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notbecauseofvictories · 7 months ago

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The full list is quite long, so I didn't want to clutter up the last post with it---still, it is impressive to see them all laid out together. So without further ado!

THE 50 MOVIES AND 50ISH BOOKS I WATCHED/READ IN 2024

MOVIES

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) Emilia Pérez (2024) Wicked (2024) American Psycho (2000) Heavy Trip (2018) La Planète sauvage / Fantastic Planet (1973) The Slipper and the Rose (1973) Bottoms (2023) I Saw the TV Glow (2024) *We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) Oddity (2024) Maxxxine (2024) *The Substance (2024) *The Wicker Man (1973) Housebound (2014) Problemista (2023) Showing Up (2023) *Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) It Comes at Night (2017) The Boy and the Heron (2023) Abigail (2024) Seven Samurai (1954) The Iron Claw (2023) Talk to Me (2023) Bodies Bodies Bodies (2023) Rashomon (1950) *M (1931) Lord of Misrule (2023) The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013) *Crimes of the Future (2022) Sanctuary (2022) After Yang (2022) **The Florida Project (2017) Pig (2021) The Favourite (2018) Poor Things (2023) Infinity Pool (2023) The Feast (2021) Office Space (1999) *Corsage (2022) Robots (2023) The Deer King (2021) Madame de… (1953) Orphée (1950) Master Gardener (2022) *Something in the Dirt (2022) Black Orpheus (1959) Priscilla (2023) How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) *The Lure (2015) To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

BOOKS

The Shambling Guide to New York City, Ghost Train to New Orleans, Mur Lafferty What Feasts At Night, T. Kingfisher *Bad Girls, Camila Sosa Villada Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones *Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox The Barrow Will Send What it May, Margaret Killjoy You Know How the Story Goes, Thomas Olde Heuvelt Bloodchild, Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones The Default World, Naomi Kanakia Fantasyland, Mike Bockoven Something is Killing the Children, issues 1-15 The Night Eaters Book 1, Book 2, Marjorie Liu This Wretched Valley, Jenny Kiefer These Deathless Bones, Cassandra Khaw *Dead Inside, Chandler Morrison Mental Diplopia, Julianna Baggott A Human Stain, Kelly Robson The Shape of My Name, Nino Cipri Daughter of Necessity, Marie Brennan The Mist, Stephen King A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge The Chalk Man, C. J. Tudor *The Rehearsal, Eleanor Catton Come Closer, Sara Gran The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire Blink, Christopher Sebela Pulling the Wings Off Angels, KJ Parker Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, Maud Woolf An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, Helene Tursten Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt Midnight Rooms, Donyae Coles Aglaeca, Mohnfisch Dr. Limos Plays God, Stevie Barot Home by the Rotting Sea, Otava Heikkila Last Crane, Narsid Sacred Bodies, Ver No Trouble at All, Various Authors (short story collection) *Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand Glass House, Paul Jessup Agony's Lodestone, Laura Keating * Big Swiss, Jen Beagin House of Rot, Danger Slater Dreadful, Rebecca Rozakis *Diavola, Jennifer Thorne Lute, Jennifer Thorne Regrettably, I Am About To Cause Trouble, Amie McNee The Rules Upheld by No One, Amie McNee The Sacrifice, Rin Chupeco The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister The Unmothers, Leslie J. Anderson *The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim Paying for It, Chester Brown Snow, Ronald Malfi Midnight on Beacon Street, Emily Ruth Verona Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker The Doll-Master, Joyce Carol Oates The Third Person, Emma Grove The Werewolf at Dusk, David Small It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth, Zoe Thorogood Mom's Cancer, Brian Fies Mary Astor's Purple Diary, Edward Sorel Impossible People, Julia Wertz Roaming, Jillian Tamaki

#from the bookshelf #a proscenium for our dreams

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chicago-geniza · 2 years ago

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Jelonka's theater criticism was known for its emphasis on movement and gesture and I am certain that Stefania encouraged/nurtured/mentored her in this direction; here is Stef in 1939, describing Ruth Sorel's dance performance. (Jel also picks up Stef's obsession with anaphora, which was a popular rhetorical device during the interwar period, but Stef favored it even more than most. She does it like once per paragraph, e.g., at the end of this one)

Others--mostly MH--have remarked upon the "speechiness" of Stef's writing, how it reads like the text of a lecture to a live audience. This is because 1) often her essays WERE also delivered as lectures, 2) she was passionate about public education and used pedagogical methods on purpose to engage her readers. I want to take a class with her So Bad

#stefania tag #jelonka tag

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shadowsong26fic · 3 years ago

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So, in part to get myself writing Regularly again (instead of in random spurts at Inconvenient Times like The Middle Of The Night or While I’m At Work), I’ve decided to do this OTP prompt list. And because Why Stop At One, I’m doing a few different sets? But limiting myself to one for each fandom/verse. Which are specifically going to be BSG, Star Wars, and my three primary original ‘verses. (While there are others I considered--including saying ‘well different eras in SW are kind of different fandoms’--five is a nice round number, so that’s where we’re headed.)

