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dollycas · 10 months

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Special Guest - Elizabeth Gilliland - Author of The Portraits of Pemberley (Austen University Mysteries) #AuthorInterview #Giveaway - Great Escapes Book Tour

The Portraits of Pemberley (Austen University Mysteries) by Elizabeth Gilliland

I am so happy to welcome Elizabeth Gilliland to Escape With Dollycas today!

Writer Elizabeth Gilliland was photographed in Mobile, Alabama. Hi Elizabeth, Tell us a little bit about yourself. Hi! I’m Elizabeth, a teacher, Dr., mom, and writer. I grew up reading and loving many different kinds of books, but mysteries have always held a special place in my heart. I remember going to the local library and checking out every mystery book I could find and being excited whenever I guessed whodunnit before the ending. (I still feel that way, come to think of it!) What are three things most people don’t know about you? 1 - I won my first writing contest in the 4th grade (prize was a trip to McDonald’s with the teacher). The book was a fanfiction of Star Wars combined with Star Trek. 2- I grew up in a rural area and had a lot of random pets, including chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, dogs, cats, snakes, and a hamster. 3 - The fastest I was ever clocked in a typing test was an average 90 words per minute, which came in handy when I briefly worked as a transcriber for a closed captioning company. What books/authors have most inspired you? I really love the classics and felt like they shaped me a lot as a reader growing up - my favorites included L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, and of course, Jane Austen. More contemporary writers that I love come from all different genres and backgrounds, but some of my current favorites include Tana French, Peter Swanson, E. Lockhart, Mhairi McFarlane, Grady Hendrix, Emily Henry, and Sally Thorne.

What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book? I think I’m kind of weird in that I usually wait to do heavy research until after I’ve written the book. If it’s something small that I can answer in a quick Google search, I might do it while I’m writing, but otherwise, I try to serve the story first and just keep track of questions that I have as I write to go back to later. For example, this book I researched a few things that I can’t reveal without spoiling too much, and one thing that didn’t make it much into the final version of the book (stuff about Title IX). Do you ever suffer from Writer’s Block? I don’t really have writer’s block where I can’t think of anything to write. My problem is more “writer’s distraction,” where I have about half a dozen ideas always fighting for my attention and I have to really work to stay focused on one thing at a time. What advice do you have for someone who would like to become a published writer? Writing is a really weird combination of being both incredibly confident in your abilities but also being willing to be open to feedback and criticism. You have to be malleable enough to listen to the feedback that will help you get better but also shut out all the intrusive, negative thoughts that no one will like your work, you’re a terrible writer, you’ll never be as good as ____ (fill in the blank). It’s a really strange tightrope walk of being your own biggest cheerleader and also the person most aware of where you need help/improvement. When you are not writing what do you like to do? Sleep. (Ha!) I have a four-year-old and I’m a teacher, so there’s not a lot of time outside of those things beyond writing, but I do like to read for fun, go to the beach, ride my EasyRoller, watch good TV, watch some bad TV for fun, and spend time with my family. If you could travel anywhere in the world where would you go and why? There are a lot of places I’d like to travel, but in the last few years, I’ve really wanted to go to Iceland. I’d love to see the Northern Lights and just just experience a totally different culture than anything else I’ve encountered. What is next on the horizon for you? In addition to writing my own books, I’m also an editor for Bayou Wolf Press, and we have a great title coming out in October - Foxfire by Rowan Hill! Other than that, I’ll be working on the next Austen University novel and will also be diving into romance writing in 2024 with a title out through SmartyPants Romance under the pen name Lissa Sharpe.

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therealimintobooks · 10 months

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Book Tour Featuring *The Portraits of Pemberley* by Elizabeth Gilliland @egilliland7 @dollycas #giveaway

The Portraits of Pemberley (Austen University Mysteries)by Elizabeth GillilandMy rating for The Portraits of Pemberley by Elizabeth Gilliland is four stars. I like how Ms. Gilliland stays true to the characters of Jane Austen. She has modernized them, but they are still familiar.~Baroness’ Book Trove With great character dynamics, foes learning to work together, and the realization that first…

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longcelebrity · 2 years

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I, my wife and children mourn the passing of a great a friend. In June of ‘87 within 78 hours I was best man at his wedding and he became a godfather of my 1st child. Smart is nominated for Emmy Awards for her performances Hacks, about a veteran comic working with a Gen-Z comedy writer, and the crime drama Mare Of Easttown.

