#mrs. pollifax

[girlsandmachines]

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax, 1971

[mrgriffiths]

"𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆?

𝑮𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆.."❤️‍🔥

Thomas Ian Griffith as Jack Farrell in The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax circa 1999.

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[jolenes-book-journey]

Dorothy Gilman Being Remembered at Malice Domestic

News To View After receiving an email from a “Fellow Fan” of Ms. Gilman’s about her prominence in the upcoming Malice Domestic book festival next month I contacted the coordinator for more informaton and confirmation about what is happening. Most of us writers and readers even like to attend these kinds of events to meet authors, attend workshops and to talk about books and story telling. This…

[iklees]

Mrs Pollifax 13-14 / Dorothy Gilman

Mrs Pollifax #13, Mrs Pollifax #14

Twee opeenvolgende boeken, die zich allebei afspelen in het Midden Oosten. In Mrs Pollifax: Innocent Tourist (13) gaat Mrs Pollifax mee met Sebastian Farrell, die in Jordanië contact moet leggen om een manuscript van een oude vriend te bemachtigen. Hij leent Mrs Pollifax van de CIA om de onschuldige aard van zijn bezoek te benadrukken. Helaas is Mrs Pollifax zo'n geweldige "onschuldige toerist" dat iemand in het vliegtuig op weg naar Amman zonder haar medeweten iets in haar bagage stopt om dat het land in te laten smokkelen. Met als gevolg dat Farrell en Mrs Pollifax op een gegeven moment achterna worden gezeten door verschillende partijen die iets in handen willen krijgen. Daarna stuurt Carstairs het tweetal in Mrs Pollifax Unveiled (14) naar Syrië, om een ontvoerde Amerikaanse op te sporen en, zo mogelijk, te redden.

Altijd leuk. Innocent Tourist is een nogal standaardvervolg in de series. Unveiled vond ik interessanter, door de inzichten van Mrs Pollifax in haar ontwikkeling als spion, terugwijzend naar veel van de eerdere boeken.

He stopped, and when he turned to look at her a chance ray of moonlight illuminated his face and she saw that his eyes were glazed with terror. "One mile," he said, and then, "Someone is following us. We are being followed." "How do you know?" she whispered, alarmed. "Listen," he said. She listened but heard nothing. Farrell and Joe, returning to her side to ask why they'd stopped, looked at her questioningly. "He says we're being followed." "Oh God," murmured Farrell. "What does he hear?" Joe whispered to Antun in Arabic. "He says he has heard the snap of trees being cut—off to our right—and he has seen birds fly away—and he knows how to listen." Amanda returned to join them, saying, "What—" "Sssh," whispered Mrs. Pollifax, and in the silence that followed they could hear at some point behind them the snap of a thorn tree branch, and suddenly Mrs. Pollifax realized that she was the eldest member of this group and that, tired as she was, Carstairs had placed her in charge. When Farrell hissed, "We can't stop like this, we've got to make a run for it," she said,"No."

[virgo-mess]

The time has come that @karatekels and I gift you guys the link to all the TIG movies we have been able to find. It will also be routinely updated if we happen to get hold of another one! There's 12 movies on here, and the two part episode of In the Heat of the Night TIG guest starred on as the hunky carnie Luke Potter 🥵! The Secret of Giving was curtosey of whichever lovely person posted the link for it during Christmas. I wasn't able to find your account again, but if you see this, thank you, and I hope you don't mind. We put it in this folder. And once again, thank you to whoever shared Beyond Forgiveness with me ages ago 🩵🩵🩵. I hope you guys enjoy it, and I'll be sure to notify you if a new movie has been added 💜

Movie List-

Excessive Force

Black Friday aka The Kidnapping

Rock Hudson

The Secret of Giving

The Heat of the Night two part episode

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

KK3

Ulterior Motives aka Kill Fee

Vampires

Black Point

Hallow Point

Beyond Forgiveness aka Blood of the Innocent

Kull the Conqueror

High Adventure

Seawolf aka The Pirate's Curse

Crackerjack

Avalanche aka Escape from Alaska

Timecop 2

Final Encounter/ For the Cause

Behind Enemy Lines

A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle

[snkrfnd]

How about older?

