#hallie reads

[sugrhigh]

you guys are insane !!! i love each and every one of you 💕💓💞💘

#hallie yaps #seriously thank u for reading and interacting w my stuff

[thislovintime]

Brian Setzer, Nash Kato, Chrissie Hynde, Peter Tork, and Joe Strummer, backstage at the Hollywood Palladium, (possibly November 13th) 1994; photo by Robert Matheu.

“Urge Overkills’s Nash Kato — riding high on the Pulp Fiction-generated attention surrounding his band’s cover of Neil Diamond’s ‘Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon’ — couldn’t stay out too late, as he was due to fly to London the next day to appear on Top of the Pops. He did have time, however, to stick around [backstage at the Pretenders gig at the Palladium] and meet an old role model. ‘Chrissie rocks harder than anybody, and Joe Strummer and Brian Setzer are the coolest,’ he explained. ‘But when I was a kid, I wanted to grow my hair long, and the only compromise I could make with my parents and grandparents was to show them pictures of Peter Tork on my Monkees trading cards. I grew up with his haircut, so it was an honor to finally meet him. He’s a nice guy, and he still has great hair!’” - BAM, 1995

Q: “How do your children feel about the resurgent popularity of the Monkees?” Peter Tork: “They understand. The kids see us every night before and after the show. They see and hear us if we are a little testy with each other. They see us as humans because they see us day in and day out. They know what life is like. They see the inside of it that makes it all very human. Micky’s daughter, Ami is a professional actress. But if my daughter were to meet Chrissie Hynde, she would be shaking in her boots! We are all family men now. We all have teenaged daughters. And Michael has teenaged sons. I have a son that will be a teenager in a couple of years.” - Blitz!, November/December 1987

#Peter Tork #Tork quotes #90s Tork #Hallie Iannoli #Ivan Iannoli #Brian Setzer #Nash Kato #Chrissie Hynde #Joe Strummer #1994 #1990s #The Monkees #Monkees #et al #long read #can you queue it

[callsign-daydream]

Daydream: There are two things you need to know about me going into this story; I bear a lot of grudges and I love Italian cuisine.

#top gun maverick #top gun incorrect quotes #original: james acaster #hallie daydream a jones #top gun oc #a lil oc action today bc it's my bday ;) #go read hallie's story if you haven't as a present?

[katmaatui]

Zero Hour will always get me

#Kyle read has turned into going oh Hallie who is surprised #Red Reads

[thenicestthingiveseen]

hinny + drawing circles and patterns on their chest!

so…uh….this kinda got away from me….

#i think ive been in a really soft hallie/gideon mood and i blame all the firstprince fics I've been reading #writing #hinny #prompts #displayheartcode

[bcyoureallthatmakessense]

♡Jack Marshall & Hallie Piper♡

Hallie: You’ll have to bother someone else.

Jack: Too bad. You’re quickly becoming my favorite person to bother.

- Lynn Painter, The Love Wager

#meli reads #the love wager #lynn painter #jack&hallie #mine

[clairelutra]

tfw a truly incredible book starts to peter out on you 😞

#it took until the very last ~8th at least #of a bitchass long book #first i thought it was going to end on a trope i fucking hated so i skipped ahead and spoiled myself and it's like #“well you didn't do that so thanks but this is a pretty mid replacement” yknow? #hallie speaks #currently trying to decide if going back and reading the ~13 chapters i skipped is worth it #(they're short chapters but uhhhhhh... yeah. lmao.)

[dream-dyke]

does anyone have any recs for YA series in the same vein as truly devious, the naturals, or the inheritance games? just very fun and addicting YA series like those

#the inheritance games #truly devious #the naturals #YA #ya books #reading #book recommendations #book recs #searching for book recs #hallie talks

[sinni-ok-sessi]

nice that the latest twitter clusterfuck is letting me practice my Icelandic

#the crossover event I did not expect #also nice that the newspaper article I'm reading lauds halli as 'the second highest Icelandic taxpayer' #a noble title that i think all countries should make into a thing #does beg the question of who the highest taxpayer was and what *they're* doing with their life

[potatoesandsunshine]

i do love my ~canon~ surana so so much and i do write about her a lot for fun. that being said she does not have a single vibe in common with the halliserre run

#neria: i am the exicutioner the blight needs. i will make myself into the sharpest sword. #halliserre: what if the king of ferelden had an elven mage mistress who publicly asked him to free mages. what are you gonna do. kill me? #they both hate the circle so at least they've got that in common. but neria thinks it's evil on a personal level. and hallie was named #after andraste's dead mage sister by the chantry sister in the circle. they WISH she had died early like her namesake. #sometimes i read that entry on the wiki and i go insane actually like WHAT are they doing with the lore there

[thislovintime]

The Monkees, 1965.

