Tag: reading list

I’m not necessarily going to be reading these in this order, but here’s my picks for each:

  1. Read in school: Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  2. From Childhood: Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
  3. Published over 100 Years Ago: Asser’s Life of King Alfred
  4. Published in the Last Year: The Words in My Hand, by Guinevere Glasfurd
  5. Non-Fiction: The Hunger Games Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940, by Ian Dowbiggin
  6. Male Author: World War Z, by Max Brooks
  7. Female Author: The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
  8. Someone Who Isn’t a Writer: Zoo Quest to Guiana, by David Attenborough
  9. Became a Film: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  10. Published in 20th Century: Flowers in the Attic, by V.C. Andrews
  11. Set in your Hometown/Region: Rocket Boys, by Homer Hickam, Jr
  12. Someone’s Name in the Title: Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
  13. Number in the Title: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
  14. Character with My First Name: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
  15. Someone Recommended: Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
  16. Over 500 Pages: House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
  17. Can Finish in a Day: Fallen Embers, by C.S. Marks
  18. Previously Banned Book: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
  19. Book with One-Word Title: Hiroshima, by John Hersey
  20. Book translated from another language: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
  21. Will Improve a Specific Area of My Life: OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS MANY THANK
  22. Memoir or Journal: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, by Jillian Lauren
  23. Written by someone younger than me: AGAIN OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS MUST BE UNDER 28 YEARS OLD
  24. Set Somewhere I’ll be Visiting this Year: Feast of the Drowned, by Stephen Cole 
  25. Award-Winning Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
  26. Self-Published Book: Exiled Heir, by Jonathan French

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admiring the stockings. 1940’s.

#[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT’S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS

Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said “Look I can give you the names, but you’ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.” And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)

Sergeant Phelps worked for General Eisenhower. Four decades after Eisenhower had defeated the Axis powers, Phelps recalled an extraordinary event. One day the general told her, “I’m giving you an order to ferret those lesbians out.’ We’re going to get rid of them.”

“I looked at him and then I looked at his secretary. who was standing next to me, and I said, ‘Well, sir, if the general pleases, sir, I’ll be happy to do this investigation for you. But you have to know that the first name on the list will be mine.’

“And he kind of was taken aback a bit. And then this woman standing next to me said, ‘Sir, if the general pleases, you must be aware that Sergeant Phelps’s name may be second, but mine will be first.’

“Then I looked at him, and I said, ‘Sir, you’re right. They’re lesbians in the WAC battalion. And if the general is prepared to replace all the file clerks, all the section commanders, all of the drivers—every woman in the WAC detachment—and there were about nine hundred and eighty something of us—then I’ll be happy to make the list. But I think the general should be aware that among those women are the most highly decorated women in the war. There have been no cases of illegal pregnancies. There have been no cases of AWOL. There have been no cases of misconduct. And as a matter of fact, every six months since we’ve been here, sir, the general has awarded us a commendation for meritorious service.’

“And he said, ‘Forget the order.’

– The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America

I’ve reblogged this before but it didn’t have these comments and HOLY HOT DAMN DID IT NEED THEM.

This is my most favourite of stories about this time period okay ❤

Fimsy’s 2016 Reading List

…I could have sworn I did one of these already…

The bolded ones are titles I’ve already read before at some point. I want to reread them because it’s been awhile and I have a (probably) better perspective from which to approach them.

