#neil gaiman I will hunt you for sport
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WHAT IF HE CHANGED HIS MIND MID-SMOOCH?!
you’re welcome💕✨
…They kissed a lot.
#good omens#good omemes#aziraphel#aziracrow#azirowley#crowly x aziraphale#crowley#neil gaiman#neil gaiman i am in your walls#neil gaiman good omens#neil gaiman I will hunt you for sport#good omens 2#good omens 3#neil gay man#good omens spoilers
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Twice now I have looked at the Marvel What If season lineup and been disappointed they aren't doing What If Thor Was Raised by Frost Giants. Tragic.
Especially because Frost Giant Thor would've been a better more interesting addition to the Guardians of the Multiverse than... Frat Boy Thor
#what if season 2#what if season 1#what if series#i liked the comic a lot out on in the sgow you cowards#its actually good instead of someone going “what if thor but annoying”#thor odinson#marvels what if#as hyped as i am for Marvel 1602 as a Neil Gaiman Slut™️ THAT'S NOT EVEN A WHAT IF COMIC YOU GIVE ME THAT BUT NOT AN ACTUAK WHAT IF ISSUE#FUCKING COWARDS#i know i say this on every marvel post i make but i WILL hunt Kevin Feige for sport i stg
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i’m going insane oh my fucking god
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Why do people on here literally feel like it's okay to bully people they don't like who clearly haven't done anything yo deserve harassment?? I'm not an innocent lovely person lol I will straight up tell a mf to off themselves if the situation calls for it but it is very important that the situation calls for it?? I not even saying I've never unjustifiably bullied anyone but I don't think it's OKAY??
I think it's a really serious problem if you see someone you don't like do something you don't like and you don't even consider whether they actually deserve to he harassed or not. Like hunt Andrew Tate for sport by all means but Neil Gaiman is just some guy the block button is free
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Holidays 9.30
Holidays
Agricultural Reform Day (Sao Tome and Principe)
Arizona Monsoon Season ends
Army Incompetence Day
Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
Botswana Day (Botswana)
Boy’s Day (Poland)
Chewing Gum Day
Day of Hungarian Folktales (Hungary)
Do Something Wacky With A Grandparent Day
E-mail Debt Forgiveness Day
Frisbee Day
International Blasphemy Rights Day (a.k.a. Blasphemy Day)
International Podcast Day
International Recovery Day
International Thunderbirds Day
International Translation Day (UN)
Jananeta Irawat Birth Day (Manipur, India)
Kokkeisetsu (Japan)
Liberation Day (Abkhazia)
Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Day
Monkey Bars Day
National Black Funding Day
National Chewing Gum Day
National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools
National Kratom Day
National Love People Day
National Microcephaly Awareness Day
National Mud Pack Day
National Nonspeaking / Nonverbal Awareness Day (UK)
National Pet Tricks Day (UK)
National PrepareAthon! Day [also 4.30]
National Puppy Mill Survivor Day
National Sporting Heritage Day (UK)
National Teach Spanish Day
Neonatal Intensive Care Awareness Day
Orange Shirt Day (Canada)
Parsnip Day (French Republic Day)
Peon Day (Warcraft)
Pink Out Day
Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]
Recovery Day (Canada)
Rumi Day
Secretary Day (Venezuela)
Thunderbirds Day
Time For Yoga Day
Truth and Reconciliation Day (Canada)
World Pole Dance Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Austrian Beer Day (Austria)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day
Hot Mulled Cider Day
National Hot Mulled Cider Day
National Soufflé Potato Day
World Stroopwafel Day (Netherlands)
5th & Last Saturday in September
Centzon-Totochtin Drunken Rabbit Day [Last Saturday]
Everybody's Day Festival [Last Saturday]
Family Health and Fitness Day USA (Last Saturday]
International Lace Day [Last Saturday]
National Alpaca Farm Days begin [Last Saturday]
National Ghost Hunting Day [Last Saturday]
Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play [Last Saturday]
Save Your Photos Day [Last Saturday]
World Cyanotype Day [Last Saturday]
World Day of Leukodystrophies [Last Saturday]
Independence Days
Botswana (from UK, 1966)
Republic of Abkhazia (from Georgia, 1983) [unrecognized]
Tinakula (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Autumnale II (Pagan)
Anthony Green (Artology)
Blue-Feathered Swallowing Swallow (Muppetism)
Feast of Soma (God of Ambrosia & Immortality; India)
Festival of Drunkenness (Ancient Egypt)
Festival of Tereteth (Goddess of the Coconut Toddy; Yap Island, Micronesia)
Gregory the Illuminator (Christian; Saint)
Honorius of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)
Jerome (Christian; Saint)
John Waters Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Medetrinalia (Fruits Offered to Goddess of Medicine; Ancient Rome)
Molière (Positivist; Saint)
Plan for the 31st if September Day (Pastafarian)
Ridiculous Excuses Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because Green Day fans will never leave you alone.)
Premieres
Adjustment Team, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1954)
Alias (TV Series; 2001)
The Ascent Of Rum Doodle, by W.E. Bowman (Novel; 1956)
The Big Chill (Film; 1983)
Bird (Film; 1988)
Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey (Children’s Book; 1948)
The Boy Friend (Broadway Musical; 1954)
Car Talk (Radio Series; 1977)
Cheers (TV Series; 1982)
The Clock Store (Disney Cartoon; 1931)
Con Man (Web Series; 2015)
Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? (Disney Short Film; 1970)
Death Valley Days (Radio Series; 1930)
Entergalactic (Animated Film; 2022)
The Family of Pascual Duarte, by Camilo José Cela (Novel; 1942)
Fantasy, by Mariah Carey (Song; 1995)
50/50 (Film; 2011)
The Flintstones (Animated TV Series; 1960)
Go Away Stowaway (WB MM Cartoon; 1967)
Grand Ole Opry (TV Series; 1950)
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (Novel; 2008)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (Film; 2005)
Into the Blue (Film; 2005)
Little Women (Novel; 1868)
Louis Armstrong Plays King Oliver, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Album; 1957) [1st stereo album]
Love for Sale, by Tony Bennett (Album; 2021)
Luke Cage (TV Series; 2016)
The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1791)
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors (Animated Film; 2018)
Methuselah's Children, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1958)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Film; 2016)
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series; 1984)
Nebraska, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1982)
Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin (Opera; 1935)
The Queen (Film; 2006)
The Rifleman (TV Series; 1958)
The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas (Novel; 1942)
The Saint in Europe, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1953) [Saint #30]
Scooby-Doo! And the Monster of Mexico (WB Animated Film; 2003)
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (Novel; 1959)
Serenity (Film; 2005)
Shine On, by Jet (Album; 2006)
The Steeple-Chase (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Theme From Shaft, by Isaac Hayes (Song; 1971)
To the Manor Born (UK TV Series; 1979)
You, Me and the Apocalypse (UK TV Series; 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Hieronymus, Urs, Victor (Austria)
Felicija, Grgur, Jerko, Jeronim (Croatia)
Jeroným (Czech Republic)
Hieronymus (Denmark)
Kaur, Kauri, Tauri (Estonia)
Sirja, Siru, Sorja (Finland)
Jérôme (France)
Hieronymus , Urs, Viktor (Germany)
Stratonikos (Greece)
Jeromos (Hungary)
Gerolamo (Italy)
Abgara, Elma, Lamekins (Latvia)
Bytautė, Jeronimas, Sofija, Žymantas (Lithuania)
Hege, Helga, Helge (Norway)
Grzegorz, Hieronim, Honoriusz, Imisław, Leopard, Sofia, Wera, Wiera, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz, Zofia (Poland)
Grigorie (Romania)
