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harrysthoughts · 5 years

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You - Episode 9/10

Youlinas! This is my last in-depth post about You, season 1. Feels like just yesterday I was just sitting down to watch a buzzy Netflix show with my girlies...little did I know what I was getting myself into. Spoilers from the last 2 episodes are nigh.

“How did I get here?” That’s the question Beck asks herself as she sits on the floor of the glass cage we all knew she’d end up in since we saw it in the first episode.

First, let’s talk about Candace, annoying as she is. Of course they just had to cast someone that looks like Lucy Hale sucked on too many helium balloons at a party, which isn’t a bad thing, it just is. In the second to last episode, we learn all about the doomed relationship that preceded Joe and Beck, and it’s not really as interesting as it could’ve been.

Basically, Joe meets Candace while she’s complaining about being hungry. We learn she’s in a band called “Heathcliff’s Misery” (stop) and likes wearing Doc Martens (same.) Short story short, she cheats on Joe with a record label guy and he finds out. This is where Joe kills someone for the first time: he pushes said record label guy off a roof (after the guy offers him some blow. Have some manners, Joe!)

Flash forward to today and Beck is following in Candace’s featherbrained footsteps because she’s also cheating with a man who’s supposed to propel her: Dr. Nicki, the therapist. Joe finds out (“THERE IS NO EMMA FOX FROM BROWN!” - there never is, is there?) and promptly beats John Stamos right up, but doesn’t kill him.

When things might just be a-ok, Paco comes to ruin everything (his fave pastime.) He stops by to return a book to Beck, saying that he forgot he’d put it in the ceiling. Beck is like, “ThE cEiLiNg?!” And Paco is like, “Yeah it’s where Joe hides all the evidence from all the people he’s killed!” Not really, but basically. Curiosity, as it does, kills the cat. Beck retrieves a box from the ceiling while Joe is getting breakfast and discovers Benji’s phone, Peach’s phone, her phone, her panties, and Candace’s (Urban Outfitters) pendant. And the jar of teeth, which makes her freak out and drop it. While cleaning up the teeth jar glass, she cuts herself. Joe notices when he comes back that she’s shaking and bleeding and he’s like “let me take care of you!” This is a pivotal scream-at-your-tv moment. Beck is just about to leave, spewing something about how Annika wants to get brunch, when Joe slams the door and hits her. She wakes up in the glass cube. Of course.

Beck in the cage is stressful to watch, like a live-action millennial Beauty and the Beast without the singing cutlery. She goes back and forth between being distressed and being calm, as I’m sure anyone would in that situation. She wears a Nirvana shirt, which feels symbolic but ultimately just makes an already fake situation harder to take seriously.

He brings her a typewriter like she’s Kit fucking Kitteridge and tells her to write. They share dinners through the little food box. Joe offers her the rest of his wontons, probably in an attempt to normalize the fact that they’re separated by impenetrable glass. Her first attempt to get out is when she begs to use a real bathroom, and not a pot in the corner. Joe is about to free her but then she looks at the staircase like she’s about to run up it. Beck, darling, we must never make our desires so obvious!

While she’s locked up, Joe takes cautionary steps to insure he can’t be blamed if people start to wonder where Beck went. The Salinger private investigator asks Joe some questions before revealing that they’re testing DNA for evidence they found at the Connecticut house. He immediately flashes back to the time he peed in a jar and put it back on the shelf. I’m sure he’d be pissed if he got caught because of the jar. Sorry, had to.

Paco attempts to kill his mom’s drunk boyfriend but fails so Joe does it for him. Meanwhile, Beck is back in the glass cage, writing the best, most Beckish prose she’s ever written. As I watched I was like...this is good! The New Yorker is shaking!

Joe comes back and announces that the PI could potentially put him in jail. Beck tells him to read what she just wrote. She makes a strong case that they could blame everything on the therapist because he too has a random jar of teeth laying around. It would check out. They have a heartfelt moment, hands touching on opposite sides of the glass, like 3rd graders on a trip to the aquarium. Joe comes in to embrace her and just as he notices the missing keys from the typewriter, Beck STABS him. My roommates and I woke up the whole block with our screams of victory, as if we were straight boys watching soccer.

