6/28/2023 0 Comments Animal dreams book review![]() ![]() ![]() So it wasn't with a lot of excitement that I approached Kingsolver's second novel.Ĭodi Noline thought she'd left Grace, Arizona once and for all when she and her little sister Hallie escaped and went away to college. I had read one Kingsolver book at that point- The Bean Trees -and, while I appreciated parts of it, my overall reaction was pretty lackluster. One of the most memorable of these times happened several years ago when a good friend of mine on Readerville was talking about what a superb novel Barbara Kingsolver 's Animal Dreams was. It's almost always a rewarding experience. ![]() ![]() And because I have such tender feelings for certain books, I want to have read the books others feel the same way about. Maybe you can't remember a time when you hadn't read and loved that book, those characters. Maybe you own more than one copy so that if you lend one out you've still got a spare.just in case. I think this is mostly because I know what it means to care so much about a book you have to have it nearby at all times. It generally doesn't matter what genre or style of book it is. When someone tells me a certain book is one of the books of their life, I get this pressing urge to run out and secure a copy. I'm a sucker for reading other people's favorite books of all time. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Junji ito love sickness![]() ![]() It is five chapters long and makes up roughly 60% of the book’s content. As with Frankenstein and its titular story, Lovesickness has a featured story of the same name that takes up the bulk of the book. ![]() Though advertised as a story collection, this book more closely resembles the release of Ito’s adaptation of Frankenstein from late 2018 than the likes of Shiver, Smashed, or Venus in the Blind Spot. Eerily reminiscent of a dark secret of Ryusuke’s from before his family first moved away, the boy takes it upon himself to confront the beautiful boy of the crossroads and bring an end to the mystery once and for all. ![]() Soon after moving back and reuniting with some old friends, rumors begin swirling about a bewitchingly handsome young man who has been compelling girls to commit suicide after telling them their fortune at the crossroads. The featured story stars Ryusuke, a middle school student who has returned to the foggy town of Nazumi after his family moved away eight years previously. Lovesickness by Junji Ito is the latest story collection by the horror manga author to be published in English by VIZ media. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel![]() ![]() ![]() Both Kate (as a scientist) and Matt (as a pilot/astralnaut) are invited to join the crew, much to Matt's delight - he has endured very hard training in the hopes that he might be selected for this expedition. Canada builds a space "elevator" called the Starclimber, a cabin which rides out into space on a thick cable. This might be steampunk but it's still set in the early/mid twentieth century, and space travel is becoming a new obsession and a race - between Canada and France. But this time we see a more mature, young adult Matt and Kate, now grown-up and working in the roles they have been trained for. ![]() In Starclimber we return for a final time to Matt and Kate. Matt and Kate come of age as a pilot/astralnaut and suffragette/scientist respectively, and must overcome societal barriers if they want to marry, but first they must use their wits and courage to survive a space disaster on the maiden voyage of the Starclimber into the Earth's orbit. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments American Nomads by Richard Grant![]() ![]() “Forget the white picket fence, the house in the suburbs, the monthly mortgage payment and all that crap,” says a truck driver Grant rode with on one of his adventures. Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place, and getting to know America’s nomads-truckers, tramps, rodeo cowboys, tie-dyed T-shirt concert followers, flea market traders, retirees who live year-round in their RVs, and the murderous Freight Train Riders of America (FTRA).Īs an outsider aching for the “balm of motion,” Grant uses these lives and his own to examine the myths and realities of the wandering life, and its contradiction with the sedentary American dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here he's a struggling family man who needs money to support his family & he hears about a mysterious stranger that is "The Milkman" who not only brings the milk but can also bring you whatever you want!!! He's sort of a strange genie in a way, you leave him a note & your wish comes true.