![]() ![]() If you’ve been reading my reviews for a while, you know I’m a diehard Lyn Gala fan and John Solo is one of my all time favorite narrators. ![]() I loved this book when I read it last year and I love it even more when I listen this as an audio when this came out. In fact, stories where they aren't squick her badly, so don't expect to find abuse stories in her journal. In her worlds, tops and bottoms are all mature, consenting adults. Some of her stories focus on power exchange, bondage or bdsm. She prefers to focus on plot: mysteries and monsters and disasters, oh my, but sex can and does happen. ![]() She first cut her teeth on fanfic: gen, slash, het, and femslash. When she isn’t writing, Lyn Gala teaches in New Mexico. Her characters seek to better themselves and find the happy ending (or happier anyway), but it’s writing the struggle that inspires her muse. Even the purest heroes have pain and loss and darkness in their hearts, and that’s where she likes to find her stories. Westerns starring men with shady pasts gave way to science fiction with questionable protagonists which eventually gave in to any story with a morally ambiguous character. Lynsey "Lyn" Gala started writing in the back of her science notebook in third grade and hasn’t stopped since. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Īt the time I enjoyed it simply as an adventure story, but each subsequent reading has revealed new layers of meaning. As soon as I read the opening sentence I was hooked:Ĭigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who meet again as men and find themselves with less in common than they used to think. It was published in Macmillan’s Cottage Library and I can still remember its nice clear typeface, the feel of its rounded corners, and the slight browning of the pages which added a nostalgic charm. ![]() ![]() I first discovered James Hilton’s Lost Horizon as an adolescent, when I came across a hardback copy in a secondhand bookshop marked at one shilling and ninepence (8p in today’s money). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In effect, media now begs to be redefined. There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan's work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as WiRed, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT's Media Lab. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. ![]() ![]() Third in the Emberverse science fiction dystopian series of an alternative history for the world and revolving around the survivors of an EMP. * This is listed here as the "Emberverse" Series, which is now up to 15(!) books. ![]() "It's a sin to waste the reader's time" - Larry Niven. OK, maybe I'm being a little hard on Stirling - I did have fun reading this - well, sorta kinda, when I wasn't being annoyed with all the goddam PADDING. Not one of his better efforts - though there might be a fine novella here struggling to get out. Did I mention the Hot Lesbian Sex, featuring a scary Spetsnatz lesbo-commando? There's more than a hint of Gwen Drakon's steely elegance in Sandra Arminger, the Protector's consort. ![]() ![]() The writing continues better than competent, with some good & bloody battles, but perhaps more about Oregon scenery than you will really want to read. CORVALLIS has moments, but is heavily padded: a Really Dumb space-filler plot-driver features musical-chairs kidnapping of the Bad Protector and Good Witch's kids. This book winds up the "Alien Space Bats destroy powered civilization, aka The Change" trilogy*, which began with DIES THE FIRE (2004). ![]() ![]() ![]() He regrets this, and so offers to help Tally find whatever it is that Croy was talking about. Zane admits that he used to be friends with Croy and was going to head to the Smoke but then he became Pretty instead.Its leader, Zane, asks her questions about David. ![]() Tally expects to be voted into a clique called the Crims.He says he has something that she must look for. She figures out that it’s actually Croy, who lived in the Smoke in the first book. She goes to a party and is followed by one of the Specials.The only issue is, she can’t remember much of what happened or why she’s now Pretty. Tally is now Pretty in order to infiltrate the Special Circumstances division.If you can’t remember what happened in Pretties and you need a refresher, then you’re in the right place. ![]() Read a full summary of Pretties by Scott Westerfeld below. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s monsters of all kinds (so many, I lost count), the Silk Arrows who continue to rob Clay’s band whenever the chance arises, fighting a chimera, faking Matrick’s death, keeping ahead of bounty hunters Matrick’s wife sent after them… Like I said, a lot. After collecting the three others: Moog (the wizard), Matrick (a despondent king grown fat), and Ganelon (a man turned to stone for the last twenty years), the band sets off to cross the infamous Heartwyld… but a lot happens before that. It starts well, if a little slow (pacing is an issue with the storytelling, but I’ll get into that a little later), and we’re introduced to the first two of five protagonists: Clay Cooper (our storyteller) and Golden Gabe (whose daughter, Rose, the band is off to rescue). Over-the-hill mercenaries getting the band back together for a final quest to save the daughter of one of their own? Great premise, and big yay for having older protags – something sorely missing and not often explored in fiction. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.Īs I said, Kings of the Wyld has been much-hyped, earning rave reviews and high star-ratings so I was looking forward to stepping into this world. I finished Nicholas Eames’ much-hyped Kings of the Wyld last week, and while it took longer for me to finish than it should, it was more that I was time poor than a reflection on the novel, which I’ll break down in a moment. As I’m recovering from the long weekend of Supanova, and I’m not in the right headspace for work… review time it is! ![]() ![]() Recalling time spent with Salman Rushdie, including a visit from the author of "The Satanic Verses" while he hid from potential assassins, Hitchens reiterates his objections to religious faith and fanaticism, which he'd previously rehearsed in "God Is Not Great" and other books. ![]() Though his account of a tight bond with Amis mostly amounts to a vigorous celebration of friendship, it also summarizes a dispute the two had in print over the history of communism. ![]() Chapters devoted to his friendships with other writers provide Hitchens with opportunities to revisit some of these moments in the life of the mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writer found herself growing annoyed by historians who portrayed Eleanor as some sort of political nun in a cloister: “I would read things like ‘She never had a sexual wish in her life.’ Oh, my God.” But I don’t think anyone is just one thing.” Eleanor always seems saintly (in most historical accounts). ![]() She had set her book “Lucky Us” in the 1930s and early 1940s, and while doing research, “I kept encountering the Roosevelts everywhere I would go. (All I was trying to do was) create a story a reader enters into until they close the book.”īloom began thinking about the novel after she enjoyed a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Most of the novels in the world are set in a previous time. “I was just writing a novel with some real people in it. “I have to say that it didn’t occur to me that I was writing historical fiction,” she says. The author says she wasn’t thinking about the biographical fiction genre when she became fascinated by Roosevelt and her connection to Hickok. Since both women were rather matronly in appearance, and lived in a time when women were thought to be much less sexual than men, only Washington insiders suspected the relationship was more than a close friendship. ![]() “White Houses” is a love story about a closeted gay relationship between one of the most famous women in the world and her unlikely lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() At its heart, Last Night at the Telegraph Club explores the challenging conditions associated with the era, yet manages to imbue a sense of warmth and belonging in every aspect of the novel. The central focus on the historical events of the time period, specifically the red scare and the bar raids of the 1950’s, were both well researched and thoroughly examined in their exposition. In this incredible story, Malinda Lo gives reference to an era not long past, and the lives of those that have been swept beneath the carpet of history. The descriptive narrative, reminiscent of other historical fiction I have read in the past and enjoyed, led me gently into its waters, before quickly amping up the drama. A book that broke me down almost as many times as it lifted me up. To do so, she’ll enlist the help of an unlikely friend and together they will go forth, unlocking the very secrets that the club has to offer them. To a young girl questioning her identity, the dark nights and lively shows beckon her, bringing with them perhaps the very answers she’s been looking for. ![]() ![]() In an era brimming with disruption and upheaval, the neon lights of a lesbian bar known as the Telegraph Club offer sanctuary to those in need of it. ![]() A historical fiction set in 1950's San Francisco, focusing on lesbian culture and the coming of age of a Chinese American? More of this please. ![]() ![]() Other large ethnic groups in the province include Irish, Scottish, French, and First Nations. ![]() The province has a large number of residents of English descent, and nearly all residents cite English as their first language. John’s, which is located on the island of Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador’s population is over 510,000 people, and the province is the ninth most populated in the country. ![]() The province is made up of two parts: Newfoundland, which is an island, and Labrador, which is part of the Canadian mainland and which shares its land borders with Quebec. Newfoundland and Labrador covers 405,212 square kilometres, about 7.7% of which is water in the form of lakes and rivers. The province is part of the country’s Atlantic Region, which also consists of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Newfoundland and Labrador is a Canadian province located in the eastern portion of the country and bordered by the province of Quebec to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Gulf of St. ![]() |