She escapes and starts screaming at him, naturally. Throughout the entire scene, the keys remain in the door, which is SUPER stressful for everyone involved. Finally, she runs up the stairs, only to be faced with a metal door. So now she’s locked at the top of the staircase, banging on the metal door, screaming. It was a very Kate-Winslet-in-Titanic moment. Of all people, Paco wanders up, takes a look at her, and walks away, leaving her to go back into the murder den to retrieve the keys. After hitting Joe with a hammer, she gets the keys and goes up the stairs AGAIN. I haven’t been so stressed watching a screen since Skyscraper (a very underrated movie, Neve Campbell’s elevator performance alone is worth the watch.) She is frantically trying out the different keys when Joe grabs her. Blackout.

The next scene is of Beck’s face plastered on a best-selling book at Mooney’s, where Ethan says something about not being able to get away from someone after they’ve died. So Beck’s dead. Joe, smartie pants psycho that he is, took Beck’s writing and turned it into a memoir, framing the therapist as the villian, just like Beck suggested. John Stamos gets arrested and Joe continues his life. Paco and his mom move away, thank ZOD.

The final scene is similar to the very first scene of the very first episode. The bookstore is washed in hazy afternoon light and Joe is narrating. The familiar bells chime as we see a girl walk in. Joe creepily starts psychoanalyzing her based on her physical traits and clothing, just like he did Beck. And then...it’s Candace. She says “Hi bunny.” Joe is dumbfounded, as are we.

CANDACE???!?!?!?!?!? If Candace is going to be the focus of season 2, I might have to dip, because I did NOT sign up to watch someone who’s only facial expression is that of someone sucking on a penny for the first time.

I’ll digest this whole thing and report back with final thoughts later on, probably. Thank you guys for reading these little summaries. I’ve had so much fun writing them and seeing what you guys have to say.

#you #netflix

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newyorktheater · 6 years

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Bob Dylan, Glenn Close, Daniel Radcliffe, and Gloria Steinem are all on a New York stage one way or another in October, always a good month for theater.

This year’s October is likely the busiest ever, thanks to the addition of the hundred shows in the New York International Fringe Festival, which for the first time has been moved from August to October.

Three shows are opening on Broadway in October: Elaine May returns to Broadway in a star-studded revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Waverly Gallery”; Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale star in “Lifespan of a Fact,” a true story that starts with one of our society’s unheralded heroes – a fact checker. Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman” is one of the several plays that month about a stranger who visits…and turns everything upside down.

Off-Broadway’s promising shows include a re-imagined “Oklahoma”; an evening of Beckett performed by Bill Irwin; and a new Bob Dylan musical with a book by Conor McPherson. Glenn Close stars as Joan of Arc’s mother. Christine Lahti portrays Gloria Steinem.

Off-Off Broadway, filmmaker Todd Solondz makes his theatrical debut, and two plays by Samuel D. Hunter are joined together into a dinner theater, New York style.

Below is a selection of openings in October, organized chronologically by opening date. Each title is linked to a relevant website. Color key: Broadway: Red. Off Broadway: Black or Blue. Off Off Broadway: Green. Theater festival: Orange

October 1

Girl from the North Country (Public Theater)

Playwright and director Conor McPherson transforms Bob Dylan’s songbook to tell the story of a down-on-its-luck community on the brink of change in Duluth, Minnesota in 1934.

October 2

Final Follies (Primary Stages at Cherry Lane)

Three one-act plays by A.R. Gurney, who died last year at the age of 86.

October 3

On Beckett (Irish Rep)

Bill Irwin explores his relationship with the work of Samuel Beckett through excerpts of his texts including “Waiting for Godot,” “Endgame,” and “Texts for Nothing.”

The Bachae (BAM)

Euripides’ cautionary parable of hubris and fear of the unknown thrashes to new life in the hands of Anne Bogart, the renowned SITI Company.

October 4

Makbet, a version of Shakespeare’s tragedy presented by the Dzieci international experimental theatre ensemble, takes place inside a shipping container in Sure We Can, a Brooklyn recycling center. It’s one of the first shows in the monthlong New York Fringe Festival.

October 7

Oklahoma (St Ann’s Warehouse)

Director Daniel Fish’s 75th anniversary production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s landmark musical upends the sunny romance between a farmer and a cowpoke with what has always been just below the surface. The cast includes Rebecca Naomi Jones, Mary Testa, and Ali Stroker.

October 8

Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future.(Ars Nova)

Sci-fi folk concert set 250 years in the future. “Rags will play the revolutionary songbook that carried us to where we are today”

October 10

Black Light (Greenwich House Theater)

Jomama Jones, portrayed by Daniel Alexander Jones, returns in the cabaret show that’s an act of healing and an act of warning in these turbulent times. My review when it was at Joe’s Pub.

