#arthur denison

[icarusdiesatdawn]

I want a reboot of the dinotopia universe. But not of karl and david, whose story was written for the mini series, but of the original characters from the books, arthur and will denison who arrived in dinotopia via shipwreck in the 1860s. Admittedly I've never read the books - I grew up on the 2002 three part series - and am only now learning about the different characters of the source material through wikipedia. But honestly it sounds pretty cool to have mcs from the 19th century, one of them a scientist, be stumbling upon fantasy dinosaur land. Or there could be completely new characters and stories, either way; Dinotopia has such an interesting world building, I feel like we could appreciate it more

#does anyone else remember dinotopia from thejr childhood? #i know this is pretty niche i'm just putting it out there into the universe #dinotopia

[balanceoflightanddark]

"Hungry by nature, with no stomach for civilization"

What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word Dinotopia?

If your answer is the 2002 miniseries coproduced by Hallmark and Disney, I would not blame you. For the uninitiated, Dinotopia is a series that takes place on an island where dinosaurs had managed to survive the KT event that ended the Mesozoic era. The island is surrounded by a deadly reef and a turbulent storm system, so it's remained hidden for generations. Over time, countless humans have shipwrecked on its shores with almost no hope of escape due to the impassable storms and reef.

Normally, this would spell doom for the survivors, but not in this case. The dinosaurs have evolved to essentially become sapient and have taken the humans under their wing. Together, humans and dinosaurs have managed to create Dinotopia, an idealistic society where conflict is essentially a thing of the past and most inhabitants have embraced the wonders of their enlightened civilization.

Well...most anyways.

While most of the predatory dinosaurs were able to switch to either a vegetarian diet or subsist on fish, the bigger carnivores like Tyrannosaurus rex didn't make the transition to being civilized.

In the miniseries, this resulted them being depicted as bloodthirsty monsters that only want to devour humans and "good" Dinotopians.

The thing is though...their portrayal was radically different in the source material.

Dinotopia was originally an art book series written and drawn by James Gurney, a plaeoartist in his own right. The plot of the first two books follows a lot of the same story beats as the original series. A duo find themselves on Dinotopia and have to learn how to fit in, while exploring the new world they found themselves in. I highly recommend them due to the fantastic artwork and a lot of the creativity gone into bringing the aforementioned setting to life.

Special mention goes in this case to the predatory dinosaurs who are handled...substationally different than they were in the mini-series.

On paper, the basic similarities are there. The big carnivores live as their ancestors did compared to the civilized dinosaurs and will attack those who wander into their territory.

The difference here is how they're presented. Bix, a Protoceratops ambassador who befriends our heroes, explains that it's less the predators being monsters and more being...well, predators. They simply couldn't make the transition because their appetites and big bodies' high demand for meat are major roadblocks.

And they aren't above reasoning. Those who wish to venture into their territory of the Rainy Basin can offer huge piles of cooked fish and smoked eel for safe passage. The carnivores will accept the offering, and the travelers can proceed with no trouble.

While they certainly can be a threat, it doesn't mean they aren't above diplomacy. In fact, they turn out to be allies more often than not in the original trilogy. During the second book, The World Beneath, Arthur Denison (one of the shipwrecked heroes I mentioned) frees a young carnosaur from being trapped by a fallen tree.

This turns out to be a huge boon for our heroes since they proceed to get menaced by a Tyrannosaurus shortly after...before a huge Giganotosaurus comes out of the trees and gets the tyrannosaur to back down, descalating the situation.

This is Stinktooth, the overall leader of the Rainy Basin's carnosaurs and more importantly, the father of the juvenile Arthur freed. Stinktooth is grateful for the rescue of his son and permits the group safe passage to a sacred temple that the predators guard.

It's here we get a lot more development for them. As it turns out, the Rainy Basin does have a society of sorts where all predators adhere to the ruling of a leader. In this case, it's Stinktooth. They're also revealed to have a sense of duty since their initial hostility was due to the heroes trespassing on grounds they deemed sacred. Which in hindsight, they have a good reason given what comes out of the ruins that could threaten them all.

