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[bgcambrosiasims]

BAD WITCH CLUB.

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[quiddity-jones]

MUSIC'S IT GIRLS CHALLENGE

Rules: Create/Dress up a Sim based on some of music's "It Girls" (essentially songs named after/about a specific woman).

From Left to Right:

Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)/Valerie/Beth

Mustang Sally/Rio/Runaround Sue

I was challenged by @ambrosiaicecreem to participate in this with Mia Garcia, but I think this is generally a fun one. Therefore I'm going to challenge a few people to do this one: @budgie2budgie, @boolproppin, @trumpets0ng, @treason-and-plot, @madeofcc, @therichantsim, @ladybugsimblr, and @igglemouse

..and anybody else who would care to pick this challenge up!

[publishedtoday]

Our Shadows Have Claws - Yamile Saied Méndez (Editor), Amparo Ortiz (Editor) 

Chantel Acevedo, Ricardo López Ortiz (Illustrations), Courtney Alameda, David Bowles, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Mia Garcia, Gabriela Martins, Racquel Marie, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite, Claribel A. Ortega, Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Alexandra Villasante, Ari Tison

From zombies to cannibals to death incarnate, this cross-genre anthology offers something for every monster lover. In Our Shadows Have Claws, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted by a quick-witted slayer; children are stolen from their beds by “el viejo de la bolsa” while a military dictatorship steals their parents; and anyone you love, absolutely anyone, might be a shapeshifter waiting to hunt. The worlds of these stories are dark but also magical ones, where a ghost-witch can make your cheating boyfriend pay, bullies are brought to their knees by vicious wolf-gods, a jar of fireflies can protect you from the reality-warping magic of a bruja—and maybe you’ll even live long enough to tell the tale. Set across Latin America and its diaspora, this collection offers bold, imaginative stories of oppression, grief, sisterhood, first love, and empowerment.

[dustedmagazine]

OHMA—Between All Things (Colorfield)

Photo by Spencer Middleton

Between All Things by OHMA

On Between All Things, two young musicians from Southern California make a jazz-leaning set of instrumentals so pretty that they edge into New Age. OHMA sets down fusion-y dream sequences, buoyed by tropical syncopation and fluttering with magic realism.

OHMA’s two principals are Mia Garcia and Hailey Niswager. Garcia plays a warm, lucid guitar, both electric and acoustic, synthesizing smooth jazz, bossa nova and R&B. Niswanger, a hotly tipped reedist out of Berklee (a Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Award winner and a Downbeat Critics Poll regular), contributes thick swaggering throbs of saxophone and fluttering idealizations of Latin flute. There are also keyboards, percussion and electronics, though it’s not clear who is playing these. The music is sleek, glossy, enveloping and unvaryingly gorgeous–so unvarying in fact, that you might welcome some dissonance. 

The tracks aim at otherworldliness, with their swells of angelic altered vocals, their feverish runs of saxophone. Song titles like “Seeing What Is Beyond,” and “A Portal to All That Is” hint at their gnostic ambitions. The “woo-woo” factor is high and occasionally distracting. The best tracks are the ones that introduce a hint of friction, like the clanging, metallic beat of “In Essence” that sets a languid guitar reverie to dance. “Everything & Nothing” lets a series of breathy, buzzy sax tones ground its space rock explorations, then juxtaposes antic guitar figures with the chilled serenity of flute.  “Between All Things” gains some drama from the staticky bursts of mystical spoken word near the end; the music itself is too bright and breezy to leave much of a mark.  

Not that this album isn’t enjoyable as bright, sophisticated background music of unwavering clarity and skill. The cuts are warm, buoyant and cleanly executed. They just never seem to break a sweat. 

Jennifer Kelly

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Books Coming Out Today! (November 13, 2018)

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

New Standalones & First in a Series:

The Splintered Silence by Kayla Olson

Pulp by Robin Talley

How She Died, How I Lived by Mary Crockett

The Resolutions by Mia Garcia 

Four Three Two One by Courtney Stevens

The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction by Amy Brashear

The Lying Woods by Ashley Elston

Wilder by Andrew Simonet

Your Own Worst Enemy by Gordon Jack

New Sequels: 

The Storyteller (Sea of Ink & Gold #3) by Traci Chee

Shatter the Suns (Last Star Burning #2) by Caitlin Sangster

Dark Mind Rising (The Dark Intercept #2) by Julia Keller

The Reckoning of Noah Shaw (The Shaw Confessions #2) by Michelle Hodkin 

Happy reading!

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: YAs with Queer Puerto Rican Female MCs The Resolutions by Mia Garcia Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera Summer Confessions by Lynn Vroman Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz

[feeeanliii]

Some of the more colorful books I’ve bought this year…I haven’t read any of them yet, but I will📚👌

[bgcambrosiasims]

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