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Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four Stephen King novellas with a more dramatic bent, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really liked this book, it wasn't too long or too angsty.but I did feel sorry for Tristan on more than one occasion. When things heat up and feelings chance.they both have to make choices, especially Zach, who's about to be married. He can be quite an asshole.but there is a reason for his facade. He always gets what he wants and he knows he's pretty. Hate very quickly turns into Tristan and Zach get it on !! He's about to get married and become monogamous. Zach is straight and has been in an open relationship for 10 years. When these two meet.they don't get along.at all. Zach is a well known physical therapist, and he's been hired by Jared, who is a close friend of his, to help Tristan with his recovery. His brother is in a relationship with the team's doctor (Jared) and he isn't out for the same reasons. ![]() ![]() Being gay in the soccer world wouldn't do him any good. He has a groin injury and needs physical therapy, so he can start playing ball again. The story felt more complete and it had an epilogue.thank god. I'm very happy that I decided to read this one because I loved it !! I liked book 1, but this one was so much better. I just couldn't help myself because the blurb sounded really interesting and I'm known for reading books out of order ) ![]() I recently finished book 1 in this series (which I liked) and for some reason jumped straight into this one.book 4. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dan Gillespie Sells’ beautiful Country and Western songs weave heartbreakingly through this intense tale of an irresistible and hidden love spanning twenty years and its tragic consequences. When Ennis and Jack take jobs on the isolated Brokeback Mountain, all their certainties of life change forever as they flounder in unexpected emotional waters of increasing depth. Wyoming 1963: a wild landscape where people live in extreme rural poverty in tight, insular and conservative communities. The production sees Jonathan Butterell and Dan Gillespie Sells (The Feeling), creators of the hit musical and film Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, reuniting with Producer Nica Burns. ![]() The world premiere of Brokeback Mountain, a new play with music, written by Ashley Robinson with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells and based on Annie Proulx’s short story, is now playing Directed by Jonathan Butterell, Brokeback Mountain stars Mike Faist as Jack and Lucas Hedges as Ennis, both making their West End stage debuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They talk in turn about those early years and how they came to join the band that would make them known around the world as John, Paul, George and Ringo. ![]() Snapshots from their family collections take us back to the days when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey were just boys growing up in Liverpool. What a book The Beatles Anthology is! Each page is brimming with personal stories and rare vintage images. Furthermore, The Beatles have opened their personal and management archives specifically for this project, allowing the unprecedented release of photographs which they took along their ride to fame, as well as fascinating documents and memorabilia from their homes and offices. Through painstaking compilation of sources worldwide, John Lennon's words are equally represented in this remarkable volume. Together with Yoko Ono Lennon, they have also made available the full transcripts (including all the outtakes) of the television and video series The Beatles Anthology. This extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have agreed to tell their combined story especially for this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ⭐★⭐★⭐★⭐ #8 – IT AIN’T ME, BABE by Author TILLIE COLE ⭐★⭐★⭐★⭐ #7 – DOUBLE COVERAGE by Author MEGHAN QUINN ⭐★⭐★⭐★⭐ #6 – STEPBROTHER DEAREST by Author PENELOPE WARD ⭐★⭐★⭐★⭐ #5 – FORBIDDEN BLOOD by Author R. ⭐★⭐★⭐★⭐ #4 – DRAGON’S LAIR by Author CHANTAL FERNANDO ![]() ⭐★⭐★⭐★⭐ #3 – BECOMING A JETT GIRL by Author MEGHAN QUINN (Click cover above to read my review on this book) ![]() ⭐★⭐ □⭐★⭐ #1 – RAW by Author BELLE AURORA First are the Top 20 Reviewed favorites of the “BooksMoviesFandoms Blog” in no particular order followed by The Top 5 Lists of other categories! Check them all out! Happy New Year! □ These are stories that truly deserve praise for their gripping story lines, the emotional journey readers will be taken on by these amazing authors, and we can’t forget those captivating characters that can make or break a story. After compiling my list of favorite books/novels that I had the privilege of reading and reviewing in 2014, I narrowed it down to these great reads. □ This is the 2nd Annual Top List of Recommended books I’ve reviewed from the past year. Books, Movies, Fandoms: Top 20 Books I Reviewed in 2014 that I Highly Recommend and More! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The slapstick quality of Pickwick is apparent from the second chapter, when Mr. (READ: Counting Down Dickens’ Greatest Novels. “Boz” (the pseudonym with which he began his career) was the talk of the town. Dickens chose a course of action more suited to the comedy he was composing: he got married. Within a few weeks his writing had taken over the project, and the despondent Seymour, who suffered from depression, killed himself. They needed a writer to provide accompanying text, and Dickens, who was 24 and hungry for opportunity, took the job. An illustrator named Robert Seymour had approached the publisher Chapman and Hall about doing a series of engravings of sporting life. It was meant to be what we refer to in the trade as deep captions. In his defense, Pickwick wasn’t meant to be a novel. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, published in 1836-37, was Dickens’ first novel, though “picaresque romp” is a more accurate description of its structure. Do you recall what Anne is reading on that spring day at college when handsome, dreamy Gilbert asks her to be his wife? That book she’s treating herself to, because exams are over and she can relax and hang out at home with nothing to do? That’s right. Follow who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. ![]() ![]() As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. ![]() ![]() New York Times bestseller Named a best book of the year by The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world-a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, Elizabeth’s first prejudice is born as she labels Mr. Darcy who rudely refuses to dance with the second Bennett daughter Elizabeth. ![]() Such cannot be said about his close friend Mr. Bingley is instantly attracted to the oldest Bennett daughter Jane and it is fair to say that the feeling is mutual. Having five unmarried daughters, the Bennetts are eager to match them up with suitable spouse candidates and see them prosperously married. ![]() Soon the news of the arrival of the well off Charles Bingley finds its way to the ears of the Bennett household. The quote also draws in and to some extent reveals the content of the plot to come. ![]() Bingley is introduced as he rides into town. This famous quotation sets the story into motion as the eligible Mr. This romantic novel with its hint of comic references begins with the famous quote "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Set at the turn of the 19th century, Pride and Prejudice catches a perfect glimpse not only of a time when women were socially and economically dependent solely on their marital status, but also as an age of enlightenment and witness of the French Revolution. Austen’s timeless romantic classic, follows the lives of the five Bennett sisters, who live in a time where an advantageous marriage and social status are considered a fundamental for any woman to stand a fair chance at life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although she died in 1815, “her body was on display in Paris up until the 1980s, then again in the ’90s. “Baartman’s story is still with us in a lot of ways,” Radke said. “So when white people were looking at Sarah Baartman, they were projecting all of this stuff they’d already inculcated in the culture.” “(Baartman’s) show perpetuated ideas around African savagery and primitive Black womanhood, ” Hobson explains in in the book. Hobson links the fetishization of Baartman’s figure to the seeding of colonialism and the continuation of slavery into White society. ![]() Radke spoke with Janell Hobson, a professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the State University of New York at Albany who has written extensively on Baartman. ![]() ![]() Radke’s account of Baartman’s life, and of how her body became “a fantasy of African hypersexuality,” underlies much of the book’s narrative, as she traces the stereotypes created by European “racial scientists” of that era and, later, the skewed and prejudiced legacy of big-butted women as more highly sexual - especially Black women - directly back to the exploited Baartman. ![]() |