  1. Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich, by Ladislas Farago
  2. Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, by Anonymous
  3. Angel On The Square, by Gloria Whelan
  4. Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
  5. Beowulf, by Anonymous
  6. Better for All The World, by Harry Bruinius
  7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  8. Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith
  9. City of Dark Magic, by Magnus Flyte
  10. Dead World Omnibus
  11. Don’t Stop me Now, by Jeremy Clarkson
  12. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
  13. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
  14. Flowers In The Attic, by V.C. Andrews
  15. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
  16. Hamlet, by Shakespeare
  17. Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
  18. Here On Earth, by Alice Hoffman
  19. Hiroshima, by John Hersey
  20. House of Leaves, by Mark Z Danielewski
  21. I’m A Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson
  22. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
  23. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
  24. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
  25. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
  26. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
  27. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
  28. Modern Germany, by V. R. Berghahn
  29. Official Secrets, by Richard Breitman
  30. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z Danielewski
  31. Othello, by Shakespeare
  32. Reckless Hands, by Victoria Nourse
  33. Rocket Boys, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
  34. Roman Civilization, by J.P.V.D. Balsdon  
  35. Sex Race and Science, by Edward Larson
  36. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
  37. Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie
  38. Some Girls: My Life In A Harem, by Jillian Lauren
  39. The American Warrior, by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
  40. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
  41. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
  42. The Best Short Stories of Dostoyevsky
  43. The Casual Vacancy, by JK Rowling
  44. The Confessions of Saint Augustine, translated by Rex Warner
  45. The Green Mile, by Stephen King
  46. The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
  47. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
  48. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  49. The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
  50. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours
  51. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  52. The Hound of The Baskervilles, by A. Conan Doyle
  53. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
  54. The Iliad, by Homer
  55. The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell
  56. The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston
  57. The Nazi Hunters, by Neal Bascomb
  58. The Oster Conspiracy of 1938, by Terry Parssinen
  59. The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton
  60. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
  61. The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
  62. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
  63. The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley
  64. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  65. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
  66. Torchwood: The Men Who Sold The World, by Guy Adams
  67. Void, by Rhiannon Lassiter
  68. Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  69. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
  70. World War Z, by Max Brooks
  71. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
  72. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
  73. Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay
  74. The Exiled Heir, by Jonathan French

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Radical Muslim vs radical Christian

(I also considered Andrew Jackson, a Christian who was responsible for the Trail of Tears, which killed more non-Christian people than the 9/11 attacks, and yet gets to be on our $20 bill.)

(but, you know, iconographical brevity and all that)

Excuse me sir, may I have a moment to talk to you about Jesus?

It really just gets me when people forget about the fucking crusades.

nooooooooooooooooobody remembers the Spanish Inquisition!

Indian Boarding Schools, anyone?

Colonization of the Americas and the genocide of millions of Indigenous people in the name of “Manifest Destiny”?

….or what about the biggest forced migration in human history, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? The enslavement of millions of Africans was all done in the name of Christianity, sooooooooo…..

Oh HEY, what about all those radical Christian bombings that happen, lik ethe Oklahoma City bombing, pictured above, or the bombing of Planned Parenthood and Abortion Clinics?

Christian Militias in Central African Republic Massacring Muslims

The Karantina Massacre of the Lebanese Civil War

The National Liberation Front of Tripura

The Gordon Riots

Pogroms

The motherfucking Troubles

What I didn’t know at the time was that this is what time is like for most women: fragmented, interrupted by child care and housework. Whatever leisure time they have is often devoted to what others want to do – particularly the kids – and making sure everyone else is happy doing it. Often women are so preoccupied by all the other stuff that needs doing – worrying about the carpool, whether there’s anything in the fridge to cook for dinner – that the time itself is what sociologists call “contaminated.”

I came to learn that women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art, philosophy, literature, they made scientific discoveries and sank into what psychologists call the peak human experience of flow.

Women aren’t expected to flow.

Brigid Schulte: Why time is a feminist issue

Well! This is interesting. 

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Oh my god this is exactly what I try to explain to my husband and he never gets it. 

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And even if you have a good partner who is supportive, it doesn’t help as much as you might think. This sort of thing is baked into the cultural expectations of being female. 

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The chances of getting shot by a female cop are slim, and it’s not just because there are so few women in police departments. Data show that female cops discharge their firearms at rates far below their male counterparts, face significantly fewer civilian complaints and are less likely than men to resort to unnecessary physical force when arresting someone.

The evidence is not just statistical. As a veteran female officer explained recently, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid damaging relationships with her colleagues, “I’ve never been in a fight on my own, because I never had to. I’ve only been in fights instigated by my male counterparts.”

