![]() ![]() So he’ll need help, from his friends, his teachers, Sierra, the strong-willed classmate with creative dreams of her own, even Tyrell, the local bully who’d be a perfect movie villain if he weren’t too terrifying to talk to. until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he’s been drawing for years into an actual MOVIE! There’s just one problem: he has no idea what he’s doing. Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class. Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series. Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in a middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. ![]()
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![]() Richie Drenz is at it again as he closed out 2015 with the latest in his literary saga, Heart of Revenge 3. ![]() Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Our focus is on everything lifestyle such as Entertainment (Caribbean music, art, theatre, film, sports, social activities), Sex and Relationships, Business and Finance and upcoming events, Travel, People and cultures, Cuisine, and other major themes that reflect the magazine’s diverse scope. It is a bi-monthly publication (printed every two months). ![]() Buzzz Caribbean Lifestyle Magazine is a publication dedicated to presenting topics of relevance and delight to Caribbean people of all ages at home and abroad. ![]() ![]() Max has mapped his life out completely, down to the last hair on his head. In fact all three stories featured befuddled males. ![]() The Vicar's Daughter has one of my favorite type of heroes, an uptight stuffed-shirt who turns into an out of control befuddled male. ![]() I love when I can go back to a much-beloved book and find that it still brings me pleasure. Simmons' regencies.īack to The Vicar's Daughter, which I reviewed years ago and have not changed my mind. There are earlier regencies with characters that are mentioned in these three books however, I've always considered The Vicar's Daughter, Tempting Kate, and The Last Rogue the best of Ms. I say sort of because I'm only talking about three of Ms. Let's start with the first one - sort of - The Vicar's Daughter, 1995. Two of them have been released in electronic format, but The Vicar's Daughter is still out-of-print and hard to find. If you have never read any of her books, the three I'm going to talk about are gems and you should try to find them somewhere. Even though her last few books were a disappointment for me, I have continued to keep an eye out, but nothing seems to be happening. Her website doesn't show any recent activity and I am nervous. However, her last book was published in the early part of 2013. ![]() ![]() Then something happened over at Harlequin and she disappeared for a while, then she came back. ![]() ![]() The story of the titular Mayfair family spans centuries of history and crosses continents, with heaps of betrayal, murder, incest, possession, suicide, and sexual assault along the way. That’s likely much less true when it comes to Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, a sprawling and often completely unhinged tale of a powerful New Orleans family of deeply dysfunctional magic users that also includes everything from ghosts, demons, and god-like immortals, to a secret society of supernatural investigators who don’t do a terribly great job of staying distanced from the beings they’re meant to be observing. ![]() Whether or not you’ve actually read Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles books, you’ve probably at least heard of her decadent, violent tale of the undead (or seen the 1994 feature film adaptation of Interview with the Vampire or watched AMC’s fantastic television version from last year). ![]() ![]() ![]() With chapters on desire, f*ckability, utility, refusal, and possibilities, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality discusses topics of deep relevance to ace and a-spec communities. Brown advocates for the “A” in LGBTQIA+, affirming that to be asexual is to be queer-despite the gatekeeping and denial that often says otherwise. ![]() She takes an incisive look at how anti-Blackness, white supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and capitalism enact harm against asexual people, contextualizing acephobia within a racial framework in the first book of its kind. ![]() Brown offers new perspectives on asexuality. In this exploration of what it means to be Black and asexual in America today, Sherronda J. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that’s not queer enough, seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. The notion that everyone wants sex-and that we all have to have it-is false. For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality-and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Įverything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. ![]() ![]() Characters like Martin’s mercenary Bronn of the Blackwater are expected to say “fuck.” Modern stories, even when set in lands like A Song of Ice and Fire’s Essos that are filled with competing faiths, tend toward the nihilist, and mostly atheist. ![]() High and epic fantasy are often expected to dip heavily into the medieval muck of realism, to contain heavy doses of sex and curses, gore and grime, sickness and believable motives and set pieces. Martin’s got the market cornered on heavily initialed fantasy writers, and his hand guides the field. It started, 80 years ago in a hobbit-hole, with Bilbo Baggins.