#Frank Gogol

[theladyofwutheringheights]

Same energy…

[akutasoda]

hii!! It’s me!!! I just witnessed a bird get stuck in a glass cage with an opening..walk out..then walk back in- 😭

anyway! Reader who is literally the most pessimistic (idk if that’s the right word-) person ever and is like ‘ew. Love. No thanks.’ But then will stare at Bsd men with the biggest heart eyes? And if they get caught their just like..‘I got distracted’ with the most longing voice ever?

-🌀Anon !!

you're seeing things!

synopsis - you always thought love was overrated but now you think you're just in denial

includes - dazai, akutagawa, nikolai, ayatsuji

warnings - gn!reader, fluff, pining, unresolved feelings, wc - 819

a/n: hiii anon hope your well!

osamu dazai ★↷

↪ you and dazai were quite the opposite people. for know personality's atleast. he often spent time flirting with women and the idea of love repulsed you. but despite that you got along very well.

↪it actually lead to dazai occasionally teasing you about your dramatic adversions to love but with some deep rooted curiosity about why the idea sounded so bad to you. perhaps something to do with not feeling worthy or simply not seeking that relationship with someone.

↪and yet it still came as a shock to you when you would catch yourself zoning out while looking at dazai with the biggest lovestruck smile on your face. you would shake yourself out of your trance to continue doing whatever while thinking what had gotten over you.

↪but you found yourself doing it more often much to your dismay and shock. which eventually lead to dazai catching you , he let it slip a few times figuring you were just thinking about something and completely blanked the real world. but after a few times he eventually asked you about what you were doing just to be caught of guard when you sighed and said that you had gotten distracted with the most longing voice he had ever heard.

↪oh boy he couldn't wait to tease you about this when you eventually found yourself figuring out what had gotten over you and realising what this meant.

ryunosuke akutagawa ★↷

↪quite the surprise came when it was discovered that you and akutagawa had built quite the close bond. but there was something about you two that just naturally drew you together.

↪perhaps it was like seeing the same attitude in different fonts. he had a hatred for a few things and quite the angry temper and you had a hatred for the idea of falling in love. but either way you both seemed to click and one time he admitted that you weren't that bad to be around.

↪however the idea of love that repulsed you deeply seemed to be creeping up on you. sometimes your gaze would drift to him whenever he was around or you simply would stare at him with awe struck eyes that felt like if they were in a cartoon hearts would be flying off them.

↪every time you caught yourself doing this you couldn't help but quickly snap out of it trying to figure out what was happening. and akutagawa became quite aware of your gaze often seeing you out of the corner of his eye staring at him. now he was quite blunt so everytime he asked you what was wrong, and every time was met with the same answer of you got distracted.

↪was it just him or did every time you say that siund more longing than the last? unfortunately neither of you seemed to bs good at figuring out feelings, but one of you better soon or someone else would intervene.

nikolai gogol ★↷

↪hanging around nikolai was always a wild ride. and to be frank, you always seemed to make his behaviour worse. you were quite the duo it has to be said. and he found your attitude toward love quite interesting and found your reactions to the subject entertaining.

↪often would tease you about if when you two were out and about and he saw some random couple. sometimes you did want to punch him.

↪but after hanging around the clown for so long and forming quite the close bond, eventually started catching yourself staring longing at him. the idea seemed outlandish at first, surely it was just unlucky that every time you zone out it's staring at him (and thinking of him).

↪he had caught you multiple times and had teased you about it each time but didn't miss the hints of longing in your voice. and the heartfilled look that he would catch upon your face.

↪how interesting to him that this whole persona was quite the two edged sword.

yukito ayatsuji ★↷

↪being a coworker a personal close friend of tsujimura, often meant you would accomplany her in her monitoring of ayatsuji. that was until you realised that the two of you had quite similar interests and naturally got along.

↪so you simply had became a genuine friend of his, much to tsujimura's shock. he found your little persona of finding love disgusting quite entertaining whenever the subject was brought up and he couldn't help but want to try and understand it from your perspective. and he could see it.

↪however whenever you two hung around each other he would sometimes catch you staring at him with, quite frankly, the biggest heart eyes he could ever imagine. now, he let it slip a few times before asking you about it.

↪you answer came short and sweet, that you were distracted. he could tell that there was something going on but he respected how you would handle it and never pryed any further.

[ddarker-dreams]

☾ book recommendations: *✲⋆.

my all time favorites:

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

frankenstein by mary shelly

the plague by albert camus

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

others that i'd recommend:

break the body, haunt the bones by micah dean hicks

tomie by junji ito

uzumaki by junji ito

berserk by kento miura

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

i have no mouth, and i must scream by harlan ellison

the tell-tale heart by edgar allen poe

the cask of amontillado by edgar allen poe

rebecca by daphne du maurier

wuthering heights by emily brontë

dune by frank herbert

a shadow over innsmouth by h. p. lovecraft

the color out of space by h. p. lovecraft

the dunwich horror by h. p. lovecraft

crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky

demons by fyodor dostoevsky

the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky

jane eyre by charlotte brontë

animal farm by george orwell

do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k. dick

a long fatal love chase by louisa may alcott

the stranger by albert camus

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the trial by franz kafka

dragonwyck by anya seton

discipline and punish by michel foucalt

the castle of otranto by horace walpole

faust by johann wolfgang von goethe

the fall by albert camus

the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde by robert louis stevenson

blood meridian by cormac mccarthy (do look into the content warnings though, there's heavy violence/depictions of 1840s-1850s racism)

the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy

the dead by james joyce

the overcoat by nikolai gogol

dead souls by nikolai gogol

hiroshima by john hersey

useful fictions: evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature by michael austin

no exit by jean paule satre

candide by voltaire

white nights by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from a dead house by fyodor dostoevsky

the shock doctrine by naomi klein

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia Di Musica #323 - Devotchka, A Mad & Faithfull Telling, 2008

Il mese di Aprile ha visto come protagonisti dei dischi sulla cui copertina ci sono una o più mani (l’avevate capito, lo so). Aggiungo che sono dischi di musica indipendente degli anni 2000, definizione che accompagna lavori prodotti e distribuiti da piccole etichette musicali che non fanno parte di grandi agglomerati di industria multimediale. È stato un viaggio che mi ha fatto scoprire molte band che conoscevo poco o non conoscevo affatto, ed è sempre una bellissima esperienza lo scoprire. Concludiamo questo percorso con una band che si forma a Denver, verso la fine degli anni ’90, con due caratteristiche peculiari: suonano un punk gitano ricchissimo di richiami alla cultura gipsy europea (e non solo), l’altro è la scelta del nome. Si chiamano infatti DeVotchKa, traslitterazione nel nostro alfabeto di девочка, che in russo vuol dire ragazza. La band è formata da ottimi polistrumentisti: Nick Urata, che canta e suona il theremin, la chitarra, il bouzouki, spesso il pianoforte e occasionalmente anche la tromba; Tom Hagerman suona il violino e la fisarmonica; Jeanie Schroder, cantante e suonatrice di bassotuba, contrabbasso e flauto; chiude il gruppo Shawn King, percussioni e spesso tromba aggiunta. Iniziano come band di accompagnamento agli spettacoli di burlesque della regina del genere, Dita Von Theese. Grazie alla crescente notorietà di Dita, girano quasi tutti gli Stati Uniti, divenendo uno dei punti forti dello show. Durante le serate, vendono dei dischi autoprodotti: nel 2004 una loro canzone, How It Ends, entra a far parte della colonna sonora del bel film Ogni Cosa è Illuminata (film tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Jonathan Safran Foer diretto da Liev Schreiber con Elijah Wood e Eugene Hütz, frontman dei Gogol Bordello che furono il gruppo apripista del genere punk gypsy). Dopo una applauditissima performance al Festival di Bonnaroo del 2006, iniziano ad essere richiesti anche oltre il circuito underground. Una mano gliela dà anche Win Butler degli Arcade Fire: propone loro di fare un Ep di Cover, tra cui The Last Beat Of My Heart di Siouxsie And The Banshees, Somethin' Stupid di Frank e Nancy Sinatra e addirittura Venus In Furs dei Velvet Underground, Ep che si chiama Curse Your Little Heart. Questo disco verrà notato da Jonathan Dayton e Valerie Faris che chiamano i DeVotchKa a scrivere la colonna sonora del loro film, Little Miss Sunshine, lavoro per cui ricevono persino una nomination ai Grammy 2006 come Miglior Colonna Sonora originale. È la svolta finale.