īut because this is the tales from the Darkside universe everything has a sinister twist to it. First off we have one of the greatest underrated actors in cinema history the great ROBERT FORSTER!!! i love the cool calm dude, I've been a huge fan since his resurrection in Tarantino's MASTERPIECE "Jackie Brown" back in 1997, he's a fantastic actor with a rugged blue collar charm & a no-nonsense attitude, he's always great on screen & enriched anything he starred in no matter how small his role may have been!!!! "The Milkman Cometh" is a strange & bizarre episode from the Classic 80s Horror series "Tales from the Dark Side" & it's a very memorable one. ![]() ![]() Competition for her attention is fierce, and when it starts to become clear that Rylie's burgeoning interest in her is reciprocated in equal measure, tension among the student body rises to a deadly level. In a sexless environment, thirty-one-year-old Mademoiselle Carriveau is a magnet for the affections of her hormonal, adolescent students. This harsh ban on expressions of love becomes especially problematic when Rylie meets her new French Housemistress, Vivienne Carriveau, and attraction sparks. Carnal pursuits are a distraction from learning, so says the Headmistress, and virtue is to be as highly regarded as education-if not higher. All sexual contact is expressly forbidden. ![]() ![]() Instead, what might prove somewhat difficult to overcome is the school's strict policy concerning on-campus relationships. ![]() But that's really not a problem for sixth form student Rylie Harcourt. AN EROTIC LESBIAN ROMANCE For a lot of seventeen-year-old girls, being sent to a same-sex boarding school would be a nightmare for one simple reason: No boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() All shall be squashed like overripe tomatoes by the talkative weaponized virus created by a monstrous biochemical multinational corporation both view sex and violence-craving humans as expendable subjects and targets. No one is safe, not even our heroic albeit sex-crazed professor nor his violence-craving 8 year old monster-son. This fast-paced and very gory satire sends up college norms and horror tropes and secretive cravings for monstrous sex and violence. "Jack Yeovil" is the nom de plume of distinguished editor and author Kim Newman who generously churns out buckets full of sex, violence, and monsters galore for this blood fountain of body horror. ![]() A communicable viral parasite takes over a college campus and turns its victims into monstrosities craving sex and violence. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Stephen king novel about rabid dog![]() ![]() All of a sudden, I would have a random thought that I knew was connected to a book in some way, but for the longest time I couldn’t figure out what book or why. I remember tearing through it and then not remembering most of what I had just read the experience was like a fever dream that only came back to me at the strangest times. It was one of the ones that I raced through, not that I don’t race through most of my books, but Cujo was different for some reason. In my own head I kind of see it as part of a “canon” that consists of books like Pet Sematary, Misery, The Shining, It, Carrie-basically his “well known” novels, or perhaps I should say “better known.” It helps that all of those had (I think?) reasonably successful movie adaptations.Īt any rate, I first read Cujo probably sometime in my mid-late teens…I was perhaps 15 or 16. ![]() When I first started getting into Stephen King, Cujo was one of the ones my mom had read and recommended. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Thick by Alexa Riley![]() Fantasizing about him when I’m lying in my bed. Or using him for inspiration while I write my current romance novel. Everywhere I turn in my tiny house, Hudson is there. Now my house is filled with the masculine grunting of a very fit, very handsome, younger man who owns shirts, but isn’t inclined to wear them. Turns out, my son’s coworker isn’t a like-minded gaming geek. I never thought I’d miss the sounds of video games, but apparently, I do.īut that’s not the background noise I get when Hudson moves in. When my son asks if I’ll rent the spare bedroom to his new friend from work, I figure, why not? The house is too quiet since my twenty-five-year-old baby moved out. ![]() Join Read Me Romance Headquarters on FB: ![]() Orphan & Gilded Cage (Both An Age Gap Romance) by Matilda Martel Go Hex Yourself Kindle Edition by Jessica Clare One chance encounter has got him searching every inch of the city for her. Warren has never wanted someone the way he wants her. ![]() But a run-in between her tray of paints and a big grouchy beast in a suit has her fleeing for safety. On the day the painting is to be finished, the St. ![]() She’s drawn to it for some reason, and it makes her paints come alive. Every day Charlie goes to sketch a beautiful building that’s been under construction. ![]() ![]() of Shogakukan Inc ISBN: 9781421599885 Number of pages: 268 Weight: 624 g Dimensions: 210 x 146 x 20 mm You may also be interested in. 6 by Hiromu Arakawa - Alchemy tore the Elric brothers bodies apart. Its hardcover with illustration-book-like pages. Can their bond make them whole again A hardcover, deluxe collectors edition of one of the most beloved. Fullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. The Fullmetal edition is indisputably the best English edition for Hiromu Arakawas magnum opus. The brother's search for the Philosopher's Stone that can repair their bodies is hijacked by a prince from the east seeking the same target. Alchemy tore the Elric brothers bodies apart. 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