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Happy 30th to the film Total Eclipse, based on the life of one of my favourite French poets Arthur Rimbaud.
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DVD cover for the Total Eclipse film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis, with the tagline Touched by Genius. Cursed by Madness. Blinded by Love. Rimbaud Complete Works, Selected Letters, translated by Wallace Fowlie, cover oil painting Rimbaud chez Mme Pincemaille by Jef Rosman
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Revisited Orwell’s 1984 since the 2025 theme for #BannedBooksWeek draws from his last novel.
Love or hate it, also still has salience for people.
I prefer the adaptation filmed in 1984, now a date passed, which nails a satiric vision of the future, at a present, informed by the past.
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he 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 26. More than a million copies sold Book Title: 1984 by George Orwell Bonus Challenge Read It, Watch It- October-December October Mini-Challenge: A Mischievous Character Screencap from the 1984 film adaptation with philologist Syme eating across from Winston in the canteen and saying: It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
October 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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At the Edge of the Night by Friedo Lampe is a whirling cinematic German novel that was also banned in 1933.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 8. Set in Autumn Book Title: At the Edge of the Night by Friedo Lampe, tr. Simon Beattie
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Xena: Warrior Princess with some reading.

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A few comics and a short story collection with illustrated or photographic covers featuring Xena: Xena: Warrior Princess 1st Appearance Collection Xena: Warrior Princess Year One The Further Adventures of Xena Warrior Princess
September 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Comfort reads and marking 80 years of the Moomin stories. Young or old, this philosophical children’s book series by queer Finnish creative Tove Jansson and born of a period of hardship has a message of finding refuge and embracing community.

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Stack of books of the Moomin series by Tove Jansson. Translated in English by David McDuff, Elizabeth Portch, Thomas Warbuton, and Kingsley Hart. Books are beside a plush toy of Moomintroll, Moomin Arabia glass tumbler and Moomin 80 magnet with the slogan “The door is always open.”
August 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Happy 25th to the Gotham Girls! A funny and sometimes more serious little Flash animation web-series featuring several of the women of Gotham. Including my favorite Poison Ivy. Who also featured on issue #2 of the limited comic that followed in 2002.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 2. A Character with Red Hair Book Title: Gotham Girls Bonus Challenge Read It, Watch It- July-September Screenshot from the episode “Gotham in Pink“ with Poison Ivy flashlight in hand after breaking into a vault at police headquarters by growing a large plant through the floor.
July 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Too of interest regarding the 2017 movie, actor Josh Gad had a collection of personal essays published at the start of 2025. Where he’s written an entire chapter “Controversy and the Beast” about his experience working on Beauty and the Beast playing LeFou.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 44. A Celebrity on the Cover Book Title: In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some by Josh Gad
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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But watching the Disney live-action remake also made me remember the consequential article in Attitude magazine in April 2017. Which actually has many thoughtful comments and is much more than three words that were constantly repeated from it.
Page from Attitude magazine featuring an illustration of Belle and the Beast dancing with a rainbow pride background entitled “The Nature of the Beast” and the text in all caps: “Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast might seem like the ultimate celebration of heterosexual love but, as it’s director and stars reveal, the film is built around a little-known gay metaphor. It also features Disney’s first-ever explicitly gay moment...”
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Beauty and the Beast is my favourite fairy tale. One people have been inspired by and adapted many times. So I can't pick a single film.
Illustrated movie poster for 1946 La Belle et la Bête, directed by Jean Cocteau, featuring Belle and the Beast. Illustrated movie poster for Disney’s 1991 animated Beauty and the Beast featuring Belle and the Beast dancing. Movie poster for 2014 La Belle et la Bête, directed by Christophe Gans, featuring Belle and the Beast dancing. Movie poster for Disney’s 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon, featuring Belle and the Beast dancing.
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The smutty gothic dark fantasy novel Yelen & Yelena by C.M. Rosens featuring bi/pan aromantic leads and a sapphic subplot is one of the most creative retellings of Beauty and the Beast I’ve read.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 20. A Fairy Tale Retelling Book Title: Yelen & Yelena by C.M. Rosens May ’25 Mini-Challenge: A slower paced story Bonus Challenge Read It, Watch It- April-June 5 Stars
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Bound together by featuring forests and running a gamut of points of view and genres, The Melody of Trees is indie author and artist Helen Whistberry’s first published collection of short stories.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 39. Has an Epigraph Book Title: The Melody of Trees: 10 Tales from the Forest by Helen Whistberry. March ’25 Mini-Challenge: Prettiest cover on your TBR Cover is an illustration of a red fox howling at the black night sky full of stars surrounded by winding gray branches and green leaves.
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A week into the #TransRightsReadathon and I also need to catch up on the ongoing erotic fantasy series Sex Wizards by Alethea Faust. I really love how detailed and clever Faust is with the magic-based kink system. 🌈📚
Sex Wizards by Alethea Faust, books 1-4 the covers illustrated with sparkles in rainbow colors and featuring various characters.
March 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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And Leckie's short story collection Lake of Souls published in 2024 also includes three previous stories from the Imperial Radch universe among ties to other works and standalone pieces.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 11. A Prequel Book Title: Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
March 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A space opera recommended for its gender aspect, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie has languished on my TBR for years. Unfortunately, despite the accolades I found it tedious rather than thought provoking.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 18. A Character Who Can Fly Book Title: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie March ’25 Mini-Challenge: A book you’ve been meaning to get to “eventually”
March 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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An ongoing deeply queer scifi erotic series the Orchid and the Lion by Gabriel Hargrave is a sexy and emotional roller coaster that steps it up with each entry.

