Service Orientation - FFA Post #315

[sunnymodffa]

Do you have suggestions for changes (that would make meme easier to navigate or understand for nonnies old, new, or equine) to the text rules & links section of the header part of each post? Do you have recommendations for changes/updates/clarifications to the information we provide in the personal and rules posts

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Canon Recs

[anonymous]

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Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

Endgame, by Nancy Garden? I remember enjoying it a few years back. Mostly concerned with the build up, but definitely has a scene with the event and aftermath as well.

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

Hate List by... Jennifer Brown? Is that the author's name? /too lazy to check

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

The NUMB3RS episode "Dark Matter" (Season 2, ep. 19) deals with the aftermath of a school shooting.

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland. He's a good writer and it's really worth checking out.

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

Buffy's 'Earshot' (the episode that was never shown until part of the re-runs/syndication deals as it was scheduled for right after the Columbine shootings)

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

The Life Before Her Eyes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815178/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_16) Uma Thurman as the present-tense character and Evan Rachel Wood as her teenaged self in flashbacks.

Re: Canon Recs - School Shootings

[anonymous]

There's a book called After that I really liked in middle school (it's been yeeeears since I read it, so it might be a little juvenile, idk). To my recollection, a there's a school shooting in a nearby town, and the school of the protagonist(s?) starts getting really strict, shipping off students who misbehave, etc. It's a bit dystopian, maybe.

Re: Canon Recs- quirky oddball loners

[anonymous]

Something with a sympathetic take on this type of character, and how they cope. Two of my favorite movies are "Ghost World" and "Amelie."

Re: Canon Recs- quirky oddball loners

[anonymous]

Lars and the Real Girl
Half Nelson
Drive

Let the Right One In

Powder

Chungking Express

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

3-Iron

Edward Scissorhands

High Fidelity

Re: Canon Recs- quirky oddball loners

[anonymous]

Try the book The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni. It's about a teenager who's been homeschooled in a geodome by his eccentric grandmother befriending a punk with a heart condition.

Re: Canon Recs - Theater

[anonymous]

Stuff that focuses on theater, preferably novels? Operas, ballet company settings and similar are also fine

I'm looking for things that are either about the experience of working in a theater, or that takes place in a theater but makes heavy use of the imagery (like the Phantom of the Opera does, for instance). Doesn't matter if it's big fancy places or a community theater

Re: Canon Recs - Theater

[anonymous]

Death of a Hollow Man (by Caroline Graham) is a murder mystery about a community theater production of Amadeus.

Re: Canon Recs - Theater

[anonymous]

Stage Whispers, by Adam Fitzroy; long m/m romance very firmly set in the world of British theatre.

Re: Canon Recs - Theater

[anonymous]

If you don't mind that it's set in ancient Greece, I highly recommend The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault.

Re: Canon Recs - Theater

[anonymous]

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge and The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi are set in and around C20th theatre companies in England.

Maskerade by Terry Pratchett, if you don't mind trying a fantasy spoof of opera.

Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken is set in the last days of vaudeville.

A Little Lower Than The Angels by Elizabeth McCaughrean is set in a medieval theatrical troupe.

Tantantara! Tzing! Boom! is an original m/m short story set in a regional company specialising in Gilbert & Sullivan.
http://s2b2.livejournal.com/234554.html

Stage Beauty, the film, is set in a C17th theatre company.