#hanna jameson

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Last

slow building apocalyptic thriller

an american academic is at a conference in a remote Swiss hotel when a nuclear apocalypse strands him with just 20 others

50 days in, a body is found in a watertank and he becomes obsessed with investigating to find out who did it

even though the remaining people are just trying to quietly survive as supplies slowly dwindle and the winter approaches

#the last #hanna jameson #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #so I read this because there’s an aromantic side character! #she’s an interesting/complex character who has a friends w benefits thing with the MC #a few stereotypes but like she actively counters them #the only weird thing about it is that it’s implied she’s a republican who voted for the ppl who started the nuclear war….. #like. would a right wing person identify as aro lmao #but also like i’m okay with not all ‘representation’ being good people. #as for the rest of the actual book i found it quite interesting overall! #i enjoyed that it wasn’t just 'fighting dangerous people to survive' immediately like a lot of the postapoc genre #(though i wonder how much food they had to be fine for 2 months??) #though there is a bit of that in places when they leave the hotel #a lot of interesting characters and like.....discussion on what different kinds of people would do in that situation #the australian accent (audiobook) of the australian character…..not sure about that LMAO #also I don’t believe the internet would still function after half the world has blown up? like this thing needs upkeep right #there’s a bit where the MC is talking to two dudes who start talking like: so are we gonna repopulate society? #and being creepy about the women. and the MC is obviously like: yikes! #but also nobody even suggests like……we could just die? without repopulating humanity whatever the fuck that means? #why is that concept not even brought up?????? i am horrified that anyone would consider having children in that scenario. christ. #anyway i guess yeah overall a few things im like hm about but it's a pretty good book #aromantic books #(also the MC has a wife on the other side of the world but like. there's not any actual romance. his thing with the aro woman is offpage)

[alexsfictionaddiction]

Review: Are You Happy Now by Hanna Jameson

I am always drawn to books that sound like they might be about something a bit different. As soon as I read the line 'a wedding guest sits down and refuses to get back up' in the synopsis, I was interested to know what was going on. So, here we are.

Yun has everything but nothing ever feels like it's enough. Emory is making a name for herself but she can't escape the shame. Andrew can't stop lying to himself even though he wants to. Fin keeps falling in love and destroying it. All over the world, people start to sit down and they never get back up again. No one really knows whether it's a pandemic or a choice but the real question is whether anyone can really be happy in this world.

The uniqueness of the situation was definitely my favourite part of the book. I was completely hooked on finding out what was happening to these people and why. I'm actually really disappointed that it wasn't exactly revealed but on reflection, I think it was probably more of a symbolic thing and commentary on the chaos of our world. They were simply sitting down and checking out of it.

Emory is a journalist reporting on the strange events and she feels awful about the success her work is having in the wake of the horrors of what is happening. It means she can't fully enjoy her moment in the sun and I think this is something that many people can relate to. There are often factors that contribute to the good things that we do that aren't exactly positive things themselves and it can be hard to accept that.

All of the four main characters are trying to find and questioning their happiness. It seems that none of them know what happy really is or how to find it. Yun's ex-wife tells him that his idea of happiness is a fantasy and that he should try to lower his expectations. Again, this is probably a lesson that many people need to learn.

The book is quite philosophical but depressingly so. It's almost questioning whether anyone at all is ever happy. Perhaps this appeals to pessimists and deep dark thinkers but the tone of it just really put me in a slump. It was whiny and I didn't really care about any of the characters enough to listen to them for pages on end.

Much of the public speculation on the causes and nature of the situation felt very similar to how COVID was talked about. If there had been any chance of COVID being deemed a 'choice', I have no doubt that the sick pay would have stopped and treatment would have been hard to come by. In fact, this is precisely how many mental health conditions are seen by governments and authorities.

Are You Happy Now is a strange one to review. I was very intrigued by the situation but without the definite answers, I was left disappointed. None of the characters were particularly likeable, so I wasn't really interested in their search for happiness. It is quite a thought-provoking read and I really liked the core idea but I'm not sure it was executed terribly well.

#are you happy now #hanna jameson #dystopian #contemporary fiction #book review #review #books #bookworm

[myhikari21things]

Read of The Last by Hanna Jameson (2019) (340pgs)

#the last #hanna jameson #fiction #paperback #2010s #reread

[ewzzy]

We're looking for the bad guy! You seen him?

#spider-man #j jonah jameson #ice man #john romita jr #howard mackie #scott hanna #marvel comics

[ds-confess]

Daphne - I am looking forward to going to my family cabin and spending time with my kiddos and my sister and nieces.

McKayla - I'm looking forward to some time on the water.

Teagan - Looking forward to spending time with my sister at our family cabin for a little R&R.

