#author Meg Perry

[melaniem54]

Review: Cited to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 1) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4.25🌈 I love a mystery. So give me a new-to-me author, a mystery novel that represents not one but two connected mystery series and I’m in. Cited to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 1) by Meg Perry is all the above. This is a first book by Perry for me and I was very entertained by the mystery and invested in the characters Perry has created for her…

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Cdan today - Megs wants a more important spot at the Tyler Perry award event. Wasn't she 6th on the Suits call list too? lol! by u/beachy_456

Cdan today - Megs wants a more important spot at the Tyler Perry award event. Wasn't she 6th on the Suits call list too? lol! https://ift.tt/KPI1u5l post link: https://ift.tt/NsFrEoL author: beachy_456 submitted: July 18, 2024 at 07:11PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[thethistlegirlwrites]

🍸 character who inspired your mc

🌱 book that inspired your wip

🐠 author who inspires you

🍯 author you know

🍄 name a song that represents your mc

🌾 book you would / have writ(t)e(n) fanfic for

🍸 character who inspired your mc Emmett - It took some figuring out when I restarted Thief of Hearts after 9 years (and trying to tell by the date of the original note with its premise), but I still find it sort of funny that I took a serial killer from Criminal Minds (episode 3x02 if you're curious, I made someone cutting out hearts a little more metaphorical, but not by much, and gave him a much less forgettable name than what IMDB claims is Joe Smith) and went 'what if you weren't the villain actually' and ended up with a whole novel. Although this isn't an abnormal way for me to get a story. (Just ask Emma from Magic & Silver) Rory - Meg Galligan/Galloway (depends on whether you mean book or movie version) See below

🌱 book that inspired your wip I did a Tolkien and Birnam Wood on Northern Lights by Nora Roberts, believe it or not. (Ok I liked the book just fine but kept wondering when the lights were going to become really plot relevant.) And I ended up weirdly fond of Meg, half of the main character duo and feisty without leaning into overly 'strong female character', and managed to be tough, jaded, vulnerable, and damaged at the same time. Some of that 'everyone at arms' distance so no one can hurt you anymore' definitely bled over into Rory (although I may actually have dialed it up a little...a lot).

🐠 author who inspires you Right now I'm going a little feral over Jules Dyrud, an indie author I found through Bookstagram. Her book Majesties is wrecking my heart (I picked it up thinking it would be a good comp for Thief of Hearts and honestly I look kind as an author in comparison to what she's put her main character through). I love finding writers who don't shy away from tackling brutal topics and yet do it with grace and sensititivity.

🍯 author you know Erin Bartels from my home state of Michigan! My parents worked at a summer camp with some of her family so when her first book came out we went to her signing to support her, and while it took me a few years to actually read her novels, I quickly found out she was the kind of writer I can't get enough of and I eagerly await each new book and the accompanying author visits to my local bookstore!

🍄 name a song that represents your mc Emmett - Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri Rory - Seven Devils by Florence + the Machine

🌾 book you would / have writ(t)e(n) fanfic for Dracula! I don't do a lot of book fanfiction (maybe because books feel more complete to me than most movies/shows) but the characters from that one have a piece of my heart forever and sometimes I just need to yell about it in the form of fic about their precious little found family.

Thanks for the ask!!

[the-novel-approach-reviews]

Review: Twelve Seconds by Meg Perry

Review: Twelve Seconds by Meg Perry #AmReading #BookTwitter #Mystery

Title: Twelve Seconds Series: Space Coast Mysteries: Book One Author: Meg Perry Publisher: Self-Published Length: 97 Pages Category: Murder Mystery Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: I liked this long novella for its engaging characters and Perry’s poised storytelling style. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: The last thing that Air Force Special Agent Greg Marcotte expects to find in the debris field of an…

[phillipcole]

Post-AGT Appearance 1231: Merloni, Fauria and Mego December 5

The songs would have continued to sink over the weekend.

Christine McVie would never have been on the list of suspects individually but Fleetwood Mac as a team would have always been on the list, presently 64th.  Gaylord Perry would have started in 91st place, peaked at 90th, dropped out of the top 100 in 2019, returned briefly twice in 2021 before dropping out again.  No one would ask but I would authorized the listed comment Friday.  The first to mention it would be my friend Lou Merloni.  His show is now called Merloni, Fauria and Mego.  The new person is Boston Herald columnist Meghan Ottolini.  The show is on 2 to 6 pm on WEEI in Boston.  They would start a segment late in the first hour by playing my little ditty about Lou Merloni as posted 7 years ago and written when he played for the Red Sox.

Fauria: well that little introduction means Lou has an update about our friend Phil Cole.  What is it, Lou?

Merloni: Well, Chris and Meg, the baseball world is mourning the death of Hall of Fame spitballer Gaylord Perry.

Fauria: Did you ever face him?

Merloni: I’m not that old!  Anyway the gambling world is wondering if he might be the last name on that list of celebrities that make Phillip sick.

Ottolini: What’s that all about?

Fauria: His performance is called Phillip and Cole’s Variety Team, but really he’s a one man team.  He does these characters and one of them is called Phillip the Boston intellectual.

Merloni: And tell her: what’s the difference between Phil and Phillip?

Fauria: Phil’s just a regular guy who grew up in Boston and uh, Phillip is a Boston intellectual who gets sick when he hears the names of famous and annoying celebrities.

Ottolini: Such as?

Merloni: Well, Donald Trump for one.

Fauria: So he’s always sick.

Merloni: Howard Stern, Alan Dershowitz.

Fauria: O. J. Simpson...Dennis Rodman...disgusting people.

Ottolini: So...

Fauria: One name is secret and everyone wants to know who it is.

Ottolini: Is he telling us now?

Merloni: No, but it wasn’t Gaylord Perry.  He released a statement.  It says:

PBC: Phillip and Cole’s Variety Team objects to all cheaters and those who profit by cheating, but Gaylord Perry was not the last name on Phillip’s list.

Fauria: What a surprise.

Ottolini: So, when will he tell us?

Fauria: If the right one dies I guess.

Ottolini: That might take...years.

Merloni: It has!  How long ago did we meet him, Chris?

Fauria: It must be...my God, 2015.

Merloni: Time flies.

Ottolini: So people are betting on this?

Merloni: All over the world.  I’ve got a list of the top 100 bets right here.  It’s not the newest list but...

Fauria: Are there any sports people on it?

Merloni: Yes, let’s see...Oh. no...Ted Turner is 16th place.

Ottolini: That covers sports, business, politics and celebrity.

Merloni: And Jane Fonda is in the top 10.

Ottolini: Somehow when I think of Jane Fonda the first thing I think of is not the Atlanta Braves.