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The 71-year-old was married to Emmy-winning actress Jean Smart and suffered from a. Late into the shoot for Mare of Easttown, the grim HBO limited series in which Smart plays Helen, a plain-spoken great-grandmother with a Fruit Ninja. "He was Jesus and I was Judas," Mantegna tweeted. "Beginning a friendship of 50 yrs. Richard Gilliland, an actor known for roles in 'Designing Women' and ' Airplane II: The Sequel ,' has died. Jean Smart is an American actress and the mother of two children, Connor Douglas Gilliland and Forrest Kathleen Gilliland. It is said that her parents, Kay and Douglas Smart, were teachers and housewives. The second child of her parents’ four children, Jean Smart was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 2018 she will celebrate her 67th birthday. She studied at Ballard High School in Seattle and graduated in 1969. Born on September 13, 1951, in Seattle, Washington, Smart was raised by her parents Kay Smart and Douglas Alexander Smart. "Criminal Minds" star Joe Mantegna shared a throwback picture of himself and Gilliland, who starred together in the Goodman School of Drama's 1972 production of "Godspell." The actress was born Jean Elizabeth Smart on September 13, 1951. Smart Reportedly Has 4 Million Net Worth. The actress is married to Richard Gilliland, her starsign is Virgo and she is now 70 years of age. She made her 185 million dollar fortune with Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, A Royal Romance, Life As We Know It. "Rest peacefully dearest Richard," Potts captioned a picture of her, Gilliland and Smart on set. On 13-9-1951 Jean Smart (nickname: Jean) was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. In an Instagram tribute Thursday, Potts asked her late "Designing Women" co-star to "please give Dixie and Meshach a squeeze for me," referring to co-stars Dixie Carter, who died in 2010, and Meshach Taylor, who died in 2014. More: Jessica Walter, 'Arrested Development,' 'Archer' star, dead at 80 In the LGBTQ world, certainly I have friends and family, but I don't have to have the direct experience in order to feel the compassion that I truly feel for acceptance and equality in all areas.His other acting credits include "Operation Petticoat," "Just Our Luck," "McMIllan & Wife" and "Heartland," in addition to guest appearances on "Criminal Minds," "Dexter," "Scandal," "Thirtysomething" and "Desperate Housewives." and advocated for the rights of children. She went on explaining her support for the community, "You don't have to have your own experience in order to feel compassion and the need for justice and equality. With loads of versatility and a high coolness quotient, Jean Smarts fan base. " make-up artist was gay, the playwright that she did a play with was a great friend of our family who was gay," she said. In a 2019 interview with Pride Source, Jamie also talked about growing up comfortable around gay people thanks to her Hollywood parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

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(from a trans teacher)." Later in 2020, she signed on to direct and star in a TV movie about GLAAD Media Institute alum Sara Cunningham. Smarts recent career surge could be traced back to her role as Floyd Gerhardt in the black comedy crime-drama series Fargo (2016), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nominations for. In 2017, she shared a Huffington Post article on Twitter which was titled "Dear Trans Kids. However, the veteran actress stopped the crowd in its standing tracks with her moving acceptance speech for Best. Smart was later cast in a leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on. Jean Smart scored the first standing ovation of the night at the 2021 Emmy Awards. After beginning her career in regional theater in the Pacific Northwest, she appeared on Broadway in 1981 as Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf. Jamie has been showing her support for trans community. Jean Elizabeth Smart is an American actress. "Not yet, but I do hope to," so she says. The " Halloween" star says she currently has no grandchildren, but she is looking forward to the day she becomes a grandparent.

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Jean smarts children

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Smart was later cast in a leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. After beginning her career in regional theater in the Pacific Northwest, she appeared on Broadway in 1981 as Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf. “Our favorite thing in the world,” she says, “is to make each other laugh, and make other people laugh.Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. And her Hacks co-star Einbinder always gets her going. And as the three of them are finding their new normal as a family, Smart is finding new ways to laugh.

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I mean, I’m gonna have my children, obviously, but they have their own lives.” Her older son, Connor, is interested in film and TV sound editing, her younger just got accepted to a great high school. “I just assumed we would grow old together, and now I feel like I’m just going to grow old alone. Losing her husband “was so shocking on so many levels,” she says. “A million years ago, I had two separate psychics tell me I was gonna live to be 98, so I’ve decided I’m going to live to 98. “What are you, nuts?” She says old age was foretold to her, sort of.

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So now that she’s hitting her professional prime, what else is good about being 70? “Ha ha! Nothing!” She cackles. “I felt like the universe was rewarding me for being true to myself.”

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About 24 hours later, she was asked to audition for the juicy role of a crime matriarch in the second season of Fargo, the gritty FX TV series inspired by Joel and Ethan Coen’s hit 1996 movie. So after much deliberation, she decided to pull out. The deal put her on hold for over a year and a half, and production still hadn't begun. “I wasn’t getting offered things or auditions.” She took on a role she wasn't crazy about for a comedy pilot. “Then I went through a little dry spell,” she says. The two were married for 34 years, until Gilliland passed away suddenly last March.įollowing five successful seasons on Designing Women, Smart made the most of the next two decades, winning Emmys for a recurring guest role on Frasier and as a regular on Samantha Who? and nabbing Emmy nominations for her role on 24. So the producers said, ‘Will you come back whenever there’s a critic here? You got the audience going!’” She and Gilliland wed in 1987, at her co-star Dixie Carter’s rose garden in Hollywood. It was not a great play, but I’m a good laugher. “He would riff on something to the point where I was gasping for air, you know? He had that kind of mind.” She asked him for help with a crossword puzzle he invited her to see a play he was doing, “and I went to see it three times. Smart met her husband, actor Richard Gilliland, when he played Potts’ character’s boyfriend on the show. She recalls how she and her co-stars ( Dixie Carter, Delta Burke and Annie Potts) “would get weird questions from reporters, like, ‘Oh boy, what’s it like with four women on a set together?’ I finally said to one guy, ‘Would you ask the guys on Barney Miller that question?’” “There really wasn’t a show like that,” Smart says of the series about strong Southern belles running their own interior design firm. She thrived in the spotlight, performing in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, regional theater and on Broadway, then was off to Hollywood, where she secured guest spots and short-lived series roles-until she broke out playing sweet-but-scattered Charlene Frazier from 1986 to 1991 on the hit sitcom Designing Women. But drawn to the stage during her senior year of high school, she decided to major in drama at the University of Washington. Smart initially saw herself pursuing a service career, perhaps in nursing, social work or veterinary medicine. Her mother, Kathleen, was a homemaker and a seamstress who would make beautiful clothes for her kids her father, Douglas, worked as a high school history teacher and took on extra jobs selling encyclopedias door-to-door, painting houses and teaching night school. Her parents, who served in World War II, were both funny and taught her a strong work ethic.

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#Midweek Mystery: What Happened on Box Hill

What would happen if you combined all of Jane Austen’s characters into one modern-day novel?

What would happen if you combined all of Jane Austen’s characters into one modern-day novel? Murder, of course. When Caty Morland’s roommate, Isabella, falls to her death on Initiation night, Austen University is quick to cover up the scandal and call it a tragic accident. But avid true-crime lover Caty remains convinced that Isabella didn’t fall; she was murdered. With the help of Pi Kappa…

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#academic mystery #campus cozy #Elizabeth Gilliland #Jane Austen #Louisiana

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spike, angel, buffy & romanticism: part 1

I said a long ways back that I thought the switch from Angel to Spike as Buffy’s primary love interest represented an interesting evolution in the show’s attitude towards—and interrogation of—romanticism, and I finally felt like expanding on what I meant by that. This is very long, very meandering, and not terribly academic or well-edited, but I hope there’s something of interest in it nonetheless. It is about 20,000 words in total, and will discuss, in more or less chronological order, the arc of the show’s attitude towards romanticism as it is embodied in Spike, Angel, Buffy and Buffy’s relationships with both of them. I was going to release it as one long post, but because it’s so long, I figured a series of posts might be more readable. Here’s the first one.

“When you kiss me I want to die”: Angel and the high school seasons

Both Spike and Angel are at once capital-R Romantic figures, and lower-case romantic interests, and in both cases that Romantic/romantic duality is what makes them such effective avatars for ideas around romanticism. In the case of Angel, the show is aware from the beginning that he is very much a Romantic idea of something. In “Welcome to the Hellmouth” Buffy describes him as “dark” and “gorgeous”, evoking the “tall, dark and handsome” cliche. He’s mysterious. He gives her a necklace and his coat, gestures out of high school romance fiction.* In “Out of Mind, Out of Sight” Giles lampshades the romance of him: “A vampire in love with a Slayer. It’s rather poetic, in a maudlin sort of way.” Initially, Angel is basically designed to be a teenage girl fantasy, and it’s no coincidence that his successors like Edward Cullen or Stefan Salvatore conform to similar tropes.

