#Maud Woolf

[tymp3st]

Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

Sometimes, sometimes, I get so focused in on one goal that it makes me kind of smartn’t. That’s what happened with the review this week. I got really focused in on the other book that I’d planned on reviewing and completely forgot my plans to use this one if I couldn’t get that one finished. This one is courtesy of netGalley. Here’s Maud Woolf’s Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock.…

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#NetGalley #ThirteenWaystoKillLulabelleRock #book review #Maud Woolf #netGalley #Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock #Tympest Books

[scififr]

Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, par Maud Woolf (Angry robot, janvier 2024)

Lulabelle Rock, une star du cinéma, décante un treizième clone d’elle-même avec pour mission d’aller supprimer les douze précédents, toutes plus ou moins occupé à prendre en charge des taches que l’original n’a ni le temps, ni l’envie d’assumer.

Cela ferait un excellent film, et le roman est très bon ; sinon peut être dans sa conclusion, mais cela importe peu. Un point important pour ne pas tromper d’éventuels lecteurs : le sujet du livre ne réside pas vraiment dans les éventuels treize meurtres (même s’ils ont leur importance) mais dans l’éducation à marche forcée de la malheureuse qui vient à la vie dans l’unique but de tuer ses sœurs jumelles.

#science fiction #Maud Woolf #16

[alexsfictionaddiction]

Review: Thirteen Ways To Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf

I am so grateful to the lovely people at Angry Robot for sending me this beautiful ARC of a unique sci-fi thriller that I couldn't put down.

In the near future, the rich and famous have the money to create clones or Portraits of themselves and acting legend Lulabelle Rock has just created her 13th. The 13th Portrait of Lulabelle Rock has one purpose -to kill the other 12 Portraits. It seems simple but can the pitfalls of the human world such as love and morals?

Lulabelle has legitimate reasons for creating her Portraits and if I had the money and the means, I'm sure I'd do the same! Our protagonist provided a really unique perspective to read from and I adored watching her grow throughout the narrative.

Our heroine is only allowed to kill other Portraits, so this prevents her from having an evil or ruthless streak. She is programmed purely to kill specific people, which means that she is a killer who is easy to relate to and love. I thought it was interesting that despite the Portraits all leading very human-like lives, they're clearly not considered to be humans by their creator. It really made me think about how the lines between what is a human and what is a machine are perhaps becoming more blurred every year.

There is some subtle humour as our heroine begins to learn how to get by in the human world. It means that it starts off as a kind of journey of self-discovery and this gradually evolves as the book goes along. I would have liked to have seen more slip-ups from her as I think this would have made some funny scenes and perhaps made her even more endearing.

The protagonist falls in love with one of her targets and I really loved their scenes together. I wasn't expecting it but it's this aspect of the book that highlights how easy it is for machines to feel human emotions. It lends another dimension that really raised the stakes and kept the pages turning.

Thirteen Ways To Kill Lulabelle Rock is a fast-paced, refreshing read that makes you think. The ending was really satisfying too and there were points where I was worried it wouldn't be. I would have liked a bit more world-building, which another 50-100 pages or so could have solved but it was still a very entertaining, clever book that I raced through.

Thirteen Ways To Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf will be published by Angry Robot on 9th January 2024.

#thirteen ways to kill lulabelle rock #maud woolf #sci-fi #thriller #dystopian #blog tour #book review #review #books #bookworm

[jomarchswritingjacket]

who wrote you into existence and what makes you think so? tell me in the tags or comments!

#classic lit #william shakespeare #jane austen #oscar wilde #charlotte bronte #edgar allan poe #j.r.r. tolkien #louisa may alcott #virginia woolf #c.s. lewis #lucy maud montgomery #mary shelley #tumblr polls #polls

[lesbianboyfriend]

um. what if i was made to kill you but when we met you made me realize that maybe i could be more than what i was made for but i still couldn’t escape it so i promised i wouldn’t kill you right away and in return you promised to wait for me. and we were both clones of the same woman.

