Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.” ― Jennifer Donnelly Everett Gerard is not what anyone might describe as paternal. In fact, the words used to describe Gerard run more along the lines of libertine, gadabout, and then, of course, there’s always his unnatural appetites he must keep secreted... Continue Reading →
“Fall in love… that is fine, but just make sure you fall deep enough to stay there forever.” ― Ram Mohan I've read so many books by Andrew Grey and enjoyed each of his stories, so I was really excited to read this one. Kendall Monroe is a Broadway star. Kendall's partner of ten years... Continue Reading →
“Fall in love… that is fine, but just make sure you fall deep enough to stay there forever.” ― Ram Mohan I've read so many books by Andrew Grey and enjoyed each of his stories, so I was really excited to read this one. Kendall Monroe is a Broadway star. Kendall's partner of ten years... Continue Reading →
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell Richie Wilkins and Brandon Burns were friends. And then they weren’t. That happens sometimes when you outgrow a person, or find that suddenly the little things a person does begin to grate on your nerves until you either rip your own ears off or cut... Continue Reading →
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell Richie Wilkins and Brandon Burns were friends. And then they weren’t. That happens sometimes when you outgrow a person, or find that suddenly the little things a person does begin to grate on your nerves until you either rip your own ears off or cut... Continue Reading →
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― C.G. Jung This is a very humorous look at two very different men. I have never seen two people have so many problems just trying to hook up. It all starts with Zane... Continue Reading →
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― C.G. Jung This is a very humorous look at two very different men. I have never seen two people have so many problems just trying to hook up. It all starts with Zane... Continue Reading →
“Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen Ian James is thirty-six years old, working at a job for which the prospects of advancement seem pretty slim, people won’t stop taking advantage of him—or just plain taking him for granted—and he’s just gone through a bad break up with his cheating boyfriend, who finally... Continue Reading →
“Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen Ian James is thirty-six years old, working at a job for which the prospects of advancement seem pretty slim, people won’t stop taking advantage of him—or just plain taking him for granted—and he’s just gone through a bad break up with his cheating boyfriend, who finally... Continue Reading →
“So he rolled on down and rolled on down where the mermaids sang while their lovers drowned…” – K.Z. Snow If you can, picture a realm where steampunk meets a real-world industrial revolution, a place where those who wear the brand of Mongrel on their person are segregated in the village of Taintwell, a place... Continue Reading →
“So he rolled on down and rolled on down where the mermaids sang while their lovers drowned…” – K.Z. Snow If you can, picture a realm where steampunk meets a real-world industrial revolution, a place where those who wear the brand of Mongrel on their person are segregated in the village of Taintwell, a place... Continue Reading →
“Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”-- Richard Bach I really wanted to love Same Page. I really did. The blurb was interesting, the cover arresting, the premise promising. For me, it just didn’t hold up the way I had hoped. Same Page... Continue Reading →
“Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”-- Richard Bach I really wanted to love Same Page. I really did. The blurb was interesting, the cover arresting, the premise promising. For me, it just didn’t hold up the way I had hoped. Same Page... Continue Reading →
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.” – Francis Bacon Sakura Genji is a flying fish, the title given to the traveling actors in seventeenth century Japan who performed both on and off the stage, playing their roles to entertain their audience, then playing a different role behind the scenes for the... Continue Reading →
Sakura Genji is a flying fish, the title given to the traveling actors in seventeenth century Japan who performed both on and off the stage, playing their roles to entertain their audience, then playing a different role behind the scenes for the samurai who demanded their bodies for an entirely personal sort of pleasure. Genji’s... Continue Reading →
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle Seb works as a fudge maker in a coastal community of England. Dex is a wanderer who kindly returns Seb’s wallet one late night. Seb befriends Dex and they slowly become friends over the course of a summer. This short story by... Continue Reading →
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle Seb works as a fudge maker in a coastal community of England. Dex is a wanderer who kindly returns Seb’s wallet one late night. Seb befriends Dex and they slowly become friends over the course of a summer. This short story by... Continue Reading →
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi In Love, Like Water, Rowan Speedwell introduces us to Elian Kelly and Joshua Chastain. Joshua has been an FBI agent deep undercover within a drug cartel for three years. He was forced to kill or be killed... Continue Reading →
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi In Love, Like Water, Rowan Speedwell introduces us to Elian Kelly and Joshua Chastain. Joshua has been an FBI agent deep undercover within a drug cartel for three years. He was forced to kill or be killed... Continue Reading →
“There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.”--John Boyne Sweet Young Thang is the third and best (so far) in the Theta Alpha Gamma series. Collin Montes’s father died when he was young. His Uncle Monty stepped in... Continue Reading →
“There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.”--John Boyne Sweet Young Thang is the third and best (so far) in the Theta Alpha Gamma series. Collin Montes’s father died when he was young. His Uncle Monty stepped in... Continue Reading →
"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature." -- John Burroughs I was very pleasantly surprised by this little gem of a book. Well, it’s not little at... Continue Reading →
"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature." -- John Burroughs I was very pleasantly surprised by this little gem of a book. Well, it’s not little at... Continue Reading →
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton I have to start out by saying that I loved the first two books in the Delectable series, Brand New Flavor and Lighting the Way Home. I found it hard to dive into this one like I did the... Continue Reading →
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