*(Think of how five seasons later, a vampire will give Dawn his letterman jacket in “All the Way”. It’s hard not to read as a deliberate echo of Angel’s gift in season one. Once again, a vampire makes romantic gestures towards a high school version of “Buffy”, and later turns on her. But more on this much later in the series.)

The difference between Angel and those other, more typical Supernatural Romance love interests however, is that the show ultimately attempts to subvert the romance of him. As part of its commentary on Gothic themes, season two makes Angel more Romantic than ever (the Claddagh, the tormented past), and makes the romance between him and Buffy central to the story in a way it wasn’t in season one. And then, of course, the season tears it all apart. The first time we learn what Angel did to Drusilla it’s horrifying, but still somehow abstract. Something that seems more like it’s meant to contribute to Angel’s dangerous, Byronic image. As in, something to make him more Romantic. And then suddenly it becomes real. Suddenly, it’s something that Angel could do to Buffy, or the people Buffy cares about. It turns out that his darkly romantic aura was not just an aura, but genuinely dark all along.

In turn, Angel’s devastating transformation is a metaphor for broader disillusionment about romantic ideas. It’s less to me about a “guy going bad after sex”, and more about what it means and feels like to have the scales fall from one’s eyes in that sort of situation. As Buffy copes with the fallout of Angel’s transformation, and later is forced to kill him, I see it as being about the tragedy of having to see the world in ways that are less simple, easy, or pretty as one gets older. As Buffy and Giles say in “Lie To Me”:

BUFFY: Nothing's ever simple anymore. I'm constantly trying to work it out. Who to love or hate. Who to trust. It's just, like, the more I know, the more confused I get.

GILES: I believe that's called growing up.

For more on this, I recommend this livejournal post on “Lie To Me”, which goes into great depth on the way season two frames stories as pretty lies that one needs to look beneath, and how Buffy’s romanticization of Angel symbolizes that.

The whole arc of the season is Buffy’s failure to see the danger presented by Angel. In this opening scene that danger is foreshadowed. More to the point for this essay, Angel goes on to lie to Buffy about having encountered Drusilla. He doesn’t want Buffy to know about the nature of Angelus – which means that his first inclination is to mask the danger he presents to Buffy. This is one episode after Halloween, where Buffy’s romantic fantasies about what Angel wants (a damsel) nearly get her killed. Nor is she completely over those fantasies, as she notes that the mystery woman talking to Angel had a pretty old-fashioned dress. So against the backdrop of Buffy’s fantasies about her dark and mysterious boyfriend we have the truth about what he is, which is quite horrifying.

Season three then takes this to another level, by not just pointing out the darkness of the romance of Angel, but in fact puncturing his romantic image. Instead of emphasizing his dangerousness, as season two did, season three emphasizes his adulthood. It emphasizes the way that Angel is someone Buffy sees in secret, or away from her friends. He’s not integrated with her teenage, high school life, and doesn’t fit with the peppy, high school movie aesthetic that characterizes a lot of season three. By doing this, the writing indicates that at this point in their lives, Buffy and Angel are ultimately incompatible and holding each other back. Regardless of however much they might care for each other, Angel can’t fully appreciate her teenage longings like dances, and college, and having a boyfriend. And Buffy can’t fully appreciate his adult need to find himself on his own terms. By the end of season three, Angel is less of a shadowy, tragic figure, and more just an adult man who needs to finally grow up a bit.

Season three also starts making jokes where the punchline is that Angel isn’t living up to the romantic aesthetic he embodied in seasons one and two. In “Helpless”, for example, he and Buffy have an exchange where he waxes sincerely about wanting to “keep [her heart] safe, to warm it with [his own]” and although Buffy says the sentiment is beautiful, a second later she deadpans: “Or taken literally, incredibly gross.” To which Angel replies, “I was just thinking that, too.” Or in “Graduation Day, Part 1”, Angel trips on a doorway instead of making a silent entrance and Buffy again deadpans: “Stealthy.” Angel’s romance slips at moments when Buffy herself is feeling weak, either because she has lost her Slayer powers, or she’s investigating the scene of her sister Slayer’s crime. Her Romantic Slayer half is betraying her, and her romantic girlish half is feeling insecure. This is echoed by the reminder that Angel is no longer a straightforward fantasy man--or a terrifying, larger-than-life villain--but a guy who is sometimes both verbally and physically inelegant.

