#babylon david gray

[anniquepickett]

Mood… I always loved this song, but it means so much more to me now.

“ Let go of your heart, let go of your head, and feel it now.” 

[ed-recoverry]

List of free audiobooks on YouTube for anyone interested

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Alice in Wonderland

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H P Lovecraft

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Village by Caroline Mitchell

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (fuck JKR)

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Upside Down by Danielle Steel

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Theif

Accidentally Married by Victoria E. Lieske

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Collector (book one) by Nora Roberts

The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

Dead Man’s Mirror by Agatha Christie

The Hobbit

The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey

The Good Neighbour by R J Parker

The Island House by Elana Johnson

Desperation by Stephan King

The Healing Summer by Heather B. Moore

The Last Affair by Margot Hunt

To Be Claimed by Willow Winter

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Inn by James Patterson

Wonder by R J Palacio

Faking It With The Billionaire by Willow Fox

The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum

The Catcher in the Rye

The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark

Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean

Death of a Nurse by M C Beaton

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Frozen Betrayal by Clive Cussler

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Line of Fire by R J Patterson

Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen

The Remnant by Tim LaHaye

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

Payment in Kind by J A Jance

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Marriage of Anything but Convenience by Victorine E. Lieske

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Inheritance Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The Kama Sutra by Mallanaga Vatsyayana

The Wisdom of Father Brown by G K Chesterton

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robin Hood by J Walker McSpadden

The Poor Traveller by Charles Dickens

Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Atomic Habits by James Clear

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Man After Man

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Charlotte’s Web

Midsummer Mysteries by Agatha Christie

Out of Silent Planet by C S Lewis

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harai

Hamlet by Shakespeare

[unearthlytraveller]

Babylon 5 Rewatch: Season 1 Episode 16, Eyes

I had to delay this one from the weekend.

This is an episode I think I like more in concept than execution. It does a great job in paying off season 1, and all the times Sinclair et al did the right thing rather than the political thing. It also continues several themes that will be very important in the season to come. Still, I tend to think of it as just a run of the mill first season episode.

We've got a pretty good pair of guest actors. I think B5 often struggled with its one-off guests, but this week we have Jeffrey Combs and Gregory Martin; last week we had David Warner and William Sanderson. Of course, the week before that was TKO, and next week we have another underwhelming performance; we've just been lucky.

On this rewatch, Combs as Harriman Gray strikes me as much more interesting than before. He plays him really sympathetically, and reminds us that for all the obvious problems with Psi Corps, most telepaths are just normal people. But, does that excuse his actions, his willingness to scan people against their will to test their loyalty? Perhaps this affects me more than the last time is that my current job is not the most moral thing I could be doing; and I'm only doing it for the money. So, should I turn those questions around and point them at myself?

I tend to forget the subpot with Lennier. It's a pretty obvious example of something that exists mostly to fill time and give Bill Mumy something to do; and he does it well. But it's thematically unrelated and ultimately inconsequential.

Finally, here's a card from the CCG, chosen for the quote and image taken from this episode:

[scatter-the-stars]

You know you’re an original klaine shipper when the song Babylon by David Gray makes you think of that great fic that had the same title and was inspired by the song.

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

David Gray - Babylon (Official Video)

[elismor]

9 People You Want to Get to Know

Tagged by: @kbirbpods (about a million years ago now--sorry!)

Three ships: Cody/Wooley, Cody/Rex, Waxer/Boil and a bonus life-partners ship to be read any way you like: Monaboyd

First Ship: Monaboyd.

Last Song: Babylon, David Gray

Last Movie: The newest Mission Impossible

Currently reading: Almost done with Siege: Star Wars Legends

Currently watching: House of the Dragon, Rings of Power, Young Sheldon (wow, what set)

Currently eating: Nothing.

Currently craving: A three week vacation and a stack of empty notebooks.

