Ilsa bick books5/23/2023 Believe me, no one is more shocked about this than I. So let's just say that I'm a child psychiatrist (yeah, you read that right)as well as a film scholar, surgeon wannabe (meaning I did an internship in surgery and LOVED it and maybe shoulda stuck), former Air Force major-and an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books, and novels. She has written for several long-running science fiction series, most notably Star Trek. " Except I hate writing about myself in the third person like I'm not in the room. Bick is an author of short stories, e-books and novels. Among other things, I was an English major in college and so I know that I'm supposed to write things like, "Ilsa J. " Except I hate writing about myself in the third person like I'm not in the room.
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There is an instant chemistry between them which doesn’t feel at all forced, and an acknowledgement that not everyone in town would be comfortable with their burgeoning relationship. His dog has run off and he’s anxious to find it, and Jake is the brawny Ranger determined to find and record the elusive Bigfoot. Sweet Jake is a writer with the sort of problems I could totally identify with. Stuart and Jake take the word “adorable” to the max, with snappy dialogue and some delicious sex. As the cover suggests, this was written with tongue firmly in cheek. I didn’t expect a lot from a book entitled Bigfoot Hunters In Love, but was exactly what I had hoped for, a cute love story from an a well-respected author. Bigfoot, Bigfoot Hunters In Love, Fantasy, HEA, Jamie Fessenden, LGBT fiction, love story, M/M Romance, New Hamshire setting, short read Kitty and the midnight hour5/23/2023 For protection, Kitty turns to Carl, and the cycle of abuse continues. In a subtle wrinkle it seems that Kitty’s true abuser and enemy may in fact be the female alpha of her pack. Perhaps because of the abuse she endures, the more dangerous a man is the more she seems to respond to him physically. The men in Kitty’s life are complex as she is, and sexual tensions run high. TJ, a gay werewolf and a close ally in her pack, is another reflection of the dichotomy in Kitty’s own soul and a running theme through the series. Her name is a running joke: whoever heard of a werewolf named Kitty? Her relationship with her mother feels familiar long-suffering and endearing. She has a sweet small town feel to her at sharp odds with a life under the werewolf curse. Kitty Norville could be your little sister, or even the girl you grew up with next door. After the attack, Kitty is reborn as the lowest member in her pack, with dark desires and sexually submissive to her masochistic pack leader Carl. Her young heroine, Kitty, is blond, wide-eyed and sexually naive hapless prey for a pack of werewolves. Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series opens with a jolt. Creta the winged terror5/22/2023 I don't paraphrase one character too wildly when I make him say 'There's a place you might have to go to for the only way to help, but it might not exist at all either - never mind, I'll wizard you right to it, and get you wizarded back the very instant you've finished your hero-with-no-outside-help business'. There's a commendable novelty to the circumstance of the plagued community, before it descends into token, monster-of-the-week formula. Still, this volume, a double-issue bumper tome to accompany series six, is better by far than the other one I sampled recently, when issued for World Books Day. Is it the cards the makers are selling, in all honesty? I still don't feel happy it is forty-three books long and rising, all with gaming cards included. I still have a quibble about this franchise. Can Tom, recognising yet another threat to his country from the evil Malvel, defeat his nemesis yet again - especially as said baddie has as a new weapon of darkness a massive host of the roaches, swarming as one giant monster? What's more, the whole land of Avantia is suffering some form of horrid heatwave. Our hero, Tom, is finding his fishing trip with his father bugged - literally - by a plague of sickening cockroach things. Summary: A decent light fantasy read for the reluctant reader, with a good insectoid nasty. Her body and other parties stories5/22/2023 Her writing is endlessly elegant and self aware as it brims with sexuality and a tone that strikes the perfect balance between current conversations and guttural human experience in this collection. Where genre bending could feel gimmicky, the use of experimental form and nods to troupes within the many experiments feel one step ahead of tacky. The Cuban-American author is no stranger to genre experiments, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop graduate’s latest book ‘In the Dream House’, a memoir about an abusive relationship, is told and retold in various genres from lesbian pulp novel to stoner comedy. Machado uses genre mashups to her absolute advantage, flitting between horror, sci-fi, fan fiction and psychological realism to terrifying avail on the right side of camp. Cutting stories between 90s American suburbia and a burrowing insect infestation with sharp social commentary. Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection takes the folk tales of childhood and paints them in millennial punk rock bisexual acid tones for our reading pleasure. These words uttered from the first story of ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ may be the collection’s most apt as it kicks off a spooky queer chain letter of eerie secrets in shopping malls, folk horror, creepy Hitchcock-esque artists retreats, nightmares and TV shows retold with the familiarity of ghost stories that is near impossible to put down. The dark wife by sarah diemer5/22/2023 Read more Print length 256 pages Language English Publication date Grade level 8 - 12 Reading age 13 - 17 years Dimensions 13.34 x 1.47 x 20. It won the 2012 Golden Crown Literary Award for Speculative Fiction. Diemer so much for creating this world that I was privileged to see. The Dark Wife is a YA novel, a lesbian revisionist retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth. I can't believe someone had such creativity to write a book like this and I admire Ms./Mrs. I honestly wish that this was the tale and not the horrid one that we know of. more s tale of the Queen of the Underworld. With every page I was brought into the world of the Greek gods and goddesses and given a new perspective on the famou. The raw and incredible details made me feel like I was Persephone. Review 2: I have never read anything like this in my entire life. Review 1: Basically I liked Hades' portrayal there, I liked the feminist themes prominent throughout the book, I was super excited there's a GLBT-friendly interpretation of this couple but I wasn't that fond of the author's prose/writing and as a result of said writing, much to my disappointment, I found it a bit difficult to connect with Persephone as a character, even if I did feel sympathy for her for her situation in the beginning and was glad that she was eventually able to stand up for herself and the people she loves. Ted chiang's story of your life5/22/2023 Maybe the math is fantastical, but the meditation on how devotion to ideas or systems keeps our lives together is all too real. It's reminiscent of "Flowers for Algernon," but with some twists of its own.Ī mathematician's life unravels when she proves that arithmetic is inconsistent. A man trying an experimental drug to combat brain damage becomes hyper-intelligent. The idea is interesting (an impossibly tall tower under construction in a fantastical version of the ancient world), but I had trouble getting into it. This story is okay, but I didn't love it. Here's a bit on each work in this collection. It's no wonder his work is a top pick for Eric Schwitzgebel's list of philosophers' favorite science fiction. There are nice little notes on each story in the back of the book in which Chiang tells you which ideas inspired the stories (sometimes it's surprising). Ted Chiang is the opposite of prolific, having only published about a dozen works of short fiction in the last 25 years, but he's one of the best when it comes to using science fiction and fantasy to interrogate ideas. 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