythology the franchise had built up over decades. Instead he simply made a direct sequel to Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece.

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Best Modern Horror Movies

By Don Kaye

Movies

Halloween: A Legacy Unmasked

By David Crow

The result was easily the best Halloween movie since the original itself, bringing the characters and the story into the present while reverting Michael Myers back to the enigmatic, unstoppable, unknowable force that was so terrifying in the first film. Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, and Andi Matichak as three generations of Strode women bring healthy feminine empowerment to the proceedings while the intense violence and uneasy psychological underpinnings give this Halloween a resonance that has been lacking for so long. – Don Kaye

7. Split

As the movie that suggested M. Night Shyamalan’s renaissance was real, Split is still a surprising box office win for the eclectic filmmaker. With a grizzly premise about a man suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as split personality) kidnapping teen girls to hold in a zoo, this could be the stuff of ‘70s grindhouse sleaze. While there is a touch of that to Split, more critically the movie acts as a buoyant showcase for James McAvoy at his most unbound.

Playing a character with 24 different personalities, a shaved and beefy McAvoy is visibly giddy bouncing between multiple alters that include a deceptively sweet little boy, an OCD fashion designer, and a bestial final form. The commitment he shows to each also becomes its own special effect, causing you to swear his physical shape is changing with his expressions.

Similarly, scenes with theater legend Betty Buckley as his psychiatrist also rivet with the energy of a stage play, and suggest a sincere sympathy for mental illness. A rarity in horror. Nevertheless, the movie still comes down to his alters’ obsessions with their kidnapped prize (Anya Taylor-Joy), a young woman who hides demons of her own. When these true selves finally cross paths in a genuinely tense finale, Split is maniacally thrilling. – DC

6. Sinister

An unsettling entry in the horror subgenre of writers who destroy their families, Sinister marked director/co-writer Scott Derrickson’s (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) return to horror after he detoured with an ill-fated remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Thus Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill concocted a unique, if somewhat scattershot, mythology about a pagan deity that murders entire families in the ghastliest ways imaginable.

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M. Night Shyamalan Movies Ranked

By John Saavedra

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Best Horror Movies on Netflix: Scariest Films to Stream

By David Crow and 2 others

True crime writer Ethan Hawke discovers the extent of those murders in a box of 8mm films left in the attic of his new home (where the last killings took place), and it’s the unspooling of those films—along with long sequences of Hawke moving through the shadows and silence of the house—that provide Sinister with its sickening core and palpable dread. Derrickson sustains the film’s foreboding mood for the entire running time, making the movie an authentically frightening experience. – DK

5. Oculus

The film that brought much of the world’s attention to Mike Flanagan, Oculus turned out to be a preview for the horror filmmaker’s interests. It also remains a truly unnerving ghost story. Not since the days of Dead of Night has a film so successfully made you scared of looking in a mirror.

Officially titled the Lasser Glass, the mirror in question is the apparent supernatural cause of hundreds of deaths, including the parents of Kaylie Russell (Karen Gillan) and her brother Tim (Brenton Thwaites). When they were children, their mother starved and mutilated herself before their father killed her. But now as an adult, Kaylie is convinced she can prove the antique glass is the true culprit, and she’ll document its evil power before destroying it. But the funny thing about evil mirrors is they have ways of protecting themselves, and wreaking havoc on a sense of time, place, and certainly self-image.

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The Haunting of Bly Manor: Mike Flanagan Discusses Standout Eighth Episode

By Alec Bojalad

TV

The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Poignant Tale of Hannah Grose

By Louisa Mellor

With the movie’s near masterful blending of events occurring 11 years ago and in the present, Flanagan revealed a knack for dreamlike structure, and stories about the past damning the future. These are ideas he’s gone on to explore in richer detail with The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep, but Flanagan’s ability to juxtapose childhood trauma with a nightmarish present was never more potent, or tragic, than in Oculus’ refracted gaze. – DC

4. Paranormal Activity

It may take some mental gymnastics, but if you can take a step back and ignore all the sequels that followed in the wake of this surprise 2009 blockbuster, then you’d remember Paranormal Activity is a stone cold classic. It is also the movie that put Blumhouse on the map. Already mostly finished when Jason Blum saw a DVD screener of Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity, this $15,000-budgeted terror is arguably the most evocative use of found footage in all of horror.