Listen, 9 people is a lot and, well, I don't wanna. So, consider yourself tagged if you want to play. :)

[hammerbacks]

url song titles

i was tagged by @skatingthinandice to write out my url using song titles!

heart (disco mix) by pet shop boys ain't no doubt by jimmy nail maybe someday by simply red muscle memory by kamille & nile rogers escapade by janet jackson ride on time by black box babylon by david gray all time high by rita coolidge closing time by semisonic kissing a fool by george michael slide away by oasis

tagging @bishybarnaby @sportsnights @claustrophobicandexcatholic and anyone who wants to have a go! ☺️

[thesunseaset]

David Gray - Babylon

[frodothefair]

Numbers 9 and 13 for the ask game, perhaps?? Also congrats on finishing the Rivendell story!! I saw that was up and I know you've been working hard on it!!

The ask game in question

9. Top three fics you’ve written (in author’s opinion)? ♡♡♡

Hmm. I'll limit this just to the ones currently published as I'd rather not discuss my past anime fic writing career on this space. There are only three fics currently published. I'd rank them as follows:

Rivendell (thanks for the congrats, btw! It was fun to write!) This is simply because it's actually a finished, cohesive piece. I know I said I might write more, and likely still will, but the way it is now works as a shandalone.

Flowers of Mordor. This is because it’s still not written all the way to the end, and I am still not 100% happy with a couple of the chapters in the middle, so am putting them through another round of edits. But overall it's my longest-running project to date, and also my longest fic ever (there may have been one prior fic that just crossed the 100k mark), and of course I love the way Marigold turned out, as well as Frodogold as a couple.

Expats. The fun first chapter got written, but I don't know if I have what it takes to write the whole story, because heck if I know anything about how Hollywood works, especially its more unsavory parts. But then again... if it's just fanfiction, how accurate does it really have to be when it's all in good fun?

13. Drop a playlist for a story! ♪♡♪

Ok, um. You have to realize you asked for this. You have only yourself to blame. A lot of the songs on my fic playlists have to do with not just the overall gestalt and concepts of the fic, but specific scenes and even lines, and I am here to explain it all.

Here's the definitive playlist for Flowers of Mordor. Tagging @konartiste per our special pact.

(cut for minor spoilers.... also for being long):

"Dawn" theme from the Pride and Prejudice 2005 soundtrack. A must for the Austenian vibe.

"Poppy's Song, Wandering Day" by Bear McCreary from Rings of Power. The singer sounds exactly what I think Marigold sounds like.

"I Dreamt I Dwelled in Marble Halls" as performed in the Dickensian Finale. Sam/Rosie relationship vibes. I imagine Rosie singing this song for an audience in the tavern, but looking at Sam all the while -- which is essentially what happens in the finale of Dickensian.

"Halo" by Beyoncé, arranged for strings for Bridgerton. Pippin arranges this song for violin and writes a Shire-compatible version of the lyrics as a candidate for the first dance music at the Frodogold wedding.

"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston, arranged for strings for Bridgerton. Another candidate wedding song by Pippin.

"Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge" by Françoise Hardy. Marigold vibes: sweet innocent girl slightly wistful that everyone her age is in a relationship and she is not... yet.

"Portugeuse Love Theme" from Love Actually. Love reunited theme.

"On my Own" from Les Miserables. Direct inspiration for the following excepts from Chapter 16: "Marigold had found herself lying awake for hours, watching the starlight in the trees and thinking, with surprising nonchalance, “Oh, dear, I guess I cannot sleep.” And when she did at long last fall asleep, then the dreams would begin, and Frodo would appear before her, and together they would walk and talk until morning." Original lines: "in the darkness the trees are full of starlight and all I see is him and me forever and forever" and "I walk with him till morning."

"Nessun Dorma" from Turandot. Needs little explanation, I think. Frodo is an insomniac.

"In Dreams" by Roy Orbison. But when Frodo does sleep, he has a lot of dreams.

"Dreams are My Reality" from the movie La Boum. Again a reference to Frodo's many dreams.

"Babylon" by David Gray. Inspiration for the scene where Marigold kicks through the autumn leaves in Chapter 13.

"May it Be" by Enya. Probably needs no explanation either.

