#kevin jemison

[petnews2day]

Case advances against Nebraska man accused of leaving dogs in extreme cold

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Case advances against Nebraska man accused of leaving dogs in extreme cold

Courtesy Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — The case of a Nebraska man accused of leaving his dogs out in subzero temperatures was sent to district court on Tuesday. Kevin Jemison, 40, is charged with two counts of cruel neglect of an animal resulting in death or serious injury. On a frigid January […]

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[ironworked]

Let's look at that list from Geeks for Harris:

Starring (in alphabetical order):

Andy 'Brak' Merrill, Anthony Rapp, Bill Nye, Bill Prady, Chace Crawford, Corey Booker, Curtis Armstrong, Danneel Ackles, Dave Foley, Dave Hill, Dru Levasseur, Elie Mystal, Eric Kripke, Erin Moriary, Felicia Day, Frank Conniff, Gail Simone, Garrett Reisman, George Takei, Gloria Steinem, Hal Sparks, Jack Quaid, Jacqueline Emerson, Jamia Wilson, Jennifer Taub, Jensen Ackles, Jeri Ryan, Jessica Carter Altman, Jim Beaver, Jody Hamilton, John Fugelsang, John Grunsfeld, Jon Cryer, Jonathan Frakes, Kaela Joseph, Karen Fukuhara, Kevin Woo, Kim Rhodes, Laz Alonso, LeVar Burton, Lindy Li, Lynda Carter, Mae Jemison, Mark Hamill, Mark Sheppard, Mary Trump, Matthew Modine, Megan Smith, Misha Collins, Mona Sinha, Nancy Altman, Nia Bentall, Patty Jenkins, Paul Booth, Rachel Miner, Rep. Robert Garcia, Rep. Andy Kim, Rep. Wiley Nickel, Richard Speight, Rob Benedict, Robert Picardo, Ruth Connell, Sean Astin, Sian Proctor, Stacey Abrams, Tammy Duckworth, Tanya Cook, Tim Russ, Valorie Curry, Wajahat Ali, Waseem Daher Wheatus, Wil Wheaton, Yvette Nicole Brown, Zakiya Thomas.

[gender-snatched]

What books did you get from the library??

Hold Still - Nina LaCour

Bad Witch Burn - Jessica Lewis

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

Ander and Santi Were Here - Jonny Garza Villa

Nate Plus One - Kevin van Whye

The City We Became and The World We Make - NK Jemison

And various comics about varying things, from queer anthology, Miles Morales, V For Vendetta, Star Trek, and one by Neil Gaiman

[profzook]

FROM THE DESK OF PROFESSOR KEVIN ZOOK…

Wednesday, 2022-SEP-28

FROM THE DESK OF PROFESSOR KEVIN ZOOK…

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY 

1 Peter 4:8: “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”

WORD OF THE DAY

Kerfuffle (ker-FUFF-ul); noun; a disturbance or commotion typically caused by a dispute or conflict.

Explanation: Kerfuffle is an informal word that means “a disturbance or fuss typically caused by a dispute or conflict.”

Example: The reclassification of Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet caused quite a kerfuffle among astronomy lovers.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1066 A.D.: William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

FUN FACT OF THE DAY

#12: Parkinson’s Law describes the fact that an employee needs as much time for a task as he has available for it.

STAR TREK FACT OF THE DAY

#12: Mae Jemison, the first female African-American astronaut, was inspired to apply to NASA by the Star Trek character, Lieutenant Uhura. Jemison later went on to make a cameo appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

THE FERENGI RULES OF ACQUISITION

Ferengi Rule #31: Never make fun of a Ferengi's mother…insult something he cares about instead.

THE 48 LAWS OF POWER BY ROBERT GREEN AND JOOST ELFFERS

Law 12: Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim è One sincere and honest move will cover over dozens of dishonest ones.  Open-hearted gestures of honesty and generosity bring down the guard of even the most suspicious people.  Once your selective honesty opens a hole in their armor, you can deceive and manipulate them at will.  A timely gift – a Trojan horse – will serve the same purpose.