I already know who (and most of what) I’m doing for BSG; Star Wars I’m either doing Anidala or Obianidala; but for my original stuff I haven’t settled, and so I am seeking Opinions! (Also still seeking opinions on SWBB, but I’m currently leaning towards option 2 there, based on feedback I’ve had so far)

List is below, with additional details (for those of you who are unfamiliar) behind the cut.

Farglass Cycle:

Taz/Dallu

Nolani/Lonura

Sorell/Nida

Kesshare/Ineku(?)

Deshell/Fesha

Lux:

Lux/Mariko

Simon/Ruth

Al/Laura

Tsuna/Evan

Go platonic with the Horsemen

Untitled Intrigues Story:

Sef/Del and Sef/Tahnrin

Larien/Metanrye

Ahnrel/Kamer

The Farglass Cycle is a swords-and-sorcery type more or less traditional fantasy; the time period I mostly write in (and from which all these characters come) is centered around a war between Feredar (and its allies) and a coalition of other nations, the most prominent of which are the City of Glass, Asendar, and the Islands. The magic system is based on elements (water, fire, air, earth, lightning/magnetism, metal, sound, and blood). The level of tech is probably comparable to the 16th century. Feredar is the bad guy here, although the crown princess of Glass probably would be in another version of this story.

Taz/Dallu

Taz Hantree is a Captain from the Islands. Sometimes a pirate, sometimes a legitimate merchant; she smuggles things (and people) in and out of Feredar; one of the main characters. She is also kind of a chaos gremlin (it’s the Pirate Captain in her XD) and also a water-mage.

Dallu is her partner and navigator; he comes from the North, which has a longstanding relationship with the Islands. He’s a lightning-mage, and can therefore read and manipulate weather. Generally a pretty chill dude.

Nolani/Lonura

Nolani is the eldest daughter of the Crown Princess of Glass. She’s very close to her younger siblings, especially her brother. Kind of a Mom Friend at heart; also a hopeless romantic. She has a string of generally brief relationships during her wildfire years, eventually settling with Lonura. Like all members of the Glass royal family, she is a fire-mage.

Lonura is a noble from one of the mountain borders of Glass. She’s a sound-mage, and has been hopelessly in love with Nolani for a while. She tends to be a fairly quiet person, more content with backing people who are in the spotlight than being in the spotlight herself.

Sorell/Nida

Sorell is the King of Feredar when the story opens. He’s generally the lesser of two evils when compared with his eldest son, but when you’re comparing a guy to a genocidal warlord, that’s. Not saying much. In his personal life/with his family, he’s generally a decent man. Very devoted to his wife and children; he came to the throne after his parents and four older brothers were assassinated when he was fifteen.

Nida was initially sent to seduce and marry Sorell by her mother, who is heavily involved in resisting the structural problems that later allow Kellom to do what he does. As is often the case, she falls for her own honey trap, and ends up balking when asked to murder her husband after their fifth child/second son is born.

Kesshare/Ineku

There is a question mark on this one for a reason.

Kesshare is the Crown Princess of Glass (again, would be the villain in another story). She is an extremely self-aware sociopath. She’s incapable of empathy or love, but she’s aware of it and makes sure to compensate in the areas where it matters (with her husband, with her children). She married someone who would make up for that and be a better parent than she’s capable of, and she made it very clear that she would never love him. That being said, their relationship is a close one, and one of the longest and most successful in the story.

Ineku is from a merchant clan, and a non-mage. He’s a doctor by training, and loves Kesshare, knowing full well who and what she is. He spends a lot of time with their children, and is just...a very kind person; also not afraid to tell Kesshare when she’s crossing a line (which, to be fair, is part of what she wants from him, so).

Deshell/Fesha

These two are minor characters, involved with the serial killer sideplot.

Deshell is investigating the murders, and eventually mayor of the Asendar port town he lives in. He and Fesha are the other very long and successful relationship in this canon; while they do have a period where they almost fall apart, but they work through it Like Adults.

Fesha is a nurse, she met Deshell when she was working for her uncle. They have two biological sons and one adopted--a street kid who witnessed one of the serial killer’s murders. Deshell didn’t exactly Ask before bringing the kid home, which Fesha wasn’t thrilled with (the not-asking, not the bringing the kid home). But, again, they worked through their communication issues and had a long and happy relationship after that.

Lux is basically the Apocalypse In SPACE.

Lux/Mariko

Lux is Lucifer. That’s...yep, she’s Lucifer. Currently presenting as female (angels have a different relationship to gender than humans do); she was freed from her prison before she was ready, kicking off the Apocalypse. Did not intend to have Feelings for her human and yet.

Mariko is a human translator; she met Lux when she was working for the human/earth delegation to the Space UN, and fell in love with her there. Things went very far south when Lux located the people who had raised her (the reason she was on the station in the first place) and murdered them; Mariko walked in on this; there was fire involved and Mariko was badly burned; and then they don’t see each other for ten years. Lux came clean when they reunited, and they slowly rebuild their relationship from there.

