#helene dunbar

[slaughter-books]

Day 22: JOMPBPC: Books And Plants

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #books and plants #the sky blues #robbie couch #we are lost and found #helene dunbar #grown #tiffany d. jackson #between perfect and real #ray stoeve #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #pretty flowers #eeyore #i love books

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - July 17th - Required Reading

stories about queer history should be required reading so here are some of my favourite YA historical novels (plus Annie on My Mind which was originally published in the 1980s)

#malinda lo #helene dunbar #tucker shaw #abdi nazemian #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #lgbt books #mlm reads #wlw reads

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: We are Lost and Found

Author: Helene Dunbar

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2019

Genres: fiction, LGBT+, historical fiction, romance, coming of age

Blurb: Michael is content to live in the shadow of his best friends - James, an enigmatic teen performance artist who everyone wants and no one can have, and Becky, who calls things as she sees them, while doing all she can to protect those she loves. His brother Connor has already been kicked out of the house for being gay, and laying low seems to be his only chance to avoid the same fate. To pass the time before graduation, Michael hangs out at The Echo, where he can dance and forget about his father’s angry words, the pressures of school, and the looming threat of AIDS - a disease that everyone is talking about, but no one understands. Then he meets Gabriel, a boy who actually sees him - a boy who, unlike seemingly everyone else in New York City, is interested in him and not James - and Michael has to decide what he’s willing to risk to be himself.

#we are lost and found #helene dunbar #standalone #2019 #fiction #lgbt #historical fiction #romance #coming of age

[publishedtoday]

The Promise of Lost Things - Helene Dunbar

Russ Griffin has always wanted to be a fantastic medium. Growing up in the town of St. Hilaire, where most residents make their living by speaking to the dead, means there's a lot of competition, and he's always held his own. But Russ knows the town he loves is corrupt, and he's determined to save it before the sinister ruling body, The Guild, ruins all he's ever wanted. Willow Rodgers is St. Hilaire royalty. An orphan, raised by The Guild, she's powerful and mysterious. But she has secrets that might change everyone's fate. She's done with St. Hilaire, done with helping desperate customers who think mediums work for them. She wants to end the cycle for good and rid the town of ghosts, even if that means destroying the only home she's ever known. Asher Mullen lost his sister, and his parents can't get over her death. They sought answers in St. Hilaire and were left brokenhearted. Now they want to expose St. Hilaire as a fraud. Asher is tasked with infiltrating the town, and he does that by getting to know Russ. The only problem is, he might be falling for him, which will make betraying Russ that much harder. Russ, Willow, and Asher all have their own agendas for St. Hilaire, but one thing's for certain, no one will be resting in peace.

#The Promise of Lost Things #Helene Dunbar #Sourcebooks Fire #July 5 2022 #LGBTQ

[averyqueerhalloween]

Horror & Thriller Books with Queer characters: 🏳️‍🌈🎃

The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Ace Of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

Murder Takes The High Road by Josh Lanyon

A Dowry Of Blood by S.T Gibson

The Taking Of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas

Manhunt by Gretchen Felcker-Martin

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Route Of Ice And Salt by José Luis Zárate

The Dead And The Dark by Courtney Gould

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Queen Of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay

It Came From The Closet by Various Authors

House Of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

What Moves The Dead by Ursula Vernon

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Night Of The Living Queers by Various Authors

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

Graveyard Of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew White

Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya Macgregor

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Everything The Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Promise of Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

Prelude For Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron

All The White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

As I Descended by Robin Talley

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

#autumn #halloween #fall #october #happy halloween #sweather weather #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqa #queer #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #non binary #trans #alphabet mafia #queer horror #horror #books #booklr #queer books #cozy #thriller #graphic novels #all hallows eve #september #november #autumnal #spooky

[the-forest-library]