@profzook = Blogger, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Gab, Parler, Patreon, Locals, Pinterest

WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Viber = +1-480-528-1656

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have War Dogs

[greenapricot]

I was tagged by @inspector-loki

Relationship status: married (for 20 years depending on how you count)

Favorite colors: green, always green

Lipstick or chapstick: chapstick (there is always some in my pocket)

Last song I listened to: Something by either Radiohead or American Analog Set while I was driving

Last movie I watched: In the theater: Infinity War. At home: either Joe Maddison’s War (Kevin Whately and Robson Green in the home guard during WWII, rather charming esp w/their full northern accents) or rewatching Brick. (Mostly I watch British Detective shows so it’s hard to remember the last movie.)

Top 3 shows: Lewis, Endeavour, The Hour

Currently reading: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemison

Time: 8:41 pm

Last thing I googled: The company name written on a very elaborate 3D printed chess piece I found at a friend’s workplace (which is a free school makerspace for kids)

Song stuck in my head: Slipped by The National (because I named my most recent fic with a line from it and now every time I get a notification about receiving kudos my brain continues with the lyrics from where the end of the fic title left off)

Tagging @daisyfornost, @jameshathaways, @ancientreader, @thetimemoves, @gingerpop42

[allisonmoon]

Love's Not Colorblind with Kevin Pattesron

Polyamory educator and comic book aficionado Kevin Patterson joins Artgasm to talk Black Panther, Get Out, Black masculinity, and his deep love for the X-Men. 

Plus:

The Oppression and Privilege of Polyamory | Race and Polyamory | Being a Sports Nerd | Masculinity and Open Relationships | Being a “Blerd” | Gatekeeping Fandom | Black Masculinity on Film | Black Dystopia vs. Black Utopia | Afrofuturism | Beefs with Characters Who Don’t Kill | The Problem with Single Readings on Subjects | Flawed Blackness vs Black Perfection | X-Men As Family | Superheroes with a Social Message | Ryan Coogler’s Repertoire | When Superhero Movies Go Deeper | Fruitvale Station |  Non-Toxic Masculinity in the MCU | Erik Stevens as Batman | Being a Black man with white partners | The Evil Genius of the Get Out Villain | Escalation of Microaggressions | Afrofuturism | NK Jemison & Nnedi Okorafor & Janelle Monae

 Find out more about Kevin:

Poly Role Models on Tumblr: http://polyrolemodels.tumblr.com/

Poly Role Models: https://twitter.com/polyrolemodels

Love’s Not Colorblind: http://a.co/g94g7PW

 Notes from the opening:

The Story of Emmett Till: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

 A Portrait of Artist Dana Schutz’s Son Reframes Issues of Consent and Appropriation 

https://hyperallergic.com/447550/hamishi-farah-dana-schutzs-portrait-appropriation-consent-liste-art-fair/

 Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till

https://hyperallergic.com/368290/censorship-not-the-painting-must-go-on-dana-schutzs-image-of-emmett-till/

[iquotation]

Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational quotes and motivational quotes have the power to get us through a bad week, and can even give us the courage to pursue our life’s dreams. Here are 100 inspirational quotes: 1. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse 2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill 3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein 4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost 5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale 6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky 7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan 8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart 9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth 10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone 11. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. –Kevin Kruse 12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon 13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale 14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain 15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll 16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker 17. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha 18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb 19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates 20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen 21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs 22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi 23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey 24. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso 25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus 26. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou 27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn 28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford 29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain 30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra 32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar 33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin 34. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh 35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle 36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus 37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson 38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau 39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck 40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington 41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb 42. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt 43. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair 44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato 45. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides 46. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe 47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon 48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb 49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller 50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius 51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank 52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu 53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou 54. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama 55. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg 56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle 57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb 58. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown 59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie 60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown 61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine 62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington 63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci 64. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti 65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong 66. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan 67. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin 68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby 69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein 70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb 71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach 72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot 73. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey 74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh 75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown 76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers 77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren 78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray 79. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens 80. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser 81. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks 82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius 83. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey 84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama 85. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou 86. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan 87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr. 88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt 89. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins 90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem 91. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison 92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills 93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt 94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses 95. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand 96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford 97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln 98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale 99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin 100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn 101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs 102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

[whitneygd]

That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to go on: Exhibition Graphics

On view from May 23, 2017 through June 10, 2017, this exhibition featured the works of Julia Phillips, Kevin Beasley, Brendan Fernandes, Babette Mangolte, Martine Syms, Silvia Kolbowski, Lorenza Mondada, Nicolle Bussien & Sara Keel, Steffani Jemison, Marvin Luvualu Antonio, and Aisha Sasha John.

