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Thank you Preston for your very kind words. Well done Roger!!Happy New Year everyone!!
Happy New Year to all and has Oliver found that laser jigsaw?
This is pretty much off-topic, but...please, please, please spend 90 seconds watching this:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rx0MRaw...
With tissues at hand.
It is with the most profound regrets and whinging sorrow that I reveal I'm back with a trio of tales of a god and a machine, magic, and M(?)M romance.
Deus Ex : The hells have no fury like a Hera scorned. So Zeus swore off mortal women. Mortal men, like the one impaled beneath him when he found out beautiful singer Sarah was pregnant, didn’t count, of course. Hera hadn’t asked, Zeus hadn’t told. But what to do? Ah. A two-part Plan Alpha so brilliant he didn’t need a Beta, much less a Gamma. First, some one-last-time sex, again looking like the minor Brit lord she’d never meet, although, actually, several last times since there was no more risk. Second, wipe her memory and swipe some DNA so a demigod didn’t get born. Except...Sarah was a rare mortal he couldn’t wipe and swipe. Zeus was in deep...stuff.
Jericho : A magnificent old house on Janssen Place, filled with the beautiful things wealthy, elderly Michael had loved and cherished for so many years. John, the impatient, much younger lover who hated all those things. The feeling was mutual. A cool November night. Magic. Betrayal. And a wolf wind.
Sranjir in the Night : The Terran Federation called the Sranjiri “direbeasts” and thought they’d been hunted to extinction. Not quite accurate. The star-traveling Sranjiri are shifters who have the power to assume a pleasing shape. A young one, illegally on Terra but at least in human form, meets a beautiful young man who’s cruising a subway toilet below Port New York late one night. (Future subways? Re-opened restrooms? Inevitable.) He knew he was in love the moment the human dropped to his knees with an eagerness accompanied by an almost pitch-perfect Sranjiri 17-yes! and leaned forward. What happened next was incredible. But then there was the earthquake. And shifting. And that pesky prophecy his father-grans had fore-muttered. What’s a Sranjir in the night to do?
Royalty Note: 100% will go to a local LGBT organization.
A mere USD 1.58 at AMZ-US.
I am infuriated that because the book is so long CreateSpace is charging such a lot for the lovely paperback edition. Just received a paperback copy. Its spine is over an inch thick, which explains the cost, sadly :( Still, there is a lot to read…
There are 10 maps…
Roger leads us to think that's him holding up the book but it's Oliver Frey. I'm complaining that Harry's Great Trek is a really Great trek. If you like historical fiction with perilous adventures and like the romantic touch of seeking ones true love on a long trek then it would be tragic for you to miss reading Harry's Great Trek.
Yes, definitely the hands of an illustrator there… :-)
I hate it when people do this to me, but someone went and nominated Harry's Great Trek as a March/April Book of the Month read in the Queereaders Group (Poll #10 at: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...). And that obliges me to suggest that any good Complainer who's a member of Queereaders go there right now and vote for Harry's Great Trek.
Since I don't belong to the group, I cannot vote. However, you have my
Thank you, Preston,Thank you, Lori! :-)
The poll for Queereaders March April book is still: Ricardo J. Brown 12
Roger Kean 12
Somebody join Queereaders just to break the tie!
(In Roger's favor of course)
The Book of the Month Poll for Queerreaders is at:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
Yay! 13 to 12 now, but still needs some leeway!!
Id like to complain that I started a blog and nobody is following it but my one friend.fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca
♥★Julia wrote: "Id like to complain that I started a blog and nobody is following it but my one friend.fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca"
Well I agree things could be better. Sorry about that :-(
Still that's the way every blog starts out—with one reader and then word spreads when you've got a super blog. Good luck! :-)
Preston wrote: "♥★Julia wrote: "Id like to complain that I started a blog and nobody is following it but my one friend.fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca"
Well I agree things could be better. Sorry about that ..."
Thanks
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The Complaint Department has a new member John Lawson.Mr. Lawson has a checkered past and was briefly arrested for involvement in a street gang in his youth, as well as having mafia ties. After serving two years in juvenile detention and developing several drug addictions along the way, he enlisted into the armed forces and was stationed on an army base in Guam for five years, where he was forced to come clean from his drug habits.