Nel 2008 esce il disco di oggi, A Mad & Faithful Telling: prodotto dalla band con Craig Schumacher (che ha lavorato con i Calexico, Giant Sand, Amos Lee tra gli altri) è un po’ il riassunto del loro modo di fare musica. Una musica divertente e divertita, che mischia folk, tradizioni gitane, Sudamerica e Europa, con ganci pop davvero notevoli. Ai quattro si aggiunge una corposa sezione fiati e di archi e un piccolo coro. Basso Profundo è un viaggio nella musica balcanica che qualche anno prima è esplosa nell’ambito world (con i film di Kusturica e la musica di Goran Bregović) dall’andamento baldanzoso e ritmico. C’è la musica mariachi in Along The Way, soprattutto nei fiati. L’intro da carillon di The Clockwise Witness è preludio ad un grande brano, dalle ondeggianti parti musicali, un piccolo gioiello dove la voce di Urata fa la sua bella figura. Head Honcho e Undone (dalla bellissima chitarra che sa di musiche ispaniche) sanno di omaggio agli spaghetti western, e potrebbero fare da colonna sonora a qualche scena dei film di Quentin Tarantino. Translitterator è il brano più pop, anche qui con un intro da musica di orchestrina giocattolo, una musica che fa pensare ai circhi, ai teatri delle marionette. Ci sono due splendidi strumentali: Comrade Z, che unisce i fiati mariachi con i ritmi gitani e Strizzalo, divertente parodia di un valzer italiano, da sagra di paese, con la fisarmonica, il basso tuba e dei romantici violini (spesso hanno usato l’italiano per le loro composizioni, uno dei loro primi dischi si chiama Una Volta). New World, una malinconica ballata moderna, chiude il disco, e fu usata in una puntata della serie Tv Weeds. Il disco è viaggio musicale tra circhi di frontiera, feste messicane, passeggiate in città dell’Europa dell’Est e paesaggi italiani. Sarà in top ten della Heatseekers di Billboard e diventerà il loro più grande successo. Successo che li porterà a suonare pure in Europa, addirittura come apertura dei concerti di grandi band, come i Muse.

Pubblicheranno nel 2009 la colonna sonora del film I Love You Phillip Morris (black comedy con Jim Carrey e Ewan McGregor) e altri dischi, l'ultimo del 2018 This Night Falls Forever, continuando nel frattempo a portare in giro la loro musica scanzonata, potenzialmente irresistibile anche per la cura e le qualità musicali dei musicisti.

[deysialfher]

Os 100 livros para ler antes de morrer

Os livros lidos estão riscados!

A arte da guerra (Sun Tzu)

Hamlet (william Shakespeare)

O banquete  (Platão)

A divina comédia - Inferno (são 3 livros) (Dante Alighieri)

O processo de Kafka (Kafka)

O morro dos ventos uivantes (Emilly Bronte)

O pequeno príncipe (Antoine de Saint – Exupéry)

Orgulho e preconceito (Jane Austen)

O princípe (Nicolau Maquiavel)

A Odisseia (Homero)

O vermelho e o negro (Stendhal)

O velho e o mar (Ernest Hemingwai)

Homem invisível (Ralph Ellison)

Dom Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

1984  (George Orwell)

Crime e castigo (Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky)

A Ilíada (Homero)

Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

A montanha mágica (Thomas Mann)

Cem anos de solidão (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Otelo (William Shakespeare)

Ulysses (James Joyce)

Guerra e Paz (Leo Tolstoy)

As viagens de Gulliver (Jonathan Swift)

O nome da rosa (Umberto Eco)

Alice no País das maravilhas (Lewis Carroll)

Vinte mil léguas submarinas (Julio Verne)

Leviatã (Thomas Hobbes)

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Armas, germes e aço: os destinos das sociedades humanas (Jared Diamond)

O diário de Anne Frank (Anne Frank)

O conto da aia (Margaret Atwood)

O iluminado (Stephen King)

O sol é para todos (Harper Lee)

A revolução dos bichos (George Orwell)

A flecha de Deus (Chinua Achebe)

Utopia (Thomas More)

Gargantua (François Rabelais)

Pantagruel (François Rabelais)

Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (José Saramago)

Édipo Rei (Sófocles)

Os miseráveis (Victor Hugo)

Os Lusíadas (Luis de Camões)

Os três mosquiteiros (Alexandre Dumas)

Decamerão  (Giovanni Boccaccio)

As mil e uma noites (Sem autor)

Amor no tempo do cólera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A epopeia de Gilgamesh (Sem autor)

O livro do Desassossego (Fernando Pessoa)

Livro de jó (Bíblia Sagrada)

O retrato de Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Ismael: um romance da condição humana (Daniel Quinn)

Medeia (Euripides)

Robinson Crusoé (Daniel Defoe)

Contos de Andersen (Hans Christian Andersen)

Conde de Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

O mundo de Sofia (Jostein Gaarder)

A condição humana (Hannah Arendt)

Laranja mecânica (Anthony Burgess)

O elogio da loucura (Erasmo de Roterdã)

A sangue frio (Truman Capote)

Ardill 22 (Joseph Heller)

Adeus às armas (Ernest Hemingway)

Admirável mundo novo (Aldous Huxley)

Todos os Contos (Edgar Allan Poe)

A morte de Ivan Ilyuich (Leo Tolstoy)

Mahabharata (sem autor)

Contos de Canterbury (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Os irmãos Karamazov (Fyodor M Dostoyevsky)

Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)

A consciência de Zeno (Italo Svero)

Amada (Toni Morrison)

Os filhos da meia-noite (Salman Rushdie)

O tambor (Gunter Grass)

O idiota (Fyodor M Dostoyevsky)

As metamorfoses (Ovídio)

O som da montanha (Yasunari Kawabata)

Ensaios (Michel de Montaigne)

Senhor das moscas (William Golding)

As vinhas da Ira (John Steinbeck)

O grande Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

O jogo da amarelinha (Julio Cortázar)

O estrangeiro (Albert Camus)

Memórias de Adriano (Marguerite Yourcenar)

O lobo da Estepe (Herman Hesse)

O apanhador no campo de Centeio (J. D. Salinger)

Rumo o farol (Virginia Woolf)

O castelo (Franz Kafka)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

O som e a fúria (William Faulkner)

O homem sem qualidades (Robert Musil)

As aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Almas mortas (Nikolai Gogol)

Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo)

Folhas de relva (Walt Whitman)

Viagem ao fim da noite (Louis Ferdinand Celine)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Eneida         (Virgílio)

Em busca do tempo perdido (7 livros) (Marcel Proust)

[hornyforpoetry]

Winter Reading Challenge

Every season I like to give myself a challenge to read. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to finish almost any of the ones I had in the autumn challenge (I'm not a procrastinator, I swear, I just have very little free time). This time, I tried to include in the list books from several fields, from prose to poetry, philosophy, theater and theater theory, biographies. There are many Russian authors in this list, it seems to me that they fit very well with the cold season. Let's hope that this time I will stick to reading more. Wish me luck!