Studies also show that female police officers are more inclined to view their job as a public service than men do and are better at communication, de-escalation and trust building — all hallmarks of community policing.

by Christopher Moraff

Opinion: America needs more female cops

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Alright so here’s the deal: I have a lot of books. A lot a lot of books. And now it looks fairly certain that we’ll be moving back to England when our lease is up at the end of January. PANIC MODE IS OFFICIALLY INITIATED.

What does this have to do with you? Well, it means I currently have a lot of books that need to go! So I’m having a book giveaway because this is better than giving them back to the thrift shops. Wanted to try a book out but couldn’t afford it? Now’s your chance! Want to try something entirely different? What an opportunity! Don’t have enough books? Of course you fucking don’t! Have enough books? Don’t fucking lie!

I will ship this shit pretty much anywhere. If you have any questions about whether or not I’ll ship to whatever rock you live under, just feel free to ask!

Rules:

  1. You gotta be following me. I ain’t quite that charitable that I’ll give away shit to strangers, y’see.
  2. Likes do not count. Only reblogs count.
  3. Multiple reblogs are allowed; I will literally never turn down extra exposure to more people I can irritate.
  4. Deadline is 11:59pm EST on 7 December, 2015. Reblogs after that receive only my appreciation, not my consideration.
  5. Three (3) randomly selected winners will be announced by no later than 5:00pm EST 10 December, 2015. You’ll be tagged in the announcement post, so make sure to check on that shit.
  6. I am only giving away books. Don’t ask for any of the props in the pictures cause that’s all they are.
  7. Don’t like how I categorised the books? Great! Send me an ask and tell me how far I had my head up my ass! They will be answered publicly.

Prizes:

  • First Prize – Four (4) books of your choice. You get first pick.
  • Second Prize – Three (3) books of your choice. You get to choose after the first winner.
  • Third Prize – Two (2) books of your choice. You choose from what’s left over.

The Books:

That Really Happened! (Nonfiction):

  1. In The Beginning…Was The Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
  2. The Confessions of St Augustine
  3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
  4. Knuckle Sandwich, by Jason Peacock
  5. Enough is Enough, Get Control of Your Stuff!, by Wendy Ellin
  6. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
  7. I’m A Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson

For the Kid in All of Us (YA/Children’s):

  1. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  2. A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
  3. Be An Interplanatary Spy: Red Rocket, by Seth McEvoy
  4. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
  5. Holes, by Louis Sachar
  6. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
  7. Mr Funderburk Meets 5A, by Terry Markoff
  8. Thieves of the Flame, by Audrey Schied
  9. project e.d.e.n., by B Mauritz

Famous Dead White Guys…and one really good African author!
(The Classics/School Summer Reading List):

  1. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
  3. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
  4. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

All Others:

  1. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, by Ogden Nash
  2. Jack & Jill, by James Patterson
  3. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
  4. The Green Mile, by Stephen King

guys please i am literally trying to give you free shit work with me here

Y’all got one more day to get your reblogs in. These are real actual books, that really exist, and people have received lovely books from me before. C’mon there’s really no catch I just don’t want these to get destroyed in a thrift shop and desperately need to get rid of them.

tic tock mfers

Got my life semi-planned out, book wise, until the time period where I foresee moving usurping a large chunk of my down time.

The schedule goes as follows:

1. Mr. Funderburk Meets 5A, by Terry Markoff
Done by 30 June

2. Thieves of the Flame, by Audrey Scheid
Done by 5 July

3. Project E.D.E.N., by B. Mauritz
Done by 14 July

4. Pie Girls, by Lauren Clark
Done by 30 July

5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Done by 9 August

6. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Done by 20 August

7. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut
Done by 15 September

8. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
Done by 21 September

9. An East End Farewell, by Yvette Venables
Done by 17 December

10. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, by David Sedaris
Done by 19 December