Simon/Ruth

Simon is immortal. Technically a nephil, though he almost never knows that. His memories get periodically erased by the angels for reasons that made sense at the beginning, but make less and less sense as time goes on. When he met Ruth, he was in a fairly blank state, and had been given the name David Gilboa; he had his name and he was working as a math teacher.

Ruth met Simon, then known as David, when they were set up by a mutual friend. It was a kind of awkward first blind date--a lot of the usual questions get Awkward when the person you’re meeting only has four years’ worth of personal memories--but there was enough of a connection that she agreed to a second. They built a life together, and got married. When he was pulled away/had his memory erased again by the angels, she was pregnant, and had a son. Their relationship is generally pretty sweet and low-key until it’s Tragic (there is an AU where he contacts her again once he remembers her; but in canon he decided it was kinder to her to stay away, rather than risk being pulled away again, especially since she’d had ten years to grieve him at that point).

Al/Laura

Alejandro is the head of the Family, descendants of Simon and Ruth’s son, who keep track of the angels and whatever information they can find about the Apocalypse and their role in it (all the major human characters come from the Family, they know that much). Roughly a thousand years later, there are Many cousins to keep track of, some who barely even really count as related.

Laura is a reporter; she’s not part of the Family. Her father was a diplomat, so when Al read her in on some of the more. Uh. Supernatural aspects of what it is he does, she took it fairly well. They get married, and have a couple kids and grandkids. She’s actually working on a story on the CSP (Space UN) station when Lux sets it on fire. When Al is later abducted by the Horsemen, she more or less bullies an angel into helping her track him down. Not someone to be trifled with.

Tsuna/Evan

Mariko’s parents.

Tsuna is a retired professional ballerina, and now a ballet teacher.

Evan is an accountant.

There’s...not all that much else to say about them, lol. They’re fairly normal. They met when the company he was working for--a toy company--did a benefit featuring the Nutcracker as performed by Tsuna’s ballet company. His long-time best friend and sister in all but blood Cecily worked in marketing at the same company and dragged him along, and they’ve been together ever since.

Go platonic with the Horsemen

Kind of four sisters, kind of three women coparenting a twelve-year-old. All are part of the Family.

Rubika (Death) is in her mid-twenties when they’re activated; she’s the nominal leader of the group. She worked for the Family as a messenger (gathering and distributing news of births/marriages/deaths/etc.) Her mother is a farmer on Charon. It was her idea to kidnap Al.

Shane (Famine) is in her eighties or nineties when they’re activated. She was married once. The marriage ended in divorce when Alex cheated on her. She’s the only one of the Horsemen who met Simon before they were activated, on a couple of different occasions.

Dimana (War) is in her forties when they’re activated, a con artist and professional gambler. She thrives on competition, and has absolutely zero shame about the life she’s chosen to live.

Imi (Pestilence) is about twelve when they’re activated. Her father was part of the Family, but died while her mother was pregnant. She was raised by her mother and grandparents, who hated each other. When her mother died, her grandparents weren’t interested in keeping her, and she was brought (by Rubika) to stay with one of her father’s distant cousins.

Untitled Intrigues Story is a hard-fantasy political intrigues story. Two of the most powerful nations on the map, Elanhe and Nandere, have a history of rivalry, occasionally breaking out into war. Thirty-five/forty years before the story begins, the High Priest at the time brokered an uneasy peace between them. As part of that peace, the sister of the King of Elanhe married the King of Nandere, and the sister of the King of Nandere married the King of Elanhe. While this treaty did more or less stop the open war, it didn’t really do much to ease the tension between the two kingdoms. In the present, the Kings from the original treaty have both died within about six months of each other. Their respective eldest sons, Malue of Nandere and Larien of Elanhe, have inherited. The current High Priest, Jemairin, has sent his children to try and maintain and strengthen the peace before it collapses completely, which is considered Likely without further intervention. His eldest, Ahnrel, is sent as envoy to Nandere; his second, Sefalin, is sent as envoy to Elanhe; and his youngest, Neiali, is sent to track down Larien’s full brother Idan, who befriended Malue when they were children, but disappeared a few years before the story proper opens.

Sef/Del and Sef/Tahnrin

So this isn’t technically an OTP. It’s also not really an OT3. It’s a vee, not a triad, in part because the metamours are, in fact, related.

Sefalin is, as mentioned above, the middle child of the High Priest (priests in this world are allowed to have children but not married; they’re not supposed to have relationships that can compete with their relationships to the church or the gods; and while your kids are always your kids, the time period when that is a Primary relationship is at least in theory by its nature finite, children grow up and have their own lives; not so much with a spouse). He’s fairly good with nuance, but also tends to sort of...get swept along by events, and while he is mindful of his primary mission here, he’s gotten as much involved in helping to balance Elanhe’s internal politics as keeping Larien from escalating things with Nandere.

Landelye is the elder daughter of King Larien. Women in Elanhe are not allowed to inherit titles, but since her father has no sons and his legitimate brother is missing, there’s a chance the rules might be changed for her. She’s serious, and a little devious; she set out to seduce Sefalin to get him on her side, but she found out he was charming and funny and oh no I have a problem. She loves him enough to be willing to share him, which brings us to...

