#michelle alameddine

[wingedshadowfan]

darlington has been left in the dust by literally everyone in his life and either been forced to or chosen to be loyal to them regardless and that's what makes him such a tragic character, he can't help it

his parents who left him because they didn't care about him and just wanted to sell the house, whose murders he still regretted

his grandpa who loved the stupid house and the family name more than him, for whom he endured living there alone for so long

sandow who sent the hellbeast after him, michelle who couldn't bother trying to save him - all symbols of lethe, whose board didn't even want to acknowledge he was gone, and which he still serves as virgil and alex's personal demon

magic itself, which doomed him, almost killed him multiple times, and which he's forever indebted to for saving him

alex herself, who spoke no words of protection and let the hellbeast swallow him, to whom darlington is now tied to forever because get this, she's the only one who chose to be loyal back

[sporadiceagleheart]

This is Thursday April 11th 2024 is for those victims that was gunned down and also for the Manchester Arena victims that was bombed down as well they aren't just rappers wrestlers kids or dreamers but they are angels sent back to heaven Ava Jordan Wood, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Saffie Rose Roussos, Pop Smoke, Young Dolph, Tupac Shakur and Christopher George Latore Wallace, Natalia Victoria Wallace, Shinzo Abe, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Rev, Martin Luther King Jr., Secoriea Turner, Royta De'Marco Layfield Giles Jr., Davon McNeal, Dajore Wilson, Mekhi James, Judith and Maria Barsi, Janari A. Ricks, Carolyn Kay “Katy” Davis, Christiana Mae “Chrissy” Duarte, Shirley Virginia Ferrell Drouet, Stacee Ann Etcheber, Brisenia Ylianna Flores, Keri Lynn Galvan, Christian Riley Garcia, Angela Christine “Angie” Gomez, Jaime Taylor Guttenberg, Nicole Marie Hadley, Caitlin Millar Hammaren, Linda Sue Miller Hathorn, Aubrey Wright Hawkins, Demetrius C. “D” Hewlin, Rachael Elizabeth Hill, Emily Jane Hilscher, Dawn Alyson Lafferty Hochsprung, Anah Michelle Hodges, Winter Ashley Hodges, Kenzie Marie Houk, Lisa Rachelle Huff Huff, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Caleb Curtis Jackson, Dwayne Clifford Jackson Jr., Honesty Faith Jackson, Jonah Curtis Jackson, Trinity Hope Jackson, Jessica Jeanette James, Veronica Lynn “Tina” Jefferson, SGT Kent Dean Kincaid, Lawrence Fobes “Larry” King, Kandy Janell Kirtland, Russell Dennis King Jr., Amy Michelle Kitchen, Carly Anne Buchholtz Kreibaum, Matthew Joseph La Porte VVETERAN, Cara Marie Loughran, Trayvon Benjamin Martin, Rhonda M. LeRocque, Rebecka Ann Carnes, Adriana “Adri” Dukić, Cassie Bernall, Ross Abdallah Alameddine, Arielle Anderson, Lucero Alcaraz, PnB Rock, Nipsey Hussle, Takeoff, Dayvon Daquan Bennett, Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, Janette Becraft, Eddie Graham, Shannon Claire Spruill, Dino Bravo, Lena Marie Nunez-Anaya, Sincere Gaston, Rebecka Ann Carnes, Annabelle Renee Pomeroy, Darius “DJ” Dugas II, Jason Leonard Abbott, Hannah Lassette Magiera Ahlers, Tammy Jo Alexander, Alyssa Miriam Alhadeff, Teresa Carol Allen, Cory Adam Andrewski, Thomas Aquinas Ashton, Charlotte Helen “Char” Bacon, Daniel Gerard “Danny” Barden, Carrie Rae Barnette, and more

[bludazey]

My new Dante is eager and I suspect my primary task will be to keep that enthusiasm from killing him. How easily he speaks of magic, as if it is not forbidden, as if it does not always ask a terrible price.