This happens to be a strider, which the villainous Lee Crab tries to use to escape Dinotopia and potentially bring ruin to all. And here's where Stinktooth helps out again. He allows Arthur to ride on his back as he swims out to sea in pursuit of the strider so the machine can be powered down to keep Dinotopia safe.

Overall, the dinosaurs of the Rainy Basin (Stinktooth in particular) prove that they can be reasonable and even heroic when the need arises.

Interestingly, the third book also shows they aren't the only ones since many other predators have found different ways to coexist with the Dinotopians. A species of red-faced Tyrannosaurs in the Blackwood Flats have learned to become obligate scavengers.

And in the borders of Chandara, there exists several monasteries that are home to an order of carnivores (implied to be Acrocanthosaurs) that have learned to become shaolin monks.

Now I'm gonna repeat that cause it bears repeating.

Shaolin. Monk.

Acrocanthosaurs.

...if that is not one of the best ideas I've heard, I don't know what is.

It also shows how the original Dinotopia books tackled the topic of sentient carnivorous dinosaurs a bit better than the miniseries did. Which is one of the things that made them special due to the creativity needed to put all of these things together and build a believable and rich setting. Again, I highly recommend the original books for both the creativity and artwork, as well as Dinotopia Lost, a spin off novel by Alan Dean Foster that goes more into detail on the Rainy Basin, and features a pair of tyrannosaurs working with the heroes to save their offspring from a band of pirates.

...that might be worth its own post actually.

#dinotopia #dinosaurs #james gurney #carnosaurs #giganotosaurus #tyrannosaurus rex #paleomedia #dinosaur #paleoart #acrocanthosaurus

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

JLRRT's To-Read List

A list of books and articles I mean to get to. (Books I've read and recommend)

Biographies

Caligula, by Aloys Winterling

Cicero, The Cambridge Companion to, by Catharine Steel

Cleopatra, by Duane Roller

Cleopatra's Daughter, by Jane Draycott

Clodius Pulcher, by Jeffrey Tatum

Crassus: The First Tycoon, by Peter Stothard

Gaius Marius: A Political Biography, by Richard John Evans

Livia, Empress of Rome, by Matthew Denison

Mark Antony, by Eleanor Goltz Huzar

Nero: Matricide, Music and Murder in Imperial Rome, by Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth

Pompey the Great, by Robin Seager

Sextus Pompeius, by Kathryn Welch

Sulla: The Last Republican, by Arthur Keaveney

Terentia, Tullia and Publilia, by Susan Treggiari

Classical

Livy, The History of Rome books 21-30 (Hannibal's War)

Plutarch, Parallel Lives

Polybius, The Histories

Vergil, The Aeneid

Other Nonfiction

A Critical History of Early Rome by Gary Forsythe

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, by Walter Schneidel, Ian Morris and Richard P. Saller

Cannae, by Adrian Goldsworthy

Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire, by Fred Drogula

The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla and the First Civil War, by Gareth C. Sampson

The Cults of the Roman Empire, by Robert Turcan

The Defeat of Rome in the East: Crassus, the Parthians, and the Disastrous Battle of Carrhae, 53 BC, by Gareth Sampson

Discourses on Livy, by Niccolo Machiavelli - Read this years ago, want to reread.

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, by Anthony Everitt

Laughter in Ancient Rome, by Mary Beard

The Fall of Carthage, by Adrian Goldsworthy

Party Politics in the Age of Caesar, by Luca Fezzi

Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic, by Henrik Mouritsen

Religions of Rome, by Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price

The Rise of Rome, by Anthony Everitt

The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars, by Kathryn Lomas

The Roman Elite and the End of the Republic, by Henrik Mouritsen

Roman Republics, by Harriet Flower

Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC, by Nathan Rosenstein

The Veracity of Caesar, by J.P.V.D. Balsdon

Women in Antiquity, by Barbara Levick and Richard Hawley

Why Did Caesar Cross the Rubicon?, by G.R. Stanton

Fiction

The Ides of March, by Thornton Wilder

Masters of Rome series, by Colleen McCullough - Yes, I've read them before. Worth reading again!

