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I love this!"
I've somehow managed to skip this earlier, so I'm happy Josh commented on it now. :-) This is fascinating, Karen. Thank you for sharing the link!
Josh wrote: "Steve wrote: "Josh wrote: "Steve wrote: "I'm reading 'Dirty Laundry' by Heidi Cullinan - book 3 in the Tucker Springs series. I'm enjoying it. Sometimes I enjoy a sweet story. I was reading 'Burnt ..."She does. Outside of you, LB is an autobuy. She has an understanding of the pain, loss, regret and hope that lives in the hearts of the young and old. Unlike many other authors, her situations don't come across as contrived. Her characters have to work for their happy endings (don't we all?) but she doesn't unnecessarily brutalize them or the reader getting there. Of course, I'm not saying I haven't snot-sobbed my way through 'Mistletoe at Midnight' a time of 4.
Valerie wrote: "Susinok wrote: "HJ wrote: "What did you think about the body-double not being the same height etc as the actor being "doubled"? I've read several of the Bluewater books but I do like some realism i..."Susinok, I hope you weren't offended by my comments on the book. I apologize if they came across as a criticism of you on any level. I'd read the other books in the series and met Ginsberg in the first book where he has a semi-pivotal role near the end. I was confused why the author of Burnt Toast would take an existing character and changed his physical features so much - unless she hadn't read the first book.
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Awww. I'm telling her you said so. I agree 100%.
Johanna wrote: "Josh wrote: "Steve wrote: "Josh wrote: "Steve wrote: "I'm reading 'Dirty Laundry' by Heidi Cullinan - book 3 in the Tucker Springs series. I'm enjoying it. Sometimes I enjoy a sweet story. I was re..."OMG - It's so good, Johanna, but it leaves you wanting more. Luckily she has a follow up planned for early next year. I really enjoyed the first book. It was nearly a perfect read for me.
This book popped up in my rec's on Amazon and was available in Kindle Unlimited so I decided to give it a try. Checking Out Love by R. Cooper. I hadn't heard of the author before, but it's a quick read and I really enjoyed it...but I have a thing for libraries.
Steve wrote: "Valerie wrote: "Susinok wrote: "HJ wrote: "What did you think about the body-double not being the same height etc as the actor being "doubled"? I've read several of the Bluewater books but I do li..."Me? Not offended! I'm just saying I liked the book. I like trans books in general and knew about it going in.
And I have a poor memory for details. By this book I have no idea what the actor in the first book looked like anyway, LOL!
I've been super busy at work so my reply was on the short side. I'm catching up today on a day and a half worth of Goodreads posts. Fun, but I normally like to keep up to date more often and write longer messages.
Johanna wrote: "Yeah, I agree. LB's There's Something About Ari is the only book I've yet to read from that series. I truly enjoyed that one..."Hmm, I gave up after the first two I read in that series. Maybe I'll have to give that one a shot. I'm currently reading sci-fi and dragons for challenges this month.
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"He’d figured out just by body type that Ginsberg had to be the double for the guy who played Gabriel Hanford, since he’d said he was doubling for one of the leads, and there were only two, and he looked nothing at all like the big, bulky action-star type playing Rolling Thunder. Truth was, he didn’t look all that much like the Gabriel actor, either. What was his name . . . Carter something? He’d met him that night at the coffee shop, but he hadn’t been paying as much attention as he probably should’ve been. Carter and Ginsberg didn’t match at all in the face, really, and even the body wasn’t quite right. Derrick strongly suspected he was the only one who’d noticed that, though, given how carefully Ginsberg blended himself in, holding himself and moving exactly like Carter. Fact was, Ginsberg must’ve been hired for how talented he was, rather than for being a carbon copy of this Carter guy."
Heidi Belleau; Rachel Haimowitz. The Burnt Toast B&B (Kindle Locations 2666-2673). Riptide Publishing.
