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zablife · 2 years

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Ooh from the Drama prompts- Can I please have “I know you’re not talking to me…” with Thomas Shelby xx

Congratulations on your milestone !! X

Prompt-"I know you're not talking to me." w/ Tommy

"I want you out, Tommy!" you yelled at the top of your lungs. You couldn't help the way your body shook as you stood at the foot of your bed, throwing clothes at him. You could hardly look at him and just wanted him out of your flat as quickly as possible. He hadn't realized you watched him last night as he met Diana Mitford in secret. The site of it turned your stomach as you stood in the rain, feeling utterly betrayed.

He came home to you as promised, though it must have been close to dawn. That's when you'd finally succumbed to sleep, aided by the whisky Tommy kept in your kitchen cabinet.

"It's not what you think, love. We've been through this..." Tommy said, running his hands through his hair. His eyes looked more desperate than you'd ever seen them and you wondered if he was taking your threat seriously. The dark circles and his sunken features told you it was most probably the lack of sleep taking its toll though. His health had rapidly begun to deteriorate under the strain of his work with Mosley.

Despite a once thriving relationship and promises of marriage, Tommy was distracted these days with endless meetings, dinners and rallies. At first you told him you understood. In fact, it was moments like these that got you into trouble time and time again. You'd begin to pity him when he came home late looking exhausted and lonely. He'd offer a multitude of excuses for his neglect and you'd forgive him, but today you had to find the courage to change.

Clutching your shivering arms tightly against your body, you attempted to hide your anxiety and confront him. "I know because it's the same bloody speech you've given me since we met, Tom! Everything you do is for the good old cause and I'm not allowed to hear any of it. Now I know why. You didn't want me to find out you're fucking a nazi!" you spat at him. The words were uncharacteristically harsh for you and you broke down the moment the accusation left your lips, dropping onto the bed and hiding your head in your hands.

You felt the warmth of Tommy's bare chest press against your back soothingly and he hushed you, stroking along your shoulders gently. "When my work is done, I will tell you everything. For now, believe me that you're the only woman in my life. You are all I want." His breath fanned over your neck as he spoke and he ventured a tender kiss at the base of your skull to seal his promise. He reached a hand across the mattress to find yours and gave you a reassuring squeeze as he placed kisses down your neck and shoulder.

You felt your resolve slipping as he whispered to you about a ball being held the following week. He promised to show you off properly and dance with you to your heart's content. But only one question sat on the tip of your tongue as you turned to face him with a tear stained face. "Will Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford be there?" you asked solemnly.

"No," Tommy stated emphatically. With his reassurance, you reluctantly agreed, hoping you could believe his work was only that. However, an ache twisted deep within your gut telling you this all felt far too familiar and you chided yourself for losing your nerve to have a proper conversation about your fears. You weren't sure how he always managed to seduce you back into his arms, but a part of you believed him when he spoke to you this way. Perhaps it's because you wanted to put your faith in him so badly.

When the evening of the ball finally arrived, you felt more confident in your place by Tommy's side. He hadn't had work commitments for three days beforehand and you'd spent time at Arrow House riding in the fresh air and enjoying each other's company. You felt the joy you'd experienced at the beginning of your relationship returning slowly and that made you hopeful.

As Tommy guided you inside the ballroom, you moved with him noting his good mood and you relaxed enough to excuse yourself for a glass of champagne. When you returned, he was nowhere to be found. You circled the dance floor and peered out onto the balcony, but he had disappeared from sight. Finally, you decided to take a stroll through the gardens and that's when you heard the frantic whispers of a couple in passionate argument. You stopped behind a hedgerow to listen, only moments later wishing you'd carried on walking.

"That was one night, Tommy. Why would she mind? A good fuck is how the upper class shake hands," the woman said raising her voice and adding a devilish giggle at the end. You felt your heart catch at her admission. Blinking back tears, you ducked your head to hide as the woman began to move from the shadows.

"Tomorrow evening, same time?" she asked, although it sounded more like a demand than a question. As she moved into a pool of light emanating from the ballroom above, your eyes widened in horror at the recognition. When you realized Diana Mitford stood before you, you shuttered involuntarily waiting for Tommy's reply.

He cleared his throat as Diana shot him a withering glare. "Yes, I'll be there," he choked out finally. You were unable to draw a breath, feeling your chest collapse in on itself as though you'd been stabbed in the heart. How could he do such a thing, you wondered?

Diana turned with a flourish, picking up the skirt of her expensive gown and sashayed triumphantly up the steps to the party. After she had gone, the spell was broken over your frozen form and you began running, only to trip on the stones in the path. Hearing the sudden commotion, Tommy came up behind you and you looked into his ashen face.

"My darling..." he said fumbling for words and reaching for you to help you up.