Tahnrin is Larien’s bastard half-brother. He’s the other primary candidate to be declared Larien’s heir in Idan’s absence, and is fighting a war of intrigue with his niece accordingly. He was initially interested in Sef for the same reasons Del is--and fell into the same trap she did.

Sef is very careful to balance his relationships with his lovers; he loves them both, and even if he wanted to choose between them, he’s aware that that would have political as well as personal consequences, and if he help keep them balanced and prevent Elanhe from spiraling into a civil war...well, that can only be a good thing, right?

Larien/Metanrye

Larien is, as mentioned, the King of Elanhe. He’s a subtle and dangerous man; he’s not going to start a war (that would cost him more than it would gain him) but he is damned well going to win it if his cousin of Nandere causes Problems. Probably the only impulsive, non-calculated thing he’s ever done was marry Metanrye, when they were both teenagers. And even that, he weighed the costs and benefits before doing it. He does love her, truly, and while they’ve occasionally engaged in some bedroom diplomacy (not an uncommon practice in Elanhe), he’s extremely loyal to her. They have two daughters, and she can’t have more children; but the idea of divorcing her in hopes of having a legitimate son bothers him more than upending centuries of law and tradition to name either Del or Tahnrin as his heir.

Metanrye is a firmly--almost ruthlessly--practical woman. She loves her husband deeply, and has from the moment they met. She was not expecting him to marry her. Very Elanhean, very used to wielding subtle power in the background, she is completely behind her husband in public, but willing to argue or influence him in private. She’s hoping he’ll name her daughter as his heir, of course, but is staying on the fringes of that contest.

Ahnrel/Kamer

Ahnrel is Jemairin’s oldest, and sent to Nandere. He’s much more straightforward than his brother. He tends to dive into problems and work them out as he goes, and is doing his best to moderate that tendency/wait to act until he has all the information he needs so he can fulfill his half of the deal and maintain the peace. Nanderese politics are--at least on the surface--much more straightforward than what’s going on in Elanhe; Malue is unmarried and has his younger brother for his heir.

Kamer is a palace guard, assigned to guide and protect Ahnrel. Kamer is a fairly rigid person, almost painfully upright and devoted to his duty, which currently is both to Ahnrel and to Nandere, and he’ll protect them both from everything he can. Including his own, increasingly intense feelings for the envoy.

#shadowsong writes original fic #feedback greatly appreciated

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ouuggsreadings · 4 years ago

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VI CAPITA MAI DI GUARDARE LA VOSTRA LIBRERIA E ACCORGERVI TRISTEMENTE DI QUANTE POCHE DONNE CI SIANO? IO Sì, QUINDI ECCOVI UN ELENCO NON RICHIESTO DELLE AUTRICI PRESENTI AL MOMENTO NELLA MIA LIBRERIA (e alcune da quella di mio padre):

Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Il veleno dell’oleandro Susanna Kaysen, La ragazza interrotta Mary Shelley, Frankestein Emily Brontë, Cime Tempestose Louisa May Alcott, Piccole Donne (da leggere) Lisa Hallidey, Asimmetria Karen Blixen, La mia Africa (da leggere); I vendicatori angelici (da leggere); Racconti d’inverno, Capricci del destino Donna Tartt, The Secret History (da leggere); The Goldfinch Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl; Sharp Objects; Khao Nashiki, Un’estate con la Strega dell’Ovest Marguerite Yourcenar, L’opera al nero (da leggere), Mishima o la visione del vuoto (da leggere); Alexis; Pellegrina e straniera; Virginia Woolf, Gita al faro (da leggere); Le onde; Orlando Zeruya Shalev, Quel che resta della vita (da leggere) Harper Lee, Il buio oltre la siepe Isabel Allende, La casa degli spiriti; Eva Luna; Eva Luna racconta; La città delle bestie; La foresta dei pigmei; Il regno del drago d’oro; Paula (da leggere); Inés dell'anima mia (da leggere) Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen; N.P.; Le sorelle Donguri; Ricordi di un vicolo cieco; High&Dry; Honeymoon; A proposito di lei; Sonno Profondo; L’abito di piume; Il corpo sa tutto; Lucertola; Presagio triste; Moshi Moshi; Il lago; Tugumi; Another world; Il giardino segreto; Il dolore, le ombre, la magia; Andromeda Heights Margaret Atwood, The handmaid’s tale Elsa Morante, Lo scialle andaluso (da leggere) Oriana Fallaci, Un uomo (da leggere) Muriel Barbery, L’eleganza del riccio Kristen Roupenian, Cat person Jen Beagin, Facciamo che ero morta Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Donne che corrono con i lupi (da leggere) Chris Kraus, I love Dick; Aliens & Anorexia; Topor Jane Austen, Emma (da leggere); Orgoglio e Pregiudizio Marina Cvetaeva, Scusate l’amore Jane Blocker, Where is Ana Mendieta? (sto leggendo) Majgull Axelesson, La tua vita e la mia Halldóra Thoroddsen, Doppio vetro Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Jean Rhys, Il grande mare dei Sargassi Maria Antonietta, Sette ragazze imperdonabili Sylvia Plath, Diari (da leggere); La campana di vetro; Tutte le poesie Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento (da leggere) Sally Rooney, Normal People; Conversations with friends Irène Némirovsky, I cani e i lupi; La preda Anaïs Nin, Diari 1931-1966 (da leggere) Muriel Spark, Memento Mori Ruth Benedict, Il crisantemo e la spada (da leggere) Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico Famigliare Margaret Mazzantini, Nessuno si salva da solo Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games (la trilogia) Licia Troisi, Le guerre del Mondo Emerso; Le cronache del Mondo Emerso Mary Oliver, Felicity; Devotions; House of Light; Red Bird Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We should all be feminists Djuna Barnes, La foresta della notte (sto leggendo); La passione (da leggere) Colette, Il grano in erba (da leggere); La gatta (da leggere)