October 11

Midnight at the Never Get (York)

a gay New York couple in 1965 put together a show at an illegal Greenwich Village gay bar. But as the decade ends, they find themselves caught in a passion they can’t control and a political revolution they don’t understand.

Playwright William Jackson Harper

Travisville (Ensemble Studio Theater)

Their lives are irrevocably changed when a stranger visits the members of a community untouched by the civil rights movement, forcing them to take sides and take a stand.

October 12

FringeNYC

FringeNYC opens in earnest with performances by 23 of its 83 shows, including The Resistible Rise of JR Brinkley, the true story of a 1920s con man who became a successful politician.

Duke Oldrich & Washerwoman Bozena (Czech American Marionette Theatre)

non-traditional staging of a 374 year-old marionette play based on the story of love at first sight of the 11th century Duke Oldrich, who married a washerman. Part of the Centennial Heritage Festival

October 13

The Things That Were There (Bushwick Starr)

Written by David Greenspan and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, the play dramatizes the events and relationships of a family over many years at a family get-together. “Certain scenes begin again with slight or significant variation as a means of investigating family relationships through a continually shifting lens a

October 14

Emma and Max (The Flea)

Filmmaker Todd Solondz (“Welcome to the Dollhouse,” “Wiener-Dog”) makes his theatrical debut with a play about privilege, race, and the intersection of black and white.

October 15

Fireflies (Atlantic)

Written by Donja R. Love, starring Kris Davis (magnificent in Sweat and The Royale, now on FX’s Atlanta.) When four little girls are bombed in a church, the marriage between Charles (Davis) and Olivia (Dewanda Wise) is threatened

October 16

Apologia (Roundabout)

Stockard Channing in a powerhouse performance as a woman facing the repercussions of her past, in this play by Alexi Kaye Campbell

October 17

Mother of the Maid (Public)

Glenn Close plays Joan of Arc’s mother in this drama by Jane Anderson (“Olive Kitteridge”)

October 18

Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theater)

Christine Lahti portrays Gloria Steinem in a new play by Emily Mann directed by Diane Paulus.

The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54)

Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale in a true story that begins with an essay written about a Las Vegas teenager who committed suicide. But the fact-checker assigned to make sure the piece is accurate begins to wonder whether any of it is true

October 21

The Ferryman (Bernard Jacobs)

Written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes, this play is set in the Carney farmhouse in rural Northern Ireland in 1981, a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest…until a stranger visits.

The Book of Merman (St Luke’s Theater)

Two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell of Ethel Merman in this new musical comedy. Carol Sakolove sings original songs as Merman.

October 22

School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play (MCC)

A return of the play about the catty girls at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school who vie to enter the Miss Universe pageant.My review of the original production.

Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (Lincoln Center)

In this play by Miranda Rose Hall, Theo (Jax Jackson) and Cecily (Marianne Rendon) want to be honest about their sexual histories, but what happens when telling the truth jeopardizes everything?

October 23

Happy Birthday Wanda June (Wheelhouse at Duke)

A revival of Kurt Vonnegut’s satire about a big game hunter who returns to America after an eight-year absence to find it trying to address the culture’s toxic masculinity

October 24

India Pale Ale (MTC)

In this play by Jaclyn Backhaus, a tight-knit Punjabi community in a small Wisconsin town gathers to celebrate the wedding of a traditional family’s only son, just as their strong-willed daughter announces her plans to move away and open a bar. This comedy of generations clashing was the recipient of the 2018 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play.

Playwright Orlando Pabotoy

Sesar (Ma-Yi)

After watching an excerpt of “Julius Caesar” on television, a 14-year Filipino boy locks himself in the only family bathroom to dive head-first into the world of ancient Rome, determined to make sense of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, eventually joined by the boy’s father, a former town mayor now exiled because of his democratic beliefs.

October 25

The Waverly Gallery (John Golden)

Written by Kenneth Lonerganand directed by Lila Neugebauer, making her Broadway debut, and starring Elaine May as Gladys, whose world is being rearranged both within her own mind, and externally – the landlord wants to turn her small Greenwich Village into a coffee shop. It co-stars Lucas Hedges, Joan Allen, Michael Cera, and David Cromer.

