Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“One love, one heart, one destiny.” ― Bob Marley BLURB: Nicholas Robinson is a chemist decades ahead of his time. Crippled by a riding accident and embittered by his injuries, he shuns the world, focusing on his laboratory and experiments. But when the sale of his country estate, Grantley, leads to an encounter with a... Continue Reading →
“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” ― Fernando Pessoa April 25, 2010 That’s the first time I read Jane Seville’s one and only novel, Zero at the Bone. The second, third, and fourth times I... Continue Reading →
“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” ― Fernando Pessoa April 25, 2010 That’s the first time I read Jane Seville’s one and only novel, Zero at the Bone. The second, third, and fourth times I... Continue Reading →
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” ― Rainer Maria Rilke In Holed Up Mark Beecher inadvertently hears a terrorist plotting an attack on the US through the outdated ventilation system in his apartment building. After waffling back and forth for sometime, Mark goes to the FBI with... Continue Reading →
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” ― Rainer Maria Rilke In Holed Up Mark Beecher inadvertently hears a terrorist plotting an attack on the US through the outdated ventilation system in his apartment building. After waffling back and forth for sometime, Mark goes to the FBI with... Continue Reading →
“[Heroes] rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act.” – Aleksandr Voinov BLURB: When he was sixteen years old, Rich Miller saved a young man from drowning at his local pool. Little did he know that years later, as a senior in college and Olympic... Continue Reading →
“[Heroes] rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act.” – Aleksandr Voinov BLURB: When he was sixteen years old, Rich Miller saved a young man from drowning at his local pool. Little did he know that years later, as a senior in college and Olympic... Continue Reading →
“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.” ― Joel S. Manuel BLURB: Tanner Wallis is nearly at the end of his rope the night Mason Seidel finds him lying next to the mangled body of a cow on the back pastures of the Seidel family's Wyoming ranch.... Continue Reading →
“There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.” ― Joel S. Manuel BLURB: Tanner Wallis is nearly at the end of his rope the night Mason Seidel finds him lying next to the mangled body of a cow on the back pastures of the Seidel family's Wyoming ranch.... Continue Reading →
“[He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.” ― Pat Frank... Continue Reading →
“[He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.” ― Pat Frank... Continue Reading →
“Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.” ― Rose Lovejoy I have never read anything from this author, but was really interested in reading this story after reading the blurb. Vampires are not friendly in this book, they don't sparkle, they don't want to be your friend, they want you for their next meal. They... Continue Reading →
“Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.” ― Rose Lovejoy I have never read anything from this author, but was really interested in reading this story after reading the blurb. Vampires are not friendly in this book, they don't sparkle, they don't want to be your friend, they want you for their next meal. They... Continue Reading →
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction." - Sir Isaac Newton (Third Law of Motion) Blurb: Wanted: one bear. Must be burly and hairy, and strong enough to paddle. Hunter Bell is on the prowl, and he knows just where to find his prey: at the Bear Trap, a gay leather... Continue Reading →
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction." - Sir Isaac Newton (Third Law of Motion) Blurb: Wanted: one bear. Must be burly and hairy, and strong enough to paddle. Hunter Bell is on the prowl, and he knows just where to find his prey: at the Bear Trap, a gay leather... Continue Reading →
“Touch has a memory.” – John Keats Touch is a sense memory, an imprint on the mind and on the skin, a physical and emotional imperative that, if denied over an extended period of time, will cause a boy to grow into a man who craves it so desperately he is willing to seek it... Continue Reading →
“Touch has a memory.” – John Keats Touch is a sense memory, an imprint on the mind and on the skin, a physical and emotional imperative that, if denied over an extended period of time, will cause a boy to grow into a man who craves it so desperately he is willing to seek it... Continue Reading →
“Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky BLURB: Charlie Beresford would rather be doing anything this summer than hauling furniture for a moving company. Come September, he’ll be leaving for college, away from the awkwardness of Augustinian Academy, away from his father’s constant hints about prospective girlfriends. Then... Continue Reading →
“Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky BLURB: Charlie Beresford would rather be doing anything this summer than hauling furniture for a moving company. Come September, he’ll be leaving for college, away from the awkwardness of Augustinian Academy, away from his father’s constant hints about prospective girlfriends. Then... Continue Reading →
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker Summary: When his secret life becomes exposed, Andy Nocera is forced to pick up the pieces whilst trying to accept his lot after losing his wife, his job, his... Continue Reading →
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker Summary: When his secret life becomes exposed, Andy Nocera is forced to pick up the pieces whilst trying to accept his lot after losing his wife, his job, his... Continue Reading →
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” ― Kristen Reed The Twilight Gods and Renfred’s Masquerade are to this day the benchmark by which I measure all Young Adult historical fantasy novels, not that there are so many to choose from, mind, but as far as niches go, Hayden... Continue Reading →
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” ― Kristen Reed The Twilight Gods and Renfred’s Masquerade are to this day the benchmark by which I measure all Young Adult historical fantasy novels, not that there are so many to choose from, mind, but as far as niches go, Hayden... 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 →
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