Returning to the states, he used his G.I. bill towards a BS in Molecular Biology with a dual minor in Economics and Chemistry from Michigan State. He went on to a dual Masters from the U of Chicago. He briefly attended Harvard medical, dropping out to pursue a PhD in the molecular sciences at Caltech for which he likewise dropped after one year to pursue film writing. He met wife, Glory, a former Miss. Nebraska finalist and part time model while in Hollywood. When his screenwriting career failed to launch, the couple moved to NYC where John spent the next ten years working as an investment banker, retiring just prior to the collapse of Bear Sterns.
The author now lives in Pasadena with his wife. They have three daughters and three sons. He enjoys piloting, golf, skiing, tennis, rugby, cards, cigars, travel, and is an avid motorcycle and car enthusiast. His favorite past time is hiking with his wife in the woods in the hopes of discovering new intimate locales. Zed Kappa Status is his first novel. He is currently seeking representation as well.
One of his many books is Zed Kappa Status which has a Goodreads score of a perfect 5.0 five stars. My interestr in the book lies in having conjugal visits in dreams. Talking trains that can say Mr. Choo Choo are of lesser importance though of great interest.
I expect everyone here to send Mr. Lawson a GR message saying "Welcome to the Complaint Department. Are you certain you are insane enough to join since your talking orangoutangs would only be of importance here if they have taken advantage of Gay Marriage."
I don't remember getting a nice long introduction like that when I joined the group. Well… it is a complaint department, so I'm only being compliant.:::waves::: Hey Mr. Lawson!
I didn't get that kind of red carpet welcome either. Bah humbug!!Welcome Mr. Lawson :)
I must protest in the strongest possible terms at the review Rick has given Deadly Circus of Desire: Boys of Imperial Rome. How dare he award it five stars (5 STARS!) when it's only a load of ancient Roman filth. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
this might sound stupid, but i am only seventeen. My cat died (froze to death) right in front of me yesterday, and i'm still upset about it. i bawled hours yesterday, and i'm still bawling today, but my folks made me come to school even though i ca'n't go five minutes without seeing his face while he was dying, hearing his screams, and watching him die. my Dad expects me to get over it. it only been a day!
Courtney wrote: "this might sound stupid, but i am only seventeen. My cat died (froze to death) right in front of me yesterday, and i'm still upset about it. i bawled hours yesterday, and i'm still bawling today, b..."Courtney, I so sorry. It's never easy losing a loved one, especially in such a horrific way. Take your own time over your grief, find someone you can talk to if you need to (are the counselors approachable?), and take care of yourself. (((hugs)))
Courtney wrote: "this might sound stupid, but i am only seventeen. My cat died (froze to death) right in front of me yesterday, and i'm still upset about it. i bawled hours yesterday, and i'm still bawling today, b..."When you are all cried out and feeling better, check to see if there is a Humane Society or other animal shelter in your area. If there is a rescue/adoption shelter, volunteer to help out in getting homes for the cats and dogs that are in desperate need of adoption. Perhaps if you help save lives of a animals in the shelter you will feel joy instead of grief.
counselers are quacks. and i would voluteer at a shelter but i get overly attached to animals quickly and would prolly get upset when my favourite one gets adopted
im mad because i get really bad panic attacks real easy (sometimes for no reason) and tmrw at school we have all on the same day:fire drill
tornado drill
alice drill
evacuation drill
early dismissal from vocational
chemical spill drill
homeroom
special activty schedule
assembly
all within the last three hours of school
and once again my folks won't let me stay home from school when i know i wont be able to handle it. and no im not one of those people who find any and every excuse they can to get outta school, i love school
Courtney wrote: "im mad because i get really bad panic attacks real easy (sometimes for no reason)..."Well that's pretty rotten. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. If you parents were supportive, it would be good to see a doctor who is trained in dealing with panic attacks which would be as a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist could prescribe medication if she or he thought that medication was needed. A psychologist would be useful to see for talk therapy and helping you learn various things you can do to reduce or ward off your extreme anxiety such as breathing exercises, just for example.
I'm not qualified to advise you on anything to do with panic attacks but psychiatrists and psychologists are the people I'd see who are qualified.
If you have debilitating panic attacks "sometimes for no reason" which interfere with your ability to handle school you are going to need to deal with them outside of school as time goes on since they will interfere with jobs, raising kids and every aspect of your life.
That means simply not going to school when you feel you won't be able to handle these drills isn't the answer. The answer is getting the appropriate medical and psychiatric help you need to live a normal, healthy life.
I hope your parents are aware that panic attacks are not uncommon and are not something you can handle on your own so they will get you psychiatric diagnosticians and treatment that is appropriate.
