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mia uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 3,158 films watched. Favorites: Opening Night (1977), Mikey and Nicky (1976), eXistenZ (1999), Down with Love (2003). Bio: ~ West Coast Editor of Letterboxd’s Journal ~ Plucky Gal Reporter on Letterboxd’s YouTube ~ screwball rom-com and feminist body horror scholar ~ in the midst of a torrid love affair with the ghost of John Cassavetes

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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade has an overall rating of Rave based on 18 book reviews.

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The opening track is Hoyt Axton’s “Evangelina.” After first appearing on the 1976 album Fearless it was re-recorded and issued as a flop UK single in July 1980. The new version had also been an OK-selling US single in 1980. The reason this deeply atmospheric, velvety, yearning country marvel had UK sales potential after it came out on minor-league British imprint Young Blood was due to radio play: radio play on the BBC’s Radio 2.

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Fifteen years ago, Zack Snyder set out to end geek culture sexism forever with Sucker Punch. It didn't work.

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Title:The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Author: E. Lockhart Genre: Contemporary / YA Publisher: Hyperion Publication date: March 2008 Hardcover/ Paperback 352 pages Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club.Her father’s “bunny rabbit.” A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school. Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston. Frankie Laundau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take “no” for an answer. Especially when “no” means she’s excluded from her boyfriend’s all-male secret society. Not when her ex boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places. Not when she knows she’s smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew’s lying to her. And when there are so many, many pranks to be done. Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: Possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way. Stand alone or series: Stand alone How did I get this book: Bought Why did I read this book: This is a well-loved, award winning book. On a more personal level, Carla from The Crooked Shelf told me I would love it. And then […]

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Zoraida Córdova is an Ecuadorian American author of many fantasy novels for children and young adults, including the Brooklyn Brujas series. Most recently, she edited Reclaim the Stars (Wednesday Books, Feb. 15), an anthology of 17 speculative young adult fiction stories by authors representing the Latin American diaspora whose characters hail from a wide range of genres, experiences, and universes. From the Kirkus starred review of Reclaim the Stars: “The anthology follows a recipe for resounding success: The stories feature Latinx characters and include fantasy and science fiction peppered with plenty of romance, a dash of horror, and a pinch of magical realism—but, above all, a copious amount of warmth. …There is a lot more here about finding oneself in tales of empowerment and growth, of letting go, punching up, and celebrating love in all its incarnations and colors of the rainbow.” In this video interview, conducted over Zoom, Córdova discusses the welcome growth she’s witnessed of Latinx authors writing speculative fiction, how themes of generational trauma and environmental crisis unite the stories in Reclaim the Stars, and why she thinks fantastical fiction is a perennial favorite of authors and readers alike: “It gives us the ability to look at our humanity through magic.”