July 2023 Reads

Will They or Won't They - Ava Wilder

Going Bicoastal - Dahlia Adler

Hello Stranger - Katherine Center

You, With a View - Jessica Joyce

The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston

Kit McBride Gets a Wife - Amy Barry

We Could Be So Good - Cat Sebastian

The Duchess Effect - Tracey Livesay

The Prince & the Apocalypse - Kara McDowell

Ghosted - Amanda Quain

End of Story - Kylie Scott

Their Vicious Games - Joelle Wellington

Four Three Two One - Courtney C. Stevens

The First Thing About You - Chaz Hayden

The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

Sunshine - Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Isabel Sanchez Vegara

100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli - David LaRochelle & Loan Cho

Beyond the Wand - Tom Felton

Wildflower - Aurora James

Lips Unsealed - Belinda Carlisle

Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge - Helen Ellis

Directions to Myself - Heidi Julavits

The Life Council - Laura Tremaine

Everybody's Favorite - Lillian Stone

Life on Delay - John Hendrickson

I Will Teach You to Be Rich - Ramit Sethi

Finance for the People - Paco de Leon

Unmasking Autism - Devon Price

Self-Care for People with ADHD - Sasha Hamdani

Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD - Susan Pinsky

You've Got This - Michaela Dunbar

Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown

Pottery for Beginners - Kara Leigh Ford

Conscious Crafts: Pottery - Lucy Davidson

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Lots of good reads this month, but no five stars reads, which I didn't realize until putting this together.

Goodreads Goal: 246/400 

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads| 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads

#2023 reads #book reviews #book recommendations #books #booklr #bookish #reading #bibliophile

[lesbianboyfriend]

@boyjoan tagged me!! ty partridge this is so fun hehe ^_^

book that pleasantly surprised you: lessons in chemistry by bonnie garmus! we read this in my book club and the marketing for this book is seriously confusing…it makes it look like a romcom which it is not. it definitely still had still some flaws but was still really enjoyable overall and fun and nothing at all what i expected from the cover and title

book that disappointed you: i just read feed them silence by lee mandelo last night. it wasn’t even bad but i think it had so much potential beyond what it did. i think it dipped its toe into some interesting topics and themes and i wanted to go deeper but it didn’t. it ended too neatly and i wanted it to be messier and more ambiguous

your current read: listening to an indigenous peoples’ history of the united states by roxanne dunbar-ortiz rn! just finished my other reads so that’s my only one rn but i’m about to pick up some other ones soon

top 2 books on your tbr: the most due library books. lie with me by philippe besson trans. molly ringwald and nothing but blackened teeth by cassandra khaw. lie with me is due like tomorrow and i haven’t started so good luck to me for that one

an author you’re loving: ahh i am very bad at reading like the collected works of one author…i always intend to and then get distracted…perhaps kurt vonnegut? i read two of his books last year and greatly enjoyed it! i’ve definitely been wanting to read more—or maybe helen oyeyemi, i just read my second book by her as well and would like to read more!

rec a book to the person who tagged you: ooh i am thinking in this quiet church of night, i say amen by devin kelly. a poetry collection that is very near and dear to my heart <3

gna tag my beloveds @ibuprofengirl @transgirl-catra @ziggystardustbarbie @kittysghost @yoggybloggy @folkdances if u would like kiss kiss <333

#jules.txt #tag games

[bensbooks]

Hello ♡ Do you have any underrated bisexual books you'd recommend?

Hi!

I'm incredibly bad at remembering/noting down the specific queer rep in the books I read, however I have gone through my spreadsheet and tried to find ones that people have tagged 'bi' on goodreads. These are all books I've read and enjoyed (given a 3.5 rating or higher).

A Light Amongst Shadows by Kelley York and Rowan Altwood (~1000 ratings)

Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley (~1900 ratings)

Lighter by A. Aduma (~30 ratings)

The Law of Inertia by Sophie Gonzales (~400 ratings)

Hold by Rachel Davidson Leigh (~150 ratings)

The Edge of Being by James Brandon (~150 ratings)

There Is a Light by Ban Gilmartin (~350 ratings)

Boomerang by Helene Dunbar (~130 ratings)

#bookblr #booklr #books #queer books #bi books #thanks for the ask!

