The dark tower books in order5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Repairman Jack books and The Adversary Cycle books are inter-related and could be read in a certain order for continuity, if desired. The first in that series is The Tomb (Adversary Cycle, #2) which (as noted) is also the 2nd book in Wilson's Adversary Cycle. It is lighter and faster reading than the Dark Tower, but enjoyable. ![]() Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series, and as you read along it becomes clear that Repairman Jack and others are fighting to defend against the end of the world as we know it. I have them on loan from the library, and have heard great things about the series. I'm planning on reading Dan Simmons Hyperion very soon, along with the other 3 in the series. I really loved that book when I read it way back when and re-read it recently. Robert McCammon wrote a post-apocalyptic novel compared to The Stand called Swan Song. I found the road-map on the internet a few years ago and have updated the text a bit to correct typos and such. If you want a road-map and details of all the books with connections to the Dark Tower, just send me a message and I'll send it along. In fact it is listed as one of the many books that have connections to the Dark Tower series. ![]()
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It goes like this miel moreland5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() We also get a look into the fandom via tumblr posts and chats between fans of Moonlight Overthrow. In this book we go back and forth between the time when the band was together to the present time when they are organizing and rehearsing for their concert. When a storm ravages their hometown they all decide to come back together for one concert to raise money for the town and perhaps, in the process, repair their friendships. ![]() Not only that, Eva and Celeste’s relationship ran much deeper and now they are both heartbroken and trying to move on. The four of them were best of friends but now they don’t talk and haven’t seen each other since their breakup. Eva goes off to college while still writing songs for other artists, Celeste is now a big pop star giving world tours, Gina is an actress working on movies for Netflix, and Steph is simply back in their hometown with their family. For various reasons the band breaks up and each of them go their own way. They started a band called Moonlight Overthrow in high school that became incredibly successful to the point of having world tours and Grammy wins as well as a large fandom. It features four queer characters: Eva, Celeste, Steph, and Gina. It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland is such a wonderful book. ![]() The Black Joke by A.E. Rooks5/30/2023 ![]() It wasn’t the first time this notorious ship, the Black Joke, had been laid bare. The western coast of Africa was not a place where stores and sails would go to waste what could not be used would be sold or traded by the same people who’d destroyed one of the finest Baltimore clippers ever to sweep across the open sea. Naturally, the ship had been looted first, everything of value removed. If evidence remained of the lives lived on board the now-empty vessel, it went up with the pungent smell of the burning decks, and the acrid scent of charred wood and whitewash accompanied the crack and snap of sparked beams. It was as if the flames consumed not just ship timbers but sound stillness had settled where the breeze of the sea refused to let the smoke rest, despite the crowds of people the blaze had drawn to the harbor. The terrible cacophony of the cargo over which they’d struggled had also gone silent. ![]() ![]() The screams of sailors and slavers were a memory. ![]() All the rhodes lead here5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Aurora was of course sunshine on the outside, but she did have her past to contend with and this was about her reconnecting with what she left behind. For the most part, All Rhodes Leads Here reads as women’s fiction. And when he would burst into laughter? That just sealed the deal for me. He did the smallest things to help her out that just made her smile and I couldn’t get enough of it. Rhodes was the total strong silent grump but he is all about action when it comes to feelings. This story is filled with adventure and self-discovery and there was this one moment that had me sobbing in the bath (in the best way!). Aurora and Rhodes were just so perfect and I was left feeling so satisfied by the end. ![]() Review: I think this might be my new favourite MZ book? This is a small town romance between a woman looking for a fresh start and her grumpy landlord. Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be.īut a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart.Ĭhecking out her landlord across the driveway just might cure it too. Aurora De La Torre knows moving back to a place that was once home isn’t going to be easy. ![]() Ps i still love u book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I Still Love You, which premiered on Netflix around last Valentine's Day. With a charismatic cast, sugary visuals, and a sweet story, this teen rom-com was extremely likable - so it deservingly scored a sequel, P.S. ![]() So she enters a fake relationship with popular boy Peter (Noah Centineo) to throw off one of the other letter recipients, her sister’s ex-boyfriend. In Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018), Lara Jean's (Lana Condor) top-secret love letters to her past crushes get mysteriously sent out. I had read Jenny Han’s three-book YA series from which it is adapted, loved it, and was eager to see Lara Jean's story play out on screen. ![]() I was really excited for the first To All the Boys movie to come out. Welcome to Fix It, our weekly series examining projects we love - save for one tiny change we wish we could make. ![]() St george and the dragon margaret hodges5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() With a foreword by Professor Emeritus Dan Brown, this richly-illustrated celebration of English culture shows how St George can be reinterpreted for our times while remaining true to our English heritage. Discover the origin of the cross of St George and the roles of Richard I, Edward III and Henry VIII in making St George the patron saint of England. But who was St George? How did this Near Eastern martyr become England's patron saint and an icon of English culture? And what is his relevance for today's secular, multicultural England? New research reveals that from the third century St George was revered as a healer, protector of women and the poor and patron of agriculture and metal-working more than a military dragon-slayer. ![]() ![]() St George's Day has become a topic of debate as more and more organizations promote celebrations on 23 April and more people wave the flag of St George to proclaim their allegiance and identity. ![]() Batwoman elegy5/30/2023 ![]() This leader i s a pallid horror in 19 th century dress calling herself Alice and delivering much of her dialogue in Lewis Carroll quotes. ![]() ![]() They appear intent on completing the task, and with their leader due to visit Gotham Kate wants some questions answered. She refers to him as “Sir” or “Colonel” and notes he’s trained her and i s aware of her costumed activities, if having a natural parental concern.Īs the book opens Batwoman is on the trail of an organisation called the Religion of Crime, who’d previously almost killed her. Her odd relationship with her military father is established early. While Kate Kane’s gender preference drew all the original headlines, Elegy ‘s quality soon ensured that issue was secondary, and it’s a graphic novel that remains a compelling read.ĭespite few previous appearances (if her sappy 1950s predecessor is discounted), Batwoman was thrown into continuity as the complete article, fighting crime and known to Batman, with much of her backstory revealed here for the first time. It might well be asked, however, that if the purpose was to introduce a high profile lesbian superheroine it’s hardly pushing the boat out if she’s also a wealthy white socialite. It was widely promoted that the current Batwoman persona was deliberately created to diversify DC’s characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Outside of the documentary I just started creating an archive on my laptop, just a folder - I would add photos to it that I would find online or links to articles with interviews that people had done about their experiences at Paradise Garage, for example. JOSEPH CASSARA: First it started with the documentary Paris is Burning: besides watching it a thousand times, trying to look for different things each time that I was watching it, sometimes I was looking for the setting, others I was looking at the clothes, other times I was just watching for the speech patterns in the characters. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You didn’t experience the queer scene in ’80s New York, yet you manage to resurrect it with such vivid detail here - tell me about the process behind creating the world of House of Xtravaganza. ![]() Attack of the black rectangles book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() McKenney also dismisses their concerns, however, making the kids even more determined to fight for the right to the “whole truth.” Their campaign inspires some students to publicly discuss aspects of their lives, including a girl who reclaims her non-Anglicized name. Sett-she’s always writing letters about banning junk food or insisting that local homes be painted white “to maintain the look of history”-so they show the selectively redacted text to their principal. At Independence Elementary, Mac Delaney and his friends Denis, who’s loyal and has anxiety, and Marci, an outspoken feminist, are outraged to discover that someone has used “ugly black rectangle” to expurgate classroom copies of Jane Yolen’s historical novel The Devil’s Arithmetic. Pennsylvania sixth graders battle classroom censorship in this uplifting middle grade novel by King ( The Year We Fell From Space). ![]() Captive prince book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.įor Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Release Date: January 28th 2014 (First published February 4th 2012)ĭescription: “This was Vere, voluptuous and decadent, country of honeyed poison”ĭamen is a warrior hero to his people, and the truthful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.īeautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. ![]() |