#The Book of Mormon Denmark

[sgtprophet]

sometimes i need to mentally prepare myself before listening to danish or swedish bom cause listening to a musical in your language or a language you understand can be so weird

[allovertheworldblog]

A Room With A View in Copenhagen

The hostel in Copenhagen that I’d booked turned out to be a former hotel built under the Marshall Plan for post World War II Europe.

Then it was an office building and then the Danish Youth Hostel Association took it over and changed it into a hostel.

I was only on the 9th floor but the view of the city I had was pretty good.

Copenhagen was a city that I’d never come across in an way, never in movies or art or literature.

I didn’t have any expectations.

Well, I did have the idea that it was a small scale city, a small city.

On the Tuesday evening that I arrived I checked into the hostel and set up my bed with my own sheets, rather than pay the sheet ‘rental’. Later

I went to see what Copenhagen was all about.

In search of food I was finding that most shops were closed.

The city had a shut up feeling with a general lack of people about the place.

Instead of McDonalds or KFC I went to the Shawarma Grill House.

They have a newspaper piece in the restaurant with the former Prime Minister of Denmark eating there so it must be good!

The former PM is now the head of NATO and bears an uncanny resemblance (from certain angles) to the American actor Tim Allen. http://www.shawarmagrillhouse.dk/

Even though I’ve been in the centre of Copenhagen at this stage I have a funny feeling that I haven’t been to the centre of much.

Seeing a city at night, when everything is closed up and it’s cold and there’s no one around can sometimes give that impression.

I do pass by the Tivoli Gardens, which I’d heard of before, but they too are closed, their season doesn’t start for another month or so. 

I also pass by the 'Church' of Scientology offices and church.

They have a lit, staged, office which they say was one of many like offices kept in various parts of the world by their founder.

They sure get around these scientologists.

I haven’t quite come across them as much as the Mormons but have seen them in quite a few places, usually in well developed, well off countries, never in developing or poorer nations.

I guess people in poorer countries don’t need the services of the Church of Scientology as much as people in better off countries!

[brookston]

Holidays 7.22

Holidays

Ask An Archeologist Day

Blackfoot Daisy Day

Childbirth Education Awareness Day

Dornach Commemoration Day (Switzerland)

Family Tree Day

Festival of Boredom and Reveries

Fragile X Awareness Day

George Crum Day

Hammock Day

Health, Happiness with Hypnosis Day

IMF Day

International Childbirth Education Awareness Day

International Love & Gratitude Day

King Father’s Birthday (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)

Lendemain de l'Aïd el-Kebir (Mauritania)

Leo zodiac sign begins

Lion's Share Day

National Be A Good Teammate Day (UK)

National Flag Adoption Day (India)

National Intern Day

National Pajama Day

National Press Day (Azerbaijan)

National Sing from the Book of Mormon Day

National Sophia Day

National Squirt A Pigeon Day

National Thomas Day

National Water Coaster Day

One Piece Day (Japan)

Pi Approximation Day (a.k.a. Casual Pi Day; 22/7)

Preparedness Day

Qurbon Hayit Holiday (Uzbekistan)

Ranggeln (Germany)

Ratcatcher's Day (a.k.a. Pied Piper Day; UK)

Revolution Day (The Gambia)

Ryegrass Day (French Republic)

Spooner's Day (a.k.a. Spoonerism Day)

Stilt Dance Day (Spain)

Summer Leisure Day

Tulsa Doom Appreciation Day

Trae Day (Houston, Texas)

World Brain Day

World Day Against Open Pit Mining

World Fragile X Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Froot Loops Day

National BLT Sandwich Day

National Mango Day

Penuche Fudge Day

4th Saturday in July

Aunties Day [4th Saturday]

National Day of the American Cowboy [4th Saturday]

National Drowning Prevention Day [4th Saturday]

Tsushima Tennoo Matsuri (津島天王祭り; Shōjō Festival, Japan) [Begins 4th Saturday night]

World Ivermectin Day [4th Saturday]

Independence Days

Sarawalk Self-Government Day (Malaysia)

Feast Days

Abd-al-Masih (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Calder (Artology)

Aphrodisia (Ancient Greek bathing festival of Aphrodite & Peitho)

Aristo (Positivist; Saint)