"I know you're not talking to me. I hope she was worth it, Tommy," you said as you jerked your arm out of his hand and walked away, leaving him alone with his regret.

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Written for my 1K celebration.

#zablife1k #Tommy shelby blurb #Tommy shelby fanfic #Tommy Shelby x you #Tommy Shelby x y/n #Tommy Shelby x reader

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evita-shelby · 2 years

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Hello ! How are you?

Im a sucker for angst so could you do a alternative part or a second part where you still have feelings for your late husband ?

Lots of angst of tommys part ?

Its interesting to see tommy im lizzies place😂

Im talking about the fic of the aranged marridge where you have 2 children with him and you are still in love with your dead ex

Thank you so much !

Jsnsnsns

I love angst.

I cried a little while writing this.

Spring

Gif by @nofckingfighting

When he tells her he loves her, she doesn’t say it back.

His wife gives him a sad and pained smile and says “If I could love again, I would love you.”

It hurts.

They have four children now, little Florence is born six months after Polly is murdered and still there is no change.

Y/N cannot love someone who is not her husband.

At the beginning Tommy believed she couldn’t love someone like him, someone who fucked whores by the dozen or someone who drinks himself until he blacks out.

So he changed, he stopped seeking comfort in other women, he stopped drinking so much, he started letting her in because if he did she would’ve understood why it pains him so much that she doesn’t love him.

He is loyal as dog, a dog expecting for his mistress to love him. Even Cyril has an easier time being loved by her.

“She doesn’t love you, she won’t care.” Diana Mitford tries to seduce him the only way she and Mosley know how. They loved forcing people into things they didn’t want.

“I swore a vow, Lady Diana. Besides, I can get the funding for my charities without resorting to prostituting myself for it.” He told her so as he walked away.

He has eighteen months to live. If he cannot make her love him before he dies, then he will have wasted ten years of his life.

When he lies down on the warm grass, he is surprised to find her laying down beside him and gently nudging him awake.

“I do love you, Tom, just not how you deserved.” She whispers and he keeps his eyes shut.

“If you were truly dead, that would’ve been part of the eulogy.” She kissed his lips as if he was snow white and she was prince charming. And like all fairy tales they read to the children, the curse breaks and the winter frost melts away to bring forth spring.

#tommy shelby x widow!reader #tommy shelby x reader #thomas shelby x reader

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titleleaf · 1 year

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ficsmells of 2023

(a sequel to the long-bygone ficsmells of 2017)

pete campbell in "santa, buddy": pomade, laundry soap

mozart in "divertimento": wig powder, orange-flower water, sweat, ink

billy hargrove in "somebody's sins but not mine": cigarettes, Drakkar Noir

eddie munson in "we like it louder": sweat, woodsmoke, Old Spice, grime

eddie munson in "give you what you need": sweat, weed, Old Spice, body odor (look at him and tell me i'm wrong)

al shaw in "all the things you boys lie about": sweat, specifically Marlboro cigarettes

vecna tentacle monster in "alive after death": chlorine, semen, rotting meat

daimler in "no language but a cry": rosemary and clove pomatum

julian fromme in "the days of september that rise": swimming pool chlorine, skin/sweat

orson krennic in "the dose makes the poison": sweat, uniform wool, "light and woody" cologne

phil burbank in "coffin tack": this man STINKS + wet wool/leather

bob benson in "(the first time ever) i saw your face": 'Binaca and fine cologne'

henry drax in "the heidelburgh tun": sweat, body odor, wet wool, blood

cirk baufort in "false taste of paradise": sweat, clean cotton tee shirt, semen

father paul hill in "and all the senses rise against": semen, soap, salt, skin, trace cologne

noemí taboada in "lactarius indigo": typewriter ribbons, dusty card catalogs

boris lermontov in "adoration of the earth": carnation, glove leather, hair tonic (spice/herbal notes)

g. joubert in "til every taste is on the tongue": leather, carnation, rosewood, cedar

primo nizzuto in "sticky fingers": bergamot, orange oil

cornelius hickey in "the men will be good, but when?": picked rope, tar

brother matteo in "horologion": wool, wax

dr. stanley in "a progressive vice": camphor

cleopatra in "sykon": myrrh, balsam

james noel holland in "a pathless comet, and a curse": vetiver, neroli

julius caesar in "leopard" and "intempesta nox": calamus, sweet clover, marjoram

stewy hosseini in "the gatecrasher": rosemary, hinoki (I think I had a real cologne or combination of products in mind when I wrote this description but idk which)

stewy hosseini in "buy more stock in roses": cedarwood

marc antony in "nonae" and in "this battalion of lovers": olive oil, herbal water

