Where Fiction and Reality Meet
"In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.” ― John Steinbeck BLURB: According to legend, King Arthur is supposed to return when Britain needs him most. So why does a man claiming to be the once and future king suddenly appear in Los Angeles? This charismatic young Arthur creates a new Camelot within... Continue Reading →
"In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.” ― John Steinbeck BLURB: According to legend, King Arthur is supposed to return when Britain needs him most. So why does a man claiming to be the once and future king suddenly appear in Los Angeles? This charismatic young Arthur creates a new Camelot within... Continue Reading →
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.” ― Cassandra Giovanni I'll Take the Rain is a little snippet, only 23 pages; a slice of life between the narrator and his boyfriend. The author doesn't give us any names. My only conclusion as to why is that this could be... Continue Reading →
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.” ― Cassandra Giovanni I'll Take the Rain is a little snippet, only 23 pages; a slice of life between the narrator and his boyfriend. The author doesn't give us any names. My only conclusion as to why is that this could be... Continue Reading →
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” ― Julian Barnes This is a different type of book. You won’t find this on a specialty site from a small publisher that loves man-on-man quite like the rest of us. But sometimes a book comes along that is... Continue Reading →
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” ― Julian Barnes This is a different type of book. You won’t find this on a specialty site from a small publisher that loves man-on-man quite like the rest of us. But sometimes a book comes along that is... Continue Reading →
“Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.” – E. Lockhart Charlie is an engineering student in his last year of college. He has a partial scholarship, but how is he going to make ends meet for silly little things like rent and food? He could always work fast food for minimum wage,... Continue Reading →
“Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.” – E. Lockhart Charlie is an engineering student in his last year of college. He has a partial scholarship, but how is he going to make ends meet for silly little things like rent and food? He could always work fast food for minimum wage,... Continue Reading →
“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.” -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes Having read all three of the books in... Continue Reading →
“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.” -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes Having read all three of the books in... Continue Reading →
All things are difficult before they are easy. – Thomas Fuller Blurb for Loving Aidan by Ashavan Doyon: Samuel Riley is gorgeous - tall, muscular, and intelligent. The girls love him. And so does his roommate, Aidan Flemming. Secretly, of course, because Aidan is as gay as Sammy is straight - and even the out... Continue Reading →
All things are difficult before they are easy. – Thomas Fuller Blurb for Loving Aidan by Ashavan Doyon: Samuel Riley is gorgeous - tall, muscular, and intelligent. The girls love him. And so does his roommate, Aidan Flemming. Secretly, of course, because Aidan is as gay as Sammy is straight - and even the out... Continue Reading →
“…Florida laughed, a low, dirty laugh that did something melty to Carson’s insides, … He did not have this reaction to men, oh no he did not. Women made him melty, men made him humpty.” – Amy Lane I have no idea where Amy Lane pulls these ideas from. She must have so many people... Continue Reading →
“By running off to the seminary? Joining the Marines? Trying to save every street kid who lands on your doorstep? Who do you think you’re kidding? They’re all just substitutes for the one you didn’t save.” -- Danny to Eddie in Black Dog I am a huge fan of Cat Grant’s work, so when I... Continue Reading →
“By running off to the seminary? Joining the Marines? Trying to save every street kid who lands on your doorstep? Who do you think you’re kidding? They’re all just substitutes for the one you didn’t save.” -- Danny to Eddie in Black Dog I am a huge fan of Cat Grant’s work, so when I... Continue Reading →
“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.” ― Therese Anne Fowler Taylor V. Donovan’s Six Degrees of Lust is a novel that’s part murder mystery and part relationship mystery, with a heavy emphasis on the relationship and even more on the mystery of how Sam Shaughnessy and Mac O’Bannon... Continue Reading →
“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.” ― Therese Anne Fowler Taylor V. Donovan’s Six Degrees of Lust is a novel that’s part murder mystery and part relationship mystery, with a heavy emphasis on the relationship and even more on the mystery of how Sam Shaughnessy and Mac O’Bannon... Continue Reading →
“You can’t always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.”--Kate DiCamillo Heidi Belleau’s latest offering is the first in the "Rear Entrance Video" series. You have to read the book to understand just how unbelievably clever the name of the store/series is. There are... Continue Reading →
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” ― Lynette Gould Billy’s Bones was the first book by Jamie Fessenden I had read. I saw the disclaimers about it maybe bringing up painful memories of childhood sexual abuse, of which I am... Continue Reading →
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” ― Lynette Gould Billy’s Bones was the first book by Jamie Fessenden I had read. I saw the disclaimers about it maybe bringing up painful memories of childhood sexual abuse, of which I am... Continue Reading →
“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi From the very first sentence of this book we see the struggle Brian has with leaving everything he knows behind. He loves his mom and dad, he cares for Adam, but he is IN LOVE with Jamie. So for Brian, he can't see any other... Continue Reading →
“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi From the very first sentence of this book we see the struggle Brian has with leaving everything he knows behind. He loves his mom and dad, he cares for Adam, but he is IN LOVE with Jamie. So for Brian, he can't see any other... Continue Reading →
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart longs for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. – W.B. Yeats I have dubbed him the Storyteller King—the king of all things. The one who owns the... Continue Reading →
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart longs for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. – W.B. Yeats I have dubbed him the Storyteller King—the king of all things. The one who owns the... Continue Reading →
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