From December 1st - February 29th (European calendar)

Leo Tolstoy – ”Childhood. Boyhood. Youth”

Leo Tolstoy – ”War and Peace”

Fyodor Dostoevsky – ”The Double” (1846)

Fyodor Dostoevsky – ”Demons”

Ivan Turghenev – ”Rudin”

Nikolai Leskov – ”Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and other short stories”

Anton Chekhov – ”Novellas and novelettes by Anton Chekhov”

Nikolai Gogol – ”Dead Souls”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – ”One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”

Mikhail Bulgakov – ”The Master and Margarita”

Maxim Gorky – ”Mother”

Vladimir Nabokov – ”Lolita”

Marguerite Yourcenar - "A Coin in Nine Hands"

Marguerite Yourcenar - "A Blue Tale"

‌Franz Kafka - "The Metamorphosis and other stories"

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"

John Edwards Williams - "Stoner"

Ovid - "Metamorphoses"

Dante Aligheri - "The Divine Comedy - Inferno"

Giovanni Papini - "Gog"

Plato - "Phaedo"

Aristotel - "Metaphysics "

Marcus Aurelius - "Meditations: Thoughts to Myself"

Immanuel Kant - "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Article Talk "

Niccolo Machiavelli - "The Prince"

Emil Cioran - "The Trouble With Being Born"

Peter Brook - "The Empty Space"

Jerzy Grotowski - "The Poor Theatre"

Antonin Artaud - "The Theatre and its Double"

Martin Esslin - "The Theatre of Absurd"

Salvador Dalí - "Diary of a Genius"

Vaslav Nijinsky - "The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition"

August Strindberg - "The Ghost Sonata"

William Shakespeare - "Titus Andronicus"

William Shakespeare - "Coriolanus"

Maxim Gorky - "The Lower Depths"

Racine - "Britannicus"

Goethe - "Gotz von Berlichingen"

Frank Wedekind - "The Spring Awakening"

Aeschylus - "The Oresteia" (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)

[doukeshi-kun]

I also kinda didn't like the ending. It felt kinda rushed and off. I also agree some characters were wasted and i see nikolai and fyodor in a different perspective.

Also in manga, fyodor was more confident (like when dazai nearly made him drown. In anime he looked like he was cornered and anxious but in manga he was furious.) And in the last episode he looked totally defeated and (sorry but) kinda pathetic which i didn't expect. Like they just killed him like that. (I actually don't believe he died) and i know they will pull 'he actually didn't die' card on me ✋ but it feels wrong

idk if i'm still on copium but i kinda don't believe fyodor's dead just like that but idfk anymore dude.. imagine following his scheme since like fuckin 5 years ago and when we see his end, it's just a crash. and, even if he DOES survive or alive, the "they actually don't die" has been used A LOT OF TIMES with sooo many characters that it won't feel impactful anymore, atleast to me. i feel like if fyodor ever pull that card, i'd be like "okay, what's new? dazai did that". it just feels wrong.

and honestly, idk about nikolai anymore man. i wish, something better. this is just vague and this is most likely the last time we will see nikolai. if the manga decides to follow the anime's ending, it will definitely be his last appearance because there's nothing more for him to offer as a character (other than cunt probably). to be very very frank too, this makes me feel like shit with all nikolai fics i have done because now i feel like i was not writing about bsd nikolai gogol and i'm about to disappear from this app but i don't know man i feel ill and i feel like my stomach is churning so badly and i feel like i have been divorced, widowed and forgotten all in one day like i have a kid to feed bro like

[sidicecheilibri]

I libri nominati da Rory Gilmore

1 – 1984, George Orwell

2 – Le Avventure di Huckelberry Finn, Mark Twain

3 – Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carrol

4 – Le Fantastiche Avventure di Kavalier e Clay, Michael Chabon

5 – Una Tragedia Americana, Theodore Dreiser

6 – Le Ceneri di Angela, Frank McCourt

7 – Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoj

8 – Il Diario di Anna Frank

9 – La Guerra Archidamica, Donald Kagan

10 – L’Arte del Romanzo, Henry James

11 – L’Arte della Guerra, Sun Tzu

12 – Mentre Morivo, William Faulkner

13 – Espiazione, Ian McEvan

14 – Autobiografia di un Volto, Lucy Grealy

15 – Il Risveglio, Kate Chopin

16 – Babe, Dick King-Smith

17 – Contrattacco. La Guerra non Dichiarata Contro le Donne, Susan Faludi

18 – Balzac e la Piccola Sarta Cinese, Dai Sijie

19 – Bel Canto, Anne Pachett

20 – La Campana di Vetro, Sylvia Plath

21 – Amatissima, Toni Morrison

22 – Beowulf: una Nuova Traduzione, Seamus Heaney

23 – La Bhagavad Gita

24 – Il Piccolo Villaggio dei Sopravvissuti, Peter Duffy

25 – Bitch Rules. Consigli di Comune Buonsenso per donne Fuori dal Comune, Elizabeth Wurtzel

26 – Un Fulmine a Ciel Sereno ed altri Saggi, Mary McCarthy

27 – Il Mondo Nuovo, Adolf Huxley

28 – Brick Lane, Monica Ali

29 – Brigadoon, Alan Jay Lerner

30 – Candido, Voltaire

31 – I Racconti di Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer

32 – Carrie, Stephen King

33 – Catch-22, Joseph Heller

34 – Il Giovane Holden, J.D.Salinger

35 – La Tela di Carlotta, E.B.White

36 – Quelle Due, Lillian Hellman

37 – Christine, Stephen King

38 – Il Canto di Natale, Charles Dickens

39 – Arancia Meccanica, Anthony Burgess

40 – Il Codice dei Wooster, P.G.Wodehouse

41 – The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty

42 – La Commedia degli Errori, William Shakespeare

43 – Novelle, Dawn Powell

44 – Tutte le Poesie, Anne Sexton

45 – Racconti, Dorothy Parker

46 – Una Banda di Idioti, John Kennedy Toole

47 – Il03 al 09/03 Conte di Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas

48 – La Cugina Bette, Honore de Balzac

49 – Delitto e Castigo, Fedor Dostoevskij

50 – Il Petalo Cremisi e il Bianco, Michel Faber

51 – Il Crogiuolo, Arthur Miller

52 – Cujo, Stephen King

53 – Il Curioso Caso del Cane Ucciso a Mezzanotte, Mark Haddon

54 – La Figlia della Fortuna, Isabel Allende

55 – David e Lisa, Dr.Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56 – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

57 – Il Codice Da Vinci, Dan Brown

58 – Le Anime Morte, Nikolaj Gogol

59 – I Demoni, Fedor Dostoevskij

60 – Morte di un Commesso Viaggiatore, Arthur Miller

61 – Deenie, Judy Blume

62 – La Città Bianca e il Diavolo, Erik Larson

63 – The Dirt. Confessioni della Band più Oltraggiosa del Rock, Tommy Lee – Vince Neil – Mick Mars – Nikki Sixx

64 – La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri

65 – I Sublimi Segreti delle Ya-Ya Sisters, Rebecca Wells

66 – Don Chischiotte, Miguel de Cervantes

67 – A Spasso con Daisy, Alfred Uhvr

68 – Dr. Jeckill e Mr.Hide, Robert Louis Stevenson

69 – Tutti i Racconti e le Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

70 – Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook

71 – Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

72 – Lettere, Mark Dunn

73 – Eloise, Kay Thompson

74 – Emily The Strange, Roger Reger

75 – Emma, Jane Austen

76 – Il Declino dell’Impero Whiting, Richard Russo

77 – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective, Donald J.Sobol

78 – Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

79 – Etica, Spinoza

80 – Europe Through the back door, 2003, Rick Steves

81 – Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

82 – Ogni cosa è Illuminata, Jonathan Safran Foer

83 – Stravaganza, Gary Krist

84 – Farhenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

85 – Farhenheit 9/11, Michael Moore

86 – La Caduta dell’Impero di Atene, Donald Kagan

87 – Fat Land, il Paese dei Ciccioni, Greg Critser

88 – Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas, Hunter S.Thompson

89 – La Compagnia dell’Anello, J.R.R.Tolkien

90 – Il Violinista sul Tetto, Joseph Stein

91 – Le Cinque Persone che Incontri in Cielo, Mitch Albom

92 – Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce

93 – Fletch, Gregory McDonald

94 – Fiori per Algernon, Daniel Keyes

95 – La Fortezza della Solitudine, Jonathan Lethem

96 – La Fonte Meravigliosa, Ayn Rand

97 – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

98 – Franny e Zooeey, J.D.Salinger

99 – Quel Pazzo Venerdì, Mary Rodgers

100 – Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut

101 – Questioni di Genere, Judith Butler

102 – George W.Bushism: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President, Jacob Weisberg