[urbanchristiannews]

The Indie Gospel Artists Conference Emerges In Atlanta March 9-11, 2017

The Indie Gospel Artists Conference Emerges In Atlanta March 9-11, 2017

A new conference that will focus directly on the independent gospel industry from product conception to the point of purchase has emerged.  Music industry executive Roderick Jemison, CEO of Jemison and Associates and Bishop William L. Sheals of Hopewell Baptist Church have teamed up to bring a unique conference to the Metropolitan Atlanta region March 9-11, 2017.  The Indie Gospel Artists…

[artsychica2012]

(via Kevin Hart’s bringing all the black history you never learned to a new History Channel show | Fusion)

The History Channel announced Friday that comedian and movie star Kevin Hart will produce and star in a two-hour special focused on little-known black historical figures.

“Kevin Hart Presents: The Black Man’s Guide to History,” which is slated to air later this year, will open with Hart’s pre-teen daughter feeling distraught after watching the movie “12 Years A Slave.” Hart will spend the show challenging his daughter’s perception that black history begins and ends with stories about slavery and oppression with re-enactments of the lives and discoveries of important black figures from history, a statement from A+E Networks said.

Among the pioneers that will be featured in the program are Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space; Matthew Henson, the first man to reach the North Pole (a feat that history conveniently forgot); Robert Smalls, a former slave who led a rebellion on a Confederate ship and eventually became a politician; and Henry “Box” Brown, a former slave who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden crate.

“I’m very excited to be working with History on this show because not only is it entertaining, and it’s hysterical, but it also is an important program for our country right now,” Hart said in a statement. “We hope to make people laugh and learn a bit too.”

[asfatheatrearts]

Meet The Director

Chalethia Williams, Theatre Instructor at Miles College is an Actress, Director, Writer, Workshop Instructor, Arts Educator and all things “Artsey” is directing our Spring 2017 production of Shirley Lauro's A Piece of my Heart performing February 24, 25 and 26 in the Dorothy Jemison Day Theatre on the campus of the Alabama School of Fine Arts.

She has an MFA from Western Illinois University a BA from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX.  She returned to Birmingham after completion of an Apprenticeship at the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX.   Soon after she performed in the premier show of the Terrific New Theatre where she has been on their board since 2006.

Chalethia is a member of the Actor Equity Association (the professional actor/stage manager union), earning her card performing with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery. One of her favorite stage roles was as Mama Nadi in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, produced by Aldridge Repertory Theatre and City Equity Theatre. 

Her TV credits include The Rosa Parks Story with Ms. Angela Bassett Cecily Tyson and The Conviction of Kitty Dodds with Veronica Hamel and Kevin Dobson. She can be heard on the radio as the voice of several McDonald’s Commercials. 

Chalethia is an experienced educator having taught classes at UAB, University of Montevallo, Spelman College in Atlanta and Miles College in Birmingham.  She participated in the Lincoln Center Institute for Aesthetic Education in New York as well as the director for the Academy of Fine Arts Summer Drama Camp for ten years. 

In 2000, she created Milk n Cookies, Inc., a cultural arts and educational center aimed at exposing children and their parents to the arts, beginning in North Birmingham and spreading throughout the world. 

 I am always thankful for the opportunity to share my talents with each and every one of you and forever grateful to my deceased parents for their love and support of my interest and my PASSION, the ARTS.  –Chalethia Williams.

[capsulereview]

Read in 2017: July - November (39 - 86)

39. The Stone Sky (N.K. Jemison): Jemison uses the last book in the series to pull it all back together and make sense of it. I highly, highly recommend this series.

40. Hunger: A Memoir of My Body (Roxane Gay): there’s so much ambivalence and so much realness in this book, things about living in a woman’s body, in a larger body, in a black body. Roxane Gay is really, really remarkable, and it’s powerful to read her wrestling with the different ways the world we live in treats her because of the body she’s in.

41. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland): Makes time-travel seem plausible, comes up with a new and interesting set of ideas about why time travel is problematic, and is a super fun and dorky procedural. I hope there’s a sequel; I’ll read the hell out of it.

42. The Spider’s War (Daniel Abraham): A fitting conclusion to the Dagger and the Coin series, which has so many of my favorite characters. 

43-45. Behind the Throne, After the Crown, Beyond the Empire (K.B. Wagers): A princess who had run away from her family and found her place as a gun runner is forced to come home, become empress, and learn that her criminal skills are actually pretty helpful in destroying the people who are trying to destroy her empire. I will never not be here for a space opera with a strong female protagonist. 

46. Provenance (Anne Leckie): Set in the same universe as Imperial Radch, but in a completely separate area of that universe. I love how Leckie handles the idiosyncrasies of cultures and individuals and how the way we decide what matters seldom makes a lot of sense.

47. This is Just My Face (Gabourey Sidibe): Based on this book and every interview I’ve heard of her, Sidibe is smart as hell and a delight to be around. It was fun spending a couple of hours with her. 

48. Magic for Nothing (Seanan McGuire): I [heart] the InCryptid series more than any of McGuire’s other series, under any of her pseudonyms. The plot just rollicks along, the characters are enjoyable, and Aeslin mice might be my favorite fictional creature ever. This is the one at the carnival.

49. Turtles All the Way Down (John Green): Perfectly good, but didn’t transcend the teenageriness like some of Green’s previous books.

50. Moonglow (Michael Chabon): Chabon’s work always feels weirdly autobiographical, despite the fact that it’s fantastical. This book that feels like a family history even if it isn’t, really, doesn’t fall too far from the tree. I loved adding to my Yiddish vocabulary.

51. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Seth Stephens-Davidowitz): Really accessible book, well-described by its title.

52. Scurvy: the Disease of Discovery (Jonathan Lamb): The kind of popular non-fiction I really enjoy, this time on the topic of scurvy.

53-56. Quarters series (Tanya Huff): There are adventures to be had in a country where bards can usually convince elemental spirits to do their bidding, and more adventures at the borders of countries that don’t have bards. Competent world building and characterization, strong positive (and negative) characters of all genders and orientations, enjoyable overall. The four books are Sing the Four Quarters, Fifth Quarter, No Quarter, and the Quartered Sea.

57-59. Bel Dame series (Kameron Hurley): Three books (God’s War, Infidel, Rapture): The author describes this series as bug punk, which I love. Super violent, super weird, unlike other things I’ve read (I mean, insect-based technology?). Not so much feminist as equally hateful of every kind of person. But still SUPER compelling.

60. Rich People Problems (Kevin Kwan): More misadventures from insanely rich, insanely entertaining Singaporean families. 

61. A Peace Divided (Tanya Huff): I can never get enough of former Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr and her multi-species band of lovable, capable mercenaries. This is the one where they free hostages taken during an archeological dig.

62-67. Jacqueline Carey’s D’Angeline Books. Two series, Kushiel’s Legacy (Kushiel’s Dart, Kushiel’s Chosen, Kushiel’s Avatar) and Kushiel’s Legacy (Kushiel’s Scion, Kushiel’s Justice, Kushiel’s Mercy) based in a culture that is explicitly sex-affirming but also chock full of political machinations. Very enjoyable light reading, also pretty silly. But fundamentally better written than some of the other light reading; the world building character development remained internally consistent, which I appreciate.

68. The Girl with All the Gifts (M.R. Carey): At least it was a new way to do post-apocalyptic zombie fiction, and the plot roared along at pace.

69-70. The Furthest Station and Foxglove Summer (Ben Aaronovitch): I really enjoy this series about the secret section of the London police force that deals with the supernatural. It’s well done and fun. With the branching off into graphic novels, it’s a little too hard to keep track of everybody and everything without referring to a reading order guide and doing way more legwork to track down graphic novels.

71. Sorceror to the Crown (Zen Cho): A solid effort from a newer writer; I love a novel set in a world analogous to past eras of our world. Kind of reminded me of Marie Brennan’s Lady Trent series. 

