#john berendt

[sheltiechicago]

"Midnight, Bonaventure Cemetery," 1993. © Jack Leigh Estate

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (and more)

The late Jack Leigh may be most remembered for his image, “Midnight,” a 1993 photograph of a sculpture called “Bird Girl” in Savannah, Georgia’s Bonaventure Cemetery. The image was a commissioned for the cover of author John Berendt’s novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. But Leigh’s career stretches beyond the single image. “Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country Photographs, 1972-2004,” at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art celebrates his legacy.

"Tritons and Swan," 1975. © Jack Leigh Estate

"Leaning Oak and Fog," 2002. © Jack Leigh Estate

"Oak Limb Reflections," 2002. © Jack Leigh Estate

#jack leigh #photographer #midnight in the garden of good and evil #sculpture #photograph #bird girl #savannah #bonaventure cemetery #john berendt #author #georgia #black & white photography #photo series

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

Can you believe I grew up with this book on my parents' bookshelf, and I never read it once? Of course I HAD to read it once I found it at the library.

#books #bookworm #book #library #reading #midnight in the garden of good and evil #john berendt

[freshlybrewedbookreviews]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Whew, has this book aged poorly. I understand that a lot of what I found upsetting in this book is a product of the times, but to read racial and transphobic slurs almost every other page...hard pass. I kept going because I was waiting for the true crime promise to come to fruition, but even when it did, the thing I took away from this book was how it doesn't hold up even remotely in 2022. It was not compelling enough of a read on its own: maybe in ye olde dark ages, when society was less enlightened, this was a completely titillating case (read: gay and transgender and people of color as shock factors), but for readers today, avoid this. I'm still shocked at the content within, and disappointed I wasted the time finishing it, I was so horrified.

#book review #freshly brewed #Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil #John Berendt #books #reading

[nats-reads-reviews]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 4/5 ⭐️

I’ve been on a non-fiction kick lately which is a first for me. I would definitely say I’m not a big reader of non-fictions because I’ve had this belief they’re not as entertaining as fiction books but that’s definitely not the case, and this book is the truth of that. This book shares the narrators account of the inhabitants sharing stories about the history of Savannah, Georgia and the array of individuals that live in this unique, quirky community. You get to learn a lot of history about Savannah through out the years and really see how much this community prides itself on its unique and entirely independent way of living outside of the rest of the state, and United States. The reason I give it 4/5 stars is that the murder doesn’t take place until far pretty far into the book. I was anticipating it sooner - it almost felt like a history book that got switched into the story of murder along the way of being written but, of course, how can you skip a murder taking place while you’re writing about the happenings of this town? Overall, Berendt gave a very clear and vivid description of Savanah and its one-of-a-kind residents. It will definitely leave the reader wanting to take a trip to visit Savanah, and dive into the city’s rich history and architecture.

#book review #bookblr #midnight in the garden of good and evil #John Berendt

[mygrowingcollection]

John Berendt

#john berendt #author #signed book #thrift store find

[paseodementiras]

Media noche en el jardín del bien y del mal

1 UNA VELADA EN MERCER HOUSE Era alto, tendría unos cincuenta años de edad, y era de rasgos apuestos aunque oscuros, siniestros casi: llevaba un bigote correctamente recortado, el cabello plateado en las sienes, y tenía unos ojos tan negros que recordaban los cristales tintados de una reluciente limusina, de modo que él veía lo de fuera, pero era imposible ver su interior. 

-John Berendt

#Savannah #Thriller #Mercer House #Media noche en el jardín del bien y del mal #John Berendt #Georgia #Cementerio de Buenaventura

[joshcockroft2]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt 

20.9.2022

Another lacklustre read, maybe I picked it up in the wrong mood, but this just felt like an endless introduction of characters without much of a story. Certainly no where near the league of In Cold Blood. 

#Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil #John Berendt #non-fiction #true crime #book #books #read #reading #paperback #booklr #bookblr

[lousyadult-vinyls]

Source: lousyadult

#read in 2022 #midnight in the garden of good and evil #John berendt #litblr #books and reading

[jonathanjudge]

Starting in on audiobooks, too.

#venice #john berendt

[oldschoolfrp]

A statue of Lord Soth overgrown with roses (Kevin McCann cover art for the 1999 Ravenloft novel Spectre of the Black Rose by James Lowder and Voronica Whitney-Robinson, a sequel to 1991's Knight of the Black Rose; as reproduced in Masters of Dragonlance Art, WOTC, 2002)

The composition was inspired in part by the cover of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which featured Sylvia Shaw Judson's statue Bird Girl against a menacing background, and by McCann's childhood memory of being lost in a Victorian cemetery on a dark, cloudy day.