Lubov, Nadezhda, Vera (Russia)
Jarolím (Slovakia)
Jerónimo, Sofía, Sonia (Spain)
Helge (Sweden)
Jerome, Jeronima, Gerome, Geromino (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 273 of 2024; 92 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 39 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 26 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 16 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 15 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 15 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 3 Shù; Threesday [3 of 30]
Julian: 17 September 2023
Moon: 98%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 21 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Molière]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 7 of 89)
Zodiac: Libra (Day 7 of 30)
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Holidays 9.30
Holidays
Agricultural Reform Day (Sao Tome and Principe)
Arizona Monsoon Season ends
Army Incompetence Day
Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
Botswana Day (Botswana)
Boy’s Day (Poland)
Chewing Gum Day
Day of Hungarian Folktales (Hungary)
Do Something Wacky With A Grandparent Day
E-mail Debt Forgiveness Day
Frisbee Day
International Blasphemy Rights Day (a.k.a. Blasphemy Day)
International Podcast Day
International Recovery Day
International Thunderbirds Day
International Translation Day (UN)
Jananeta Irawat Birth Day (Manipur, India)
Kokkeisetsu (Japan)
Liberation Day (Abkhazia)
Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Day
Monkey Bars Day
National Black Funding Day
National Chewing Gum Day
National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools
National Kratom Day
National Love People Day
National Microcephaly Awareness Day
National Mud Pack Day
National Nonspeaking / Nonverbal Awareness Day (UK)
National Pet Tricks Day (UK)
National PrepareAthon! Day [also 4.30]
National Puppy Mill Survivor Day
National Sporting Heritage Day (UK)
National Teach Spanish Day
Neonatal Intensive Care Awareness Day
Orange Shirt Day (Canada)
Parsnip Day (French Republic Day)
Peon Day (Warcraft)
Pink Out Day
Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]
Recovery Day (Canada)
Rumi Day
Secretary Day (Venezuela)
Thunderbirds Day
Time For Yoga Day
Truth and Reconciliation Day (Canada)
World Pole Dance Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Austrian Beer Day (Austria)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day
Hot Mulled Cider Day
National Hot Mulled Cider Day
National Soufflé Potato Day
World Stroopwafel Day (Netherlands)
5th & Last Saturday in September
Centzon-Totochtin Drunken Rabbit Day [Last Saturday]
Everybody's Day Festival [Last Saturday]
Family Health and Fitness Day USA (Last Saturday]
International Lace Day [Last Saturday]
National Alpaca Farm Days begin [Last Saturday]
National Ghost Hunting Day [Last Saturday]
Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play [Last Saturday]
Save Your Photos Day [Last Saturday]
World Cyanotype Day [Last Saturday]
World Day of Leukodystrophies [Last Saturday]
Independence Days
Botswana (from UK, 1966)
Republic of Abkhazia (from Georgia, 1983) [unrecognized]
Tinakula (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Autumnale II (Pagan)
Anthony Green (Artology)
Blue-Feathered Swallowing Swallow (Muppetism)
Feast of Soma (God of Ambrosia & Immortality; India)
Festival of Drunkenness (Ancient Egypt)
Festival of Tereteth (Goddess of the Coconut Toddy; Yap Island, Micronesia)
Gregory the Illuminator (Christian; Saint)
Honorius of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)
Jerome (Christian; Saint)
John Waters Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Medetrinalia (Fruits Offered to Goddess of Medicine; Ancient Rome)
Molière (Positivist; Saint)
Plan for the 31st if September Day (Pastafarian)
Ridiculous Excuses Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because Green Day fans will never leave you alone.)
Premieres
Adjustment Team, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1954)
Alias (TV Series; 2001)
The Ascent Of Rum Doodle, by W.E. Bowman (Novel; 1956)
The Big Chill (Film; 1983)
Bird (Film; 1988)
Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey (Children’s Book; 1948)
The Boy Friend (Broadway Musical; 1954)
Car Talk (Radio Series; 1977)
Cheers (TV Series; 1982)
The Clock Store (Disney Cartoon; 1931)
Con Man (Web Series; 2015)
Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? (Disney Short Film; 1970)
Death Valley Days (Radio Series; 1930)
Entergalactic (Animated Film; 2022)
The Family of Pascual Duarte, by Camilo José Cela (Novel; 1942)
Fantasy, by Mariah Carey (Song; 1995)
50/50 (Film; 2011)
The Flintstones (Animated TV Series; 1960)
Go Away Stowaway (WB MM Cartoon; 1967)
Grand Ole Opry (TV Series; 1950)
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (Novel; 2008)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (Film; 2005)
Into the Blue (Film; 2005)
Little Women (Novel; 1868)
Louis Armstrong Plays King Oliver, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Album; 1957) [1st stereo album]
Love for Sale, by Tony Bennett (Album; 2021)
Luke Cage (TV Series; 2016)
The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1791)
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors (Animated Film; 2018)
Methuselah's Children, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1958)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Film; 2016)
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series; 1984)
Nebraska, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1982)
Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin (Opera; 1935)
The Queen (Film; 2006)
The Rifleman (TV Series; 1958)
The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas (Novel; 1942)
The Saint in Europe, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1953) [Saint #30]
Scooby-Doo! And the Monster of Mexico (WB Animated Film; 2003)
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (Novel; 1959)
Serenity (Film; 2005)
Shine On, by Jet (Album; 2006)
The Steeple-Chase (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Theme From Shaft, by Isaac Hayes (Song; 1971)
To the Manor Born (UK TV Series; 1979)
You, Me and the Apocalypse (UK TV Series; 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Hieronymus, Urs, Victor (Austria)
Felicija, Grgur, Jerko, Jeronim (Croatia)
Jeroným (Czech Republic)
Hieronymus (Denmark)
Kaur, Kauri, Tauri (Estonia)
Sirja, Siru, Sorja (Finland)
Jérôme (France)
Hieronymus , Urs, Viktor (Germany)
Stratonikos (Greece)
Jeromos (Hungary)
Gerolamo (Italy)
Abgara, Elma, Lamekins (Latvia)
Bytautė, Jeronimas, Sofija, Žymantas (Lithuania)
Hege, Helga, Helge (Norway)
Grzegorz, Hieronim, Honoriusz, Imisław, Leopard, Sofia, Wera, Wiera, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz, Zofia (Poland)
Grigorie (Romania)
Lubov, Nadezhda, Vera (Russia)
Jarolím (Slovakia)
Jerónimo, Sofía, Sonia (Spain)
Helge (Sweden)
Jerome, Jeronima, Gerome, Geromino (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 273 of 2024; 92 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 39 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 26 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 16 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 15 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 15 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 3 Shù; Threesday [3 of 30]
Julian: 17 September 2023
Moon: 98%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 21 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Molière]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 7 of 89)
Zodiac: Libra (Day 7 of 30)
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A Personal List of Lietners, or Book Recs for Each TMA Entity
These are not all horror novels (although some of them are), but I think they speak to themes that will resonate if you’re particularly into one fear or another.
Feel free to add your own recs! I’m obviously limited by what I’ve read (ie I suspect that Wilder Girls is a good corruption book, but I haven’t read it yet).