[dailyanarchistposts]

Chapter 8. The Future

Recommended Reading

CrimethInc., Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook, Olympia: CrimethInc. Workers’ Collective, 2005; and Expect Resistance, Salem: CrimethInc. Workers’ Collective 2008.

Kuwasi Balagoon, A Soldier’s Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist, Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2001.

Ann Hansen, Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, 2nd edition online at Infoshop.org, 1993.

Emma Goldman, Living My Life, New York: Knopf, 1931.

Richard Kempton, Provo: Amsterdam’s Anarchist Revolt, Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2007.

Bommi Baumann (trans. Helene Ellenbogen & Wayne Parker), How It All Began: A Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla, Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1977.

Trapese Collective, ed. Do It Yourself: a handbook for changing our world, London: Pluto Press, 2007.

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960–1975, San Francisco: City Lights, 2001.

A.G. Schwarz and Void Network, We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Uprising of December 2008, Oakland: AK Press 2009.

Isy Morgenmuffel and Paul Sharkey (eds.), Beating Fascism: Anarchist anti-fascism in theory and practice, London: Kate Sharpley Library, 2005.

Call (Appel in the original French, an anonymous manifesto with no publication information given)

The article, or zine, or book that you are going to write, to share your experiences with the world and expand our collective toolbox...

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[libraryofjoy]

Books I read in November 2023

The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker. Fiction. The six Chapel sisters are cursed to die after they get married. This is a book about women who are not believed. The writing style is really fun, which kept me going through a plot where the main character spend almost the entire book grieving and terrified. Content warnings: sexual assault, mental illness, suicide.

Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name by David M. Buerge. Nonfiction. This book gave a lot of detail that I didn't get in my rushed little Washington State History high school class. Buerge sifts through misquoted and exaggerated accounts of Chief Seattle in an attempt to give a well-rounded portrayal of a remarkable man with a complicated legacy.

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge. Fiction. A cryptozoologist writes about the mysterious beings, described as beasts, who live among the people of the fictional city of Yong'an. This is a very dingey-bar-and-cigarettes kind of narrative. Sometimes colorful and exciting, sometimes violent and dystopian. Content warning: medical malpractice, mass killing, gore.

LaRose by Louise Erdrich. Fiction. After he accidentally shoots his neighbor's son while hunting, an Indigenous man and his wife decide to give the neighbors their own son as an act of atonement. This book deals with really intense subject matter, so I was surprised with how gently it ends. Content warnings: child death, domestic violence, sexual assault, drug abuse, residential schools.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Nonfiction. This book really brings you face to face with the gratuitous anti-Indigenous violence which has marked US history.

Woodwalker by Emily B. Martin. Fiction. A politically-significant life-changing field trip through the woods. This book reminded me a lot of The Thief, which makes sense because Emily B. Martin has done some wonderful illustrations for the Queen's Thief series. I was really glad to find an audiobook of this!

The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno. Fiction. A young girl learns to sew and to navigate her place in 19th-century Italian society as she comes of age. The narrator's seamstress job gives her a glimpse into the private lives of the richest and poorest of society. Content warning: sexual assault.

What Do You Want Out of Life? by Valerie Tiberius. This is sort of a philosophical self-help book that focuses on identifying your values and prioritizing the ones that matter most to you. Not my preferred reading but it wasn't too long and the advice was sensible.

Joan of Arc by Helen Castor. This book focuses on the political landscapes of France and England under which Joan of Arc fought. Castor detangles some of the enmeshed religion and power struggle to unpack how the same young woman could so easily be a heroine saint or a heretic, depending on who had the power to shape the narrative. Underlying all of it, Joan the Maiden stands out as a brave, imperfect but devout person who lived and died for her convictions.

Fragmented by Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD. A doctor shares her own experiences to illustrate systemic problems with the American healthcare system which fragment communication at the expense of patients' wellbeing.

