#books read in 2016

[wondercircuit]

Karting Champion and tutor, Mike Wilson spoke about his first encounter with Lance during his karting days in an interview, with an interesting comparison to a young Fernando Alonso, whom he'd also mentored: "Before leaving I said to my wife: "The father told me that the boy is very good. But it's normal to say that, do you know how many times I've heard it before? I assure you that if he is not phenomenal, I will return home, I don't want to waste time". Instead, when I saw him on the track, I realised that his father had his reasons and that this was a special child, with something more than others. Above all I was surprised by his determination: it was greater than normal. And this is strange, because boys who comes from such wealthy families generally do not need to struggle to get anything; consequently, they are not very determined. Not him. Quite the contrary! Before him, the last boy I had seen with his "willingness" was Fernando."

"Lance drove well and listened to all the advice. I remember a ROK International Final in which he started from the front row, in second place. The commissioners decided to replace the clutch for the first four (a precaution to avoid misconduct …) and he, at the second restart, started badly due to an overheated clutch. He was among the last drivers, but he did not lose heart because of this: he put his head down and proved to be among the fastest on the track. If he had started further ahead he would have won the race, also because he managed to overtake without wasting time: if you can do this at 11 years of age, it's only because you have talent. If that inconvenience had happened to me, I would have been so annoyed that I would have stopped and returned to the pits. It was certainly not easy to tutor Lance in those years: I would stay on Canada for a month, then return to Italia for a few weeks. Then I would go back to Canada, and so on. With a wife and children at home it certainly wasn’t easy. But it gave me great satisfaction: when he would climb onto the podium it would be as if I was there with him. Making money is important in life, but doing something you like is better. At my age, I still manage to get emotional on the track, and staying close to Lance was emotional.” - source

#lance stroll #mike wilson #fernando alonso #formula 1 #inchresting supplementary info to me... #i swear i'm normal #*info #1418 chokehold aside and unrelated: #i've been reading jb's book and been thinking a lot about driver development. #this amuses no one but me but i find it interesting as well that a lot of jenson's driving strengths are similar to lance's #besides some notable differences in driving styles esp re: braking on turns #thinking about the anecdote where karting is said to be racing at its 'truest' form and once you latch onto a certain style #during your karting years then the foundation of it sticks throughout (past single seater driving development and adapting your skills/styl #anyway i do have mixed feelings about lance's development re: 2016 and his f1 rookie year tho that's neither here nor there #all this is just making me think once again i guess

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

look if the general election ends up being biden v trump (which it very likely will), there are plenty of logical and pragmatic reasons i'd want biden to win, obviously. but the pettiest reason is that i just never want to hear about donald fucking trump ever again

#text only #politics//// #whine whine complain complain #i'm tired of his big head #i'm tired of all the ~~exposes~~ written about him by former allies who were *so sure* the leopards wouldn't eat their faces! #i'm tired of people memory-holing 2016-2020 #i'm tired of people acting like he's funny #i'm tired of the circus #it's nice when politicians are boring and competent because if i want entertainment i'll watch a movie or read a book!

[crossworlded]

#2014 aesthetic #2014 indie #2014 revival #2014 vibes #grunge revival #i miss 2014 #old tumblr #2014core #tumblr aesthetic #2014 girl #2014 tumblr #2015 tumblr #2016 tumblr #2012 tumblr #2013 tumblr #roomdecor #fairy lights #books and reading #bookshelf #sad aesthetic #indie aesthetic #alternative #grunge

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

saw “the sunshine court” trending along with “Neil Josten” and I was very confused, checked the tag AND YOURE TELLING ME THERES A NEW ALL FOR THE GAME BOOK??? why did I have no idea about this???