Beginning of Leo (Astrology; Pagan)

Contemplate the Cosmos Day (Pastafarian)

Dabius (a.k.a. Davies) of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Edward Hopper (Artology)

James Whale Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Joseph of Tiberias (or of Palestine; a.k.a. Count Joseph; Christian; Saint)

Karl Marx Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Markella of Chios (Christian; Saint)

Mary Magdalene (Christian; Saint)

Meneve, Abbot of Menat (Christian; Saint)

Nohra (Maronite Church)

Vandrille (a.k.a. Wandregisilus; Christian; Saint)

The Venusian (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 14 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [14 of 24]

Premieres

Back to the Shack, by Weezer (Song; 2014)

Bikini Beach (Film; 1964)

Captain America: The First Avenger (Film; 2011)

The Daily Show (Late Night TV Talk Show; 1996)

Friends with Benefits (Film; 2011)

Green Lantern: Beware My Power (WB Animated Film; 2022)

Ice Age: Collision Course (Animated Film; 2016)

The Island (Film; 2005)

It’s Hummer Time (WB LT Cartoon 1950)

Jaws 3-D (Film; 1983)

Join Together, by The Who (Song; 1972)

Lolita (Film; 1998)

Marnie (Film; 1964)

Midnight Run (Film; 1988)

Mr. Mom (Film; 1983)

My Aim Is True, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1977)

Nope (Film; 2022)

North (Film; 1994)

Plan 9 From Outer Space (Film; 1959)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Film; 1954)

Star Trek Beyond (Film; 2016)

The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman (Novel; 1997) [His Dark Materials #2]

Today’s Name Days

Magdalena, Maria (Austria)

Lena, Magda, Magdalena, Miglena (Bulgaria)

Lenka, Magdalena, Manda, Marija (Croatia)

Magdaléna (Czech Republic)

Magdalene, Maria (Denmark)

Leen, Leena, Leeni, Made, Madli, Magda, Magdaleena, Mall, Malle (Estonia)

Leena, Leeni, Lenita, Matleena (Finland)

Madeleine, Wandrille (France)

Magdalena, Marlene, Verena (Germany)

Magdalena, Magdalene, Magdalini, Markella (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Lena, Lorenzo, Maddalena, Maria, Marylena, Menelaos (Italy)

Margita, Marija, Marika, Marina, Marisandra (Latvia)

Dalius, Magdalena, Mantilė, Marija (Lithuania)

Malene, Mali, Malin (Norway)

Albin, Bolesława, Bolisława, Laurencjusz, Maria Magdalena, Milenia, Pankracy, Wawrzyniec, Więcemiła (Poland)

Magdaléna (Slovakia)

Magdalena, María (Spain)

Madeleine, Magdalena (Sweden)

Mada, Madalina, Madalyn, Maddi, Maddie, Maddy, Madel, Madelaine, Madelein, Madeleine, Madelene, Madelina, Madeline, Madie, Madelyn, Mady (Universal)

Amaya, Magda, Magdalen, Magdalena, Magdalene (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 203 of 2024; 162 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 29 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 5 (Xin-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 4 Av 5783

Islamic: 4 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 23 Lux; Twosday [23 of 30]

Julian: 9 July 2023

Moon: 20%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 7 Dante (8th Month) [Aristo]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 32 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

 Leo (The Lion) begins [Zodiac Sign 5; thru 8.21]

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.22

Holidays

Ask An Archeologist Day

Blackfoot Daisy Day

Childbirth Education Awareness Day

Dornach Commemoration Day (Switzerland)

Family Tree Day

Festival of Boredom and Reveries

Fragile X Awareness Day

George Crum Day

Hammock Day

Health, Happiness with Hypnosis Day

IMF Day

International Childbirth Education Awareness Day

International Love & Gratitude Day

King Father’s Birthday (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)

Lendemain de l'Aïd el-Kebir (Mauritania)

Leo zodiac sign begins

Lion's Share Day

National Be A Good Teammate Day (UK)

National Flag Adoption Day (India)

National Intern Day

National Pajama Day

National Press Day (Azerbaijan)

National Sing from the Book of Mormon Day

National Sophia Day

National Squirt A Pigeon Day

National Thomas Day

National Water Coaster Day

One Piece Day (Japan)