Merloni, You’re not a Boston intellectual, Mego.

Ottolini: Thanks, ha ha.

Fauria: What about Belichick?

Merloni: Uhhhh

Fauria: Or Brady.

Merloni: Yes, here he is.  Belichick is 45th on the list and Brady...I just saw it, 57th.

Ottolini: So, do you think it might be one of them?

Merloni : I heard...he told a Brady joke long ago.

Ottolini: Inflated balls?

Merloni: That’s it.  He found a deflated ball behind the dresser so maybe his wife is having an affair with Tom Brady.

Ottolini: Ha ha ha.

Fauria: He he.

Ottolini: So I guess it’s not Tom Brady.

Merloni: Not necessarily.  He can’t talk about the people on his list too much because it makes Phillip sick.  So if he makes a lot of jokes about someone it’s usually evidence it’s not him.

Ottolini: So who do you guys think it is?

Fauria: Well if it’s sports it might go back to the 70s, maybe Keith Magnuson or one of the Philadelphia Flyers.

Ottolini: Bobby Clarke.

Merloni: Someone like that.

Fauria: Maybe Laimbeer and Mahorn.

Merloni: It could be Boston politics, someone like John Kerry.

Ottolini: And we won’t find out until the person dies?

Merloni: We can have fun with these updates forever.  You’re next on WEEI the sports hub.  

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (21-27 Nov 2021)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Hale’s Modern Encyclopedia of Playing Cards (and Dating Humans) (thepsychicclam) - 49K, Sterek, full HS AU

😊 Love That Journey for Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt’s Creek (Emily Garside) - a short collection of essays about Schitt’s Creek

🙂 Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables #6) (L.M. Montgomery, author; Barbara Barnes, narrator) - it did warm my completionist heart to bring the series to a close. I absolutely did love that they had a giant cat they named The Shrimp. And I was left a little breathless at the very end by the casually dropped info that Anne’s 2nd son will die in WWI. 

😊 The Rowdy Renegade (The Adventures of Nick & Carter #3) (Frank W. Butterfield) - I just continue to love watching Nick & Carter progress through the years

😍 The Compact (astolat) - 64K, HP - loved this expanded worldbuilding Arthurian transformation with political marriage and ambiguous choices

🙂 Cited to Death (Jamie Brodie Mystery #1) (Meg Perry) - perfectly satisfying cozy; I like that it’s queer and protagonist is an academic librarian; there’s the usual amount of background copaganda so ymmv

😊 The Wolf and the Sparrow (Isabelle Adler) - arranged marriage tropetastic romance fantasy

💖 +193K of shorter fic so shorter work shout out 💖

Bumpkin (bibliosexual) - Schitt’s Creek: Patrick x David, 2K - suuuuuper cute first meeting AU

Everything About It Is a Love Song (pocky_slash) - X-Men: Erik x Charles, 19K - Erik turns 79 and finally decides to retire with Charles to a small town in upstate NY and it’s both wonderful and takes a lot of adjustment. The series is called Old Retired Dudes and it’s delightful and feels very real.

Ten Kinds of Grateful (Speranza) - MCU: Stucky, 3K - a 4 Minute Window Thanksgiving fic. I legit got teary when I saw the notification for this. 

The Courtship of Mr. Bond (marlowe_tops) - James Bond: 00Q, 29K - reread; I just love this very loose P&P/Regency AU

[Podfic] So Loud & So Clear (quietnight) - MCU: Stucky, 3 hrs - great podfic of a great fic

[Podfic] sneeze disease (quietnight) - MCU: Stucky, ~45 min - absolutely love this hilarious so very married fic

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Modern Persuasion - more entertaining than I expected tbh. Wentworth the cat is the real star though.

Elementary - s1, e18-20

The Road to El Dorado - which I had never actually seen. 

Golden Girls - s1, e4

Frasier - s1, e1-2

Living Single - s1, e4

Schitt’s Creek - s4, e1-2;  s5, e13

Station 19 - s1, e1-4

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Strong Songs - “Space Oddity” and “Starman” by David Bowie

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Forgotten Songs Sound Sculpture

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Office of Collecting and Design

Strong Songs - “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys

99% Invisible #466 - The Weight

Stuff The British Stole - Strange Fowle

Shedunnit - Whodunnit?

Shedunnit - Surplus Women

Ologies with Alie Ward - Booster Coronasode: Shots & Holidays with Vaccine Infodemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - Ted Lasso S2E2: Like Tall Yodas

Strong Songs - Bonus Episodes: The Bridge On Olivia Rodrigo’s “Driver’s License”

Shedunnit - Crippen

You’re Wrong About - True Crime w. Emma Berquist

99% Invisible #467 - Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature

Shedunnit - Queer Clues

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - International Cryptozoology Museum

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Sunny Jim Cave

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Jagannath Temple

Shedunnit - The Lady Vanishes

Shedunnit - Crime at Christmas

Shedunnit - Adaptations (with Sarah Phelps)

FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH Patreon Crew! - Brendan Hunt - The Resurrection!

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Looking for Pawpaws

This is Good for You - Ep 20: Puzzles Are Good For You

Shedunnit - Edith Thompson

Shedunnit - Dining with Death

Strong Songs - "The Chain" and "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac

Shedunnit - The Rules

Shedunnit - Nurse Daniels

Shedunnit - The Other Detectives

Shedunnit - Round Robin

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting David Bowie

Presenting The Beach Boys

Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach [Yo-Yo Ma]

Presenting P!nk

Presenting Pet Shop Boys

Christian Kane

Crying On My Keyboards

Presenting Lenny Kravitz

Presenting New Order

[holden-norgorov]

Ultimate MBTI Fictional Characters List

Disclaimer: whenever I’m refering to a literary character, I am going to specify the name of the author of the literary work that he belongs to and its original publication date; instead, whenever I’m refering to a cinematic or a tv character, I’m going to specify only the period of time in which the movie or tv show I’m talking about was on air. Therefore there might be cases where a single character appears in multiple categories, depending on whether I’m refering to the original character or its movie/tv adaptation one. 

ENFJs.

Anna Karenina; Anna Karenina, L. Tolstoj (1878).

Bill Denbrough; It, S. King (1986).

Bob Armstrong; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Brook Soso; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Caroline Channing; 2 Broke Girls (2011-2017).

Catherine Earnshaw; Wuthering Heights, E. Bronte (1847).

Denahi; Brother Bear (2003). 

Denethor; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003). 

Derek Sheperd; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Drusilla; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Emma Woodhouse; Emma, J. Austen (1815).

Frankie Thomas; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Hans; Frozen (2013).

Horace Slughorn; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Judy Hopps; Zootopia (2016).