#you’re telling me that my biggest hyperfixation of 2016 and 2017 is back???? #those books singlehandled got me through my life for a bit #and you know what gang I’m gonna level with you #sooo many flaws so many big flaws book #written fanfic that’s so much better written #to be fair though all for the game has some of the best AUs of all time #truly there’s so many insanely good high quality fic in the fandom #that being said #I get to see my boy again???? My traumatised scared baby girl?? #my hyperfixation man deluxe??? #im going to have to read it asap #all for the game #the sunshine court #neil josten #andrew minyard #kevin day #jean moreau

[ikosburneraccount]

one last thing as someone who was active 7 years ago the most shocking thing is the turn around of kaider as the fandom favorite. it was literally a cresswell and wolflet world back then and kaider fans were struggling to survive and its so strange to see kaider as super popular and have double the fanfics of any other canon couple

#this was also prewinter #like winter was supposed to come out in late 2015 but marissa meyer last minute changed it to 2016 because she decided to release fairest #i was so PISSED when i was that but i don't regret reading fairest and its honestly oneof my fave books in the universe #i can still see the impact of the cresswell apocalypse from the amount of cresswell fanfics from that specific era in time #but seriously the amount of kaider fanfics now is insane. #mine #the lunar chronicles #meta text

[sapphire-imeo]

☁️🌧☂️☁️🌧☂️☁️🌧

#the neighbourhood #good music #sweater #sweater weather #2016 tumblr #2014 revival #2014 aesthetic #2000s #2013 tumblr #inspo #2012 tumblr #book worm #books and reading #poetry #song writing #the neighborhood #jesse rutherford #zach abels #mikey margott #blessing in disguise #guitar #drums #rainyday #rainymood #november #cold #cozy core #comfy #comfort #coffee shop

[beholdingslut]

discovered this afternoon that according to goodreads i’ve only read the secret history twice

#how could this be. #my entire personality from 2014-2016… based off a book i read twice

[icomefromthemountains]

There are only two people in the entire world that I will go so far out of my way to watch ANYTHING they’ve been involved in and those two men are James Acaster and Aneurin Barnard because I transcend genre and I have the range

#nothing but respect for MY weird white men #this post is so specific and I hope it finds its people #if those people even exist #listening to James’ second book that’s read by him and thinking ‘what am I doing’ it’s a book about music in 2016 ???? #never have I been interested in music criticism and analysis #thank u James I’m learning a lot #and oh aneurin…the movies I have subjected myself to just for you… #babes you need a better agent #how fucking DARE Netflix take away one of the best projects he’s ever been apart of #james acaster #aneurin barnard #mine

[musicalslag]

about me | intro post

age: 14

name: sam/sammy

country: england

prns: he/him (male)

interests:

reading + books , singing + musicals/theatre , history , studyblr ..? (does that count idk) , poetry

🐄

fav books (from what iv read recently):

the nevermoor series

if we were villains

the secret history

gwen and art are not in love

all thats left in the world

twenty love poems and a song of despair

jekyll and hyde

fav musicals:

the book of mormon

falsettos

in trousers

something rotten

be more chill

the guy who didnt like musicals

newsies

hamilton

little shop of horrors

jesus christ superstar

hadestown

jekyll and hyde

phantom of the opera

legally blonde

waitress

( i was also a gleek )

subjects im taking right now (GCSE):

maths, english, science (seperate right now but possibly combined soon)

art (+ art award)

photography/film

history

be my friend pls !!!!

#studyblr #booklr #book review #books and reading #history #historyblr #histblr #musicals #musical theatre #science #english #maths #the book of mormon #falsettos #hamilton musical #falsettos musical #falsettos 2016 #little shop of horrors #be more chill #newsies #jesus christ superstar #legally blonde #something rotten #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #hadestown #glee #phantom of the opera #in trousers #jekyll and hyde

[purpleyin]

A post about Freddy Carter in the 2016 play CIRCA, with some info about the play in here too.

If you repost pics from this elsewhere please remember to:

a) credit the photographer/photo source

and

b) mention me as having found them (I'm purpleyindom on insta if anyone reposts there) since it took a fair bit of time/effort to research this play.

Photo sources: tratcliffe15, 2 -__circa & 3 - the VAULTS performance crowdfunder page and others sources mentioned later

The play was written by Tom Ratcliffe who is friends with Freddy - he was at Oxford Drama School with Freddy, as well as starring in "The Wars of the Roses" (Rose Theatre) with him in 2015.

CIRCA was first performed as a sell-out research & development showing at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington in November 2015. After that a crowdfunding campaign was started to raise money for putting on the world premiere of the play in Amsterdam.