103 – Gidget, Fredrick Kohner

104 – Ragazze Interrotte, Susanna Kaysen

105 – The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

106 – Il Padrino, Parte I, Mario Puzo

107 – Il Dio delle Piccole Cose, Arundhati Roy

108 – La Storia dei Tre Orsi, Alvin Granowsky

109 – Via Col Vento, Margaret Mitchell

110 – Il Buon Soldato, Ford Maddox Ford

111 – Il Gospel secondo Judy Bloom

112 – Il Laureato, Charles Webb

113 – Furore, John Steinbeck

114 – Il Grande Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald

115 – Grandi Speranze, Charles Dickens

116 – Il Gruppo, Mary McCarthy

117 – Amleto, William Shakespeare

118 – Harry Potter e il Calice di Fuoco, J.K.Rowling

119 – Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale, J.K.Rowling

120 – L’Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio, Dave Eggers

121 – Cuore di Tenebra, Joseph Conrad

122 – Helter Skelter: La vera storia del Caso Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi e Curt Gentry

123 – Enrico IV, Parte Prima, William Shakespeare

124 – Enrico IV, Parte Seconda, William Shakespeare

125 – Enrico V, William Shakespeare

126 – Alta Fedeltà, Nick Hornby

127 – La Storia del Declino e della Caduta dell’Impero Romano, Edward Gibbon

128 – Holidays on Ice: Storie, David Sedaris

129 – The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton

130 – La Casa di Sabbia e Nebbia, Andre Dubus III

131 – La Casa degli Spiriti, Isabel Allende

132 – Come Respirare Sott’acqua, Julie Orringer

133 – Come il Grinch Rubò il Natale, Dr.Seuss

134 – How the Light Gets In, M.J.Hyland

135 – Urlo, Allen Ginsberg

136 – Il Gobbo di Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

137 – Iliade, Omero

138 – Sono con la Band, Pamela des Barres

139 – A Sangue Freddo, Truman Capote

140 – Inferno, Dante

141 – …e l’Uomo Creò Satana, Jerome Lawrence e Robert E.Lee

142 – Ironweed, William J.Kennedy

143 – It takes a Village, Hilary Clinton

144 – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

145 – Il Circolo della Fortuna e della Felicità, Amy tan

146 – Giulio Cesare, William Shakespeare

147 – Il Celebre Ranocchio Saltatore della Contea di Calaveras, Mark Twain

148 – La Giungla, Upton Sinclair

149 – Just a Couple of Days, Tony Vigorito

150 – The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander

151 – Kitchen Confidential: Avventure Gastronomiche a New York, Anthony Bourdain

152 – Il Cacciatore di Aquiloni, Khaled Hosseini

153 – L’amante di Lady Chatterley, D.H.Lawrence

154 – L’Ultimo Impero: Saggi 1992-2000, Gore Vidal

155 – Foglie d’Erba, Walt Whitman

156 – La Leggenda di Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield

157 – Meno di Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

158 – Lettere a un Giovane Poeta, Rainer Maria Rilke

159 – Balle! E tutti i Ballisti che Ce Le Stanno Raccontando, Al Franken

160 – Vita di Pi, Yann Martell

161 – La piccola Dorrit, Charles Dickens

162 – The little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway

163 – La piccola fiammiferaia, Hans Christian Andersen

164 – Piccole Donne, Louisa May Alcott

165 – Living History, Hilary Clinton

166 – Il signore delle Mosche, William Golding

167 – La Lotteria, ed altre storie, Shirley Jackson

168 – Amabili Resti, Alice Sebold

169 – Love Story, Eric Segal

170 – Macbeth, William Shakespeare

171 – Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

172 – The Manticore, Robertson Davies

173 – Marathon Man, William Goldman

174 – Il Maestro e Margherita, Michail Bulgakov

175 – Memorie di una figlia per bene, Simone de Beauvoir

176 – Memorie del Generale W.T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman

177 – L’uomo più divertente del mondo, David Sedaris

178 – The meaning of Consuelo, Judith Ortiz Cofer

179 – Mencken’s Chrestomathy, H.R. Mencken

180 – Le Allegre Comari di Windsor, William Shakespeare

181 – La Metamorfosi, Franz Kafka

182 – Middlesex, Jeoffrey Eugenides

183 – Anna dei Miracoli, William Gibson

184 – Moby Dick, Hermann Melville

185 – The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, Jim Irvin

186 – Moliere: la biografia, Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187 – A monetary history of the United States, Milton Friedman

188 – Monsieur Proust, Celeste Albaret

189 – A Month of Sundays: searching for the spirit and my sister, Julie Mars

190 – Festa Mobile, Ernest Hemingway

191 – Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

192 – Gli ammutinati del Bounty, Charles Nordhoff e James Norman Hall

193 – My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Seymour M.Hersh

194 – My Life as Author and Editor, H.R.Mencken

195 – My life in orange: growing up with the guru, Tim Guest

196 – Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978, Myra Waldo

197 – La custode di mia sorella, Jodi Picoult

198 – Il Nudo e il Morto, Norman Mailer

199 – Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco

200 – The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

201 – Il Diario di una Tata, Emma McLaughlin

202 – Nervous System: Or, Losing my Mind in Literature, Jan Lars Jensen

203 – Nuove Poesie, Emily Dickinson

204 – The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay

205 – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

206 – Notte, Elie Wiesel

207 – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

208 – The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, William E.Cain, Laurie A.Finke, Barbara E.Johnson, John P.McGowan

209 – Racconti 1930-1942, Dawn Powell

210 – Taccuino di un Vecchio Porco, Charles Bukowski

211 – Uomini e Topi, John Steinbeck

212 – Old School, Tobias Wolff

213 – Sulla Strada, Jack Kerouac

214 – Qualcuno Volò sul Nido del Cuculo, Ken Kesey

215 – Cent’Anni di Solitudine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216 – The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Amy Tan

217 – La Notte dell’Oracolo, Paul Auster

218 – L’Ultimo degli Uomini, Margaret Atwood

219 – Otello, William Shakespeare

220 – Il Nostro Comune Amico, Charles Dickens

221 – The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan

222 – La Mia Africa, Karen Blixen

223 – The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

224 – Passaggio in India, E.M.Forster

225 – The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Donald Kagan

226 – Noi Siamo Infinito, Stephen Chbosky

227 – Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

228 – Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

229 – Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington

230 – Le Avventure di Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi

231 – Please Kill Me: Il Punk nelle Parole dei Suoi Protagonisti, Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain

232 – Una Vita da Lettore, Nick Hornby

233 – The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker

234 – The Portable Nietzche, Fredrich Nietzche

235 – The Price of Loyalty: George W.Bush, the White House, and the Education on Paul O’Neil, Ron Suskind

236 – Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Jane Austen

237 – Property, Valerie Martin

238 – Pushkin, La Biografia, T.J.Binyon

239 – Pigmallione, G.B.Shaw

240 – Quattrocento, James Mckean

241 – A Quiet Storm, Rachel Howzell Hall

242 – Rapunzel, I Fratelli Grimm

243 – Il Corvo ed Altre Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

244 – Il Filo del Rasoio, W.Somerset Maugham

245 – Leggere Lolita a Teheran, Azar Nafisi

246 – Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

247 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin

248 – The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

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Annie's 2023 books

also links to goodreads and my newly-created storygraph !

The Chimes by Charles Dickens; 4/5 stars

The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens; 4/5 stars

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; 5/5 stars

Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore; 5/5 stars

The Color Purple by Alice Walker; 5/5 stars

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz; 4/5 stars

Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5) by James S.A. Corey; 4.5/5 stars

Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse #6) by James S.A. Corey; 3.5/5 stars

The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, 4/5 stars

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, 5/5 stars

Children of Dune (Dune #3) by Frank Herbert; 5/5 stars

Out by Natsuo Kirino; 3/5 stars

Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood; 4/5 stars

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick; 3/5 stars

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland; 3/5 stars

Doctor Who: Choose the Future: Terror Moon by Trevor Baxendale; 2/5 stars

Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter; 4.5/5 stars

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty; 3.5/5 stars

There There by Tommy Orange; 5/5 stars

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd; 4/5 stars

Torto Arado by Itamar Vieira Junior; 4/5 stars

All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter; 4/5 stars

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; 5/5 stars

Doom Patrol Vol. 5: Magic Bus by Grant Morrison; 5/5 stars

Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky; 4/5 stars

Doom Patrol Vol. 6: Planet Love by Grant Morrison; 4/5 stars

Doom Force #1 by Grant Morrison; 3/5 stars

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy; 4/5 stars

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; 3.5/5 stars

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; 5/5 stars

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; 4/5 stars

Collected Short Stories by Heinrich Böll; 4/5 stars

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi; 4/5 stars

The Viy by Nikolai Gogol; 4/5 stars

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; 3/5 stars

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan; 5/5 stars

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid; 2/5 stars

Persepolis Rising (The Expanse #7) by James S.A. Corey; 3/5 stars

Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos; 4/5 stars

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett; 3/5 stars

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) by Rick Riordan; 5/5 stars

[renatarenatah]

Eu li todos livros que Rory leu!

