Beverly Diehl
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Five Minute Love Stories
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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
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Holiday Ever After
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Summer Sizzle
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I loved the movie, Must Love Dogs, based on a novel by this author, and was prepared to love this story. It's not awful. It just didn't have me rooting for any of the characters, including the MC, Noreen, and that always moves a novel down from love ...more |
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"I don't think I've read any of this author's previous works....but I did see the movie version of "Must Love Dogs" and liked it.
Thought she could have used more character development. It's never a good thing when you are approaching the end of a nov" Read more of this review » |
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If you have problems with alcohol consumption, this book may not be for you. The author writes beautifully, lovingly, and evocatively, about the pleasures of drinking to blackout for about the first half of the book. I almost had to take an aspirin f ...more | |
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Told from Malcolm's POV, this touches upon a variety of different experiences of a Black gay man in Los Angeles. There's his platonic best friend, who's in a long-term relationship with another man, his nephew, just beginning to explore adult life. T ...more | |
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4.5 stars. This book addresses the intersection between two areas people are often not comfortable discussing: sexuality and depression (I'd add in other mental illnesses as well, like bipolar disorder). But we NEED to talk about them. When we don't, ...more |
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Had a hard time not clicking my "horror" shelf for this one. Because the details of this ARE horrifying. Also important to learn and understand. People mocked Hillary Clinton for talking about the vast right-wing conspiracy, but she wasn't wrong. The ...more |
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4.5 stars. Poetic, evocative, Eva is visiting a favorite spot of her and her recently deceased sister's childhoods, and finds herself... elsewhen. Set around an ancient house on the coast of Cornwall, one can almost smell the roses, and the sea. Eva ...more |
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4.5 stars. This is a beautifully written, but sometimes heartbreaking novel, which may not be easy to read by those who have lost a child to death/adoption. (Or it may be just the cartharsis you need.) Disclaimer: I'm acquainted with the author on soc ...more |
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I loved, loved, loved this series, and this book does not disappoint, although eagle-eyed readers will notice a few departures from the story as presented on Netflix. They add to the story, as do the internalized thoughts of the characters. If you're ...more |
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4.5 stars Usually I read the book weeks, months, even years, before I see the movie. This time, it's the exact opposite. I saw (& loved) Somewhere in Time since shortly after it was released, but am only recently getting around to reading the book. Th ...more |
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“If feeling yourself up had been an Olympic event, I'd have taken home the gold medal”
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
“I've since learned that when you lose your same sex parent as a child, it's very common to believe that you, too, will die at the same age as your parent, or when your child is the same age you were. It's a kind of 'instinctive' knowledge, like knowing if you jump into your bed from far enough away, the monsters aren't allowed to grab your ankles.”
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
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“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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Thank you. :-) Looks like we have more than a few books in common.