Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers” ― Anne Rice I was really excited to read this book because it has my two favorite things in the... Continue Reading →
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is always a price to pay when a man covets, isn’t there? When he is offered the world, is given his dreams but with strings attached, then he hangs himself on those dreams in a noose of... Continue Reading →
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is always a price to pay when a man covets, isn’t there? When he is offered the world, is given his dreams but with strings attached, then he hangs himself on those dreams in a noose of... Continue Reading →
“He would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together.” – Washington Irving I remember reading The Legend of... Continue Reading →
“He would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together.” – Washington Irving I remember reading The Legend of... Continue Reading →
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.” ― Frank Herbert BLURB: Donovan C. Plummer has a problem, he's too obsessed with his job as a journalist for the D.C. Herald to keep a man in his life. Eight months into his present relationship with Chet Michaels and Donovan's job is already putting a... Continue Reading →
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.” ― Frank Herbert BLURB: Donovan C. Plummer has a problem, he's too obsessed with his job as a journalist for the D.C. Herald to keep a man in his life. Eight months into his present relationship with Chet Michaels and Donovan's job is already putting a... 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 →
“Hope, which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time.” – Ian Caldwell Ah, the fictional antihero. He isn’t the strongest or the handsomest or the smartest man, but there is something about him that makes... Continue Reading →
“Hope, which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time.” – Ian Caldwell Ah, the fictional antihero. He isn’t the strongest or the handsomest or the smartest man, but there is something about him that makes... Continue Reading →
“I always dreamed of the stars. Getting as high as I could so I could reach out and touch them. I didn’t realize, not until I’d seen the Earth from orbit, that I’d been dreaming the wrong dreams. Everything that matters, everything that’s important, is right down here.” ― Jeremy Pack, To Touch the Stars... Continue Reading →
“I always dreamed of the stars. Getting as high as I could so I could reach out and touch them. I didn’t realize, not until I’d seen the Earth from orbit, that I’d been dreaming the wrong dreams. Everything that matters, everything that’s important, is right down here.” ― Jeremy Pack, To Touch the Stars... Continue Reading →
“Thou art to me a delicious torment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I am of the opinion that loving to read is a combination of a variety of things, some of which is a healthy dose of anticipation and a probably more than healthy dose of expectation. Expectations are those nagging little impulses that make you... Continue Reading →
“Thou art to me a delicious torment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I am of the opinion that loving to read is a combination of a variety of things, some of which is a healthy dose of anticipation and a probably more than healthy dose of expectation. Expectations are those nagging little impulses that make you... Continue Reading →
“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors.” ― Alejandra Pizarnik My vampire book this week was Blood Ties. I was excited to read it because second to shifters, vampires are my favorite! There is something primal and very sexual about vampires.... Continue Reading →
“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors.” ― Alejandra Pizarnik My vampire book this week was Blood Ties. I was excited to read it because second to shifters, vampires are my favorite! There is something primal and very sexual about vampires.... Continue Reading →
“We just did an awesome job of not dying.” ― John Green Some did, at least. Some didn’t do a great job at all of not dying, and now some of those who failed at the not dying part aren’t so much dead as they are undead, which is the same as not alive only... Continue Reading →
“We just did an awesome job of not dying.” ― John Green Some did, at least. Some didn’t do a great job at all of not dying, and now some of those who failed at the not dying part aren’t so much dead as they are undead, which is the same as not alive only... Continue Reading →
“I'd never lived on a planet where such atrocities could happen, even before the souls came. This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds- the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions...the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs... 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 →
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I knew as soon as I finished reading The Hardest Thing that it was going to be really hard for me to review this book. I’m not a writer so how can I possibly put into words how much I... Continue Reading →
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I knew as soon as I finished reading The Hardest Thing that it was going to be really hard for me to review this book. I’m not a writer so how can I possibly put into words how much I... Continue Reading →
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