June Osborne; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Kala Dandekar; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly INFJ)

Lorna Morello; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Lucy Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010). 

Maeve Millay; Westworld (2016-present).

Margaery Tyrell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Martino Rametta; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Mufasa; The Lion King (1994).

Pacha; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

Primrose Everdeen; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Razumikhin; Crime and Punishment, F. Dostoevsky (1866). 

Robin Hood; Robin Hood (1973).

Snow White; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

ENFPs.

Aladdin; Aladdin (1992).

Amy March; Little Women (2019). 

Anna; Frozen (2013).

Ariel; The Little Mermaid (1989). 

Beth; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Clarisse McClellan; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953).

Chelsea Daniels; That’s So Raven (2003-2007).

Donkey; Shrek (2001-2010).

Dory; Finding Dory (2016).

Elizabeth Bennet; Pride and Prejudice (2005).

Gilderoy Lockhart; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Harper Finkle; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Izzy; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Jesper Fahey; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Koda; Brother Bear (2003).

Kronk; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

Lilo Pelekai; Lilo & Stitch (2002).

Luke Triton; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Marty; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Mike Wheeler; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Nick Dunne; Gone Girl, G. Flynn (2012). (Ne-Te Loop)

Nymphadora Tonks; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Peeta Mellark; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Piper Chapman; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Po; Kung Fu Panda (2008-2016).

Rapunzel; Tangled (2010). (possibly ESFJ in Loop)

Ron Stoppable; Kim Possible (2002-2007).

Sid; Ice Age (2002-2016).

Sierra; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Tom Scavo; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

ENTJs.

Alma Coin; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Annalise Keating; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020). (possibly INTJ)

Berlino; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Carlos Solis; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Cristina Yang; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Coriolanus Snow; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Diane Lockhart; The Good Wife (2009-2016). 

Elastigirl; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Eli Gold; The Good Wife (2009-2016). 

Elizabeth Swann; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

Esmeralda; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1996).

Gale Hawthorne; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Gale Weathers; Scream (1996-2011).

Jadis The White Witch; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Jafar; Aladdin (1992).

Johanna Mason; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Kathryn Marteuil; Cruel Intentions (1999).

Kim Possible; Kim Possible (2002-2007).

Lawrence Gordon; Saw (2004).

Lynette Scavo; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Minerva McGonagall; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Miranda Priestly; The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

Nina Zenik; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Olenna Tyrell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Scar; The Lion King (1994).

Sharpay Evans; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Tywin Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Vee Parker; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

ENTPs.

Alex Russo; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Amanita Caplan; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Andrew Wells; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Chris McLean; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Connor Walsh; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Dirk Gently; Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency (2016-2017).

Dustin Handerson; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Elsie Hughes; Westworld (2016-present).

Fleabag; Fleabag (2016-2019).

Grace Augustine; Avatar (2009). 

Haymitch Abernathy; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010). (possibly INTJ)

Jack Sparrow; Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017).

Jenny Calendar; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Jim Moriarty; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017). (possibly INFJ)

John Smith; Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).

Kevin McCallister; Home Alone (1990). 

Lyra Belacqua; His Dark Materials, P. Pullman (1995-2000).

Margo Dunne; Gone Girl, G. Flynn (2012).

Moana; Moana (2016).

Moira; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Niccolò Fares; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Nick Wilde; Zootopia (2016).

Nicky Nichols; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019). 

Phineas Fletcher; Phineas and Ferb (2008-2015).

Richie Tozier; It, S. King (1986).

Sebastian Valmont; Cruel Intentions (1999).

Sirius Black; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Tyrion Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Will Gardner; The Good Wife (2009-2016).

Winifred Burkle; Angel (1999-2004).

Xander Harris; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Yzma; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

ESFJs.

Aleida Diaz; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Capheus Onyango; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Coralee Armstrong; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Daniela Velasquez; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Daphne Blake; Scooby-Doo (1969-1976).

Dawn Summers; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Draco Malfoy; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Dwight Riley; Scream (1996-2011).

Effie Trinket; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Fleur Delacour; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Gimli; The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003).

Giovanni Garau; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Gloria; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Gloria Mendoza; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

John Watson; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017).

Isobel Stevens; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Leshawna; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Meg March; Little Women (2019).

Molly Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Nancy Wheeler; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Owen; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Peter Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Polly Plummer; The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis (1955).

Raven Baxter; That’s So Raven (2003-2007).

Rapunzel; Tangled (2010). (Fe-Ne Loop) (possibly ENFP)

Sansa Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Sophia Burset; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Tiffany Doggett; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Troy Bolton; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Wendy Darling; Peter Pan (2003).

ESFPs.

Asher Millstone; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Belch Huggins; It, S. King (1986).

Bellatrix Lestrange; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Black Cindy; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Buffy Summers; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Denver; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Eddie Thomas; That’s So Raven (2003-2007).

Eva Brighi; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Fliss Sidebotham; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Finnick Odair; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Geoff; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Glorificus; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Hercules; Hercules (1997).

Homer Roberts; The OA (2016-2019).

Jaime Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Jacob Black; Twilight Saga (2008-2012).

Jesse Pinkman; Breaking Bad (2008-2013).

Joffrey Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Kenai; Brother Bear (2003).

Lindsay; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Lito Rodriguez; Sense8 (2015-2018).

London Tipton; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

Max Russo; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Mildred Montag; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953).

Mr. Incredible; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Nemo; Finding Nemo (2003).

Oberyn Martell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Peregrin Took; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Peter Pan; Peter Pan (2003).

Ronald Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Sarah Sanderson; Hocus Pocus (1993).

Susan Mayer; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Theon Greyjoy; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Tokyo; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Wendy Wu; Wendy Wu: Homecomig Warrior (2006).

ESTJs.

Anya Jenkins; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Boromir; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Bree Van De Kamp; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Cal Hockley; Titanic (1997).

Cersei Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Cordelia Chase; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Courtney; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Dolores Umbridge; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Eustace Scrubbs; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Fred Waterford; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present). 

French; The OA (2016-2019).

Galina Reznikov; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Hector Barbossa; Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017).

Hermione Granger; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

James Norrington; Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017).

Justin Russo; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Lucas Sinclair; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Maddie Fitzpatrick; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

Michaela Pratt; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Mycroft Holmes; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017).

Raquel Murillo; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Renee Perry; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Robb Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Taylor McKessie; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Tiana; The Princess and the Frog (2009).

Wesley Wyndam-Price; Angel (1999-2004).

Will Gorski; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Winifred Sanderson; Hocus Pocus (1993).

ESTPs.

Alex; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Big Boo; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Bronn; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Chad Danforth; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Dash; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Deloris Van Cartier; Sister Act (1992).