#thirteen ways to kill lulabelle rock #maude woolf #quotes #jules.txt

[p1325]

The 'Timeless Classics' series by RBA stands as a commendable collection of 85 literary masterpieces, predominantly drawn from English literature, with notable inclusions such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina from diverse cultural landscapes. This curated anthology transcends geographical boundaries, making its enriching content accessible not only in various European countries under the names of ''Storie Senza Tempo'', ''Romans Eternels'', and ''Novelas Eternas'' but also in South America. RBA's commitment to delivering these cultural gems on a global scale reflects a dedication to fostering a profound appreciation for literature across diverse audiences.

Here are all the titles of the following collection: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence

Jane Austen - Emma

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 1)

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey

Thomas Hardy - Far from The Madding Crowd

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 1)

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 2)

Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons Alexandre Dumas fils - The Lady of the Camellias

Henry James - Washington Square

Louisa May Alcott - A Garland For Girls

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 1)

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Lady Susan. The Watson. Sanditon

Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbeville

Edith Wharton - The Mother’s Recompense

Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders

Henry James - The Wings of the Dove

Edith Wharton - The Customs of the Country

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Jane Austen - Juvenilia

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 1)

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 2)

George Sand - Nanon

Henry James - The Ambassadors

Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford

Thomas Hardy - Under The Greenwood Tree

Edith Wharton - Summer

George Sand - Indiana

Henry James - The Bostonians

George Eliot - Silas Marner

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 1)

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 2)

Edith Wharton - The Twilight Sleep

Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton

Fanny Burney - Evelina

George Sand - Little Fadette

Emily Eden - The Semi-detached House

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley I

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley II

Daniel Defoe - Lady Roxana

Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest

Edith Wharton - The Cliff

Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady of Quality

Louisa May Alcott - Moods

Lucy Maud Montgomery - The Story Girl

Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

Matilde Serao - Fantasy

Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes

Emilia Pardo Bazán - Sunstroke

Ann Radcliffe - The Romance Of The Forest

Louisa May Alcott - A Long Fatal

Charlotte Bronte - Villette

Sybil G. Brinton - Old Friends and New Fancies

Edith Wharton - The Bunner

Sisters Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out

Margaret Oliphant - The Chronicles of Carlingford

Edith Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist

Virginia Woolf - Day and Night

Guy de Maupassant - Our Heart

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 1)

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 2)

Elizabeth Gaskell - Half a Lifetime Ago

#storie senza tempo #novelas eternas #romans eternels #novels #novel #book collection #timeless classics #jane austen #pride and prejudice #emma #persuasion #bronte sisters #emily bronte #daniel defoe #moll flanders #anna karenina #wuthering heights #jane eyre #sense and sensibility #louisa may alcott #little women #Youtube #me #gpoy #gay #gay men #lgbt

[balioc]

BALIOC'S READING LIST, 2023 EDITION

This list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished. No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind, etc. Also no children’s picture books.

(There were so many children's picture books.)

Hand of the Sun King, J. T. Greathouse

Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Circus of Dr. Lao, Charles G. Finney

When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us, Rachel Aviv

Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Yamada Monogatari: Troubled Spirits, Richard Parks

Victory City, Salman Rushdie

Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, Richard Rorty

Cage of Souls, Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters

One Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters

Priest of Bones, Peter McLean

Priest of Lies, Peter McLean

Demon Summoner: Apprentice, Greg Walters

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions, Richard Cohen

Tsalmoth, Steven Brust

Priest of Gallows, Peter McLean

Priest of Crowns, Peter McLean

Waybound, Will Wight

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

The Tatami Galaxy, Tomihiko Morimi

These Violent Delights, Chloe Gong

Death in Venice, Thomas Mann

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life, Rory Sutherland

The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

Storming Heaven, Miles Cameron

Against Worldbuilding, and Other Provocations: Essays on History, Narrative and Game Design, Alexis Kennedy