Lewis and Clarkson (Rattlestick)

Samuel D. Hunter’s two plays focus on two modern-day descendants of the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Each night “the plays will be performed together, in an intimate space for a small audience of only 51 guests who will gather to watch, to share a catered meal between the two productions, and to consider as a community our place in the ongoing American experiment.”

Renascence (Transport Group)

The biography of radical poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, using her poetry as lyrics.

October 28

Daniel’s Husband (Westside Theater)

A turn of events puts the perfect life of a gay couple in jeopardy, This production of a play by Michael McKeever had a run last year at Primary Stages. My review

October 30

Steven Levenson and Mike Faist

Days of Rage (Second Stage)

Steven Levenson (who wrote the book for Dear Evan Hansen) writes about five young idealists in the middle of a country divided, in October, 1969, who admit a mysterious newcomer to their collective, and the delicate balance they’ve achieved begins to topple. It stars Mike Faist (late of Dear Evan Hansen), Tavi Gevinson, J. Alphonse Nicholson

October 2018 New York Theater Openings Bob Dylan, Glenn Close, Daniel Radcliffe, and Gloria Steinem are all on a New York stage one way or another in October, always a good month for theater.

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aio11 · 4 years

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"A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book." - Elizabeth Strout, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family--as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.

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bigtickhk · 5 years

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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

US: https://amzn.to/2nzLGEe

UK: https://amzn.to/2J0DbcS

#books #culture #elizabeth strout #pulitzer prize #awards and prizes #Olive Kitteridge #Olive Again #author interview

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the-kino-blog1 · 7 years

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Las Divas de Venecia para el Óscar?

El año pasado en el Festival de Venecia, Emma Stone logró ganar la Copa Volpi a la Mejor Actriz ante Natalie Portman en Jackie y, Amy Adams en Arrival y Nocturnal Animals, por La La Land del director Damien Chazelle.

Ahora quién podrá lograr la hazaña? Si de Venecia hemos podido aprender es que les encanta premiar estrellas de Hollywood y crear sonidos épicos para el Óscar en términos de una nominación, y una victoria. Estas divas de Hollywood quienes competirán en esta nueva edición, son las protagonistas de sus películas, conocidas por sus habilidades interpretativas, con personalidades misteriosas, sus asociaciones a Venecia, y un poderoso puñado de directores en sus curriculums.

Jennifer Lawrence, es la niña mimada del Festival de Venecia después de Natalie Portman. Antes de la fama de Winter’s Bone, recibió el galardón Marcello Mastroianni como ‘‘joven promesa de la actuación’’, por la película ‘‘The Burning Plain’’, compartiendo escenas con Charlize Theron y de la dirección de Guillermo Arriaga. El jurado del 2008 que fue presidido por el director alemán Wim Wenders premió ese año a Darren Aronofsky, por la película ‘‘The Wrestler’’, protagonizada por Mickey Rourke y Marisa Tomei. Mother! es una película de terror psicológico donde Lawrence juega escenas con Javier Bardem y dará mucho de que hablar en los Óscar 2018.

Helen Mirren, es una institución a la hora de ganar premios después de Meryl Streep. Su nombre ha sido el equivalente a la excelencia dramática shakesperiana, barroca, vanguardista y televisiva con un Óscar, un Tony, cuatro Globos de Oro, cinco SAG, cuatro Emmys, dos trofeos a la Mejor Actriz en el Festival de Cannes y un trofeo a la Mejor interpretación femenina en Venecia por ‘‘La Reina’’ (2006), de Stephen Frears. Donde Mirren se impone, lo logra. Se presenta este año con ‘‘Ella y John’’, actuando con Donald Sutherland, el gran actor canadiense. Mirren, posee el talento de destacarse por encima de sus compañeros actores como el caso de Al Pacino, William H. Macy, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Bryan Cranston, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Bob Hoskins, Max von Sydow, Ray Winstone, Christian Bale, Christopher Walken, Paul Scofield, John Gielgud, Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Harrison Ford y el gran Peter Sellers, utilizando un fuerte intelecto en un vasto conocimiento de escena y narrativa, una ambición fuerte mezclada con un sex appeal y una actitud juguetona que llama la atención e impacta a muchas personas de todas las partes del mundo, por sus personajes malhumorados y llenos de dolor. Mirren nunca ha ganado un trofeo de interpretación en el Festival de Berlin y nunca ha trabajado con Robert De Niro.