Datemi qualche nuovo consiglio amici!

#libri #consigli di libri #donne scrittrici #ouugg's readings

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weirdesplinder · 4 years ago

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Romance con elementi fantasy: il romantasy anni ‘80

Negli anni ‘80 il fantasy conobbe un grande successo, soprattutto in America. Stiamo parlando dell’epoca dei film di Conan per intenderci e in quel periodo elementi fansy si introdussero anche nel genere romance dell’epoca, quello che oggi di solito chiamano ‘bodice rippers’, dove l’eroe è sempre molto alfa e indaffarato in una missione, molto chiuso ed enigamtico e terribilmente muscoloso e virile, e le protagoniste femminili sono invece quasi sempre bellissime, virginali e cadono come pere cotte ai piedi di lui. Più o meno.Il connubio di questi due generi creò un ibrido che oggi considereremmo piuttosto strano e kitsch, che io amo chiamare romantasy.

Il romantasy puro è solo anni ‘80, massimo primi anni ‘90 ed è di solito ambientato in terre mistiche e fatate, vallate nascoste o pianeti misteriosi e vergini, dove la magia permea ogni cosa, i fiori sbocciano tutto l’anno, la natura è rigogliosa, cavalcano gli unicorni e di solito vive da sola e isolata una soave fanciulla stupenda, inconsciamente sensualissima e vergine. A rompere l’idillio di quei luoghi arriva di solito il maschio alfa intento in qualche missione che spesso finirà per creare problemi a quel posto (tipo dare la caccia agli unicorni) e per far fremere per la prima volta la ragazza che non ha mai visto un uomo prima, ma quando lo vede va comunque subito in brodo di giuggiole. Il protagonista maschile rimane leggermente meno spaesato di lei dall’attrazione tra di loro, ma comunque interrompe la missione vitale pur di sondare le acque di lei. Diciamo così.

Vale la pena, vi chiederete voi, di dedicare un post a questo genere così di nicchia, praticamente estinto e parecchio di cattivo gusto a volte?

Secondo me sì, perchè è giusto sapere che questi libri esistono, gli unicorni negli anni passati andavano tanto di moda e comunque leggendoli oggi questi libri in fondo fanno sorridere e possono essere fonte di divertimento con le loro assurde trovate.

Perciò oggi ho deciso di elencarvi qualche titolo di questo genere:

Iniziamo con la Serie Paradise di Johanna Hailey, il cui primo libro fu pubblicato anche in italiano, mentre i due seguiti no:

1. ENCHANTED PARADISE Titolo italiano: PARADISO INCANTATO

https://amzn.to/3nwIZ0F Aurora sapeva di non appartanere al popolo elfico che l'aveva cresciuta, ma era felice di vivere tra le gentili creature della radura. E visse cosi finché non incontrò Frayne e capì che il suo destino era legato a lui. Frayne aveva ben poco tempo per ogni altra cosa che non fosse la ricerca dell'unicorno e della sua magia, ma davanti alla bellezza di Aurora riuscì a trovare il tempo per una pausa.

2. CRYSTAL PARADISE Inedito in Italia

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Trama: Aurora credeva di avere trovato la felicità nelle braccia del suo amato, ma la sua gioia è di breve di durata poichè il suo amante Frayne deve lasciarla per continuare la sua avventura. Stavolta deve trovare la perfetta rosa di cristallo. …

3. BELOVED PARADISE Inedito in Italia

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Trama: Perduta e sola in una terra incantata Aurora cerca la sua vera identità e proprio quando crede di aver perso ogni speranza vede appartire dalle nebbia Frayne….Stavolta la missione del guerriero non è trovare un unicorno o una rosa, ma aiutare la sua amata nella ricerca delle sue origini.

Proseguiamo con la trilogia Swan Maiden di Betina Lindsey, che invece mi risulta inedita in italiano ed è composta dai libri:

1. Swan bride

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Moria è cresciuta nel reame di Myr, dove non esistono uomini, ma un giorno deve infine attraversare il cerchio di pietre che conduce al mondo dei mortali e andare incontro al suo destino...