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing as her family work in Maine blueberry field. The book is narrated by Ruthie (renamed Norma) and her brother Joe as they grow up and process the trauma of their separation. My mom grew up in Maine and is about the same age as Ruthie, so this book's setting felt very familiar. I think it would be really interesting to compare this book with LaRose, which has similar themes. Content warning: infertility, pregnancy loss, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, cancer.

Fiction:6

Nonfiction:5

Total fiction this year:46

Total nonfiction this year:47

Total books this year: 93

I ended up really enjoying a lot of the books I read in November. I'm also pretty close to reaching 100 books for the year, so I'm going to make that my goal!

#gab tag #books read in 2023

[slaughter-books]

Day 17: JOMPBPC: Required Reading

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #required reading #we are lost and found #helene dunbar #beautiful book #beautiful cover #amazing author #lgbt+ #pretty flowers #i love books

[boricuacherry-blog]

transformative power of the classroom for African Americans, and the importance for Black children of stories that centered Black characters - lamenting in her essay "Negro Literature for Negro Pupils" that "for two generations we have given brown and black children a blonde ideal of beauty to worship, a milk-white literature to assimilate, and a pearly Paradise to anticipate, in which their dark faces would be hopelessly out of place." In her diary, which she kept daily for most of her life, she also recorded less lofty reactions to the daily grind of the classroom, as in this outburst from 1897: "Exhausted? I feel like a dishrag. 62 untamed oderiferous kids all day...Fiends, just fiends pure and simple."

Throughout her time in Delaware, Dunbar-Nelson's activism continued. She wrote for Du Bois's The Crisis on women's suffrage and became a field organizer for the campaign in Pennsylvania. In 1916, she married Robert J. Nelson, a journalist and politican, and together with him edited and published a progressive newspaper, the Wilmington Advocate.

In her diary, she also detailed the romantic relationships she had with women, including the Los Angeles-based activist Fay Jackson Robinson and artist Helene Ricks London, in entries that are sometimes tortured, but often frank and celebratory.

In the twenties, the cultural and political explosion of the Harlem Renaissance swept Alice Dunbar-Nelson up in its trail, even though she had not lived in New York for many years and was still based in Delaware. She was friends with most of the leading lights of the era, especially Du Bois and the poet Georgia Douglas Johnson, but she had her differences with them, too. She critiqued the novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset's generally well-received novel Plum Bun, rejecting the "injudicious laudation" that she worried was coming to a Black writer purely on the basis of race. She wanted a bigger frame, and laid claim to a white literary canon that was as much her heritage as any other, writing a scholarly dissertation on Wordsworth, with whom she shared a love of nature. One of her best-known poems celebrates the natural beauty of a violet in nature by contrasting it with the artifice of its copy in an urban setting, where the idea of the flower calls to mind: "florists' shops/And bows and pins, and perfumed papers fine;/ And garish lights, and mincing little fops/And cabarets and songs, and deadening wine."

And despite her early reputation as a poet, she found her voice more and more as a journalist when she wrote a syndicated column, Une Femme Dit, and contributed a wealth of reviews and essays to newspapers and magazines.

#alice dunbar nelson #poet #writer #biracial #history

[soughthope]

Hello cuties, won't you stay a while? Soughthope is a fun and chaotic independent multi-muse featuring canon and original characters, established in December 2012 and remade in May 2023. Nurtured by Sunshine, she/they, 30. This blog will contain mature and triggering themes. MDNI. 21+

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[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (July 5th, 2022)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Promise of Lost Things by Helene Dunbar

The Darkening by Sunya Mara 

Who We Were in the Dark by Jessica Taylor 

Lia & Beckett’s Abracadabra by Amy Noelle Parks

A Disaster in Three Acts by Kelsey Rodkey

Frightmares by Eva V. Gibson

The Charmed List by Julie Abe 

What Souls Are Made Of by Tasha Suri

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw 

The Not So Chosen One by Kate Emery

New Sequels: 

When Souls Tear (Time Catchers #2) by Karen Ginnane

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Happy reading!