Pi Approximation Day (a.k.a. Casual Pi Day; 22/7)

Preparedness Day

Qurbon Hayit Holiday (Uzbekistan)

Ranggeln (Germany)

Ratcatcher's Day (a.k.a. Pied Piper Day; UK)

Revolution Day (The Gambia)

Ryegrass Day (French Republic)

Spooner's Day (a.k.a. Spoonerism Day)

Stilt Dance Day (Spain)

Summer Leisure Day

Tulsa Doom Appreciation Day

Trae Day (Houston, Texas)

World Brain Day

World Day Against Open Pit Mining

World Fragile X Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Froot Loops Day

National BLT Sandwich Day

National Mango Day

Penuche Fudge Day

4th Saturday in July

Aunties Day [4th Saturday]

National Day of the American Cowboy [4th Saturday]

National Drowning Prevention Day [4th Saturday]

Tsushima Tennoo Matsuri (津島天王祭り; Shōjō Festival, Japan) [Begins 4th Saturday night]

World Ivermectin Day [4th Saturday]

Independence Days

Sarawalk Self-Government Day (Malaysia)

Feast Days

Abd-al-Masih (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Calder (Artology)

Aphrodisia (Ancient Greek bathing festival of Aphrodite & Peitho)

Aristo (Positivist; Saint)

Beginning of Leo (Astrology; Pagan)

Contemplate the Cosmos Day (Pastafarian)

Dabius (a.k.a. Davies) of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Edward Hopper (Artology)

James Whale Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Joseph of Tiberias (or of Palestine; a.k.a. Count Joseph; Christian; Saint)

Karl Marx Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Markella of Chios (Christian; Saint)

Mary Magdalene (Christian; Saint)

Meneve, Abbot of Menat (Christian; Saint)

Nohra (Maronite Church)

Vandrille (a.k.a. Wandregisilus; Christian; Saint)

The Venusian (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 14 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [14 of 24]

Premieres

Back to the Shack, by Weezer (Song; 2014)

Bikini Beach (Film; 1964)

Captain America: The First Avenger (Film; 2011)

The Daily Show (Late Night TV Talk Show; 1996)

Friends with Benefits (Film; 2011)

Green Lantern: Beware My Power (WB Animated Film; 2022)

Ice Age: Collision Course (Animated Film; 2016)

The Island (Film; 2005)

It’s Hummer Time (WB LT Cartoon 1950)

Jaws 3-D (Film; 1983)

Join Together, by The Who (Song; 1972)

Lolita (Film; 1998)

Marnie (Film; 1964)

Midnight Run (Film; 1988)

Mr. Mom (Film; 1983)

My Aim Is True, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1977)

Nope (Film; 2022)

North (Film; 1994)

Plan 9 From Outer Space (Film; 1959)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Film; 1954)

Star Trek Beyond (Film; 2016)

The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman (Novel; 1997) [His Dark Materials #2]

Today’s Name Days

Magdalena, Maria (Austria)

Lena, Magda, Magdalena, Miglena (Bulgaria)

Lenka, Magdalena, Manda, Marija (Croatia)

Magdaléna (Czech Republic)

Magdalene, Maria (Denmark)

Leen, Leena, Leeni, Made, Madli, Magda, Magdaleena, Mall, Malle (Estonia)

Leena, Leeni, Lenita, Matleena (Finland)

Madeleine, Wandrille (France)

Magdalena, Marlene, Verena (Germany)

Magdalena, Magdalene, Magdalini, Markella (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Lena, Lorenzo, Maddalena, Maria, Marylena, Menelaos (Italy)

Margita, Marija, Marika, Marina, Marisandra (Latvia)

Dalius, Magdalena, Mantilė, Marija (Lithuania)

Malene, Mali, Malin (Norway)

Albin, Bolesława, Bolisława, Laurencjusz, Maria Magdalena, Milenia, Pankracy, Wawrzyniec, Więcemiła (Poland)

Magdaléna (Slovakia)

Magdalena, María (Spain)

Madeleine, Magdalena (Sweden)

Mada, Madalina, Madalyn, Maddi, Maddie, Maddy, Madel, Madelaine, Madelein, Madeleine, Madelene, Madelina, Madeline, Madie, Madelyn, Mady (Universal)

Amaya, Magda, Magdalen, Magdalena, Magdalene (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 203 of 2024; 162 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 29 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 5 (Xin-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 4 Av 5783

Islamic: 4 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 23 Lux; Twosday [23 of 30]

Julian: 9 July 2023

Moon: 20%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 7 Dante (8th Month) [Aristo]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 32 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

 Leo (The Lion) begins [Zodiac Sign 5; thru 8.21]

[norwegianbookofmormonfan]

Can we talk about this amazing dance on Danish Dancing with the Stars (vild med dans)!?!