Duncan; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Edie Britt; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Ethan Hunt; Mission Impossible (1996-present).

Faith Lehane; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Flynn Rider; Tangled (2010).

Fred Jones; Scooby-Doo (1969-1976).

Gabrielle Solis; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Ginny Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Henry Bowers; It, S. King (1986).

Jake Sully; Avatar (2009).

John Smith; Pocahontas (1995).

Kenny Tam; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Kuzco; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

Nairobi; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Ramsay Bolton; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Robert Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Steve Harrington; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Steve Winchell; The OA (2016-2019).

Tarzan; Tarzan (1999).

Taystee Jefferson; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Ygritte; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Zack Martin; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

INFJs.

Albus Dumbledore; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007). 

Alicia Florrick; The Good Wife (2009-2016).

Aslan; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Bernard Lowe; Westworld (2016-present).

Binx; Hocus Pocus (1993).

Cinna; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Daenerys Targaryen; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Elizabeth Bennet; Pride and Prejudice, J. Austen (1813).

Elsa; Frozen (2013).

Emily; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Galadriel; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Jim Moriarty; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017). (possibly ENTP)

John Kramer; Saw (2004).

Jo March; Little Women (2019).

Kala Dandekar; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly ENFJ)

Kidagakash Nedakh; Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).

Laurel Castillo; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Lord Varys; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Maritza Ramos; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Melisandre; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Prairie Johnson; The OA (2016-2019).

Richard Wilkins; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Rose DeWitt Bukater; Titanic (1997).

Rosie Cartwright; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Sitka; Brother Bear (2003).

Tara Maclay; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Tia Dalma; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

Todd Brotzmann; Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency (2017-2018).

INFPs.

Bella Swan; Twilight Saga (2008-2012).

Belle; The Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Beth March; Little Women (2019).

Bran Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Buck Vu; The OA (2016-2019).

Caspian; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Davy Jones; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

Dobby; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Dolores Abernathy; Westworld (2016-present).

Don Pablo; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Eddie Kaspbrak; It, S. King (1986). (Fi-Si Loop)

Eleonora Sava; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Eleven; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Faramir; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Frodo Baggins; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Gabriella Montez; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Jonathan Byers; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Kelsi Nilsen; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Luna Lovegood; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Missandei; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Poussey Washington; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Priest; Fleabag (2016-2019).

Quasimodo; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).

Remus Lupin; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Riley Gunnardottir; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly ISFP)

Rio; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Sebastian Wilder; La La Land (2016).

Violetta; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Willow Rosenberg; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Wylan Van Eck; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

INTJs.

Amy Elliot Dunne; Gone Girl, G. Flynn (2012).

Annalise Keating; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020). (possibly ENTJ)

Ben Hanscom; It, S. King (1986).

Edna Mode; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Elrond; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Felicia Tilman; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Fitzwilliam Darcy; Pride and Prejudice, J. Austen (1813).

Hap; The OA (2016-2019).

Haymitch Abernathy; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010). (possibly ENTP)

Heather; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Holden Caulfield; The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (1951). (Ni-Fi Loop)

The Professor; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Jane Smith; Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).

Kalinda Sharma; The Good Wife (2009-2016).

Katniss Everdeen; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Kaz Brekker; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Nomi Marks; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Paul Young; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Petyr Baelish; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Raskolnikov; Crime and Punishment, F. Dostoevsky (1866).

Robert Ford; Westworld (2016-present).

Saruman; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Serena Joy; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present). (Ni-Fi Loop)

Severus Snape; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007). (Ni-Fi Loop) (possibly ISTJ)

Sherlock Holmes; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017).

Nanny McPhee; Nanny McPhee (2005).

Theo Decker; The Goldfinch, D. Tartt (2013)

V; V per Vendetta (2005).

Voldemort; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Walter White; Breaking Bad (2008-2013).

Whispers; Sense8 (201-2018).

INTPs.

Alan Turing; The Imitation Game (2014).

Alice Liddell; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, L. Carroll (1865).

Arthur Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Beetee; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Digory Kirke; The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis (1955).

Edmund Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Faber; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953).

Foxface; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Gandalf; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Hernando Fuentes; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Hershel Layton; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Karen McCluskey; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Lewis; Meet The Robinsons (2007).

Meredith Grey; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Milo Thatch; Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).

Neo; The Matrix (1999).

Noah; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Oz; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Peter Pettigrew; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Samwell Tarly; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Suzanne Warren; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Velma Dinkley; Scooby-Doo (1969-1976).

    ISFJs.

Andrea Sachs; The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

Angel; Angel (1999-2004).

BBA; The OA (2016-2019).

Catelyn Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Cinderella; Cinderella (1950).

Cody; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Cody Martin; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

Gilly; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Jane Bennet; Pride and Prejudice, J. Austen (1813).

Jill Pole; The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis (1953).

Jorah Mormont; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Joyce Byers; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Joyce Summers; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Lyndz Collins; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Manny; Ice Age (2002-2016).

Mary Alice Young; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Mary Sanderson; Hocus Pocus (1993).

Matthias Helvar; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Melman; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Mia Dolan; La La Land (2016).

Mosca; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Narcissa Malfoy; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Neville Longbottom; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Nonnie Thompson; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Norma Romano; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Offred; The Handmaid’s Tale, M. Atwood (1985).

Samvise Gangee; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Sonya; Crime and Punishment, F. Dostoevsky (1866).

Talisa Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Tommen Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Victor Criss; It, S. King (1986).

William Turner; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

ISFPs.

Adam Faulkner; Saw (2004).

Arwen; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Arya Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Aurora; Sleeping Beauty (1959).

Bambi; Bambi (1942).

Beast; The Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Beverly Marsh; It, S. King (1986).

Bridgette; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Dayanara Diaz; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Eowyn; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Eve Hammond; V per Vendetta (2005).

Gwen; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Rubeus Hagrid; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Harry Potter; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Inej Ghafa; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Jack Dawson; Titanic (1997).

Jasmine; Aladdin (1992).

Jesse; The OA (2016-2019).

Jon Snow; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Loras Tyrell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Newt Scamander; Fantastic Beasts (2016).

Neytiri; Avatar (2009).

Patty Bladell; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Pocahontas; Pocahontas (1995).

Riley Gunnardottir; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly INFP)

Ryan Evans; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Shaggy Rogers; Scooby Doo (1969-1976).

Shrek; Shrek (2001).

Sidney Prescott; Scream (1996-2011).

Silvia Mirabella; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Simba; The Lion King (1994).

Spike; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Wes Gibbins; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Will Byers; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Yoga Jones; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

ISTJs.