Peyton - I'm looking forward to marrying my best friend <3

Vanessa - I'm looking forward to any summer-ish activities in June. *.*

Luca - I'm looking forward to having movie nights under the stars with my family.

Bowie - I am looking forward to more sunshine.

Ryker - Spending time with my two number ones.

Hanna - Eating at bbq's and ice cold beer.  Some skinny dipping in the lake too.

Josephine - Looking forward to spending time in the pool.

Catherine - I look forward to beach trips, summer picnics and fun in the sun. :)

Astrid - Warmer nights.

Benjamin -  I am looking forward to pride month!

#daphne rodgers #mckayla nash #teagan rodgers #peyton morris #vanessa jameson #luca micelli #bowie zeppelin #ryker anders #hanna hamilton #josephine carmichael #catherine byrne #astrid darrow #benjamin kopus #dirty south

[marleneoftheopera]

Holiday Audio/Video Gifts!

For the holiday season, here are some audio gifts from various shows and one Phantom video! The link to them is here and the info is below the cut:

Happy holidays and I hope you are all having time for some rest!

Audios

POTO

Jon Robyns, Paige Blankson, Joe Griffiths-Brown, Kelly Glyptis, Matt Harrop, Adam Linstead, Francesca Ellis, David Kristopher Brown, Maiya Hikasa August 22, 2023; London

Tim Howar, Harriet Jones, Nadim Naaman, Lara Martins, Nicholas Garrett, Arvid Larsen, John Ellis, Valerie Cutko, Kelsi Boyden March 19, 2023; Greece

Josh Piterman, Corinne Cowling (u/s), Danny Whitehead, Katy Hanna (u/s), Ross Dawes, Kris Manuel (u/s), Sophie Caton (u/s), Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware October 17, 2019; London ​Matinee.

Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Samantha Hill, Greg Mills (u/s), Michele McConnell, Richard Poole (u/s), Tim Jerome, Ellen Harvey, Christian Sebek, Kara Klein, Scott Mikita (u/s) March 9, 2013; Broadway Matinee performance.

John Owen-Jones, Deborah Dutcher, Matthew Cammelle, Bruce Montague, Charles Shirvell, Margaret Mary Kane (u/s), Janet Murphy, Jeremy Secomb, Lucy Middleton January 5, 2002; London

Love Never Dies

Tam Mutu, Celia Graham, David Thaxton, Daniel Dowling August 25, 2011; London Tam Mutu's last performance.

Les Miserables

Christopher Jacobsen (u/s Jean Valjean), Stewart Clarke (Javert), Katie Hall (Fantine), Will Callan (Marius), Lulu-Mae Pears (Cosette), Amena El-Kindy (Eponine), Luke Kempner (Thenardier), Claire Machin (Madame Thenardier), Dejan Van der Flyert (Enjolras), Alex Shaw (Gavroche), Clohe Sullivan (Little Cosette), Tom Hext (Grantaire/Majordomo), Adam Pearce (Bishop/Claquesous), Ellie Ann Lowe (Factory Girl), Jordan Simon Pollard (u/s Foreman/Bujon), Matt Dempsey (Bamatabopis/Lesgles), Annabelle Aquino, Hazel Baldwin, Emily Olive Boyd, Ben Culleton, Matt Hayden, Sam Kipling, Anouk Van Lake, Harry Lake, Ben Oatley, Jonathan Stevens, Phoebe Williams, Ollie Wray September 28, 2023; London 15,000th show in London and the 5th show for the new company.

Sunset Boulevard

Nicole Scherzinger (Norma), Tom Francis (Joe Gillis), David Thaxton (Max von Mayerling), Grace Hodgett Young (Betty Shaefer), Ahmed Hamaad (Artie), Tyler Davis (Sheldrake), Charlotte Jaconelli (Johanna), Jon Tsouras (Cecil B. de Mille) September 28, 2023; London

Rebecca

Laureen Jones (I), Richard Carson (Maxim de Winter), Kara Lane (Mrs Danvers), Sara Harlington (Beatrice), Neil Moor (Giles), Piers Bate (Frank Crewley), David Breeds (Ben), Alex James Ward (Jack Favell), Shrley Jameson (Mrs Van Hopper), Nicholas Lumley (Colonel Julian) September 27, 2023; Off-West End

POTO Video

Ian Jon Bourg, Olivia Safe (u/s), Kyle Gonyea 2001; Hamburg, Germany VOB files. One of the most legendary Phantom's opposite one of the youngest Christine's!