Books with canon queer characters are marked with an asterix!
The Eye
- The Children’s Hour* by Lillian Hellman. An accusation made by one of the students brings scrutiny and heartbreak to a girls’ school. OG queer tragedy. (CW: suicide)
The Spiral
- Finna* by Nino Cipri. Two exes working at fantasy!IKEA must find a lost customer by travelling through even-more-fantasy!IKEAs.
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman. Imprisoned by a husband who thinks he’s helping her, a woman sees a figure in the ugly wallpaper of her room. You read it for English class, but read it again.
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. Caden’s a normal teen whose friends and family are starting to notice that his mental health is not quite ideal. Caden is on a ship heading for the Marianas Trench, torn between loyalty to the captain and the allure of the deep. (You know that song Ship in a Bottle?) (CW: forced institutionalization)
The End
- They Both Die at the End* by Adam Silvera. Two teen boys get a call that they’re going to die (this is normal in the world). They meet, and decide to spend the day really living.
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman. In a utopia that has moved past natural death, two teenagers learn to kill for the greater good.
The Stranger
- The Murders of Molly Southborne by Tade Thompson. Every time Molly bleeds, her blood creates a perfect clone of her that wants to kill her. This is inconvenient to say the least.
- The Call by Peader Ó Guilín. In a fantasy future Ireland, teenagers train for the day they’ll be transported to the fairy realm, where they’ll be hunted for sport.
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Coraline finds a secret passage to a house just like hers, but full of delightful, magical things--and another mother who wants to keep her forever.
The Lonely
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. The food Tita cooks make those who eat it feel her emotions--it’s the closest anyone comes to understanding her.
The Desolation
- The Fifth Season* by N K Jemisin. Geology-magic causes an apocalypse, but it might also keep a grieving mother alive.
The Slaughter
- The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion* by Margaret Killjoy. A spirit summoned to protect a commune starts killing people. Queer and punk rock af
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley. “They said the war would turn us into light.”
The Vast
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate* by Becky Chambers. A group of astronauts jump from planet to planet, cataloguing the life they find. But then their updates from home stop arriving...
- Into the Drowning Deep* by Mira Grant. Killer mermaids, hard science, and genuinely every kind of rep you can think of! (also has some Stranger stuff going on in it)
The Buried
- The Unfortunates by Kim Liggett. Teens are trapped in a cave while hiking, and something is hunting them through the dark. (Ok, I couldn’t actually think of a book for this fear, but I asked the inimitable @acesaru and she recommended it. She hasn’t steered me wrong yet!)
The Dark
- The City in the Middle of the Night* by Charlie Jane Anders. Humanity struggles to survive on a tidally-locked planet: one side is pitch dark, the other blazing with light. Sophie, a student, is exiled into the darkness.
- The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Ember is the one bright spot in the darkness, but blackouts are becoming more frequent as the city falls apart, and only Lina and Doon seem to be paying attention.
The Corruption
- The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Ebola! It’s the only nonfiction on the list but Oh Boy. (CW for graphic depictions of illness)
- Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney. Can you get smallpox from a book? Mitty isn’t sure, but these terrorists seem to think so...
The Web
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within” (It really does have themes about, like, manipulation, but also join me in mixing Hill House and Hilltop Road up 100% of the time)
- Jane, Unlimited* by Kristin Cashore. An orphaned artist goes to a spooky house. She has to make a choice, and we see every possible consequence for that choice. Genre-bending and bi!
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. Psychically-linked twins, Rodger and Dodger, are manipulated by the alchemist who created them and controlled (almost) every aspect of their lives. Weird timeline shit!
The Flesh
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton. Girls with the power to mold bodies and make people beautiful vie to become the Queen’s favorite in the beautiful, dangerous court of Orleans.
- Unwind by Neil Shusterman. Three teens scheduled to be “unwound” and have all their organs sold to other people flee their fate. Some really gnarly body horor.
The Hunt
- Vicious by V. E. Schwab. Victor and Eli used to be best friends, but after years in prison, Victor will stop at nothing to get his revenge on Eli. Also, they both have superpowers.
- “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Cornell. A long short story about. the hunter becoming the hunted. Spoiler: the most dangerous game IS man.
The Extinction
- Borne by Jeff Vandermeer. The Company destroyed the world, and then a giant bear destroyed the Company. Only a few survivors remain, including Rachel, a scavenger, who finds a creature called Borne and decides to care for it, even as it grows increasingly stronger and more terrifying.
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. A girl who literally feels others’ pain quietly develops a religion while America crumbles around her. (CW: sexual relationship with a really big age gap)
- All the Birds in the Sky* by Charlie Jane Anders. A witch and a mad scientist fall in love at the end of the world. The most real-feeling apocalypse I’ve ever, ever read. (Not really a CW but if reading things that remind you of Current Events makes you uncomfy, beware, because Charlie Jane really nailed it)
#there's a wild amount of neil shusterman on this list but he deserves it#also kudos to me for not writing a whole essay about the haunting of hill house bc yall know i could#tma#the magnus achives#fears#book reccs#the eye#the spiral#the end#the stranger#the lonely#the desolation#the slaughter#the vast#the buried#the dark#the corruption#the web#the flesh#the hunt#the extinction#books#ya#jonathan sims#reading#podcast#what tf else can i tag?#please definitely do add your own faves! i haven't read every book
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Tagged by @old-long-john <3
1. are you named after anyone?
No, I'm just Saskia because my parents thought it was a cute name.
2. when was the last time you cried?
Today :^) Winter time gives me the morbs, guys.
3. do you have any kids?
Nope.
4. do you use sarcasm a lot?
Yeah, though only with people I know well, with new people I'm worried they'll take it for unkindness I guess.
5. what’s the first thing you notice about people?
Hmm, isn't that kind of a subconscious thing? I don't think I actively notice one particular thing about random people. Maybe I don't understand the question lol...
6. what’s your eye colour?
Greenish brown. It's not really green but not really brown either.
7. scary movie or happy endings?
I don't like scary movies at all. I don't enjoy being scared :^))) I like happy endings but sometimes a story needs something a little more nuanced than just happiness to interest me.
8. any special talents?
Idk, what would you call special? I pursue many different things with quite some enthusiasm... I don't know if skills are the same as special talents, but I'd say I'm pretty good at drawing :')
9. where were you born?
Nederland oh nederland jij bent een kampioen wij houden van oraaaanje
10. what are your hobbies?
Painting, playing the viola/cello, sewing, knitting, baking (generally just making stuff with my hands makes me feel very good).
11. do you have any pets?
No, I wish I did, though! I love animals.
12. what sports do you play/have played?
I used to do gymnastics and horseback riding as a kid. Don't do either of those anymore.
13. how tall are you?
About 1 m 75
14. dream job?
Independent artist bby
15. favourite subject in school?
It's a tie between English and something called CKV or culturele en kunstzinnige vorming, hmmm culture/arts education, I suppose. It wasn't so much aimed at making art yourself but rather at getting kids interested in and involved with arts and culture. I liked it a lot because our teacher (who always dressed in black) was cool as hell.
Tagging @zwergenmaedchen @ceraunos @riisinaakka @hunting-for-pirate-booty @anijsmelk @medusinestories @intricatecakes and i almost tagged neil gaiman by accident, do you think he would participate?
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BASIC INFORMATION
FULL NAME: samuel william winchester.
PRONUNCIATION: pronounced how it’s spelled.
MEANING: so from the hebrew name שְׁמוּאֵל, it means god has heard, or name of god. it’s a little ironic considering sam is lucifer, god’s fallen son’s, true vessel.
REASONING: sam was named after his maternal grandfather, samuel campbell.
NICKNAME(S): sam, sammy, little winchester, moose, 738273 other height related nicknames.
PREFERRED NAME(S): sam.
BIRTH DATE: may 2, 1983.
AGE: honestly he’s not sure. he’s died 3-4 times, been the vessel for demons and archangels which probably stalled his physical aging too. i say he’s probably biologically somewhere around 35, even though he’s technically 47ish.
ZODIAC: taurus.
GENDER: cismale.
PRONOUNS: he/him.
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: heteroromantic.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual. ( he can appreciate that men are attractive, has probably even slept with a couple, but has no desire to be in romantic, serious, relationships with men. )
NATIONALITY: american.
ETHNICITY: wonderbread white.
CURRENT LOCATION: san francisco, ca.
LIVING CONDITIONS: a crappy two bedroom apartment he rents by the month. it’s small, not in a great neighborhood, but it does the trick.
TITLE(S): n/a.
BACKGROUND
BIRTH PLACE: lawrence, kansas.
HOMETOWN: technically lawrence kansas, but they moved around frequently.
SOCIAL CLASS: blue collar.
EDUCATION LEVEL: undergraduate degree from stanford.
FATHER: john winchester.
MOTHER: mary winchester ( neé campbell ).
SIBLING(S): dean winchester, adam milligan ( half ).
BIRTH ORDER: dean, sam, adam.
CHILDREN: jack kline ( adopted / unofficially )
PET(S): n/a.
OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: bobby singer, pseudo uncle. castiel, pseudo brother / brother-in-law.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: natasha herrera, wife. ( separated )
PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: jessica moore, amelia richardson, meg, sarah blake, ruby, a few one night stands, amy pond ( first kiss ), etc.
ARRESTS?: a few, yes.
PRISON TIME?: minimal, seen in folsom prison blues.
OCCUPATION & INCOME
PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: credit card scams, illegal activity.
SECONDARY SOURCE OF INCOME: n/a.
TERTIARY SOURCE(S) OF INCOME: hunting, but it pays for shit.
APPROXIMATE AMOUNT PER YEAR: unknown.
CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: this is never the job he wanted. so no, definitely not.
PAST JOB(S): student.
SPENDING HABITS: extremely frugal, only on necessities.
MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: john winchester’s journal.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
PHYSICAL STRENGTH: peak physical condition, human, in-shape.
OFFENSE: extremely skilled with weapons and hand to hand.
DEFENSE: extremely skilled with lethal and non-lethal defensive moves.
SPEED: faster than average.
INTELLIGENCE: educated and above average.
ACCURACY: above average.
AGILITY: above average.
STAMINA: above average.
TEAMWORK: below average. he doesn’t work well with people he doesn’t know or trust. it takes time to develop a bond / ease of working with others.
TALENTS: computer skills, digesting information, critical thinking skills.
SHORTCOMINGS: stubborn, naive, reckless, deep psychological trauma, suicidal ideation, a nice grabbag of issues.
LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: latin, english, probably a bunch of other old, dead, languages that might come in handy. he probably also took spanish in school.
DRIVE?: yes.
JUMP-STAR A CAR?: yes.
CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: yes.
RIDE A BICYCLE?: yes.
SWIM?: yes.
PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: no.
PLAY CHESS?: yes.
BRAID HAIR?: no.
TIE A TIE?: yes.
PICK A LOCK?: yes.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS
FACE CLAIM: jared padalecki.
EYE COLOR: hazel.
HAIR COLOR: brown.
HAIR TYPE/STYLE: long and flowing.
GLASSES/CONTACTS?: n/a.
DOMINANT HAND: right.
HEIGHT: 6′4
WEIGHT: 220 ish lbs.
BUILD: slender but muscular.
EXERCISE HABITS: rigorous. he jogs in the mornings, does sit ups / pull ups at night, and lifts weights during the day in between cases. he stays in shape.
SKIN TONE: tanned.
TATTOOS: anti-possession tattoo over his heart. it was carved out in 2026 but the scar has been tattooed over, replacing the original.
PEIRCINGS: none.
MARKS/SCARS: he’s died and come back so many times, it’s hard to say what’s still there and what’s gone. he does still have the bullet wound from where he shot chuck though. it never healed.
NOTABLE FEATURES: nose, hair.
USUAL EXPRESSION: smirk of disbelief, concern.
CLOTHING STYLE: lumberjack lesbian.
JEWELRY: he wears a chain with his wedding ring around his neck, the one he never got to put on for real.
ALLERGIES: none.
BODY TEMPERATURE: normal.
DIET: not great. hence the need to work out.
PHYSICAL AILMENTS: general fatigue from a rigorously active lifestyle.
PSYCHOLOGY
JUNG TYPE: INFJ
JUNG SUBTYPE: Introvert(47%) iNtuitive (34%) Feeling(31%) Judging(38%)
You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (47%)
You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (34%)
You have moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking (31%)
You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (38%)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE: the reformer or the challenger.
MORAL ALIGNMENT: chaotic good.
TEMPERAMENT: melancholic.
ELEMENT: taurus are usually earth elements, but i think air suits sam better.
PRIMARY INTELLIGENCE TYPE: logical-mathematical, probably.
APPROXIMATE IQ: unknown. we know he scored a 174 on the LSAT, which is incredible, but that doesn’t always translate over to IQ. i would say he’s got a pretty high IQ even if he lacks a few common sense points.
MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: undiagnosed depression, anxiety, PTSD, imposter syndrome, and survivor’s guilt — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. don’t ask me to psychoanalyze the winchesters, it’ll break us all.
SOCIABILITY: he doesn’t seek it out but he can keep up with the joneses.
EMOTIONAL STABILITY: not good. he has exhibited severe signs of codependency, suicidal ideation, lack of regard for his own life, and believe that he’s cursed. the boy is a mess.
OBSESSION(S): vengeance after significant loss, saving people ( even if it’s from themselves ), trying to make up for all of the blood on his hands.
PHOBIA(S): clowns. not a fan.
ADDICTION(S): demon blood ( previously )
DRUG USE: no.
ALCOHOL USE: recreationally.
PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: can be, yes.
MANNERISMS
SPEECH STYLE: casual.
ACCENT: american. nothing specific.
QUIRKS: chewing on pen caps, tapping to songs on the radio against the steering wheel with his fingers.
HOBBIES: reading, researching, pool, morning crosswords.
HABITS: stress pacing, irritability under extreme pressure.
NERVOUS TICKS: jaw clench, nostrils flaring, hands curled into fists.
DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: vengeance, restoring order / protecting people, survival.
FEARS: losing the people he loves, hurting innocents, isolation.
POSITIVE TRAITS: dependable, loyal, protective, determined, strong, honest, vulnerable.
NEGATIVE TRAITS: impulsive, reckless, guilt-stricken, naive, obtuse, too trusting.
SENSE OF HUMOR: dry, sarcastic.
DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: no.
CATCHPHRASE(S): damnit, dean. jerk / bitch.
FAVORITES
ACTIVITY: long drives.
ANIMAL: hedgehogs.
BEVERAGE: monster energy drinks.
BOOK: probably the classics, or something by neil gaiman.
CELEBRITY: he doesn’t have one.
COLOR: blue.
DESIGNER: doesn’t have one.
FOOD: philly cheesesteak. maybe mashed potatoes, if not the cheesesteak.
FLOWER: sunflowers.
GEM: none.
HOLIDAY: none.
MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: car.
MOVIE: mallrats.
MUSICAL ARTIST: none. he’ll just listen to whatever they have in the car, or is on the radio. before i think he was probably into top 40, maybe even classic rock as much as he complained about it.
QUOTE/SAYING: none.
SCENERY: autumn leaves falling from trees.
SCENT: linen.
SPORT: none. he doesn’t care.
SPORTS TEAM: see above.
TELEVISION SHOW: none. he probably only watches soap operas every now and then again. he doesn’t watch anything he would have to invest time and energy in. maybe pawnstars, or mythbusters.
WEATHER: drizzle.
VACATION DESTINATION: somewhere warm, tropic, and free of monsters.
ATTITUDES
GREATEST DREAM: to have a normal life. he knows he’ll never get it, has come to terms with the fact that he was never going to be normal.
GREATEST FEAR: ending up alone, watching everyone he loves die.
MOST AT EASE WHEN: around the people he loves.
LEAST AT EASE WHEN: on a hunt that’s starting to go awry.
WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: turning into a monster — the very thing he’s dedicated his life to hunting, or becoming evil. being forced into killing his own brother, or someone he loves like family, would also make the list.
BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: in a really soft way, i want to say it’s becoming a pseudo dad to jack. it might not have been what he saw for himself, or how he imagined being a dad, but he loves the kid. if not that, maybe stopping the apocalypse. not that it lasted for very long.
BIGGEST REGRET: not telling jessica the truth. he will always believe he got her killed. that guilt will set with him until the day he dies.
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: too many to count.
BIGGEST SECRET: he remembers a lot of what the demon did when it possessed him in 2026. he fought with everything he had, but every time he broke through they pushed him back down.
TOP PRIORITIES: figuring out what comes next, i suppose.
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2018 Reading Challenge: October Update
The oldest book on your to-read list: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
A favourite book from primary school: The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
A favourite book from intermediate school: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
A favourite book from middle school: East by Edith Pattou
A favourite book from high school: The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A favourite book from undergrad: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A favourite book from Master’s: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
A favourite book from PhD: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
A favourite book from post-doc:
A Nordic noir: The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
A novel based on a real person: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A book set in a country that fascinates you: City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
A book about a villain or superhero: 1984 by George Orwell
A book about death or grief: Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: To Kill a Mockingbird by (Nelle) Harper Lee
A book of poetry: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
A book that is also a stage play or musical: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
A book about feminism: A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
A ghost story: City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
A borrowed book: What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A book about or involving a sport: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
A book by a local author: Linger, Still by Aislinn Hunter
A book with your favourite colour in the title
A book with alliteration in the title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A true crime
A book about time travel: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
A book on a topic that you know nothing about
A book with a weather element in the title
A book set at sea
A book with an animal in the title: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
A book you own but haven’t read yet: The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
A book with song lyrics in the title
A book about or set on Hallowe'en: The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
A book with characters who are twins: Winter of the Gods by Jordana Max Brodsky
A book mentioned in another book: Harry Potter by JK Rowling (Mentioned in #19 and #39; and last year’s read: Heart and Brain)
A book that intimidates/scares you
A childhood classic you've never read: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
A book published in 2018: A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
A past GoodReads Choice Award winner: The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
A book set in the decade you were born
A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to
A book with an ugly cover: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
A book that involves a bookstore or library
A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
A book tied to your ancestry: Second Space by Czesław Miłosz
A "big thinking" book: Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
An allegory
A microhistory: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
A book about a problem facing society today: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté
A book recommended by someone else: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh * Recommended by the clerk at the London Review Bookshop
Even more books ...
Chile and Easter Island by Lonely Planet
Great Britain by Lonely Planet
Dragonbane by Sherrilyn Kenon
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
Beast by Paul Kingsnorth
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The Map and the Clock edited by Carol Anne Duffy and Gillian Clarke
The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
The Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part I by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Inviting Life by Laura Calder
Octopussy by Ian Fleming
The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Healthy-ish by Lindsay Maitland Hunt
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
Managing Chronic Pain: Therapist Manual by John D. Otis
Managing Chronic Pain: Patient Workbook by John D. Otis
Learning ACT by Jason B. Luoma, Steven C. Hayes, & Robyn D. Walser
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association
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Everything I Read in 2016
For the third year in a row, I logged every novel, short story collection, poetry compilation, graphic novel, and collected edition of monthly comics I read, excluding individual monthly comics (on which I continued to fall catastrophically behind) and anything I read (and reread, and reread again) for my day job. My only big change? A lot of these books were read on my iPad Mini. And a good number were for my gay book club (you can guess which ones).
If you don’t yet keep track of your reading, you should start in 2017. It’s your best bet for hitting a reading goal, and for folks like me who read a ton, it’s a nice way to recall books that otherwise departed your memory.
For the tl;dr crowd, here are my Top 13 for the year, in the order in which I read them:
On Writing, Stephen King
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
The Girls, Emma Cline
I Am a Hero Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín
Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (I read an ARC)
A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli
Habitat, Simon Roy
Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton
Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques
(New X-Men Omnibus was a re-read, or it would be up here.)
The rest is below the jump!
I don’t really feel like dumping on anything this year. I definitely got burnt out on comic anthologies, and I hated A Little Life, but the good outweighs the bad. Below is the full list, divided by month, followed by a few statistics and an evaluation of my 2016 reading goals as established last January.
[A note on comics: I feel guilty that I’ve left off colorists and inkers, as they contribute so much to a book, but I defaulted to cover credits while logging my reading and don’t have most of these books on-hand to fix it now.]