Jakob Fauerby and Silas Holst are incredible!

Sorry for the bad quality video

(Also if you are wondering the relevance to Book of Mormon, Silas (the professional dancer) played Elder Price in the Danish production)

[strandsofgold]

I love this picture so much because you can just instantly tell which one of them is McKinley.

[iantomckay]

Things that happened in the Danish production of The Book of Mormon

*Jesus, Mormon, Moroni and Joseph Smith are all standing in a snow globe in the first scene.

*There are actual doors in Hello

*In the airport Arnold whips out a Spock and a Darth Vader action figure

*Arnold plays with a mini lightsaber (and makes noises as he does so)

*The elders mentioning Pokemon and SKAM in Two by Two

*In the plane scene there’s 3 seats; Kevin puts his Book of Mormon on the middle seats so he doesn’t sit beside Arnold; a morbidly obese man shows up and asks Kevin to move and sit beside Arnold and when the man sits down beside Kevin you can see the utter despair in Kevin’s eyes

*The houses in Kitguli are 3 stories (made of what looks like scaffolding and plastic)

*There’s conveyor belts making it look like they actually walking

*Bunkbeds in the mission control centre

*During Turn It Off the elders dance on the beds

*After Poptarts (P Tærte) tells about his sister he sits down on one of the beds and starts crying

*Arnold tucks in his action figures under his blanket

*When the dude gets shot in the face there's actual blood spraying on Elder Price

*When elder Price returns to the mission hut, McKinley starts to wipe him with a napkin... He wipes his crotch area for 10 seconds

*There's a Mickey, Donald Duck and a Goofy before SMHD begins; Mickey is holding a red balloon (it looked fucking ominous)

*During the whole entirety of SMHD, Kevin is flying up in the air (tied to a wire)

*Jesus head-banging and playing air guitar

*Jesus and Satan hugging

*Before Baptize Me, Arnold fills up a pool with water

*When Kevin runs into the General's camp, the General is watching My Little Pony on a tiny TV

*The General handcuffs Kevin to the TV table and pulls down his pants

*The General puts lube on the book

*Kevin smokes and drink coffee in front of a coffee machine and he's shaking with all the caffeine he's consumed

*Kevin talks to the coffee machine for the longest time and then he knocks on the front to reveal that there's a person sitting inside the coffee machine that serves him coffee

*There's literally a 30 second long pause after Joseph Smith American Moses

[thebookofmormondenmark]

Part 1

Credit: Det Ny Teater https://www.detnyteater.dk

Miklos Szabo  http://www.miklosszabo.com/

[trashyinpastel]

Does McKinley in the Danish version of The Book of Mormon wear glasses?

[starlene]

Linus Wahlgren, Elder Price in The Book of Mormon Stockholm, is doing God's work by posting a whopping ten minutes' worth of clips from a BoM Stockholm proshot on his Instagram story.

Dunno, go watch them or something.

[bpdjennamaroney]

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book of mormon denmark curtain call (most of it) final performance

[birdlord]

Every Book I Read in 2019

This was a heavier reading year for me (heavier culture-consumption year in general) partly because my partner started logging his books read, and then, of course, it’s a competition.

01 Morvern Callar; Alan Warner - One of the starkest books I’ve ever read. What is it about Scotland that breeds writers with such brutal, distant perspectives on life? Must be all the rocks. 

02 21 Things You Might Not Know About the Indian Act; Bob Joseph - I haven’t had much education in Canada’s relationship to the Indigenous nations that came before it, so this opened things up for me quite a bit. The first and most fundamental awakening is to the fact that this is not a story of progress from worse to better (which is what a simplistic, grade school understanding of smallpox blankets>residential schools>reserves would tell you), in fact, the nation to nation relationship of early contact was often superior to what we have today. I wish there was more of a call to action, but apparently a sequel is on its way. 