2. Swan witch

A causa del suo voto di silenzio, Eithene non riesce ad avvertire del pericolo il cavaliere che in cerca della mitica dama del cigno che si suppone possa guarire ogni ferita, entra nel reame di Rath Morna, segnando per sempre il suo destino.

3.Swan Star

La dama del cigno Arrah è prigioniera del guerriero che le ha rubato il mantello magico ed il cuore.

Ritorniamo ai nostri cari unicorni con la Serie unicorn di Claire Delacroix, il cuo primo libro se non sbaglio era stato pubblicato anche in italiano, mentre i due seguiti no.

1. La dama e l'unicorno (Unicorn bride)

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For generazioni le leggende hanno parlato della fortezza di Montsalvat e dei suoi signori. Si dice che i padroni del castello possano trasformarsi in feroci bestie di giorno, e siano umani solo la notte...e ora Alienor de Perpignan è finita in sposa proprio al loro ultimo discendente.

2. Pearl Beyond Price (1995) 3. Unicorn Vengeance (1995)

Altra serie stavolta completamente disponibile in italiano è IL LAGO INCANTATO di Ruth Langan, volume unico che raccoglie i tre romanzi della serie Sorelle Drummond.

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Trama: Scozia, 1559 - 1561. Quando Nola Drummond scompare dalla sua casa insieme alle tre giovani figlie, tra gli abitanti del villaggio prevale la convinzione che per sfuggire alla caccia alle streghe le donne si siano rifugiate in una leggendaria terra nelle Highlands che per lungo tempo è stata la dimora del loro clan: una terra incantata, dove chi possiede dei doni speciali è libero di usarli, lontano dagli sguardi ostili degli scettici. Sono storie fantastiche, antiche credenze popolari a cui Merrick MacAndrew, Grant MacCallum e il tenebroso laird del clan Ross si rifiutano ostinatamente di credere. Finché il destino non li pone di fronte alla necessità di accettare l'impossibile per ritrovare le sorelle Drummond. Perché soltanto Allegra, Kylia e Gwenellen possono restituire loro la felicità.

Concludiamo la carrellata di titoli romantasy con due romanzi autoconclusivi non facenti parte di serie, che però non sono mai stati pubblicati in italiano, almeno che io sappia. Se mi sbaglio fatemelo sapere:

- Summer of the Unicorn di Kay Hooper

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Siri è una sacerdotessa guerriera guardiana di unicorni, Hunter è il cacciatore che è giunto sul suo pianeta per catturare un unicorno. Dovrebbero odiarsi, ma appena si vedono si desiderano e si distraggano talmente tanto che il cattivo della situazione ha vita facile nel rovinare i loro piani.

- Sea treasure di Johanna Hailey

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Quando un capitano di mare viene salvato dalla morte da una sirena, crede di stare sognando. Ma quando si rende conto che lei è reale quanto lui e i due si innmamorano, i problemi non solo non si risolvono, ma si moltiplicano. Spinti verso le coste dei Caraibi i due amanti, provenienti da due mondi lontani, dovranno mettere in gioco la vita per salvare il loro amore.

#Johanna Hailey #kay hooper #marylyle rogers #ruth langan #claire delacroix #Betina Lindsey #libri con unicorni #libri con sirene #libri con magia

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womeninmovieswearinghats · 8 years ago

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Louise Sorel, John Rose and Kathleen Turner in Crimes of Passion (1984)

Direction: Ken Russell

Costumes: Ruth Myers

#movies #hat #louise sorel #john rose #kathleen turner #crimes of passion #ken russell #ruth myers

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thesustainableswap · 5 years ago

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BLM Master Post / Resources

No blog post this week. I felt like this was much more important. Here is a master post of everything I’ve found regarding the BLM movement, from petitions, to where you should donate, to reading, to accounts, to business... hopefully most of what you’re looking for can be found below. If I’ve missed anything vital please let me know and I will add it.

Petitions:

Justice for George Floyd (White House) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (color of Change)

RAISE THE DEGREE - Remove bail for Derek Chauvin, murderer of George Floyd (White House) | Arrest The Other Three (White House) | Raise The Degree (change.org) | The Minneapolis Police Officers to be charged for murder (change.org)

#JusticeforBre (MoveOn.org) | #JusticeforBre (color of Change)

Justice For Ahmaud Arbery (change.org) | Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill (change.org) | Disbarment of George E. Barnhill (change.org)

Trayvon Martin Law (change.org)

Hands Up Act (change.org)

Justice for Belly Mujinga (change.org)

Justice for Tony McDade (change.org)

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez (change.org)

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Julius Jones is innocent (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Kyjuanzi Harris (change.org)

Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery (change.org)

Defund The Police Minneapolis (Every Action / Reclaim The Block) | Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality (change.org) | National Action Against Police Brutality (change.org) | Against Police Brutality in France (change.org)

Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus (BLM) | Coronavirus: Demand More from the Government (BLM)

Get Schools to Speak Up (change.org)

Stand with BLM (organizefor.org)

Organisations to Donate to

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

Campaign Zero

Black Lives Matter

UKBLM

National Bailout Fund

Black Earth Farms

Communities United Against Police Brutality

Unicorn Riot

Louisville Community Bail Fund

Rebuilding the Community (We Love Lake Street)

United Families and Friends Campaign

COVID-19: Supporting BAME Communities

House of GG

Trans Justice Funding Project

The Okra Project

Youth Breakout

SNaPCo

Black AIDS Insitute

Trans Cultural District

LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund

For If You Have Little Money to Spare:

Check out these YouTube videos and play them while you go about your day (or actively watch! Up to you.) The ad revenue will be donated to organisations supporting black lives - but make sure you turn off your adblocker first.