Aragorn; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Bonnie Winterbottom; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Brienne of Tarth; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Claire; Fleabag (2016-2019).

Claudette Pelage; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Davos Seaworth; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Eddard Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Edward Cullen; Twilight Saga (2008-2012).

Emily Charton; The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

Farah Black; Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency (2017-2018).

Guy Montag; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953). (Si-Fi Loop)

Heathcliff; Wuthering Heights, E. Bronte (1847).

Janae Watson; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Jane; Tarzan (1999).

Jim Hopper; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Kendra Young; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Lucius Malfoy; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Marlin; Finding Nemo (2003).

Nick; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Porpentina Goldstein; Fantastic Beasts (2016).

Riley Finn; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Rupert Giles; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Ruth DeWitt Bukater; Titanic (1997).

Sana Allagui; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Severus Snape; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007). (Si-Fi Loop) (possibly INTJ)

Stanley Uris; It, S. King (1986).

Stannis Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Sun Bak; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Susan Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

William Parry; His Dark Materials, P. Pullman (1995-2000).

ISTPs. 

Alejandro; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Alex Karev; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Alex Vause; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Diego; Ice Age (2002-2016).

Emmy Altava; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Ferb Fletcher; Phineas and Ferb (2007-2015).

Frank Delfino; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Gendry; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Jim Hawkins; Treasure Planet (2002).

Legolas; The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003).

Man in Black; Westworld (2016-present).

Max Black; 2 Broke Girls (2011-2017).

Max Mayfield; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Megara; Hercules (1997).

Merry Brandibuck; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Mike Delfino; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Mike Hanlon; It, S. King (1986).

Mulan Fa; Mulan (1998).

Rebecca Sutter; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Sandor Clegane; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Tris Prior; Divergent (2014).

Viktor Krum; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Wolfgang Bogdanow; Sense8 (2015-2018).

[brightbeautifulthings]

A - C | D - H | I - L | M - O | P - R | S - Z | Recent

Reviews are alphabetical by author and then by title.

Paige, Danielle - Dorothy Must Die - The Wicked Will Rise

Palacio, R.J. - Wonder

Parker, Jeff - Future Quest, Vol. 1 - Future Quest, Vol. 2

Pascal, Francine - Sweet Valley High: The Evil Twin - Sweet Valley High: R for Revenge - Sweet Valley High: Return of the Evil Twin - Sweet Valley High: What Jessica Wants - Sweet Valley Twins: The Carnival Ghost

Peevyhouse, Parker - The Echo Room - Strange Exit

Peretti, Frank - House

Perkins, Stephanie - Anna & the French Kiss - Isla & the Happily Ever After - Lola & the Boy Next Door - My True Love Gave to Me - Summer Days & Summer Nights - There’s Someone Inside Your House - The Woods Are Always Watching

Perry, Sarah - The Essex Serpent

Pessl, Marisha - Neverworld Wake

Pierce, Tamora - Circle of Magic: Sandry's Book

Pike, Christopher - The Blind Mirror - Chain Letter - Chain Letter 2: The Ancient Evil - Execution of Innocence - Fall Into Darkness - Final Friends: The Dance - Final Friends: The Graduation - Final Friends: The Party - The Hollow Skull - The Last Vampire - The Last Vampire 2: Black Blood - The Last Vampire 3: Red Dice - The Last Vampire 4: Phantom - The Last Vampire 5: Evil Thirst - The Last Vampire 6: Creatures of Forever - The Midnight Club - Remember Me - Remember Me 2: The Return - Remember Me 3: The Last Story - Sati - See You Later - Spooksville: Aliens in the Sky - Spooksville: The Cold People - Spooksville: Creature in the Teacher - Spooksville: The Dark Corner - Spooksville: The Deadly Past - Spooksville: The Evil House - Spooksville: The Haunted Cave - Spooksville: The Hidden Beast - Spooksville: The Howling Ghost - Spooksville: Invasion of the No-Ones - Spooksville: The Little People - Spooksville: The Secret Path - Spooksville: The Wicked Cat - Spooksville: The Wishing Stone - Spooksville: The Witch’s Revenge - Strange Girl - Thirst 3: The Eternal Dawn - Thirst 4: The Shadow of Death - Thirst 5: The Sacred Veil - Whisper of Death

Pinguicha, Diana - A Curse of Roses

Poe, Edgar Allan - Complete Tales & Poems

Power, Rory - Burn Our Bodies Down - In a Garden Burning Gold - Wilder Girls

Powers, Richard - Prisoner’s Dilemma

Praski, Courtney - The Seven

Pratchett, Terry - Good Omens

Preston, Natasha - The Cabin - The Lake - The Lost

Pyle, Nathan W. - Strange Planet

Pynchon, Thomas - Inherent Vice

Ralph, Vincent - 14 Ways to Die

Ramsay, H.J. - Ever Alice

Raskin, Allison - I Hate Everyone But You

Raskin, Ellen - The Westing Game

Rave - The Shoebox Project

RayShippouUchiha - The Limitations of Wax

Reeds, Alice - Echoes

Reid, Raziel - Kens

Reiss, Kathryn - Time Windows

Remender, Rick - Captain America: Castaway In Dimension Z, Book One - Captain America: Castaway in Dimension Z, Book Two - Captain America, Vol. 3: Loose Nuke - Hail Hydra

Rex, Adam - The True Meaning of Smekday

Rex, Katy - Sweet Valley High: Academic All-Star?

Reynolds, Jason - Long Way Down

Reynolds, Madeline J. - Illusions - The Time Traveler’s Guide to Modern Romance

Rice, Anne - Interview with the Vampire - The Vampire Lestat

Richards, Natalie D. - What You Hide

Rickert, M. - Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

Riggs, Ransom - Hollow City - Library of Souls - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Tales of the Peculiar

Ringle, Molly - The Goblins of Bellwater

Rio, M.L. - If We Were Villains

Riordan, Rick - The Battle of the Labyrinth - The Blood of Olympus - The House of Hades - The Last Olympian - The Lightning Thief - The Lost Hero - The Mark of Athena - The Sea of Monsters - The Son of Neptune - The Titan's Curse

Roberts, Nora - Dance Upon the Air - Face the Fire - Heaven and Earth

Rodriguez Wallach, Diana - Small Town Monsters

Romasco Moore, Maria - Some Kind of Animal

Rosoff, Meg - How I Live Now

Roux, Madeleine - Asylum

Rowell, Rainbow - Almost Midnight - Any Way the Wind Blows - Attachments - Carry On - Eleanor & Park - Fangirl - Kindred Spirits - Landline - Pumpkinheads - Runaways, Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home - Runaways, Vol. 2: Best Friends Forever - Runaways, Vol. 3: That Was Yesterday - Wayward Son