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Two books against a blue starry background, The Orchid and the Lion, a cover with a star background and two adult silhouettes, The Lion and the Dahlia a cover with Jupiter and its big red spot plus two adult silhouettes. Both authored by Gabriel Hargrave.
March 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A few books from my TBR for the #TransRightsReadathon
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Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin by Tabitha O’Connell Ghost Punch series by A. Lawrence The Trow of Duncaster by Mel Polk
March 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The Underwater Menace is an ambitious 1967 TV serial from Doctor Who that remains half lost. But along with the passage of time a kind of mythology of its own continues to colour what has faded or is gone. Including the novelization in 1988 by Nigel Robinson.
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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 6. Set in Spring Book Title: Doctor Who The Underwater Menace by Nigel Robinson, audiobook read by Anneke Wills March ’25 Mini-Challenge: The last book you acquired but haven’t read
March 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In the Woods by Tana French is an elegant page-turning crime mystery focusing less on resolution as truth and trauma. But hard to recommend.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 16. Author Has Won an Edgar Award Book Title: In the Woods by Tana French The Inspiration for the RTÉ TV series Dublin Murders
March 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The Mouse Marathon by Singaporean lesbian feminist author Ovidia Yu revolves around Jaylin Lee, a 31-year old advertising executive and those in her circle on the fast running wheel of modern life.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 19. Has Short Chapters Book Title: The Mouse Marathon by Ovidia Yu Lunar New Year Mini-Challenge: Set in a country that celebrates Lunar New Year
February 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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For a #Valentine’sDay read picked the So Over the Holidays romance novella Candy Hearts by Erin McLellan. Featuring Benji (gay) and William (pansexual) at a lake cabin without power. A sweet, sexy book to maybe break out of your own blues with.

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The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge Prompt: 9. Set in Winter Book Title: Candy Hearts by Erin McLellan
February 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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In turn the film of Cabaret, traces back through versions for different audiences to stories written in the 1930s by English gay writer Christopher Isherwood. Collected as Goodbye to Berlin drawn from his expat experiences as the Nazis rose to power.

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Prompt: 32. Includes a Diary Entry Book Title: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
February 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Decades later it was also star Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box who Liza Minnelli used as an influence for her Oscar winning portrayal of the character Sally Bowles, in the 1972 film adaptation of Cabaret.
Comparison of Louise Brooks with her signature “black helmet” hairstyle of a dark bob framing her face as Lulu in Pandora’s Box in a revue show costume of a sparkling backless dress with black belt and a feathered headpiece, to Liza Minnelli with similar dark bob haircut, in a sleeveless costume dress with a black belt, feathered headband and sparkling jewelry dancing in Cabaret.
February 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Pandora’s Box entered the public domain this year. But I still recommend the new bluray from Criterion. As the original music is lost, it features four musical score options including a Weimar-era cabaret style track. Maybe it’s just me but, I’ve been listening to a lot of Berlin cabaret lately.
Photo of the Pandora's Box Criterion Collection bluray with slipcase featuring several images of Louise Brooks and booklet of articles.
February 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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G. W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box debuted on this day in 1929.

A memorable silent film of Weimar cinema, plus early example of a lesbian character (Countess Geschwitz) on screen, adapting Frank Wedekind’s two tragic dramas which form the Lulu plays.

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Prompts: 30. In the Public Domain 31. Audiobook Has Multiple Narrators Book Titles: Earth-Spirit and Pandora’s Box by Frank Wedekind Bonus Challenge Read It, Watch It- January-March: In the Public Domain Pandora’s Box Criterion Collection bluray with a black and white headshot photo of Louise Brooks. Screenshot of the Countess Geschwitz played by Alice Roberts, and Lulu, played by Louise Brooks, dancing together at Lulu’s wedding.
February 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Slow reading start to the year but I finished one of my favorite Japanese comics, Last Quarter by Yazawa Ai. Now out in English translation!

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Prompt: 25. Breaks the Fourth Wall Book Title: Last Quarter by Yazawa Ai, tr. Max Greenway 5 stars
January 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM