![]() ![]() One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (January 5, 2012)Ī stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.ĭonations to the Lambda Literary Foundation welcome.īluestockings Books will be on hand to sell copies of the featured authors’ latest titles. ![]() ![]() This event will take place at Heathers, located at 506 East 13th St # 1 (Between Avenues A & B) NYC, on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012. Come meet the authors, have some drinks at Heather’s too-hip-for-school bar, and possibly meet the well read partner of your dreams. This is not a reading this is a straight-up party! Join them as they toast a group of the finest writers working today. LIT!: an evening to celebrate the recent publications by authors Ellis Avery, Cris Beam, Sarah Schulman, and Laurie Weeks. The Lambda Literary Foundation, in conjunction with reading curator Karen Schechner, proudly presents: Place: Heathers, 506 East 13th St # 1, (Between Avenues A & B), NYC Elisa_rolle Date: Wednesday, January 25th, 2012. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Cherringham crime series is their first fictional transatlantic collaboration.Ĭhronological order, not necessary but recommended. ![]() Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), are known for their script work on major computer games. For fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who series, Caroline Graham's Midsomer Murders, and the American TV series Murder She Wrote, starring Angela Lansbury. ![]() Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Cherringham is serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. and who wanted that teacher dead before they learned the truth. Now, with murder in the air, Jack and Sarah have their own lessons to learn about the Cherringham Girls School, its dark secrets. But things quickly turn serious when a popular teacher meets a sudden, violent death. When Jack and Sarah are called in to investigate mysterious pranks at an exclusive girls' private school, it seems at first that it might be the work of a few mean pupils with a grudge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Capetta, so this one was already on my radar. ![]() ![]() I’ve slowly been reading more books by A.R. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)īefore I even began The Heartbreak Bakery I was already so excited. (Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. And Harley believes Syd’s magical baking can fix things, too-one recipe at a time. But the cute bike delivery person, Harley (he or they, check the pronoun pin, it’s probably on the messenger bag), believes Syd about the magic baking. Being dumped is one thing causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. And their breakup might take the bakery down with it. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin. And everyone who eats Syd’s breakup brownies. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. While there is heartbreak and tension, I just kept smiling while reading The Heartbreak Bakery. Full of recipes I need to bake right now and a story about magical baked good, this one is so precious. ![]() ![]() ![]() Awarded biennially, the prize honours a lifetime’s achievement in literature for a writer in the English language who is a citizen of the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. In 2011 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Forster Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the San Clemente literary prize. In England his honors include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In France, he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 2004 he became a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His recent publications include Pulse, a collection of short stories, and The Sense of an Ending, winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize. ![]() Julian Barnes is the author of three books of stories, books of essays, a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s In the Land of Pain, and numerous novels, including Metroland published in 1980. An Unlikely Lunch: When Maupassant met Swinburne. ![]() ![]() ![]() There aren’t chapters in this one, it is just broken up into now and the past by paragraph. This has the affect of keeping bits hidden for longer and making you want to read on to see what went on before. We start with the victim, Maya, being questioned by the FBI and work backwards to piece together what has happened previously. ![]() It is written in a different style to what we usually see with serial killer thrillers. It is harrowing and scary and written in such a way that Hutchinson doesn’t need to spell out all the gory details – you will fill them in by yourself, and that makes this one all the more terrifying. Even those hardened to the genre may question some of what is in this book. However much you read crime fiction, serial killer thrillers, scary suspense novels, you may not be ready for this one. □ If you pick this one up, you won’t put it down, and you’ll be captivated from start to finish. Once I’d finished this one, it took me a little while to articulate my thoughts enough to write a proper review, but I think I managed it. It had a unique writing style and a disturbing plot. The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson was a harrowing read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He supposed it must be the echo but the odd thing was that the echo was not in the least like the original sound. ![]() ![]() The first full noise was immediately followed by a series of fainter noises- as he counted them, about six. It was the unmistakable noise of a pistol or carbine or some light firearm discharged but it was not this that puzzled him most. But as he passed under the shadow of one handsome villa with verandas and wide ornate gardens, he heard a noise that made him almost involuntarily stop. But all the windows and doors were sealed none of the people were of the sort that would be up at such a time, or still less on such an errand. At yet more distant intervals appeared the houses upon the broken fringe of the suburb their outlines became clearer and clearer until he recognized many in which he had chance acquaintances, and many more the names of whose owners he knew. The scattered trees outlined themselves more and more out of the vapour, as if they were first drawn in grey chalk and then in charcoal. FATHER BROWN was walking home from Mass on a white weird morning when the mists were slowly lifting-one of those mornings when the very element of light appears as something mysterious and new. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By that I mean why Layla or Finn were the way they were, their initial first slip-ups were described but no explanations behind any further actions or potential dangers were ever given, making me feel at the very end like I didn't really see their psychological misgivings to be the reason behind their tragic love. Either that or nothing of its background was really ever explained. I also felt like maybe the subject under it was too simply put for it to really be a psychological thriller - like maybe it wasn't only made up (of course, it's fiction) but it was actually fabricated from the psychologically possible aspect. I didn't finish Paris's first book, and this one made me skip over some parts as it did slow down significantly, settling on a long ping-pong match of want-him want-her that quickly grew repetitive and boring. ![]() ![]() ![]() I locked eyes with Naialah, nodded, and ran straight for the closest werewolf.Ī month ago you wouldn't have the slightest idea that I am who I am today. I opened my eyes as the filmy protective barrier around us fell back into the earth and seven pairs of eyes momentarily gleamed hungrily before launching themselves at us. I could feel the magic swirling and pooling within me, still a new sensation, but warm and comforting all the same. I shut my eyes for a brief moment, just long enough to center my core and fill it with the abundance of life energy in the forest surrounding us. It was all very clear now…this is what I'd been training for these past few weeks. ![]() But I wasn't alone and I knew I was ready. Suddenly I no longer cared that I was about to launch myself at a werewolf. ![]() I could feel the fear morphing into adrenaline as it seeped through my blood and coursed through my body. ![]() ![]() ![]() The whole premise of SF is that the status quo is impermanent: it hasn’t always been what it is today, and it won’t be the same in future. James Alan Gardner: Science Fiction is always based on the question, “What would happen if things were different?” The differences can be technological, sociological, or even historical as in alternate history stories, but one way or another, SF deals with worlds that are not exactly like our own. Spec Can: What role can Science Fiction have to push boundaries and help people to question the status quo? In my spare time, I meditate and do kung fu. Just recently, I’ve gone back to UW part-time to study Earth Sciences. Eventually I got my B.Math and M.Math in Applied Math, writing my master’s thesis on black holes. James Alan Gardner: I grew up in small-town Ontario, then went to the University of Waterloo to take math. Spec Can : To begin our interview, could you tell me a little bit about yourself? ![]() ![]() I hope that readers enjoy our conversation as much as I enjoyed participating in it. Gardner agreed to do an interview with me. As a disability scholar and someone who is interested in portrayals in Science Fiction of people who are Othered, I was extremely pleased that Mr. I have been very lucky to get in touch with James Alan Gardner. ![]() ![]() In teacher student romance books, the age difference can be considerable or it can be minor if it’s a new, young teacher. Given the age difference between the main characters in age gap romances, there is a definite cross-over with the teacher student romance trope and the forbidden romance trope. Perhaps it’s the hard-fought happily-ever-after when the odds are stacked against the characters, or maybe it’s the forbidden nature of the central relationship that gets a reader’s motor going.Ĭentral to all age gap romance books is the age difference between the central characters of the love story.įor some books, the age gap isn’t even an issue but for others, it’s a key point that is addressed throughout the story and impacts the characters’ happily ever after. ![]() ![]() In the romance genre, several romance book tropes are at the top of the list that readers return to again and again including age gap romance books. ![]() |