Lethe Days Diary of Michelle Alameddine

[heartofwolves]

“My new Dante is eager and I suspect my primary task will be to keep that enthusiasm from killing him. How easily he speaks of magic, as if it is not forbidden, as if it does not always ask a terrible price.”

- Lethe Days Diary, Michelle Alameddine on Darlington

Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

[pridepages]

My new Dante is eager and I suspect my primary task will be to keep that enthusiasm from killing him. How easily he speaks of magic, as if it is not forbidden, as if it does not always ask a terrible price.

Michelle Alameddine, Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

[pammydawes]

Ok im a little ways into hell bent (im listening to the audiobook, Lauren fortgang can choke me) and I’m having a rip roaring time of it so far

🛑!!Spoilers below!!🛑

I am so thrilled that Abel Turner is back on the scene I’m only mad it took this long. I love how salty stern is abt getting ghosted. If darlington wasn’t there I would be all in for stern/turner (sterner?)

There are a LOT of balls in the air with the whole hell heist, new Lethe manager guy (can’t remember the title), eitan (I think that’s how u spell it??), whatever the fuck was going on in the first chapter, a MURDER (gasp) I’m truthfully struggling to keep everything straight but I think that’s pretty standard for where I’m at in the story

I was kinda unenthused when eitan sprang up again but after reading the scene where he’s actually on the page talking I’m intrigued

Miss bardugo literally cannot allow demon darlington on the page without mentioning his erect glowing demonic cock im WHEEZING

That whole scene when Alex sleep walked to black elm…👀 I mean “I have appetites” 👀👀👀 damn bro I’m hungry too

Pammie….bless her. I love that woman. Excited to maybe see her tarot knowledge come into play!! Also mercy and lauren are excellent. Kinda hope mercy and pammie get some bonding time eventually and that we can get to know more abt lauren. Like we know that Alex likes her but we don’t rly know why?? I’m curious

I rly liked that one grey that accidentally stole Alex’s meat suit at the beginning, I thought maybe he was gonna be the new GBF (grey best friend, see Bertram Boyce north) but idk it’s not looking likely at this point

Wondering if tripp helmuth is gonna reappear, I feel like there was maybe the tiniest suggestion in the first book that he might gain some relevance but it truly was tiny

Glad Mercy’s recovery is getting addressed rather than being left as a book 1 plot point, but I should have expected nothing less from Leigh 😤

Michelle alameddine was a little meh to me, but I found anselm intriguing (is that the temp Lethe supervisor’s name idk)

Wow I just checked and I still have 12.5 HOURS to go!! Maybe there’s hope for my little grey dude yet

That’s all for now folks, if I remember I’ll check in after another 4 hours

[mixedbagofships]

What is Michelle Alameddine doing in Alex’s dorm with Mercy?!?

[illustratingwithwords]

since Ninth House was in dual pov with Alex and Darlington, I wonder if Hell Bent will have the same dual pov. and i wonder who will be delivering that second pov. i'm hoping for the most likely candidate which is a Dawes pov, but there is always the chance that Mercy or Michelle will get the second pov.

[onewakingworld]

I'm so pleased that the ending of Ninth House suggests Michelle is going to be a bigger presence in Hell Bent, because I really am curious about her as a character. We don't get much mention of her in Darlington's POV chapters but from what we do get it seems like he respected her as a mentor and still thinks of her fondly. Alex, though, doesn't think she takes the duties of Lethe seriously enough - as seriously as Darlington does. Just from the information we have now, it's hard to tell who's more right. And on top of that, although we don't know all the specifics of how Darlington came to be Michelle's Dante, we do know that Dean Sandow showed up in his hospital room with an offer after his failed attempt to brew an elixir, and that this happened before he actually applied to Yale. It looks like, like Alex, he skipped the usual selection process. So did Michelle ever resent him for that the way he resented Alex? Or was it different because Darlington was a picture-perfect candidate anyway - or because the job didn't have the same meaning to her and she was less invested in making sure the perfect person took it over? I want to know more about what her relationship with Darlington and her relationship with Lethe was like. And while I hesitate to make guesses, she feels to me like a character who could potentially start off helpful but become, not a villain per se, but an antagonist or at least a hindrance.