Mrs. Pollifax

A widow in her 60s becomes a spy, fulfilling a life-long dream of hers. Expect hijinks.

There are over a dozen Mrs. Pollifax spy novels written by Dorothy Gilman from 1966-2000. This is for all the people bored by their restrictive roles placed on them by family or community.

need more stories centered around a middle-aged female protagonist that isn't centered around the idea of motherhood

[karatekels]

Time for MORE VOTING!

If we choose to watch a second movie today (in addition to Hollow Point), which one would you like to see the most?

Avalanche (snow, soft fluffy TIG being adorable with a puppy)

The Secret of Giving (Christmas TIG being adorable with Reba McEntire)

(No gif, but check out that HAT)

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (TIG being adorable with Angela Lansbury)

(Seriously, if we go with either of the last two, we NEED to make gifs because the well runneth dry)

[violsva]

October Reading

I've been having trouble sitting down to actually write this. It's almost as if I'm under a lot of stress right now. I wonder what uncontrollable near-future political event that could be about.

Recent: I reread a horror novel at the start of the month which will become evident after Trick or Treat author reveals.

Finished How To by Randall Munroe and Unmarriages by Ruth Mazo Karras. Also Biggles Buries a Hatchet, all basically good, discussed in last post.

Got a lot of knitting done while reading M. R. James on The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts, which was perhaps not the M. R. James I would expect to read in October, but nonfiction is easier right now. It's very affected by being written immediately post-WWI.

On which note, just now finished The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K. J. Charles, right under the wire before it has to go back to the library. Enjoyed it and also very much appreciate the list of referenced Victorian ghost stories in the Acknowledgements.

Also lots of Kinktober.

Current: Still skimming through Painting Nature in Watercolour with Cathy Johnson, whose style I like. Writing style, I mean, but also the watercolors.

I read a third of The Silvered by Tanya Huff and liked it enough to put it on hold again even though my ability to focus on new long fiction isn't really there.

Rereading Steadfast by Mercedes Lackey. Mrs. Pollifax is still continuing slowly.

Have I made any progress on the paper books I have out from the library? No.

Oh, I skimmed the beginning of The Blue Castle recently because I had a fic idea, and I will need to read some Victorian medievalism to get a voice for that.

Future: The Halcyon Fairy Book by T. Kingfisher will probably come in soon. I also want to find another nonfiction book to read at North York Central library to distract from jobsearching. I have a giant list of options, which doesn't necessarily help.

Otherwise not sure whether I will be fine reading normally or want lots of comfort reading. I am looking forward to starting a long RWRB historical AU.

[healerqueen]

I responded to the booklist question! I'm sure I forgot some but whew it still took forever to write.

What about you? What are some of the books youve read the most?

Good question! I finally started keeping a list, so I have something to work from. That way I won't draw a blank.

My top five or six favorite authors and series are: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis's Narnia books, Rosemary Sutcliff's Dolphin Ring series (beginning with Eagle of the Ninth), Enemy Brothers and The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery the Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, and The Mysterious Benedict Society (original trilogy and prequel) by Trenton Lee Stewart.

There are many other books and authors I love. I listed several of my childhood influences in this post featuring my 50 favorite children's books (focusing on ones I grew up with as a young person).

