Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.” ― Cedric Nye Ah, Christmastime, that time of year when we all settle in for our long winter’s naps, with visions of sugarplums dancing in our wee little heads. Unless you have zombies hunting you down and trying to chew through your... Continue Reading →
“Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.” ― Cedric Nye Ah, Christmastime, that time of year when we all settle in for our long winter’s naps, with visions of sugarplums dancing in our wee little heads. Unless you have zombies hunting you down and trying to chew through your... Continue Reading →
"Gym toned, carb ignorant and blissfully unaware of the emotional resonance of words, I have been knee deep in thigh-knockers without thought or feeling for as long as I could recall." – BJ Sheppard BLURB: Liam Adams thought that writing about life would be easy. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Situated at a non-functional... Continue Reading →
"Gym toned, carb ignorant and blissfully unaware of the emotional resonance of words, I have been knee deep in thigh-knockers without thought or feeling for as long as I could recall." – BJ Sheppard BLURB: Liam Adams thought that writing about life would be easy. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Situated at a non-functional... Continue Reading →
"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl ***Warning: This Review Contains Major Spoilers!*** I was very excited to read Blood Moon because it was about my favorite subject:... Continue Reading →
"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl ***Warning: This Review Contains Major Spoilers!*** I was very excited to read Blood Moon because it was about my favorite subject:... Continue Reading →
“It doesn't matter if you're 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100. Embrace your sexy-ass self and express it!” ― Steve Maraboli Pip’s Boxing Day Wish Summary: Having been sent to the North Pole with the Santa’s Little Helpers outreach programme as a child, Pip has always worried what the other inhabitants of Christmas’s homeland thought... Continue Reading →
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder BLURB: Miles Piekus thought he and Itai would make a great team, despite the infidelities haunting their past. After all, Itai is smoking hot, they’re both driven entrepreneurs,... Continue Reading →
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder BLURB: Miles Piekus thought he and Itai would make a great team, despite the infidelities haunting their past. After all, Itai is smoking hot, they’re both driven entrepreneurs,... Continue Reading →
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway BLURB: Turner Michaels is an idealistic junior enlisted communicator that wants nothing more than to successfully execute his duties. After being transferred to a light armored reconnaissance unit in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the young... Continue Reading →
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway BLURB: Turner Michaels is an idealistic junior enlisted communicator that wants nothing more than to successfully execute his duties. After being transferred to a light armored reconnaissance unit in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the young... Continue Reading →
“Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgmental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other, and as being secretly, almost magically powerful.”--Kathleen Winter Filth is the first book I have read about a transitioning main character. Toni is physically a man. She identifies as a woman.... Continue Reading →
“Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgmental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other, and as being secretly, almost magically powerful.”--Kathleen Winter Filth is the first book I have read about a transitioning main character. Toni is physically a man. She identifies as a woman.... Continue Reading →
“If only. Those were two very big, impossible words.” – Brandon Shire Blurb: Two years after watching Anderson walk out of the prison gates, Lem has a visitor who informs him that Anderson desperately needs his help. He scoffs at the idea until he is given an offer that he cannot refuse. He doesn’t know... Continue Reading →
“If only. Those were two very big, impossible words.” – Brandon Shire Blurb: Two years after watching Anderson walk out of the prison gates, Lem has a visitor who informs him that Anderson desperately needs his help. He scoffs at the idea until he is given an offer that he cannot refuse. He doesn’t know... Continue Reading →
“Love is the most common miracle.” ― John Green Blurb: Hindy Nardella, gallery owner and tidy leather diva, isn’t sure about love anymore. His most-recent ex-lover said “sayonara” and headed for Japan despite a week of Hindy begging him to stay. The man before that bid Hindy “namaste” before heading for Nepal seeking salvation. Hindy... Continue Reading →
“Love is the most common miracle.” ― John Green Blurb: Hindy Nardella, gallery owner and tidy leather diva, isn’t sure about love anymore. His most-recent ex-lover said “sayonara” and headed for Japan despite a week of Hindy begging him to stay. The man before that bid Hindy “namaste” before heading for Nepal seeking salvation. Hindy... Continue Reading →
“Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans”-- Robert Wagner Wow, I needed this book. I have had several disappointing YA LGBT reads lately. Books where abusers got away with their crimes and date rape was treated as just another mistake. I told myself I was finished with YA novels. But I... Continue Reading →
“Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans”-- Robert Wagner Wow, I needed this book. I have had several disappointing YA LGBT reads lately. Books where abusers got away with their crimes and date rape was treated as just another mistake. I told myself I was finished with YA novels. But I... Continue Reading →
“Drama is life with the dull parts left out.” ― Alfred Hitchcock BLURB: Christmas, 1983: A young man, Robert, tends to his soul mate, Keith, who is dying from AIDS. Robert tries valiantly to make this a special Christmas for his lover, but loses the fight late Christmas night. Christmas, 2007: Robert ventures out late... Continue Reading →
“Drama is life with the dull parts left out.” ― Alfred Hitchcock BLURB: Christmas, 1983: A young man, Robert, tends to his soul mate, Keith, who is dying from AIDS. Robert tries valiantly to make this a special Christmas for his lover, but loses the fight late Christmas night. Christmas, 2007: Robert ventures out late... Continue Reading →
“All of us are a culmination of vital parts of our parents and their past. A vital part of the circumstances we were raised with. Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls.”… His head was pounding from trying to digest all of this. “I’m so overwhelmed.” “Most... Continue Reading →
“All of us are a culmination of vital parts of our parents and their past. A vital part of the circumstances we were raised with. Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls.”… His head was pounding from trying to digest all of this. “I’m so overwhelmed.” “Most... Continue Reading →
“The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.” ― Laura Miller BLURB: Budget cuts shuffle the decks of the Prince George’s County Police Department. Separated after years as partners, Hank Capstone and Patrick St. James find themselves having to make a new start. Assigned as a training officer, Hank takes on... Continue Reading →
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