Īlthough Tolkien created the complicated cosmological sprawl of The Silmarillion and stories like the incestuous saga of Túrin Turambar told in The Children of Húrin, Middle-earth itself is mostly remembered today as something akin to little Bilbo in his Hobbit-hole: quaint, virtuous, and tidy. Tolkien’s work is probably best remembered today by the sword-and-sandal epic scale of The Lord of The Rings films, but it started in the quiet, fictionalized English countryside of the Shire. ![]() “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” So began the legendarium that dominated a genre, changed Western literature and the field of linguistics, created a tapestry of characters and mythology that endured four generations, built an anti-war ethos that endured a World War and a Cold War, and spawned a multibillion-dollar media franchise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But all I can do is keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep at it when it feels hard. It has been an incredibly long journey, and after so much time fighting my own brain, I’ll admit I’ve lost a lot of my confidence when it comes to writing. It is only in the last 6-8 months that I’ve started to feel well enough to do more than take care of my own basic needs. There’s no cure, but there is treatment to help mitigate the worst of the symptoms. Basically my autonomic nervous system is out of whack, which causes a host of symptoms throughout the whole body- including intense fatigue, nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, brain fog, temperature dysregulation, and more. And a lot of the symptoms I’d been unable to shake through my other treatments (and sometimes blamed on the treatments themselves) were in fact POTS. We believe I’ve actually had it since 2015 if not earlier. You might have heard of it because many people with Long Covid are being diagnosed with it as well. To make a long story short, I was diagnosed with yet another chronic illness called POTS. I know it has been AGES since many of you have heard from me. ![]() ![]() Nysol discovers that his attempted escape has become something of a trap for all of his new friends. Amy Carter, who is trying to help Sean soon find themselves hunted by the Kisleem Alien Poit who is determined to take Nysol prisoner as his enemy. Worried about Sean's health because of the strange memory problems, Lester and Nysol decide to get him to a doctor. Because of the new confusion, Sean doesn't recognize Lester. On the next day, Sean's friend Lester Jones runs into him and Nysol. Sean wakes up after a moment, but he is slightly confused now. Unfortunately, the beam also knocks Sean down. Sarah Baethge Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers This is a few misunderstandings and other problems that begin setting the stage for an unfinished space epic.In the distant future, mercenary Samuel Parker is hired to help out an underground organization on a planet he's never been to. Without much thought, Nysol zaps Sean with a beam that extracts an understanding of human language from him, so now he can understand and speak English. Once he lands on there, the first person Nysol runs into is Sean, who is out camping. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nysol leads the ship guards away from where his allies are headed and strands himself on a planet(that happens to be Earth) to keep them safe. The story begins by following the sharill, Nysol as he and a group of space pirates he is with steal asteroid mining spacecraft from their enemies, the kisleem. ![]() ![]() ![]() Todd in the fictional town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. In The Country of the Pointed Firs, the unnamed narrator is a writer from Boston who has rented a room for the summer in the home of Mrs. In recent years, Jewett's works have been praised for their strong, independent, elderly female characters, of which her greatest creation is Mrs. ![]() Her character sketches of the aging population of seamen and the widows of seamen are inflected with the local Maine dialect, which she captured with accuracy and liveliness. ![]() As in many of Jewett's stories, The Country of the Pointed Firs addresses themes of nostalgia, memory, and storytelling, as well as community, family, and friendship. Jewett wrote stories and novels set in coastal fishing and shipbuilding towns of her native Maine. The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered by many critics to be the masterpiece of Sarah Orne Jewett, one of the greatest "local color" writers of the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() So I was having a hard time envisioning April and him together. ![]() He’s basically marketed as this big dumb jock who is a serial dater. While I adore Mitch in the books I always had a hard time taking him seriously. What I wasn’t super excited about was that it was with Mitch. I am also a little reserved and struggle to fit into the whole ‘mom clicks’ like April does so I was super excited to read her romance. ![]() While I am NOT a single mom, I felt this connection to April early on in the books. April is a single mom and divorcee who is a little antisocial and is counting down the days until her daughter graduates and she can start living her own life again. Of all the books, I couldn’t wait to read April’s story! I think mostly because she and I are basically the same age and while I loved the other books I felt like this one was going to be the book I related to the most because of that reason. ![]() |