![]() ![]() Write the name down, and watch it popping up all over the literary landscape." "Every story is written with the precise-concise language of a poet.and each has an almost perfect closure. Jeani Rector, Editor/Founder, The Horror Zine I believe this story is brilliant, and more fiction like this could easily catapult Grant to best-seller fame." ![]() This one would make a wonderful film, except there would need to be really good special effects to capture the horrifying turn of events. I liken it to a cross between the passionate weirdness of Edgar Allan Poe to the “outside the box” of Stephen King. "Trust me here, I am not exaggerating when I say The Silent Ones is one of the most effectively written stories I have ever read. Christopher Ransom, International Bestselling Author, The Birthing House His stories frighten me and, frankly, always leave me a little green with why the hell didn't I think of that?" Whether his name appears on a screenplay or prose, Taylor Grant is a writer who never fails to engage. ![]() His characters are always given the dignity of conscience and choice, even as he deftly manipulates the reader through whatever ingenious turn of the screw he has come up with this time. ![]() "Taylor Grant has an uncanny talent for telling stories that invert our everyday experiences into sympathetic nightmares. ![]()
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![]() It was that unsung poet The Fresh Prince, along with his boon companion DJ Jazzy Jeff, who some years back delivered the classic, insightful lines: " Parents just don't understand." Truer words, friends, have rarely been spoken. What is The Pigman About and Why Should I Care? Maybe those are some of the reasons why The Pigman was one of the most frequently banned books of the 1990s ( source). Critics of the book point to the fact that the main characters are accomplished liars and that they cut school, drink, and smoke (John). ![]() Although they reject the adult world, ironically they become friends with an older man who introduces them to his love of fun and adventure. The two main characters in The Pigman, high-school students John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, are profoundly alienated from the adult authority figures in their lives – their parents and teachers. A popular slogan was "Don't trust anyone over thirty." Some movies of this era, such as Harold and Maude (1971) and The Graduate (1967), like The Pigman, portray "the Establishment," the conservative adult world, as corrupt and ignorant. Young people began to question their parents' values and protested America's involvement in the war in Vietnam. This was the era of the Civil Rights Movement and the feminist movement. ![]() ![]() The decade of the 1960s was a time of great change and unrest in America. Paul Zindel's The Pigman, published in 1968, was one of the first young adult books to gain a wide readership. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Sam is her rock - he supports Jordan's dreams even when her traditional dad doesn't - but suddenly things feel different between them. Not only is he an amazing QB, but he's also amazingly cute. Other teen romance books by Miranda Kenneally:īut everything she's ever worked for is threatened when Ty Green moves to her school. Can she keep her head in the game while her heart's on the line?Ĭatching Jordan is the high school football romance to sweep your heart away! For the first time, Jordan's feeling vulnerable. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university.īut everything she's ever worked for is threatened when Ty Green moves to her school. ![]() Her teammates, including her best friend Sam, all see her as their leader and one of the guys, and that's just fine. Miranda Kenneally's first book in the beloved sports romance Hundred Oaks series! Love is the toughest game to play.Īthletic superstar Jordan Woods is the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BOMC alternate first serial to Los Angeles Magazine. Californias Gold Coast is the home of boat parades, middle-aged women in bikinis, and Winnie Farlowe, a 40-year-old ex-cop with a strong interest in. The action quickens, rushing to a stupendous climax that concludes a novel virtually sure to be hailed as Wambaugh's best. The poor guy can't believe his luck, but trusts in his lady's ardent love, never suspecting the scam she plans for Win nie him as she holds him in thrall. Although both lovers are in their 40s, and survivors of broken unions, Tess belongs to a world as foreign to Winnie's as Tibet: the Newport Harbor's ultra-rich yachting crowd. There Tess Binder, an alluring divorcee, seeks the notorious ex-cop she wines him, dines him and takes him to bed. Writer Joseph Wambaugh was born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 22, 1937. On probation after his latest escapade, the anti-hero avoids the place where prudence might have led him, an AA meeting, and instead rushes to join drinking buddies at a favorite saloon. When an injury ends his police career in California's Orange County, Winnie works at odd jobs-and indulges in vodka-inspired pranks. In this comic and deeply moving story, Wambaugh holds the reader a willing hostage to events in the bibulous, rowdy, daring life of Winston (Winnie) Farlowe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of me hated how my body responded to him, how my heart swelled and raced whenever he was near. So while Brighton was out for revenge and redemption, Caden seemed to turn up wherever Brighton was. It didn’t matter that she had never hunt fae for The Order, she’d been trained just like everyone else. Brighton was focused on hunting down the fae who killed her mother and nearly killed her too. The story started two years after The Prince ended. His head tilted, and then he looked away. “Are you saying you look fondly upon me, King?” “If you knew that someone you…you looked fondly upon was doing something that would surely lead to their demise, would you not try to stop them?” The King was definitely a phenomenal follow up to The Prince! So if you’re a fan of The Wicked Trilogy, fae or Jennifer Armentrout then you have to pick this one up! The King was quiet for several moments, and then he looked at me. At almost 200 pages, there was so much packed into this book and I even found myself crying because I was so emotionally invested. ![]() ![]() When I finished that last page, I was shocked again that I read