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Karen wrote: "Susinok wrote: "HJ wrote: "What did you think about the body-double not being the same height etc as the actor being "doubled"? I've read several of the Bluewater books but I do like some realism i...""Derrick found himself laughing too hard ... at that the fact that Ginsberg had managed to headlock a man with a good foot in height ... and at least fifty pounds on him ..." So, unless Derrick is pushing 7 feet tall and well over 250 pounds, something is wrong because no way is a casting director, no matter how talented the person is, going to use a stunt double who is almost a foot shorter than the character he is doubling. It would be way to obvious on the screen.
But, this is fiction, right? Werewolves don't exist... or do they? Hmmm....
Lady*M wrote: "My new favorite feel-good book:The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers."
Thanks for the tip, i downloaded the sample. The title alone should make it worth while, it's fantastic :)
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers."
It sounds promising! Thank you for the recommendation. There can't ever be too many feel-good books. :-)
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Ah, I don't know... Tom Cruise looks taller in film (say, than when jumping on couches) and dancers look taller on stage. Maybe we see what we want, what we expect, to see. Like vampires, and werewolves... ; )
Karen wrote: "Steve wrote: "Karen wrote: "Susinok wrote: "HJ wrote: "What did you think about the body-double not being the same height etc as the actor being "doubled"? I've read several of the Bluewater books ..."They're out there, aren't they Karen?
15 Books By Transgender Women You Need To Read ImmediatelyWell, I don't know about ''immediately'', nowadays everything is hyped. Still, some titles look interesting...
Every year around this time I read a smattering of Lammy-shortlist books.One that I just finished was Tatamkhulu Afrika's
. I found it stunning. Not perfect, mind, but memorable. I mention it here for the Charioteer fans, as it had echos (for me) of that book. It's set in about the same time period (this one in Italian and German WWII POW camps), but what struck me was the combination of rigorous honesty with a failure to put two and two together of the POV character.
John wrote: "Every year around this time I read a smattering of Lammy-shortlist books.One that I just finished was Tatamkhulu Afrika's
. I found it stunning. Not perfect, mind,..."I bought it in 2010, I can't remember how I came to it. Anyway I started to read it right away, but then I stopped because although very good, it was too gritty and sad for me at the time. I should give it another try.
Johanna wrote: "The bonus side of being sick is that you get to read a lot (after you're not feeling so totally, absolutely sick any more).I finally decided to read the Captive Prince series and after wolfing do..."
I know!! Still waiting for the third book, been waiting for 2 years I think!
Varecia wrote: "Antonella wrote: "This goes under: ''what I'll be reading''...First of all there is a re-launch of all the ebooks of the Boystown series. But especially, more interesting for me, ..."
What??? It's out??? Oh, no. How did I not know this? I'm going to sleep really soon and there's work tomorrow and for the next 5 day. I could have read it during the weekend!
This'll mean no sleep tonight.
While I'm still shocked I wasted a weekend reading something that wasn't Boystown, I did read the sweatest, cutest book called Wrestling Demons. Probably very unrealistic but I read it with a goofy smile on my face the whole book. Such comfort read. I felt so happy after reading it.
BTW is Boystown only available through Amazon?
Ame wrote: "BTW is Boystown only available through Amazon?"For sure Boystown 7: Bloodlines is also at Barnes and Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/boyst...
or Kobo:
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...
And here an excerpt:
http://www.jonmichaelsen.net/?p=2138
Thank you so much. I'm kind of annoyed at Amazon and probably my government because some of the prices at Amazon are ridicilous and it's all supposed to be because of my countriy's lax laws. But why should my government get a bigger cut of a price of a book than the author for a book that's not even published here and never will?
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I just finished Deliverance, and I have to say, while it was good, there were a lot of things that bugged me. The poor editing for one, and the small references to Special Forces that were never explained. In the middle of the book, Hooch and Matt are on a plane flying home from Scotland, with no explanation as to why they went there in the first place. This also read as more of a collection of short stories than one full novel. But despite those things, I did enjoy it, quite a bit.
I'm now thinking I'll start Death Trick and then The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes before I hit up my print books again, in an attempt to clear my coffee table before moving day.
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One that I just finished was Tatamkhulu Afrika's
. I found it stunning. Not perfect, mind,..."Thank you for the recommendation, John. Your recommendations always work for me extremely well. :-)
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I finally decided to read the Captive Prince series and ..."