Charlotte Rampling, es misteriosa, cautivante y sin pretensiones. Llena de una audacia y una frialdad que sorprende a muchos de que esta actriz nunca piso una escuela de actuación. Con un record de haber realizado de más 120 películas, haber trabajado con los mejores directores europeos e internacionales de la talla de Liliana Cavani, Nagisa Oshima, Luchino Visconti, François Ozon, Andrew Haigh, Lars von Trier, Guy Maddin, Sidney Lumet, John Boorman, Arturo Ripstein, Claude Lelouch y Woody Allen. Con ‘‘Hannah’’, del director italiano Andreas Pallaoro, tiene a muchos intrigados con las sorpresas que la actriz inglesa hará. Desde desnudos y afeitarse la cabeza hasta vestirse con el uniforme Nazi, Rampling no conoce el miedo, ni mucho menos la vergüenza. En 2016, logró su primera nominación al Óscar por 45 Years (2015), y ha resultado ser ganadora en una ocasión al Premio de la interpretación femenina en el Festival de Berlin. Todavía no ha ganado un premio en Cannes, ni mucho menos en Venecia.

Frances McDormand, rebelde, directa y sin pelos en la lengua. Sin duda, una de las actrices preferidas de los hermanos Coen. Esta casada con Joel Coen, con quien hizo su primer debut actoral en ‘‘Blood Simple’’. En 2014, ganó el Premio Visionary Talent en el Festival de Venecia, por sus aportes en la actuación y producción en la miniserie televisiva de HBO, ‘‘Olive Kitteridge’’, dirigida por Lisa Cholodenko. Es una de las actrices que posee la triple corona de la actuación: Un Óscar, un Tony y un Emmy. Su nuevo proyecto ‘‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’’, la reúne con el libretista nominado al Tony y ganador del Óscar, el irlandés Martin McDonagh y el actor Peter Dinklage, que es conocido por su papel de Tyrion Lannister en la serie de HBO, ‘‘Juego de Tronos’’.

Sally Hawkins, aunque no es una diva. Es una de las actrices más inspiradoras de nuestros tiempos por encontrar fuentes más allá de una actuación teatral o una película del viejo glamour de Hollywood. Recibió un premio a la Mejor Actriz en el Festival de Berlin por la película ‘‘Happy-Go-Lucky’’ (2009), del cineasta británico Mike Leigh y el Globo de Oro a la Mejor Actriz Musical o Comedia, derrotando a Rebecca Hall, Frances McDormand, Emma Thompson y Meryl Streep. Recibió su primera nominación al Óscar, por actuar al lado de Cate Blanchett en la película ‘‘Blue Jasmine’’ (2013), de Woody Allen. El proyecto más reciente es ‘‘The Shape of Water’’ (2017) por el realizador mexicano Guillermo del Toro, donde realiza el papel de una sordomuda que desarrolla un vinculo amistoso con un pez-hombre en un laboratorio nuclear estadounidense ambientado en la década de los 50′s, en el sentido más HP. Lovecraftiano.

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freifraufischer · 7 years

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Now imagine Mayor Regina Mills with an Olive Kitteridge Maine accent and Emma with a Baaaston accent. It would be a Cohen bros show!

Or Emma with a Minn-e-sota accent.

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theperksofbeingabookseller · 7 years

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What you’re reading.

A week or so ago, I asked you all what you were reading. You know me. You know how curious I get! I got so many responses - which I will post under the cut below - and it was great checking out the books you are reading!

Is anyone else here reading your favourite book, or the same book that you are? Then you should definitely go and chat to them about it. It’s what booklr is for! Or are you stumped for ideas for what book to read next? Well, here a list of ideas.

ingek73: Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events

alelovespasta: I’m reading A game of thrones and throne of glass

yakyutori answered: Well, I finished “Red Queen” and “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.” Now, I’m reading “The Spectacular Now.”

bollymusings answered: Currently I am reading A Feast for Crows by G.R.R. Martin and since I always try to read one fiction and one non-fiction I have also started S.P.Q.R. by Mary Beard.

millelyh answered: Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb :)

passive-m00d answered: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

dionysiacbooks: I don’t know yet! I finished Flygirl and have no idea what to read next! Maybe Fire and Stars?

exlibrislilly answered: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi =D

thebookspath: The Physician by Noah Gordon :)

bobbieboopette: The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

victoria-tonks answered: “The Beautiful and Damned” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

thenarniangirl answered: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by the genius sir Arthur Conan Doyle

laurabwrites: Ancillary Justice The Real and The Unreal

thebookishredhead: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

critical-reader: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

view-from-nowhere answered: Just finished “Het smelt” (Lize Spit, in Flemish), and thinking about rereading American Gods or some Jane Austen.

