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Day 23: JOMPBPC: Book Dedication
I love this book and its dedication! 💕
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#book dedication#invisible boys#holden sheppard#beautiful book#beautiful cover#amazing author#lgbt+#pretty flowers#chrysanthemum#i love books
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The Brink
By Holden Sheppard.
Design by Imogen Stubbs.
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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 2nd, 2022)
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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!
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New Standalones/First in a Series:
How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
You, Me, & Our Heartstrings by Melissa See
Bloody Fool for Love by William Ritter
Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin
It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
What’s Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla
Bad At Love by Gabriela Martins
The Stars Between Us by Cristin Terrill
Don’t Go to Sleep by Bryce Moore
Sadie Starr’s Guiding to Starting Over by Miranda Luby
The Brink by Holden Sheppard
Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin
New Sequels:
My Imaginary Mary (Mary #2) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows
The King Will Kill You (Kingdoms of Sand and Sky #3) by Sarah Henning
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Happy reading!
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The Brink by Holden Sheppard
(2022)
From the Publisher:
A group of school-leavers: free at last, ready to party, expectations high.
A remote island on the Western Australian coast wasn’t exactly the plan, but they’re not going to let that hold them back.
Leonardo, geeky, asthmatic, shy and prone to anxiety, has landed with them. He’s terrified—he’s definitely not part of this cool gang. Super high-achiever Kaiya is trying to forget her frustration with her drug-addicted sister as well as dealing with pressure from the popular girls to lose her virginity. Mason, footy jock with the physique to match, is coming to terms with his secret desire for his best mate, Jared. And Jared wants a week off from his relationship with Val so he can have sex with as many girls as possible.
But the party takes a dangerous turn when Val is drugged and a man is later found dead on the beach. Blame, fear, mistrust, coverups, power plays and dark secrets tear the group apart and expose the deadly tensions beneath the surface. And each teen is forced to confront demons that will lead them either to devastating tragedy or transformative triumph.
Whoever survives the week will never be the same again.
The Brink is a raw, powerful novel that pulls no punches in its authentic exploration of masculinity, sexuality, mental health, drug and alcohol use, relationships and sex. Holden Sheppard takes the teenage experience to the next level.
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top 5 characters
OF ALL TIME? FROM ALL MEDIA? JESUS CHRIST TIA
uhmm..
I can't put them in order,. but
hisoka. eridan homed stuck. taako taaco. yuki sohma. and of course. keith voltron.
ps I want you to know it took me over an hour of intense thinking to come up with this list and I'm still not entirely happy with it
thank you for the pain!
edit 6/18/23 taking eridan off the list replacing him with vash the stampede
#this was unbelievably difficult ill have you know#special shoutouts to daryl dixon yusuke kitagawa kyle broflovski the 11th doctor cove holden allan melville mammon from obey me#lorenz hellman gloucester qifrey L lawliet dave & dirk strider mayoi ayase josuke higashikata haruto from project perfectly normal#ford from story of seasons trio of towns vyn richter shuichi saito from uzumaki byakuya togami tomoya okazaki kanji tatsumi reigen arataka#mikoto mikoshiba kamui gakupo shinji ikari shigeo kageyama todoroki shouto zuko from atla alhaitham kaeya alberich miles edgworth#clear from dmmd sebastian michaelis keiji shinogi mozu sheppard#if i repeated any names no i didnt <3#keithposting#10/25/23 eta sam & dean winchester
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Heroes & main characters get hurt a lot in SF/action shows.
Bonked on the head to make them unconscious, hit with phasers set on stun, knocked out during a terrible vehicle crash at the end of a chase scene.
And next episode? They're fine. No TBI. No lasting effects. No trouble remembering things, no personality shifts, no anxiety about getting hurt again, phasered again. I mean a Star Trek phaser is like getting tasered, right? Same idea.
The Stargate series, like Trek, routinely transmogrifies its characters into monsters, uploads them into computers, swaps bodies, ages them into geriatrics or children, duplicates them, converts them into energy and back again thousands of times. With no lasting effect. Without extended recovery or rehabilitation.
Hell, they rarely even talk about it. Me, I still talk about the time I fell at a theme park and hurt my leg so badly I thought it might be broken. I limped for weeks, avoided stairs, watched my leg turn various shades of purple & green. And that was not nearly as interesting as having my DNA rewritten by The Ancients.