(Notice how one of the few times season two makes similar jokes about Angel it’s in “Lie to Me”, the very same episode that begins to peel off the layers of deceptions and unknowns about him. Angel slumps around Willow’s bedroom and jokes about “honing [his] brooding skills”, he insists that the vampire wannabes know nothing about vampires right before a guy walks by wearing his exact outfit, and Xander runs color commentary, saying “you’re not wrong” after each of Ford’s observations. In “Lie to Me” one of Angel’s hidden faces is his dangerousness, yes. But another hidden face is simply his human awkwardness.)

There’s an interesting Slayage piece by Elizabeth Gilliland that discusses the idea of Angel as a Gothic double for Buffy, specifically connecting him to the story of Jekyll and Hyde. It argues that Angel’s split identities represent Buffy’s fears that her human and Slayer halves are irreconcilable, and she cannot fully control either half. In season three, the fact that Buffy and Angel must continuously resist a loss of control with each other, and are treated as romantically incompatible, reflects this fear.

In Season Three, replete with various factors in Buffy’s life that threaten to put her role as Slayer and girl into imbalance once more [...] Angel once again returns [...]. The season culminates in an attempted attack on Buffy’s classmates during graduation, which essentially forces her to “out” herself to her community and combine her roles as Slayer and daughter, classmate, and friend for the first time publicly (“Graduation Day: Part 2” 3.22). The worst has happened: her secret has been revealed, the entire school knows about both of her personas, and she has not only survived, but emerged with a stronger sense of self [...] Buffy has conquered her first Gothic fear, and proven to herself that she can not only exercise control over both dualities of her persona, but allow them to peacefully co-exist. Thus, Angel’s continuing struggle with Angelus can no longer act as her shadow, and he literally and metaphorically leaves her to continue the rest of her journey.

It’s an interpretation I mostly agree with, and see a lot of evidence for. But in keeping with the focus of this series, I think you could also read Angel as embodying a duality between the romantic and the unromantic. In this view, Buffy’s struggle between her human and her Slayer halves is not just a struggle between personas, but a struggle to see the world correctly. In season one, it’s not Angel that revives Buffy in “Prophecy Girl”, because Angel is a vampire trope just like the Master. He cannot help her, because he is exactly the kind of traditional romantic concept--like a candle-lit cavern, an ancient Nosferatu-looking vampire, or a Chosen Hero duty--that Buffy is trying to escape. In season two, loss of control is specifically associated with passion, romance, and romanticism. Buffy’s human half longs for the romantic, but her Slayer half, and Angel’s vampire half, prove that sometimes the romantic is something dangerous and violent. The fact that Buffy’s Slayer identity and Angel’s Angelus identity both end up being outed by the end of the season (especially to Joyce, a figure of Buffy’s human home life), echoes Buffy’s loss of innocence. Season three then continues this suspicion of passion. Buffy fears that like Faith, enjoying the violence and power and desire of being a Slayer, means that she will go down a dark path. She also fears that indulging in her sexual and romantic desire for Angel will unleash Angelus. To some extent, these fears are even borne out, given that her love for Angel results in her attempted murder of Faith, and near death at Angel’s hands. But to some extent they also aren’t, given that she, Faith and Angel all live.

To me, what really gets resolved at the end of season three is not quite the issue of Buffy’s human and Slayer halves, given that Buffy will continue to struggle with that duality until the end of the show. Rather, what gets resolved is the need for binaries. Binaries are romantic things. When Giles gives his speech to Buffy at the end of “Lie To Me”, it is the language of binaries that he uses:

GILES: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

BUFFY: Liar.

In season three, Buffy thinks she must resist both Faith and Angel. She thinks she can only be either a human girl or a Slayer leader. Many plots in season three have to do with the danger of binaries, whether that’s the witch-hunting parents in “Gingerbread”, Willow dealing with her vampire self in “Doppelgangland”, the various alter-egos in “Beauty and the Beasts”, or Cordy choosing a Buffy-less world in “The Wish”. And no character in the Buffyverse embodies the concept of binaries so starkly as Angel does. Thus by the end of season three, Buffy collapses the binaries within herself by merging the human and Slayer parts of her life, as Gilliland observes, and taking on Faith’s traits. She acknowledges her shadow by kissing her tenderly on the forehead, and bids farewell to the illusions and binaries that Angel embodies. Buffy is leaving that part of her life behind, and starting a new chapter where she can no longer split either the world, or herself, into any one thing or another.

part 2: “Love isn’t brains, children”: Enter Spike as the id

#romanticism series #buffy #angel #s1 #s2 #s3 #s6 #gen #spike #btvs

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bookaddict24-7 · 4 years

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 4th, 2020)

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Note: Since so many release dates have been changed for various Young Adult novels, keep in mind that there might be some titles missing in this post.