January
The Amazing World of Gumball: Fairy Tale Trouble, Megan Brennan, Katy Farina, Jeremy Lawson
Adventure Time: Masked Mayhem, Kate Leth, Bridget Underwood, Drew Green, Vaughn Pinpin, Meredith McClaren
Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland, Kim Newman, Maura McHugh, Tyler Crook
On Writing, Stephen King
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, edited by John Joseph Adams & Joe Hill
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson
February
Planet Hulk, Sam Humphries & Marc Laming
Future Imperfect, Peter David & Greg Land
Hail Hydra, Rick Remender & Roland Boschi
House of M, Dennis Hopeless & Marco Failla
Marvel Zombies, Si Spurrier & Kev Walker
Old Man Logan, Brian Michael Bendis & Andrea Sorrentino
The Girls, Emma Cline
The Gilded Razor, Sam Lansky
March
Civil War, Charles Soule & Leinil Francis Yu
New X-Men Omnibus, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Phil Jimenez, Ethan Van Sciver, Igor Kordey, Marc Silvestri, Keron Grant, Chris Bachalo, John Paul Leon, Bill Sienkiewicz, Leinil Francis Yu
The Eye of the Cat, Elejandro Jodorowsky & Moebius
All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
Beyond Anthology, edited by Sfé Monster & Taneka Scott
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Patricia Lockwood
April
I Am a Hero Vol. 1, Kengo Hanazawa
The Nameless City Vol. 1, Faith Erin Hicks
Ody-C Vol. 1, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward
Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff
Husk, Rachel Autumn Deering
New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, edited by C. Spike Trotman
Chainmail Bikini: An Anthology of Women Gamers, edited by Hazel Newlevant
Broken Frontier, edited by Frederik Hautain & Tyler Chin-Tanner
Love in All Forms: The Big Book of Growing Up Queer, edited by Serafina Dwyer
Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1, Grant Morrison & Yanick Paquette
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín
The Girl With All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
Regular Show: Noir Means Noir, Buddy, Rachel Connor, Robert Luckett, Wook Jin Clark
Night Air, Ben Sears
Revenger: Children of the Damned, Charles Forsman
Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link
May
Dark Engine Vol. 1, Ryan Burton & John Bivens
Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird, Brandon Seifert, Karl Moline, Filipe Andrade
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt
Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Charles M. Blow
Revival Vol. 1, Tim Seeley & Mike Norton
The Fireman, Joe Hill
Colder: Toss the Bones, Paul Tobin & Juan Ferreyra
The Fly: Outbreak, Brandon Seifert & Menton3
Faker, Mike Carey & Jock
What If? Infinity, Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson, Riley Rossmo, Mike Norton, Jason Copeland, Goran Sudžuka
June
Hawkeye vs. Deadpool, Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Jacopo Camagni
Outcast Vol. 3, Robert Kirkman & Paul Azaceta
Lady Killer Vol. 1, Joelle Jones & Jamie S. Rich
The Fiction, Curt Pires & David Rubín
The Amazing World of Gumball Vol. 2, Frank Gibson, Tyson Hesse, Paulina Ganucheau
Arcadia, Alex Paknadel & Eric Scott Pfeiffer
Black Market, Frank J. Barbiere & Victor Santos
Dream Thief Vol. 2, Jai Nitz, Greg Smallwood, Todd Galusha
Contest of Champions Vol.1, Al Ewing & Paco Medina
The Infinity Gauntlet, Dustin Weaver & Gerry Duggan
The Amulet, Michael McDowell
The Dark Half, Stephen King
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Steve Moncuse & Art Adams
Steven Universe: Too Cool for School, Ian Jones-Quartey, Jeremy Sorese, Asia Kendrick-Horton, Rachel Dukes, Josceline Fenton
Bob’s Burgers: Medium Rare, overseen by Loren Bouchard
Bob’s Burgers: Well Done, overseen by Loren Bouchard
Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates
Kare-Kare Komiks, Andrew Drilon
Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong
The Witcher: House of Glass, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio
X-Men: No More Humans, Mike Carey & Salvador Larroca
Cold Moon Over Babylon, Michael McDowell
July
Black Hand Comics, Wes Craig
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: The Devil’s Wings, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, Lawrence Campbell, Joe Querio, Tyler Crook
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: Flesh & Stone, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, James Harren
Abe Sapien: Sacred Places, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fiumara, Max Fiumara
Abe Sapien: A Darkness So Great, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fuimara, Max Fiumara
Hellboy & the B.P.R.D. 1952, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Alex Maleev
Lobster Johnson: Get the Lobster!, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Tonči Zonjić
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case
The Witcher: Fox Children, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio
Children of the Night, John Blackburn
Frankenstein Underground, Mike Mignola & Ben Stenbeck
My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Grady Hendrix
August
The Well, Jack Cady
Angel Catbird Vol. 1, Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
September
Fellside, M. R. Carey
The Twilight Children, Gilbert Hernandez & Darwyn Cooke
Veil, Greg Rucka & Toni Fejzula
Negative Space, Ryan K. Lindsey & Owen Geini
Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 1, Alex De Campi, Chris Peterson, Simon Fraser
Bitch Planet Vol. 1, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV
Ody-C Vol. 2, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward
Tampa, Alissa Nutting
Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror, compiled by Stephen Jones
The Missing, Sarah Langan
Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 2, Alex De Campi, Federica Manfredi, Gary Erskine
Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 3, Alex De Campi, R.M. Guera, Chris Peterson
Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 4, Alex De Campi, Mulele Jarvis, John Lucas
Audition, Ryu Murakami
Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, Suehiro Maruo
In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami
October
Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier
Anya’s Ghost, Vera Brosgol
One Week in the Library, W. Maxwell Prince & John Amor
A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
I Am a Hero Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa
The Beauty Vol. 1, Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley
The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo Vol. 1, Drew Weing
November
Gerald’s Game, Stephen King
Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman
Invisible Republic Vol. 1, Gabriel Hardman & Corinne Bechko
Roche Limit Vol. 1, Michael Moreci & Vic Malhorta
What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell
Roche Limit Vol. 2, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles
Roche Limit Vol. 3, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles
One-Punch Man Vol. 9, ONE & Yusuke Murata
One-Punch Man Vol. 10, ONE & Yusuke Murata
Habitat, Simon Roy
December
Beowulf, Santiago García & David Rubín
The Oath, edited by Audrey Redpath
Star Wars: Tales From the Far, Far Away, Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Ryan Cady, Phillip Sevy, etc.
Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones
Grief is the Thing With Feathers, Max Porter
Tomie Deluxe Edition, Junji Ito
Krampus!, Brian Jones & Dean Kotz
Fantasy Sports Vol. 2, Sam Bosma
The Beauty Vol. 2, Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley, Mike Huddleston, Brett Weldele, Stephen Green
Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe, Ryan Q. North & Erica Henderson
Love is Love, edited by Marc Andreyko
Joe Golem Vol. 1, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Patric Reynolds
Baltimore: Cult of the Red King, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Peter Bergting
Abe Sapien: The Burning Fire, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Max Fiumara, Sebastian Fiumara, Tyler Crook
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire, Neil Gaiman & Shane Oakley
Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques
Total:
140 Books (up from 128 in 2015 and 87 in 2014)
Breakdown:
39 Novels or short story collections (down from 43 in 2015 and 44 in 2014)
98 Graphic novels/collected editions of comics (up from 84 in 2015 and a measly 42 in 2014)
3 Books of poetry (triple the 2015 and 2014 counts!)
About 35 Books written or edited by female authors (up from 20 in 2015 and 16 in 2014; note that I’m only counting writers and editors, not artists, and I’m counting books, not unique authors)
Roughly 19 books by (known-to-be) non-white authors (down from 30 last year but up from 9 in 2014...but both this year and last were inflated by multiple entries from manga creators)
...and at least 16 books written or edited by queer and trans authors.
So...any suggestions for 2017?
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Please welcome D. Alexander Ward to Roadie Notes……
1. How old were you when you first wrote your first story?
I was the tender age of twelve or thirteen, I think, when I wrote “The Thing in the Fog.” Thankfully, that little gem never saw the light of day.
2. How many books have you written?
Two novels and one novella published. One completed novel (Nightjar) in the editing stage and one completed trunk novel I may someday try to make viable. So that’d be five. I’ve also co-edited two books with Doug Murano: Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Shadows Over Main Street.
3. Anything you won’t write about?
There are things I probably shy away from unconsciously—like sexual abuse—but if it’s important to the plot or the character, nothing is off the table as long as I handle it in an appropriate manner.
4. Tell me about you. Age (if you don’t mind answering), married, kids, do you have another job etc...
I’m forty-two years old, married just over ten years, with one child—a daughter—who is in elementary school. I am a partner in a technology business where I also work full-time as an operations manager.