"Everywhere" by Michelle Branch. Vibes of Marigold being in unrequitedly in love and seeing Frodo in everything around her, wondering if he feels the same.

"Flora's Secret" by Enya. Vibes of Marigold and Frodo lying in the grass, holding hands and staring at the sky grinning like idiots.

"Don't Talk To Me About Tomorrow" by Sandra Lisa. A song the Gamgee family ensemble would perform poorly but enthusiastically at... oh, Midsummer or something.

"Love The Way You Lie" by Eminem ft. Rihanna. Directly referenced by this except in Chapter 20: "She loved him so much that she could not deny him. Even if he said that she should burn, she would burn. And even if he said that he would watch her, there, at the edge of that forest – watch her with indifferent eyes as she screamed and burned to death – she would only have welcomed it; she would have only been glad of such an end." Original line: "gonna stand there and watch me burn? That's alright, because I love the way you lie."

"Black Sheep" by Metric. Referenced by the following line in Chapter 3: "And then there was him and Sam, lying on a rock amid flows of lava, waiting for the world to end." Original line: "hello again, friend of a friend, our common goal was waiting for the world to end."

"Concerning Hobbits" from The Lord of the Rings. No explanation needed, again.

"Je suis malade" by Lara Fabien. Vibes of Marigold screaming in the woods in chapter 20.

"Blue Hydrangeas" by Lana Del Rey. Chapter 8 is literally called "Of Lembas and Hydraneas," and Bag End is referenced as having blue hydrangeas in the garden. Blue hydrangeas symbolize regret. Also, it's repeatedly mentioned that Marigold would run to Frodo if only he called her... though in the end she... actually does not? Not immediately? Because you don't jerk someone around for months and then get away with it scot-free.

"The Rosenkavalier Suite" by Richard Strauss. It has like three lovely waltzes rolled into one, and Frodo must teach Marigold something similar to a waltz for their first dance together at the wedding.

“Here we come a-caroling” as performed by Blackmore’s Night. The Gamgee a slightly modified version of this song in Chapter 19 while caroling on Yuletide Eve.

Béma above... what did I just spend 30 minutes of my life on? Lol.

[authortobenamedlater]

I’ve been playing with my B5/Halo crossover AU lately and finally wrote the intro.

The thing that’s kept me from writing more here is I can’t decide if I want Chyler in this timeline or not. I’ve been leaning toward no because FSATAS predates MWAS, but Chyler being around feels natural now and I kind of default to it. But I feel like I should do something different. But I’ve tried to make up OCs to fill the first officer role and none of them click. Sheridan gets Delenn, shouldn’t Lasky get some action too? Don’t we need a scene with our two captains grousing about their women?

You aren’t here for this. I’m probably never going to actually write this crossover so I don’t know why I’m agonizing so much. Here’s what you ARE here for.

—

If Commander Susan Ivanova had learned one thing in her two years as Babylon 5’s first officer, she had learned that situations could change rapidly.

Therefore, it shouldn’t have surprised her when a ship she didn’t recognize appeared seemingly out of nowhere right outside Command and Control. 

She was surprised anyway.

It’s huge, was Ivanova’s first thought. Bigger than anything the Earth Alliance had and bigger than any alien craft she could think of. Long, dark gray with a blue glow at what Ivanova assumed was the stern and several thin structures protruding around the hull. Sensors? Weapons?

“What’s that?” Someone asked.

“Excellent question,” Ivanova replied dryly as she took in the scene. This huge, unfamiliar ship looked adrift. 

“Lieutenant, did we detect a jump point?” Ivanova asked, turning away from the sight outside of the station.

“No, ma’am,” Lieutenant David Corwin answered from his station near the back, looking as befuddled as Ivanova felt. “Should I try to open a channel?”

“Do it,” Ivanova ordered. She hit her communicator. “Ivanova to Sheridan. Captain, we need you in C&C.”

****

The UNSC Infinity dropped out of slipspace like a rock.

Pain exploded in Captain Thomas Lasky’s ribs, then his knees, as he crashed into the holotable at the center of the bridge and then the floor.