You know who gets it right though?
The Expanse.
Early in the series Holden & Miller receive a lethal dose of radiation, equivalent to watching a nuclear detonation way too closely. And very realistically, they soon start exhibiting the signs of severe radiation sickness: malaise, vomiting, whole body pain.
But because it is hundreds of years in the future, medical technology has advanced to the point that they are saved. Their radiation sickness is cured!
If this was Star Trek or Stargate, nobody would show any ill effects afterwards. Next episode they'd be 100% normal, and any future callbacks would be a throwaway line and possibly a joke.
Not in The Expanse. Here, our characters are shown to suffer the aftereffects of their ordeal. They have permanent subcutaneous ports installed in their arms so they can continue to receive medicine for the rest of their lives. Because as miraculous as 23rd century medicine may be, they cannot cure radiation damage. They can only treat it.
And if our characters fail to get their treatments? They suffer for it. They'll eventually die from it. And the show revisits that theme and never lets us forget it, because those ports are visible whenever our characters are seen without sleeves.
I was just thinking about this after watching the episode of Stargate Atlantis where Sheppard literally gets turned into a man-sized insect then at the end of the show he's shown completely healed. Ha ha, I was a bug. How wacky is that?
If that happened to me I'd never stop screaming.
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🦘 Booklr Reads Australian - Authors on My Shelves 🐨
so, I’ve been trying to think of a way to recommend a lot of Australian authors really quickly for Booklr Reads Australian. what I came up with was just to give y’all a giant list of all the authors I have at home!
most of them are YA and/or fantasy authors, and I’ve marked my favourites with an asterisk (*) but if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an ask 😊
1. Sarah Ayoub
2. Eugen Bacon
3. Shirley Barber *
4. AJ Betts
5. Danielle Binks *
6. Cally Black
7. Steph Bowe *
8. Alice Boyle
9. JC Burke
10. Meg Caddy *
11. Frances Chapman
12. Wai Chim *
13. Claire Christian
14. Lyndall Clipstone
15. Claire G Coleman
16. Katherine Collette
17. Harry Cook
18. Cath Crowley
19. Robyn Dennison
20. Cale Dietrich
21. Lauren Draper
22. CG Drews *
23. Michael Earp
24. Kate Emery
25. Sarah Epstein
26. Alison Evans *
27. Fleur Ferris
28. Carly Findlay
29. Helena Fox
30. Lisa Fuller
31. Emily Gale
32. Meg Gatland-Veness
33. Sophie Gonzales
34. Erin Gough *
35. Leanne Hall *
36. Pip Harry
37. Sonya Hartnett
38. Adam Hills
39. Simmone Howell
40. Megan Jacobson
41. Amie Kaufman
42. Melissa Keil
43. Nina Kenwood
44. Sharon Kernot
45. Kay Kerr *
46. Will Kostakis
47. Jay Kristoff
48. Ambelin Kwaymullina
49. Benjamin Law
50. Rebecca Lim
51. Gary Lonesborough *
52. Kathleen Loughnan
53. Miranda Luby
54. Tobias Madden
55. Melina Marchetta
56. Ellie Marney *
57. Freya Marske
58. Jodi McAlister *
59. Margot McGovern *
60. Nikki McWatters
61. Anna Morgan
62. Jaclyn Moriarty
63. Liane Moriarty
64. Garth Nix
65. Lynette Noni
66. Carly Nugent
67. Poppy Nwosu
68. Kate O’Donnell
69. Shivaun Plozza
70. Michael Pryor
71. Alice Pung
72. Emily Rodda *
73. Autumn Royal
74. Omar Sakr
75. Holden Sheppard
76. AG Slatter
77. Jo Spurrier
78. Krystal Sutherland *
79. Jared Thomas
80. Hayli Thompson
81. Gabrielle Tozer
82. Christos Tsiolkas
83. Alicia Tuckerman
84. Ellen van Neerven
85. Marlee Jane Ward
86. Vikki Wakefield
87. Lisa Walker
88. Jessica Watson *
89. Allayne L Webster
90. Anna Whateley *
91. Samantha Wheeler
92. Jen Wilde *
93. Rhiannon Wilde
94. Lili WIlkinson
95. Gabrielle Williams
96. Rhiannon Williams
97. Fiona Wood
98. Leanne Yong
99. Suzy Zail
100. Nevo Zisin
101. Markus Zusak
#booklr reads australian#booklr#bookblr#read australian#loveozya#trcc original#book recs#book recommendations
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Vic bookshop owner wants books to be more white and less gay
New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/victoria-bookshop-owner-wants-books-to-be-more-white-and-less-gay/
Vic bookshop owner wants books to be more white and less gay
The owner of a Victorian bookstore chain has apologised after she called for more picture books with “just white kids on the cover” and less “wheelchair, rainbow or Indigenous” representation.