Roma Sub Roma series, by Steven Saylor - Another series I've finished but want to reread!

SPQR series, by John Maddox Roberts - Enjoyed the first two, haven't read the others.

Feel free to suggest more - I'm most interested in the period from 133 BCE-14 CE, and in the Second Punic War. Big fan of mysteries, romances, and queer characters, too.

#jlrrt reads #to read

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Jack Thwaites' views of Tasmania

Denison Range - Christmas 1935-1936. From the Jack Thwaites Photographic Collections. Libraries Tasmania's online collection NS3195/2/2217

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Hobart Walking Club on Mt Arthur, 1948. From the Jack Thwaites Photographic Collections. Libraries Tasmania's online collection

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#tasmania #Jack Thwaites #landscape #paesaggio #australia #panorama #paisaje #paisatge #1930s #Landschaft #paysage #hickers #rocky landscape #1940s

[tsunflowers]

what if in the original dinotopia book they made arthur denison marry bix to gain dinotopian citizenship

[godzilla-reads]

🦖 Dinotopia: The World Beneath by James Gurney

“Myth will never die,” said Oriana. “It is the deepest kind of understanding.”

Oh boy. I kept telling myself, “Do you really think the second book could be as good as the first one?”

I underestimated how good this one would be. We’re introduced to new characters like Oriana, Stinktooth, and more. Arthur Denison goes on an expedition into the mysterious World Beneath with untrustworthy Lee Crabb, and the confident Oriana. What they discover down there could help and hurt Dinotopia.

I totally fell in love with Oriana because she’s wise, she’s humble, she’s confident, and she’s not afraid to stand up for herself and what she believes in. Ultimately, she was a great influence on Arthur who spent most of the book being taken over by a sense of superiority. By the end of the book, he made strides to better understanding dinosaurs as equals and throwing his greed away. It was great to see his development.

One thing that set this book apart from the first one was that it was overflowing with wisdom and appreciation for the natural world. I loved it.

“But you can’t live like animals. What about the roof over your head and the shoes on your feet. Aren’t those inventions?”

“Yes, indeed, true conveniences. But for anything gained, something else is given away. I remember when I was a little barefoot girl, the day came to wear my first pair of shoes. The shoes protected my feet, but also separated me from the touch of the grass. In the same way, the roof divides us from the stars.”

#godzilla reads #Dinotopia #dinotopia: the world beneath #book review #James gurney #reading #dinosaur books #book blog #book blurb #quotes #bookworm

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"PRISONER WAVED A FAREWELL TO FAMILY," Toronto Star. March 11, 1913. Page 14. --- Wife and Baby in Corridor When He Was Sent Down Into the Cells. --- CASES IN POLICE COURT ---- Man Accused of Beating Wife Begs for Mercy, But Fails to Get Freedom. ---- Walter Heald, who pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of jewelry from his employer, Thomas Cuff, was dismissed by Magistrate Denison to-day on the assurance of Mr. Cuff that he would take Heald back into his employ, and watch over him and see that he could get even with the game again.

"I shall discharge you," said the magistrate, "because the spirit evinced by your employer is so rare that it would be a shame to discourage it."

Solomon Siegel, accused of picking pockets, was committed for trial before a jury, and was let out on bail of $1,000.

Wife Complains. John Andrews' sobbing in the dock moved everyone in the court-room but Alice Andrews, his wife, who laid a charge against him for doing bodily harm to her.

"I worship my wife," cried Andrews, "and I don't know why I scratched her. She was nagging because I had taken a couple of drinks, and got me into a rage."

"I'll send you down for three days, and we will examine the case in the meantime."

Andrews clung to the rail, and begged the magistrate, the constables, and the prisoners not to torture him "down there." Both he and his wife are young, married not more than two years.

