![]() ![]() Here to talk about her book and career is author S.K. The journey the two of them embark on together must begin with love, Rune thinks. Love from A to Z is a romance novel set in Quatar. This is, after all, his own nightmare, though in his dream the culprit is always leprosy. ![]() Of Digby’s hands Verghese writes: “The spectacle of these ruined tools of a surgeon’s livelihood fills Rune with sorrow. These passages provide some of the book’s most moving and revelatory moments. When Digby, badly burned in an accidental fire, flees to a remote leprosy sanctuary to recover, he is slowly repaired there by the (marvelously drawn) Swedish village doctor Rune Orqvist. Verghese folds in major players, guiding them toward each other: the irresistible Digby Kilgour, a young medical graduate, migrates in 1933 from a nightmare childhood in Glasgow to Madras, India, to gain surgical experience: “The sight of suffering is familiar its language transcends all borders.” Medical crises incite action throughout the novel, allowing Verghese to tap into his deep experience and endearingly humane philosophy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He introduces her to Mr E to stand-in for him while he away working. The story flows well as they develop a good Dom / Submissive relationship. ![]() He helps her experiment and find out what she likes. This leads to her knowing his secret and Clay broadening her sexual horizons. Luckily for her there is a loud noise one night from the basement and she goes to investigate it. She is very nosy and starts snooping on him. They agree joint custody of the cat and while he away she goes in daily to feed the cat. She finds him a very complicated person and is intrigued when he tells her his basement is out of bounds. Lilith feels the same as prefers animals to humans. He isn’t comfortable with unfamiliar people and prefers being alone. He is an architect and travels so isn’t taken with her deal of sharing ownership of the cat.Ĭlay is a very private guy, almost a recluse and he plans every aspect of his life. He seems very anxious while she searches his home for the cat. ![]() ![]() Lilith thinks he looks very hot in his glasses and dripping wet. One stormy night he knocks on her door needing help with a stray cat. He an enigma and very mysterious which has increased her interest in him. Lilith had been curious about her neighbour since he moved in. You will have met Lilith in the first book The Doctor because she is Cassidy’s best friend. This is the third book in the Nashville Neighbourhood series and is all about Lilith, Clay and Travis. If you love MFM books then this will be right up your street as we get two Dom’s and plenty of BDSM. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the 20th century’s most acclaimed popular author. JRR Tolkien’s legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, on audio for the first time. While I prefer Martin Shaw’s commanding voice, the reading here is also quite pleasant. I was then pleasantly surprised to learn that HarperCollins and Audible released Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales this month, narrated by Timothy and Samuel West. I’m a huge fan of Martin Shaw’s reading of The Silmarillion audiobook - in fact, I love listening to Tolkien’s works, and believe have all of them on audiobook already! ![]() ![]() ![]() Flesh-and-blood people with their untidy impulses are unreliable, a source of stress, best organised through digital interfaces – BlackBerries, iPads, Facebook. Meanwhile, real-world interactions are becoming onerous. Soon, robots will be employed in "caring" roles, entertaining children or nursing the elderly, filling gaps in the social fabric left where the threads of community have frayed. We already filter companionship through machines the next stage, she says, is to accept machines as companions. The test is one of many cited by Sherry Turkle in Alone Together as evidence that humanity is nearing a "robotic moment". They know the toy has no feelings, but the simulation is enough to provoke empathetic urges. People ignore the plea, but only for a few moments. The Furby says "Me scared" in a convincingly infantile voice. The Barbie doesn't react and can be inverted indefinitely. The rodent writhes in obvious discomfort and people quickly release it. In an intriguing psychological experiment, subjects are asked to take a Furby, a Barbie doll and a live gerbil and hold them upside down in turn. It has no intelligence, but it can fake attachment. It looks part owl, part hamster and is programmed to respond to human attention. ![]() T he Furby is a fluffy robot toy that was popular in the late 90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But one thing leads to another, and soon she’s on the run with the intriguing Hole in the Wall Gang, whose charismatic leader, the Kid, has a utopian dream that’s going to need the heist of all heists to finance it. When Ada finds herself in this tightest of spots, her mother is able to get her to safety. If they can’t, they risk being deemed ‘barren’, and possibly, if things go badly, being branded a witch - with deadly consequences. Grief, trauma and the need to reproduce has made fertility and child-bearing an obsessive social focus, and young wives are watched like hawks in their first year of marriage to see if they can successfully conceive. The town’s name is a clue to the novel’s subject: around 60 years earlier, the Great Flu swept through the land, decimating the population and creating what is effectively a religious cult of the child. Anna North, Outlawed, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2021 (USA)įirst line: In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.Īnna North’s Outlawed treats us to a beautifully realised alternative America of 1894, where seventeen-year-old Ada lives with her sisters and midwife mum, Evelyn, in the Dakota town of Fairchild. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was an extra special book being a Mainer as there were several places that were brought up that I know. The blood is flowing and there just isn’t enough rain to wash these back roads clean. This is not just another werewolf story with a small town in terror on the night of the full moon, but a werewolf story done so well that it feels fresh and exciting. A creature that will have you simultaneously jittery with the brutal and merciless bloodshed and upset as someone you liked was just torn in half. (Oh, but you should leave, and quickly) Blood And Rain is one of those books, not only does it grab your attention from page one, but it brings you face to face with a powerful beast. Where you are instantly immersed and don’t want to leave. ![]() Some books just have that special something that make you a part of the story. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Girls is nothing short of a tour de force. In Rose and Ruby, Lori Lansens has created two precious characters, each distinct and loveable in their very different ways, and has given them a world in Leaford that rings absolutely true. ![]() They are on the verge of becoming the oldest surviving craniopagus (joined at the head) twins in history, but the question of whether they'll live to celebrate their thirtieth birthday is suddenly impossible to answer. But when we meet them, both Lovey and Stash are dead, the girls have moved back into town, and they've received some ominous news. We learn of their early years as the town "freaks" and of Lovey's and Stash's determination to give them as normal an upbringing as possible. Ruby's style is "tell-all" - frank and decidedly sweet. Rose is given to introspection and secrecy. The reader is treated to sometimes overlapping stories told in two wonderfully distinct styles. Because the girls face in slightly different directions, neither can see what the other is writing, and they don't tell each other either. Her follow-up novel The Girls was an international success as well. Published in eleven countries, it received rave reviews around the world. The novel begins with Rose, but eventually moves to Ruby's point of view and then switches back and forth. Lori Lansens was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road. ![]() When one of the girls decides to write her autobiography, the distinct personalities of the two emerge to reveal their contradictory longing for independence and their unwavering togetherness. Lori Lansens In Lansens's second novel, readers come to know Rose and Ruby, 29-year-old conjoined twins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Devin and his twin sister Corrin left their pack in Texas when he began having dreams about meeting his mate in Colorado. To his shock and disbelief, he’s attracted to her brother instead and he tries to deny that Devin is his mate. more iend and Beta Blaine who is gay invites him on a double date, and Corey agrees, hoping this woman will be his one. Corey who is alpha of his Rocky Mountains fenrir wolf pack has been having dream of meeting his mate, but he can't see her face. Review 2: This was a great quick read Corey didn't see Devin coming. This book seemed pure lust to me as there was no time to really develop any sort of love even though both men said "I love you." Not sure I'm going to read the other books in the series. One of the guys didn't think he was gay and fought his attraction to the other guy who swore they were meant to be mates and bond because he saw it in a dream. It was hot and there was and most of the book was about both men jockeying for dominance as they were both Alphas. Review 1: It is hard for me to express my feelings about this M/M novella. ![]() ![]() ![]() Flip the book over and spin it around to read it the other way and explore life under earth (aka below the Earth’s surface). This hardcover children’s book is two books in one! On one side, the book tells the story of life and other findings under water. ![]() The book is the following dimensions: 11 x 0.8 x 15 inches.Ĭreated by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinskiĭesigned for children ages 5 to 9-years-old. Under Water, Under Earth was published by Big Picture Press in October 2016. ![]() The colorful, modern illustrations of this book will pull you in, and the fascinating factoids and informative bits will keep young and old readers engaged for all 112 pages of the book. This beautifully illustrated book shares information about everything from early submarines and deep sea lifeforms to animals that burrow underground and man-made tunnels. Under Water, Under Earth is a hardcover children’s book that explores life and other things found under the surface – both under water and under the earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Walking back along the path and through the fields, holding her hand, I feel I have her balanced,” the narrator reflects, thinking of Mrs. Keegan suggests that children see and understand more than adults might like to think without turning her narrator into a miniature grown-up. Her superficially simple prose persuasively conveys a child’s sometimes-innocent but always careful and insightful observations of the world. Like all of Keegan’s work, including last year’s Booker Prize–longlisted Small Things Like These, this novella is both concise and gut-wrenching. Sadly, though, her golden summer cannot last forever. ![]() While her father views her as little more than a burden and a potential tool-“She’ll ate,” he tells the Kinsellas, “but ye can work her”-and her mother is eager to get rid of her, her foster parents not only bathe, clothe, and feed her, but also provide her with enough care and attention to expand her conception of what family and love can be. ![]() Despite having been unceremoniously abandoned with relatives she barely knows, Keegan’s narrator quickly warms to Mr. Her parents have temporarily disposed of her due to her mother’s latest pregnancy and the strain of feeding their large family. A modern Irish classic, first published in 2010, finally makes its way to America.Īt the beginning of this pristine novella, a young, unnamed girl is sent to stay with childless relatives at their farm in County Wexford, Ireland, for the summer. ![]() |