“‘I was the dummy’ on the show, laughs Tork […]. [When he left The Monkees] he felt burned by his experience, with the show and chose, for a decade, to leave the past behind. Now Tork has a more charitable outlook on the series that catapulted him and his three cohorts to instant fame. His bitterness stemmed from ‘how much I took to heart the kinds of criticism leveled against The Monkees. There’s no school for rock stars. Nobody tells you what to take to heart. When criticisms comes from all sides, you think it’s coming from a monolith source,’ said Tork […]. ‘For a long time I felt unworthy of the success. But then I said I had been picked out of a crowd of 400 — there must have been a reason.’ […] Although Tork ‘loved’ doing the show, he says the price was a loss of privacy. […] So what kind of dreams does a man who finds relative anonymity a ‘welcome relief’ have for his new band? ‘Not much. Just adulation from millions, untold wealth and cookouts on weekends with my family,’ he deadpanned. ‘Are you getting all this down?’” - article by Jocelyn McClurg, Hartford Courant, February 26, 1982

“When he was nine years old, Peter Tork’s parents bought him a piano for $15. He taught himself to play and to read music. But then his parents delivered an ultimatum: either take piano lessons or don’t touch the piano again. Fourteen years later, Tork’s musical skills landed him quite a job. For three years, Tork was a member of the Monkees, one of the most popular bands of the ‘60s. […] In a telephone interview this week, Tork explained why he left the group in 1968, three years after it was formed. ‘Musicians were being auditioned in an effort to create the Monkees, and the purpose was to reap money,’ he said. ‘But for our first two albums, studio musicians were hired to do the instrumentals and we just did the lead singing. I didn’t want that.’ Tork convinced the other three members, Davy Jones, [Micky] Dolenz and Mike Nesmith, to do the third album themselves. ‘But I couldn’t get the guys to go for that again, so the fourth album was half and half,’ he said. Critics had frowned on the Monkees for this. ‘Every single malcontent felt he had the right to tell me what was wrong with the situation. I took the critics to heart,’ Tork said. ‘When I talked to the guys about it, they told me if I want more I should get my own act.’ Tork describes his current relationship with Jones, Dolenz and Nesmith as ‘cordial.’ ‘I learned to put all my bitterness behind me,’ he said. ‘I hear about them through the grapevine, but we have no real call to talk to each other, although, I had a brief lunch with Davy Jones in Japan recently.’ When Tork joined the Monkees in October 1965, he was 23 years old and inexperienced in handling fame and fortune. ‘There’s a lot of things involved with money and recognition, and the price was much higher than I expected,’ he said. ‘There’s an isolating pressure that goes along with success. I couldn’t handle it.’ After he left the Monkees, Tork did some solo work for a while and taught at secondary schools in Los Angeles [Read more about Peter's time teaching here.]. ‘I developed a better reality system as a teacher,’ he said. ‘I discovered that there were the same kind of power-hungry personalities in education as in entertainment. I thought I was getting out of all that but I realized that I can’t escape from reality.’ Tork laughed in the easy, carefree way which seems to be so characteristic. ‘It’s amazing how thrilling life has gotten now that I’ve learned how to live it,’ he said. ‘There are two kinds of pain — the pain from growing up and the pain from refusing to grow at all.’ Tork now does his living and growing in Venice, Calif., with his wife, niece, 12-year-old daughter, 6-year-old son and ‘terminally epileptic’ dog. ‘I really love to entertain,’ he said. ‘Not a day goes by when I don’t think about music. I’ll never leave the industry again.’
 Then he laughed. ‘But you never can tell,’ he said. ‘Maybe some day I’ll become a serious and adept politician.’ Doesn’t seem likely, though.” - article by Lisa Stenza, Connecticut Daily Campus, February 26, 1982

#Peter Tork #Tork quotes #60s Tork #80s Tork #The Monkees #Monkees #long read #1982 #1965 #1967 #1968 #Headquarters #Tork teaching #Davy Jones #Michael Nesmith #Micky Dolenz #Barbara Iannoli #Hallie Iannoli #Ivan Iannoli #more for the solid Tork advice files #Peter deserved better #Connecticut Daily Campus #can you queue it

[jessread-s]

✩💐✉️Review:

“Secretly Yours” is a swoonworthy start to a steamy duology!