72-73. Graceling and Fire (Kristin Cashore): Solid YA. Both are basically variations on a main character with super strong powers has self-doubts, but ultimately works through them. In Fire, she also finds romance and incidentally helps save the kingdom in which she lives.

74. Downbelow Station (C.J. Cherryh): I read this because I wanted to figure out whether I could get into this series, and I couldn’t. It’s space opera with martial law, double-crossing, and mysteriously altruistic aliens. Maybe it was just too 1982 for me to really love in 2017.

75. The Book of Joan (Lidia Yuknavitch): I don’t think I really understood what was going on in this book, but it was definitely dystopic AF.

76-77. Dragonsbane and Dragonshadow (Barbara Hambley): Kind of a fantasy dystopia with dragons and demons; I could relate to the exhausted exasperation of the main characters, but I just don’t need to add the darkness of the Winterlands to the darkness in the real world. 

78-79. The Witchlands Series (Susan Dennard): These two books (Truthwitch and Windwitch) feel like allegories for the mysterious power of teenage girls living in a world that seems designed to crush that power. Solid effort, consistent world building, interesting characters, just maybe a little too much teenness for me.

80. Daggerspell (Katharine Kerr): Some people love this book with it’s jumping around in time reincarnation style; it turns out, it didn’t make much of an impression on me in the sea of fantasy and space opera I’ve been reading, so I might not spend more time in this world.

81. All Grown Up (Jami Attenburg): A series of vignettes about what a bummer it can be to try to figure out how to be a halfway decent person in the real world.

82. Assassin’s Fate (Robin Hobb): Mostly, I keep reading this to see things through to the end. More plot twists, more people screwing up other people’s lives because they can’t communicate, dragons, magic, mystery. Perfectly serviceable. It feels like Hobb crammed too many books in this world into too short a time. I think I can stop reading series set in this world now.

83. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (Al Franken): I really enjoyed this when I read it, but the newly emerging allegations of Al Franken’s habit of inappropriately touching women now just make me sad.

84-85. Queen of the Tearling and Invasion of the Tearling (Erika Johansen): I enjoyed the first book enough to read the second, but I felt like I missed a book where a lot of the development of characters made 90 degree turns. The world building got very incoherent; I believe that the intent was suspense, but it didn’t work for me and I don’t think I’ll bother with the third.

86. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (Curtis Craddock): The world-building had too many ideas crammed into a magical steampunk world; the chunks of religion, magic and science didn’t really hang together coherently, and characters’ motivations were implausibly all over the place.

[edtrends]

For the first African-American woman in space, her path to spaceflight and beyond includes trying to pave the way for more girls of color to follow in her footsteps.

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✊ @Regrann from @_blacktivistt_ - COMEDIAN KEVIN HART TEAMS WITH HISTORY CHANNEL TO TELL UNKNOWN STORIES ABOUT THE HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BLACK PEOPLE HAVE MADE TO SOCIETY Famous American comedian Kevin Hart will host a new special that looks into the stories of black icons lost in U.S. history and also serve as executive producer through his Hartbeat Productions. Kevin wants to bring true stories about black heroes to life in an entertaining way. The two-hour show will be released this year and will start with comedian`s daughter becoming frustrated that it seems like black history is only about enslavement and oppression. However, Harts doesn`t agree with his daughter and seeks to educate her about some the more obscure Black figures in history. For instance, Hart is going to talk about is Henry “Box” Brown, an enslaved Black man who mailed himself to abolitionists in the free state of Philadelphia in 1849. Hart will also bring stories about Mae Jemison, the first black astronaut, and many other black icons. Today, when the schools and universities do not teach students about black people who have made some incredible contributions to society, it`s important to tell people that there are more diverse stories about black history. That`s why it`s important to share black history in a way that`s easy for children to understand. It`s important to remember black icons` powerful speeches, contributions, and deeds. Remember black people, you do not need to have one-month celebrating black history. You should celebrate black culture activism at best every single day. #Blacktivist#hotnews #KevinHart #black#africanamerican#blacklivesmatter#blackgirls#blackwomen#blackman#westandtogether#altonsterlingblackpower#proudtobeblack#blackbusiness#blackunity #blackis#melanin#icantbreath#blackpride#blackandproud#dreamchasers#neverforget #sayhername #ChinaraButler - #regrann