Arthur Francis, the young man who is accused of passing bogus checks on boarding house landladies, was committed for trial on the charge of forgery, and is remanded in Jail until his trial. During the time he was in the dock Francis was peering out the door of the court-room, where his wife and two-year-old baby were sitting in the corridor. Francis antics to catch the baby's eye, and his waving and kiss-throwing were pathetic in the extreme, and even the court-room constables, whose thundering "sit down!" greets any movement on the part of prisoners, were touched a little, and cleared a path for the baby to see through.

Only One Woman. There was only one sentence handed out in the Women's Police Court to-day, and that was to Bertha Jacobs, who was sent to the Mercer for three months, for keeping a house of ill-fame.

An unfortunate case is that of Alex McPherson, who pleaded guilty to vagrancy, and who was handed over to the Salvation Army. McPherson has been suffering from heart weakness for years, and came to this city two weeks ago from a farm district around Galt and Berlin, to find some relatives he thought were here. Now he wants to get back to the farms, and the Salvation Army will find him some work, to enable him to pay his way.

Domestic Trouble. "I married Henry Chapman five years ago," said Mrs. Mary Chapman. in giving her evidence in a case of non-support. "He gets drunk and he deserted me for three weeks-left me alone to feed twenty-three starving chickens."

"Do you want to go back to your husband?"

"Yes! I was married for life and not for five years!"

Chapman claims that his wife was always nagging at him, and the case was adjourned till the 18th.

Robert H. Wood was committed for trial on a charge of committing assaults on two little girls, four and six years old.

After being set up in the plumbing business by William Marshall, George Brown started signing his friend's name to notes and L.LO.U's and defrauded Marshall out of $13.50, for which Brown was given a month in jail.

"I bought him a horse and wagon," said Marshall, "and put him on to the game in the plumbing business. Then I began to receive notes with my name forged."

Preyed On a Woman. Three months in the Central Prison were given to Wilber Ryan, for being an inmate of a house of ill-fame kept by Mary Howard. The Morality Department put forward facts showing that Ryan was keeping the Howard girl, who is still quite young, for immoral purposes. The house was raided, the girl sentenced and frequenters fined.

Ryan lived at the house, and had no visible means of support beyond what money was earned by Mary Howard.

The Department's record shows that this girl had a baby a couple of years Lago, and that since then she has been identified with houses run by Ryan.

"Three months in Central," said Magistrate Denison," and hereafter an eye will be kept on you! We will look for further light on your life."

#toronto #police court #theft #forgery #passing forged cheques #forger #stealing from friends #wife beater #common assault #brothel #brothel keeper #regulation of morality #non support #sentenced to prison #toronto jail #central prison #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

[jacksonbladeranger]

Dinotopia: The Adventures Continue Recruitment and Roleplay

Hello, Everyone. And Welcome to The Recruitment of a Roleplay and the start of a Roleplay that is just as long as you want.

Dinotopia: The Adventures Continue

Plot: Join Arthur and all your Dinotopian friends in all-new adventures!

We will be recruiting and writing the adventures on this same thread.

Bring me your knowledge of Dinotopia in its book form.

Every character dead or alive in Dinotopia is welcome to be played.

I need Recruitment to play only one or two good or evil Characters.

Arthur Denison – An American scientist and the main protagonist of the books. Following the death of his wife Rachel in 1860 he and his son Will left their home Boston on a voyage of discovery. Then in 1862 they were both washed up on the island of Dinotopia after being shipwrecked.

Will Denison – The son of Arthur Denison and the second main protagonist of the books. During his time on the island he met and fell in love with local Dinotopian girl, Sylvia Romano and eventually trained to be a Skybax Rider and was partnered with a Skybax named Cirrus.

Bix – A Protoceratops multilingual who is an ambassador and the good friend and traveling partner of Arthur Denison, having accompanied him to the World Beneath and Chandara.