Susanne Horman has owned the Robinsons Bookshop chain since 2007. There are a number of the indie bookstores across Melbourne.
At the weekend, a series of Susanne’s posts from her personal Twitter X account, written last month, circulated online.
In the posts, she called for Australian publishing to put out more “white family stories” with “white kids” on the covers, and less “wheelchair, rainbow or Indigenous” representation.
“What’s missing from our bookshelves in store?” Susanne Horman wrote in a now-deleted post, accompanied by the hashtag #weneedbetterstories.
“Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional nuclear white family stories, kids picture books with just white kids on the cover, and no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous art, non indig [sic] aus history.”
In another post, she also vowed not to stock diverse books that are “against white Australians” and “cause harm and make Australians hate each other”.
“Books we don’t need: hate against white Australians, socialist agenda, equity over equality, diversity and inclusion (READ AS anti-white exclusion), left-wing govt propaganda. Basically the woke agenda that divides people. Not stocking any of these in 2024.”
‘So wildly out of pocket’
At the weekend, an Instagram account coffeebooksandmagic shared the now-deleted social media posts, with hundreds of commenters calling them out.
The account owner clarified she’s “not one for willy nilly ‘cancelling’ but the comments … are so wildly out of pocket that I have no problem suggesting a widespread boycott would be appropriate”.
“[Susanne Horman] has not only said she wants more white people on covers and in books, but goes further to say that she won’t be stocking anything that … well, what, exactly? Isn’t about white people?” she wrote.
“And then somehow manages to claim that she’s fighting division.
“This kind of mentality has no place in the modern landscape and I truly hope it will eventually die out with the generation that’s as archaic as her website.”
Ouch.
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Robinsons Bookshop apologises for comments
Speaking to The Age, Susanne Horman issued an apology to Robinsons Bookshop staff and “anyone who was offended by the comments”. She claimed they had been “taken out of context”.
In a Facebook statement, Robinsons Bookshop also apologised and said the posts “misrepresented the views” of the company.
“We clearly state, so there is no misunderstanding, that we fully support and encourage stories from diverse voices [and] minorities,” the post read.
“We are most definitely stocking these important topics and the authors that write them.
“As a business, we will continue advocating for positive hope-filled stories that bring out the best in all our community and make all people feel supported and fulfilled.
“We ask everyone to treat all of our staff with kindness and respect.”
Read also:
Gay author Will Kostakis invited to Catholic school, told not to say gay
Holden Sheppard’s queer novel Invisible Boys to become TV series
Brisbane’s Queer Readers recommend their must-read books this summer
For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
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Granite Hills Bios: Angel Vega (1980)
Architecture, Criminology, Music Technology & Theatrical Studies Student A. R. Vega.
Student & Member of several groups Angel Ramon Vega.
"The University, incredible, the town, ehh, not so much."
Name
Full Legal Name: Angel Ramon Vega
First Name: Angel
Meaning: From the medieval Latin masculine name 'Angelus', which was derived from the name of the heavenly creature.
Pronunciation: AYN-jel. ANG-khel
Origin: English, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Middle Name: Ramon
Meaning: Catalan form of 'Raymond', from the Germanic name 'Raginmund', composed of the elements 'Regin' 'Advice, Counsel, Decision' and 'Munt' 'Protection'.
Pronunciation: ra-MON
Origin: Catalan
Surname: Vega
Meaning: From Spanish 'Vega' meaning 'Meadow, Plain', of Basque origin.