henry iv in "much ado with red and white": clove-pinks, blood

prince hal in "surfeited with honey": rose, civet

shiv roy in "in the sanatorium": hair serum, expensive shampoo

kendall roy in "in the sanatorium": Tom Ford cologne

henry viii in "serpentello": civet, lavender, bay

samuel masham in "a trick of state": sandalwood, civet

hugo barrett and tony theservant1963 in "close my mouth": Russian birch, leather -- super common fragrance notes for men's fragrance of the era, I might have been thinking Creed Cuir de Russie, for reasons that have everything to do with the comedy value of Creed's pretentious branding

evelyn mulwray in "speak low": 'wet earth and salt water and magnolia flower, like a cloud of perfume staining the wrist of a pair of white leather glove'

colonel ives in "and the burden and the lesson": pomade, bay leaf, clove

noho hank in "yes, and": 'expensive stores at the mall' which 100% means he's wearing a cologne barry doesn't recognize

sal romano in "at last, something beautiful": this dude smells NICE in ways ginsberg cannot articulate

marcus isaacson in "something unreck'd": rose and petitgrain

jay gatsby in "a ruby in the vine": BLOOD AND MONEY

debbie mitford in "soft targets": jasmine, cigarette smoke

#ska writes a thing

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rosepompadour · 2 years

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I saw your tags on your Anne Boleyn post about your list of men from history who would have been good in bed, and I'm dying to hear the whole thing! ♡

Ohhhhh, goodness.

♡ Thomas Andrews. A genuinely decent dude, a total babe, a hero...and he went down like a gentleman. (Wink wink.)

♡ Philip Hamilton. Dare I say, even sexier than Dad? Also like his father in that he had the unfortunate tendency to duel...and l o s e.

♡ George Boleyn. First of all, popular history's portrayal of him as an abusive drunk really doesn't have a lot of basis in fact. (His wife has also been unfairly maligned, but that's a story for another day.) What we do know is that he was super smart, ridiculously good-looking, funny, passionate about reform, and an A+ brother. He even defended himself at his own trial, and did it so well that the court started taking bets on whether or not he'd be acquitted. This smooth son of a bitch, I swear to GOD! He knew he was going down, so he went down swinging. Even if he was ugly as sin, he'd still be on this list for telling the entire court that Henry was a terrible lay. I can actually see the smirk on his face when they handed him that piece of paper.

♡ Babe Lincoln. So tall, so lanky. Him chopping wood in his shirt sleeves while (maaaaaybe) pining for Ann Rutledge? I know the historical record is a mess when it comes to Ann, but the rolled sleeves/pining makes for a very nice combination. Swoon town! (Also kept our nation together in its darkest hour, which is a pretty solid bonus.)

♡ . . .and, conversely, Lewis Powell, the dude who conspired to kill Lincoln. It would definitely only be a one-time hate fuck, but . . . I MEAN.

♡ Tom Mitford, the Branwell Bronte of the 20th century. That picture of him in the t-shirt smoking a PIPE? 10/10. Might have been a fascist, which is v. unfortunate and would ultimately land him with negative points, but accounts differ, and, as usual, I am going with Decca's POV on this one.

♡ Speaking of siblings: Erik Miller, brother of Queen Lee. I have approximately ten thousand books about Lee, and all the pictures of Erik are bookmarked. A happy bonus! ♡ Thomas Wyatt. Eventually ended up bald with a terrible beard and a broken heart, but a TOTAL HOTTIE when he was young. Thin and lanky? Golden hair? Eyes that twinkled like stars? (Not my quote, that is HISTORICAL FACT!) Funny? ROMANTIC?! LOVE POETRY??? Anne, girl...I hope you are having such a fun, sexy time in heaven.

♡ Peter Townsend, dashing hero of the Battle of Britain and Group Captain of my heart!

♡ Rupert Brooke. Kiiind of seems like a terrible person, but he's my favorite poet and LORD what a face. It would be a very complicated relationship (me: Jewish, him: into dudes), but oh, what a time would be had!

I am going through this list and it has dawned on me that I have a Very Specific Type...très intéressant!

Also, I am super super attracted to WWII-era JFK, but the question is who I would consider a good lay, and tragically JFK did not make the cut. EVERYONE says Kennedy when the dinner table gets a lil sloshed and starts asking which president you'd smash, but he's a terrible choice! The man would last thirty seconds until that damn back of his gave out, and then you'd be trapped underneath him a la Elaine Benes when she got crushed by her mattress from The Lumbar Yard.

#history #letters #this was so much fun #bless you anon #thanks for the laugh!