Por acaso, eu leio muito rápido e terminei esses livros por dias e semanas. Amei esses livros! Rory é estudiosa, tem boas escolhas para ler.

Listona com os 339 livros que Rory leu em ‘Gilmore Girls’:

1. 1 984 – George Orwell

2. As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

3. Alice no País das Maravilhas – Lewis Carroll

4. As Incríveis Aventuras de Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

5. Uma Tragédia Americana – Theodore Dreiser

6. As Cinzas de Ângela – Frank McCourt

7. Anna Karenina – Leon Tolstoy

8. O Diário de Anne Frank – Anne Frank

9. The Archidamian War – Donald Kagan

10. A Arte da Ficção – Henry James

11. A Arte da Guerra – Sun Tzu

12. Enquanto Agonizo – William Faulkner

13. Reparação – Ian McEwan

14. Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy

15. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

16. Babe – Dick King-Smith

17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women – Susan Faludi

18. Balzac e a Costureirinha Chinesa – Dai Sijie

19. Bel Canto – Ann Patchett

20. A Redoma de Vidro – Sylvia Plath

21. Amada – Toni Morrison

22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation – Seamus Heaney

23. Bagavadguitá

24. Os Irmãos Bielski – Peter Duffy

25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel

26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays – Mary McCarthy

27. Admirável Mundo Novo – Aldous Huxley

28. Um Lugar Chamado Brick Lane – Monica Ali

29. Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner

30. Cândido – Voltaire

31. Os Cantos de Cantuária – Chaucer

32. Carrie, A Estranha – Stephen King

33. Ardil 22 – Joseph Heller

34. O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio – J. D. Salinger

35. A Teia de Charlotte – E. B. White

36. The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman

37. Christine – Stephen King

38. Um Conto de Natal – Charles Dickens

39. Laranja Mecânica – Anthony Burgess

40. The Code of the Woosters – P.G. Wodehouse

41. The Collected Stories – Eudora Welty

42. A Comédia dos Erros – William Shakespeare

43. Complete Novels – Dawn Powell

44. The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton

45. Complete Stories – Dorothy Parker

46. Uma Confraria de Tolos – John Kennedy Toole

47. O Conde de Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

48. A Vingança de Bette – Honoré de Balzac

49. Crime e Castigo – Fiodor Dostoievski

50. Pétala Escarlate, Flor Branca – Michel Faber

51. As Bruxas de Salém – Arthur Miller

52. Cão Raivoso – Stephen King

53. O Estranho Caso do Cão Morto – Mark Haddon

54. Filha da Fortuna – Isabel Allende

55. David e Lisa – Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

57. O Código da Vinci – Dan Brown

58. Almas Mortas – Nikolai Gogol

59. Os Demônios – Fiodor Dostoievski

60. A Morte de Um Caixeiro-Viajante – Arthur Miller

61. Deenie – Judy Blume

62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America – Erik Larson

63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars e Nikki Sixx

64. A Divina Comédia – Dante Alighieri

65. Divinos Segredos – Rebecca Wells

66. Dom Quixote de La Mancha – Miguel Cervantes

67. Conduzindo Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry

68. O Médico e o Monstro – Robert Louis Stevenson

69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe

70. Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook

71. O Teste do Ácido do Refresco Elétrico – Tom Wolfe

72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters – Mark Dunn

73. Eloise – Kay Thompson

74. Emily, the Strange: Os Dias Perdidos – Roger Reger

75. Emma – Jane Austen

76. Empire Falls – Richard Russo

77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective – Donald J. Sobol

78. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

79. Ética – Spinoza

80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 – Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna – Isabel Allende

82. Tudo se Ilumina – Jonathan Safran Foer

83. Extravagance – Gary Krist

84. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

85. Fahrenheit 9/11 – Michael Moore

86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan

87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser

88. Medo e Delírio em Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

89. A Sociedade do Anel – J. R. R. Tolkien

90. Um Violinista no Telhado – Joseph Stein

91. As Cinco Pessoas que Você Encontra no Céu – Mitch Albom

92. Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce

93. Fletch Venceu – Gregory McDonald

94. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

95. The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathan Lethem

96. A Nascente – Ayn Rand

97. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

98. Franny e Zooey – J. D. Salinger

99. Sexta-Feira Muito Louca – Mary Rodgers

100. Galápagos – Kurt Vonnegut

101. Gender Trouble – Judith Butler

102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President – Jacob Weisberg

103. Gidget – Frederick Kohner

104. Garota, Interrompida – Susanna Kaysen

105. Os Evangelhos Gnósticos – Elaine Pagels

106. O Poderoso Chefão: Livro 1 – Mario Puzo

107. O Deus das Pequenas Coisas – Arundhati Roy

108. Cachinhos Dourados e os Três Ursos – Alvin Granowsky

109. E o Vento Levou – Margaret Mitchell

110. O Bom Soldado – Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom – Judy Bloom

112. A Primeira Noite de um Homem – Charles Webb

113. As Vinhas da Ira – John Steinbeck

114. O Grande Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

115. Grandes Esperanças – Charles Dickens

116. O Grupo – Mary McCarthy

117. Hamlet – William Shakespeare

118. Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo – J. K. Rowling

119. Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal – J. K. Rowling

120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers

121. O Coração das Trevas – Joseph Conrad

122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders – Vincent Bugliosi e Curt Gentry

123. Henry IV, parte I – William Shakespeare

124. Henry IV, parte II – William Shakespeare

125. Henry V – William Shakespeare

126. Alta Fidelidade – Nick Hornby

127. A História do Declínio e Queda do Império Romano – Edward Gibbon

128. Holidays on Ice: Stories – David Sedaris

129. The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton

130. Casa de Areia e Névoa – Andre Dubus III

131. A Casa dos Espíritos – Isabel Allende

132. Como Respirar Debaixo D’Água – Julie Orringer

133. Como o Grinch Roubou o Natal – Dr. Seuss

134. How the Light Gets In – M. J. Hyland

135. Uivo – Allen Ginsberg

136. O Corcunda de Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

137. A Ilíada – Homero

138. Confissões de uma Groupie: I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres

139. A Sangue Frio – Truman Capote

140. Inferno – Dante Alighieri

141. O Vento Será tua Herança – Jerome Lawrence e Robert E. Lee

142. Ironweed – William J. Kennedy

143. It Takes a Village – Hillary Rodham Clinton

144. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

145. O Clube da Sorte da Alegria – Amy Tan

146. Júlio César – William Shakespeare

147. A Célebre Rã Saltadora do Condado de Cavaleras – Mark Twain

148. A Selva – Upton Sinclair

149. Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito

150. Os Últimos Dias dos Romanov – Robert Alexander

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almost every song Sara Quin has recommended

A Playlist

AFI

A Flock Of Seagulls- I Ran

Again Me!- Boyfriend

AHOHNI- Drone Bomb Me

Alex Lahey- You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me

Allison Crutchfield- Dean’s Room

Allison Weiss- Runaway

All Of This- Perera Elsewhere

ALMA- Chasing Heights

Alvvays

Alycia Keys- Try Sleeping with A Broken Heart

Ani DiFranco

Annie Lennox

An Horse

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion  

Bangles

ASTR- Operate

Atari Teenage Riot

A Tribe Called Red- R.E.D

Austra- I Love You More Than You Love Yourself Babes in Toyland

Bancks- Gemini Feed

Baths

Baybee- Jay Som

Beach House- Sparks, Lemon Glow

Bebe Rexha- Meant to Be

Bec Sandridge- In the Fog, in the Flame

Ben Folds

Betty Who- You Can Cry Tomorrow

Beyonce- Lemonade

Bikini Kill

Billy Idol- Mony Mony 

Bleached- Wednesday Night Melody, Can You Deal?, Flipside

Bleachers- Don’t Take The Money

BLK- My Hood - Stormzy

Blood Orange- You're Not Good Enough, It Is What It Is 

Bob Marley

Body- Julia Jacklin 

Bone thugs and Harmony

Bon Jovi- wanted dead or alive, you give love a bad name 

Bowie

Britta Phillips- Mistress America

Broken Social Scene- Hug of Thunder, Almost Crimes Bruce Springsteen- Im on Fire, Dancing in the Dark, The River, Live 1975-85 (this particular version https://youtu.be/gg3DleXrT-o) Bryan Adams