I leave you all with this meme, because I can't read that last scene without thinking of it:

[billys-pilgrimage]

Dawes and Michelle rivals to lovers when

[sfplhormelcenter]

This week on the 1st floor, we've been busy processing fresh copies of LGBTQ fiction classics to add our collection for the new year.  Our queer fiction collection is growing.  Stay tuned! #fictionfridays

[wingedshadowfan]

ninth house/hell bent spoilers (open discussion)

i think we were supposed to feel for michelle alameddine and understand why she didn't want any part in helping get darlington out of hell but there'd always been a tad bit of condescension in the way she spoke of darlington (i think even alex points it out) and his obsession with the arcane, so when she opened up about her scholarship and said she'd struggled with self harm/attempted to kill herself, it all fell so flat for me like... girl

that's why i wanna know what other ninth house/hell bent readers thought of it and of her as a character overall

[foreverlostinliterature]

6/2 Book Deals

Good morning, everyone! Apologies that it’s been a hot minute since I’ve really come on here to make a deals post, things have been crazy and I’ve been up and down mentally so it’s been challenging to get the motivation to do things, but I’m feeling okay today so I figured I should share some of the many awesome books on sale today!

 How are you all doing? It’s been a while and a lot has been going on, both in personal lives and in the world around us, and I hope you are all able to take some time to sort of mental relax and find a safe space to reflect and comfort yourselves. :)

There were a lot of books on sale, so I did my best to throw in as many as I could, but obviously it’s not even close to all of them, haha. There’s a nice array of genres and mix of adult and YA, and a couple full trilogies/series! And if you’re a YA fan then definitely take a look because there seemed to be a lot of that today! One of my favorite books is The Crimson Petal and the White, so that’s one I always recommend. I also have read and enjoyed The Hungry Tide, the entire Tade Thompson trilogy (starting with Rosewater!), and I loved The Wicker King!

Anyway, I hope you all have a great day--happy reading! And happy Pride! :)

Today’s Deals:

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories by Harlan Ellison - https://amzn.to/34DvpAb

Scottish Queens, 1034-1714: The Queens and Consorts Who Shaped a Nation by Rosalind K. Marshall - https://amzn.to/3uLRPK5

The Best American Essays 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - https://amzn.to/3fKsX10

The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon -  https://amzn.to/3vJC0VH

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber - https://amzn.to/3pfNIFa

The Best American Noir of the Century edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler - https://amzn.to/3pidrMX

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen - https://amzn.to/3fGafrg

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine - https://amzn.to/3fJ9qhp

The Good Earth Trilogy by Pearl S. Buck - https://amzn.to/3fIQeR3

Jubilee by Margaret Walker - https://amzn.to/34IG7Fo

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - https://amzn.to/2STAr8P

The Cheerleader by Kara Thomas - https://amzn.to/3uKyg4I

The House Girl by Tara Conklin - https://amzn.to/3pfOiCQ

The Demon King (#1) by Cinda Williams Chima - https://amzn.to/3pbRDTn

The Exiled Queen (#2) by Cinda Williams Chima - https://amzn.to/3uLanKz

The Gray Wolf Throne (#3) by Cinda Williams Chima - https://amzn.to/3vF6tnH

The Crimson Crown (#4) by Cinda Williams Chima - https://amzn.to/3ce3vyN

These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling - https://amzn.to/2TsBtZO

Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram - https://amzn.to/3g0t7QY

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows - https://amzn.to/3vO9JNB