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corallapis · 1 year

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 10th April 1923

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Tuesday 10th April

Motored with Paul of Serbia and Lady Cimmie Mosley¹ to Chichester for Lady Doris Gordon-Lennox’s² wedding. The groom is a horsey creature called Clare Vyner³ who strangely looks and lisps like a parish priest. The town was crowded with cheering people and bedecked with flags; the cathedral packed with locals with the Mayor and Corporation in full robes and with ‘fashionables’ from London. Paul was rather triste and thoughtful as he has wanted to marry Doris for years; it would have been a most disastrous alliance and I did my best to prevent it. His favourite hymn was played, by accident or design?? The Duke of York arrived with Elizabeth, her first really public appearance since her engagement. Afterwards we went to Goodwood House where we were recieved by the old Duke of Richmond.⁴ There were many presents but I looked more at the Van Dycks. It is extraordinary how Stuart they look these Gordon-Lennoxes.⁵

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1. Cynthia Blanche Curzon (1898-1933), second daughter of Lord Curzon and his first wife, Mary Victoria Leiter (1870-1906), of Chicago. Lady Cynthia (as she became on her father’s advancement to an earldom in 1911) married in 1920 Oswald Ernald ‘Tom’ Mosley (1896-1980), who succeeded his father as 6th Bt in 1928. Mosley was Conservative and then Independent MP for Harrow from 1918 to 1924, failed to beat Neville Chamberlain in Birmingham in 1924, but became Labour MP for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931. He then founded his own party and became leader of the British Union of Fascists. His pursuit of fascist doctrine in the 1930s made him in equal parts a figure of fear and ridicule. He was interned during the Second World War with his second wife, Diana Guinness (née Mitford) (1910-2003), who had been his mistress, and whom he married in 1936 in Goebbels’ house in Berlin, with Hitler in attendance.

2. Lady Doris Hilda Gordon-Lennox (1896-1980), daughter of the Earl of March, who succeeded his father in 1928 as 8th Duke of Richmond and Gordon; married Clare George Vyner (né Compton) (1894-1989) in 1923.

3. Vide supra.

4. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (1845-1928), by courtesy Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March until 1903, when he succeeded his father as 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox and 2nd Duke of Gordon.

5. The dukedom was created in 1675 for the bastard son of King Charles II with his mistress, Louise de Kérouallie.

#chips channon #channon diaries #1923 #1920s #prince paul of yugoslavia #cynthia mosley #doris vyner #clare vyner #charles richmond #goodwood house #🕰️

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jackiekashian · 1 year

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Fan Faves of 2022

The votes are in for 2022!

ALL THE EPS have something for someone and are great but here is a starter list if you’re thinking to start listening to TDF and are not a numerologist completest. and it’s just guest name and dorkdom. www.dorkforest.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. It’s also on youtube.

Note: show’s been going since 2006 but I’ve only been surveying since 2011. Standup info and other podcast is at www.jackiekashian.com

2022

TDF EP 659 and 688 - Both with my Sister Darla Kashian (Fiddly/SimpleMeals and Orchestras) TDFEP 660 - My brother Phil Kashian - Fly Fishing TDF EP 658 - Caitlin Durante - Paddington Bear TDF EP 665 - Irene Tu - In-N-Out Burger TDF EP 670 - Moontower LIVE w Guy Branum, Atsuko, Chris Cubas TDF EP 675 - Shelley McLendon - Cult Documentaries TDF EP 678 - Andy Ashcraft - Marvel Phase Four TDF EP 679 - Kyle Clark - Learning to Draw TDF EP 691 - Sean Blair Flannery - Chicago Dive Bars TDF EP 696 - Carmen Morales - Collaging

TDF EP 677 - Andrea Jones-Rooy - Spreadsheets TDF EP 704 - Nour Hadidi - Pokemon TDF EP 692 - CJ Sullivan - Professional Gamblers TDF EP 703 - Kurt Braunohler - Surfing TDF EP 684 - Antonio Portela - Trombone

SO MANY GOOD ONES THIS YEAR. I’m feeling pretty strong on my “encourage people to talk” skills!! :) yay dorkouts.

DUDE. the formatting on the rest of this blows. I will try to fix it and repost. but here’s the good news. It’s LIKE PROSE NOW!

2021

TDF EP 611 - Greg Proops - Negro Leagues TDF EP 654 - Jamie Loftus - Chuck E Cheese TDF EP 605 - Tom Papa - Bread TDF EP 627 - Joyelle Johnson - Gone with the Wind TDF EP 652 - Andy Ashcraft - Sandman LARPS TDF EP 626 - Aisha Alfa - Korean Food TDF EP 634 – Heather Tomson – Grey Gardens TDF EP 640 - Brandon Palomo - Pearl Jam TDF EP 620 - Brian Swartz - M.A.S.H. TDF EP 642 - Danielle Koenig – CHEERS

TDF EP 646 - Caitlin Gill - Silk Screening Shirts TDF EP 601 – Jenn Welch - Animal Crossing TDF EP 617 - Katie McMillian - Stardew Valley TDF EP 635 – Kate Gaffney – Stevie Wonder TDF EP 651 – Tess Rafferty – Light Murder Mysteries TDF EP 624 - David Rees - Effects Pedals TDF EP 649 – Ophira Eisenberg – Novels galore TDF EP 644 – Matthew Chadourne – Criterion Collection TDF EP 647 – Jenny Zigrino – Estate Sales TDF EP 628 – Justin Mohareb – Marvel