While Peli is obviously influenced by 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, that earlier movie is as famous for its shaky disorientation as it is its scares. By contrast what occurs in Paranormal Activity is excruciatingly clear. Seriously, the camera barely moves! Instead we’re asked to sit back and watch in near slow motion as an unwise couple (Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat) meddle with forces that were better off left undisturbed.

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How Jason Blum Changed Horror Movies

By Rosie Fletcher

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The Best Horror Movies to Stream

By Alec Bojalad and 1 other

It begins when Micah brings a home video camera into their house to track apparent ghosts in the dark; it ends in a demonic rush of violence. Everything in between is tracked by a disinterested lens, which usually sits statically in a corner or on a tripod, capturing the tedium of everyday life in its everyday natural lighting. Only occasionally does the horned shadow on the wall manifest. But then Paranormal Activity is chilling in its isolation. – DC

3. Insidious

As the fourth feature film directed by Australian filmmaker James Wan, Insidious follows a couple named Josh and Renai Lambert (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne), whose son inexplicably falls into a coma and becomes a vessel for malevolent entities from a dimension called the Further. The family enlists a psychic named Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) in a battle involving astral projection and demonic possession.

Following an era of horror films that were more torture porn or police procedural (including Wan’s own Saw), Insidious was a return to the kind of horror filmmaking that was dependent on atmosphere, suspense, and what you don’t see lurking in the shadows. And Wan seemed to imbue that creepiness around the edges of every shot. Using actual adult characters and developing them (as opposed to the hipster teens that infested nearly every horror movie for at least 10 years previously) also set the film apart as a serious attempt at a genre that had been too often exploited in a tossed-off fashion.

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Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man Shows Life After Dark Universe Death

By David Crow

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Blumhouse Horror Movies Update: Halloween Kills, Insidious 5 and More

By Don Kaye

The world-building of Insidious left the door open for sequels, of course, and while the three produced so far have had their moments, none has matched the sheer invention and terrifying fun of the original. – DK

2. The Invisible Man

Leigh Whannell’s reimagining of the classic Universal Monster, the Invisible Man, was as much of a surprise when it hit screens earlier this year as the titular villain himself. As a smart social commentary on domestic abuse and gaslighting, while also being enormously effective as a straight up horror, this was a highly fresh take on an old standard.

At the core was the terrific performance of Elisabeth Moss as Cecilia, a woman stuck with her controlling boyfriend Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) in their high-tech, high security fortress of a home. When Cece finally manages to escape and Adrian appears to take his own life, she hopes her ordeal can finally be over. But in fact it’s just beginning.

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How Leigh Whannell Made The Invisible Man Scary Again

By Rosie Fletcher

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How The Invisible Man Channels the Original Tale

By Don Kaye

Playing on the true horror of not being believed, Whannell’s Invisible Man is as harrowing at times as it is thrilling. Yes, there are some extraordinarily shocking set pieces – the restaurant scene of course stands out – but it’s the increasing desperation of Cece, whose world is falling apart at the manipulative hands of a man who won’t let her go, which stays with you.

The Invisible Man is a thrilling horror, for sure, with a feel good ending (if you want to read it that way…), but it’s something altogether more exciting than that too: a fresh, relevant take on a classic, expertly directed and boasting star power delivered on a moderate budget, which flexes exactly what horror can do. – RF

1. Get Out

More impressive than any awards it won, Jordan Peele’s Get Out encapsulates the essential draw of horror: through entertaining “scares,” it unmasks truths folks might find too horrifying or uncomfortable to acknowledge. In the case of Get Out, it is the despair of Blackness and Black bodies still being commodified by a predatory American culture.

Wearing influences like Rosemary’s Baby and Stepford Wives on his sleeve, Peele pulls from classic horror conventions for his directorial debut, but gives them a startling 21st century sheen. His movie’s insidious conspiracy is neither an obvious coven of witches or the openly racist heavies of a period piece. Rather Peele sets his story about a Black man (Daniel Kaluuya) coming to meet his white girlfriend’s parents in a liberal conclave of wealthy suburbia. Written during the final days of the Obama years, Peele casts these parents (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener) as genial and welcoming, shielding cries of racism behind fashionable political correctness.