Here's my list of favorite books I've read the most or ones I think are worth rereading: The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye (a delightful original fairytale about a princess who refuses to stay in her tower)

The Reluctant Godfather by Allison Tebo (romantic comedy fairytale retelling, with an emphasis on the comedy) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (adventure about a mother mouse seeking to save her family) The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (middle grade fantasy adventure)

Dragon Slippers and Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George (original fantasy in the style of fairytales) Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (fantasy adventure and coming-of-age story about a group of girls who attend school for the first time)

The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart (urban light fantasy with dystopian elements) The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (middle-grade, post-apocalyptic dystopian) The Arrival by Shaun Tan (a wordless graphic novel that conveys human experiences through surrealism)

The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (vintage contemporary about a lively family) Derwood, Inc. by Jeri Massi (modern contemporary mystery about another boisterous family) The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (quirky vintage mystery with an interesting cast of characters) Historical Fiction: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham Caddie Woodlawn, Family Grandstand, and other books by Carol Ryrie Brink Rebecca's War by Ann Finlayson Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Knight's Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Lost Baron by Allen French The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman A Single Shard and Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park The Bronze Bow and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Secret Garden and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell A few books I discovered more recently that are now all-time favorites: Seventh City by Emily Hayse, The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt, Valiant by Sarah McGuire, Out of the Tomb by Ashley Stangl, the Mistmantle Chronicles by M. I. McAllister, Escape to Vindor by Emily Golus, Chase the Legend by Hannah Kaye, The Key to the Chains by Allison Tebo (sci-fi), Rebel Wave by Tor Thibeaux (undersea dystopian) Historical fiction: Listening for Lions and Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan, Courage in Her Hands by Iris Noble, Victory at Valmy and Word to Caesar by Geoffrey Trease, historical fiction Westerns and mysteries by author Elisabeth Grace Foley

Mystery/suspense: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman, The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart

[bourtange]

the only other one i remember is i read the first mrs. pollifax book, which is a series my mom liked about a sweet old widow who secretly works as a spy, and i drew a life-sized (?) mask with her face and hat using pastels on some kind of stiff project board or something and used it as a mask, and when i was riding the bus home from school that day an old man with an electric voice box pointed at the mask and said ＳＨＥ ＬＯＯＫＳ ＬＩＫＥ ＭＹ ＳＩＳＴＥＲ

book project

thought i posted this here but i couldn't find it so apologies if this is a repeat. my eighth grade english teacher had us do "book projects", which were book reports except instead of writing a report we would do a creative project to talk about the book (you could never do the same type of project twice—do a diorama once, you can never do one again). one time i read michael crichton's "the andromeda strain" and since i was a huge fan of both weird al and the b-52's, and we had a scanner, a color printer, and rudimentary photo editing software at home, i rewrote the lyrics to every song on the b-52's' 1989 hit album "cosmic thing" to instead be about aspects of the novel and printed up new liner notes and even a fake "cd" out of paper. the album was renamed "toxic thing" and iirc i renamed the b-52's "the b4-it's-2-late". if i ever dig it up in my closet or something i'll post it

[film-classics]

Rosalind Russell - The Miracle Woman

Catherine Rosalind Russell (born in Waterbury, Connecticut on June 4, 1907) was an American actress known for playing sassy, wisecracking women in 1930s and '40s comedies. Despite going through postpartum depression, the deaths of her siblings, breast cancer, and rheumatoid arthritis, she thrived as a charismatic actress on film and the stage, earning the nickname "The Miracle Woman.”

Raised in a strict Irish-American, Catholic family. She attended  Rosemont College and Marymount College, before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, unbeknownst to her parents who believed she was studying to be a speech teacher.

Against parental objections, she began her career as a fashion model and took acting jobs in upstate New York, Connecticut, and Boston before eventually appearing in Broadway.

In 1933, Russell went to Los Angeles, where she was hired as a contract player for Universal Studios but did not appear in a movie. Unhappy at Universal, she moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she broke through in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by Howard Hawks.

She took a break after giving birth from her career, but made a comeback with RKO Pictures and then with Columbia Pictures. She continued to appear in critically acclaimed movies and Broadway shows through the mid-1960s, including the title role of the long-running stage comedy Auntie Mame (based on a Patrick Dennis novel) as well as the 1958 film version.