Bjork- I've seen it all 

Buck 65- Square Two

Cake

Carrie Brownstein

Caribou- Can’t Do Without You

Cassie- Me & U

Chairlift- Romeo

Charli XCX- Track 10

Charlotte Day Wilson- Work

Chloe x Halle0 Drop

Christine and The Queens- iT, Saint Claude 

Chris Walla

CHVRCHES

Classixx- Borderline

City and Colour

Cold Specks

Collide- Krasnoyarsk

Corey Hart- Sunglasses At Night

Couer de Pirate

Cyndi Lauper- The Goonies Are Good Enough, Time After Time

Cypress Hill

Dallas Green

Death Cab for Cutie 

Debbie Wiseman- Wolf Hall

DEDE- Faultline (Single Edit)

Deradoorian- A Beautiful Woman

DIANA- Confession, Perpetual Surrender

Dinosaur Jr

DJDS- Trees On Fire

Dolly Parton

Doveman

Drake- No Tellin Dream- Love/Hate

Diana- Perpetual Surrender

Electrelane - Rock It to the Moon, no shouts no calls

Empress Of- How Do You DO It

Emylia Argan

Erasure

Eugene Francis Jnr

Everything but the Girl

Fatima Al Qadiri- Hip Hop Spa, Szechuan

Feist- Pleasure album

Fever Ray- Mustn’t Hurry

First Aid Kit

FKA Twigs- Good To Love

Four Tet

Francis and the Lights- May I Have This Dance

Frankie Cosmos- Sinister, Accommodation 

Frank Ocean Thinking About You

Friends- I'm His Girl 

FUN Fugazi

Future Islands- Ran

George Hill

Gilligan Moss- It Felt Right

Girlpool- Chinatown

Glass Animals

Gogol Bordello 

Gossip

Green Day

Grimes- Flesh Without Blood

Grizzly Bear

HAIM- Want You Back

Halsey- Now Or Never

HANA

Hank Williams

Hannah Georgas- Don’t Go, Needed Me

Hayley Kiyoko- Girls Like Girls

Hole

Holly Miranda

Hot Hot Heat

IDER- Face On

Jack Johnson

James Ilha

Jamie xx- Girl

Japanese Breakfast- Machinist

Jeremih- Pass Dat

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 

John Hopkins- I remember

Johnny Cash

Joni Mitchell

John Hopkins- Abandon Window, I remember

Jonathan Coulton

Justin Bieber- Purpose, Runaway Love Justin Timberlake-  FutureSex/LoveSounds Kaki King

Kate Bush

Katy Perry- Chained To The Rhythm

Kathryn Bostic- Love Theme

Kelela- Rewind- Sporting Life Remix

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - The Exchange Session, Vol. 2

Kelly Lee Owens- Birds

K.Flay- Black Wave

Kid Cudi- The Commander

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - The Exchange Session, Vol. 2

Kimya Dawson- So Nice So Smart

Kinnie Starr

Korn

KraftWork

KT Tunstall- Hard Girls

Kygo- It Ain’t Me (with Selena Gomez)

Kylie Minogue

Lapsley- Hurt Me

LCD Soundsystem- Tonite

Leonard Cohen- Came So Far For Beauty

Leo Kalyan- Fucked Up

Led Zeppelin

Light Asylum- Shallow Tears

Lily Allen 

Lorde- Green Light

Lou Reed- Satellite of Love

Lowell

Lower Dens- To Die in LA, Real Thing

Lucius- My Heart Got Caught On Your Sleeve 

Lupa J- Numb

Neil Young

New Found Glory

New Kids on the Block

New Order

New Skin- Torres

No Shouts No Calls

Nick Jonas- Jealous

Nicolas Jaar- No

Night Terrors

Nirvana

Noname 

Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes

Now Now

Madonna- Holiday

Majid Jordan (ft Drake)- My Love

Mapei- Don’t Wait

Mariah Carey

Matthew Dear

Melissa Etheridge

Mica Levi- Death

Michelle Branch- Hopeless Romantic

Mike Elizondo

Milli Vanilli - Blame It On the Rain

Miriam Culter- Ethel Main Title

Mitski

Montaigne- Because I Love You

Moonriser- I’m Not Something Special

Moses Sumney- Doomed

Mother Mother

MUNA- Winterbreak, I Know A Place, About You album

Mykki Blanco- Loner

My Bloody Valentine

My Midnight Heart

My So Called Life

Paramore- After Laughter, Told You So

Passion Pit

Paul Williams

Peaches

Porches- Anymore, Be Apart

Partner Band- In Search of Lost Time

Patsy Cline

Pattern Against User 

Perera Elsewhere- All of This

Perfume Genius- Slip Away

Phantogram- Answer 

Pheonix- J-Boy

Phil Collins- Groovy Kind of Love

Post Pavillon

Prince- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, Little Red  Corvette

PWR BTTM- I Wanna Boi

Q Tip

Rachel Cantu

Rachel Portman- Vianne Sets Up Shop

Ra Ra Riot

RAY BLK- My Hood

REM- Sweetness

Ria Mae- Ooh Love

Richard Marx- Right here waiting

Rihanna- Russian Roulette, Umbrella, Higher, Love On The Brain

Robyn- Do it Again, Love is free (moon boots remix) 

Rolling Stones

Röysksopp- Something in my Heart

Rufus Wainwright

Ruth B- If This is Love Ryan Adams

Santigold

Samphaaa- Process Album 

Sample- Blood on Me

Shamir- If It Wasn’t True 

Sharon Van Etten- Everytime The Sun Comes Up

Serena Ryder- Electric Love

Shondells

Shura- What’s It Gonna Be?

Simple Minds- All The Things She Said

Sinead O’Connor

Siya- Automatic

Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream

Snailmail- Thinning

SNAP!- Rhythm Is A Dancer - 7” Edit

SOHN- Hard Liquor

Solange- Mad

Spoon- They Way We Get By

Speak

Steel Train

Stereogum

Stevie Nicks

St. Vincent, Actor

Supertramp

Supreme

Taylor Swift- 1989

Teenage Fanclub

The Bangles

The Beaches

The Black Keys

The Courtneys

The Cranberries- Dreams on My So Called Life

The Dream- Love Hate, Love vs Money

The Enemy- Bigger Cages, Longer Chains 

The Jezabels- Hurt Me

The Killers

The Lemon Twigs

The New Pornographers

Theophilus London

The Pretenders- 500 Miles The Police- Roxanne- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, Little Red Corvette The Ramones

The Reason

The Regrettes- Hey Now

The Rentals- The Man With Two Brains

The Replacements

The Smiths

The White Stripes

The xx- xx (2009), Say Something Loving

Thingamajig- Miya Folick 

Tracy Chapman- Fast Car

Tom Petty

Tom Cochrane

Tony Bennet

Too Attached 

Torres

Tove Styrke- Say My Name

Tragically Hip

Tribe Called Quest

U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horse

Us- Empress of

Vagabon- Fear & Force

Vector Xing- Bubble King

Vanbot- Collide, Krasnoyarsk, Not That Kind, Moscow Veckatimest Vivek Shraya- Part Time Woman

VHS or Beta

Violent Femmes 

Warpaint- Whiteout

Waters

Waxahatchee- Silver

Weavves

Weezer

When I’m with Him- Empress of

White Lung- Hungry. Kiss Me When I Bleed

Whitney houston- I look to you, million dollar bill, I will always love you

Wrabel- Bloodstain

Yaeji 

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

[ratbasement]

Ten Characters, Ten Fandoms, Ten Tags

@noturbysshe tagged me, so of course I now need to unleash my favorite little guys (gender-neutral) on y‘all! Tbh I tend to simp more for real people, so not everyone on this list ist that dear to me - but maybe that‘s for the best, since it‘s mostly pathetic wet men.