Yet once Peele moves past that trendy veneer, he finds a potent allegory in which the ghosts of slavery are still alive and well, even in Upstate New York. Peele also packs anxieties about interracial relationships, culture clash, and childhood trauma into a film that is nevertheless gregariously funny. Ultimately though, its final effect is triggering in the best way. Get Out offers an opportunity to confront real dread, one uneasy laugh, and then sudden jump scare, at a time. – DC

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Orochi Head Personalities & Voices

In the Okami game, Orochi has eight heads. What if each if the heads have their iwn personalities, almost like eight people sharing one body?

Here we go:-

Kachi The fire head of Orochi is the one that keeps all of the eight heads under control. He is deadly serious, but when angered, he has an aura that makes everyones' blood freeze in terror. He is a very scary head and when he's mad, none of the heads want to get on his bad side. His personality matches that of Stain the Hero Killer.

Voice Actor: David Kaye (Beast Wars Megatron), Go Inoue (Stain)

Kazechi The most chilled out, and very lazy Orochi head amongst the others. His mood is that of a surfer who enjoys the peace and tranquility of the ocean and is not bothered if he is yelled at by the other heads, Dokuchi the most. He speaks with an Aussie accent and his favourite catchphrase is 'Well,well,well.' He is almost like Demyx.

Voice Actor: Steve Blum (Melbourne O'Reilly), Yuki Kaji (Meliodas)

Mizuchi Appears to be the only female head amongst the others. She is cold, cool and sometimes, ruthless when it comes to foes who ticked her off the wrong way. But she finds tranquility in the presence of water, enjoying the bath. She is a lot like Shoto.

Voice Actress: Charlize Theron (Monkey), Miyuki Sawashiro (Bishamon)

Tsuchi He is super strict. And he has the attitude of a drill sergeant. He happens to be super loud because of his commando personality and always end up in arguments with the hot-tempered Dokuchi.

Voice Actor: Lex Lang (Wargreymon), Joji Nakata (Giroro)

Hikarichi The wisest and calmest amongst the heads. He is almost like an elderly sage you'd find in martial arts movies, but despite his sagely personality, he is quite youthful and wise.

Voice Actor: Kirk Thornton (Master Zik), Keiji Fujiwara (Shiro from Blue Exorcist)

Yamichi He is the most serious Orochi head, just like Hikarichi, Kachi, and Mizuchi. He takes everything seriously and his calm, cold and serious demeanour is something to fear for. He has a habit of making a very frightening, nightmare-fuelling grin when he screams, "SURPRISE!!" when he catches his foes off-guard. Rasticore and Anya at one point, pointed that Yamichi acts like Toffee. Even his voice sounds just like him.

Voice Actor: Michael C. Hall (Toffee), Hideyuki Hori (Dorbickmon)

Dokuchi Despite his element being poison, this Orochi head has an explosive temper and immense anger issues that results fight amongst the other heads. He starts arguments over the smallest of things, and when it comes to which head will devour the sacrificial maiden, he'll start the argument because he remember that each head had devoured the victim well. He is as hot-tempered as Bakugou.

Voice Actor: John DiMaggio (Rath), Kazuya Nakai (Zoro)

Raichi He is always missing out on things, including making an entrance with the rest of the heads. He is oblivious to what's going on, and he is super clueless, even wondering where his foes are after unleashing his lightning bolts. He becomes nitwitted when he uses to much voltage, and because of his behaviour, he is often bullied and picked on by Dokuchi, who will scold him for being a moron. His nitwittedness is a lot like Kamanari after he uses to much voltage.

Voice Actor: Benjamin Diskin (Shoutmon), Jun Fukuyama (Kinako from Twin Star Exorcists)

*It is basically a joke that each heads' names end with Chi, since they are called Orochi.*

(You can make fun art of the Orochi heads if you want. Since there are fan arts of the Ghidorah heads)

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Their little Anya sounds adorable. Daniela’s Dowager in the Prologue is surprisingly giving me Judy Kaye vibes??