After years of battling breast cancer and even getting a double mastectomy, she died at her home in Beverly Hills, California at 69 years of age. Months after her death, she was honored by her acting colleagues with the “Interlude With Rosalind Russell” at the Shubert Theater in Broadway.

Legacy:

Nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in My Sister Eileen (1942), Sister Kenny (1946), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), and Auntie Mame (1958)

Won all five of her Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nominations: Sister Kenny (1946), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), Auntie Mame (1958), A Majority of One (1961), and Gypsy (1962)

Won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Wonderful Town and was nominated for the 1957 for Best Actress in a Play for Auntie Mame

Nominated for the 1959 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress

Won the Golden Apple Award in 1942 for Most Cooperative Actress

Awarded the Look Magazine Award for Film Achievement Award in 1947

Covered Time magazine in 1953

Was the namesake of the Rosalind Russell State Theater in her hometown in 1955

Wrote the story for the film The Unguarded Moment (1956) and adapted the novel, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, into the screenplay for Mrs. Pollifax-Spy in 1971, under the pen name C.A. McKnight

Won the Golden Laurel for Top Female Comedy Performance for Auntie Mame (1958) and was nominated five more times

Presented with a medallion by the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1962

Honored for her distinguished service by the UCLA in 1964

Named the Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a student society at Harvard University, in 1964

Is the recipient of the Floyd B. Odlum Award by the Arthritis Foundation in 1971

Appointed by Congress to serve on the National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases during the 1970s

Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1972

Appeared in John Springer's "Legendary Ladies" series at The Town Hall in 1973

Awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973 by the Academy for her extensive charity work

Presented her with the National Artist Award in 1974 by the American National Theater and Academy

Awarded the Life Achievement Award in 1975 by the Screen Actors Guild Awards

Hosted by First Lady Betty Ford at the White House in 1976

Honored with the Rosalind Russell Week in 1977 by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley

Co-authored her autobiography, Life Is a Banquet, in 1977

Is the namesake of the Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis  at the University of California, San Francisco, created by a Congress grant in 1979

Inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2005

Ranked #28 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006 for His Girl Friday (1940)

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for July 2008

Inducted in the Online Film and Television Association Film Hall of Fame in 2014

Was the subject of a 2016 exhibit at the Mattatuck Museum in her hometown

Honored by the Berlin Film Festival‘s 27-movie tribute in 2022

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the 1700 block of Vine Street for motion picture

[wuxiaphoenix]

On Characters: Make Them Work For It

There’s an interesting conundrum when you consider cultivation fantasies. True, a lot of them are about people abusing power Because They Can. (Completely against the ideals of most martial arts teachings, where learning is supposed to make you a better person because you know how much damage you can do if you aren’t.) And yet, cultivation stories have an element that should be dragged back into more fantastic fiction: a great and powerful character has to work for it.

Yes, some people may be “born special” if the talent for cultivation is rare. (Depends on the setting.) You still have to put in the work to actually learn. Train. Overcome obstacles. Outwit your opponents!

This is also an element that comes up in Hakuouki, along with the blood-drinking, oni, politics, and swordplay. There’s a point in one of the final fight scenes of the first season, Shinsengumi Vice-Commander Hijikata Toshizou versus oni Kazama Chikage, where our Shinsengumi gets a heartfelt rant about everyone, oni and samurai, considering them fakes. “It doesn't matter if I'm a fake. I'll become the real thing if I fight my way through.”

This is, BTW, historically accurate. Most of the Shinsengumi, including Hijikata (the son of a medicine seller!), weren’t samurai at all. They came by their sword skills by hook or by crook, and earned their reputation for deadly ferocity. And now you know one of the reasons they’re so popular in fiction.

Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise is another story that gets this in. Not only do Hiroto and his friends need to learn to fight for real, it’s explicit that your Gunpla is “built” off the results from your scanned model. So you not only have to be a good gamer and tactician, you need to be a good crafter as well. A transforming mecha that uses pieces from several other Gunplas and can still fight - and fights well - is a masterwork.