“What the hell was that?” The captain demanded of no one and everyone. He grabbed the edge of the table and hauled himself to stand.

“I don’t know, sir,” Infinity’s AI said, his golden avatar flickering in and out. 

The bridge lights dimmed, then surged, then went out completely, then surged again.

Lasky heard a shriek from behind him. His comms officer was hunched over, blood gushing out of her nose, onto her panel, and all over the deck.

Oh, God. “O’Hara! Hang on.” Lasky fumbled under the table for the first aid kit and sighed in frustration as he cracked it open. The roll of gauze wouldn’t do much against O’Hara’s nosebleed, but it was all he had.

“Hey. Hey.” Lasky hurriedly balled up the gauze and pressed it to the lieutenant’s face. “Lean forward.” He crouched beside O’Hars guided her free hand to the bridge of her nose. “Pinch.”

O’Hara nodded through a whimper. Lasky absently noticed the blood dripping down his sleeve.

The ship lurched and Lasky grabbed O’Hara’s chair to keep from falling over. The lights dimmed and finally returned to normal brightness. 

Lasky looked around to see his crew pulling themselves off the floor, calling for and offering help, asking what was happening. At first glance, no one seemed seriously injured. 

No one here, at least. Maybe the rest of the ship had similarly lucked out.

“Roland, what happened?” Lasky stood up.

Eight inches of yellowish-orange, 1940s-style pilot assembled on the table. “Infinity dropped out of slipspace unexpectedly.”

Lasky squelched a comment about stating the obvious. “Do we know why?”

“No, Captain.”

“Where are we?” Lasky took a breath and winced as his ribs protested. “Casualty reports?”

“None yet, sir, but it’s possible I’m not receiving—“

“Captain?” O’Hara interrupted. “I think we’re being hailed.”

****

“What’s going on?”

Ivanova looked over her shoulder at Babylon 5’s commanding officer. “See for yourself.”

Captain John Sheridan squinted out the viewport. “What is that thing?”

“That’s the question of the hour.”

“Definitely not one of ours,” Sheridan mused. “Doesn’t look like any alien ships I’ve seen.” He pointed. “No rotating sections.”

Ivanova frowned. Sheridan was right. 

“You said it just appeared?” Sheridan asked. “No jump point or jump gate activation?”

“That’s right,” Ivanova confirmed. 

“Can we talk to them?”

“Corwin’s working on it.”

“Commander, I’m having a hard time with that channel,” Corwin spoke up. “This vessel doesn’t seem to operate on any of our frequencies.”

“Their engine signatures don’t match anything we have on file, ma’am.” Another lieutenant added.

“Ivanova.”

Ivanova followed Sheridan’s gaze to the mystery ship. 

“UNSC Infinity?” Sheridan read. “We don’t have a ship named Infinity.”

“If we do, it’s news to me,” Ivanova mused. “And I don’t know what ‘UNSC’ is supposed to mean.”

“I might have something!” Corwin called. “They might be able to hear us, Captain.”

Sheridan pushed the button. “This is Captain John Sheridan of Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5 to…” his brow furrowed slightly, like he couldn’t quite believe what he was saying. “UNSC Infinity. Do you need assistance?”

****

“It’s not a familiar frequency, sir,” O’Hara said shakily. The red-haired officer punched a few buttons with the hand not holding her now-useless wad of gauze. “I’m trying to isolate it.” She swiped at her watering eyes.

Lasky worriedly eyed the blood still pouring out of O’Hara’s nose and unthinkingly rubbed her back. “How you feeling, lieutenant?”

“If you want the truth, sir, I have felt better.”

Lasky chuckled and bit back another wince.

“I’ve got it! I’ve got it!” O’Hara announced. She shuddered and pinched her nose again. “Ow.”

Lasky clapped her shoulder. “Good work. Let’s hear it.”

“—ance? Peat—five—need—“”

“Can you clean it up?” Lasky asked.

O’Hara touched a few more buttons. “Trying, sir.” Her voice sounded a little stronger.

“—Babylon 5, do you need assistance?”

“What’s Babylon 5?” Lasky heard someone ask. He waved a hand for silence.