#as always if any have to be removed do let me know! #audio gift #video gift #phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #les miserables #love never dies #rebecca #sunset boulevard #jon robyns #paige blankson #nicole scherzinger #ian jon bourg #kara lane #richard carson #christopher jacobsen #stewart clarke #katie hall #tam mutu #celia graham #tim howar #harriet jones #nadim naaman #jeremy stolle #samantha hill #greg mills #josh piterman #corinne cowling #danny whitehead

[gergthecat]

AHHHH Writing Block

I just need somebody to tell me what to do :>

I'll write any of the following just please help meee:

The Starbound Trilogy I

Tarver/Lilac

Jubilee/Flynn

The Aurora Cycle IV

Saedii/Tyler

Finian/Scarlett

Auri/Kal

The Illuminae Files II

Kady/Ezra

Nik/Hanna

The Folk of Air Series

Jude/Cardan

The Unearthed Duology

Jules/Mia

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Suki/Sokka

The Shatter Me Series

Aaron/Juliette

Nazeera/Kenji

The Inheritance Games Series

Avery/Jameson

Libby/Nash

Max/Xander

The Legend Series

June/Daniel

Eden/Pressa

#the starbound trilogy #the aurora cycle #the illuminae files #the folk of air series #the unearthed duology #avatar the last airbender #the shatter me series #the inheritance games series #the legend series #fanfic

[lunaryrs]

monty & zoe ^^

who is the bigger romantic openly? secretly?

i think they both gleefully indulge in that ^_^ like we got some real sweeties here don't we. i could see them both genuinely going back and forth paying for dates (even as they grow older and share a bank account), i don't think there's a birthday or an anniversary that passes without some sort of grand gesture made. i think more so than i love you and i'm gonna make it everyone else's problem they have a sense of humor about it and sure. they're still making it everyone else's problem. but for the giggles

who is more likely to plan something big for valentine’s day?

see above. they're both very much in this game. god mod the most epic one for the books is zoe having monty sent some flowers and one of those massive teddy bears right to his classroom and he spent the rest of the school day giving it piggyback ride through the hallways

who developed a crush on the other first?

see i know we have lore that you've developed for their relationship but unfortunately it isn't what [redacted] was wearing the first time we met so it just does not take up any real estate in my brain. i can only remember nonsensical things. but my impulse would be to say monty maybe liked zoe first. i kind of imagine zoe to reflect the very best that there was in darcy, being that they were so close, but also she kind of walked in and dream-came-trued it for him, like sabrina carpenter said. unfortunately i stopped responding to this question half way thru and it was unfinished when i went to post so here we are :nerd: but i feel like you know where i was going. you know where i was going, right? just kidding i do vaguely remember all the stuff about

who spends time reading their zodiac compatibilities?

they both do, monty actually led with that on a date in their earliest days and i imagine zoe found it endearing, thanks! but i do think he's weirdly into astrology like he knows his big 3 and all that. he's not ran thru though.

who is more protective?

i mean i guess it depends in what sense i'm saying like if something went bump in the night monty would do the noble thing and scope things out while zoe stayed behind BUT he has been pwned publicly a time or two in the teacher's lounge by the head of the physical education department who wants zoe soooo bad so he's certainly not mr. macho

who tends to get sick more often? who is better at taking care of the other?

monty gets sick in the way that every man gets sick he needs his back rubbed and his forehead kissed PRONTO!

who cooks the dinner, and who washes the dishes?

i hate to answer every question saying they do this equally<3 but that's kind of how i feel. i imagine it switching up between them.

who does the majority of the driving?

sorry see above but a bonus godmod headcanon is that zoe's gotta drive something really really cute like a jeep renegade right?

whose family do they celebrate more holidays with?

i was gonna say the hannas and that i'd just caught a vibe but then i really doubled down on the hannas because i remembered the jameson/orla of it all. god i love this plot i wanna go to their thanksgiving soooo bad

#i got so mad at myself bc i didn't have as much to write as i thought i would but whatever #feel like this whole thing is me just longwinded saying yes and no and contributing nothing #but anyway.

[tragedies-and-dreams]

i'm not feeling good at all :

part I

“As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.”

Last Night I Sang to the Monster, Benjamin Alire Sáenz / / / These Violent Delights, Micah Nemerever / / / A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara / / / The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson / / / The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy / / / The Absolutist, John Boyne / / / Are You Happy Now, Hanna Jameson / / / The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield / / / Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden / / / Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen / / / Edinburgh, Alexander Chee / / / Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly / / /

#loneliness #i too feel #quotes #words #words words words #beautiful words #parallels #compilation #comparison #web weaving #literature #i am i am i am #my own stuff #are you happy now #on happiness #happiness is not for me #on not being okay #alive but not #i'm not feeling good at all #alexander chee #susanna kaysen #girl interrupted #long live the tribe of fatherless girls #t kira madden #diane setterfield #hanna jameson #the absolutist #benjamin alire sáenz #last night i sang at the monster #these violent delights

[twinnedpeaks]

hiii are there any books you read recently that you'd recommend!!

always always!! out of my reads so far this year i'd recommend 12 bytes by jeanette winterson, big swiss by jen beagin, sedating elaine by dawn winter, she is a haunting by trang thanh tran, new animal by ella baxter, i have some questions for you by rebecca makkai, tripping arcadia by kit mayquist, on the savage side by tiffany mcdaniel, are you happy now by hanna jameson, cursed bread by sophie mackintosh, brutes by dizz tate, and sorrowland by rivers solomon!