The Mrs. Pollifax series has her survive her first mission as a spy only because of long experience dealing with people in ordinary life; she learns more spycraft as she goes. By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey follows a character from inexperienced teen to mercenary commander. In P.M. Griffin’s Star Commandos books, Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor and her people have to learn the dangers of each new planet with a problem, and rise to the occasion by adapting everything they already know.

I grant you writing stories where characters build their skills over time can be tricky. Plotwise you have to make it reasonable that they can survive with imperfect skills (or none!) to start. Meta, it can be hard to figure out how characters would learn - and fail, and recover - when we may never have the chance to gain anything like their skills ourselves. After all, if anyone’s got a trade school for empathic healing or starship piloting, I haven’t heard of it!

But if you can pull it off... this is the kind of story that sticks with a reader. Go for it!

[bisexualbaker]

OP, it's not exactly what you're looking for, but can I recommend you investigate "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax"?

An action movie that the studios are too cowardly to make:

An ex-spy in her sixties gets her grandchildren kidnapped. She pairs up with an eager but unexperienced himbo and they hit most of the beats of your average action-comedy. She still knows the less-physical parts of being a spy by heart, and is a master of intentionally being underestimated or unnoticed. Especially now that her enemies, and all movie studios, completely ignore women her age. She shares a tender moment with the himbo, possibly giving her a backrub after a fight, which in most films would lead to sex, but she reacts in disgust to the idea sleeping with someone young enough to be her grandson. The film ends with the family having dinner together, with himbo sidekick joining in as an honorary grandson.

I've been picturing someone who used to be in action films but now just looks like a badass old lady, like Sigourney Weaver. In mom jeans and a sweater.

[jolenes-book-journey]

Enjoying the New Year and Staying Warm

I hope everyone had an enjoyable New Year and is staying warm out there. It seems we are all being chilled by Mother Nature around the northern hemisphere here lately which, naturally, spreads the flu and COVID around even more. We have had that and more going through our household these past few weeks. Today is sunny and cold so the cats are sitting in the windows enjoying a snooze and I am…

[iklees]

Mrs Pollifax 7-8 / Dorothy Gilman

Mrs Pollifax #7, #8

In Mrs Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (#7)moet Mrs Pollifax gaan kijken wat er aan de hand is met het CIA contact in Hong Kong -- informatie die haar kennis Sheng Ti (zie Mrs Pollifax at the China Station, #6) zou kunnen verschaffen. Mrs Pollifax merkt al snel dat er dingen niet kloppen, maar in wat voor wespennest ze is beland, weet ze pas als het haar bijna haar leven kost. De gebeurtenissen in Hong Kong waren zo heftig, dat ze toch even aarzelt bij haar volgende opdracht, in Mrs Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (#8).

Cyrus, regarding Bishop steadily, said, "Not sure that Emily—after the Hong Kong misadventure—ought to tackle anything for you so soon. Just getting over it, you know. This trip—pure holiday—is actually to—" Bishop's face sobered as he turned to Mrs. Pollifax. "Still nightmares?" She shook her head. "Not now, no." She smiled. "Cyrus recommended some wonderful therapy for me, I've been taking lessons in magic from a retired magician." Bishop whistled. "Good heavens! Karate, yoga and now magic… Have you sawed anyone in half yet?" She grinned. "No, but I'm growing rather clever at palming coins." He nodded. "Okay, you no longer have nightmares and you can palm coins but how is your back?" "Healing." Bishop looked at Cyrus and then at her and shook his head. "I must be losing my grip but I suddenly realize I can't push this Chiang Mai errand no matter how uncomplicated it is. The Department can be quite ruthless, you know, but damn it I can't. If you're still recovering from Hong Kong I'll cease and desist and leave quietly." Mrs. Pollifax considered this thoughtfully. "On the other hand," she said softly, and hesitated. "On the other hand don't they say that when a person has fallen off a horse the best prescription is to climb back on the horse at once? If it's just a small errand—" Cyrus said, "It wasn't a horse you fell off, Emily." "No," she admitted, "but—is that all? Just collect a small package?"

