![]() It’s the story of Tess, a cozy mystery writer in her late thirties. This one hit real close to home for me, as a horror writer in my late thirties. There are explicit rape scenes in this story. The next tale, Big Driver, requires a trigger warning. And I was so happy to see that he got what was coming to him. As though his right to his farm was worth more than her right to live. I hated how he considered killing his wife to be his right. Meanwhile, Wilf’s wife is forming a great relationship with the farm rats. He starts making some truly horrible choices. Of course, killing his mother does some terrible things to poor Hank. To do that, he’s got to get his teenage son Hank involved. ![]() After years of arguing with his wife over whether or not to sell the farmland she inherited, he decides it would be easiest just to kill her and toss her body down the well. This is the tale of a man named Wilf, and the worst year of his life. ![]() What sort of person are we when we’re pushed to the extremes of human emotion? Who are we capable of becoming when we’re threatened? And while they’re not technically linked together in any clear way, they all have the same theme. Not quite long enough to be novellas, but still longer than a standard short. ![]() In the past, we’ve reviewed If It Bleeds, and today we’re going to talk about his most recent short collection, Full Dark, No Stars.įull Dark, No Stars consists of four short stories. While Stephen King is the master of long-form horror, I love him most for his short work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() SCIFI: first contact, getting lost in space (maybe not finding a robot but a dragon), going against oppressive organizations, regular queer people rising to leaders, discovery of objects that change the course of history, both humanoid and non-humanoid queer aliens ![]() Hunger Games meets Demolition Man), amazing yet realistic worldbuilding, queer magical warriors like She-Ra, dragons/royalty but settings other than medieval-ish, flawed or collapsing magic systems ![]() These are the top 3 genres I’d love to work on for 2023-2024, but note that all of these must have queer romance as part of the main plot.įANTASY: high-concept epicness with pop culture comps (ex. ![]() I’m actively looking for queer YA and NA/Adult diversity-rich speculative fiction stories that contain unlikely casts, big families (related or found), personalities that stand out, worlds struggling with social change/climate issues/inexplicable events, high-stakes adventures, underdogs rising to the occasion, smart and witty voices, and LGBTQ+ rep across the rainbow. Hola! I’m Amy Acosta, a passionate and creative Latina living in the middle of the Caribbean with 3 cats and way too many books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re the saviours of a pure community and work for the Council - another fishy group of the politically powerful. The city is ravaged by the armed (often without uniform) scrutiny of a “loose band of men”, known as the Repeaters. The nomenclatures in Leila’s premise are significant. Akbar’s work stands somewhere in between it isn’t about technological doom as much it is about cultural policing. ![]() ![]() The city is a spectre, where technocratic aspirations give way to a kind of madness deemed necessary for survival. Robert Laing who, while eating a dog, reflects on unusual events in the apartments. Its opening lines have a chilling description of Dr. Ominous visuals gradually swallowing up residents also feature in JG Ballard’s High Rise (1975). In Appupen’s 2015 graphic novel Aspyrus, we’re shown a winged beast that lures/traps a forest boy chasing the dream of a vertical city. Leila imagines the cruelty of a space where walls and towers have consequences beyond the physical Akbar shows us the cognitive affects of living in a very precise kind of insularity in Leila and it’s hardly a surprise at a time when urban dystopias are making a big comeback across media. Right from the tall, dark towers that make up its futuristic cover, it takes a sharp look at verticality as an idiom in our society, particularly in the context of upward mobility. Prayaag Akbar’s debut novel Leila has at its heart an uncanny sense of urban architecture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And this time I am happy to say that my optimism paid off: Crosstalk was delightful. I’m still disgusted with the lazy mediocrity of Blackout and All Clear, books that felt so promising and delivered absolutely nothing.īut I remain hopeful. My love for it almost makes up for how disappointing I’ve found most of her other books. Of the five I’d read, the only one I’d really loved was Doomsday Book and, to be fair, I really, really do love it and spend a significant portion of my time trying to push it on unsuspecting acquaintances. Willis is an author who I always think I should like but, in reality, I find most of her books incredibly frustrating. ![]() When I picked up Crosstalk by Connie Willis from the library last week, it was a leap of faith. ![]() ![]() ![]() These edible food-like substances are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not real. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. ![]() Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. ![]() ![]() Josh McBroom has a huge family: he has eleven children with his wife Mellissa McBroom. When the children hear “pop pop pop”, they think it is a heavy snowfall but it turns out that it is actually the popcorn that is made at the fair. ![]() The McBroom’s ear of corn wins the first prize. McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm is about Josh McBroom and his kids who grow a huge ear of corn and take it to a fair. He won an important medal for writing The Whipping Boy. ![]() Sid Fleischman is the author of this fantastic book that tells the story of the McBrooms. Josh McBroom and his family pack up all of their things and go west. How about thirteen people in a family? submitted by unknown on January 29, 2012, 7:37pm Book review by Sefa ![]() Three humorous adventures on McBroom's wonderful one-acre prairie farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hoping to put to an end to whatever hold she had over him, he offers her something more only… The last thing that he expected was to find himself about her. Hoping to make it up to Zoe, Trevor offers to help her, hoping that it would be enough. ![]() Trevor would have done anything to take them back, but the damage was already done. He never should have said those words, but once they were out… Mathewson comes the second installment in the Neighbor from Hell series… Now, the only thing left to do was to convince her that this is anything but a game.Īmazon ♦ Audible ♦ Smashwords ♦ iBooks ♦ Kobo ♦ Barnes and Nobleįrom New York Times bestselling author R.L. After taking her under his wing, he can’t help but notice how nicely she fits in his life. The last thing that Jason expected was for his shy little neighbor to finally acknowledge his existence, but now that she had, he realized what he’d been missing. Today was going to be the day that he regretted pushing her too far. Since the day that he moved in next-door, Jason Bradford had been going out of his way to make her life a living hell, and today… Mathewson comes the book that started it all…įor readers who enjoy touching stories that make them smile, laugh, and fall in love.ĭone with being the world’s biggest pushover, Haley has finally had enough and it was all thanks to her neighbor from hell. Neighbor from Hell Series Playing for Keepsįrom New York Times bestselling author R.L. ![]() ![]() The Rage of Sheep, her f Michelle Cooper writes novels for teenagers. She got to watch students improve their literacy skills and become happier, more confident learners - also, she got to work in an office covered in Harry Potter posters and give herself smiley stamps when she did a good job. She worked as a speech and language pathologist for fifteen years, helping students with learning problems. She attended a succession of schools in Fiji and country New South Wales, then went to university in Sydney. More Info: Michelle was born in Sydney, Australia. ![]() She is the award-winning author of Dr Huxley's Bequest, A Brief History of Montmaray, The FitzOsbornes in Exile, The FitzOsbornes at War and The Rage of Sheep. Michelle Cooper writes novels for teenagers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kayla Maiuri The novel opens with a girl lying on the lawn of the school grounds, presumably dead. Intoxicating and provocative, at times deeply uncomfortable, The Divines is a novel that asks readers to confront parts of themselves they’ve tried to bury. As she reflects on her youth, the school’s scandalous history comes into view, including the heavy hand Josephine and the rest of The Divines played in its demise.Įaton, like Josephine, grew up in England and lives in Los Angeles, and is brilliantly attuned to the trickery of memory-the ways we reconstruct our pasts into renderings we can live with. John the Divine, an elite British boarding school for girls that has since closed its doors. The story is about reckoning with the past, as it moves between the protagonist Josephine’s current life in Los Angeles and her formative years at St. In her debut novel, The Divines (William Morrow & Company), Ellie Eaton delves into the complexity of female friendships and the way these relationships continue to shape and tug at us well into adulthood. ![]() ![]() É uma história sobre o poder do amor e a força do destino, mas também das grandes batalhas entre deuses e reis, de paz e glória, de fama eterna e dos segredos do coração humano. No entanto, mal sabem eles que, além de glória e amor, o destino também tem reservado uma grande dose de sacrifícios.īaseada na Ilíada de Homero, A canção de Aquiles já encantou centenas de milhares de leitores ao redor do mundo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pátroclo, movido pelo amor que sente por Aquiles, o acompanha. Aquiles vê nessa guerra a oportunidade perfeita para enfim cumprir seu destino heroico e decide deixar para trás a corte e seguir para a batalha. E, quando se tornam jovens adultos, esse relacionamento muda para algo ainda mais intenso.Ī vida idílica que levam é interrompida quando surge a notícia de que Helena de Esparta foi raptada e que os homens gregos devem partir imediatamente para Troia a fim de libertá-la. Durante anos, passam a vida assim, lado a lado, crescendo juntos. Mesmo com essas diferenças, eles desenvolvem uma conexão profunda e se tornam inseparáveis. Em seu novo lar, longe de tudo o que conhecia, ele encontra Aquiles – filho do rei e da deusa Tétis.Īquiles é tudo o que Pátroclo não é: extraordinário em todos os sentidos, belo e com um futuro brilhante já delimitado por uma profecia. Pátroclo, um jovem e tímido príncipe, acaba exilado no reino de Fítia, após um acontecimento trágico. ![]() |