Once & Future by Cori McCarthy - https://amzn.to/34EOdyP

Rosewater (#1) by Tade Thompson - https://amzn.to/3yZcFJ4

The Rosewater Insurrection (#2) by Tade Thompson - https://amzn.to/3ihM1FL

The Rosewater Redemption (#3) by Tade Thompson - https://amzn.to/3g7kaVO

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin - https://amzn.to/3pc0kgr

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White - https://amzn.to/3ppvwsN

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian - https://amzn.to/3yZLLAT

The Wicker King by K. Ancrum - https://amzn.to/3g1pH0h

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles - https://amzn.to/3uMLCgS

Black Wings Beating by Alex London - https://amzn.to/3uLTfnT

Camp by L.C. Rosen - https://amzn.to/2TqGEcH

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta - https://amzn.to/3ibSCRL

NOTE:  I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!)  commission on any purchase made through these links.

[cassiedepresivo]

LAS VICTIMAS DE CHO SEUNG HUI

Ross A. Alameddine

cristobal james obispo

Brian R. Bluhm

ryan christopher clark

austin michelle cloyd

Jocelyne Couture-Nowak

Kevin P. Granata

Mateo Gregory Gwaltney

Caitlin Millar Hammaren

Jeremy Michael Herbstritt

rachael elizabeth hill

Emily Jane Hilscher

Jarrett Lee Lane

Mateo José La Porte

Henry J. Lee (Henh Ly)

liviu librescu

GV Loganathan

Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan

lauren ashley mcain

Daniel Patrick O´Neil

Juan Ramón Ortiz-Ortiz

Minal Hiralal Panchal

Daniel Alejandro Pérez Cueva

Erin Nicole Peterson

Michael Steven Pohle, Jr.

julia kathleen pride

María Karen Leer

Reema Joseph Samaha

Waleed Mohamed Shaalan

Leslie Geraldine Sherman

Maxine Shelly Turner

nicole regina blanca

[peachy-queen]

Below are the names of those who lost their lives during the Virginia Tech shooting on this day in 2007. Ross A. Alameddine Christopher James Bishop Brian R. Bluhm Ryan Christopher Clark Austin Michelle Cloyd Jocelyne Couture-Nowak Kevin P. Granata Matthew Gregory Gwaltney Caitlin Millar Hammaren Jeremy Michael Herbstritt Rachael Elizabeth Hill Emily Jane Hilscher Jarrett Lee Lane Matthew Joseph La Porte Henry J. Lee (Henh Ly) Liviu Librescu G.V. Loganathan Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan Lauren Ashley McCain Daniel Patrick O’Neil Juan Ramon Ortiz-Ortiz Minal Hiralal Panchal Daniel Alejandro Perez Cueva Erin Nicole Peterson Michael Steven Pohle, Jr. Julia Kathleen Pryde Mary Karen Read Reema Joseph Samaha Waleed Mohamed Shaalan Leslie Geraldine Sherman Maxine Shelly Turner Nicole Regina White #virginiatechmassacre #neverforget #inmemoriam https://www.instagram.com/p/B_CgqbrjTQGI__6urZaNEs15iBb0yvOrXTa3-I0/?igshid=34yu0sc1afse

[gegettethelibrarian]

Qu’est-ce que tu lis pour les vacances ? édition 2019 (partie 2)

On peut dire que cette année, j’ai légèrement exagéré au niveau de mes emprunts à la bibliothèque …