* Willard / Willard (2003 Film): He‘s such a poor baby, I wanna pet him,, And the fact that he turns to rats as his only friends is precious, if I were a rat I would kill for him too. And Crispin Glover in the 2003 version?? The cutest.

* Woland / Master and Margarita (Book): An absolute menace written like a DeviantArt OC despite being created a decade ago. Honestly every slightly fun depiction of Satan gets easy entrance to my heart, but him and his chaotic crew take the cake.

* Rodion Raskolnikov / Crime and Punishment (Book, also some of the screen adaptions): Truly has no good qualities, always looks like a wet street kitten, will be miserable by choice. I just love watching my little trashfire unravel.

* Dr. Frank N. Furter / The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show (Film/Musical): A trendsetting bisexual icon. And while Tim Curry is just perfect, pretty much every performance of him has to slap because of the costume alone.

* Zuko / Avatar - The Last Airbender (Series/Comics): My first fictional crush and I still stand by it wholeheartedly <3

* Adrian / The Prescription (Zine): He seems like Will Wood was thinking ‚Hmm what if instead of brain damage drugs gave me the power to talk to dead people‘ and then just wrote him. Zero grip on reality, all the scrawny goth boy energy.

* Gogol / Gogol (Film Trilogy): A helpless little puppy I wanna adopt

* Beth / The Queen‘s Gambit (TV Series): Just look at her

* Raine Whispers / The Owl House: They are absolutely precious and I love their voice! Also a close call between Raine and Eda, esp. since they belong together.

* Carlisle / Twilight: I‘d rather not elaborate

To not draw any further attention to this list, I‘m not tagging anyone lmaoo

[kimberlyannharts]

So, Power Rangers Universe has wrapped up!  The six-issue miniseries about the origins of........so many things in the PR universe has finished.  Did I like it?  Yes.  Until it did something that I hated.  It’s complicated.  So let’s talk about it!

(obviously, spoilers ahead.)

Before we start I’ll say right off the bat that I did overall enjoy this series.  It came out during a time when the main series books were really letting me down, and this seemed like it was going back to the early days of the comics and recreated what made those days so successful and enjoyable.  The rangers actually LIKE each other!  Wow!

BUT.  Everyone and their mother has said ever since the beginning that it suffers from trying to do too much at once, and that’s true.  I won’t sugarcoat that.  It’s stuffing a LOT into six issues: Morphin Master society.  Phantom Ranger’s origins.  A new(-ish) team of six completely new original characters.  Dark Specter and his whole shindig.  The origins of............something else, maybe.  We’ll get to that.  And it’s a lot!  A lot of stuff gets brought up, but not elaborated on, because there’s simply no time for it.  And that can make things feel under-developed, rushed, or plain confusing. (It took me a while to get Morphin Master names and planet names lined up correctly.)  Implications that Phiro might have been in a relationship with Rhian’s dead(?) sister.  Ori having a falling out with the group in the past, but how and why is never elaborated on.  Telosi and Xev are....there.  Which makes scenes like this big blow-up feel less like the culmination of legitimately building tensions and more Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure.

Which is a shame, because the characters and their friendship are the most enjoyable part of this miniseries.  They all had potential to be really interesting, and Ori and Aleia in particular are standouts of the cast.  The lack of development would have been an easy enough fix if this was simply the beginning of the teens’ story, and they would be expanded on in future material, but......well......

We’ll start with the thing the series used as its hook from the moment it was announced:  The Phantom Ranger.       

Now I’m not sure if this has been confirmed anywhere, but it’s at the very least unanimously assumed that this series was originally going to be written by Frank Gogol, who did the Phantom Ranger-centered Power Rangers Unlimited book Edge of Darkness (and also some Dayne-centered short story in one of the Necessary Evil hardcovers, which I don’t care about.).  However, due to allegations of Gogol making racist and sexist remarks during a convention, he was booted out and replaced by Nicole Andelfinger.  So I don’t know how much of his concepts were passed on to her, but I can imagine the Phantom Ranger stuff is more or less intact with what he had planned.  In Edge of Darkness, Phantom Ranger’s identity wasn’t revealed beyond the revelation that he’s made of Morphin Grid energy and he has a past with the Masterforges made by the Morphin Masters, which lines up here.  The series expands on this a little more by revealing he’s a Morphin Master scientist who made the first Master Arch, allowing him to reach the Morphin Grid, but trapping himself inside to prevent Dark Specter from escaping (or getting in?  I’ll be honest it’s a little confusing.)  Due to how long he spent in the Morphin Grid, his body turned into living energy, with his suit being the only thing keeping him together.  What’s funny though is we still never learn his name or even see his real face.

 Which, in all honesty, isn’t that big of a deal for me as it is for some people.  Personally I never really needed to know “who” he was; in fact I enjoyed the theory that Phantom Ranger was just a creation of the Morphin Masters rather than an actual person, but the reveal here it doesn’t make or break the book for me.  (The only thing that DOES bug me is he’s clearly an adult, so if they ever get to Cassie, I don’t know how they’ll handle that romance.  It would be a shame if they just never acknowledge it.)  It’s just very funny that this is now the second book in a row that’s advertised as revealing the Phantom Ranger’s identity, and then they just......didn’t, lol.  I do like this additional backstory, but I can see why people would feel like they had the rug pulled from under them again.

No, rather, the book is more about the Morphin Master teens, aka the Squadron Rangers.  Their roles in this were actually hinted early one when L.L. McKinney, the author of Heir to Darkness, revealed that she originally had another sentai team used in the book’s opening scene (you know, where Astronema killed them all) but Boom had her switch them out for the Prism Rangers as they had “plans” for the original team.  It’s pretty obvious now that she was intending to use the Squadron Rangers.

This is another instance where other people were prooooobably more excited to see happen than I was.  I honestly never cared that the MMPRs used the Dairanger zords and White Dairanger suit (in fact, I always thought the Dairanger suits sans White were kind of ugly), so them being used here was kind of just.  Oh, yeah, that’s the team everyone won’t shut up about (with an original black design).  The suits did grow on me after a while, but as the book went on it.......really felt more and more like they only used these suits because they’re the most popular “unused” team.  And even then I think they missed why exactly these guys are the most popular; which is that MMPR used their elements without using the suits themselves, which creates an obvious, untapped connection between them.  So what is that connection?  Do they give Zordon the blueprints to their Zords?  Do they somehow create the White Light?  

No.  The connection isn’t acknowledged in any way.  And the Squadron powers don’t even last beyond this miniseries.

Yeaaaaaah.  This.  Hoo boy, this.

(before i start complaining, I will say I like the touch of Aleia being in the In Space/Turbo Pink forms while talking to Phantom Ranger.  That’s cute.)

As I hinted at before with the Prism Rangers, Boom’s been pretty infamous for bringing the unused teams into the comics just to immediately kill them off.  The Supersonic Rangers were murdered by their Green Ranger, who would become Psycho Green, in a hardcover collection story; the Prism Rangers are literally introduced in the middle of Astronema’s slaughter of them in the opening scene of Heir to Darkness.  So this kind of feels like they’re attempting to subvert the expectations by the Squadron Rangers technically sacrificing themselves and their powers to stop Dark Specter (flooding the planet with Grid energy, and revealing it’s Earth?  I’m not exactly sure why it being Earth was very significant to anything), but still “living” by ascending to the Grid.  And.....maybe becoming the Emissaries.  MAYBE.  Nothing is confirmed or denied.  But.........why would you draw them like this if they weren’t meant to be Emissaries.  The shifting-suit thing is the most iconic visual cue for the Emissaries.  If you meant them to be something else, then you wouldn’t draw them in a way that when literally everyone read this book, they wouldn’t go “oh, they became the Emissaries?”  So until someone actually comes out and confirms they’re not the Emissaries, I’m going to assume they became the Emissaries. [*EDIT* as of writing this Nicole Andelfinger confirmed on Twitter they became the Emissaries.  lmao]

Wow, I hate it!  For many reasons!

