#Lois Hopwood

[ninja-muse]

July was a month of quality, not quantity, reading-wise. I read some truly excellent books, they just largely happened to be thick and take a fair bit of brain power. And one of these months I’ll manage to get to more than a single book off my physical TBR, I swear. Oh well. At least I only bought one book again? (In my defense, it was only $4.) Oh, and my Sherlock Holmes-via-podcast read-through finally did The Sign of the Four! This feels like a milestone, somehow.

Outside of reading, this was a pretty good month! I saw friends for the first time since the fall, I went to outdoor live theatre for the first time in three years and finally got to see Something Rotten!, and I attended my first official Pride event, which went about as well as I expected it too, in that I talked to two people in three hours. I never socialize with strangers and I’ve been trying to build up my people-confidence after two years of “talking to another person could literally kill you”, so this is a big win.

I need to do better about reading Canadian for the rest of the year, though. I feel like I’ve been letting that seriously slide. And I’m very hopeful that a lot of my anticipated new releases will come in for me at the library soon!

And as always, in order of how glad I am to have read them, my July reading list:

Babel - R.F. Kuang Robin was taken from his home as a child to be trained as a translator. Now at Oxford, he’s torn: scholarship is wonderful, but it’s used for all the wrong reasons. One person surely can’t change the system…. - Chinese-British main character, Indian, Black, and East Asian secondary characters, Chinese-American author, #ownvoices - warning: deals with colonialism, racism, and classism; contains death and torture

Queer - Frank Wynne Queer writing throughout history, largely from the 19th and 20th centuries - 🏳️‍🌈 authors, authors of colour, 🏳️‍🌈 editor, #ownvoices - warning: homophobia, transphobia, AIDS crisis, dead gays

Siren Queen - Nghi Vo She’ll do anything to be an actor, including selling her soul to a studio. Films have power, after all, and a certain kind of (dark) magic. - Chinese-American main character, 🏳️‍🌈 main character, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters, Vietnamese-American author, 🏳️‍🌈 author, #ownvoices

Let's Do It - Bob Stanley A history of Anglo-Western pop music, from the early 1900s to the 1970s. - warning: anti-Black racism in a historical context, including slurs

That's Not My Name! - Anoosha Syed Mirha goes to kindergarten, where everyone thinks her name is hard. - Muslim main character, Pakistani-Canadian author, 🇨🇦

Comeuppance Served Cold - Marion Deeds Dolly gets a job as a sober companion for a wealthy bride-to-be. Dolly is casing the house. A 1920s heist fantasy. - Black secondary characters, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters, blind secondary character - warning: classist and racist characters, violence against women

The Hallowed Hunt - Lois McMaster Bujold A prince has been killed and Ingrey must bring his killer to justice. Arguing self-defense might save her. Her accidental spirit animal might doom her. And there’s much more afoot. - warning: misogynist characters, attempted violence against women, animal death

The Undertakers - Nicole Glover Someone’s been setting fires in Black neighbourhoods and it seems to be connected to Hetty and Benjy’s only unsolved case. - Black cast, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters, Black author, #ownvoices

Downton Shabby - Hopwood DePree A movie producer discovers his distant family’s English estate is crumbling and decides to do something about it.

Hawkeye: Kate Bishop - Marieke Nijkamp with Enid Balám, illustrator Kate Bishop takes a job on her way home from LA. It’s at a resort. For her sister. And there are evil clowns? - 🏳️‍🌈 author

Death by Bubble Tea - Jennifer J. Chow When her cousin comes to town, Yale finds herself drafted into co-running a stall at the LA Night Market. Then one of their customers turns up dead. - Chinese-American cast, Chinese-American author, #ownvoices

Currently reading:

Mint Chocolate Murder - Meri Allen

Riley’s hired to serve ice cream at a gallery opening at a local estate, only for the star photographer to be found dead in a dungeon. - major Black secondary character

Aces Wild - Amanda DeWitt Jack and his asexual support group decide to take down the casino owner who put Jack’s mom in jail. - 🏳️‍🌈 main character, 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters

The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Victorian detective stories - major disabled character

 - warning: colonialism, xenophobia

Stats


Monthly total: 11
 Yearly total: 90 + 1
 Queer books: 3
 Authors of colour: 5
 Books by women: 8
 Canadian authors: 1
 Off the TBR shelves: 1
 DNFs: 0

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[annafcsmith]

Nasty Women Wigan. Cross Street Arts 11th Aug - 2nd Sept 2017 

Team: Anna FC Smith, Paula Fenwick Lucas, Amy Cecilia Leigh, Lucy Sharkey, Jane Fairhurst, Emily Calland, Wendy Bowers, plus additional support from Cross Street Arts: Martyn Lucas and Steven Heaton 

Exhibiting artists: Lo Green Olivia Brazier Jane Fairhurst Jo Barcas Buchan Ffion Pritchard Elaine Phipps Rosalind Barker Claire Doyle Alice Watkins Vanessa Alves Ellen Moss Hazel Roberts Gaenor Deacon Maryamsadat Amirvaghefi Maria Walker Anna FC Smith Paula Fenwick Lucas Lucy Sharkey Amy Cecilia Leigh Jacqui Priestley Rachael Finney Ellie Barrett Jenny Drinkwater Sally Barker Emily Calland (Eat Your Kids Illustration) Emily Ashcroft Helena Denholm Lois Hopwood Wendy Boyers 

Photos by Michael Orrell Photography

[gyfest]

Title:

Window Vistas

Dates / Times:

27 - 30th April 19:00 - 22:00

Address:

VENUE 19

10 Dalhousie Street  Glasgow G3 6PW

Event Description:

"Window Vistas" will light up the street front windows of #10 Dalhousie Street with work by Glasgow School of Art postgraduate students.

Each night three artists in the Masters of Fine Art Practice, Photo and Moving Image pathway, will showcase their work.

To view the work, just walk up (or down) Dalhousie Street, past 'Jumpin Jaks' and the Mackintosh (under re-construction).

The artists' studios front onto Dalhousie Street.  Brick, tarmac, traffic, trash, pedestrians, construction workers, and pigeons come into their creative lives through these windows.

What will happen when these artists project their inner worlds back out, onto the street??

Participants:

ERIN SEMPLE  @erin.semple

JULIE MITCHELL

HANNAH EDWARD  @hannah_edward

LOIS HOPWOOD  @loishopwood

KRISTYNA DVORAKOVA  @kristynajekristyna

TYLA ROWEN  @tyla.rowen

ALEXANDRA HUDDLESTON  @adh2103

AGATA PAULINA MLYNCZAK  @aga.mlynczak

MATTHEW SINCLAIR  @photochromstudio

TIANTIAN WEI

LI MENG

What to expect: 

Photography, Projections, Windows, Weather

[newhive]

yankee candle by loishopwood 

[hartboy]

Lois will eat this shit up. 

[newhive]

soft internet by loishopwood

[newhive]

what if seinfeld was net art by loishopwood