the-booted-kat answered: Denise Mina - The End of the Wasp Season (have to read this for one of my classes at university :) )

coffeeandbooklr said: Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare

nerdsandshit answered: Just finished The Raven King, now onto Scarlet

thatibuiltspecial answered: Just finished Hag Seed by Margaret Atwood and started The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday

allthroughthisworld answered: Symptoms Of Being Human

haikumaker answered: In the midst of several: The Once and Future King; Introducing Philosophy of Mathematics; Olive Kitteridge; The Terror Courts

shejustgotstronger said: RX: A Story of Electronegativity by Robert Brockway. It’s… I don’t know. But I gotta see this one through.

booksilog answered: Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly

books-and-branches: I just finished The Possessions last night by Sarah Flannery Murphy, it was super good! I’m still working through The Hag Seed by Margaret Atwood (not far in but I love everything she does), Fire Bringer by David Clement-Davies (about semi-anthropomorphized deer with their own mythology), and here and there I read a short story in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Unreal and the Real collection.

reviewthisbook answered: Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally

thesecretsthewriterkeeps: I just finished Eve: The Awakening by Jenna Moreci, and I’m not sure what I’m going to read next. It could be Heartless by Marissa Meyer, or it could be Ice Crypt by Tiana Warner - those are the two most likely candidates from my rather long to-read list, anyway :P

feuerx: Robin Hobb’s Tawny Man trilogy book two, Fool’s Whateveritwas. She writes rather nice fantasy with a lot of canines, felines in this trilogy, horses and dragons. There are assassins too, but I haven’t yet decided of that aspect works really well or lousily. The only really bad aspect is that the way books are named is rather unmemorable

problemsofabookaddict: I just started reading the girls by Emma Klein and it is really good!

runaway-grey: Just finished Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff and started The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter.

pharmacistfangirl: Yesterday I finished the English edition of Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (I’m still working through the Spanish Edition). I’m also reading Margot Adler’s Drawing Down the Moon and William Sitwell’s A History of Food in 100 Recipes, and I plan to pick up another fiction book in the next week or so. Maybe from my huge stack of untouched Kindle First books.

roxyreadsandeats: I often read more than one book at a time, so I’m currently reading Nadine Gordimer’s Selected Stories, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s the idiot and The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

crazy4fiction: I’m currently reading ‘Replica’ by Lauren Oliver. :)

thenerdherdreads answered: The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon & Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

athousand-splendid-suns said: Hey im readin a beautifulllll amaziiingg stunning book called sister of my heart, its about how 2 indian cousins who one day didnt go to school and they get caught so their moms decide to arrange them marriage.

silentiariuscp01: Im reading Bram stokers Dracula

#what are you reading?#books #reading #book chat #bookish #bibliophile #bookworm #booklr #read

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rockandroar · 4 months

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It dawned on me that a lot of people are starting travel for Christmas tomorrow, so here, let’s do this today!

Some know about its previous incarnation, but for anyone new: "Rock & Roar 2: The Heartstring Diaries" is my project B, a story I'm developing in tandem with the current Rock & Roar comic. The story takes place 20 years after the setting of the first Rock & Roar story, in the year 2006. It follows the journey of Miles's niece - Emma Kitteridge - and her bandmates: Jimmy, Cassie, and Troy. The story is set during the time that saw the unprecedented mainstream rise of the third wave of emo, and the radio domination of pop punk. MySpace, crunk, "bling", and tacky fashion will also feature prominently. 😆 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

This project holds special meaning for me because, like these characters, I was in high school in 2006 and it was an incredible time to experience this explosion of alternative music and be an emo teen. 🖤

Rock & Roar 2, the graphic novel, won't roll out for a couple more years because it would spoil events that haven't happened yet in Rock & Roar 1. *But!* I will be sharing short comics, and lots of artwork and fun things featuring these characters from here on out! I love drawing them, and I hope that others will enjoy getting to know them.