10 minutes of CIRCA were also performed as part of Wildcard Theatre's Christmas fundraiser December 1st 2015, with Freddy playing The First Love and Tom Ratcliffe playing The Young Man, and Jamie Jackson directing. Photographer: Ali Wright

Rehearsals for Amsterdam, with director Eleanor Clare Taylor in the 1st pic. Freddy plays The First Love.

Photo source: __circa

The Amsterdam performance happened 8th January 2016 as part of Festival Contact at the Theater de Meervaart. Some behind the scene shots + some more from the performance itself (EDIT: the lefthand side sofa pic I'd included is actually from the 2015 London performance instead - the righthand side one is the Amsterdam set).

Photo sources: - tratcliffe15, - JennieWestbrook, Rikki Beadle-Blair

Following Amsterdam, another crowdfunding campaign was started to raise money for the plays UK première as part of 2016 Pride in London. Here's pics for the readthrough, rehearsals & preview show. Freddy plays The First Love and The Younger Man.

Photo source: __circa

The play ran June 21st-25th, directed by Joe Allan, performed at The VAULTS, Waterloo. As mentioned by a londontheatre1, the actors changed into dark clothes to double up as stagehands like in pic 5. As far as I can tell there's no public recordings of the play, just a very brief insta reel of applause for one of the shows.

Photo sources: - tratcliffe15 , eskijoe + poster design & some pics by Eitan Bernat

CIRCA had another run in March 2019 - for 4 weeks this time - again at The Old Red Lion Theatre, with a smaller cast of 5: Antony Gabriel, Daniel Abelson, Jenna Fincken, Joseph Rowe, and Thomas Flynn. Maybe CIRCA will return sometime potentially but it seems unlikely it would be with Freddy again. I very much wish I could see it tbh but I'll probably have to satisfy myself buying the script sometime.

Photographer Lidia Crisafulli

For anyone curious about the play more generally, Tom Ratcliffe has interviews about the 2019 run linked on his website under 'Press' further down on his writer's CV page. There are reviews for the 2016 Vaults performance here. CIRCA is also published, and there were some quotes from the play released as part of promo tweets - they're behind the read more.

"That’s what everyone says isn't it? Gay men shag everything. Disease and all that. My mum, when I came out, the first thing she said to me was ‘don’t get AIDS'...But things are different now. They’ll be different for us." 

"Have you ever played the Game of Life?"

"Most people get to be happy with just one person. I don't see why I should have it any different."

"You have this thing where you don't let it define you... I'm not going to apologise"

"Everybody loves a drag queen but nobody will ever love a drag queen"

"No one sleeps with one person forever. You can't be so naive."

"This must be a dream."

#freddy carter #circa #uk theatre #lgbtq+ characters #circa 2016 #i wanted this to be better researched and referenced but ended up having to rush posting it so apologies for any mistakes #looks like the website went down between writing and posting this but I added the wayback link #the script book is now sold out so no reading it for me

[alfea]

went to the dollar store and they had four of those little frozen board books that i didn’t already have 🥳

#apparently they’re from 2016 but i have never seen them before lmao #i have 12 dollar store frozen board books now #no swans allowed #like/reply if you read

[elliesgaymachete]

Since i started actively reading again in 2020 i’ve read two (2) books with zero (0) queer rep in them and like. The characters are just so boring. Fascinating plot and worldbuilding, but i just keep thinking of how much better they would be if there was literally any queer rep at all. Even just like a side/background character

#the first one was an agatha christie book so she gets a pass #but this book came out in 2016 wtf and you can’t just insert one singular queer character??? #please i am begging #next time i consider reading a cishet book remind me not to #like the book itself isn’t bad but it could be SO MUCH BETTER

[butterfly-poetry]

Poetic writing ...

I compose for the humble grace of publishing,

For the modest pleasure of burnishing a leaf,

For the sole comfort of having the strength

To exhale my anger, my joy, my melancholy...

I write because I'm fond of calligraphy,

Produce everything that crosses my mind,

To write the excellent as well as the most disastrous.

However, it's all futile.

I libel my maxims,

Even for nonsense;

It may seem absurd

To transcribe a vaporous ode.