[butmostlyme97]

New Waitress audio+WANTS

This is my new release

Waitress, January 12th 2019, San Antonio Majestic Theatre E (Tracked, Untracked)

Christine Dwyer (Jenna), Maiesha McQueen (Becky), Jessie Shelton (Dawn), Steven Good (Dr. Pomatter), Jeremy Morse (Oagie), Matt DeAngelis (Earl), Ryan G. Dunkin (Cal), Richard Kline (Old Joe), Rheaume Crenshaw (Nurse Norma), Grace Stockdale ( Mother), Adam J Levy (Father), Alex Tripp (Francine), Gerianne Perez ( Club Knocked up Solosit)

Ensemble: Kolby Kindle, Kevin Zak, Rheaume Crenshaw, Grace Stockdale, Alex Tripp, Gerianne Perez,

Nft till March 13 2019 unless done by me

Wants:

Mean Girls | December 2, 2018 | Broadway | Matinee | mp3 untracked

​Cast Info: Erika Henningsen (Cady Heron), Becca Petersen (u/s Regina George), Ashley Park (Gretchen Wieners), Jonalyn Saxer (u/s Karen Smith), Tee Boyich (u/s Janis Sarkisian), Brendon Stimpson (u/s Damian Hubbard), Jennifer Simard (Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George), Rick Younger (Mr. Duvall), Kyle Selig (Aaron Samuels), Cheech Manohar (Kevin Gnapoor), Myles McHale (Coach Carr/Glen Coco/Math Moderator), Stephanie Lynn Bissonnette (Dawn Schweitzer), Collins Conley (Lizzie Therman/Caroline Krafft), Ben Cook (Tyler Kimble), DeMarius R. Copes (Christian Wiggins), Kevin Csolak (Shane Oman), Riza Takahashi (Sophie Kawachi), Devon Hadsell (Caitlyn Caussin), Curtis Holland (Jason Weems), Nikhil Saboo (Marwan Jitla), Ixchel Cuellar (s/w Taylor Wedell), Britt Nicholas (s/w Rachel Hamilton), Bria Jene Williams (Grace Akinola), Gianna Yanelli (Sonja Acquino)

Notes: I'm fairly certain this is the first time Tee and Brendon were together. Starcuffedjean’s master

Newsies | August 4, 2013 | Broadway | MP3 tracked

Cast Info: Brendon Stimson (us Jack), Caitlyn Caughell (us Katherine), Stuart Marland (us Pulitzer), Ben Fankhauser, Andy Richardson, Joshua Colley, LaVon Fisher-Wilson, JP Ferreri (us Buttons/Scab), Stuart Zagnit (us Snyder), Julian DeGuzman (us Oscar Delancey)

Anastasia | November 25, 2018 | Broadway | m4a untracked (2)

Cast: Christy Altomare (Anya), Zach Adkins (Dmitry), John Bolton (Vlad), Max Von Essen (Gleb), Lauren Blackman (u/s Countess Lily), Judy Kaye (Dowager Empress)

Notes: requiemtrading's master. Zach's last show

Mean Girls | November 15, 2018 | Broadway | Devon's debut as Adult Women (the first time the roles has been played by other than Kerry or Jennifer)

Waitress | November 25, 2018 | Manila | m4a untracked | Limited Trade

Cast Info: Jonna Ampil (Jenna), Maronne Cruz (Dawn), Bituin Escalante (Becky), Bibo Reyes (Dr. Pomatter), Nino Alejandro (Ogie), George Schulze (Earl), Dean Rosen (Cal), Steven Conde (Joe)

2018.07.21 M | Broadway | Untracked | Limited Trade |

Kennedy Caughell (u/s Carole King), Genie Klein (Liz Larsen), Sara Shepard (u/s Betty), Evan Todd (Gerry Goffin), Kara Lindsay (Cynthia Weil), Paul Anthony Stewart (Don Kirshner), Ben Jacoby (Barry Mann)

Notes: Kennedy's Carole King Debut

2017.08.07 | St. Louis MUNY |

Jay Armstrong Johnson (Jack Kelly), Davis Gaines (Joseph Pulitzer), Tessa Grady (Katherine Plumber), Ta’Rea Campbell (Medda Larkin), Daniel Quadrino (Crutchie), Spencer Davis Milford (Davey), Gabriel Cytron (Les)

Anastasia - Broadway - November 30, 2018 - M4a (Untracked) - GIFTED UPON REQUEST

cast: Christy Altomare (Anya), Cody Simpson (Dmitry), John Bolton (Vlad), Max von Essen (Gleb Vaganov), Judy Kaye (Dowager Empress), Vicki Lewis (Lily)

notes: 2nd performance of Cody Simpson! The key for My Petersburg has been lowered to fit his voice. It's actually a nice change of pace to hear.