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Prelude for Lost Souls by Helene Dunbar

It Came from the Sky by Chelsea Sedoti

Set Fire to the Gods by Sara Raasch & Kristen Simmons

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From by Jennifer De Leon

Lobizona by Romina Garber

The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mather

Sia Martinez & the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

More Than Just A Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood

The Game by Linsey Miller

A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong

Seven Devils by Laura Lam & Elizabeth May

They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

Some Kind of Animal by Maria Romasco Moore

The Good for Nothings by Danielle Banas

I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Sequels:

Igniting Darkness (Courting Darkness Duology #2) by Robin LaFevers

Illegal (Disappeared #2) by Francisco X. Stork

Scorched Earth (Anchor & Sophia #3) by Tommy Wallach

Court of Lions (Mirage #2) by Somaiya Daud

Midnight Sun (Twilight #5) by Stephenie Meyer

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Happy reading!

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September 15-October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month! Check out this list of fantastic Latinx and Hispanic Young Adult Authors! Find our shelf on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/56651068-mvml-ya?shelf=latinx-authors

Full list of authors under the cut. Our Goodreads list is updated monthly so check back soon for more authors!

Elizabeth Acevedo

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Adam Silvera

Zoraida Córdova

Ibi Zoboi

Gabby Rivera

Tehlor Kay Mejia

Jenny Torres Sanchez

Meg Medina

Maika Moulite

Samantha Mabry

Daniel José Older

Alexandra Villasante

Anna-Marie McLemore

Lucas Rocha

Lilliam Rivera

Matt de la Pena

Kami Garcia

Ann Aguirre

Sandra Cisneros

Esmeralda Santiago

Alex Sanchez

Michelle Ruiz Keil

Erika L. Sánchez

Natalia Sylvester

Patrick Flores-Scott

Laura Pohl

Melissa de la Cruz

Matt Mendez

Francisco X. Stork

Marie Marquardt

Mark Oshiro

Lily Anderson

Francesca Flores

Sofia Quintero

Courtney Alameda

Lygia Day Peñaflor

Adi Alsaid

Fred Aceves

Maya Motayne

Tony Medina

Natasha Diaz

Mia Garcia

Goldy Moldavsky

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Romina Garber

Jennifer de Leon

#hispanic heritage month #latinx heritage month #young adult books #ya lit #latinx authors #hispanic authors #diverse books

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lifeinpoetry · 4 years

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hey! do you have any recommendations for poetry by latinx writers?

I’ve made three lists here to give a full range of what’s out there and they've been merged into Poetry Collections by Latinx Writers: New in 2020 & 2021 & Poetry Collections by Latinx Writers: 2019 & Earlier on Bookshop if you’re so inclined. Hopefully at least one of these interests you. ❤️

Poetry Collections by Latinx Writers: 2019 & Before (Ones I’ve Read & Enjoyed)

Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral

Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths by Elizabeth Acevedo

Loose Woman: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón

Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez

Lessons on Expulsion: Poems by Erika L. Sánchez

peluda by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros

lo terciario / the tertiary by Raquel Salas Rivera

Teeth Never Sleep: Poems by Ángel García

Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

while they sleep (under the bed is another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera

Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón

A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying by Laurie Ann Guerrero

blud by Rachel McKibbens

Virgin: Poems by Analicia Sotelo

The Glimmering Room by Cynthia Cruz

Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora

The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay

Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan

Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Brother Bullet: Poems by Casandra López

The Inheritance of Haunting by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes

Milk and Filth by Carmen Giménez Smith

Corazón by Yesika Salgado

Refuse: Poems by Julian Randall

Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey

Cuicacalli / House of Song by ire'ne lara silva

Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado

With the River on Our Face by Emmy Pérez

Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez

Paraíso: Poems by Jacob Shores-Argüello

Gold That Frames the Mirror by Brandon Melendez

Miami Century Fox by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Of Form & Gather by Felicia Zamora

Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut by Vickie Vértiz

Elegía/elegy by Raquel Salas Rivera

The Crazy Bunch by Willie Perdomo

Colonize Me by Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Poetry Collections by Latinx Writers: 2019 & Before (TBR)

