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K.J. Charles
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The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)
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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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All of Us Murderers
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Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)
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A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
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Summer Reading But This Time the Books Exist
In a new low for literacy, the Chicago Sun-Times decided to print a Chat-GPT generated article recommending for ‘Summer Reading’ a whole bunch of books that literally don’t exist. Oh, and also Atonement because Ian McEwan is always a great beach read.
I don’t need to rehearse everything wrong with a newspaper uncritically putting out the regurgitron’s unconsidered slop, or the environmental cost of
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Marion is coping with life as a divorced mother in small town Minnesota in the 1950s, which basically sounds like hell on skates, and decided to kick start things with a new kitchen, only to fall for the installer. Great sense of place, vividly drawn, ...more |
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| A terrific Regency, with a downtrodden widowed countess finding her feet/spine. Eliza was married at 17 to a horrible older earl; now he's dead and has left her property worth £10K a year but--of course--with a morality clause that means she loses it ...more | |
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| I am a big fan of this rural fantasy series based in the mythology of the British Isles. This one takes dryad's son Dan and swan maiden Fin to Ireland, which is very firmly established as not their territory, to confront wolf shifters (which were an ...more | |
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| A novel set in AJ Demas ancient world, with an exiled warlord who just wants a quiet life and the young assassin sent to kill him posing as a boy bride. Demas's alt-Mediterranean frequently features some slightly queasy stuff, reminding us that the d ...more | |
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| Spec fic of climate change and a possible future for Britain that includes rewilding and reconnecting to the land, as told by two women, an environmental activist and a film-maker, giving the stories of their lives. It's not plot-driven but that does ...more | |
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| Sapphic Gothic novel set in the Scottish Highlands. Terrific sense of place and hallucinatory weirdness, with sympathetic women leads and lashings of ancestral crime and male brutality. A fine example of the genre. | |
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| 1950s set m/m romance in which a closeted married man with small children confronts his suppressed sexuality. There’s a strong portrayal of his stifled life of compromise, hypocrisy, misery, and deception, and the pain it causes him, his long-ago lov ...more | |
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| Terrific. An extraordinary take on the vampire romance, in which a 38-yo doctor meets an apparently younger man and strange happenings result (along with bonking). Lush writing, with moral depth and nuance, and the book really digs into the premise, ...more | |
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| A book about a kinky love hotel in Vienna with a sapphic slut concierge solving a murder really should have grabbed me more. Really needed a better edit for pacing, I think. DNF at 60% | |
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| Jack Reacher about the case that led him to leave the Amy. It's either numbnuts violent nonsense or a genre masterpiece, depending on whether you take joy in life. ...more | |
“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
“When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Be My Enemy
― Be My Enemy
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CONGRATS on the huge news today, KJ! So excited for you and proud of you and amazed by it all...
K.J. wrote: "Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered..."You certainly proved that haha ;)!
Leo wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D"Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered...
Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D
Gina wrote: "Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)"Thank you so much! Really glad you liked them. (Have you read the in-between freebie, Interlude with Tattoos?)
Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)
Thanks for accepting K.J. And thanks ever so much for Stephen & Crane.
Thank you! Freebie Magpie short will be out in Dec as a little Christmas stocking filler... :-)
Hi K.J. Thanks you so much! I'm a incredibly in love with your words and I'm very impatient for January's release of A Case of Possession. Very. Impatient. :D!
Thank you! I'm really enjoying the sensation of being read, having been a secret writer for ages, so I really appreciate the feedback. :-)
Thanks for accepting KJ. I really am a massive fan. Loving your books. :)
Josephine wrote: "Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x"
Will do - I hope... completely new to this site, I need about a week to get used to it...
Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x