Cats with Jonalyn Saxer as Demeter

Mamma Mia at Sacramento music circus

Wicked with Allison bailey and Jackie burns

[transnames]

heynowyourawallstar replied to your post:

Thank you! I love the names but a lot of them seem super common. Do you know of any less common names? Thanks!

For sure! Here are some less common names, that I think would fit:

Adelle

Adrianne / Adriana

Alexandria

Alaina

Anya

Brianne

Bridget

Calla / Callie

Calista

Christie

Dawn

Elisa

Emilie

Eva

Fiona

Gemma

Gwen

Heidi

Helena

Hope

Iris

Jade

Julianna

Kara / Kira

Kaye

Lila

Lilly / Liliana

Lissa

Madeline / Maddie

Marina

Mara / Mira

May

Naomi

Nell

Opal

Phoebe

Sabrina

Skye

Stella

Talia

Trista

Viola

Winona

Zandra

Zara

Let me know if you would like any more names or if this is too common or uncommon!

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“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” 💐 In my opinion, the holiday season is the best time for reading. With most of us on vacation from work or school, it’s the perfect opportunity to curl up with a good book and some good ole hot chocolate. ❄️❄️❄️ I usually like to warm myself up with a good classic. Although Pride and Prejudice is my favorite Austen book, Emma easily comes in second and is a delightful read! I highly recommend! Did you see the recent movie adaptation with Anya Taylor-Joy? I sure love a good period film and she was absolutely marvelous as Emma. Check it out if you haven’t!🌷 I got this Wordsworth Collector’s Edition from @blithebooksindependent and I’m just so in love with the pastel cloth-bound hardback. 💗 So glad I found one here. Do you like to collect special edition books? Let me know! 📸 Photo and design: Kaye Allen #KayeAllenShelf #books #Emma #JaneAusten #classics #AustenClassics #PeriodBooks #Wordsworth #bookstagram #booklover #bookstagrammer #bookshelf #bookstagramph #booksofinstagram #booksofig #booksph #booksinreview #bookreview #Fiction #Romance #books #bookblogger #read #bookstagramfeature #bookworm #readersofinstagram #readers #readersofig https://www.instagram.com/p/CJNw-ENrX4m/?igshid=uljelc0phgsm

[list-of-literature]

