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Alison, here's a cool GR Q&A feature. If you type "Manna Francis" or anything else you're looking for into the "search discussion posts" window (upper right side of these pages) it will come up with all the posts on Q&A that mention your search term. In the case of "Manna Francis" that's about six pages, but you could skim and see what might be of interest. I've used this a lot to check on postings related to books that have caught my eye.
Finished Iron & Velvet. Loved it. Purely enjoyable.
K.J. wrote: "Finished Iron & Velvet. Loved it. Purely enjoyable."Good to hear! Thanks, KJ. :) I'll keep it on my xmas gift list for my friends.
I've just finished Chaos Walking: A Trilogy by Patrick Ness. Imaginative, full of emotions, just excellent. It's not m/m, but there is a quite important gay couple in it.BTW A Monster Calls is also an incredible book about mourning and loss. If you want it, do buy the illustrated edition!
Both of them YA, I suppose, respectively science-fiction and fantasy. I'm not exactly young, but I loved them both.
Karen wrote: "Alison wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Alison wrote: "I'm reading Manna Francis's Administration series right now. Whoa! It's fascinating! I wasn't sure I would like it, but the first book, Mind Fuck, is..."That's a good trick, Karen! I'm not sure I ever would have thought of that. Thanks. :)
Antonella wrote: "I've just finished Chaos Walking: A Trilogy by Patrick Ness. Imaginative, full of emotions, just excellent. It's not m/m, but there is a quite important gay couple in it.BTW A Monster Calls is al..."
I think most YA is written with at least one eye on the adult market these days. Twilight, Divergent, The Mortal Instruments, and Harry Potter are all best selling YA series with a strong adult following.
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At first, I wasn't so sure about Administration. But, like you, the more I read, the more sucked in I get! I love it. I've got three more stories to go. Don't know when I'll get there though. Two of them are pretty long!
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Antonella wrote: "I've just finished Chaos Walking: A Trilogy by Patrick Ness. Imaginative, full of emotions, just excellent. It's not m/m, but there is a quite important gay couple in it..."I have the first book - Knife of never letting go - somewhere in my to-read mountain. I should dig it out.
I'm loving Francis' Administration so far. It has lots of things that push my m/m fiction buttons: dark, plot-necessary violence, excellent world building, an intriguing b*stard MC and BDSM. Mmm...
Jordan wrote: "I'm still reading First To Kill, and I can't help but want to slash the two main characters together. The one guy is married with three kids, the other is single, but gosh! They've been through so ..."Sounds like a classic buddy cop story, which I love. Of course these days they're calling them bromances. LOL
I wear my slash glasses a lot, too, but it's also nice when two guys can let down the guards most men have in place and simply be good friends.
*Goes to check out this book.*
Juthi wrote:Caroline, it's probably because you know a lot about that time period which is why the story didn't seem realistic. I do this thing when I'm reading a book where the fact checking part of my brain shuts down..."Well I'm far from being an expert but Bonds of Earth definitely felt inauthentic. I'm a history graduate so fact checking is hard-wired and working out what research the author has done - not much in this case.
Karen wrote: What I recall especially enjoying about this story was the notion of healing through gardening, and that the attraction between this unlikely couple built slowly over time. I was invested in them enough to worry about how they'd come through the times ahead of them..."
Healing through gardening sounds like a good theme for a novel but sadly I was giving up on this one by the time the MC had started on the flower beds.
I've got back to Lyn Macdonaldand Sommealthough I can only read it a few pages at a time. This is the testimony of one of the lorry drivers
“Quite a few of the ambulances had had a direct hit and we couldn’t do much about those, but some of the others had been pretty well splintered with shrapnel and the wounded men they’d put iside had been wounded again… When you looked inside you got the shock of your life. All we could do was load them into the lorry, try and get them back as quick as you can, because the shelling’s going on all the time. When we got back there were five dead in the lorry and the lorry floor was swimming with blood.”
He goes on to do another six runs and then is so exhausted he crawls into the lorry to lie on the floor and sleep. The next morning he has to be given a new uniform because his is sodden with blood. He told Lyn MacDonald
“I’ve never been able to stand the sight of blood since. If I prick my finger I feel sick, even after sixty-five years and more.”
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Oh yes! I'm not ashamed to say I adore Warrick and Toreth. I think I'll have to re-read Pancakes tonight! :-)
Witch and Wombat I've giggled over this book for years -- no Epic Quests but a lot of everydayish details and a LOT of humor. My husband's stupid little dog ATE my paperback copy & I love the book enough to need the immediate gratification (and to be thrilled that a book that's almost 20 is available as an ebook).