03 The Plot Against America; Philip Roth - An alternative history that in some ways mirrors our present. I did feel like I was always waiting for something to happen, but I suppose the point is that, even at the end of the world, disasters proceed incrementally. 

04 Sabrina; Nick Drnaso - The blank art style and lack of contrast in the colouring of each page really reinforces the feeling of impersonal vacancy between most of the characters. I wonder how this will read in the future, as it’s very much based in today’s relationship to friends and technology. 

05 Perfumes: The Guide; Luca Turn & Tania Sanchez - One of the things I like to do when I need to turn my brain off online is reading perfume reviews. That’s where I found out about this book, which runs through different scent families and reviews specific well-known perfumes. Every topic has its boffins, and these two are particularly witty and readable. 

06 Adventures in the Screen Trade; William Goldman - Reading this made me realize how little of the cinema of the 1970s I’ve actually seen, beyond the usual heavy hitters. Ultimately I found this pretty thin, a few peices of advice stitched together with anecdotes about a Hollywood that is barely recognizable today. 

07 The Age of Innocence; Edith Wharton - A love triangle in which the fulcrum is a terribly irritating person, someone who thinks himself far more outré than he is. Nonetheless, I was taken in by this story of “rebellion”, such as it was, to be compelling.

08 Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis; Sam Anderson - Like a novel that follows various separate characters, this book switches between tales of the founding of Oklahoma City with basketball facts and encounters with various oddball city residents. It’s certainly a fun ride, but you may find, as I did, that some parts of the narrative interest you more than others. Longest subtitle ever?

09 World of Yesterday; Stefan Zweig - A memoir of pre-war Austria and its artistic communities, told by one of its best-known exports. Particularly wrenching with regards to the buildup to WWII, from the perspective of those who had been through this experience before, so recently. 

10 Teach us to Sit Still: A Sceptic’s Search for Health and Healing; Tim Parks - A writer finds himself plagued by pain that conventional doctors aren’t able to cure, so he heads further afield to see if he can use stillness-of-mind to ease the pain, all the while complaining as you would expect a sceptic to do. His digressions into literature were a bit hard to take (I’m sure you’re not Coleridge, my man).

11 The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences have Extraordinary Impact; Chip & Dan Heath - I read this for work-related reasons, with the intention of improving my ability to make exhibitions and interpretation. It has a certain sort of self-helpish structure, with anecdotes starting each chapter and a simple lesson drawn from each one. Not a bad read if you work in a public-facing capacity. 

12 Against Everything: Essays; Mark Greif - The founder of N+1 collects a disparate selection of essays, written over a period of several years. You won’t love them all, but hey, you can always skip those ones!

13 See What I Have Done; Sarah Schmidt - A retelling of the Lizzie Borden story, which I’d seen a lot of good reviews for. Sadly this didn’t measure up, for me. There’s a lot of stage setting (rotting food plays an important part) but there’s not a lot of substance there. 

14 Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy; Angela Garber - This is another one that came to me very highly recommended. Garber seems to think these topics are not as well-covered as they are, but she does a good job researching and retelling tales of pregnancy, birth, postpartum difficulties and breastfeeding. 

15 Rebecca; Daphne du Maurier - This was my favourite book club book of the year. I’d always had an impression of...trashiness I guess? around du Maurier, but this is a classic thriller. Maybe the first time I’ve ever read, rather than watched, a thriller! That’s on me. 

16 O’Keefe: The Life of an American Legend; Jeffrey Hogrefe - I went to New Mexico for the first time this spring, and a colleague lent me this Georgia O’Keefe biography after I returned. I hadn’t known much about her personal life before this, aside from what I learned at her museum in Santa Fe. The author has made the decision that much of O’Keefe’s life was determined by childhood incest, but doesn’t have what you might call….evidence?

17 A Lost Lady; Willa Cather - A turn-of-the-20th century story about an upper-class woman and her young admirer Neil. I’ve never read any other Cather, but this felt very similar to the Wharton I also read this year, which I gather isn’t typical of her. 

