I am a sucker for a nice looking book. Sightlines–the UK version, at least–features a flock of sea birds taking flight against a dark blue sky. It’s the same dark blue I see when I look up at the sky in the evening these days. Not quite full dark but a beautiful intermediary that conveys a promise of the dark and stars to come. You have to make yourself love the dark if you live in Scotland (or at least make an attempt) because in the […]
CBR VI # 2 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
I went into this book thinking that I would get an answer to the cliffhanger ending of The Giver. Was Jonas and Baby Gabriel safe? Or was it the final delusions of a dying kid? Well, I was sorely disappointed when the book opened to depict a society completely different from the Community. What was the connection? Well, I just decided to go ahead and enjoy the book on its merits and not as a sequel. Kira lives in a mainly hunter-gatherer society (with a […]
Jazz Vampires
This is a follow on book to “Midnight Riot”
“The Prometheus Design”: Star Trek Novelization Vangie13 cbr #19
by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath “The two Vulcans moved as one. Spock began chopping into the no-mouths with great double-handed blows that no flesh could stand against. Savaj picked up a no-mouth and used it as a battering ram. Rand stiff-armed the cone-noses with the heel of her hand. Scott found some way of heaving them over, and McCoy was making some effort to come up over the top after Kirk.” So, Marshak and Culbreath. We meet again. Who knows what the hell these […]
A BFF finds TLA
Patience Bloom says: “Around five a.m. I put on my clothes—noticing my boots are still on—and leave his apartment. The victorious rush of leaving without being asked fuels me. I am such a strong, independent woman who doesn’t need to linger. I can’t waste a second since I have an entire day in which to spread the news of my whorishness. I want to scream across the Île Saint-Louis, I just had my first one-night stand! But I don’t since it’s five in the morning […]
Tried to swear off young adult fiction; failed
I can
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