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[thewomanwhowatchedchristmas]

A Castle for Christmas (2021)

I guess I didn’t realize this was a Netflix original. I thought this would be terrible, but it wasn’t. I typically like Netflix originals a bit more than Hallmark originals. Something else I discovered about myself while watching this- I am not really a fan of Brooke Shields, but I did warm up to her a little by the end.

Sophie Brown (Brooke Shields) is a famous author whose fans have revolted against her because she killed off the love interest in her popular Emma Gale series. After an appearance on the Drew Barrymore show goes a bit off the rails and with her fans and her publicist Claire (Desiree Burch) breathing down her neck to bring back Winston from the dead, she decides to go to Scotland for a while. Specifically to the small town near the castle Dun Dunbar because her father worked there as a kid before moving to the states. She quickly meets several people from the town, including the castle tour guide Thomas (Lee Ross) and the groundskeeper Myles (Cary Elwes) and his dog Hamish. After visiting the castle and getting into a fight with Myles, she goes to the pub. There she meets a knitting club and quickly befriends them all- middle aged divorcee Maisie (Andi Osho), elderly Helen (Tina Gray) who went to school with Sophie's dad, young and free spirited Rhona (Eilidh Loan), and strong and silent Angus (Stephen Oswald).

Sophie is trying to write her next Emma Gale novel (and she plans on giving in to her fans demands), but it's just not coming to her. She is also trying to buy Dun Dunbar from the owner, who she discovers is Myles, but he's not going down without a fight. So between failing to write, spending time with the knitting club, fighting with Myles, and video chatting with her daughter Lexi (Vanessa Grasse) in college, Sophie is very busy. Claire is still harassing her, but life is showing her that she might have a different story she wants to tell.

I really enjoyed the music in this movie. Like, I'm strongly considering looking into other movies with scores by the same person. Also, I appreciated the de-glamorizing of life in a castle. Brooke Shields isn’t a great actress, but everybody else did well. As an aspiring writer and avid reader, I can appreciate the position Sophie is in. I don't think I'd be someone wanting her to bring back the dead guy, though.

Overall, shockingly good with 4 stars.

#christmas #christmas movie #movie review #christmas movie review #review #a castle for christmas #netflix #2021 #brooke shields #cary elwes #lee ross #andi osho #tina gray #eilidh loan #stephen oswald #vanessa grasse #desiree burch

[lboogie1906]

Henry Arthur Callis (January 14, 1887 - November 12, 1974) was one of the Seven Jewels or Founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He was born in Rochester to the Rev. Henry Callis and Helen Josephine Callis. As a result of an elevator accident that killed his mother, he, age 3, spent his formative years under the care of his maternal grandparents in Binghampton. He graduated in 1905 from high school and left Binghampton to attend Cornell University. He earned a partial scholarship and worked as a tutor and waiter for white fraternity houses on campus. He was forced to drop out due to financial struggles the same year, but he did not give up; he saved his money and reentered in the fall of 1906. A group of African American students in a literary society, of which he was a member, decided to form a fraternal organization. On December 4, 1906, seven of the society members, transitioned it into a fraternal organization named Alpha Phi Alpha. He was credited with the fraternity’s name and initial ritual ceremony. He is the only Jewel to serve as general president from 1915-1916 onward. He took a position at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware. There he taught History and German and met his first wife, Alice Dunbar–Nelson, a noted novelist, poet, and civil rights activist. After a one-year stint at the school, he was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, where he studied from 1910 to 1913. He entered the graduate science program at the University of Chicago to broaden his understanding of biological sciences. In 1914 he married commercial artist Pauline Callis. He graduated and gained employment as a chemist at Armour & Co. in its chemical laboratories. He became a bacteriologist at the Contagious Disease Hospital in Chicago and was accepted to Rush Medical College, he graduated in 1921. He served as pathologist and head of laboratory services at the Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee and associate professor of medicine and attending physician in charge of medical services at Freedmen’s Hospital. He continued to serve his community and fraternity until he died. #africanhistory365 #africanexellence #alphaphialpha https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZYmixLhkV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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