“Repeat, this is Captain John Sheridan of Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5 to UNSC Infinity, do you need assistance? Repeat, this is Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5–“

Lasky tapped his ear. O’Hara nodded and routed the transmission to his earpiece. 

“—Captain John Sheridan of Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5 to UNSC Infinity, do you need assistance?”

Now might not be the time to ask questions, but if it were, Lasky would have asked what the hell the Earth Alliance was. “This is Captain Thomas Lasky of the UNSC Infinity, we read you, Babylon 5,” Lasky answered. But we have no idea who or what you are.

“Do you need assistance, Infinity?” The male voice on the other end asked. 

“Ah,” Lasky looked around his bridge. Sparks flew, thumps and scuffles came from all corners, crew members verbalized their pain and confusion. “only all we can get.”

“Do you need medical assistance?” A woman’s voice said.

Lasky looked at O’Hara. “That’s affirmative.”

“Captain, I have reports now of injuries on all decks,” Roland said from the holotable. “Some major.”

Lasky closed his eyes briefly. “We could sure use a place to dock and sort out our situation.” He realized belatedly that this Babylon 5 might not even have that capacity and not for the first time cursed the lack of windows on the bridge. He understood the security angle, especially after the UNSC had lost so many ships to the Covenant, but he really needed to see what he was dealing with right now.

“We’ve got you covered, Infinity,” Sheridan didn’t sound flustered, so Lasky assumed the request must be feasible. “Do you have engine power?”

Lasky turned to the holotable. “Yes,” he said after reading through the preliminary damage report. “But I don’t know how much. We took quite a hit.”

“Copy, Infinity, we’re sending a Starfury escort your way,” Sheridan said. “Hold your position.”

What’s a Starfury? “Holding position. ETA?”

A short pause. “Twenty minutes.”

“Copy, Babylon 5. Infinity out.”

“Babylon 5 out.”

“Captain, I have external cameras online,” Roland said.

Lasky nodded. “Let’s meet our new friends.”

A few seconds later the main display lit up. 

Babylon 5 didn’t look like anything Lasky had ever seen, human or otherwise. Ships swarmed around the five spherical rotating sections and what looked like solar panels. It was hard to tell on a screen (another reason Lasky wished for a simple window), but the station looked bigger than Infinity’s three and a half miles by a decent margin.

We stopped using rotational gravity a century ago. Lasky felt a strange unease wash over him.

“What is that?” Someone near the front breathed.

“Is it Sangheili?” Another officer wondered.

“It’s not ours, that’s for sure,” a third voice added.

“Sensor power is still minimal,” Roland said. “But neither Babylon 5 nor any craft I can detect matches the UNSC or Covenant.” 

Lasky’s unease grew. The UNSC didn’t have stations. Neither did any Covenant races. 

Where are we?

And how did we get here?

****

“Captain.”

Sheridan looked at his first officer.

“Are you sure about this?” Ivanova said quietly enough for no one else to hear. She flicked her eyes to Infinity. “We don’t know anything about these people. Where they’re from, how they got here.”

“No, Commander, we don’t,” Sheridan agreed. “But we’re obligated to assist any vessel in distress, and it looks to me like Infinity qualifies.” He offered what he hoped was a reassuring smile. “Guess we’ll have to get to know them. A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met yet, right?”

Ivanova gave him a skeptical look. “If you say so, sir.” She straightened her uniform jacket. “I’ll go see to the preparations. We’re about to have a lot of company.”

Sheridan nodded his assent and looked through the transparent steel separating him from the vacuum of space.

“Where did you come from, UNSC Infinity?” Babylon 5’s captain murmured. “And how did you get here?”