Allebei deze boeken heb ik eerder gelezen -- in het Nederlands -- en nooit herlezen omdat ik me kon herinneren dat ik één ervan erg akelig vond, maar niet meer wist welke van de twee. Het moet deel 7 (Hong Kong) zijn geweest. Wat Mrs Pollifax meemaakt is wel ernstiger en gevaarlijker dan in de andere boeken, maar het had op mij nu niet meer zo'n sterk effect. Misschien omdat ik er nu niet door verrast werd?

[thelonelyrainbowguy]

2025 READING

GOAL: 100

❗ read before

⁉️ partially read before

❓ never read before

⭐ hated it, stay away

⭐⭐ I'm only mildly pissed I wasted my time on this

⭐⭐⭐ not my thing, but it's okay

⭐⭐⭐⭐ enjoyed it a lot, not many complaints

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ spectacular, immaculate vibes, I will talk about this book to any and everyone

Currently reading:

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Gefährliche Liebe (Catching Fire; German translation audiobook) - Suzanne Collins ❓

Doctor Sleep - Stephen King ❗

Unfollow - Megan Phelps Roper ❓

Read:

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Last Sin Eater - Francine Rivers ❗⭐⭐

Pretties - Scott Westerfeld ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dust - Hugh Howey ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Specials - Scott Westerfeld ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Gunslinger - Stephen King ❗

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands - Chris Bohjalian ❓⭐⭐⭐

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir ⁉️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Feed - Mira Grant ⁉️⭐⭐⭐⭐

So You Want To Be A Wizard - Diane Duane ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bearskin - James A McLaughlin ❓⭐⭐⭐

The German Girl - Armando Lucas Correa ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Deadline - Mira Grant ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Kira-Kira - Cynthia Kadohata ❗ ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bookshops & Bonedust - Trevor Baldree ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Elfstones of Shannara - Terry Brooks ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Foxhole Court - Nora Sakavic ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare ❗⭐⭐⭐

The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King ❗⭐⭐⭐

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer ❗⭐⭐⭐

Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer ❓⭐⭐⭐

Eragon - Christopher Paolini ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman ❗⭐⭐⭐

An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear - Seanan McGuire ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - VE Schwab ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane - Suzanne Collins❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Eldest - Christopher Paolini ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Memorial Days - Geraldine Brooks ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

New Moon - Stephenie Meyer ❗⭐⭐

Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle ❓⭐⭐⭐

Things I'll Never Say - Cassandra Newbould ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer ❗⭐⭐⭐

Brisingr - Christopher Paolini ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Spiderwick Chronicles 1-5 - Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

The 100 - Kass Morgan ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer ❗⭐⭐⭐

Inheritance - Christopher Paolini ❓ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Murtagh - Christopher Paolini ❓⭐⭐

The Magicians - Lev Grossman ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Magician King - Lev Grossman ❓⭐⭐⭐

Redwall - Brian Jacques ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Stillhouse Lake - Rachel Caine ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Killman Creek - Rachel Caine ⁉️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

When We Had Summer - Jennifer Castle ❓⭐⭐⭐

The Magician's Land - Lev Grossman ❓⭐⭐⭐

Mossflower - Brian Jacques ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Brain On Fire - Susannah Cahalan ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Call Down The Hawk - Maggie Stiefvater ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mister Impossible - Maggie Stiefvater ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

This Is Me Trying - Raquel Marie ❓⭐⭐⭐

Greywaren - Maggie Stiefvater ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sunrise on the Reaping (again) - Suzanne Collins ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Going Clear - Lawrence Wright ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Cell - Stephen King ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

It - Stephen King ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wolfhunter River - Rachel Caine ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tödliche Spiele (The Hunger Games; German translation audiobook) - Suzanne Collins ⁉️