2020 TDF EP 562 - Guy Branum - Mitford Sisters TDF EP 568 - Maria Bamford - Canadian Reality Shows TDF EP 599 - Jen Kirkman - Hallmark Christmas Movies TDF EP 565 - Darla Kashian – COOKING TDF EP 598 - Russ Kashian - Hallmark Christmas Movies TDF EP 549 - Tig Notaro – Veganism TDF EP 581 - Jenny Yang - Comfort Food TDF EP 591 - Amber Preston - Church Cookbooks TDF EP 574 - Ron Funches - Call of Duty and Animal Crossing TDF EP 577 - Barbara Holiday - Escape Rooms TDF EP 558 - Sarah Mowrey - Fleetwood Mac TDF EP566 - Matt Kirshen/Myq Kaplan - Advice Columns TDF EP 595 - Kristin Key - Mad Libs TDF EP 576 - Robert Jenkins - Guns and Safety TDF EP 588 - Sofiya Alexandra - Wheel of Time books TDF EP 570- Jim Woster – Columbo TDF EP 573 - Robert Hurt - Babylon 5 TDF EP 550 - Danielle Perez - Mariah Carey TDF EP 583 - Dar Vendegna - PIckleball TDF SPOILER 3 - Andy & Jackie - Rise of Skywalker

2019 TDF EP 523 Lydia Popovich Dolly Parton TDF EP 511 Auggie Smith Dead Comedians TDF EP 535 Christopher Titus Prince TDF EP 530 Phil Kashian Hitchhiking TDF EP 532 Brian Posehn Heavy Metal TDF EP 549 Tig Notaro Veganism SP1 Endgame Spoiler Dork Out TDF EP 503 Wynter Spears Public Restrooms TDF EP 524 Sara Benincasa Frederick Law Olmstead TDF EP 529 Caitlin Gill Murder She Wrote TDF EP 545 Mary Becquet Chinese Ghosts Vampires TDF EP 525 Matt Oswalt Taking Pictures TDF EP 510 Gary Anthony Williams Birds TDF EP 531 Robert Hurt DS9 TDF EP 547 Thom Tran The Flash TDF EP 540 Brian Jacobovitz Cthulu RPGs TDF EP 515 Judith Stephen CosPlay TDF EP 528 Justin Hermann Heroscape TDF EP 538 Dave Ross Zelda and LINK TDF EP 544 Sharon Houston Netflix British Reality Shows TDF EP 505 Kat Burdick Next Generation TDF EP 509 Michelle Biloon NYT Crossowords

2018 TDF EP 487 Amy Miller - Dolly Parton TDF EP 471 Emma Arnold - BEES TDF EP 499 - Erin Foley - Hallmark Christmas Movies TDF EP 481 - Cheryl Jones - Maritime History TDF EP 471 - Andy Ashcraft - GenCon TDF EP 482 - Nato Green - Union Organizing TDF EP 473 - Tamra Brown - Tiki Bars TDF EP 493 - Nina Manni - Air and Hotel Points TDF EP 446 - Carlos Delgado - Great British Bakeoff TDF EP 495 - Alice Wetterlund - Sharks TDF EP 487 - Mark Waid - Superman TDF EP 454 - Open Mike Eagle - Wrestling TDF EP 457 - Jean Grea - Ikea TDF EP 447 - Gariana Abeyta - All Genres have Great Movies

2017 TDF EP 390 - Phil Kashian - LOTR and MY BROTHER TDF EP 422 - Steve Agee - John Hughes Movies. Weird Science TDF EP 426 - Sara Schaefer - Cross Stitch TDF EP 431 - Jenny Jaffe - Planners. Calendars. Stickers. All the things. TDF EP 405 - Rebecca Sugar - Musicals TDF EP 438 - Jen Briney - freaking CONGRESS TDF EP 423 - Karen Rontowski - Moth Man TDF EP 401 - Jason Hatrick - Scuba diving TDF EP 429 - Kyle Clark - Halloween Theme Parks TDF EP 417 - Nat Towsen - Speed Racer TDF EP 402 - Tyler Hinman - Escape Rooms TDF EP 428 - Solomon Georgio - Black Sitcoms TDF EP 403 - Hal Lublin - Saturday Night Live TDF EP 408 - Al Madrigal - Jack Reacher NOVELS TDF EP 435 - Wyatt Gray - HP Lovecraft TDF EP 442 - Doug Stanhope - getting naked and Leisure Suits TDF EP 404 - Julie Dixson Jackson - Geneology TDF EP 427 - Lisa Allard – Quilting