Good luck!
Wow, I came to complain only to find that Courtney has a better one (and shared by my oldest son, as well). Nevertheless I wish to complain that GR has turned friends into followers which is creepy.
Averin wrote: "Wow, I came to complain only to find that Courtney has a better one (and shared by my oldest son, as well). Nevertheless I wish to complain that GR has turned friends into followers which is creepy."I find that I must agree with this...creepy, too.
Roger wrote: "It's turning into Facebook, then?"No it's some sort of author 'improvement', but I don't think it is an improvement at all. Another AMZ-inspiration, I suppose. Nobody asked me if I wanted it.
Okay, I finally caught up with Averin-Roger-"facebook".I wanted to PM one of the LOR authors, went to his/her (can't recall who now) GR page and suddenly there was this humongous "FOLLOW" icon, and a weirdly rearranged page. WTF? Especially since the "send a message" and the other links that were usually there were gone. Fortunately, I had an email address so I went that route.
Then the PM issue arose again, for someone I didn't have an email address and I finally decided to right click the follow thing...I don't recall everything that popped up in the dialogue box, but one of those was send a message.
So I guess as long as you only right-click you can still use the previous functions.
I think.
Maybe.
Possibly.
Perhaps.
Eric-the-ever-confused
Danny wrote: "Grrrrrr that's terrible!!!"Horrible as that is, imagine if he finds 36,000 other nutters to sign?
That's
horrible
!! What is up with these people? Is there something in the air or the water? >(
Sorry, folks, and even though as a gay man I find this idea utterly abhorrent, if you're going to have free speech...like the article Averin sent us implicitly says...you have to accept the good with the bad. The Nazis got to march in Skokie. This asshole gets to "march" in the initiative process. It's his right. If you take away his right preemptively, then whose rights can be stripped next?
As the article pointed out, it's the function of the courts to determine the validity of laws, whether under constitutional principles or otherwise. And if I understood the article correctly, it's the function of the courts to determine whether a proposed ballot initiative is so legally defective it can't be put to a vote, even if he gets the 360,000 signatures he needs.
Californians who are sane just need to work against the proposal. And while I know absolutely nothing about the ethical standards for California lawyers, or the standards by which one is deemed fit to be admitted, if there's something of a "morality" clause, this guy certainly doesn't fit my vision of any kind of acceptable "morality."
Just my USD .02
Eric
With the right to free speech comes an extraordinary responsibility, but even if that is ignored, allowing anyone the right to propose amendments to statute law on the payment of $200 is tantamount to opening the asylum doors. Recent years have shown that along with the great freedom of Internet social connections has come great evil, of which McLaughlin is exemplary.Fortunately psychopaths of his ilk are few and common sense allied to simple decency—that extraordinary responsibility—is legion.
On Facebook Goesta Struve-Dencher had this to say on the McLaughlin matter:Unfortunately the discussion in the press, from what I've browsed, seems to indicate that in the US "free speech" trumps almost all. But: would he really be able to push it through as easily if he proposed the vigilante shooting on sight of Asians, African-Americans or Jews? There's some serious, mealy-mouthed hypocrisy going on on the part of the lawmakers. Basic human rights are not arguable. What happened to the "inalienable rights" of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"? Whose happiness trumps whose? This kind of this really get me...
I'd like to complain about a homophobic, apparently now also misogynistic, guy who is a member of a different group here on goodreads.
Courtney wrote: "im mad because i get really bad panic attacks real easy (sometimes for no reason) and tmrw at school we have all on the same day:fire drill
tornado drill
alice drill
evacuation drill
early dismis..."
I understand I get panic attacks too....fire drills make me feel like I'm gonna pass out or vomit.
♥★Julia wrote: "I'd like to complain about a homophobic, apparently now also misogynistic, guy who is a member of a different group here on goodreads."Are you being harassed?
Averin wrote: "♥★Julia wrote: "I'd like to complain about a homophobic, apparently now also misogynistic, guy who is a member of a different group here on goodreads."Are you being harassed?"
Not exactly, he doesn't seek me out to say rude things to me specifically,at least it doesn't seem that way.
Preston wrote: "I am complaining that the book on Julia's blog Crewel by Gennifer Albin sounds interesting as a fantasy/mystery. Of course Julia has some thoughts on it so check out Crewel on Julia's blog at:htt..."
Aw thanks :)
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And it's over 170,000 words, which is longer than The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire…
Oh, and a Happy New Year complainers!