I’ve already said it a million times by now, this is simply...not what the books established as the Emissaries for years by now.  They were simply constructs of the Morphin Masters, made to be their representatives while they did fuck all in the Morphin Grid.  This is reinforced as early as a year ago, with this origin story being the basis of the main villains of the event (which I hate, but this still came out first):

Which made sense!  The Emissaries were clearly not “human,” through their shifting forms, longevity, and the whole “turning to stone when dying and a big spider thing popping out of their bodies when summoned by a MacGuffin” thing.  Furthermore, part of their little arc in Shattered Grid was getting over their hubris and prejudices, thinking life in the universes were irrelevant compared to the safety of the Grid, further implying they were not “living” themselves.  To suddenly think that the Squadron Rangers, who literally sacrifice themselves to protect the universes from Dark Specter, would adopt this attitude, is just.....so depressing.  (And don’t give me that “well it’s been millions of years, they could change!!” that doesn’t make it good writing.)  And furthermore, besides the fact that Rhian and Phiro would now be perma-dead, apparently Blue/Ori and the rest just....don’t care.  haha it’s fine!!!  It’s not like part of the moral of this story was learning to stick by those who care about you!!!

hahahaaaaaaa fuck this adorable scene of estranged friends coming back together!!!!!!!   

While I figured the series would end with the Squadron Rangers being no more, I don’t understand this sudden shift into an Emissary origin story.  It’s not something that was needed; it’s something no one was asking for, since the Emissaries’ origins were clearly spelled out long before this.  It comes off almost like a weird attempt to redeem the Emissaries in the eyes of the fandom after they sort of became a joke following their back to back easy deaths from Necessary Evil onward.  

(Also Blue has only ever been referred to with he/him pronouns.  Which frankly is a shitty thing to do to the first-ever human PR character to refer to themselves with they/them pronouns.)

It just ends the book on a confusing note when it should have been genuinely emotional.  I can’t feel sad or bittersweet or anything when all I’m thinking is “wait, what?”  If the Squadron Rangers had to be the latest on your chopping block, going back to the Dairanger thing, why not have them somehow become the White Light, and tie that all together?  Everyone knows the Dairangers through their connection to the MMPRs; if you’re not going to work with that, then why use the Dairanger suits at all beyond just easy sales?  Any of the unused sentai teams could have been used here for all the individuality given them, and that’s such an anticlimactic end for suits the fandom has waited and theorized about for thirty years.  Suits that the fandom specifically waited and theorized about for so long BECAUSE of their connection to the MMPRs.  You went to the trouble of giving them MMPR colors, to the point where you made an original Dairanger Black and made Phantom Ranger’s suit originally white and gold, yet that’s not actually supposed to mean anything?      

I don’t know.  I wish the book didn't have to end this way, because like a lot of things with terrible endings, it’s hard going back and enjoying what came before because you know it’ll just end like this.  

haha Rhian, you’re literally going to do nothing until you get unceremoniously ripped in half and your body used for science!!!!!

This book was packed enough without everything in this last issue, and I wish they didn’t decide to keep things going by packing EVEN MORE stuff in.  It was enough to just be what it was advertised, which was a Phantom Ranger origin with a surprise addition of the Squadron team.  There’s been some debate on whether it or Beyond the Grid was more successful, and I have to give the award to BtG by nature of it having more time to do what it wanted to do and also keeping the lesbians together and alive (even if Boom apparently forgot they existed in favor of the Omegas.  This is also the Omegas’ fault, somehow.) 

[academia-etudiante]

Todos os 339 livros referenciados em "Gilmore Girls":

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

13. Atonement by Ian McEwan

14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

16. Babe by Dick King-Smith

17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

23. The Bhagava Gita

24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

30. Candide by Voltaire

31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

32. Carrie by Stephen King

33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

35. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

36. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

37. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

52. Cujo by Stephen King

53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

61. Deenie by Judy Blume

62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

64. The Divine Comedy by Dante

65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

66. Don Quixote by Cervantes

67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

73. Eloise by Kay Thompson

74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

75. Emma by Jane Austen

76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

79. Ethics by Spinoza

80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

83. Extravagance by Gary Krist

84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

92. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

112. The Graduate by Charles Webb

113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

116. The Group by Mary McCarthy

117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

125. Henry V by William Shakespeare

126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

137. The Iliad by Homer

138. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

153. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

169. The Love Story by Erich Segal

170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

173. Marathon Man by William Goldman

174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

179. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

196. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

197. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

206. Night by Elie Wiesel

207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

212. Old School by Tobias Wolff

213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

219. Othello by Shakespeare

220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind

236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

237. Property by Valerie Martin

238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

244. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

253. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

256. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

258. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

270. Selected Hotels of Europe

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

275. Sexus by Henry Miller

276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

277. Shane by Jack Shaefer

278. The Shining by Stephen King

279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

282. Small Island by Andrea Levy

283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

289. Songbook by Nick Hornby

290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

292. Sophie's Choice by William Styron

293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

298. Stuart Little by E. B. White

299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

300. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

306. Time and Again by Jack Finney

307. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

312. The Trial by Franz Kafka

313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

316. Ulysses by James Joyce

317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

318. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

319. Unless by Carol Shields

320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

323. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

327. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

334. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

[dykesynthezoid]

As banned books continue to be more and more of an issue in American education I am forever thinking of my 7th grade English teacher. He was a marxist Jew who kept a framed picture of Marx himself by his desk. He was a Luddite who hated technology and cooked all his meals on a wood-burning stove. He was strange and eccentric and impossible to read. And he’s one of the greatest teachers I’ve ever had, in terms of challenging me and broadening my worldview.

That year, he had us reading The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Overcoat by Gogol; and, the one that was always the biggest issue with parents: Night by Elie Wiesel.

There had been an incident the year before where a bunch of parents had made this big stink about him teaching it; insisted it was too “traumatic” for children our age to be reading. Enough of them made a fuss that the administration caved and he had to teach Anne Frank instead (for that class year, at least).

And he was pissed about it, I mean pissed. And I remember empathizing with him at the time, when he told us about it; even though I couldn’t possibly understand where a lot of that anger was coming from. I couldn’t have known how infuriating comments about a book about the Holocaust being too “traumatic” to read must have been for him. Because of course; that was the point. The point was that it was awful, and horrific, and no should be safe from having to understand that. And maybe if you could get that into a bunch of kids’ heads before high school; that’s a big deal. That’s a really big deal.

There are moments from that book that I will never be able to remember without getting nauseous. That are etched into my brain and will be forever. And that’s the point. That is the fucking point.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 3.31

Beer Birthdays

Frank Hahne (1856)

David Buhler (1959)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Daniels; actor (1927)

Nikolai Gogol; Russian writer (1809)

Shirley Jones; actor (1934)

Ewan McGregor; actor (1971)

Christopher Walken; actor (1943)

Famous Birthdays

Herb Alpert; bandleader (1935)

Johann Sebastian Bach; composer (1685)

Robert Bunsen; German chemist (1811)

Leo Buscaglia; writer (1925)

Richard Chamberlain; actor (1934)

Cesar Chavez; labor leader (1927)

Liz Clairborne; fashion designer (1929)

Tony Cox; actor (1958)

René Descartes; French philosopher (1596)

Edward Fitzgerald; writer (1809)

John Fowles; English writer (1926)

Barney Frank; politician (1940)

Arthur Godfrey; television host (1903)

Al Gore; politician, US Vice-President (1948)

Franz Haydn; composer (1732)

Gordie Howe; Detroit Red Wings RW (1928)

John Jakes; writer (1932)

Jack Johnson; boxer (1878)

Gabe Kaplan; actor, comedian (1945)

Andrew Lang; Scottish writer (1844)

Ed Marinaro; actor, Minnesota Vikings RB (1950)

Marc McClure; actor (1957)

Paul Mercurio; Australian actor, dancer (1963)

Ashton Moore; porn actor (1976)

Henry Morgan; actor (1915)

Al Nichol; rock musician (1946)

Red Norvo; jazz vibraphonist (1908)

Octavio Paz; Mexican writer (1914)

Rhea Perlman; actor (1948)

Judith Rossner; writer (1935)

Angus Young; rock guitarist (1955)