2016 TDF EP 336 Jim Stewart Allen - Oregon Trail TDF EP 383 Jenny Chalikian – Xena TDF EP 387 Caitlin Gill - Roald Dahl TDF EP 358 Wil Anderson - Cricket TDF EP 359 Heather Simmons - Alice in Wonderland. TDF EP 340 Barbara Holm - Buffy the Vampire Slayer TDF EP 380 Beverly D’Angelo - things that Change your Life - Music, Places TDF EP 366 Karen Rontowski - Tarot Cards TDF EP 373 Stu Goldsmith - Boardgames with a STORY TDF EP 364 Maria Bamford LIVE at JFL Montreal (Bandcamp) 2016 I really liked: TDF EP 385 Jenny Zigrino - Authentic Historical Costuming TDF EP 347 Riley Silverman - The Potato. Mostly Frozen. TDF EP 355 Ivan Van Norman/Andy Ashcraft - Zombies & pen/paper games TDF EP 341 Cathy Ladman - Knitting TDF EP 349 Moon Zappa - The BIG questions TDF EP 368 Martha Kelly - Law and Order SVU TDF EP 367 Phil Johnson - Pirates TDF EP 362 Rory Scovel - Golf (quietly clap) TDF EP 339 Sovereign Syre - Spanish Invasion of Florida. TDF EP 348 Dash Kwiatkowski - Superman TDF EP 338 TJ Chambers - Chess TDF EP 379 Michelle Thaller – SPACE! LIVE DC Drafthouse (Bandcamp)

2015 TDF EP 303 Matt Saxe – all Vice Presidents. TDF EP 298 Jason Klamm – Vice Presidents and Lego! TDF EP 312 Greg Proops at LA Podfest – 70s Movies TDF EP 320 Wil Wheaton – BEER and Boardgames TDF EP 287 Michelle McNamara – Robert Durst and more True Crime TDF EP 294 Retta – Purses. Handbags TDF EP 323 Chez Amanda – Xfiles. Finally. TDF EP 310 David Koechner – History dork! TDF EP 268 Tammy Pescatelli – Thrift stores and Vampires TDF EP 279 Brian Kiley – Presidential Biographic Minutia TDF EP 285 Ian Abramson – McDonald’s Land TDF EP 316 Breanna Conley – Old time Photo Booth collecting 2015 another 12 that I picked: TDF EP 329 Robert Hurt – Space Ships TDF EP 321 Ryan Stout – Injustice. AS USUAL. TDF EP 324 Suzy Soro – Ghosts. TDF EP 313 Danielle Radford – great “bad” movies TDF EP 305 Murray Valeriano & Monty Franklin – Surfin. TDF EP 269 Christian Brown, Roselle Hurley and Andy Ashcraft - LARPing TDF EP 271 Bridget Everett - Barry Manilow, Richard Simmons & Rudy TDF EP 273 Sean Crespo – DUNE TDF EP 284 Brian Upton - history and aesthetics of gaming TDF EP 293 Live at Bridgetown Branum, Kilgariff and Preston (Bandcamp) TDF EP 300 Amy Shira Teitel – SPACE TDF EP 325 Gail Carriger Live in SF – Anglophile. (Bandcamp)

2014 TDF EP 259 – Laraine Newman - Dubstep TDF EP 245 – Brittnee Braun - Cosplay TDF EP 249 – Brian Regan – Line Mentality TDF EP 215 – Robert Hack – Doctor Who TDF EP 264 – Joseph Scrimshaw – Star War Prequels TDF EP 227 – Emily Gordon – Breakfast around the world TDF EP 239 – Rhea Butcher – Back to the Future Movies TDF EP 260 – Jimmy Pardo – Chicago (the band) TDF EP210 – Corey Olsen – Tolkien TDF EP 258 – Emily Heller – ESM & HS Debate

2013 TDF EP 177 - Greg Proops - Ancient History TDF EP 172 – Janeane/Bamford - Beading/SuzeOrman TDF EP198 – Live Podfest w Kilgariff/Bamford/Anthony/Valeriano - Salad TDF EP 189 – Moshe Kasher - Religion TDF EP 199 – Michelle McNamara - True Crime TDF EP 203 – Ryan Stout - Traffic Court

TDF EP 150 – Gina Yashere - Ghosts/Elevators TDF EP 151 – Craig Shoemaker - Wizard of Oz TDF EP 207 – Matt Mira - James Bond TDF EP 167 – David Huntsberger - Horses TDF EP 200 – Andy Peters/Mike Schmidt - Wrestling TDF EP 190 – Cameron Esposito - Lesbians TDF EP 202 – Matt Weinhold/Dana Gould/ Shawn Sheridan - Halloween