Of Darkness and Tumbling by Mónica Gomery

Preparing the Body by Norma Liliana Valdez

Ugly Music by Diannely Antigua

Ceremony of Sand by Rodney Gomez

Stereo. Island. Mosaic. by Vincent Toro

Other Musics: New Latina Poetry ed. Cynthia Cruz

Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor by Norma Elia Cantú

Beast Meridian by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

You Ask Me To Talk About The Interior by Carolina Ebeid

YOU DA ONE by Jennif(f)er Tamayo

These Days Of Candy by Manuel Paul Lopez

Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto González

Advantages of Being Evergreen by Oliver Baez Bendorf

Each and Her by Valerie Martínez

Skins of Columbus by Edgar Garcia

When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Landscape with Headless Mama: Poems by Jennifer Givhan

Solecism by Rosebud Ben-Oni

Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff by Sara Borjas

Scar on / Scar Off by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets ed. Melissa Castillo-Garsow

Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems of Miyo Vestrini by Miyo Vestrini

How to Pull Apart the Earth by Karla Cordero

All My Heroes Are Broke by Ariel Francisco

black / Maybe by Roberto Carlos Garcia

Blood Sugar Canto by ire'ne lara silva

The Book of What Remains by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems by Natalia Toledo

Forgive the Body This Failure by Blas Falconer

Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea

FUEGO by Leslie Contreras Schwartz

Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón ed. Carina del Valle Schorske

Dirt and Honey by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez Smith

The Real Horse: Poems by Farid Matuk

A Song of Dismantling: Poems by Fernando Pérez

Arsonist by Joaquín Zihuatanejo

Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016 by Rafael Campo

Poetry Collections by Latinx Writers: 2020 & 2021

Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems by Natalie Diaz

Thresholes by Lara Mimosa Montes

Catrachos: Poems by Roy G. Guzmán

Repetition Nineteen by Mónica de la Torre

Like Bismuth When I Enter by Carlos Lara

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext ed. Felicia Chavez

Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral

Migratory Sound: Poems by Sara Lupita Olivares

Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia

Not Go Away Is My Name by Alberto Ríos

Guidebooks for the Dead by Cynthia Cruz

Geographic Tongue by Rodney Gomez

Tertulia by Vincent Toro

Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody

Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera

Body of Render by Felicia Zamora

La Belle Ajar by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

Feel Puma: Poems by Ray Gonzalez

On This Side of the Desert by Alfredo Aguilar

In Bloom by Esteban Rodriguez

An Incomplete List of Names: Poems by Michael Torres

Who Speaks for Us Here by Leslie Contreras Schwartz

The Fire Eater: Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz

After Rubén by Francisco Aragón

#ineffabull #poetry recs #Latinx poets #asks #out of my collection #long post #i literally do not know what is up with tumblr's read more option #i had it #then it broke #now it's showing the whole post #so attempt 3

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What Happened on Box Hill: Austen University Mysteries by Elizabeth Gilliland #Spotlight / #Giveaway - Great Escapes Book Tour @egilliland7

What Happened on Box Hill: Austen University Mysteries by Elizabeth Gilliland #Spotlight / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour @egilliland7

I am happy to shine my spotlights on What Happened on Box Hill: Austen University Mysteries by Elizabeth Gilliland today! I entirely enjoyed the whole of What Happened on Box Hill. There wasn’t anything that I didn’t like. Great job, Ms. Gilliland! My rating for What Happened on Box Hill by Elizabeth Gilliland is five stars. I recommend this book to anyone that loves a good cozy…

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Hey! I'm doing some research on fanfiction as a means to decolonize literature. I'm focusing on Hermione being reappropriated as a black character. Would you happen to know any academic sources on this theme? Or anyone who is knowledgeable about this? I'd appreciate it very much :)

I had to look up articles with similar topics for a paper recently, I can remember “Racebending fandoms and digital futurism“ by Elizabeth Gilliland, Racebending and Prosumer Fanart Practices in Harry Potter Fandom by J. Seymour, “Restorying the Self: Bending Toward Textual Justice” by Ebony ElizabethThomas and Amy Stornaiuolo, and “The classical canon and/as transformative work” by Ika Willis. “Editorial: Race and ethnicity in fandom” by Sarah N. Gatson and Robin Anne Reid also talk about racebending, but in a more general way. Hope this helps!