Bailey’s romantic comedy is told from the perspectives of Hallie Welch, a bubbly gardener, and Julian Vos, an uptight professor. Their starkly different personalities is what made switching between both of their viewpoints such an enjoyable reading experience! Bailey does a fantastic job capturing the humorous ways in which the two butt heads and how they ultimately learn to love each other for their differences. 

Additionally, Bailey’s alternating points-of-view allows the reader to get to know the inner-workings and struggles of each character, which is an aspect of “Secretly Yours” that I appreciated. As someone who has been diagnosed with anxiety, I especially related to Julian’s characterization and loved the mental health representation. Bailey takes great care in writing the panic attacks that he experiences and detailing why he needs to feel in control over every part of his day to be at peace with himself. Likewise, she does a great job shedding light on how Hallie’s past is directly related to her lack of control and structure in life. 

I loved watching their relationship develop once they began to open up to each other. Their chemistry leapt off the page and gripped my heart! I hope they make an appearance in “Unfortunately Yours”!

➤ 4.75 stars

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#secretly yours #a vine mess #hallie welch #julian vos #tessa bailey #grumpy x sunshine #slow burn #dual pov #small town romance #contemporary romance #spicy reads #spicy romance #booklr #book blog #book blogger #book review #adult romance #new adult romance #romance books #bookish #rom com #romantic comedy #book rec

[katmaatui]

I used to be the errand boy to the guardians of the universe! It was a thankless job...

#hallie I'm so sorry I cheat on you with the young avengers I'm in proper hal mode now #Red Reads

[ilovethecolorpink]

i am so deeply invested in the taylor jenkins reid literary universe because i smile every time a character from one book is mentioned in another

#reading malibu rising. probably the book ive been most excited to read in a WHILE #because i feel like i havent been INVESTED in a book in awhile #well i read far from the tree by robin benway a few weeks ago and was pretty invested in that #but ya idk i just needed something i knew would make me excited to read #something with a STORY u know #i feel like i haven’t updated yall on my reading in forever #after it i read far from the tree and loved it (Cried sooo much too) #then i read the jungle by upton sinclar and was surprised by how much i liked it and how diff it was from what i expected #oh during all this time i was listening to educated by tara westover which was just spectacular and i loved it #truly have such high praise for it like i wanna find a physical copy so i can annotate it and just be able to display it on my shelf #which the other other audiobook ive ever wanted to do the same for was know my name (one of my top books of 2021) so.. that says it all! #then i read nine perfect strangers by liane moriarty which was just fine #my least fav from the 3 ive read tho the only one to make me cry?? the end was sweet idk #idk it was slow to start and i found most of the characters annoying but not annoying enough to dislike fjjejxwkd #actually i also did laugh out loud a couple times too but STILL idk it just wasnt giving what i needed it to give #i need to stop chasing the rush from big little lies she gave me #ok and now on audio i’m reading #the five: the untold lives of the women killed by jack the ripper by hallie rubenhold #liking it so far tho sometimes i find it hard to pay attention #and ive just recently started both notes on a native son by james baldwin and malibu rising by tjr #like less than 30 pages into both 😭 #my reading this summer has been very blah but im hoping to turn that around soon #mine #reading

[plangentia]

obsessed with periplous imagery within the symposium, like yeah symposiasts are like a band of sailors entering the unknown and living on the wine-dark sea

#a periplous is when you sail around the coast of somewhere lol #if you want to know more you can read hallie franks (2018) the world underfoot #and then it's in chapter 3

[clairelutra]

anyway, roots, shoots, buckets & boots by sharon lovejoy >>>>>>>> All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition

(no joke, if you're out to romanticize your life, it's out there with watercolor illustrations and passages like "every adventurous, unpredictable day in the garden was exciting and crowded with a kaleidoscope of sensory pleasures and the forgotten childhood miracles we found in unexpected places")

#hallie speaks #the sheer degree to which i Relaxed reading the intro to this book lmao....