18 The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months of Unearthing the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country; Helen Russell - A British journalist moves to small-town Denmark with her husband, and although the distances are not long, there’s a considerable culture shock. Made me want to eat pastries in a BIG WAY. 

19 How Not to be a Boy; Robert Webb - The title gives a clue to the framing device of this book, which is fundamentally a celebrity memoir, albeit one that largely ignores the celebrity part of his life in favour of an examination of the effects of patriarchy on boys’ development as human beings. 

20 The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (And Your Children Will be Glad that You Did); Philippa Perry; A psychotherapist’s take on how parents’ own upbringing affects the way they interact with their own kids. 

21 The Library Book; Susan Orlean - This book has stuck with me more than I imagined that it would. It covers both the history of libraries in the USA, and the story of the arson of the LA Public Library’s central branch in 1986. 

22 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life; Samantha Irby - I’ve been reading Irby’s blog for years, and follow her on social media. So I knew the level of raunch and near body-horror to expect in this essay collection. This did fill in a lot of gaps in terms of her life, which added a lot more blackness (hey) to the humour. 

23 State of Wonder; Ann Patchett - A semi-riff on Heart of Darkness involving an OB/GYN who now works for a pharmaceutical company, heading to the jungle to retrieve another researcher who has gone all Colonel Kurtz on them. I found it a bit unsatisfying, but the descriptions were, admittedly, great. 

24 Disappearing Earth; Julia Phillips - A story of an abduction of two girls in very remote Russia, each chapter told by another townsperson. The connections between the narrators of each chapter are sometimes obvious, but not always. Ending a little tidy, but plays against expectations for a book like this. 

25 Ethan Frome; Edith Wharton - I gather this is a typical high school read, but I’d never got to it. In case you’re in the same boat as me, it’s a short, mildly melodramatic romantic tragedy set in the new england winter. It lacks the focus on class that other Whartons have, but certainly keeps the same strong sense that once you’ve made a choice, you’re stuck with it. FOREVER. 

26 Educated; Tara Westover - This memoir of a Mormon fundamentalist-turned-Academic-superstar was huge on everyone’s reading lists a couple of years back, and I finally got to it. It felt similar to me in some ways to the Glass Castle, in terms of the nearly-unbelievable amounts of hell she and her family go through at the hands of her father and his Big Ideas. I found that it lacked real contemplation of the culture shock of moving from the rural mountain west to, say, Cambridge. 

27 Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of Lusitania; Erik Larson - I’m a sucker for a story of a passenger liner, any non-Titanic passenger liner, really. Plus Lusitania’s story has interesting resonances for the US entry into WWI, and we see the perspective of the U-boat captain as well as people on land, and Lusitania’s own passengers and crew. 

28 The Birds and Other Stories; Daphne du Maurier - The title story is the one that stuck in my head most strongly, which isn’t any surprise. I found it much more harrowing than the film, it had a really effective sense of gradually increasing dread and inevitability. 

29 Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Faded Glory; Raphael Bob-Waksberg - Hit or miss in the usual way of short story collections, this book has a real debt to George Saunders. 

30 Sex & Rage; Eve Babitz - a sort of pseudo-autobiography of an indolent life in the LA scene of the 1970s. It was sometimes very difficult to see how the protagonist actually felt about anything, which is a frequent, acute symptom of youth. 

31 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party; Graham Greene - Gotta love a book with an alternate title built in. This is a broad (the characters? are, without exception, insane?!) satire about a world I know little about. I don’t have a lot of patience or interest in Greene’s religious allegories, but it’s a fine enough story. 

32 Lathe of Heaven; Ursula K LeGuin - Near-future sci-fi that is incredibly prescient about the effects of climate change for a book written over forty years ago. The book has amazing world-building, and the first half has the whirlwind feel of Homer going back in time, killing butterflies and returning to the present to see what changes he has wrought. 

33 The Grammarians; Cathleen Schine - Rarely have I read a book whose jacket description of the plot seems so very distant from what actually happens therein. 

34 The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network; Katharine Losse - Losse was one of Facebook’s very earliest employees, and she charts her experience with the company in this memoir from 2012. Do you even recall what Facebook was like in 2012? They hadn’t even altered the results of elections yet! Zuck was a mere MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, probably. Were we ever so young?