[wearelondonhq]

mw characters in general across multiple fandoms?

ooh so many! gomez addams, pugsley addams, enid sinclair, ajax petropolus, bianca barclay (wednesday), landon gibson, noah porter, kimberly (after), tarzan, belle, elsa, anna, isabela madrigal, luisa madrigal, ariel (disney), david nolan/prince charming, captain hook/killian, zelena, ruby, alice, will, cyrus (once upon a time/in wonerland), spencer hastings, emily fields, hanna marin (pretty little liars), edward cullen, bella swan, jacob black, alice cullen, jasper hale, emmett cullen, rosalie hale, laurent (twilight), mike wheeler, steve harrington, jonathan byers, max mayfield, jane "eleven" hopper, lucas sinclair (stranger things), the doctor (any! but special request for 10-13), amy pond, and rory (doctor who), qetsiyah, stefan salvatore, jeremy gilbert (the vampire diaries), kim possible, monique, ron stoppable, junior (kim possible), colin robinson, guillermo de la cruz (what we do in the shadows), ryn, maddie bishop (siren), jane facciano, olivia valdovinos, cynthia zdunowski, nancy nakagawa (rise of the pink ladies), avery grambs, grayson hawthorne, jameson hawthorne, alexander hawthorne, nash hawthorne, libby grambs (the inheritance games), alina starkov, inej ghafa (grishaverse), fiona gallagher, philip gallagher, ian gallagher, veronica fisher (shameless), and truly a billion more!

#mulltifandom rp #mumu rp #fandom rp #city rp #au rp #wal: most wanted

[myhikari21things]

Read of The Last by Hanna Jameson (2019) (340pgs)

#the last #hanna jameson #fiction #paperback #2010s #reread

[wishbonetea]

i've not done one of these in fkn ages so here we go:

tagged by @quensty to answer these questions and tag nine people i want to get to know or catch up with

🧃last song i listened to: annecy by kazy lambist because i'm sorting through my sunli&ht playlist and pretending that it's summer already

🧃three ships: i literally only care about andreil at this point, and the renison that exists in osab but only osab. oh and i suppose villaneve since i just finished the show two days ago and i'm mad about it

🧃currently reading: feminism, interrupted by lola olufemi, and are you happy now by hanna jameson

🧃last movie i watched: tár

🧃craving: i'm always stumped by this question -- a longer lifetime to read all the books i want to read

tagging some mutuals: @sirfatcat-mccatterson @dreamterlude @eloquent-apollo @thelobstermobster @i-did @lonan-rynch @nanatsuyu @daddyissuesjosten @transcatboymegumi

#tag games

[colemckenzies]

Books I read in May ranked best* to worst

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno (buzzword readathon)

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

The Last Graduate (scholomance 2) by Naomi Novik

The Last by Hanna Jameson

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

#book list

[meyhew]

i don't know why i always feel the need to turn to you when i read a book that leaves me bloodied and bruised down in a ditch on the side of the road but. if you need your weekly dose of heartwrenching character studies and existential dread are you happy now by hanna jameson is the book for it

someone (maybe u) told me abt that a while ago and it's been on my tbr since!! i've had like nooo time to read anything this month but hopefully in april i'll get back to checking things off that list again

#new url.... nice ! #holdingontozouis #answered

[ahintofoctober]

I need 13 books for January-March, and narrowed down my possibilities to 16 - which is probably for the best, to give some wriggle room if I need something shorter, or I'm in the mood for something in particular.

The list (not in reading order):

Coldbrook (Tim Lebbon)

Goth (Otsuichi)

The Book of Accidents (Chuck Wendig)

The Troop (Nick Cutter)

Broken Monsters (Lauren Beukes)

The Night Watch (Sergei Lukyanenko)

The Last (Hanna Jameson)

Severance (Ling Ma)

The Graveyard Apartment (Mariko Koike)

Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)

Just Like Mother (Anne Heltzel)

Twelve Nights at Rotter House (J.W. Ocker)

Carrion Comfort (Dan Simmons)

The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)

Violet (Scott Thomas)

Wanderers (Chuck Wendig)

(Yes, Wendig made the list twice. I like his stuff!)

I rather like that I'll go through 13 books per quarter. Seems appropriate!

#annus horribilis 2023