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Carmelo Star

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Born in Brooklyn, residing in NJ, MBA Finance/Marketing, Husband, Girl Dad, Liberal, Atheist, Avid Reader 📚, Live Music Lover, GBS/BFS/CLL Battler New York Yankees ⚾ ~ New York Liberty 🗽 ~ Buffalo Bills 🦬 ~ New York Islanders 🏒 ~ Brooklyn Nets 🏀

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Carmelo Star@carmelostar· 24d

My go-to morning coffee mug. ☕

A coffee mug with Abraham Lincoln walking through a door and the overhang reads "CLEARANCE 6'4""

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· 24d

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· 24d

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #CryingInHMart #MichelleZauner #Memoir #JapaneseBreakfast

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· 24d

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #DCComics #GraphicNovel #HarleyQuinn #PoisonIvy #JodyHouser #AdrianaMelo

The Clown Princess of Crime is ready for a change. After the death of a superhero she actually liked, Harley Quinn is struggling to find joy wreaking havoc in an already supremely messed-up world. She’s even debating becoming a real, true hero and leaving her chaotic life of crime behind. But her partner in crime, Poison Ivy, is not sold. And when the Floronic Man shows up hell-bent on harming Ivy, the duo has to hit the streets to avoid him. Can Harley and Ivy survive this wild road trip?

Find out in Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, the hit miniseries written by fan favorite Jody Houser (Mother Panic, Supergirl), featuring fantastic art by Adriana Melo (Birds of Prey, Ms. Marvel). Collects Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy #1-6.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· 26d

#Booksky #Booksky📚 #RIF

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jul 11

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #LincolnsLadySpymaster #History #CivilWar #GerriWillis

A thrilling, cinematic saga of a Southern belle whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War.

Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit—the biggest mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become the Civil War’s most productive Union spy?

The answer was freedom. In this gripping history of a secret espionage genius, Gerri Willis reveals how Elizabeth built a flourishing spy network in the heart of the Confederate Capitol. Flouting society’s expectations for women, Elizabeth infiltrated prisons, defied public opinion, and recruited an underground movement of freed slaves, secret Unionists, and brave captives.

Putting her straitlaced Victorian past behind her, Elizabeth encountered vivid characters—assassins, socialites, escape artists, and cross-dressing spies. From grave robbery to a bold voyage across enemy lines, her escapades grew more and more daring. It paid off. Her agents were so well-placed that she had spies gathering information in both the Confederate War Department and the Richmond White House, and couriers providing General Ulysses S. Grant with crucial, daily intelligence for the war’s final assault.

Deeply researched and rich with detail, Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster is a remarkable true story of courage, ingenuity, and resistance. Gerri Willis pulls back the curtain on one of the most fearless heroes of the Civil War, restoring her to her rightful place as an American icon.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jul 10

This is perfect.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jul 8

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jul 7

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #GraphicNovel #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles #TMNT #BlackWhiteandGreen #Anthology

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Black, White, and Green is an IDW Publishing anthology collecting four issues of standalone TMNT stories, featuring a unique black, white, and green color palette that honors the franchise's indie comic roots. The book showcases diverse creators like Dave Baker, Declan Shalvey, and Paulina Ganucheau, who offer fresh takes on the characters in short, one-shot adventures. Published in November 2024, it's a collection of new stories from a wide range of comic talent, from up-and-comers to established names.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jul 6

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #CapedCrusader #Batman #GraphicNovel #NeilGaiman

"Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" is a 2009 story featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman. The story is published in two parts in the "final" issues of the series Batman (#686) and Detective Comics (#853), released in February and April, respectively. Written by Neil Gaiman, pencilled by Andy Kubert and inked by Scott Williams, the story is purported to be the "last" Batman story in the wake of severe psychological trauma that Batman endures within the story Batman R.I.P. and his ultimate fate in Final Crisis.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jul 4

This is so my dog. Happy July 4th!

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Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 30

What am I missing here?

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 30

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #GraphicNovel #BatmanRIP #GrantMorrison #TonyDaniel #DCComics

Batman R.I.P. is a major comic book storyline by Grant Morrison, published in Batman #676–681, where the villainous Black Glove organization systematically dismantles Bruce Wayne's life, leading to his psychological breakdown and a backup personality, the "Batman of Zur-En-Arrh," taking over. The story is a key part of Morrison's larger Batman saga, preceding Final Crisis, and is known for its psychological depth, complex narrative, and the introduction of a more primal, contingency-based Batman.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 29

Last night my wife was amped to finally see Stone Temple Pilots live, and I was stoked to see Godsmack put on another banger show. 🤘🏻 #RiseofRock

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 27

Nova Twins ~ Spiritbox ~ Evanescence First concert of the summer with my metal crew 🤘🏻

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 19

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #HowTheSouthWonTheCivilWar #HeatherCoxRichardson #history

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on extractive industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy, despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion.

To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity. At the nation's founding, it was the Eastern "yeoman farmer" who galvanized and symbolized the American Revolution. After the Civil War, that mantle was assumed by the Western cowboy, singlehandedly defending his land against barbarians and savages as well as from a rapacious government. New states entered the Union in the late nineteenth century and western and southern leaders found yet more common ground. As resources and people streamed into the West during the New Deal and World War II, the region's influence grew. "Movement Conservatives," led by westerners Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, claimed to embody cowboy individualism and worked with Dixiecrats to embrace the ideology of the Confederacy.

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Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 15

Dead. 🤣💀

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 11

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 11

I don't have those, but she also got me these.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 10

Wifey bought me the most perfect socks.

Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 9

Heck, even one minute!

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Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 3

#PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈

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Carmelo Star@carmelostar· Jun 1

#CurrentlyReading #Booksky #Booksky📚 #Vanderbilt #AndersonCooper #KatherineHowe #dynasty #generationalwealth

Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the Vanderbilt dynasty from Cornelius's rise to wealth through shipping and railroads to the subsequent generations' extravagant spending and decline of America's richest family.

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