By Zoe Amira

By Francesca Grace

By Cindy Marshall

By Danni and Emmyn

Instagram Accounts (source)

Nova Reid

Layla Saad

Rachel Cargle

Check Your Privilege

Rachel Ricketts

The Great Unlearn

Reni Eddo Lodge

Ibram X. Kendi

Galdem

The Irin Journal

Women Who

For Working Ladies

Thyself

Black Girl Fest

UK isn’t Innocent

Readbyrachelaa

Mikaela Loach

Podcasts

About Race with Remi Eddo-Lodge

Conversations with Nova Reid

iWeigh with Jameela Jamil

The YIKES podcast

Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

The World Wide Tribe

Zero Hour Talks

1619 by the New York Times

TV / Film (source)

13th

When They See Us

Selma

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975

I Am Not Your Negro

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Hate U Give

American Son

Trial by Media

Books: (Source)

How To Be Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Me and White Supremacy by Robin Diangelo and Layla Saad

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Remi Eddo-Lodge

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

America’s Original Sin By Jim Wallis and Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem by Moustafa Bayoumi

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, et al.

An African American and Latin History of The United States by Paul Ortiz

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Mindful of Race by Ruth King

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson

Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Coloraturas of Law by Richard Rothstein

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum

Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

This Book Is Anti Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand

Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch

Children’s Books: (Source)

Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard

My Hair Is A Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh

Young Water Protectors by Aslan Tudor

My Family Divided by Diana Guerrero

We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell

I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer

Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren

When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Happy In Our Skin by Fran Manushkin

Chocolate Milk, Por Favor by Maria Dismondy

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford

When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson & Julie Flett

Shining Star The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo & Lin Wang

Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History by Vashti Harrison

Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

Sulwe by Vashti Harrison

A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara

Intersection Allies by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council & Carolyn Choi

What Is Race? Who Are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions by Clair Heuchan & Nikesh Shukla

Black Owned Businesses: (source)

Wales Bonner

Casely-Hayford

Daughter of a Bohemian

 Daily Paper

Aaks: Basket Bags

Martine Rose

Nubian Skin

Sincerely Nude

Liha Beauty

Beauty Stack

Bouclème: Afro and Curly Hair Products

Afrocenchix: Hair Products

The Afro Hair and Skin Company: shampoo bars, hair masks, face masks

Prick: Cacti and Plantcare

La Basketry: homeware

Bonita Ivie: stationery & design

Reset travel: travel cards and workshops

Bespoke Binny: homeware

New Beacon Books: Specialists in African and Caribbean Literature

Original Flava by Craig & Shaun McAnuff

Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen by Zoe Adjonyoh

Hibiscus by Lopè Ariyo

Ethiopia by Yohanis Gebreyesus

Belly Full by Riaz Phillips

Chika’s Snacks

Berry and Brie Grazing Boxes

Yard Confectionery Chocolate

Cabby’s Rum

Cham Cham Hot Pepper Sauce

Stay strong, and get learning (or unlearning)!

#blacklivesmatter #black lives matter #blm #black lives fucking matter #black lives have always mattered #black lives have value #black lives are human lives #black lives are important #blm resources #blm masterpost #blacklivesmatter resources #black lives matter masterpost #unlearn #solidarity

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advice on snow boots? how bad does the snow get? does one need top class outdoor snow boots like sorel or will winter boots work?

The winters at Smith can get pretty cold and snowy so I would highly recommend bringing snow boots. However, any warm winter boots should do the trick, you don’t need to go out of your way to get any particular brand. I would recommend getting boots that are tall, because the snow here can get pretty deep. I have winter boots that go up to my mid calf and they keep the snow out really well. Generally, most waterproof boots work well for the winters here as long as you have warm, thick socks!

~Ruth ‘19

#SmithCollege #Winter #Cold #Snow #Advice #Anonymous

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giancarlonicoli · 5 years ago

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UN SECOLO NEL TEATRO DELLA VITA – SE NE VA A 100 ANNI GIANRICO TEDESCHI: DIVENNE ATTORE DI TEATRO IN UN LAGER - UNA LUNGHISSIMA CARRIERA INIZIATA CON L’ENRICO IV DI PIRANDELLO NEL CAMPO DI PRIGIONIA DOVE LO AVEVANO SPEDITO I FASCISTI PERCHÉ NON AVEVA ADERITO ALLA REPUBBLICA DI SALÒ. FU LIBERATO DAGLI SCOZZESI CHE ARRIVARONO IN SOTTANA CON LE CORNAMUSE... - HA RECITATO CON TUTTI I GRANDI: DA VISCONTI A STREHLER - IL CAROSELLO DELLE CARAMELLE "SPERLARI" - VIDEO

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(di Paolo Petroni) (ANSA) Aveva festeggiato 100 anni lo scorso 20 aprile, ricevendo gli auguri del presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella: Gianrico Tedeschi, decano del teatro italiano, volto caro al grande pubblico grazie al varietà e alla pubblicità in tv con Carosello, è morto la notte scorsa nella sua casa di Crabbia di Pettenasco, sul lago d'Orta.