[frankensteinmutual]

✨🪆✨

hi deirdre 🌱

the summer of '91 - ...and you will know us by the trail of dead

bloodhail - have a nice life

babylon - david gray

quicksand - the story so far

last train to london - electric light orchestra

[ulmo80]

📚Books I've read in 2023📚

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. The Quiet Gentleman, Georgette Heyer

3. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James

4. The Book of Magic, Alice Hoffman

5. Abaddon's Gate, James S. A. Corey

6. The Blue Castle, L. M. Montgomery

7. Cibola Burn, James S. A. Corey

8. The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi

9. The Foundling, Georgette Heyer

10. Hamlet, William Shakespeare

11. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

12. Dangerous Women, Anthology Edited by George R. R. Martin

13. Artemis, Andy Weir

14. The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket

15. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

16. The Last Olympian, Rick Riordian

17. Gerald's Game, Stephen King

18. Mirror in the Mirror: A Labyrinth, Michael Ende

19. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

20. Nemesis Games, James S. A. Corey

21. Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

22. The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket

23. Rogues, Anthology Edited by George R. R. Martin

24. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

25. Babylon's Ashes, James S. A. Corey

26. Arabella, Georgette Heyers

27. The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket

28. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

29. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

30. The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket

31. The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket

32. Fire and Blood, George R.R. Martin

33. Anne of Ingleside, L. M. Montgomery

34. Rainbow Valley, L. m. Montgomery

35. The Carnivorous Carnival, Lemony Snicket

36. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams

37. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

38. The Slippery Slope, Lemony Snicket

39. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

40. The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket

41. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

42. A Civil Contract, Georgette Heyer

43. The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket

44. The End, Lemony Snicket

45. The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr

46. Y colocín, colorado... Tú, David Safier

47. The Hitchshiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

48. The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup

49. El Juego del Ángel (The Angel's Game), Carlos Ruiz Zafón

50. The Prison of Freedom, Michael Ende

51. Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Chrétien de Troyes and Godefroi de Leigni

52. A Room with a View, E. M. Foster

53. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

54. La Cocinera de Castamar (The Cook of Castamar), Fernando J. Núñez

55. Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King & Owen King

56. Love Among the Chickens, P. G. Wodehouse

57. The King's Man, Elizabeth Kingston

58. 1984, George Orwell

59. My family and other animals, Gerald Durrell

60. The Princess Bride, William Goldman

61. Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Gerald Durrrell

62. The Garden of the Gods, Gerald Durrell

63. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris

64. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris

65. Club Dead, Charlaine Harris

66. Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch

67. Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris

68. Dead as a Doornail, Charlaine Harris

69. Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris

70. All Together Dead, Charlaine Harris

71. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris

72. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris

73. Moon Over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch

74. Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris

75. A Touch of Dead, Charlaine Harris

76. Kiki's Delivery Service, Eiko Kadono

77. Whispers Under Ground, Ben Aaronovitch

78. The Inimitable Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse

79. Persepolis Rising, James S. A. Corey

80. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell

81. El Silencio del Asesino, Concha López Narváez. I read it because one of my students asked me. She had to read it for school (she's in 9nth grade), and want for me to explain her the end because she got confussed and doubted her reading comprhension. It's a murder mystery withouth the mystery, omniscient narrator that's a jumping POV, and the cheapest plot twists at the end. It was painful, a mess. Poor girl, of course she was confussed.

82. Drive, James S. A. Corey

83. The Churn, James S. A. Corey

84. The Butcher of Anderson Station, James S. A. Corey

85. The Last Flight of the Cassandra, James S. A Corey

86. Tiamat's Wrath, James S. A. Corey

87. Gods of Risk, James S. A. Corey

88. The Vital Abyss, James S. A. Corey

89. Strange Dogs, James S. A. Corey

90. Auberon, James S. A. Corey

91. Cotillion, Georgette Heyer

92. The Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[loverhymeswith]

Ten Song Tag Game

Rules: Shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.

Thanks for the tag, @runnning-outof-time 💕 My 'on repeat' is heavily influenced by my current WIPs at the moment.

Tango Til They’re Sore - Tom Waits

Faith Hope Love - Starsailor

Monsters - Funeral for a Friend

What's Wrong - PVRIS

Babylon - David Gray

Black Magic - Jarvis Cocker

Cemetery Weather - Craig Owens

Seven Day Mile - The Frames

The Funeral - Band of Horses

Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood

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