Pronunciation: BEH-gha
Origin: Spanish
Titles: Mr, Señor
Nicknames: N/A
Goes By: Angel (Pronounced: ANG-khel)
Characteristics
Age: 24
Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns
Nationality: American Citizen. Born in Puerto Rico
Ethnicity: Latino. Puerto Rican
Birth Date: 26th January 1956
Sexuality: Straight
Religion: Catholic
Native Language: Spanish
Known Languages: Spanish, English
Relationship Status: Single
Astrological Sign: Aquarius
Played By: Alfred Molina
Appearance
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Eye Colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Black
Hair Dye: None
Body Hair: Hairy
Facial Hair: Varies
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
Scars: None
Health and Fitness
Allergies: None
Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social Drinker, Occasional Smoker
Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed
Medications: None
Any Specific Diet: None
Relationships
Affiliated Groups: Alien Seekers, Granite Hills Crime-Stoppers, Historical Re-Enactment Society, Music Appreciation Society
Friends: Easton White, Douglass Bernard, Chuck Sheppard, Quentin Hollister, Holden Lynn
Shares A Dorm With: Cesar Leon, Terry Jepson
Significant Other: None
Parents: Oriol Vega (48, Father), Queralt Vega (50, Mother, Née Borja)
Siblings: None
Extras
Classes: Architecture, Criminology, Music Technology, Theatrical Studies
Occupation: Student
Employer: None
Hobbies/Interests: swimming, ice skating, rugby, dancing, calligraphy, star gazing, magic, acting, note taking & researching, music (both creating & listening to), cooking, card games
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Scrublands Season Two will be set in Western Australia. Credit: Supplied/Stan
Scarsdale’s back! Scrublands Season Two to film in Western Australia
It was one of Stan’s most popular series of 2023, scoring rave reviews from critics and fans alike.
And now Scrublands Season Two is headed West.
Stan announced today that the drama, starring Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote, will film its second season in Western Australia, with rumours it will choose the Great Southern region as the setting for its story.
It follows Binge’s Logie Award-winning drama The Twelve, who also chose to base their second season in WA.
Details are scant, but production is expected to begin later this year, with Arnold and Heathcote believed to be returning to reprise their roles.
According to the streamer, season two will be based on Chris Hammer’s follow-up Scrublands novel, Silver.
“Martin Scarsden has returned to his coastal hometown, Port Silver, to set up a new life with partner Mandy Bond,” an official release reads.
“When he arrives to find his childhood friend Jasper brutally murdered and Mandy the prime suspect, Martin makes it his duty to find the real murderer and absolve Mandy.
Scrublands Season Two is headed for WA — and it looks as though Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote will be back to reprise their roles. Credit: Supplied/Stan
“In the process, he confronts hidden truths about Port Silver and his own long-buried past.”
The series will be directed by acclaimed WA-based director Ben Young (Hounds of Love, Population 11 and The Twelve), with writers Felicity Packard, Jock Serong and Fiona Kelly also onboard.
Scrublands is one of several television productions who have chosen to film in Western Australia over the past 18 months, taking advantage of the State Government’s lucrative screen incentive program designed to lure film and television investment to the State.
As well as the comedy thriller Population 11, which releases on March 14, Stan is also currently filming the TV adaptation of Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys novel in Geraldton.
Scrublands is being produced with major investment from Screenwest, Lotterywest and the WA Regional Screen Fund.
It is developed and produced with the assistance of Screenwest and Lotterywest, with international sales handled by Abacus Media Rights.