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Harry Potter and the The Cursed Child - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Rubin, Julia Lynn - Trouble Girls

Ruby, Laura - Bone Gap

Russell, Karen - Sleep Donation

Ryan, Carrie - The Dark & Hollow Places - The Dead & Empty World - The Dead-Tossed Waves - The Forest of Hands & Teeth

[perfectday1972]

2020 reading list

hello lovelies! my goal is to read 52 books next year, written by authors that are women/poc/lgbt+. i would love some input for books to read, so if you have any recommendations, please send me an ask! here are the books i have on my list so far:

white teeth - zadie smith

the house of mirth - edith wharton

if beale street could talk - james baldwin

slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion

norwegian wood -  haruki murakami

the awakening - kate chopin

mrs. dalloway - virginia woolf

the brief wondrous life of oscar wao - junot díaz

exit west - mohsin hamid

americanah - chimamanda ngozi adichie

to the lighthouse - virginia woolf

the wind-up bird chronicle - haruki murakami

never let me go - kazuo ishiguro

pride and prejudice - jane austen

little women - louisa may alcott

jane eyre - charlotte bronte 

the handmaid’s tale - margaret atwood 

wuthering heights - emily bronte 

one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcí­a márquez 

beloved - toni morrison

one day we’ll all be dead and none of this will matter: essays - scaachi koul

the feminine mystique - betty friedan

bad feminist - roxanne gay 

trying to float: coming of age in the chelsea hotel - nicolaia rips

what is not yours is not yours - helen oyeyemi 

boy, snow, bird - helen oyeyemi

on beauty - zadie smith 

her body and other parties - carmen maria machado

the paper menagerie - ken liu

homegoing - yaa gyasi

the mothers - brit bennett 

little weirds - jenny slate

the sympathizer - viet thanh nguyen 

between the world and me - ta-nehisi coates

the farm - joanne ramos 

long live the tribe of fatherless girls - t kira madden

good talk - mira jacob

women talking - miriam toews

the new me - halle butler

the affairs of the falcóns - melissa rivero

gingerbread - helen oyeyemi

queenie - candice carty-williams

normal people - sally rooney 

trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion - jia tolentino

severence - ling ma

with the fire on high - elizabeth acevedo

frankly in love - david yoon

emergency contact - mary h.k. choi

the library of lost things - laura taylor namey 

the remains of the day - kazuo ishiguro

barracoon: the story of the last “black cargo” - zora neale hurston

heart berries - terese marie mailhot

if they come for us - fatimah asghar

the poet x - elizabeth acevedo

the girls - emma cline

the fire next time - james baldwin

the female persuasion: a novel - meg wolitzer

circe - madeline miller

when katie met cassidy - camille perri

laura & emma - kate greathead

the great believers - rebecca makkai

so far so good - ursula k. le guin

play as it lays - joan didion

manhattan beach - jennifer egan

modern lovers - emma straub

if not, winter: fragments of sappho - sappho

i might regret this: essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff - abbi jacobson 

paperback crush: the totally radical history of ‘80′s and ‘90s teen fiction - gabrielle moss

conversations with friends - sally rooney 

julie the maniac: a novel - juliet escoria 

brazen: rebel ladies who rocked the world - pénélope bagieu

choose your own disaster - dana schwartz

passing - nella larsen

awayland: stories - ramona ausubel

wide sargasso sea - jean rhys

if, then: a novel - kate hope day 

the mandarins - simone de beauvoir 

the dreamers: a novel - karen thompson walker

pulp - robin talley 

the care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls - anissa gray 

the murmur of bees - sofía segovia

blue nights - joan didion

autobiography of red - anne carson

swing time - zadie smith 

the source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations- toni morrison

i’ll give you the sun - jandy nelson

the ninth hour - alice mcdermott

girls burn brighter: a novel - shobha rao

red at the bone - jacqueline woodson

costalegre - courtney maum

[melaniem54]

Review: Stoned to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 8) by Meg Perry

Rating: 3🌈 Stoned to Death is book 8 and I’ve already bought two more, but based on this, and the reviews I just read yesterday for book 22 , released oddly enough in 2022, I think I can say I’m done with this series and probably Meg Perry. And that’s a shame because I’ve really enjoyed the mystery aspects of the series, the dynamics between the Brodie family, and getting to see the interesting…

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Christian Reyes seems to be confirming it's Tyler Perry. NID. Here goes Meg's hope of starring in a TP production in 2024. PS: Am I the only one whose alarm bells start ringing "CREEP" every time I see TP's face? by u/kebyian2070

Christian Reyes seems to be confirming it's Tyler Perry. NID. Here goes Meg's hope of starring in a TP production in 2024. PS: Am I the only one whose alarm bells start ringing "CREEP" every time I see TP's face? ​edit: bungled his name, sorry. It's Christian Keyes. post link: https://ift.tt/jmKkZdO author: kebyian2070 submitted: December 21, 2023 at 08:16PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[thedudereviews]

Twilight (2008) Soundtrack: A Time Capsule of the Tweenage Phenomenon

Dude Notes: This one was requested by my good friend Meg, and is my first film soundtrack review. Here goes nothing!

When I first was contacted to write this review, I thought to myself: How the hell am I going to do this? I was never big on movie soundtracks growing up, preferring instead the much more user-friendly musical soundtracks a la Phantom of the Opera or The Lion King. Those, at least, knew how to tell a story through music. Or, that’s at least what I thought before diving into this. 

The soundtrack to Twilight doesn’t really do the best job of telling the story of the film (or the book, for that matter; a hopelessly romantic love triangle between a vampire, werewolf, and a mortal girl who just can’t seem to choose between the two of them for a solid two novels out of the four book-long series), but that’s not really the point here. Most film soundtracks are meant to be there as backdrops to the film itself, noticeable exceptions aside (looking at you, Howard Shore), and this one does its job. Songs like “Supermassive Black Hole” and “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” do a fairly decent job at covering both sides of the “love” aspect of the film, the former being a testament to the early, exciting, forbidden love between Edward and Bella, and the latter showcasing the more mellow emotions that often blossom between two young (or in this case, young-ish) teenagers who truly have feelings for one another. 

The rest of these songs, barring Perry Farrell’s god-awful “Go All the Way (Into the Twilight)”* are more than serviceable at displaying the angst both the author and the film’s producers definitely want the intended audience of this film to feel, with two cuts by Paramore being highlights: “Decode”, about how Edward can’t read Bella’s mind, and how that affects their relationship; and “I Caught Myself”,  presumably about whether or not Bella really wants to continue the relationship she’s in with a dangerous vampire who may or may not one day either turn her or drink her blood, killing her.  So, bottom line: Would I recommend this? Probably not, unless you enjoy compilations about supernatural teenage angst; which, in this day and age, is anyone’s guess. Though I will say this: it is a fascinating document in a really weird time in American cultural history, a period of five years where this and its sequels was pretty much all anyone really wanted to talk about, if you were in middle or high school, and that’s definitely worth something to the right people. 