a novella. The King was action packed, emotional and there was even more sexual tension between Brighton and Caden *fans face*. As Caden and Brighton's attraction grows despite the odds stacked against a happily ever after, they must work together to stop an Ancient fae from releasing the Queen, who wants nothing more than to see Caden become the evil Prince once feared by fae and mortals alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() It starts out as a very promising and touching animal story. ![]() Well in the case of Dewey: The small-town library-cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter, it doesn't. There is a common idiomatic phrase, "it does exactly what it says on the tin". They didn't blend very well but I was slightly entertained by some chapters so I am giving it two stars. There were parts about Dewey, bits about Vicky's life, and the history of the town all thrown in together. The book was really chopped (a bit like my review). I would love to read more about that but I guess it was a no go as the people's real names were used. Under a heavy sugar coat I could see rotten flesh bubbling with old grudges, grievances and hostilities. Try as she might Vicki Myron didn't fool me. I have just read a 275 page long eulogy to Spencer and its people. We are good, solid, hardworking midwesterners. "That's another of Spencer's unique and valuable assets: its people. ![]() I thought I was going to scream if I had to read another paragraph about how amazing the town of Spencer, Iowa is. Especially those that idealize small town America. ![]() It was a feel-good book, only I've noticed that most feel-good books actually make me feel nauseous instead of good. I didn't expect this book to be quality literature and of course it wasn't. ![]() ![]() Rebecca, the lone daughter, is a psychiatrist - a profession she started practicing (without a license) as an adolescent, closely observing her parents. The oldest, Robert, is, from the get-go, an overachiever he becomes a doctor like his father, albeit a depressed one. The Children's Crusade jumps around in time and point-of-view - not in a needlessly confounding way, but as a way to intensify another one of its themes: that the four Blair children (like all children) each came fully loaded at birth with their own idiosyncratic temperaments. ![]() As we readers find out, the answer we get depends on whose version of the past we're hearing. Take that opening scene again: As Bill drives into the hills, we're told that he passes through "neighborhoods of brand-new houses that seemed like decoys for something marvelous he would discover soon." That's a nice turn-of-phrase in which to describe, not only the lure of suburbia in the 1950s, but also to introduce the core question of this novel: namely, whether that plot of land and the family that awaited Bill Blair was, indeed, "something marvelous" or just another decoy. ![]() (The novel was subsequently made into a film - the kind that Hollywood used to label a "weepie.") But, Packer's splintered narrative style and the richness of her characters and language illuminate the unexpected depths of the commonplace. ![]() For instance, her debut novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, traced a young woman's guilt over deserting her recently paralyzed fiancé. In summary, her books do sound like mundane mass-market fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Old hurts and new feelings might destroy friendship. To Chris is one big reason he left town, a tangled mess of The ménage to take a quarter turn toward Dag…and hisįeelings for Chris. ![]() Of two loving men, but neither she nor Chris are expecting Storm of sexual sparks is unleashed that leads them intoĪlways the good girl, Kassidy blossoms under the attentions Old feelings resurface, and new attractions are explored, a Switches a loving twosome into a scorching hot threesome. Them are anticipating the unexpected turn of events that Old college buddy Chris and meet The Girlfriend, none of When wicked-sexy Dag returns to Chicago to catch up with his Kassidy is a good girl who wants to be bad. If you follow the rules, you miss all the fun. ![]() Hate Me Under the Mistletoe, November 2021 ![]() ![]() Myrtle’s above-average intellect, passions for justice and science (an endearing blend of her parents’ professions), fondness for detective stories, and predilection for asking questions make her the perfect person to investigate what is obviously a crime most foul. After the body of cranky old Miss Wodehouse is removed from its last earthly bubble bath, the cause of death is pronounced to be heart failure or, if you’re Myrtle, heart failure due to poisoning. ![]() Myrtle is quite sure that something dastardly has occurred, but she is thrilled when the crime appears to be murder-not that anyone else is calling it that, yet. ![]() ★ BOOKLIST, starred review: “There is something afoot at Redgraves, the house neighboring Myrtle Hardcastle’s own, which is why the precocious 12-year-old took it upon herself to phone the police. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one had ever held me like this, enveloping me, surrounding me, and I had to think about breathing as his heat and power surrounded me and threatened to overwhelm me. ![]() “We need to get to know one another better as adults, and have a lot of discussions about consequences and repercussions before we…” He stood, stepped to me, and pulled me from my chair, drawing me into the warmth of his arms. “If I kiss you, it won’t be to test out your theory.” His eyes were intense. “I know.” His smile was gentle, as if he was afraid of spooking me. “I was seven!” I finally found my voice, and it came out in almost a shout. It wasn’t a romantic love then, but it will be, now.” He shook his head and said, “It is, now.” ![]() I nodded, unable to talk, and he said, “You stole my heart at three, but I think I fell the rest of the way in love with you when I threw you in the river. I assume I’m going to be your first romantic kiss?” You froze last night when I touched your back. “Do you know what you’re asking, Soph? I was prepared to give you a few days to get used to me touching your hand, your back, your face, before I tried to venture farther. “Could you kiss me anyway, just in case?”Īaron’s gaze felt as if it penetrated my soul. I took a breath and asked before I could chicken out. “Do you think it has anything to do with true-love’s kiss?” ![]() |