Source: Perth Now Australia
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June 2023 Reading Recap
5 Stars:
Just Between Us by J. H. Trumble
There Is A Light by Ban Gilmartin
Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
Carousel by Brendan Ritchie
The Boy Who Steals Houses by C. G. Drews
The Kings of Nowhere by C. G. Drews
What About Will by Ellen Hopkins
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
Out of Time, Into You by Jay Bell
4.5 Stars:
Bait by Alex Sanchez
Junk Boy by Tony Abbott
Gypsy Boy on the Run by Mikey Walsh
Milo and Marcos At the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes
4 Stars:
The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver
My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron
A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
The Edge of Being by James Brandon
He Forgot to Say Goodbye by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
This Winter by Alice Oseman
The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs
Beyond Carousel by Brendan Ritchie
Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan
Every Day by David Levithan
The Gravity of Nothing by Chase Connor
If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch
3.5 Stars:
Here's to You, Zeb Pike by Johanna Parkhurst
Five Have Plenty Of Fun by Enid Blyton
Caterpillars Can't Swim by Liane Shaw
Boys of the Beast by Monica Zepeda
Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard
Anything Could Happen by Will Walton
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Dead Flip by Sara Farizan
Every Moment After by Joseph Moldover
Hold by Rachel Davidson Leigh
Trailer Trash by Marie Sexton
Always Leaving by Gene Gant
Kings of B'more by R. Eric Thomas
3 Stars:
Five Go To Mystery Moor by Enid Blyton
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles
Golden Boys by Phil Stamper
The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs
This Is Not a Love Story by Suki Fleet
Another Day by David Levithan
Toughing It by Nancy Springer
2.5 Stars:
Arctic Zoo by Robert Muchamore
Keesha's House by Helen Frost
Trying Hard to Hear You by Sandra Scoppettone
Pain & Wastings by Carrie Mac
2 Stars:
Qualities of Light by Mary Carroll Moore
Small Town Monsters by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
1.5 Stars:
Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt
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Day 27: JOMPBPC: Thriller
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#thriller#the brink#holden sheppard#beautiful book#beautiful cover#amazing author#lgbt+#bookish#i love books
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Writing trends come and go
This blog is inspired by a recent conversation with a writer friend.
He told me of an editor who believes all works should be third person and past tense. She says first person is an unreliable subjective narrative, while past tense gives the advantage of reflection.
Yet Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard is a critically acclaimed best seller, and is about to be made into a television series. It…
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Oh yeah. It's a very hard-hitting game. Probably the only reason I didnt cry whie playing it is that my emotions are just. Solidly fucked. It takes a few yimes consuming a piece of media before I get really emotional.
Except that one time I cried reading a book...
Pelipper Mail!!
The book "Invisible Boys" by Holden Sheppard.
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sounds cool
#spinarak man#pkmn irl#pokemon irl#pokeblogging#pokemon#pokemon roleplay#pokemon rp#real pokemon#rotomblr
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Frances Langford | All-American Co-Ed (1941) Musical Comedy Films Full Movie
All-American Co-Ed is a 1941 American musical film produced and directed by Leroy Prinz as a Hal Roach Streamliner for release by United Artists. It stars Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Marjorie Woodworth, Noah Beery Jr., Esther Dale, Harry Langdon, and The Tanner Sisters. Quinceton College Zeta fraternity stages a revue with members in drag. The resulting publicity catches the attention of newspaperman Hap Holden (Harry Langdon) and Virginia Collinge (Frances Langford). They convince Virginia's aunt Matilda Collinge (Esther Dale), president of failing Mar Brynn (a woman's horticultural college), to refute the school's staid image by sponsoring a contest awarding a dozen free scholarships aimed at "unusual girls", winners of pageants for fruits, vegetables and flowers, as women most likely to succeed and to be showcased in a musical presentation during the Fall Festival. To publicize the contest, President Collinge pokes fun at Zeta members as being least likely to succeed and bans them from their campus. For revenge the Zeta chapter president Bob Sheppard (Johnny Downs) is coerced to infiltrate Mar Brynn by entering the contest as "Bobbie DeWolfe, Queen of the Flowers". After falling in love with Virginia, Bob comes clean and assists in staging the show, but includes in the finale a Busby Berkeley-style spelling out of "Zeta" as revenge for the ban. Cast Frances Langford as Virginia Johnny Downs as Bob Sheppard Marjorie Woodworth as Bunny Noah Beery Jr. as Slinky Esther Dale as Matilda Harry Langdon as Hap Holden Alan Hale Jr. as Tiny Kent Rogers as Henry Allan Lane as 2nd Senior Joe Brown Jr. as 3rd Senior Irving Mitchell as Doctor Lillian Randolph as Washwoman (Deborah) Carlyle Blackwell Jr. as 4th Senior Mickey Tanner • Betty Tanner • Martha Tanner as Vocal Trio Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel. https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics
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Nathan Fake - Silent Night / Drowning in a Sea of Love / Drowning in a Sea of Remixes / You Are Here (2005-2007)
Cover design and artwork by: Gemma Sheppard, James Holden & Nathan Fake
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