![]() ![]() King was an expert categorizer of people: Southern ladies and gentlemen (“other people enter houses but Southerners surge in on the wings of speech”) “that many-splendored thing called a good ole boy” High WASPs, whose priorities can be gleaned from their grocery lists (“Alpo, 9-Lives, Harper’s, tomato juice, Worcestershire, Tabasco, vodka, food”) the New Hypochondriacs, who “want to skip both illness and health so they can get to prevention and recovery, co-dependency and enabling ” and William “Bill” Fletcher, the embodiment of the regular American guy. She was a humorist, columnist for the conservative journal National Review, literary critic, onetime smut writer, and misanthrope who “dwelled in that 14th Amendment of the human spirit known as ‘Everybody stinks.’” (Her words.) Humans may have been unworthy of her respect, but language was sacred: “I don’t care what people do to each other but I care passionately about what they do to English.” ![]() Florence King, author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, died this January at the age of 80. ![]()
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![]() "One of the most talked about books of the year" - Teen Vogue like any odyssey worth embarking on, what the heroine-and the reader-finds along the way is far more interesting than we ever could have expected." - Entertainment Weekly "It's a breath of fresh air when a novel like David Arnold's Mosquitoland bucks the usual classifications and stands defiantly alone. speaks to the sweetness of life, the courage of love and the blinkers that adolescents may need to remove to see what is truly around them." - Wall Street Journal ![]() "David Arnold's sparkling, startling, laugh-out-loud debut. ![]() "David Arnold combines brio with compassion in this captivating first novel, which holds surprises, big and small, right to the end. ![]() Mosquitoland stings in all the right places, which is why it will no doubt be many teenagers' new favorite book and win over the crustiest old-timer, too." - USA Today "Arnold proves his worth as a top-notch storyteller on his first literary go-round, which is reminiscent of Ferris Bueller's Day Off if done by John Hughes with Jack Kerouac. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leo hopes that this might be the year that she gets to help prepare for the big celebration-but, once again, she is told she’s too young. Sneaking out of school and down to the bakery, she discovers that her mother, aunt, and four older sisters have in fact been keeping a big secret: they’re brujas-witches of Mexican ancestry-who pour a little bit of sweet magic into everything that they bake. And no occasion is more important than the annual Dia de los Muertos festival. Leonora Logroño’s family owns the most beloved bakery in Rose Hill, Texas, spending their days conjuring delicious cookies and cakes for any occasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also learn that both vampires are part of The Black Dagger Brotherhood which fight and destroy soulless human monsters called Lessers. We then switch back to the conversation between Darius and Wrath as Darius working up the courage to ask Wrath the take care of his daughter. We are then introduced to Beth who has been working a dead end job and seems to be coming down with something as she feels tired constantly but this might be the beginning of the transition Darius was talking about but we don’t dwell on that as Beth is almost raped in an alley, although she manages to escape, we see someone saw what happened as a body is phoned into the police from the same alley and we assume one of the vampires killed them. ![]() We soon learn that Wrath is possibly the last pure blood vampire and he is one of the best fighters which is why he seems to be the logically choice but Wrath seems to have a very bad attitude. ![]() The opening chapter to Dark Lover was really interesting as we meet Darius and Tohrment who are both vampires, Darius explains to Tohrment that he has a half-human daughter and that he fears she might go through the transition to be a vampire and he wants her to be under Wrath’s protection which Tohrment seems to think is a bad idea. Review: I have never read a single book in this series despite hearing lots of good things about it and I decided 2021 was the year I was going to start the BDB series. Title: Dark Lover (The Black Dagger Brotherhood #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() Not for the faint of heart (or mouth or tongue). The San Andreas Shifter stories include blue language, dirty deeds, and outright admiration for the San Francisco Bay Area. If you get offended easily, then you probably will. This story contains M/M sexitimes and horrible puns. Bryan is determined to prove everyone wrong, even the mage himself. Except, there’s a good chance Max might be reason enough to come out, if Bryan can only get the sumage to go on a date.Įveryone knows werewolves hate mages. Unfortunately, there’s something irresistible about the sexy muscled Beta visiting his office.īryan is Beta to a new pack in a new city. The job sucks and he’s in no mood to cope with redneck werewolves. So he works as a sumage, cleaning up other mages’ messes. Max fails at magic, relationships, and life. ![]() Max needs 3 things – magic, a boyfriend, and a wolf.