From Ritual to Romance, Jessie L. Weston

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

Rats and Gargoyles, Mary Gentle

Labyrinth's Heart, M. A. Carrick

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

The Long, Long Goodbye of "The Last Bookstore," Mizuki Nomura

The Last Sun, K. D. Edwards

The Hanged Man, K. D. Edwards

The Hourglass Throne, K. D. Edwards

Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi

The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief, Adin Steinsaltz

The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee

The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius

The Star-Child, Oscar Wilde

Monk's Hood, Ellis Peters

St. Peter's Fair, Ellis Peters

The Leper of St. Giles, Ellis Peters

The Virgin in the Ice, Ellis Peters

The Nutcracker, E. T. A. Hoffman and Alexandre Dumas

The Sanctuary Sparrow, Ellis Peters

Child of God, Cormac McCarthy

The Devil's Novice, Ellis Peters

Dead Man's Ransom, Cormac McCarthy

Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2023: 10

["plausible" and "improving" are being defined very liberally here]

Balioc's Choice Award, Fiction Division: The Circus of Dr. Lao, Charles G. Finney

>>>> Honorable Mention: Rats and Gargoyles, Mary Gentle

[This seems like the correct place to point out that, for the Balioc's Choice Awards, I consider only works that were first published with the last 100 years. Otherwise it would just be "surprise, old classics are often classics for a reason."]

Balioc's Choice Award, Nonfiction Division: The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief, Adin Steinsaltz

>>>> Honorable Mention: A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

The Roscommon Princess Award for Luminous Trembling Beauty in the Face of a Bleakly Mundane World: The Star-Child, Oscar Wilde

The Anguished Howl Award for Somehow Making Me Regret Reading a Book About a Demon Summoner in the Thirty Years' War: Demon Summoner: Apprentice, Greg Walters

The Tamsyn Muir Award for Demonstrating that Popularity Really, Really, Really is Not the Same Thing as Quality: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

The G. K. Chesterton Award for Being G. K. Chesterton, I Mean, to Whom Else Could I Compare Him, For Someone So Avowedly Stodgy He is the Ballsiest Motherfucker I Have Ever Read: The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

**********

...this year was much like the last several years, only somehow even more so. Not in a good way, I fear. My current lifestyle continues not to be super-conducive to reading, and writing a weekendlong LARP kind of knocked the wind out of me, both during and after. If it weren't for a massive silly-fun historical-mystery binge in December, my numbers here would be shameful. And you will notice that a whole lot of the things on that list are very short.

Most of the contemporary fiction was pretty much what I expected it to be. There were few real standouts. Things by good authors continued to be mostly good; things by shlocky authors continued to be shlock.

I should probably drive less for my various solitary recreational jaunts, just so that I can spend more of that time with a book. I should definitely read more old stuff, because old stuff continues to be the most reliably rewarding. (The cream of the cream of the old stuff, anyway, which is...what you read.)

I continue to be Extremely In the Market for recommendations of really good, deeply-informative nonfiction.

#yearly reading list

[sea-changed]

the fourth quarter of 2023 in books

46. Emily of Deep Valley, Maud Hart Lovelace [reread] 47. The Parting Glass, Gina Marie Guadagnino 48. Handwoven Textiles of Early New England: The Legacy of a Rural People, 1640-1880, Nancy Dick Bogdonoff [love when I have to manually add a book to a reading list website] 49. Craft: An American History, Glenn Adamson [this was interesting but also a) not what I wanted it to be and also b) peppered with several odd errors that made me trust it less] 50. The Route of Ice and Salt, José Luis Zárate [trans. David Bowles] 51. Death by Silver, Amy Griswold and Melissa Scott [reread] 52. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James [reread] 53. Think of England, KJ Charles [reread] 54. Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles [reread. You will note that I then stopped! I'm growing as a person and I simply cut myself off, no matter how much potential book one ends with I have learned the hard way several times that this does not pan out.] 55. In Memoriam, Alice Winn 56. Ghosts, Edith Wharton 57. Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on Biography, Hermione Lee 58. Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America, John F. Kasson [I really enjoyed this, I'm so glad I finally read it cover to cover] 59. Golden Hill, Francis Spufford [reread, forever and always <3]