A big thanks again to everyone who has subscribed to my Rock & Roar comic this year, and thank you also for your interest in my other projects! You all rock! 🤘🏼

#webcomic #rock and roar #visual development #concept art #webcomics #animal characters #original character #anthropomorphic #cartoon animation #anthro #emo kid #emo #2000s emo #2000s #2000s nostalgia #2000s music #emo scene #scenecore #scene kid

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allbestnet · 7 years

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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Here I am by Jonathan Safran Foer

How to be Both by Ali Smith

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Moonglow by Michael Chabon

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

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Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty

A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk

The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

The Sympathizer by Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity Viet Thanh Nguyen

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Divergent (Divergent, Book 1) by Veronica Roth

Defending Jacob by William Landay

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Bossypants by Tina Fey

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

One Day by David Nicholls

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

11.22.63 by Stephen King

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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260: No Thoughts On Gillette At All

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We’re back from our vacation, and, apparently, something noteworthy happened with Gillette while we were gone. We talk about that; reading is good and here are some books you should read (if you haven’t already); and, yeah, we talk about Gillette some more. All this and more!

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Blige, Clarke, Harrelson, Hunter, Kaluuya, Kazan, McDormand, Metcalf, Nanjiani, Rockwell, Romano, Ronan and Williams To Present at the 24th Annual SAG Awards®

The 24th Annual SAG Awards® will air live on TNT and TBS, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018

LOS ANGELES (Jan. 13, 2018) — Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Woody Harrelson, Holly Hunter, Daniel Kaluuya, Zoe Kazan, Frances McDormand, Laurie Metcalf, Kumail Nanjiani, Sam Rockwell, Ray Romano, Saoirse Ronan and Allison Williams will be presenters at the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Kathy Connell announced today.

This elite group joins a growing roster of actors who will honor their colleagues at the SAG Awards® Ceremony that already includes Halle Berry, Dakota Fanning, Lupita Nyong'o, Emma Stone and Kelly Marie Tran. The 24th Annual SAG Awards® will air live on TNT and TBS, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018at 8 p.m. (ET)/5 p.m. (PT).

All of these newly announced presenters have been nominated for SAG Awards in the category Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and will be introducing a clip from the relevant film. “At its best, the cast of a film shapes the story into a believable world that reflects the reality of every character’s life,” Connell said. “This award recognizes those cast performances that embody why acting is a collaborative art.”

Mary J. Blige

FROM THE CAST OF THE BIG SICK (Amazon Studios):

Holly Hunter is a seven-time Actor® nominee for her work in film and television, including three consecutive nominations for her role as Grace Hanadarko in the drama series Saving Grace. This year, the Oscar® winner’s (for The Piano) performance in The Big Sick earned her a Supporting Role nomination in addition to her nomination as part of the cast.

Zoe Kazan is a first-time presenter and nominee at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Kumail Nanjiani is a first-time presenter and nominee at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this year.

Ray Romano earned 12 previous nominations for his performance as the lead actor in Everybody Loves Raymond, a series for which he also earned an Actor® as a member of the Ensemble.

FROM THE CAST OF GET OUT (Universal Pictures):

Daniel Kaluuya is a first-time presenter and nominee at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. In addition to his Cast nomination, he is nominated for his Leading Role in Get Out.

Allison Williams is a first-time presenter and nominee at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this year.

FROM THE CAST OF LADY BIRD (A24):

Laurie Metcalf is a three-time Actor® nominee, returning to the Screen Actors Guild Awards with concurrent nominations for her Supporting Role in addition to being a cast member of Lady Bird. She was previously nominated as part of the Comedy Series Ensemble for Desperate Housewives.

Saoirse Ronan returns to the Screen Actors Guild Awards after previous nominations for her lead role in Brooklyn, for which she also received an Oscar® nomination, and as a cast member in The Grand Budapest Hotel. She is nominated for her Leading Role in Lady Bird, for which she received a Golden Globe, in addition to as a cast member.

FROM THE CAST OF MUDBOUND (Netflix):

Mary J. Blige is a first-time presenter and nominee at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. Her portrayal of Florence Jackson in Mudbound received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by Female Actor in a Supporting Role in addition to as a cast member.

Jason Clarke is a first-time nominee and presenter at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

FROM THE CAST OF THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight):

Woody Harrelson is a seven-time SAG Awards nominee who received an Actor® for his performance in the cast of No Country for Old Men. This year he is nominated for Supporting Role as well as for his cast performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Frances McDormand is a two-time Actor® recipient for her roles in Olive Kitteridge and Fargo, for which she also earned an Oscar®. She is currently nominated for SAG Awards for her Leading Role in addition to as a cast member in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. She also received Actor® nominations for her Supporting Role in North Country and in Almost Famous, for which she additionally was nominated as a cast member.