*This song is so bad that I’m convinced they added it in here strictly because it had the name of the move in the title. 

[thestageyshelf]

SOLD 🎭 Bad Girls @ Union Theatre 2016 (#16)

Title: Bad Girls

Venue: Union Theatre

Year: 2016

Condition: Good condition

Author: Book by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus. Music and lyrics by Kath Gotts

Director: Will Keith

Choreographer: Jo McShane

Cast: Ceili O'Connor, Sinead Long, Christine Holman, Imelda Warren-Green, Livvy Evans, Jayne Ashley, Catherine Digges, Sarah Goggin, Francine Rowan, Gareth Davies, Maggie Robson, Tori Hargreaves, Perry Meadowcroft, Amy Christen-Ford, Meg McCarthy, Eloise Davies, Melissa Potts

FIND ON EBAY HERE

[drunkbooksellers]

Ep 17: Holland Saltsman - The Novel Neighbor

Epigraph

Welcome to episode 17! We're interviewing the a.m.a.z.i.n.g Holland Saltsman, owner of The Novel Neighbor in Webster Groves, MO.

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  Chapter I

In which We Discuss Bookstore Bathrooms, Discover that Staff Picks Work, and Talk About... Books...

Before we start drinking, check out Novel Neighbor's bathroom:

We’re Drinking

It's too hot for bourbon, so we're rocking dirty gin martinis out of mason jars, coffee mugs, and martini glasses (apparently Kim's the classy one this episode).

  Holland's Reading

Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom by A E Hotchner (for Novel Neighbor's Subscription program)

Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss (pubs 10/30/18)

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King (the audiobook is read by LeVar Burton!)

Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen

The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop (pubs 10/23/18)

Emma's Reading

I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Betwixt-And-Between: Essays on the Writing Life by Jenny Boully

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Kim's Reading

Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity by Arlene Stein

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Forthcoming & Newly-New Titles We're Excited About

Hannah's Excited About

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky (pubs 2018 Oct 2)

The Disasters by M K England (pubs 2018 Dec 12) - The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy!

Hungover: The Morning After and One Man's Quest for the Cure by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall (pubs 2018 Nov 20)

Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

Kim's Excited About

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (author of Half-Blood for folks who love Sing Unburied Sing and The Underground Railroad. author of Half-Blood Blues)

Monstress Volume 3 by Marjorie Liu

Vengeful by V E Schwab (follow up to Vicious)

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza (author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait)

Emma's Excited About

Severence by Ling Ma

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Also mentioned: The Murders of Molly Southbourne

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell and Mike Feehan (author of the Flintstones comic reboot)

Bonus Podcast Recommendation: Super Skull

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (pubs 2 Oct 2018)

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (pubs 23 Oct 2018)

Y'all. Hot take here. Staff picks work! Emma had a staff pick on All the Lives I Want and Holland actually picked it up at Elliott Bay while visiting Seattle before our episode! (Shout out to our episode with Amy Stephenson from The Booksmith, who initially recommended it to us, and to our favorite audiobook provider, Libro.fm.)

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Chapter II [26:37]

In Which No One Tells Holland She's Crazy, People Love Their Greeting Cards, The Drunk Booksellers Marvel at Novel Neighbor's Ability to Handsell Events, and We Reiterate that Bookstores are a Business (whaaaa?)

The Novel Neighbor: More Than A Bookstore

The Novel Neighbor is not just a bookstore. In addition to author events, they host birthday parties, summer camps, bookstore yoga, and adult classes (like continuing ed, but sexier), among other things (sorry Amanda!).

Recommended reading for staff retreats:

StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura VanderKam

Beware of squirreling, y'all.

  Chapter III [47:06]

In Which We Move From Books to Books, Talk About Hybridity, and We Finally Meet a Bookseller Who Has Read Harry Potter

Book Description Guaranteed to Get You Reading 

Anything meets anything. NOT "It's the next" NOT EVERYTHING IS THE NEXT HUNGER GAMES, Y'ALL. Hybridity.

Holland loved a book that was Comic Con meets The Help. FYI, it's called The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson.

Emma recommends Hawkeye by Matt Friction. It's Buffy meets Veronica Mars. Which apparently is listed on Emma's shelf talker. But, like, who reads those?

Desert Island Pick

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Emma hasn't finished The Secret Garden, but The Little Princess might be Emma's Desert Island pick. That said, she hearts Mandy by Julie Andrews, which is kinda the same thing, so that counts, right?

Station Eleven Picks

Practical: anything from the Did you Know shelf, such as How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere by Bradford Angier

Political: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Wild Pick

The Amazing Adventures of a Nobody and The Kindness Diaries: One Man's Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Around the World by Leon Logothetis

Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama

Bookseller Confession

Holland hated Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney. Also, she never read Catcher in the Rye, which both Kim and Emma are totally okay with. Emma says you should skip Catcher and read Franny and Zooey. 

Shout out to a bookseller who has actually read Harry Potter.

Go-To Handsell

Best book Holland has read since she opened the bookstore (whoa): The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood

Kids of Appetite by David Arnold (if you liked Outsiders, read this)

Go-To Picture Books:

Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast by John Funk, illustrated by Brendan Kearney

Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Meg Hunt

Impossible Handsell

Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick (author of Silver Linings Playbook and The Reason You're Alive)

FYI: Emma's really into Richard Gere.  

Book for Booksellers

Throw back to Laura VanderKam

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris

Favorite Bookstores

Flyleaf Books - Chapel Hill, NC

Elliott Bay Book Company - Seattle, WA

Strand Book Store - New York, NY

novel. - Memphis, TN

The Last Bookstore - Los Angeles, CA

Road Trips are for bookstores, right?

Favorite Literary Media

Shelf Awareness

What Should I Read Next Podcast (hosted by Anne Bogel, author of Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything and I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life)

Book Riot

Drunk Booksellers

Epilogue

In which we tell you where to find Novel Neighbor on the Internets

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Facebook: @novelneighbor

Twitter: @novelneighbor

Instagram: @novelneighbor

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Just A Ranking Of Every Stupid Role Ruby Rose Has Ever Played

Before she was Batwoman, she was a sexy she-wolf named Byanka.

Australia’s own Ruby Rose has just been announced to star as Batwoman in DC’s TV universe. If you’re not familiar with her work, should you be excited?