#a few reads from the end of this year are going to appear on next year's list but #this was not a spectacular year in reading but i read some good things and some thought-provoking things and i am hoping the new year bring #more time and brain energy to read #books tag

[scotianostra]

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes  founder of first modern birth control clinic, was born in Edinburgh on October 15th 1880.

At first, Stopes was home-schooled, but from 1892 to 1894 she attended St George’s School for Girls in Edinburgh, her studies  Her studies of paleobiology took her to universities in London, England and Munich, Germany, then returning to England, she became the first female member of the science faculty at the University of Manchester.  She was a very well-educated woman; she was a woman who advocated for eugenics and the women’s rights movements.

Marie Stopes was a palaeobotanist who became the United Kingdom’s greatest advocate for birth control after the 1918 publication of her book Married Love. Trained in biology and geology, she had her doctorate by the time she was 24 years old, when she became Manchester University’s first female lecturer in science. 

Marie studied and did field work in Japan and Canada, but after the annulment of her first marriage, she set out to educate women on sex in marriage. The book Married Love was a controversial bestseller (banned in the United States); she followed it with Wise Parenthood that same year. 

She and her second husband opened a clinic in London in 1921 to provide birth control and health care — but not abortions — to married women. After 1935, Stopes stopped publishing scientific articles and focused on her fame as an author and advocate for birth control. 

It wasn’t all good for Stopes in some ways was a flawed character, she was known to be a crazed fan of eugenics, in favor of sterilizing “inferior” members of society, a certain 20th century dictator and war mongered had the same idea in his nazi doctrination.According to one source  "Marie was an elitist, an idealist, interested in creating a society in which only the best and beautiful should survive”  Stopes's enthusiasm for eugenics and race improvement was in line with many intellectuals and public figures of the time.

Marie Stopes International was founded nearly 20 years after her death and provides contraception and abortion services around the world to this day.

Stopes was even remembered in a playground rhyme:

Jeanie, Jeanie, full of hopes, Read a book by Marie Stopes, But, to judge from her condition, She must have read the wrong edition.

Stopes was acquainted with many literary figures of the day. She had long-standing correspondences with George Bernard Shaw and Aylmer Maude, and argued with H. G. Wells. Noël Coward wrote a poem about her, and she edited Lord Alfred Douglas' letters. She unsuccessfully petitioned Neville Chamberlain to arrange for Douglas to receive a civil list pension; the petition was signed by Arthur Quiller-Couch, John Gielgud, Evelyn Waugh and Virginia Woolf, among others.[70] The general secretary of the Poetry Society, Muriel Spark, had an altercation with Stopes; according to Mark Bostridge, Spark "found herself lamenting that Stopes's mother had not been better informed on [birth control]

Stopes died on 2nd October 1958, aged 77, from breast cancer at her home in Dorking, Surrey.

#Scotland #scottish #anglo-scottish #birth control #family planning #eugenics #history

[dreamofmourning]

1,3,4. M. Ty, Writing in Absentia: Woolf and the Language of Things 2. Virginia Woolf, Notes 5. Maud Ellmann, The Nets of Modernism 

#the kind of time that passes is cordoned off within the central section like a condemned corridor within the narrative #Virginia Woolf #on form

[easterndaylighttime]

ah shit twas bc I was at my uncles over the weekend and didn't see!! here we are: 1, 2, 4, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19 ;), 22, 24

thank you !! noble soul

1. how many books did you read this year?

42 that I finished! a few more that I did not

2. any books you reread?

I reread aristotle & dante discover the secrets of the universe because I wanted to prepare for the sequel

4. did you discover any new authors you loved this year?