Jordan wrote: "At first, I wasn't so sure about Administration. But, like you, the more I read, the more sucked in I get! I love it. I've got three more stories to go. Don't know when I'll get there though. Two of them are pretty long! "Exactly, Jordan! The second book was where things really started to draw me in irreversibly. I just finished the sixth book yesterday (First Against the Wall) and it was intense and made me cry. I gather a new book is in the works.
I just put a book on my wish list for Christmas.Our former prime minister is a lesbian (I think the first one in the world?) and her wife just published a book about their lives together. They have been together since 1985 I think... were both married at the time they met and have lived a very interesting lives I think. Our former PM is extremely interesting character, really strong in her opinions but has never been the one to openly flaunt her personal life... I don't think I even knew she was gay until around 2000 or bit later.
Anyway... I think this'll be extremely interesting book to read.... plus I do love reading biographies.
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. Love how these two young men link up so passionately, how they are (slowly) growing up in new ways, how they find a way to forgive each others' well-intentioned but hugely misguided choices. Harper is an amazing storyteller.
Susinok wrote: "Started The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari by Sarah Black. Out today!"Thank you for the reminder! I wonder when the print book will come out. Once in a lifetime I could save some money...
Susinok wrote: "Started The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari by Sarah Black. Out today!"Thank you! I have just downloaded it, I love her books.
Karen wrote: "I loved Harper Fox's The Lost Prince. Love how these two young men link up so passionately, how they are (slowly) growing up in new ways, how they find a way to ..."I agree with you completely. She can do no wrong.
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Our former prime minister is a lesbian (I think the first one in the world?) and her wife just published a book about their lives together. They ha..."
I love biographies too.
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I agree, it is nice that they can be that close and just be friends. Of course, part of the reason they're so close is because of tragic stuff that happened in the past, but hey, that normally pushes people away from each other, so this is a good thing. They read each other well and take care of each other as needed.
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I just bought it. Because my TBSOMEDAYR just isn't unmanageable enough yet.
I've just had a kind of attack and I bought The Dandelion Clock, Look Away Silence, Leave Myself Behind, The Year of Ice, The Other Guy. All of them on paper and in spite of my TBSOMEDAYR.In fact I suspect we should have a separate topic ''What else are you buying?'', which would be totally different from ''What else are you reading?''. In my case they would coincide after some years.
To show that I read, or - better - I buy ;-) also other books than m/m: I received yesterday The Moon is Down, Steinbeck's anti-nazi propaganda book and today A Handbook on Hanging, a satyrical pamphlet from 1928 against death penalty by the quite unknown Irish author Charles Duff.
Antonella wrote: "I've just had a kind of attack and I bought The Dandelion Clock, Look Away Silence, Leave Myself Behind, The Year of Ice, The Other Guy. All of them on paper and in spite of my TBSOMEDAYR.In fact..."
I bought a paper book today as well, in hardback and Norwegian, which spells expensive. But it is an important book, originally Swedish, that has become very popular in Sweden, "tørk ingen tårer uten hansker" ( don't dry tears without gloves) by Jonas Gardell. It tells the story about the AIDS epidemy in Sweden in the early eighties, and the suffering of so many of the author's friends. Gardell is well loved also in Norway, and the story is relevant here as well.
I know about it! My Swedish friend was visiting Switzerland one month ago and told me that her Swedish friends are reading it together. First I said that I never heard of it. Then I went to look for it in the internet and I found out that I had read an article about the story when the BBC bought the TV series from the Swedish television:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/late...
My brother and I returned a few hours ago from Belgrade Book Fair where we bought: two art books (one about Michelangelo, one about Turner), Don Quixote, Michael Palin's Himalaya, Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan, Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, Stephen King's The Shining and a wonderfully illustrated book about Serbian mythological creatures he bought for his girlfriend (and I'm going to borrow, lol). I mean, if we are talking about TBSOMEDAYR here. XD
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Jordan wrote: "You're all going to have to educate me. TBSOMEDAYR? To Be Someday R? I'm guessing. And probably floundering around the water until I somehow drown from guessing wrong too many times. lol."Read. :)
I'm guessing: To Be Someday Read. TBR (to be read) sounds too immediate!
Susinok wrote: "Started The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari by Sarah Black. Out today!"Finished it today! What a wild and wonderful tale, and such wild and wonderful men! And I am so happy she didn't paint all Muslims as villains and vilified a religion, which she so easily and conventionally could have done. I am not a religious person, but I respect that others are, and there are good people to be found and amazing things to learn, wherever people live or whatever they believe, not just in one country or in one belief. Something the author clearly states.
This reminded me that I had bought Wild Onions by Sarah Black and not read it yet - so that's what I'm reading!!
Anne wrote: "Susinok wrote: "Started The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari by Sarah Black. Out today!"Finished it today! What a wild and wonderful tale, and such wild and wonderful men! And I am so ..."