īad boy mage with an attitude problem meets a sexy werewolf with a white knight complex in this charming gay romance from a New York Times best selling author. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book in particular has several mentions and flashbacks to past abuse. ![]() Please do not read if you are triggered by things like this. *Books MAY contain mentions of abuse, unpleasant situations, etc. *LBGTQ and straight themes (the main character is intersex and will have both male and female lovers, M/F, M/M, F/F, MMMFF etc.) The Not Quite series are novellas (between 35,000-45,000 words) and contains the following: In general, you probably won't find many alpha males or fainting females, and relationships are more poly. In my books you will find atypical characters and varied sexuality. I love reverse harem, but I got sick of reading the same old tropes. Tension grows, emotions run high, and heads roll.uh, literally.as Sam takes one more step away from their solitary life and toward actually caring about people-or terrifying monsters, whatever. Too bad the raiders, hyena beasts, and giant death worms don't seem to think so. And helping the idealistic human sovereign move his family member and closest advisor from Golding to Westhold is the right thing to do. Maybe it would just be easier to murder the idiots and leave the bodies in the wastelands.īut, growl as Sam might, everyone knows the hunter will do the right thing. Anything would be more enjoyable than this-even hunting hungry fiends. What's more fun than dragging a politician, an ogre, a leprechaun, and a hired killer across the wastelands to retrieve a human passenger? Anything. ![]() ![]() Her expression was admirably grim, but she managed to keep it that way for only a second before a snort of laughter burst through her lips. ![]() “ I can’t believe you married a pickpocket,” Anne said, shaking her head. “I still can’t believe you gave it to him,” Cordelia scolded. “I had wretched bad luck when Lawrence had it in his possession,” Ellie admitted. “I’m just saying I’m not convinced that it doesn’t.” ![]() “I’m not saying it does,” said Anne, whose recent marriage to the Duke of Dorset made her one of the highest ranking ladies in the land. “…that this… this coin has supernatural powers.” “I cannot believe the three of you think that this sixpence-” Bea thrust her hand forward, as if they didn’t already know precisely what she was holding. “We were children!” Bea looked over at Ellie, hoping to find some spark of sanity in her eyes.īut Ellie was nodding right along with Cordelia. Then back at them, because really, they were the ones with the ability to form thoughts and take action and change the future. Bea could only stare, first at them, and then at the coin that had been laid in the palm of her hand. Immediately following the wedding of Lawrence Blackthorne and Lady Elinor Daventryīut it was clear from their faces that Anne, Cordelia, and Ellie were not joking. An upstairs bedroom in Wolford Manor, Herefordshire ![]() ![]() ![]() Kickstarter Progress - 85% Funded with just over a week to go to raise money for a series of Bee and Pupp圜at cartoonsįor the curious, Bee and Pupp圜at Production Budget breakdown. Thanks so much for all of the questions and the support for more Bee and Pupp圜at. ![]() Everyone was so nice!ĮDIT - Fred_Seibert - That's it for us tonight. ![]() Natasha Allegri - Creator of Fionna and Cake for Adventure Time, writer and artist for the Fionna and Cake comic books from BOOM!, and creator of Bee and Pupp圜at Įdit - natazilla is Natasha and doesn't show up as OP because of the way I set this up.ĮDIT - natazilla - Thank you so much and I was really surprised that no one said anything horrible. I am Fred Seibert, Executive Producer of shows such as Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors, and Bee and Pupp圜at, among many other cartoons and projects. ![]() ![]() There were Broadway and West End musicals based on the film. 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![]() There he meets Percival Whyborne, the tall, pale-eyed, painfully shy Curator of Philology at the Ladysmith Museum. Griffin is an ex-Pinkerton detective, cut loose after a mental breakdown, who comes to Widdershins in the eponymous first book, seeking to set up as a private detective. At the series’ center are the two characters of Griffin Flaherty and Percival Endicott Whyborne. Something about the town won’t let them go. People who grow up there may leave, but they always come back. But everyone outside of Widdershins knows that something is strange about the city. Founded in the 17th century by a group of men fleeing the witch trials in Salem, Widdershins is outwardly a typical thriving industrial city at the turn of the 20th century. Hawk has created a fictional seaport city north of Boston called Widdershins. Hawk’s remarkable Whyborne & Griffin series is that Widdershins holds onto its own.įor her epic paranormal romance novels Ms. Sci-fi as written by Anthony Trollope? The Palliser novels as imagined by Ray Bradbury? Well, the only easy generalization about Jordan L. ![]() |