Ruby Rose has been carving out a curious niche in the acting world for a few years now, with her role in Orange is the New Black’s third season launching her to overseas success. She will play Kate Kane in a big DC TV crossover later this year, and potentially go on to star as the Jewish lesbian crime fighter in her own Batwoman show.

Given that Ruby Rose has been steadily gaining bigger and bigger roles in blockbusters – including giant-shark film The Meg, which is just around the corner — playing Batwoman could really cement her stardom. Although if you go by The Meg’s IMDb page, she already is a star: according to IMDb’s STARMeter, Rose gets top billing over Jason Statham.

As a star, Rose is defined by a weird, inexplicable aura that permeates all her roles. She’s defined by Ruby Rose Energy.

Now, you’re probably familiar with the concept of Big Dick Energy, but you may not have heard of Ruby Rose Energy. Ruby Rose Energy is Big Dick Energy’s non-binary cousin. Ruby Rose Energy is effortlessly cool, but also quietly daggy.

It’s becoming a movie and TV star while always being slightly unable to escape your past as an MTV Australia VJ, or someone who got into a brief Twitter feud with Josh Thomas over unpaid Veuve at a Melbourne club. It’s having real life charisma disproportionate to what necessarily translates on screen — just like the good old days!

Ruby Rose Energy is being the first person to quit The 7pm Project. It’s not being recognisable to virtually anyone over 40, and dating a Veronica in the year 2018. As one commenter said on yesterday’s casting news, “she’s like, everything”.

Make no mistake – this is a loving tribute to Ruby Rose and the utterly specific, weird space she has carved out in Australian pop culture since the early 2000s. There’s a lot you can learn about Ruby Rose Energy from the names of characters she plays, so here’s a ranking of all the character names she is credited with playing on IMDb – ranked by least-to-most Ruby Rose Energy.

Queer women: Please cast out queer actors in queer roles!!! CW: *casts Ruby Rose* Queer women: This is an attack

— Brittani Nichols (@BisHilarious) August 7, 2018

Presumably as a result of some mix-up on the first day on set that no one was brave enough to correct, the name of Ruby Rose’s character in this cliché-ridden Australian spin on Dangerous Minds is Hannah, while Christina Ricci’s is, no joke, Dino Chalmers.

It is with great regret that I must place Hannah at the bottom of this list, and that I cannot officially say that Dino motherfuckin’ Chalmers is a perfect exemplar of Ruby Rose Energy.

Though her performance was terrific as a woman who more or less does nothing until she gets hilariously sucked into a giant fan, the character’s name — Abigail — has very low Ruby Rose Energy and, as such, sits near the bottom of the list.

Abigail is the name of a pretty girl you pretend to like in primary school so people don’t think you’re gay, not the name of a character played by devastatingly handsome genderfluid star Ruby Rose.

Though I will never watch this weird Crocodile Dundee tourism ad, I do appreciate the rich complexity of giving a Ruby Rose character a title and a position of authority. That said, in its most Ruby Rose form, ‘Chief’ would be the character’s given name, and as such it falls on the lower end of the scale.

Ruby Rose plays a mute assassin in the John Wick franchise, and her character is named for the Greek god of war – which means we’re getting to the good shit.

But beyond the strong concept, it feels a bit pianissimo in execution; may I suggest it lengthens in John Wick: Chapter 3 to ‘Ares McIliad’ or perhaps ‘Ares Bazooka’?

Ruby Rose Energy is about throwing subtlety to the wind.

I know what you’re thinking: what name could possibly be more Ruby Rose than ‘Ruby Rose’?

Well, since her full birth name is Ruby Rose Langenheim, ‘Ruby Rose’ is technically only 44% of that, meaning it’s slightly below average Ruby Rose Energy.

My interest in Pitch Perfect 3: Aca-merican Imperialism is precisely zero, but Calamity is exactly the kind of Ruby Rose character name I come to IMDb to see.

Less impressive is the movie thinking that Ruby Rose-as-Calamity would be the front-woman of a generic guitar band called Evermoist instead of the lead singer of a desperately edgy Christian lady-rock group called SHEviticus, or GALatians, or The GeneSisters, and so on.

Calamity has the toughness of Ruby Rose Energy, but lacks that certain je ne sais quoi.

Where were you when all of America discovered Stella Carlin, and thus Ruby Rose, at once?

Was it the same place you were when Ruby tweeted about Katy Perry’s Witness, calling it “purposeful poop” and “bomb a petit”? Or when she threw a “singular fry” at a restaurant owner?

No name on this list better exemplifies the Ruby Rose Energy tendency to get into beefs with low-grade celebs that no one but tabloids would ever care about. Stella Carlin is what happens when Ruby Rose Energy gets captured in essence but lost in translation.

It’s trying just a little bit too hard.

The beauty of the current Golden Age of Ruby Rose Character Names is how often the names just sound like full sentences in and of themselves.

Adele Wolff.

I already feel like I’ve known this character my whole life. Like I’ve already followed her journey from digital marketing graduate to Instafamous, gluten intolerant Byron Bay-based wellness blogger, which I am convinced is where Ruby Rose would be at without her tattoos.

Jaxx Herd is, frankly, incredible.

The Meg pic.twitter.com/QnTjRWjxx8

— Ruby Rose (@RubyRose) July 31, 2018

What’s even more incredible is that this Ruby Rose character looks more like the human reboot of Charlize Theron’s haircut in Aeon Flux than any of the others (and they all do, a little) and honestly, I’m here for it.

Wikipedia says Bianca, but IMDb says Byanka, which is so Ruby Rose I can’t stand it.

And truly, is the root of the human condition not the internal war we wage over whether we are a Bianca or a Byanka?

Anyway, this movie looks bananas, Ruby Rose’s character is an overly sexualised she-wolf, and the script was co-written by someone who goes by the name ‘1kg Sugar’.

If the idea of Ruby Rose playing a character named Wendy the Android (lol) on a Canadian sci-fi show makes you think, “Huh, I wonder if they made her a horny killer fuckbot?”

The answer, unequivocally, is yes.

That they named her Wendy like she’s one of the nice mums working at a primary school tuckshop is just *Italian chef kiss* molto bene. It’s the perfect combination of ‘maybe this is the next step in human evolution’ and ‘Lorna Jane loyalty card owner’.

TheDailyMail.com Seriously Popular™ People’s Choice Award-loser Ruby Rose as… Woman.

That’s it, kids.

That’s Ruby Rose Energy.

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Laurence Barber is a freelance writer, editor and award-winning film and television critic based in Sydney. He is on Twitter @bortlb.

Source: http://junkee.com/ruby-rose-characters/170757