![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rob is, on face value, the stereotypical bad boy.Mean and Moody,covered in tattoos and has been in prison.In foster care from a young age him and his brother have had to grow up the hard way and he makes no apologies for it. I haven't come across this Author before and this one would probably have slipped under my radar if I hadn't read Sheziss's review I debated long and hard whether to put the main theme of the book in a spoiler as it's not mentioned in the blurb but it is mentioned in other reviews and I think it might determine whether or not you want to read it.Įli is transgender going through transition.His own family have been less than supportive thinking,initially,it was just a phase he was going through and then just ignoring his needs and feelings.His father is a cop and his mother a forensic scientist and to say they are judgmental is an understatement. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The collection doesn’t seem to have received the usual fanfare accompanying a Murakami book, partly perhaps as his novels overshadow his shorter fiction (even though he does both very well). The reasons for the men’s issues differ, with some having lost a partner and others never having known one, but each of the pieces has at its core the question of how to move on without someone by your side. Men Without Women (translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, published by Harvill Secker) is a collection of seven longish stories involving male protagonists, connected by a lack of success in their love lives. Whether it’s merely something to scratch the itch while we wait for another novel, or something a little more substantial – well, that’s another matter entirely… Even if it’s fiction you’re after, you’re still in luck, as today’s post looks at a short-story collection that appeared earlier this year. However, there have been a few other works to appear in the meantime, including a couple more of the many non-fiction works he’s known for in Japan. Haruki Murakami’s last novel in English ( Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) came out three years back, and while there are translations available in other languages of his latest long effort, we may have to wait a while until it appears in English. ![]() ![]() If not for the length, I would never have thought it wasn't written for adults. Though this was a middle grade book, the writing never felt too simple, nor did the characters or their actions. ![]() When something Bad happens, and the dogs are left on their own to try to survive and make it to the new planet (with the cool name of Stepping Stone). This story takes place on a ship headed to a planet way beyond our solar system - the furthest humanity has so far reached. And so, when humans started expanding beyond our solar system, it only made sense to bring geneteched dogs with them. Through tech (used both on dogs and humans), the two species could understand each other. I never for even a moment didn't think they were dogs. However, the really, really good thing about this book was that even though they could "talk" (not exactly), they were still completely dogs. Set in the future, humans have the ability to genetech dogs to be much smarter. ![]() But, since it's a middle grade book, that's expected and can't be counted as a flaw. I loved every single thing about this story, other than how short it was. ![]() Even if I completely love a book, there's usually at least some small things I don't like about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luca's so-called boyfriend is not just abusive. ![]() Yet Luca is the same person with big dark eyes, so desperate to be saved that Ghost can't help but fall head first. But 'Zara' turns out to be Luca, and Luca is most definitely a guy. She is The One, and despite all his friends considering him crazy, Ghost is about to propose. ![]() He's been there for her when her abusive boyfriend had her in tears. She's been with him through the rough and the smooth. When he met 'Zara' five years ago, they became inseparable. Ghost finds out the hard way that people you meet online aren't always who they seem to be. "item_description" : "- A gentle heart has no place in an outlaw's chest - Ghost. "item_title" : "No Matter What (gay biker MC erotic romance novel)", ![]() He has even retained his imaginary friend from childhood (Jimmy Stewart's Elwood P. ![]() The adult Kenneth, like many who were abused, is emotionally stuck in childhood because he never had a chance to grow up emotionally. (Much like Marjoe Gortner, who gained considerable fame as a child preacher.) ![]() As Kenneth sleeps and wakes, we get flashbacks of his simultaneously horrible and famous childhood, with a "Mama Rose"-like father who used drowning and suffocation as methods to force little Kenneth to memorize lines. When I think about The Golden Globe, the sequence I always remember is when Kenneth ships himself as cargo from Pluto to Uranus via "deadballing", a drug that drastically slows the metabolism. This time, it's Kenneth Valentine, aka Sparky, former child star and solar system fugitive. ![]() It takes place in the same general time period – 200 years after the Invaders have exiled the human race from Earth – and it is also a first person story by a centenarian. The Golden Globe is John Varley's third "Eight Worlds" novel and something of a companion volume to Steel Beach. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve had Towards Zero on my radar as one of the better Christies – perhaps as a result of some helpful comments on my past reviews – although honestly I could be mixing it up with another title. ![]() I’m happy to report that Towards Zero did indeed give me that sudden retrospective illumination, although honestly Christie’s books are fun enough reads that I enjoy them either way. ![]() I’m going to guess that I have about a 50% success rate, which is nothing to brag about since when I reach the end of a mystery novel I really want to feel thoroughly fooled – or as Scott K Ratner more eloquently puts it, I want to experience “sudden retrospective illumination”. As much as I enjoy reading Agatha Christie, I’ve had the unfortunate luck of seeing through a number of her solutions. ![]() ![]() I’m not one for dressing up and going out on the town, especially since dressing up in my town might cause people to ask me whose funeral I’d been to. How did you celebrate selling your first manuscript? I have vague memories of a cover starring a dark-haired man in a khaki shirt and a blonde woman with Farrah Fawcett hair sharing a passionate embrace in long grass. I’m fairly sure they were Harlequin Presents, though, since the heroes were ridiculously wealthy and they often had international settings. ![]() What book first got you hooked on Harlequin? Her current book, Heat Exchange, is out now! ![]() What she loves most about writing for Harlequin is the support and enthusiasm the Carina Press team has brought to every one of her titles. Her Carina Press debut was Exclusively Yours and since then, she has written sixteen books. Shannon Stacey first sold to Harlequin in 2010. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a million miles away from the blancmange that is Green Day, where you have a Johnny Rotten first verse, a Billy Idol chorus and a Sham 69 second verse. But the Raincoats offered a completely different way of doing things, as did X-Ray Spex and all the books about punk have failed to realise that these women were involved for no other reason than that they were good and original. I cared deeply about what we were doing with the Pistols and it was hurtful to be put in a "punk" package alongside lesser mortals. It's a romantic delusion and it's fascinating material for a song. This song reveals a corner of your psyche that not many people would like to admit exists: that the mind wanders into dark places and the body follows. It's an exotic, intriguing concept and he's the only one doing it. ![]() I get what Bryan Ferry is trying to do – experimenting in a bizarre world and then couching what he finds in the style and language of the hunting set. Mind you, I shared an Irish coffee with them in Vienna once and left them with the bill, so maybe not. ![]() Perhaps it's safer to state that I like Steeleye Span. ![]() I said once that I liked Van der Graaf Generator andbefore I knew it I was accused of ripping them off. But I have to be careful about sharing my tastes in music because it comes back to haunt you. Somebody's elder brother had it, I remember it was on Pye Records, and my God, that insane guitar started it all for me. ![]() ![]() Rosencof, aside from being a poet and playwright, was one of the three top leaders of the MLN, the urban guerrilla movement known as the Tupamaros. He was not as fortunate as Galeano: he had been captured by the military, imprisoned, tortured savagely by his captors, and spent eleven of thirteen years in solitary confinement. Galeano had escaped military rule in Uruguay and fled to Argentina, only to flee again to Spain when the military junta overthrew the government of Isabel Perón in March 1976. The dictatorship of Uruguay had recently ended, but the pain of those memories was still raw and the civil wars raging in Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua) gave the evening both urgency and an air of hope that events in Central American would eventually lead to revolutionary outcomes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometime in 1986, I did a reading with Eduardo Galeano and Mauricio Rosencof in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() His works were widely translated abroad (although mostly in the Eastern Bloc countries). Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de-Stalinization period led to the "Polish October", when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech. Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works exist. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. His works explore philosophical themes speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. ![]() |
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