Sylvia Romano – A Dinotopian girl who lives in the Hatchery with her parents Giorgio and Maria. Eventually she became a Skybax Rider with Will and was partnered with a Skybax named Nimbus.

Lee Crabb – The main antagonist of the books. He was washed up on Dinotopia in 1853, however Crabb despised the island and ever since had being plotting a means of escape.

Oriana Nascava – A musician who lives in Waterfall City and accompanied Arthur during his return trip to the World Beneath. At the end of the book, she and Arthur are implied to have become romantically linked.

Nallab – The assistant librarian of the library of Waterfall City.

Brokenhorn – A well-respected Triceratops elder who is the son of the famous Greyback the Wise.

Oolu – Oolu is the chief Skybax instructor at Sky City, where he trains Skybax Riders.

Gideon Altaire – The main protagonist of the third Dinotopian book, The First Flight. He lived on the island of Poseidos during the Age of Heroes.

Original Characters are welcome as well into this as well as New Players.

Note: I am autistic, and have a hard time being good at memory. Even though I have every book in Dinotopian History.

I am still able to read whenever time allows it.

Just take it easy on me.

Dinotopia! Let The Adventures Begin!

#dinotopia #roleplay #dinosaurs #rpg #books and literature

[yachtingboat]

The 35.97-metre Gulf Craft motor yacht Arthur’s Way sold in a deal with Greg Hughes from Milltown Yacht Sales introducing the buyer and Justin Nystedt and Joe Lazzara of Denison Yachting representing the seller. https://t.co/hefup1Tk9r https://t.co/x9qXxibEfR

[mirbisduschoen]

Made this after re-reading The World Beneath for the first time in years (via Custom Image)

#dinotopia #dinotopia: the world beneath #arthur denison #chihuahua #the resemblance is uncanny

[morphmaker]

breathe deep

seek peace

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#dinotopia #arthur denison #will denison #bix #james gurney #morphmaker arts

[browsethestacks]

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Ackmena (Bea Arthur)

Art by Mike Denison

May The Fourth Bea With You

#Art #Illustration #Design #Comics #Film #TV #Television #Animation #Cartoons #Saturday Morning TV #Star Wars Holiday Special #Sci-Fi #Sci-Fi Comics #Star Wars #Ackmena #Bea Arthur #Mike Denison

[cantodogargula]

Arthur Machen: O Mestre do Oculto, da Editora Clock Tower

Arthur Machen: O Mestre do Oculto, da Editora Clock Tower - Venha conhecer mais do autor galês!

Precisamos conhecer Arthur Machen

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Arthur Machen O Mestre do Oculto – Arthur Machen – Editora Clock Tower

Com a tradução dos contos feita por Geraldo Campos e a organização de Denison E. Ricci, esse livro se torna uma pequena…

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#Arthur Machen #Conan Doyle #Denison E. Ricci #Edgar Allan Poe #Edgar Indalecio Smaniotto #Geraldo Campos #H. P. Lovecraft #S. T. Joshi

[atamascolily]

I managed to get my hands on a copy of Dinotopia Lost, by Alan Dean Foster, which is an official novel that came out in 1996. Unlike most of the other Dinotopia novels I’ve encountered thus far, this one came out in hardcover and was aimed at adults. I’m only two chapters in, but we’re off to an excellent start because I have to keep stopping every few minutes to squee over something.

Chapter One introduces us to Pudu, a human farmer in the Northern Plains, who receives word to evacuate his family because the six-year weather cycle is entering the stage where his farm might get destroyed. There are so many delightful bits of world-building here, as well as some fun lines. 

Lahat’s treasured set of shadow puppets, handed down in her family from generation to generation, were wrapped in rice paper and stowed carefully beneath the seat with the other household goods.

No sauropods, though. The true giants of Dinotopia were a bit too massive for farmwork. A Diplodocus might be fun to gambol on the beach with, but you wouldn’t want one mucking about in your taro patch.