Nato a Milano nel 1920, Tedeschi ha trascorso 70 anni in scena - ancora quattro anni fa recitava ''Dipartita finale'' con la regia di Branciaroli - attraversando il Novecento e rappresentandolo nel bene e nel male, grazie alla sua fedeltà a principi etici e civili oltre che artistici, alla sua ironia e soprattutto alla sua umanità.

Diplomato a vent'anni, Tedeschi parte poi per la guerra, sottotenente in Grecia, e dopo l'8 settembre, rifiutandosi di aderire alla Repubblica di Salò, finisce in un lager nazista in Germania dove recita con i compagni di prigionia (da Giovanni Guareschi a Enzo Paci); dopo la Liberazione riesce a entrare in Accademia a Roma e nel 1947 debutta, scelto e diretto da Strehler.

Inizia così una carriera di successo, che lo vede lavorare con registi che vanno da Visconti a Ronconi, passando per Garinei e Giovannini per un celeberrimo ''My fair lady'', come lo porterà a partecipare agli storici sceneggiati tv, a diventare amato personaggio di un Carosello di dolciumi, a essere in radio con Raffaella Carrà, a far cinema con, tra i tanti, Bragaglia, Steno, Dessin e Rossellini.

Recita con Ruggero Ruggeri e Salvo Randone, passando per Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Romolo Valli e tantissimi altri, ma anche Renato Rascel e Domenico Modugno, per arrivare oggi ad avere accanto giovani come Massimo Popolizio, Sergio Rubini o Marina Massironi.

Testimone e protagonista di un secolo quindi, tra vita e teatro, sempre ad essere impegnato dalla parte e nella parte giusta, con grande professionalità, tanto che la sua recitazione curata e sapiente, la sua dizione sempre chiara, la sua vena ironica, sembrano un dono naturale di chi sa sempre cosa deve fare col sorriso sulle labbra.

Così, una delle ultime volte in cui è salito su un palcoscenico a 96 anni, a chi gli chiedeva se non gli costasse fatica, rispondeva: ''Al contrario, la scena dà forza'', e doveva essere sincero se ancora oggi, come diceva la moglie, l'attrice Marianella Laszlo, si capiva che il teatro gli mancava..

Del resto è stata una sua passione fin da ragazzino, quando il padre lo portò a vedere Ermete Zacconi che recitava in ''Spettri'' di Henrik Ibsen e, come ha detto tante volte, rimase colpito dalla forza della verità, dal realismo di ciò cui aveva assistito. Poi era però l'imprevedibilità e la follia di Benassi che lo affascinava, essendo quasi il suo opposto.

Ciò non vuol dire che il teatro non sia anche logorante e ai giovani diceva che se volevano farlo dovevano essere pronti a combattere per realizzare quello in cui credevano, a impegnarsi sempre affrontando tutte le inevitabili fatiche e delusioni. E Tedeschi non si è mai tirato indietro, passando dai classici all'amato Pirandello, da Goldoni a Ionesco, lasciandosi alle spalle il loro valore letterario per viverne e rendere le emozioni dei loro personaggi.

Lui, capace di recitare le sue battute con evidente, serio divertimento, come di mostrare una specie di impassibilità alla Buster Keaton che rende vitalmente disperato quel che dice con le parole e lo sguardo. Con Strehler è passato da ''Arlecchino servitore di due padroni'' (un Pantalone con un pizzico di dolce follia) all'''Opera da tre soldi'' (amplificando, mai sopra le righe, l'ironia di un personaggio come Peachum), poi ''La locandiera'' e ''Tre sorelle'' con Visconti, i lavori di Testori con Ruth Shammah, il Bernhard del ''Riformatore del mondo'' regia di Maccarinelli, sino all'impietoso Oldfiel in ''la compagnia degli uomini buoni'' di Bond con Ronconi, che gli valse l'ultimo premio come miglior attore dell'anno nel 2011, quando aveva 91 anni.

Senza dimenticare un eccezionale ''Cardinal Lambertini" di Testoni che ne dimostra la vitalità e curiosità di artista, quindi pronto assieme a misurarsi anche col varietà e la commedia leggera, capace di cantare e muoversi danzando accanto a Delia Scala in ''My fair lady'' o a Ornella Vanoni in ''Amori miei''. L'importante è non perdere mai la misura, sapere che ''il teatro è un grande gioco, magari tragico'' e conservare quel recitare ''semplice, buttato via, moderno'' che dà il sottotitolo al libro intervista biografico ''Teatro per la vita'', realizzato anni fa con Enrica, una delle sue due figlie.

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