Sam Rockwell received his third and fourth Actor® nominations this year, as a cast member as for his Supporting Role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, for which he previously received a Golden Globe.

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As an avid reader, I try to read a variety of genres. I ended the year having read 89 books. My original goal was to hit 100 but I didn’t do a ton of reading in November (I couldn’t focus as my pregnancy nausea made it hard to focus.) That said, in no particular order, here are ten of my favorite books from 2016. Note: A few of these weren’t released in 2016 but were my favorites read over the year.

1.) Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance – Hillbilly Elegy is part memoir of one man’s journey from poverty to Yale Law School and also part reflection of working class white people from Appalachia. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Vance’s words shed insight on a people group we don’t often think of when considering disadvantaged Americans. I highly recommend this thought-provoking, timely read!

2.) Dark Matter by Blake Crouch – I’m typically not a science fiction reader; however, I’d heard so much praise for the latest by Crouch, I had to see what all the hype was about. I’m so glad I did because this one ended up being a real page-turner. It’s difficult to summarize but I will say that I was immediately hooked after the first chapter. At times, it was difficult to follow (quantum-physics is just a little over my head ;) ) but I got the ‘gist’ of it. Please let me know if you end up reading this one because I’d love to discuss it with someone.

3.) Before We Visit The Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – I absolutely loved this one. I heard blogger, Modern Mrs. Darcy rave about it on her Summer Reading Guide and knew I had to reserve it from the library. I only wish I wouldn’t have waited so long to pick it up. I always enjoy stories written from various perspectives (as the story is told from three generations of Indian women.)

4.) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout – Readers get to know Olive Kitteridge through a collection of thirteen stories. While she isn’t always a primary character, she resides somewhere within each one. Olive isn’t immediately likable but you come to ‘feel’ for her by the time the book has ended. Highly deserving of the Pulitzer it won! I loved this.

5.) Desperate: Hope for the Mom That Needs to Breathe by Sarah Mae – One of the most helpful, convicting books on motherhood I’ve read. Young mother, Sarah Mae writes in collaboration with her mentor, the wise (and wonderful) Sally Clarkson. Each chapter begins with a short ‘conversation’ between the two women. Their words hit me in the most beautiful way – powerfully convicting but in a gentle tone. Practical wisdom for mothers of various aged children. I HIGHLY recommend.

6.) Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris – If you’re up for a good thriller this one will quite literally…keep you up. I couldn’t put the debut by Paris down. I read several thrillers in 2016 and this was, by far, my favorite. The story shifts perspective between past and present and is told from the perspective of the wife, Grace. What really goes on ‘behind closed doors’? Sure, there were some moments that seemed somewhat unrealistic, but the pacing kept me flipping page after page. I’m looking forward to reading the authors next book.

7.) A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg – Thoroughly enjoyable. I rented this one from the library; however, I will likely buy a copy for myself as I am interested in making several of the recipes. This is rare for me as I typically skim over recipes included in a memoir. Each story that Wizenberg tells is attached to one (or two) recipes. Her friendly, conversational tone drew me in; she is a charming storyteller!

8.) The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner – Goodreads describes the story as, “A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl’s coming-of-age in a polygamist cult.” I couldn’t have summed it up any better. Riveting! Deeply-affecting! My heart ached as I read about Wariner’s experience and the unjust manipulation/abuse that occurred within the ‘walls’ of the polygamist colony. This is one of those books that’ll stay with you long after you turn the last page. It truly was difficult to put this beautiful memoir down

9.) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng – One of the best contemporary, family dramas I’ve read. Heavy topics but worth pressing through. Goodreads describes it as, “A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.” Very impressive debut from Celeste Ng. I will be keeping my eye out for her in the future!

10.) You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein – Prior to reading, I had never heard of Jessi Klein. I picked up ‘You’ll Grow Out of It’ after hearing blogger, Modern Mrs. Darcy recommend it on her podcast. It didn’t seem like the typical book she’d read so I was intrigued. While Klein is far more of a feminist than I, I couldn’t help but appreciate her humor and nod my head to several of her satirical sentiments. There was one chapter I had to skim through but, all in all, I highly recommend this one if you’re up for a witty read.

And a few to skip…(most of these I found to be highly overrated.)

Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Nest by Cynthia Sweeney

The Royal We by Heather Cocks

Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst

The Girls by Emma Cline

My Top Reads in 2016 As an avid reader, I try to read a variety of genres. I ended the year having read 89 books.

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