5. What’s your favorite book you have written?
I like them all for different reasons but I’m historically a sucker for haunted houses and haunted people so I’d have to say my most recent book, Beneath Ash & Bone. And the reason is that when I was working the idea of it, I kind of had this aesthetic in my mind, you know? Like a full-sensory vision of what I wanted it to be. And for the most part, its final form is just as I envisioned it. I do that with everything I write but some come closer to the vision than others.
6. Who or what inspired you to write?
I always enjoyed a good story in whatever form it took and after a steady diet of Poe and Lovecraft and King at a young age, I decided I’d like to try my hand at it. Then I kind of fell out of it for many years. Caitlin R. Kiernan’s Threshold and Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box brought me back to dark fiction, though, and inspired me to finally get serious about writing it.
7. What do you like to do for fun?
Other than reading and hanging out with my family, I get a lot of enjoyment out of music—listening to it as well as making it. I also cook a lot, so that’s something else I’m passionate about.
8. Any traditions you do when you finish a book?
Get blackout drunk and howl at the moon? Well, maybe that has happened, but not every time. In truth, I will spend about a day or two wondering if I am really done or not, then I’ll walk away from it for a week or two. Then I come back to it and begin editing. That’s my tradition. And I’m not sure that, for me, the editing process is ever truly finished—even if it’s only in my head.
9. Where do you write? Quiet or music?
I like writing outside whenever possible. I have a specific spot on the back deck at the edge of the woods. Either there or my writing cave in my house.As far as quiet or music, either works for me but I do assemble playlists that capture the mood of certain projects as I am working on them, so I use music more often than not.
10. Anything you would change about your writing?
I’d be faster, leaner, and more precise in my prose. But that comes with time, if it comes at all. I’d also have a better Good Idea vs. Dumb Idea filter to save time.
11. What is your dream? Famous writer?
Well, as a teenager, sure it was. Who wouldn’t want to be circa 1980’s and 90’s Stephen King? But now, I just want to publish as widely as possible and make a bit of money doing it. I think the dream now is to produce quality work that more and more people will read.
12. Where do you live?
I live in central Virginia, outside the city of Richmond. Used to be farms and woods were the defining characteristics of the landscape out here rather than yet another sandwich shop chain or another super grocery or whatever the hell. I sound bitter, don’t I? Well, maybe a little.
13. Pets?
Two cats (one black, one orange) named Mulder and Scully. I badly need another dog in my life, though.
14. What’s your favorite thing about writing?
I really enjoy writing a novel synopsis! No, I’m kidding. Those are horrendous. What I do like is the rush you get when something just clicks… and keeps on clicking. Another is the catharsis you experience when you really scrape at your insides to get something out and onto the page, because if you’re putting a lot of your self into it, it can be frightening at times. Editing can be tedious but that really is where you have the chance make a rough-hewn thing beautiful and seeing that final product is very gratifying.
15. What is coming next for you?
I’m figuring out what the next novel project will be and I have a few smaller things in the hopper as well. Doug Murano and I are finishing up edits on Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2, which comes out later this year. And I am also working on editing an anthology project that will drop in 2018… that I can’t talk about just yet.
A special sample of D. Alexander Ward:
Beneath Ash & Bone, Synopsis
Selburn, Virginia: A quiet backwater town nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the days before the Civil War, Sam Lock keeps the peace as the town sheriff, like his father before him.
That peace is shattered during a raging winter storm when a boy goes missing at Evermore, the sprawling estate of Horace Crownhill and his family. Racing against time and the elements, Sam must mount a desperate search for the child—but what he finds in the snow, and the dark halls of Evermore, are madness … and murder.
As Sam searches for truth in a house poisoned by mysteries and haunted by ghosts, he hopes to weather the storm, but the harrowing secrets he uncovers may prove too terrible to bear. Will he escape with his sanity intact or will the dark presence rumored to hold sway over Evermore claim him as another sacrifice?
Blood Savages (A Blackguards Novel #1), Synopsis
A failed paramilitary assault on a nest of vampires gives a group of monster hunters called the Blackguards a terrifying glimpse of how deadly the bloodsuckers really are. Now, hunted by the ones they failed to kill and on the run from the law, they’re forced to puzzle together the mystery of a strange carcass from colonial times that their ruthless billionaire nemesis will stop at nothing to possess.
With one of their own bitten and mutating into a deadly creature of the night, they race against time as they travel the back roads of the Carolinas in a desperate attempt to save her life. But their journey toward salvation will lead to darker places than they ever could have imagined.
Blood Savages is the first novel in the Blackguards series about a misfit band of Southern heroes with extraordinary abilities. But these ain’t your high-browed superheroes flying invisible jet planes, living in fancy mansions, and sporting glittery spandex getups. The Blackguards drink too much, they tote guns, they drive muscle cars and beat-up trucks. None of them can claim a squeaky clean past and some ain’t even exactly human. But one thing’s for certain; they’ll stand against the denizens of the underworld and the corrupt men that seek to harness its dark powers, fighting the battles that no one else can.
Because, down South, sometimes the heroes are the monsters.
Shadows Over Main Street, Synopsis
What happens when idyllic small-towns, and the simple folk who inhabit them, collide with inexplicable evil borne of a vast and uncaring cosmos?
Imagine a series of stories set in a golden era of American life, where worldly troubles are regarded from a distance, if at all. Hear the buzz of playing cards clipped in children’s spokes echo down quiet lanes. Smell the faint aroma of rich tobacco smoke from an old man’s pipe on a shady boulevard. Listen to the gossip of small towns where everyone knows everyone’s business. Or do they?
Sometimes, deadly secrets lurk out in the barn. Sometimes, unimaginable evil awaits us in the root cellar. Sometimes, we fall under the sway of the Shadows Over Main Street.
Contains stories and poems by: Gary Braunbeck, Nick Mamatas, Josh Malerman, Mary SanGiovanni, Tim Curran, Rena Mason, Lucy A. Snyder, Stephanie Wytovich, Kevin Lucia, Chesya Burke, Brian Hodge, James Chambers, Aaron Polson, T. Fox Dunham, Richard Thomas, Adrian Ludens, Cameron Suey, Lisa Morton, Jay Wilburn, and John Sunseri. Foreword by Ramsey Campbell.
Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Synopsis
This book is a nominee for the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories–a disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness. Awe meets ache. Terror becomes transcendence.
Regret gives way to rebirth. Fifteen short stories and one poem span nearly every twisted corner of the horror and dark fiction genres. Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories features the most celebrated voices in dark fiction, as well as a number of exciting new talents: Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Tremblay, John F.D. Taff, Lisa Mannetti, Damien Angelica Walters, Josh Malerman, Christopher Coake, Mercedes M. Yardley, Brian Kirk, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Amanda Gowin, Richard Thomas, Maria Alexander and Kevin Lucia. Edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward.
With a foreword from Cemetery Dance magazine founder and author Richard Chizmar. Brought to you by Crystal Lake Publishing
Getting personal with D. Alexander Ward Please welcome D. Alexander Ward to Roadie Notes...... 1. How old were you when you first wrote your first story?
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#5
Hey Jews, PSA
According to my mom who works at a JCC, there's a shortage of Chanukah candles! Get them soon if you can!
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So I'm rereading Echoes of a Giantkiller
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In honor of Valentine’s day, here is the unofficial @damesanddragons shipping chart! Did I forget anyone?
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A Personal List of Lietners, or Book Recs for Each TMA Entity
These are not all horror novels (although some of them are), but I think they speak to themes that will resonate if you’re particularly into one fear or another.
Feel free to add your own recs! I’m obviously limited by what I’ve read (ie I suspect that Wilder Girls is a good corruption book, but I haven’t read it yet).
Books with canon queer characters are marked with an asterix!
The Eye
- The Children’s Hour* by Lillian Hellman. An accusation made by one of the students brings scrutiny and heartbreak to a girls’ school. OG queer tragedy. (CW: suicide)
The Spiral
- Finna* by Nino Cipri. Two exes working at fantasy!IKEA must find a lost customer by travelling through even-more-fantasy!IKEAs.
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman. Imprisoned by a husband who thinks he’s helping her, a woman sees a figure in the ugly wallpaper of her room. You read it for English class, but read it again.
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. Caden’s a normal teen whose friends and family are starting to notice that his mental health is not quite ideal. Caden is on a ship heading for the Marianas Trench, torn between loyalty to the captain and the allure of the deep. (You know that song Ship in a Bottle?) (CW: forced institutionalization)
The End
- They Both Die at the End* by Adam Silvera. Two teen boys get a call that they’re going to die (this is normal in the world). They meet, and decide to spend the day really living.
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman. In a utopia that has moved past natural death, two teenagers learn to kill for the greater good.
The Stranger
- The Murders of Molly Southborne by Tade Thompson. Every time Molly bleeds, her blood creates a perfect clone of her that wants to kill her. This is inconvenient to say the least.
- The Call by Peader Ó Guilín. In a fantasy future Ireland, teenagers train for the day they’ll be transported to the fairy realm, where they’ll be hunted for sport.
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Coraline finds a secret passage to a house just like hers, but full of delightful, magical things--and another mother who wants to keep her forever.
The Lonely
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. The food Tita cooks make those who eat it feel her emotions--it’s the closest anyone comes to understanding her.
The Desolation
- The Fifth Season* by N K Jemisin. Geology-magic causes an apocalypse, but it might also keep a grieving mother alive.
The Slaughter
- The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion* by Margaret Killjoy. A spirit summoned to protect a commune starts killing people. Queer and punk rock af
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley. “They said the war would turn us into light.”
The Vast
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate* by Becky Chambers. A group of astronauts jump from planet to planet, cataloguing the life they find. But then their updates from home stop arriving...
- Into the Drowning Deep* by Mira Grant. Killer mermaids, hard science, and genuinely every kind of rep you can think of! (also has some Stranger stuff going on in it)
The Buried
- The Unfortunates by Kim Liggett. Teens are trapped in a cave while hiking, and something is hunting them through the dark. (Ok, I couldn’t actually think of a book for this fear, but I asked the inimitable @acesaru and she recommended it. She hasn’t steered me wrong yet!)
The Dark
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2018 Reading Challenge: July Update
The oldest book on your to-read list: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
A favourite book from primary school: The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
A favourite book from intermediate school: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
A favourite book from middle school: East by Edith Pattou
A favourite book from high school: The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A favourite book from undergrad: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A favourite book from Master’s: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
A favourite book from PhD: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Clair North
A favourite book from post-doc: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
A Nordic noir: The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
A novel based on a real person: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A book set in a country that fascinates you: City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
A book about a villain or superhero: 1984 by George Orwell
A book about death or grief: Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: To Kill a Mockingbird by (Nelle) Harper Lee
A book of poetry: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
A book that is also a stage play or musical: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
A book about feminism: A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
A ghost story: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
A borrowed book: What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A book about or involving a sport: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
A book by a local author: Linger, Still by Aislinn Hunter
A book with your favourite colour in the title
A book with alliteration in the title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A true crime
A book about time travel: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
A book on a topic that you know nothing about
A book with a weather element in the title
A book set a sea
A book with an animal in the title
A book you own but haven’t read yet
A book with song lyrics in the title
A book about or set on Hallowe'en
A book with characters who are twins: Winter of the Gods by Jordana Max Brodsky
A book mentioned in another book
A book that intimidates/ scares you
A childhood classic you've never read
A book published in 2018: A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
A past Goodreads Choice Award winner
A book set in the decade you were born
A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to
A book with an ugly cover
A book that involves a bookstore or library
A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
A book tied to your ancestry: Second Space by Czesław Miłosz
A "big thinking" book: Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
An allegory
A microhistory
A book about a problem facing society today
A book recommended by someone else
Even more books ...
Chile and Easter Island by Lonely Planet
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Dragonbane by Sherrilyn Kenon
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
Beast by Paul Kingsnorth
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The Map and the Clock edited by Carol Anne Duffy and Gillian Clarke
The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
The Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part I by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Inviting Life by Laura Calder
Octopussy by Ian Fleming
The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Healthy-ish by Lindsay Maitland Hunt
Managing Chronic Pain: Therapist Manual by John D. Otis
Managing Chronic Pain: Patient Workbook by John D. Otis
Learning ACT: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists by Jason B. Luoma, Steven C. Hayes, & Robyn D. Walser
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition by the APA
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté
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2018 Reading Challenge: September Update
The oldest book on your to-read list: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
A favourite book from primary school: The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
A favourite book from intermediate school: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
A favourite book from middle school: East by Edith Pattou
A favourite book from high school: The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A favourite book from undergrad: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A favourite book from Master’s: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
A favourite book from PhD: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
A favourite book from post-doc: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
A Nordic noir: The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
A novel based on a real person: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A book set in a country that fascinates you: City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
A book about a villain or superhero: 1984 by George Orwell
A book about death or grief: Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: To Kill a Mockingbird by (Nelle) Harper Lee
A book of poetry: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
A book that is also a stage play or musical
A book about feminism: A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
A ghost story: City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
A borrowed book: What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A book about or involving a sport: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
A book by a local author: Linger, Still by Aislinn Hunter
A book with your favourite colour in the title
A book with alliteration in the title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A true crime
A book about time travel: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
A book on a topic that you know nothing about
A book with a weather element in the title
A book set at sea
A book with an animal in the title: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
A book you own but haven’t read yet: The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
A book with song lyrics in the title
A book about or set on Hallowe'en: The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
A book with characters who are twins: Winter of the Gods by Jordana Max Brodsky
A book mentioned in another book: Harry Potter by JK Rowling (Mentioned in #19 and #39; and last year’s read: Heart and Brain)
A book that intimidates/ scares you
A childhood classic you've never read: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
A book published in 2018: A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
A past GoodReads Choice Award winner: The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
A book set in the decade you were born
A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to
A book with an ugly cover: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
A book that involves a bookstore or library
A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place
A book tied to your ancestry: Second Space by Czesław Miłosz
A "big thinking" book: Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
An allegory
A microhistory: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
A book about a problem facing society today: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté
A book recommended by someone else: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh * Recommended by the clerk at the London Review Bookshop
Even more books ...
Chile and Easter Island by Lonely Planet
Great Britain by Lonely Planet
Dragonbane by Sherrilyn Kenon
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
Beast by Paul Kingsnorth
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The Map and the Clock edited by Carol Anne Duffy and Gillian Clarke
The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
The Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part I by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Inviting Life by Laura Calder
Octopussy by Ian Fleming
The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Healthy-ish by Lindsay Maitland Hunt
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
Managing Chronic Pain: Therapist Manual by John D. Otis
Managing Chronic Pain: Patient Workbook by John D. Otis
Learning ACT by Jason B. Luoma, Steven C. Hayes, & Robyn D. Walser
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association
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