11. Here on Earth, by Alice Hoffman
Done by 24 December

12. Hiroshima, by John Hersey
Done by 27 December

13. Will Grayson, Meet Will Grayson, by John Green & David Levithan
Done by 1 January

14. Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie
Done by 4 January

15. Notes From A Small Island, by Bill Bryson
Done by 9 January

16. Iron Promises, by C.S. Marks
Done by 11 January

17. Void, by Rhiannon Lassiter
Done by 11 January

18. Fallen Embers, by C.S. Marks
Done by 12 January

19. The Fire King, by C.S. Marks
Done by 13 January

20. Shadow-Man, by C.S. Marks
Done by 15 January

21. Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger
Done by 18 January

22. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
Done by 22 January

23. Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler
Done by 26 January

24. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Done by 29 January

25. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
Done by 4 February

26. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Done by 9 February

27. I’m Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
Done by 13 February

28. Angel on the Square, by Gloria Whelan
Done by 17 February

29. The Brasspounder, by D.G. Sanders
Done by 19 February

30. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
Done by 24 February

This excludes that somewhere in there I read The Grey Bastards, by Jonathan French. It was awesome, and he’s awesome. Consider picking it up some time.

FIMSY’S 2015 READING LIST

The bolded ones are titles I’ve already read before at some point. I want to reread them because it’s been awhile and I have a (probably) better perspective from which to approach them.

Additionally, I am setting myself a solid rule that I am not to buy any more books so that after I complete this list I can finally get myself an e-reader of some kind. It’ll be my reward for reading so much. because Husband got me a Kindle paperwhite yippee!!!

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
2. Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich, by Ladislas Farago
3. Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, by Anonymous
4. Angel On The Square, by Gloria Whelan
5. Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea,  by Chelsea Handler
6. Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
7. Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
8. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, by Eoin Colfer
9. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
10. Beowulf, by Anonymous
11. Better for All The World, by Harry Bruinius
12. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
13. Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith
14. City of Dark Magic, by Magnus Flyte
15. Collapse, by Jared Diamond
16. Dead World Omnibus
17. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
18. Don’t Stop me Now, by Jeremy Clarkson
19. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
20. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
21. Flowers In The Attic, by V.C. Andrews
22. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
23. God Bless You, M. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut
24. Hamlet, by Shakespeare
25. Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
26. Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
27. Here On Earth, by Alice Hoffman
28. Hiroshima, by John Hersey
29. Holes, by Louis Sachar
30. House of Leaves, by Mark Z Danielewski
31. I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
32. I’m A Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson
33. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
34. Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
35. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
36. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
37. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
38. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
39. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
40. Modern Germany, by V. R. Berghahn
41. Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson
42. Official Secrets, by Richard Breitman
43. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z Danielewski
44. Othello, by Shakespeare
45. Reckless Hands, by Victoria Nourse
46. Rocket Boys, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
47. Roman Civilization, by J.P.V.D. Balsdon
48. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
49. Sex Race and Science, by Edward Larson
50. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
51. Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie
52. Some Girls: My Life In A Harem, by Jillian Lauren
53. The American Warrior, by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
54. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
55. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
56. The Best Short Stories of Dostoyevsky
57. The Casual Vacancy, by JK Rowling
58. The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau
59. The Confessions of Saint Augustine, translated by Rex Warner
60. The Dialogues of Time and Entropy, by Aryeh Lev Stollman
61. The Green Mile, by Stephen King
62. The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
63. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
64. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
65. The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
66. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours
67. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
68. The Hound of The Baskervilles, by A. Conan Doyle
69. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
70. The Iliad, by Homer
71. The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell
72. The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston
73. The Nazi Hunters, by Neal Bascomb
74. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, by Ogden Nash
75. The Oster Conspiracy of 1938, by Terry Parssinen
76. The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton
77. The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
78. The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
79. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
80. The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley
81. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
82. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
83. Torchwood: The Men Who Sold The World, by Guy Adams
84. Void, by Rhiannon Lassiter
85. Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen
86. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
87. World War Z, by Max Brooks
88. Naked Pictures of Famous People, by Jon Stewart
89. America’s Least Competent Criminals, by Chuck Shepherd
90. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
91. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
92. Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay
93. Pie Girls, by Lauren Clark
94. The Exiled Heir, by Jonathan French