25/03/2016

The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe The Jolly Postman or Other Peoples Letters, Janet & Allan Ahlberg The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken The Wanderer, Alain-Fournier Commedia, Dante Alighieri Skellig, David Almond The President, Miguel Angel Asturias Alcools, Guillaume Apollinaire It's Not About The Bike - My Journey Back to Life, Lance Armstrong Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin The Ghost Road, Pat Barker Carrie's War, Nina Bawden Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow G, John Berger Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman Mister Magnolia, Quentin Blake Forever, Judy Blume The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton Five On A Treasure Island, Enid Blyton The Enchanted Wood, Enid Blyton A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne The Snowman, Raymond Briggs Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown Gorilla, Anthony Browne The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess Junk, Melvin Burgess Would You Rather?, John Burningham The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler Possession, A.S. Byatt The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino The Stranger, Albert Camus Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter Looking For JJ, Anne Cassidy Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang Papillon, Henri Charriere The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer "Clarice Bean, That's Me", Lauren Child I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, Lauren Child Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M Coetzee Princess Smartypants, Babette Cole Nostromo, Joseph Conrad The Public Burning, Robert Coover Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay That Rabbit Belongs To Emily Brown, Cressida Cowell House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski The Black Sheep, Honoré de Balzac Old Man Goriot, Honoré de Balzac The Second Sex, Simone de Beavoir The Story of Babar, Jean De Brunhoff The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery White Noise, Don DeLillo Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, Lynley Dodd The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos The Brothers Karamzov, Fyodor Dostoevsky An American Tragedy, Theodore Drieser The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco My Naughty Little Sister, Dorothy Edwards Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G Farrell The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner "Absalom, Absalom!", William Faulkner Light in August, William Faulkner Take it or Leave It, Raymond Federman Magician, Raymond E. Feist Flour Babies, Anne Fine Madam Bovary, Gustav Flaubert A Passage to India, E. M. Forster The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank Cross Stitch,  Diana Gabaldon That Awful Mess on the Via Merulala, Carlo Emilio Gadda JR, William Gaddis The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez Maggot Moon, Sally Gardner The Owl Service, Alan Garner In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories, William H. Gass Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin Once, Morris Gleitzman The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer Asterix The Gaul, Rene Goscinny The Tin Drum, Günter Grass Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, Emily Gravett Lanark, Alasdair Gray The Quiet American, Graham Greene Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Mark Haddon Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway The Blue Lotus, Hergé The Adventures Of Tintin, Hergé The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse Where's Spot?, Eric Hill The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett The Odyssey, Homer High Fidelity, Nick Hornby Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz Dogger, Shirley Hughes Journey To The River Sea, Eva Ibbotson Little House In The Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James The Ambassadors, Henry James Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Judith Kerr One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey In Praise of Hatred, Khaled Khalifa Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury It, Stephen King The Queen's Nose, Dick King-Smith The Sheep-Pig, Dick King-Smith Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney Kim, Rudyard Kipling I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, Joyce Lankerster Brisley Women in Love, D.H. 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It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading #27

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week.  It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog   and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

What Did I Read This Last Week?

ALFA Mates by Milly Taiden

#1-2 ALFA

Paranormal Romance, Romantic Suspense

This did not really grab me and the heroines both irked me for different reasons.  I’ve struggled with the author’s contemporary romances so maybe we’re just not a good fit.

Out of Reach by Kendall Talbot

#1 Maximum Exposure

Action Romance

Fun survivalist romantic adventure in the Mexican Jungle looking for the answers to clues in a journal.  Loved this old-style wise-cracking romance pair.

The Six by Mark Alpert, Narrated by Josh Bloomberg

#1 The Six

YA Sci-Fi

The science blew me away in this one, but it didn’t get carried away and was well balanced with the human side for the kids all in the last stages of deadly diseases.

They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer

#3 Inspector Hannasyde

Historical Mystery

Fun, quirky family antics, clever mystery, and great banter.

Ascendant by Richard Denoncourt

#1-4 Ascendant

Dystopian

Brilliant, gritty world and overall plotting.  Suspenseful.  Depressing a little.  The love triangle was bleh.  Overall, like!

The Pharaoh’s Cat by Maria Luisa Lang

Paranormal Historical, Historical Magical Realism

Loved this whimsical take on Ancient Egypt.  Wry bantering cat.  Engaging plot.

Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook

#2 Iron Seas

Steampunk Romance

Gritty, action-packed treasure hunt adventure against a fabulous and colorful steampunk world.  Fantastic characters who banter and play off each other as partners in business and romance.

Goodness Gracious Gracie by Anya Wylde

Romantic Comedy

Film making in India leads to drama off camera.  Fun and light!

Cowboy Bold by Carolyn Brown

#1 Longhorn Canyon

Contemporary Romance

Sexy cowboy, grieving lady fighting her heart, and eight adorable kids on the ranch!

The Heiress of Linn Hagh by Karen Charlton

#1 Inspector Lavender

Historical Mystery

Atmospheric, gothic Regency era mystery.  Loved Lavender and Woods for a detecting team!

WHAT AM I READING NOW?

Ceremony in Death by JD Robb

#5 In Death

Romantic Suspense

The Thief by JR Ward, Narrated by Jim Frangione

#15 Black Dagger Brotherhood

Paranormal Romance

WHAT WILL I READ NEXT?

Down the Rabbit Hole by JD Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas, and RC Ryan

Paranormal Romance, Romantic Suspense