I scribble in the light of a pen,

The doubt of a mine that scratches a gazette

Since there's nothing to sketch;

A coming and going with the wind.

My adages will be perpetual

Even if I stay awake,

The praises will never end.

My reason like a song without end.

At my funeral will lantern the perfume of my breath,

The ephemeral ecstasy of my epigraphs,

Like a reflection of an insolent liaison.

Without the bondage or frail uncertainty of my soul.

My sigh breathes with the ease of my work.

For my livid heart desires its freedom.

For the illusion of my utopias

Brushes against the sublime allure of my essence.

It is the singular source of a dreamer

Who soothes in me

And the oracle of my legend.

She is my romanticism.

My veiled elocution disputes my voiceless reason.

My being slips gracefully into my chimeras.

I unfold the buried wonder of my fairytale destiny.

My light spirit is captivated by my solitary writings.

My blank page twirls with my light verses.

I write my maxims

And my pen is turned

By the infinite poetry of a word.

© Myriam Ghezaïl Ben Brahim ❤️🥀

27th January 2024

#books and reading #writing #video created by me #poems and poetry #lunadiluana #beautiful #thank you #stocky 2016 #angeltuyo #lijanaa

[writeouswriter]

Shamelessly telling everyone to go read the Lockwood & Co. books right now because the fifth book was/still is literally my favourite book ever, it’s spooky, it’s fun, it’s got that perfect balance of action, drama, heart, humour, and horror, with great twists and characters and all and trying to find mere fandom crumbs for it is why I ever joined tumblr in the first place like 7 years ago, AND if the new Netflix adaptation is good, I don’t want it to be cancelled and I want you all to watch it to save my immeasurable grief. *swinging pocket watch back and forth* You want to read Lockwood & co so bad

#Lockwood and co #lockwood & co #love my little ghost hunting agency so much #peak of literature #books #I also don’t want anyone to read it because it’s mine but I want everyone to read it because I love #correction: #7 years ago! I can’t count okay! #I joined tumblr in 2016 but I read the 1st l&c book in 2013 around when it was released #it was all alone at the scholastic book fair calling my name

[robobee]

I can sit and critique forever as I am the world's proudest hater but I do feel that a lot of the snark around Vengeful is just people crucially misunderstanding the point of the villains universe. it's fucking camp! everything is self aware and overdramatic and reads like a published (albeit very good) fanfiction. if you're in specific circles you absolutely recognise the tropes schwab is pulling from and the tongue in cheek references she makes and all of them are on some base level FUNNY. I don't think it can be read with 100% gravitas because as much as it is brutal and visceral and about extremely traumatized people desperately clutching onto each other because carrying on feels easier than trying something new, it is also a book in which the girlboss mafia leader queen gets taken out by a naked college quarterback . schwab likes nice and wrapped up endings and after dealing with stief and Muir it is a BREATH OF FRESH FUCKING AIRRRR

#vengeful ve schwab #in terms of crit her overexpansive casts mean that ppl like mitch who SHOULD be central get shoved into lampshadeland #but i did find the new characters entertaining if not endearing #mostly bc i did not expect them to be pleasant and they were not. june is ALSO a manipulative selfish evil shithead #the marcella thing... yeah ok she was erm. very 2016. but her dying immediately during her final hoedown was the funniest thing ever #i think despite the intent vengeful reads like a middle book in a trilogy Nd doesnt hold up on its own . but EYE would be fine with it #i do enjoy how victor never loses. im so sick of my protagonists dying in poignant ways give me my marvel movie dennis reynolds #vicious ve schwab #also the june/sydney 3 year thing was extremely weak and 1) how fucking old is june maam that is a MINOR 2)i thought the same abt eli #in book1 and he really pulled thru so well in this one i genuinely kind of forgot about the murders. fascinating dude. unfixable #like was the ending of vengeful terribly rushed and lackluster. sure but im genuinely not mad at all about it #its a very fun sandbox

[mann-walter]

#A Little Life #Hanya Yanagihara #A Gentleman in Moscow #Amor Towles #2015 #2016 #books #novels #reading #21st Century novels #21st Century books #literature #book reccs #books and libraries #books and reading #tumblr polls #Mann Walter