![]() I mean, how could someone who looks like THAT want someone who looks like Henry? But Reed has a story of his own and wants a relationship based on trust and respect, not looks and protein powders. Henry initially doesn’t feel good enough for Reed. He barely pays attention to any of Reed’s *ahem* many assets. ![]() But Henry isn’t ready to date, nope, not at all. Reed is gentle, encouraging, and looks like Thor. Thank goodness for Reed, Henry’s personal trainer, who takes a very, well, personal interest in Henry. But I was proud of him for not giving up, and he grew on me as the story progressed. I have always been a fitness fanatic, so it was hard for me to relate to Henry. I am very much a suck-it-up-and-shut-up kind of person. ![]() Honestly, bitching & moaning annoys me in real life, and it annoyed me here. He complains about EVERYTHING and constantly makes self-deprecating jokes. He is really whiny and negative when he first begins his workout regime. Henry decides to lose weight to get his boyfriend (the One Who Shall Not Be Named) back. I am a fan of stories about imperfect MCs, and my heart went out to Henry, whose boyfriend of eight years left him, claiming Henry was old (at heart) and fat (250 pounds at 5’10”, which qualifies as obese). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Unfortunately Academia's facade of civility is dangerously cracked with a seething maelstrom of plotting, assassination attempts, and rebellion and Worth is dragged down into the nightmare. There, a young South African physicist, Violet Mosala, is expected to unveil her candidate for a Theory of Everything.īut the assignment is not the tropical respite Worth was expecting. Burnt out after completing a documentary on controversial developments in biotechnology, he turns down a chance to report on a baffling new mental disorder known as Distress and instead takes an assignment covering the Einstein Centenary Conference on the artificial island of Stateless. "The illusion of empathy" has been dispensed with, and a few idealistic souls try to create a Utopia with pirated technology.īut a wired journalist, Andrew Worth, doesn't want any part of the pop-'Frankenscience' regularly dished out to the masses. ![]() It is the year 2055 and the battle of the sexes has seven combatants rather than two. ![]() ![]() His voice was gentler than Richard had imagined it would be.Įlric put one long finger beneath Richard’s chin, lifted his face up. ![]() So you want to be a companion to heroes? he asked. He daydreams during school about being Elric’s companion and having adventures together – until Elric does call on him: In the story, a young boy discovers the Elric books and becomes a huge fan. Rather than the typical essay about how he first encounter the Elric books, Gaiman’s introduction is a short story. Not surprisingly, it isn’t an ordinary introduction. This volume opens with an ‘introduction’ by Neil Gaiman. ![]() How fortuitous then that Gallery/Saga Press had put together this new volume of the Elric saga and had a digital copy available as an ARC and I could add it to my queue. But my reading schedule has been filled with ARCs. I have all of the Elric books sitting on a shelf near my desk, and I’ve been looking at them for a couple of years, wanting to give them a re-read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lily is always happy to help, especially if it means dangerous adventuring aboard zeppelins with inadequate adult supervision. Lily is practically Robert’s family, and he has nearly settled down to that reality, but how can he completely when there are so many questions about his own life? Where is his mother, Selena, who vanished when Robert was just a baby? Why is vicious escapologist and diamond thief Jack Door on the lam from prison, lurking around the ruins of Robert’s old home? Why is Jack so interested in Selena? Perhaps Robert can find some answers in a half-moon locket he discovers, a portrait of his mother within and odd letters engraved on the moon’s face. Robert, Lily, and Lily’s mechanimal wind-up fox, Malkin, have been living together since the adventures that killed Robert’s father and revealed Lily’s mechanical heart ( Cogheart, 2018). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?” Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is…in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take.” More on Goodreads When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune.Ĭover for Frederik Pohl’s Gateway. “Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe… and on reaches of unimaginable horror. “Anyway, that’s what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you’re through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.” ![]() ![]() ![]() As I was running out of possibilities I asked the guy who was working at the Grove Bookstore if there was a horror book I was overlooking. In 1980 when there was no such thing as the internet I relied on the clerk at my favorite bookstore to guide me to something I might like. The answer I gave that summer is the same answer I would give to the question in 2016 Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Throughout that long summer full of suspense and my screaming “don’t do that!” in my head just before someone on the page “did that” I was asked which book was the scariest. Revisited the classics of the genre by Shirley Jackson, Daphne DuMaurier, and Oscar Wilde. In the summer of 1980 the topic was horror fiction. ![]() I would inevitably binge read within a genre. ![]() When I was a young man summer always meant time to read for fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() “This is a wonderful book, an instant classic, full of complicated and hard ideas made deceptively simple and dangerously elegant by dint of a full mastery of the comics medium. The art he makes is both a gift to those he loves and a thing he takes from them, because even when he meets his heart's true love, his need for artistic posterity rivals his ardor for the love of his life. David's desire to make art is uncompromising, selfish, wonderful, and totally destructive. “This is a book that is a look at the paradoxical drives that make us want to create and how it relates to love. ![]() “With The Sculptor, McCloud reminds us that he is one of the field's great storytellers, with a story of love, art, madness and death that wrenches, delights and confounds.” Readers are in for a delightful treat according to Boing Boing's review of The Sculptor: Scott will be in conversation with Robin Sloan, bestselling author of Mr. With a Starred Review from Booklist and rave reviews from the likes of Neil Gaiman, fans won't be disappointed with this unforgettable new work of stunning fiction. Eisner and Harvey-award winner, the author of the essential guide Understanding Comics, and the creator of the comic book series Zot!, Scott McCloud discusses his latest masterpiece The Sculptor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maddie is persistent and won’t take no for an answer or stop when she finds doors slammed in her face. ![]() Maddie also takes a lover who, as a police officer, is able to feed her information from time to time. ![]() ![]() The problem is that no-one, including the police and the woman’s own family, seem to want this story to be told. Maddie believes that there is a story that she can write that of the murder of a young black woman whose body has been found in a lake. She leaves her husband, teenage son and comfortable lifestyle, to set up home by herself and attempt to persuade a local newspaper to give her a by line even though she has no previous experience in journalism and, at the age of 37, is considered to be too old to be just starting out on this particular career. Maddie, the principle character, has grown weary of her role as a stay -at- home wife and mother and wants a career in journalism. It was also a time of huge racial discrimination, when attacks on Negro women attracted little attention from the police, newspapers or the public. Laura Lippman’s latest novel is set in 1960s USA, in times when many women were expected to stay at home and look after house, husband and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() I won’t lie, when I started this book, it took me a couple of chapters to really get into it, however this is mainly down to the amount of information being thrust at you so you can fully immerse yourself in the world. It’s a sci-fi book with a perfect balance of romance to keep you hooked. Giovanna and Tom Fletcher have done it again, only this time they have succeeded as joint authors.Įve of Man is the first in a trilogy of novels all about Eve who is the human race’s saviour. But how do you choose between love and the future of human race? She’s always accepted her fate.Įve wants control over her life. ![]() ![]() Three potential males have been selected for her. Kept from the truth of her past.īut at sixteen it’s time for Eve to face her destiny. They called her Eve.Īll her life Eve has been kept away from the opposite sex. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie––not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. ![]() Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.īut her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. ![]() The Wife Upstairs: A Novel by Rachel Hawkins – Book & Reviews The Wife Upstairs: A Novel by Rachel Hawkins The Wife Upstairs: A Novel by Rachel Hawkins ![]() |