I liked that, too. Especially Eli's reverence for the history of Carthage. I also got the feeling Daniel and Eli were more than just friends. Or wanted to be.
Hj wrote: "Karen wrote: "I loved Harper Fox's The Lost Prince. Love how these two young men link up so passionately, how they are (slowly) growing up in new ways, how they ..."Yes. Exactly that! :-)
The time has come for me to reread the Adrien English series. 
Lady*M wrote: "The time has come for me to reread the Adrien English series. "
Hey, me too! I started in on A Dangerous Thing yesterday. I am going slowly and loving every minute.
Anne wrote: "Susinok wrote: "Started The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari by Sarah Black. Out today!"Finished it today! What a wild and wonderful tale, and such wild and wonderful men!"
Although I'm totally envious, I've decided that I'm going to buy it only in print, because I can't go on buying everything double. So I'll wait a bit more to get it free of shipping costs.
For sure I don't lack reading material, for ex. I still have to read PsyCop7, because I want to reread the other six books....
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Jordan wrote: "I need to reread all of Psycop too at some point. I really want to, but feel like I'm not going to have time, what with reading The Rifter in December and Special Forces: Soldiers in January."And did I mention I feel like I should reread The Rifter, now that I have all of it on paper? ;-))
In order to get in the Regency groove to work on my own piece, I finally got around to reading my Ava March books.Convincing Arthur
Convincing Leopold
Bound by Deception
Now reading Bound to Him
I also found a fascinating book for Kindle, Homosexuality & Civilization by Louis Crompton. It just about ENDS at the Regency era, but it begins in antiquity, so it will be a resource should I want to get my gladiator on.
The other thing I need to get off my shelf is my copy of Sex in History by Rey Tannahill. I read it years ago, but did not pay any particular attention to any one time. The Victorian anti-masturbation machines were rather scary, if I recall. You could go all kinds of Steampunk with them.
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lol. I would love to have those beautiful books in print. The print copies are really nice. But, alas, I really don't have the shelf space.
At least I can buy them for the library!
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I've put them into piles, so I know what I'm reading before and during November (mostly Kizuna - Bonds of Love: Book 1 - the entire series), and I've put books in order according to the way I'd like to read a bunch more starting in December. There's 14 in that pile, we'll see how long it takes me to get through them all.
I added a new, and very tall, pile of Terry Pratchett books, since I've never read him, yay for weeded library books! lol. Don't know when I'll get to those though. They didn't get a read by date.
And then I actually started a pile of books that I'll be reading for my summer reading next year. Scary huh? I figured that's the only time I'll get around to them. Started a new shelf on GR too, though these are not set in stone just yet. I'm not sure I want to read No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden during the summer when I'll be blogging book reviews on the teen blog. It hasn't been picked as a summer reading book like some other military books (Black Hawk Down was a summer reading book for the higher level high schools in the area a few summers ago, so that was an okay summer read to blog about.) This one I'm not so sure of yet.
And of course, none of this includes MM. They're in another pile, and mostly consist of Michael Nava's series, which isn't really MM, and all the books on my Kindle. They'll get read in-between all the others and when I need a good break from the non-romance.
I'm actually thinking I might start Michael Nava's series when I get done with Brandstetter and just read one book a month until they're done. We'll see.
Gosh, what craziness! I had to force myself to go to bed so I could read a book, so that I can be closer to finishing it, which means I'm then closer to reading all these other books! lol.
Jordan wrote: "Gosh, what craziness! I had to force myself to go to bed so I could read a book, so that I can be closer to finishing it, which means I'm then closer to reading all these other books! lol."I'm having such book troubles as well lately... But I would get stressed making reading programms for myself!
Antonella wrote: "I'm having such book troubles as well lately... But I would get stressed making reading programms for myself! ..."I don't plan ahead, either. Soon as I do I get distracted by another "oh shiny!"
It seems I am unable to savor Adrien English - I breezed through four in less than a day. Sigh... Maybe it's been too long since my last reread.Now... The Dark Tide.
Susinok wrote: "Antonella wrote: "I'm having such book troubles as well lately... But I would get stressed making reading programms for myself! ..."I don't plan ahead, either. Soon as I do I get distracted by an..."
That's me as well :)
Lady*M wrote: "It seems I am unable to savor Adrien English - I breezed through four in less than a day. Sigh... Maybe it's been too long since my last reread.Now... The Dark Tide."
I think if you listen to the audio books, it is easier to savour them. Then you can't just breeze through, but are stuck with the narrator's reading pace :)
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I am pleased, as well! I have a vague memory of hearing about it from this group and I recall much enthusiasm, so I figured I'd better find out what all the fuss was about, as you all tend to have impeccable taste. Many thanks!
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