#nihmue

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, June 3

CHUCK: Well, those on the latter side of the theoretical divide stress... BUFFY: (leans toward Willow and whispers) Will, I'm not following this too well. WILLOW: Oh. The trick is to get in the rhythm, kinda go with the flow. (raises her hand) BUFFY: Flow-going would be a lot easier if your classmates weren't such big brains. WILLOW: (hand still raised) Buffy, that's ridiculous! They are no smarter than you or me. MIKE: (O.S.) Willow. WILLOW: (lowers hand, speaks to Mike) Because social phenomena don't have unproblematic objective existences. They have to be interpreted and given meanings by those who encounter them. (Buffy stares at Willow)

~~Life Serial~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

useless library lesbians (crossover with A Series of Unfortunate Events, Jenny Calendar/Olivia Caliban, G) by PuellaMidori

Simon Tam: Dragged into Drag (Firefly fusion, Xander, T) by Anlace

Sneak Peek and a Death Wish (crossover with Labyrinth (1986), Buffy/Jareth, M) by FaerieKitteh

It's a Nice Day (Spike/Buffy, M) by sunalso

Fall to Pieces (Angel/Cordelia, M) by avablue345

Warming Up To New Things (Spike/Buffy, PG) by sweetprincipale

[Chaptered Fiction]

Another Kind of Sunnydale Chapter 5 (The Sims AU, Spike, Fanged Four, 18+) by braxen

Set Off Like Geese Chapter 1 (Spike/Drusilla, Joyce, Buffy, Dawn, G) by Hannah

So It Is (re)Written Chapter 24 (ensemble, T) by 23Murasaki and Stormysongbird

Save the Last Dance For Me Chapter 25 (Spike/Buffy, E) by Passion4Spike

regarding honor and honesty in the workplace Chapter 2 (Jenny/Giles, Jenny/Lilah, T) by The_Eclectic_Bookworm

In Shadow Chapter 24 (Willow/Angel, T) by dela_chaisse

Disciplining Dawn Chapter 6 (Buffy/Dawn, E) by MTL17

Bad Blood |BTVS| Book Two Chapter 3 (Buffy, Scoobies, OC, not rated) by BrunetteMarionette

So It Is (re)Written Chapter 24 (Buffy, Giles, Willow, T) by 23Murasaki

Scattered Echoes Chapter 19 (Spike/Buffy, R) by myrabeth

Chains and Champions Chapter 3 (Spike/Buffy, R) by booklover721

What she deserves. Chapter 15 (Spike/Buffy, R) by Jane Smith

[Images, Audio & Video]

Manips: Archaeologist Rupert “Indiana” Giles (1) (worksafe) by 51kas81

Manips: Archaeologist Rupert “Indiana” Giles (2) (worksafe) by 51kas81

Artwork: Willow and Tara (worksafe) by iriaabella

Phone wallpaper: forever (Bangel) by HisMrs

[Reviews & Recaps]

Buffy rewatch: Surprise (2.13) by elsalapizza

Buffy rewatch: Innocence (2.14) by elsalapizza

[Recs]

Bangel fic recs (hurt/comfort etc.) by gracenm and ariaadagio

[Community Announcements]

2018 Het Big Bang Challenge Author Sign Ups are open till June 24th at het-bigbang

I feel the need for Spike Buffy fic recs (specific plots) by thisusernameisunique

Voting at the first drabble draft competition hosted by nightshade

Drabble Draft 2 (competition prompt) by nightshade. Deadline: by Sunday [the 10th]

[Fandom Discussions]

Drusilla by willowrosenboob

Dawn for the ask meme by willowrosenboob

Buffy Summers by sunalsolove

Spike and Cordelia for the ask meme by sunalsolove

Faith, Willow by willowrosenboob

New Information about SLAYER - The new Buffy book by Kiersten White by lilyginnyblackv2 and rahirah

[Number of main characters in Angel season 1] by DagonSphere and thetopher

Buffy's lead male? hosted by nightshade

What do you guys think of my [Season 9] reading order? by The Ferg

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

Video: James Marsters | Wizard World Des Moines 2018 via Teresa Smith

PDF: Ten on Twenty: Personal Reflections Upon Twenty Years into Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Karrin Vasby Anderson, Jay Bamber and others in Slayage 16.1 [47], Winter / Spring 2018

PDF: Double Trouble: Gothic Shadows and Self- Discovery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Elizabeth Gilliland in Slayage

PDF: "One of your little pop culture references": Argument, Intertextuality, and Literary Affordance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction by Jessica Hautsch in Slayage

PDF: Heroic Mediocrity: Xander Harris and the Civil Heroism of the Ordinary by Katarina O'Dette in Slayage

PDF: Third-Culture Kid Identity Paradigms in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode "Lies My Parents Told Me" by Elizabeth L. Rambo in Slayage

PDF: What to do About All The Number Thingies: Data on Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Darcy Mullen and Tirza L. Leader in Slayage

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #angel the series #meta #fan art #fan fiction

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