I'd only read another country by james baldwin and this year I read three more books by him, so not new but definitely more intensely

12. books that disappointed you

I already said one but actually I will also add ari & dante 2 because I just remembered how disappointing it was.

13. least favourite books of the year

- the bitch doctrine, laurie penny

- the book of longings, sue monk kidd

- behind her eyes, sarah pinborough (the most genuinely, laugh out loud suddenly in a twist ending homophobic book I have ever read)

16. most over-hyped book you read this year

normal people by sally rooney. I don't think I need to explain

17. surprisingly good books?

calypso by david sedaris really stayed with me just because, like, I really dislike david sedaris as a person based on his books but I got calypso on a whim and I really enjoyed it even though I still think he's a bad person

19. did you use your library card? ( ;) )

yes, I used your library card... collectively, toronto, indianapolis, and berlin keep me in books and my name is on none of those cards. thanks for being my plug for the tpl

24. DNF's?

oh I started a million books I didn't finish unfortunately. still working on retour à reims and moby dick. stalled out in the absolute book by elizabeth knox and jonathan strange and mr norrell, which I also have every intention of finishing 😭 I'm about a quarter of the way through ancestor trouble by maud newton, not sure if I'll finish that... won't finish how should a person be by sheila heti because it was atrocious. uhh true story by danielle j. lindemann also quite stupid, won't be finishing that, the poppy wars by r. f. kuang... definitely going to return to jacob's room by virginia woolf... mess

#janna tag

[afieldinengland]

characters that are me-flavoured (snagged from @cynodontia— thank you sawyer💓)

- lord summerisle from the wicker man (1973)

- alan strang from peter shaffer’s equus + its film (1977)

- stephen franklin from penda’s fen (1974)

- harold chansen from harold and maude (1970)

- zach from in the earth (2021)

- whitehead from a field in england (2013)

- victor frankenstein from mary shelley’s frankenstein

- isaac chroner from children of the corn (1984)

- jacob tyler from inside no 9 s3e3 the riddle of the sphinx

- ross gaines from the league of gentlemen (1999-2003)

- the man from the insomniac (1971)

- fisher from robin redbreast (1970)

- peter from straight on till morning (1972)

- dr. pretorious from the bride of frankenstein (1935)

- leland gaunt from stephen king’s needful things

- george from who’s afraid of virginia woolf? (1966)

- thomas wake from the lighthouse (2019)

- johnny alucard from dracula ad (1972)

- john gray in the body snatcher (1945)

- norman bates from psycho (1960)

- martin from martin (1977)

tagging whoever wants to do this!! it’s very fun

#too scared to post the quasi-kinlist what if they psychoanalyse me……. anyway #some of these are bad. i know #a folklore devil in the shape of an old man and an ancient pagan force in the shape of a boy are raging inside me #as always + more and more: what if i was my OWN strange old man #tagged in

[tesia-a-138]

Mais quand nous nous couchons l'un à côté de l'autre, nous nous fondons dans les phrases de l'autre. Un brouillard s'enroule autour de nous. Le monde immatériel est créé.

Virginia Woolf

Maud Chalard

[hopingfortea]

i've officially read 67% of my book goal for the year!

best new (to me) books i've read so far (in no particular order):

- Icarus by K Ancrum

- Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

- Penance by Eliza Clark

- In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

- Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf

#book recommendations #Icarus #k ancrum #in the dream house #penance #natural beauty #thirteen ways to kill Lulabelle Rock #endlessly talking

[lesbianboyfriend]

insane.

#thirteen ways to kill lulabelle rock #maude woolf #jules.txt #quotes

[beckysbook5]

Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf - ARC Review!

Set in a world of the near future, the celebrity elite have access to a technology that allows them to make perfect copies of themselves, known as Portraits. These Portraits exist to fulfil all the various duties that come as the price of fame. Our protagonist is the thirteenth copy made of the actress known as Lulabelle Rock. Her purpose is very to track down and eliminate her…

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