35 Invisible Women; Caroline Ciado Perez - If you want to read a book that will make you angry, so angry that you repeatedly assail whoever is around with facts taken from it, then this, my friend, is the book for you. 

36 The Hidden World of the Fox; Adele Brand - A really charming look at the fox from an ecologist who has studied them around the world. Much of it takes place in the UK, where urban foxes take on a similar ecological niche that raccoons famously do where I live, in Toronto. 

37 S; Doug Dorst & JJ Abrams - This is a real mindfuck of a book, consisting of a faux-old novel, with marginalia added by two students which follows its own narrative. A difficult read not because of the density of prose, but the sheer logistics involved: read the page, then the marginalia? Read the marginalia interspersed with the novel text? Go back chapter by chapter? I’m not sure that either story was worth the trouble, in the end. 

38 American War; Omar El Akkad - This is not exclusively, but partially a climate-based speculative novel, or, grossly, cli-fi for short. Ugh, what a term! But this book is a really tight, and realistic look at the results of a fossil-fuels-based second US Civil War. 

39 Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation; Andrew Marantz - This is the guy you’ll hear on every NPR story talking about his semi-embedding within the Extremely Online alt-right. Most of the figures he profiles come off basically how you’d expect, I found his conclusions about the ways these groups have chosen to use online media tools to achieve their ends the most illuminating part. 

40 Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm; Isabella Tree - This is the story of a long process of transitioning a rural acreage (more of an estate than a farm, this is aristocratic shit) from intensive agriculture to something closer to wild land. There are long passages where Tree (ahem) simply lists species which have come back, which I’m sure is fascinating if you are from the area, but I tended to glaze over a bit. Experts from around the UK and other European nations weigh in on how best to rewild the space, which places the project in a wider context. 

FICTON: 17     NONFICTION: 23

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Hetalia Broadway Themes

America: My Shot (Hamilton)/You and me but mostly me (Book of Mormon)

England: The World Has Gone Insane (Jekyll and Hyde)

China: Slipping Through MY Fingers (Mama Mia)

Russia: Still (Anastasia)/Freeze Your Brain (Heathers)

France: All That Jazz (Chicago)

Canada: Waving Through a Window (Dear Evan Hansen)

Prussia: You Gotta Die Sometime (Falsettos)

Hungary: I'd Rather Be Me (Mean Girls)

Germany: Dust and Ashes (The Great Comet)

Italy: Never Getting Rid Of Me (Waitress)

Japan: Wait For It (Hamilton)

Belarus: Meant To Be Yours (Heathers)

Ukraine: I'm Breaking Down (Falsettos)

Spain: Carnaval Del Barrio (In The Heights)

Romano: It won't be long now (In The Heights)

Switzerland: Congratulations (Hamilton)

Denmark: Way Down Hadestown (Hadestown)

Norway: No Good Deed (Wicked)

Iceland: Good Kid (The Lightning Thief)

Latvia: More Than Survive (Be More Chill)

Finland: Human Heart (Once On This Island)

Sweden: Father To Son (Falsettos)

Estonia: What The Heck I Gotta Do? (21 Chump Street)

Lithuania: My Petersburg (Anastasia)

Seychelles: Waiting For Life (Once on This Island)

Belgium: Popular (Wicked)

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Anna-Lisa Kumoji in Book of Mormon Denmark

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In the Danish version of The Book of Mormon, Kevin sings “I know” instead of “I believe” during Tomorrow Is A Latter Day.

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Thank you so much <3

The Book of Mormon Denmark has officially ended it's run.

I can't even begin to explain how amazing the show has been and how much it has meant to me.

New friendships has formed because of this production and I'm forever grateful for the people I've met and connected with <3 Me and @space-glitter-gay were so privileged to get invited onto the stage after the show by none other than Simon Nøiers (Elder McKinley) https://www.instagram.com/simonnoiers/

Thank you so much Simon for letting our fan dreams come true!

 Thanks to you and the whole cast for these amazing gifts! I will never forget this day

"Tak du Gud jeg glemmer aldrig i dag"

Good riddance to all of you <3

These are the actual props from the production and all of the actors wrote a personalized message for us both <3