2012 TDF EP 129 – Live with Michelle McNamara (True Crime) TDF EP 111 – Jim Gaffigan (obscure news personality) TDF EP 117 – Corey Olsen (TolkienProf) TDF EP 142 – Live with Retta, Rajskub, Kilmartin and Scovel TDF EP 94 – Mary Jo Pehl (reading and writing and more reading) TDF EP 133 – Kira Soltonovich (Korean Spas) TDF EP 113 – Jesse Schell and Andy Ashcraft (oh. Video Games) TDF EP 98 – Henry Phillips and Mike Phirman (Guitar Comedy and Music) TDF EP 139 – Joel Hodgson (ventriloquism) TDF EP 93 – Live with Ernie Cline (the 80s and Ready Player One) TDF EP 102 – Dan Telfer (Dinosaurs and science in general) TDF EP 108 – Al Madrigal (Sales and Cartoons) TDF EP 148 – Guy Branum - Canada TDF EP 95 – Live with Kevin Eastman (ninja turtles) TDF EP 97 – Rose Abdoo and John Matta (tiny tiny ART! And The Thing) TDF EP 99 – Asterios Kokkinos (Pokemon) TDF EP 100 – PF Wilson – (history of the various football leagues) TDF EP 103 – Live with Andy Kindler (“indie” comic books) TDF EP 104 – Merrill Markoe (I feel like we talked dogs mostly) TDF EP 110 – Patrick Brady (animation) TDF EP 120 – Erin Foley (NY Giants) TDF EP 121 – Tom Franck (Art) TDF EP 130 – Lois McMaster Bujold (I dork out AT her. She talks writing) TDF EP 138 – Michael Everson (coding fonts for obscure languages)

2011 # 55 Greg Proops – Making Baseball interesting # 67 Hardwick/Palascak – Harry Potter # 37 Karen Kilgariff - Sandra Bullock # 16 Dana Gould – Planet of the Apes # 48 Aisha Tyler – girl on girl fandom # 24 Jen Kirkman/ Karen Rontowksi – ghosts/UFO # 49 Dana/James - HOLLYWOOD # 40 April/Vargus – TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST # 3 Madigan/Kilmartin – the KENNEDY’S #42 Maile Flanagan/Yuri Lowenthal - Animation #50 Michelle McNamara – True Crime #30 Ed Brubaker / Kermet Apio – Comics #14 Thrilling Adventure Hour – so many things Origin Story – #69 Andy Origin Story - #71 Maria #73 Rich Sommer – Mad Men and Boardgames #77 Matt Weinhold/Ken Daly – Horror Movies #82 Chad Daniels/David Huntsberger – just hilarious #80 Bengt Washburn – Fine art #51 Andrew Solmssen - IT #28 Eric Drysdale - VIEWMASTER #58 Bees – uh, BEES #63 Perfume – and, PERFUME #44 Jim Coughlin – A4 Paper #91 Trains!

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zebydeb · 18 days

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Avid Reader is the memoir of Robert Gottlieb, who was a New York publishing bigwig in the second half of the twentieth century. Obviously he read huge numbers of new books as they were coming out. And then as now, so much stuff was published that a lot of good books were quickly forgotten after their moment in the sun.

I’ve been keeping a list of novels that Gottlieb enthuses about but I had never heard of (or the author is famous for one book and he’s raving about a different one). He has really wide-ranging tastes, so this list has a little bit of everything. Sometimes he doesn’t even mention the genre, just how good the book was.

It will probably take me years to get round to all these, if ever.

If anyone’s looking for a reading project, may I present to you: The Avid Reader incomplete list of neglected novels

Niccolo Tucci, Before My Time (autobiographical novel by a writer who left fascist Italy - praised by Dorothy Parker)

Sybille Bedford, A Legacy (about German aristocrats - Nancy Mitford loved this one)

Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything (young women juggling career and life in 50s New York, sounds a bit like a pre-women’s-lib Sex and the City)

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster (autobiographical novel by a New Zealand teacher trying to make school better for her Maori pupils)

Mordecai Richler, Barney’s Version

Bruce Jay Friedman, Stern

Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine (an American farming family with a secret)

Robert Crichton, The Secret of Santa Vittoria (villagers try to outwit Nazis in WWII)

Chaim Potok, The Chosen (two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn)

Charles Portis, True Grit (source novel for the Western film)

John Cheever, Bullet Park (“dark and obscure”)

Lisa Alther, Kinflicks

Ross Macdonald (crime writer, no specific title was mentioned)

William Wharton, Birdy

Dorothy Dunnett, British writer of historical fiction, The Game of Kings (start of a series) or King Hereafter (standalone)

Joseph Heller, Something Happened

L G Buchheim, The Boat (translated from German, source novel for the film Das Boot)

Tom Tryon, The Other (psychological horror)

Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise

Evan Connell, Mr Bridge

#long post #bookblr #reading list

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brookstonalmanac · 8 months

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Birthdays 9.11

Beer Birthdays

Vince Marsaglia (1908)