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Kevin McCann #Lord Soth #Ravenloft #fantasy art #fantasy #dark fantasy #Spectre of the Black Rose #dnd #Dungeons and Dragons #WotC #1990s

[shutterandsentence]

“When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze and touches with her hand the summer trees….’ That’s poetry. And ‘Like painted kites the days and nights went flying by. The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky.” ― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Photo: Savannah, Georgia

#savannah #southern gothic #spooky #fall #autumn #the south #georgia #ga #the peach state #lowcountry #historic usa #deep south #us history #historic home #spanish moss #midnight in the garden of good and evil #literature quotes #lit quotes #book quotes #travel #tourism #adventure #explore #southern usa

[alvallah]

Posting this because my coworker wrongly assumed USAmericans coined the phrase “spill the tea” because of the Boston Tea Party. No honey, it’s yet another black/queer thing that has been appropriated and miscredited by the mainstream.

One of our early print uses of T comes from John Berendt's nonfiction best seller, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In it, he is interviewing The Lady Chablis, a prominent drag performer in Savannah, about her dating life, and she notes that she avoids certain men because they're prone to violence when they "find out her T":

"Your T?"

"Yeah, my T. My thing, my business, what's goin' on in my life."

— Lady Chablis quoted in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt, 1994

Chablis' interviews in Berendt's book gave the world a peek into the vocabulary of black drag culture. T here is short for truth, and her truth is that she's transgender.

…

It appears that T, also spelled tea, had a double-edged meaning in black drag culture. It could refer to a hidden truth, as Chablis uses it, and it could also refer to someone else's hidden truth—that is, gossip:

“Straight life must be so boring. Because everyone conforms. These gay kids carry on. ... They give you dance and great tea [gossip].”

— "Nate" quoted in One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men, William G. Hawkeswood, 1991

#spill the tea #trans #transgender #queer #black #gay #lgbtq #drag culture #language #slang

[filmnoirsbian]

what was the research process for The Elektra Complex like? Like for writing that time period, and for kass's section, the Vietnam war and the personal experiences she had pre-war? (and anything else or none of those. i just love hearing about people's research process!)

I read a lot of translations of and theses about the Oresteia and a lot of memoirs from people who lived in the places/time periods I wrote about! I also actually got to see a lot of the Savannah and Charleston settings (the ones that exist) in person. The most helpful things I read were The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, The Tomb of Agamemnon by Cathy Gere, Imagining Aeschylus as Clinical Experience by Richard Trousdell, Spoken Like A Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama by Lauren McClure, Exquisite Corpses and Other Bodies in the Electra Plays by Nancy Worman, Christa Wolf's travel essays, The Atlanta Ballet Collection 1929-1984 from Emory University, Electra After Freud: Myth and Culture by Jill Scott, and The Best Kept Secret: the Sexual Abuse of Children by Florence Rush. Some of these are better than others but they all influenced how I approached the various angles of the story.

At some point I had 100+ tabs of just reference pages/articles open for a period of 2 years, so getting to close them all out after finishing the final draft was like a second weight being lifted.

#asks #the elektra complex #my writing

[ichijager13]

Of love, books and your smile

pairings : Eren x reader (Jean x reader, Eren x Historia)

Raiting: Mature

Modern AU, aged-up characters, strangers to lovers, falling in love, fluff

Summary: His name was on every book you borrowed. you have even made a habit of looking for it eacht time you chose one. Eren Jager a combination of letters you grew familiar with, but what happens when you finally meet the man in question.  

A/N: this was previously published on AO3, the story is inspired by seiji's confession from whisper of the hearts.

Picture credits to the artist

Dividers by @cafekitsune

the list of chapters of this work

Chapter I Your name on my books

Chapter II Sweet coincidence

Chapter III It feels right

Chapter IV First date

Chapter V Historia

Chapter VI Late night conversations

Chapter VII It’s time to go

Chapter VIII First time

Chapter IX It’s easier with you

Chapter X Confrontation

Chapter XI Late night confessions

List of books mentionned in this story:

The moment Douglas Kennedy The city of fallen angels Berendt John Beloved Toni Morisson The stranger Albert Camus The poisonwood bible Barbara Kingsolver Out of Africa Karen Blixen 1984 George Orwell Before I go to sleep S.J Watson The barefoot queen Ildefonso Defalcones Cathedrale of the sea Ildefonso Defalcones Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy A wrinkle in time Madeleine L'Engle the fall of berlin 1945 Antony Beevor the tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris to kill a mocking bird Harper Lee sister mine Tawny O’Dell the Prague cemetery Umberto Eco When the Dawn Breaks Emma Fraser My name is red Orhan Pamuk

#eren #eren aot #eren yeager #eren yeager fanfiction #eren jaeger #eren fluff #eren jager #eren jaeger x reader #eren jaeger x you #eren jeager x y/n #eren jeager #eren jeager fluff #eren x reader #eren x you #eren x y/n #eren x reader smut #eren x reader fluff #eren x oc #eren jeager smut #eren jeager x reader #eren jeager x reader fluff #eren jeager x reader smut #eren yeager x reader #eren yeager x you #eren yeager x y/n #eren yaegar #books #books and reading #book suggestions #literature

[its-tortle]

tortle's 2023 reads

persuasion by jane austen - ●●●●○

ragtime by e.l. doctorov - ●●●○○

a study in pink & the sign of the four by arthur conan doyle - ●●●○○

convenience store woman by sayaka murata - ●●●○○

jane eyre by charlotte brontë - ●●●●○

just kids by patti smith - ●●●○○

hamnet by maggie o'farrel - ●●●●○

gruppenbild mit dame by heinrich böll - ●●●●○

(rr) six of crows duology by leigh bardugo - ●●●●●

(rr) i'll give you the sun by jandy nelson - ●●●●○

in the skin of a lion by michael ondaatje - ●●●○○

brief an den vater by franz kafka - ●●●●○

when we were orphans by kazuo ishiguro - ●●○○○

one flew over the cuskoo's nest by ken kesey - ●●●○○

piranesi by suzanne collins - ●●●●●

the hundred secret senses by amy tan - ●●●●○

liebesperlen by mariana leky - ●●●●○

franny & zooey by j.d. salinger - ●●●●○

the overstory by richard powers - ●●●●●

the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides - ●●●●○

our wives under the sea by julia armfield - ●●●○○

everything i know about love by dolly alderton - ●●●●●

cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut - ●●●○○

untamed by glennon doyle - ●●●●○

der grosse sommer by ewald arenz - ●●●○○

(rr) mosquitoland by david arnold - ●●●●○

the grass is singing by doris lessing - ●●○○○

people person by candice carty-williams - ●●●●○

the tennant of wildfell hall by anne brontë - ●●●●○

the island of missing trees by elif shayak - ●●●●●

briefe an einen jungen dichter by rainer maria rilke - ●●●●○

white teeth by zadie smith - ●●●●○

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone - ●●●●○

braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer - ●●●○○

wanderer, kommst du nach spa... by heinrich böll - ●●●●○

a hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcìa marquez - ●●●○○

matrix by lauren groff - ●●●○○

daisy jones and the six by taylor jenkins reid - ●●●●○

the age of innocence by edith wharton - ●●●●○

die frau auf der treppe by bernhard schlink - ●●●●○

midnight in the garden of good and evil by john berendt - ●●●●●

joan by katherine j. chen - ●●●●○

pigs in heaven by barbara kingsolver - ●●●●●

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid - ●●●●○

percy jackson and the olympians (5 book series) - ●●●○○

i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy - ●●●●○

(rr) the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera - ●●●●●

the circle by dave eggers - ●●○○○

die blechtrommel by günter grass - ●●●●○

the secret history by donna tartt - ●●●●○

the hunger games (trilogy) by suzanne collins - ●●●●○

the ballad of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins - ●●●○○

young mungo by douglas stuart - ●●●●●

ninth house by leigh bardugo - ●●●○○

last night at the telegraph club by melinda lo - ●●●○○

my book ranking system, for insight:

●●●●● -- loved loved loved this. it might have made me cry. i will be recommending this to everyone ●●●●○ -- nice!! a good read. would possibly reread and will be keeping it all pretty on my shelf ●●●○○ -- t'was a book! maybe not quite my genre or not what i needed in that moment, but no ragrets. i still got something out of it ●●○○○ -- eh. didn't really need to read this. it was kind of unoriginal and/or not my thing. will give away my copy ●○○○○ -- could not finish. who published this and why.

#as always feel free to ask about any and all of them for my review!! #it's 55 books (not counting sequels) and i am v proud #tortle reads novels

[qqueenofhades]

I feel like you’ve been asked this before so apologies in advance, but: what is your favorite book about history that is not about your speciality in history?

Hmm. Some excellent nonfiction and/or history books that I have recently read or think are just really worth reading include:

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (and frankly most of what he writes)

Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera

Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy (and again, most of what he writes)

Ghostland by Colin Dickey

In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Nonfiction history books on the TBR list that I am excited about include:

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis

The Ship Beneath The Ice by Mensun Bound

#fabledshadow #ask #book recs