Chapter Two brings us back to Will Denison, now a summer camp counselor at Treetown, playing tug of war with a group of humans and dinosaurs... mostly sauropods, as it turns out.

Sauropods were among the most polite of dinosaurs, a consequence of their enormous size. Unable to eschew an innate clumsiness, they compensated by moving with extreme care and precision when in the presence of those small than themselves... which meant nearly everyone else. Will had been amazed the first time he’d seen one pacing prissily down a street in Waterfall City. It was something to see a thirty-ton Apatosaurus prance.

For their part, the two juvenile sauropods enjoyed the play as much as their human counterparts. The only difference was that they calculated their weight, as opposed to their maturity, in tons instead of pounds. Socially and intellectually, they were the equivalent of the dozen bipeds.

No adult supervisors were present. By the age of fifteen, one was supposed to act like a grown-up. Freedom and play were encouraged; irresponsibility was not.

Besides, sauropods enjoy being indoors. It was a novelty supplied by human ingenuity, and allowed the great creatures to survive chillier climes than they would otherwise have been inclined to tolerate. 

Like every structure in Dinotopia, the buildings of Treetown were designed to last. (”The Roman influence,” Nallab had told him. “Very demanding, those Romans.”)

...as Nallab had once told him, “Sometimes the inimical is more instructive than the benign. In between screams, try to pay attention.”

I officially dub Nallab the Sassmaster of Dinotopia; he gets all the best lines.

Shipwrecked Chinese had introduced the art of papermaking to Dinotopia hundreds of years before it reached Europe. Their descendants had raised it to an art form. Papermaking parties were an important social event among many notable families. Nor was anyone who wanted to participate left out. Dinosaurs shared enthusiastically in the pulping process.

The fact that the main conflict is a massive storm just hits me right in the feels in lieu of climate change.

It’s stated outright that the last six-year storm was the one that knocked Will and Arthur to Dinotopia in the first place. The words “Madden-Julian oscillation” keep running through my head in search of something to connect with, especially once the weathercaster starts theorizing about ocean currents.

I love how this strongly suggests the solution is “Arthur invents something again”. Science!

Nallab has the Finale by Homer, which... I just....

“You’d think that after all these centuries we’d finally have that overflow from the library at Alexandria sorted out.”

Also, we get confirmation that Deinonychus like Enit eat fish and invertebrates, which is something I’ve always wondered about.

Anyway, suffice to say I am ridiculously enjoying myself so far.

#dinotopia #dinotopia lost #lily liveblogs

[tsunflowers]

dinotopia is a book about arthur denison getting dinosplained to by dinosaurs

[booksreviwesnlist]

BOOK LIST GLIMORE GIRLS

SEASON ONE

Pilot (1.1)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

The Lorelai's First Day at Chilton (1.2)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

The Shining by Stephen King

Kill Me Now (1.3)

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

A Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken

My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken

The Deer-Hunters (1.4)

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

King Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Cinnamon's Wake (1.5)

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Rory's Birthday Parties (1.6)

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton *bonus*

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Kiss and Tell (1.7)

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Love and War and Snow (1.8)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Rory's Dance (1.9)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

The Group by Mary McCarthy

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

Forgiveness and Stuff (1.10)

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Paris is Burning (1.11)

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Timeline by Michael Crichton

The New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Double Date (1.12)

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

Concert Interruptus (1.13)

Carrie by Stephen King

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

That Damn Donna Reed (1.14)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams *repeat*

Don Quixote by Cervantes *repeat*

Christopher Returns (1.15)

None

Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers (1.16)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Mourning Bride by William Congreve

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Breakup, Pt. 2 (1.17)

Nancy Drew 33: The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee​

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Art of Eating by MFK Fisher

The Third Lorelai (1.18)

Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Emily in Wonderland (1.19)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

P.S. I Lo... (1.20)

Ulysses by James Joyce​

Out of Africa by Isac Denison

The Art of Fiction by Henry James

Love, Daisies, and Troubadours (1.21)

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

Walden by Henry David Thoreau