How these authors do it is fucking beyond me! Motherfucking geniuses the pair of them! REED!!! Oh my Reed! I never thought I could love any more than I did in Paper Princess but FUCK MY FACE you fucking OWN ME!!! The adrenaline pumping through my veins is probably going to give me a bloody heart attack! No word of a lie my hands won’t stop shaking! I thought I would go in a freak accident or at least with a cock down my throat but now you decide to kill me off this way!! This is how I’m going to fucking die isn’t it? I mean if I could calm myself fucking down and take a few deep breaths I could probably get my emotions in check and actually make fucking sense of my fuckin self but NOOOOOOO!Įlle & Jen!!! Are you trying to fucking kill me? If you don't like the F word then please don't read on). (Please note that this review contains curse words.
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Class envy notwithstanding, getting beyond one’s station is only one of a highly charged evening’s intriguing concerns at heart, “The Servant” chronicles the subtle tensions of a society surrendering to its own straitjacket, which is to say a highly codified (and not altogether bygone) Britain where sexual matters speak their own covert language. And though Tony gets various warnings - not least from girlfriend Sally (Emma Amos, her coiffeur as precise as her accent is posh) - that Barrett may be up to no good, Tony allows himself to slide toward playing the suppliant vis-a-vis a manservant of highly apparent malignity. “I like to make you comfortable, sir,” says Barrett, while proudly insulating his master from the cold, drab world outside.īefore you can say “by Jeeves,” employer and employee are squabbling like a long-married couple come to blows over soup spoons. All fastidious efficiency (at least at the start), Barrett finds himself on the payroll of Tony (Jack Davenport, following in James Fox’s screen shoes), who is himself the sort of well-spoken Chelsea layabout that contemporary English drama - with its emphasis on working-class “street cred” - has all but abandoned. So is an actor with the insinuating elan of Michael Feast, inheriting Dirk Bogarde’s film role as Barrett, the titular servant. Ithamore delivers counterfeit letters to Mathias and Lodowick, who finally confront and stab each other. Barabas thus contrives a plot to have Mathias and Lodowick kill each other. Each young man desires to see Abigall, and Barabas promises his favors to each. Del Bosco also sells Ferneze the slaves he has in cargo, and Barabas ends up buying the Turkish slave Ithamore at the marketplace.Īt the marketplace, Barabas also runs into Mathias and Lodowick severally. In the meantime, the Spanish vice-admiral Martin del Bosco convinces Ferneze to break Malta's league with Turkey, promising to write the Spanish king for military aid from Spain against the Turks. Having uttered a false confession, Abigall gains entrance to the nunnery (formerly Barabas's mansion) and retrieves her father's hidden fortune. Barabas plots to retrieve part of his fortune through his daughter Abigall, and the two young men Mathias and Lodowick each set out to win Abigall's heart. The protagonist Barabas protests strongly, so his entire estate is confiscated. After the Turks leave, Ferneze decides to collect the tribute from the Jews of Malta: each Jew must give up half of his estate. The Maltese governor Ferneze cannot produce the funds immediately, but he promises to pay within a month. The tribute has been neglected for the past ten years, so it has accumulated to a considerable sum. In the opening act, the Turkish sultan's son Selim Calymath arrives to exact Malta's tribute. The play is set on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. Many reviewers on Goodreads have noted this book has a China bias. Kishore Mahbubani, a diplomat and scholar with unrivalled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has written the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses, and superpower eccentricities, of the US and China. Has China Won: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy, by Kishore Mahbubani, is an interesting book examining the geopolitical competition between the United States and China, and advocating for a solution that promotes cooperation and balance over competition and conflict. What authors, or books have influenced you? I wouldn’t consider it unusual, but I like to visit the locations I use in my books. Could you turn your life around and find love as an adult? This book came from wondering about what it would be like to brought up as a professional burglar of high-end art objects. I’ve always been interested in the glittering world of art crime. The series centers on an all-male college for bad boys where gay romance flourishes. What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?įreshman Blues: A Gay New Adult Romance, is book #4 in the Last Chances Academy series. Some reader favorites include The Runaway Model Trilogy, The Assured Elites Trilogy (known as the Gay Celebrity Dating Chronicles on Radish), the Last Chance Academy series, and many more. I’m a full-time author of gay romance and romantic suspense since 2015, so I’m afraid to count up how many books I’ve written. Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. Everyone had been bracing for something worse and breathed a collective sigh of relief when it didn't come. I gripped his hand more tightly, closed my eyes, and waited for the blinding light that would surely come to return me to my prison in the sky.īut a moment later the earth was still again and normal activity resumed around us. The blissful faraway expression on Xavier's face vanished, replaced by the hard, fighting look I'd seen far too much on him lately. Outside I saw the sky darken like bruised flesh and the treetops tremble as if shaken by an invisible hand. The tremor lasted only a matter of seconds but the jukebox cut out and the alarmed waitresses teetered as they tried to balance their loaded trays. I clutched the edge of the table and watched my engagement ring tumble onto the checkered floor of Sweethearts Café. And of course, as I always say 'If a book makes you cry, it is a good book', therefore If I Stay is an excellent read and I would definitely recommend it to those who are looking for a sad yet completely different book. These are all crazy thoughts but I love a book that really makes me think about what I would do if I was in that particular situation. It really made me wonder what coma patients must be going through while there are in a coma, whether or not they actually know what is going on and whether or not they can decide to wake up. What I loved the most was the originality of it I mean, it takes real talent to really think outside the box like the author has. I have to admit, this story was immensely devastating but I loved it all the same. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "e psychological"e murders and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoys the sordid "e loves"e of the women who sit on his handiwork.Lucid and packed with suspense, Edogawa Rampo's stories found in Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century. This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japans answer to Edgar Allan Poe. This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe.Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. The play casts a spell on the town, and soon husbands and boyfriends are out of luck."- The Atlanta-Journal Constitution "In Meg Wolitzer's superb new book, The Uncoupling a new drama teacher shows up in a small town and stages "Lysistrata," the ancient Greek play in which women decide to ditch their fellas until they put an end to the Peloponnesian War. "With her humorous voice, ecstatic prose, and unique historical backdrop, Wolitzer sheds light on the changing nature of female sexuality over time."- Daily Beast Desire is enchanting, but its sudden absence can feel like a curse."-NPR The Uncoupling is a fast, fun read, and like all off-kilter thought experiments, it asks us to reexamine the experiences we accept unthinkingly as well as the very language we use to describe them. "In The Uncoupling, bestselling author Meg Wolitzer sets up a twenty- first century parable that blends the supernatural with the decidedly real. The Uncoupling provides the charm of recognizing your own nervous tics and anxieties laid out by an author who's not out to get you."- The Washington Post This is the suburban comedy of Tom Perrotta in a flannel nightgown. "Wolitzer is a tender, engaging narrator. "Lifting the veil on intimacy that has 'caved in and collapsed,' Wolitzer has written a novel that may tempt you to muse on the ups and downs of your own erotic life."- More Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds her life is. A 14-city author tour will help keep the momentum going. Read Incubus Dreams An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel by Laurell K. 5)įorecast: The trend toward emphasizing the erotic may lose some established fans, but is likely to gain the author many more new readers. Agent, Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House. There's plenty of life (and undeath) left in this series, and Hamilton's imagination is apparently as inexhaustible as her heroine's supernatural capacity for coupling. That compels her to have sex in order to fuel her two "power triumvirates" must now be fed with increasing frequency. Those obligations are often intertwined with sex, the basic tool of her ever-growing magical powers. In her role as vampire-executioner and preternatural-crime investigator, Anita pursues a band of serial-killing vampires who prey on female strippers, but much of the novel focuses on her responsibilities as a leader in St. They'll also be pleased to see Anita finally get comfortable with her own behavior, despite crossing many lines-sexual, psychological, professional, paranormal-that she previously thought uncrossable. ): Anita finally resolves her relationships with werewolf ex-boyfriend Richard Zeeman and vampire boyfriend Jean-Claude. Fans of bestseller Hamilton's vampire hunter Anita Blake will be thrilled with at least one aspect of this transitional 12th installment (after 2003's Cerulean Sins |