Ce qui est barré est déjà lu

Fiction: - Meurtre dans un jardin indien / Vikas Swarup (bon suspense et vraie critique de l’Inde) - Black dog : les rêves de Paul Nash / Dave McKean - Une maison parmi les arbres / Julia Glass - L'homme qui marchait sur la lune / Howard McCord - Darkest minds : rébellion / Alexandra Bracken - Darkest minds : Le chemin de la vérité / Alexandra Bracken - Darkest minds : dénouement / Alexandra Bracken - Magies secrètes (une enquête de Georges Hercule Bélisaire) / Hervé Jubert - Le tournoi des ombres (une enquête de Georges Hercule Bélisaire) / Hervé Jubert - La nuit des égrégores (une enquête de Georges Hercule Bélisaire) / Hervé Jubert - Le singe pèlerin ou le pèlerinage d'Occident / Wou Tch'eng-en (en cours) - Le chevalier / Gene Wolfe - Le magicien / Gene Wolfe - L'enfant volé / Ian McEwan - Les vies de papier / Rabih Alameddine (magnifique, je recommande) - Les rêveurs / Isabelle Carré - La pâtissière de Long Island / Sylvia Lott (un roman feel good et une recette de cheesecake à la clé !) - La bibliothèque / Jean Libis (une histoire rocambolesque mais on s’ennuie parfois un peu) - Les yeux bandés / Siri Hustvedt - Le pacte / Jennifer Sturman (un roman policier et une histoire d’amour, c’est un Harlequin nouvelle génération pas mal écrit) - Les princes d'Ambre (cycle 1) / Roger Zelazny - Les princes d'Ambre (cycle 2) / Roger Zelazny - Chocolat / Joanne Harris (en anglais) - Nous avons toujours vécu au château / Shirley Jackson (ce récit met mal à l’aise. Ce n’est pas aussi glaçant que La loterie mais tout de même, il y a un peu de ça dans l’ambiance de ce village) - Chocolat amer / Laura Esquivel (on va qualifier ce roman comme appartenant au réalisme magique mais c’est mieux pour moi que Cent ans de solitude)

Non-fiction / essais:

- L'allemand autrement : petite méthode pour tous. Apprendre et réviser/ Wolfgang Hammel. (J'ai commencé le cours Duolingo dans cette langue mais ça ne me suffit pas pour comprendre certains éléments de structuration des phrases)

- Code des gens honnêtes ou l'art de ne pas être dupe des fripons

/ Honoré de Balzac (en cours)

- La magie du rangement / Marie Kondo (en cours)

- Informer n'est pas communiquer / Dominique Wolton (en cours)

- Objectif mémoire / Hélène Weber

- La fabuleuse histoire des légumes / Evelyne Bloch-Dano

(très belles anecdotes sur les légumes, leur introduction, leurs vertus... Vous pouvez zapper ou lire en diagonale l’introduction pompeuse de Michel Onfray, Evelyne Bloch-Dano est plus intéressante à lire)

- Imparfaits, libres et heureux : pratiques de l'estime de soi / Christophe André

- Bien dans sa voix, bien avec soi / Noëlla Finzi

- La frondeuse

/ Elizabeth Coquart

- Vu, lu, su : les architectes de l'information face à l'oligopole du Web / Jean-Michel Salaün

- Mémento du bibliothécaire(4e éd.) / ABF

- Le métier de bibliothécaire / ABF

-Être bibliothécaire / Claude Poissenot, Sabine Noël (bonne première introduction aux métiers de bibliothèques et documentation, avec un panorama des bibliothèques, des témoignages, des chiffres, etc...)

- Le QCM des bibliothèques / Alain Patez

- Préparer le concours de bibliothécaire assistant spécialisé (BibAS) de classe supérieure / Anne Le Foll, Alain Patez

- Bibliothèques troisième lieu / ABF

- Des tweets et des likes en bibliothèque

- Informatiser la gestion de sa bibliothèque

-Cinquante de numérique en bibliothèque / Yves Desrichard

- Communs du savoir et bibliothèques

- La lettre de l'OCIM n° 183 : “exposer” les sujets sensibles

- BBF n°17-18 : Habiter la bibliothèque (en cours)

- 1001 livres qu'il faut avoir lus dans sa vie (j’ai commencé à recopier cette liste et compte la poster en 4 fois sur Tumblr quand ce sera fait)

Premier bilan après presque un mois : 19 livres lus, y compris des livres qui ne sont pas de la fiction, pas si mal !