Two years? *gulp* Do we have any idea when Captive Prince book #3 will be published?
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The formatting is a bit poor, which is disappointing. I mean it's not that hard to do decent basic ebook formatting with chapters starting on new pages and appearing as a table of contents etc.I managed it, for both KDP and Smashwords (and Smashwords is harder.) There are instructions out there. It takes time and focus and sometimes scrapping what you've done so far and starting over! But it's worth it in the end.
Johanna wrote: "Ame wrote: "Johanna wrote: "The bonus side of being sick is that you get to read a lot (after you're not feeling so totally, absolutely sick any more).I finally decided to read the Captive Prince..."
Nope :(
https://twitter.com/cspacat/status/56...
Johanna wrote: "I read our March BOM Death Trick and started to read book #2 On the Other Hand, Death yesterday. I'm enjoying these, but the formatting problems in Kindle versions are s..."Yep... I seem to remember that the formatting gets a bit better later on, but i might have just gotten used to it... Probably better to go with print to avoid that.
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If I recall though, the publisher for DT is MLR. I detest their covers. But maybe there are some used paperbacks from one of the original print runs?
I'll try to read DT next and see how the formatting works for me, as I also have a kindle.
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But..."
The VAT thing is beyond confusing.
It's ridiculous that physical books are zero rated for VAT and ebooks aren't. That's madness. I think they classify them as software or some such bollocks.
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To add to the confusion, the ebook sellers are not handling the new VAT with any kind of consistency -- everyone is out there doing their own thing. I was hoping everyone would opt for consistency and efficiency, but what am I thinking? These days it's all about proprietary technology, so why would Amazon and Kobo put their heads together to figure out how to handle VAT?
I want to stress that I am all for leveling the playing field for local indie booksellers. But for the love of Mike. When every single country has a different tax rate...yeesh.
I've read The Normal Heart, here my review:Five stars, not because this short play is a masterpiece, but because the book depicts a fundamental piece of history, too often forgotten. The beginning of the AIDS epidemic and the political reaction, or lack of reaction, which caused the loss of many lives. That's why the play is angry - who wouldn't be? - powerful and emotional.
I cried already at the dedication:
To gay people everywhere, whom I love so.
''The Normal Heart'' is our history.
It could not have been written had not so many of us so needlessly died.
Learn from it and carry on the fight.
Let them know that we are a very special people, an exceptional people.
And that our day will come
I'm having a Pratchett reading weekend, in memoriam. Reading Pyramids and listening to audiobook of The Truth.
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I started reading How to Howl at the Moon yesterday after I saw KC's review on my feed. It's sweet and fluffy and it has dogs. So, everything I need for reading just now. :-)
Calathea wrote: "I started reading How to Howl at the Moon yesterday after I saw KC's review on my feed. It's sweet and fluffy and it has dogs. So, everything I need for reading just now. :-)"I have read it last week and liked it a lot. As you say it's fluffy, but I like that the 'dogs' are so normal and how it is possible that a dog can ~ grow ~ to a human.
Reading Scrap by Josephine Myles. It's surprisingly slow going on this one. Usually I tear through her books. I'm having a hard time liking one of the characters. I always hate it when I think the love interest could do better.
I just spent a lovely morning reading True Brit. Now there's a feel good story if there ever was one.
Calathea wrote: "I started reading How to Howl at the Moon yesterday after I saw KC's review on my feed. It's sweet and fluffy and it has dogs. So, everything I need for reading just now. :-)"So glad you like it! :-) For me too, it was exactly what i needed right then. I was tired and with a coming and going headache and annoyed about having a headache on my day off, but then i started reading the story and it made me smile and kept smiling throughout and felt better all over.
I finally got to read most of Alexis Hall's Prosperity stories, and especially loved: Cloudy Climes and Starless Skies, Squamous with a Chance of Rain, and Shackles.
Susinok wrote: "Reading Scrap by Josephine Myles. It's surprisingly slow going on this one. Usually I tear through her books. I'm having a hard time liking one of the characters. I always hate it w..."I seem to have the same issue :-(
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