Geno Acevedo (1961)

Martin Dickie (1982)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Brad Bird; animator, actor (1957)

Harry Connick Jr.; singer, actor (1967)

Elizabeth Daily; actor, pop singer (1961)

D.H. Lawrence; English writer (1895)

Tommy Shaw; rock musician (1953)

Famous Birthdays

Paul "Bear" Bryant; Chicago Bears coach (1913)

Jesus Christ; religious leader (3 BCE)

Brian de Palma; film director (1940)

Lola Falana; singer, actor (1942)

Tony Gilroy; screenwriter, film director (1956)

Mickey Hart; rock drummer (1943)

O. Henry; writer (1862)

James Jeans; Engllish physicist (1877)

Leo Kottke; rock guitarist (1945)

Tom Landry; Dallas Cowboys coach (1924)

Ludacris; rapper (1977)

Amy Madigan; actor (!950)

Virginia Madsen; actor (1961)

Kristy McNichol; actor (1962)

Jessica Mitford; English writer (1917)

Moby; pop singer (1965)

Mick Talbot; pop musician (1959)

Carl Zeiss; German lensmaker (1816)

#Birthdays

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Books: Sunday Times bestselling author Dawn O'Porter returns with Cat Lady

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Books: Sunday Times bestselling author Dawn O'Porter returns with Cat Lady

Dawn O’Porter

HarperCollins, £18.99 (ebook £8.99)

Can people love their pets more than their spouses? It’s a question easily answered in Dawn O’Porter’s witty, acerbic and tender story, which begins when Mia – businesswoman, second wife and cat lover – attends a pet bereavement group, even though her cat Pigeon is still very much alive. As the tale unfolds, we find Mia married to Tristan and looking after his son, while his ex-wife Belinda – mother of the boy – invades their space like a wasp you can’t swat away. As Mia negotiates bitchiness both at home and at work, her one constant is her devoted cat, in whom she seeks solace when life gets too much. When her world starts to close in, Mia can voice her true feelings to the pet bereavement group, who share their own heartbreaks and, of course, love of animals. It’s beautiful and brutal, as caustic comedy rubs shoulders with the grief and desolation experienced by anyone who has ever loved – and lost – a pet. You’ll lap it up.

Hannah Stephenson

Darling

India Knight

Fig Tree, £14.99 (ebook £9.99)

India Knight isn’t treading new ground with her latest book – instead, Darling is a retelling of Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel The Pursuit Of Love. In the beginning, we meet the Radletts – an eccentric family with a former rockstar as the patriarch, who’s set on his children and niece avoiding the same vices he did. They live a wholesome, technology-less life, but it’s clear this can’t last for long – particularly as we follow the gorgeous daughter Linda through life as a supermodel, then wife and beyond. While there is a colourful cast of characters, you can’t help but feel like the humour doesn’t quite land, and Knight perhaps hoped she was being funnier and more original than actually comes across.

Prudence Wade

Non-fiction

The Theory Of Everything Else

Dan Schreiber

Mudlark, £16.99 (ebook £9.99)

Did you know time travellers could have been responsible for sinking the Titanic, and that it may be possible to bring to the surface by filling its hull with ping-pong balls? Heard the one about the American intelligence operator who claimed to be able to prove plants display emotive stress, and when attached to lie detector tests can successfully pick out murder suspects in identity parades? That Novak Djokovic’s record-breaking tennis career may have been boosted by his pilgrimage to alien pyramids? That life on earth itself may have been accidentally cultivated by little green men who popped by for a picnic? Dan Schreiber collates these and plenty of other unsubstantiated rumours and bizarre myths, unveiling the often hapless band of investigators and conspiracy theorists who continue to pursue and perpetuate them. Amid the expected brigade of monster hunters and reptilian overlords, there are plenty that pique just enough possibility to prompt some interesting dinner party debates.

Mark Staniforth

Children’s book of the week

Leila And The Blue Fox

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, illustrated by Tom de Freston

Orion Children’s Books, £12.99 (ebook £7.49)

As 12-year-old Leila stands at the border control counter waiting for the officer to approve her entry to Norway, she’s fighting back tears. Her journey to a city over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle is fraught with uncertainty and inner turmoil about reuniting with a mother she has not seen since they escaped Damascus six years ago, but it is also ripe with excitement about the scientific project she is about to dive into headfirst. Kiran Millwood Hargrave and her illustrator husband Tom de Freston follow the acclaimed Julia And The Shark by conjuring up a stunning tale of the incredible tundra trek made by Miso – the blue fox of the novel’s title – and the emotional voyage made simultaneously by Leila and her mother. Themes of family, migration and the beauty and brutality of nature are presented in a beautiful book that will appeal to readers young and old.

James Cann

#Cats News

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