![]() ![]() I enjoy romantic comedies, and I’m always excited to see m/m rom-coms. I had never read this author before, but the blurb caught my attention and I was very much in need of a happy, fun romance. ![]() It’s got pizza with disgusting toppings, Netflix and chill, and accidental exhibitionism. ![]() This is a summer friendship-with-benefits. Meeting Nick doesn’t fit in with Jai’s plans at all, but, as Jai soon learns, you don’t have to travel halfway around the world to have the adventure of a lifetime. His long-term goal of seeing more of the world is worth the short-term pain of living in his mother’s basement, but only barely. Twenty-five-year-old Jai is back in his hometown of Franklin, Ohio, just long enough to earn the money to get the hell out again. That’s probably not what Dad meant when he said Nick should act more like an adult. Except how do you know that your coworker’s unattainable unless you ask to blow him in the porta-potty? He has a summer job, a case of existential panic, and a hopeless crush on the unattainable Jai Hazenbrook. Nick Stahlnecker is eighteen and not ready to grow up yet. Genre(s): M/M Contemporary Romance, M/M Bisexual, M/M YA/NA ![]()
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![]() “Just lie still.” Deep, warm, and distinctly cultured, like ivy grew all over his voice.īobby breathed, then slowly lifted his arm and opened his eyes. Sat up too fast.” Bobby flopped an arm over his eyes. ![]() “Oh dear.” Two strong hands gripped his feet and slid them up where a table extension magically appeared. He sat up fast, got light-headed, and fell back onto the table, closing his eyes against the suddenly blinding light. Slowly Bobby opened his eyes and caught a glimpse of the prettiest thing he’d ever seen. He needed to get better and call Valerie. He flopped over on his side with his legs still hanging off the table and closed his eyes. Jeez, even that didn’t sound good to him, and that never happened. ![]() In fact, they both used the lavender mixture now before they had sex. ![]() He’d been better in a couple of days and back up to his old tricks. had just given him some liquid lavender to drop into a carrier oil. Bobby had even come in when his butthole got irritated after one particularly wild weekend, and Dr. The guy was probably in his seventies, but they both liked that nothing really fazed him. Brown had been his and Robin’s doctor for two years. ![]() Brown will be right in.” Her head popped out and the door closed. ![]() ![]() This is listed as a “Judgement Day” event tie-in but it’s not related at all. Nightcrawler asks Jen to represent Krakoa. The issue also offers a huge tease for 2022’s Hellfire Gala!įree Comic Book Day: Spider-Man / Venom (2022)Īs you probably wouldn’t expect, Zeb Wells is bringing his Hellions / X-Men skills to Amazing Spider-Man! Judgment Day (2022)Īs you’d expect this is a prelude to Marvel’s Judgment Dayevent. That said, it’s published here after Inferno, and there are small details that may make reading it more in line with publication order a better fit.īy the time we get to issue #4, Sabretooth is caught up to X Lives / X Deaths of Wolverine in the timeline.Ĭhronologically, you could argue this issue likely occurs even later into the Destiny of X, but it reads better in sequence with the rest of the mini, and to my knowledge isn’t referenced elsewhere.Ĭhronologically, Secret X-Men could be read any time after the Hellfire Gala.įree Comic Book Day: A.X.E. Ok, so realistically the first issue of the five issue Sabretooth miniseries by Victor Lavalle and Leonard Kirk can be read any time after X-Force #1 in the Dawn of X (or really just after House and Powers). ![]() ![]() X Deaths of Wolverine #5 Destiny of X Comics ! X Lives & X Deaths of Wolverine Reading Order: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one book that I ordered classroom copies so that every 1-2 students can have their own copy to read and/or follow along. Cesar, like Martin, believed that change through peace is more effective than change through force and violence. This book will help them gain a deeper understanding of his influence on civil rights. ![]() Unfortunately, many students east of California do not know about him. As our Latino population in the schools has grown, I find this book even more important.Ĭesar Chavez is a great American hero much as Martin Luther King Jr. Our classrooms need to acknowledge and celebrate our diverse American heroes. I know, I know… it is a picture book, but even high school students like to be read to sometimes. I have read this book aloud to students from first grade to 12th grade. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez is written by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by Yuyi Morales. ![]() ![]() So when I was given an opportunity to read her newest book, Ghosts ($21), ahead of its August release, I took it as a sign and dove right in. I'd heard Dolly Alderton's name from other book-loving friends in reference to her first book, Everything I Know About Love, but never got around to reading the memoir (we all know how the ever-growing TBR list goes). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kohn has also given a lot of thought to definitions of anger. She thinks that focusing on black anger or black kindness misses the point: “We don’t have the power to oppress people,” she said. Sow was born in Guinea, and moving to the United States helped her understand this-she said people frequently thought she was angry when she was not. “For black people, just expressing ourselves is coded as anger,” she said. “Nobody has just done things for marginalized people without it.” But she cautions against confusing anger and hate. “Anger can be a productive feeling,” Sow said over the phone. Though she maintains she didn’t say the quote Kohn attributed to her, Sow was willing to discuss the idea behind it. And the people who say, ‘Oh, you need to be more like Martin’ know absolutely nothing about Martin.” But he was a brilliant man filled with love for black people. People will tell me that I sound like Malcolm X, as though that’s an insult. ![]() It is a narrative for culture as a whole, and it’s something that I still get. ![]() “We were always taught that we wanted to be Martins and not Malcolms, and that if we loved each other then we would move ahead. “It’s the idea that was a separationist and was bad, and was filled with hate, and was good and light, and was led by love,” she said. ![]() ![]() ![]() It may be the only surviving copy, the possession of which could alter her future.ĭaphne du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Sonia Brownell (George Orwell’s recent widow), Peggy Guggenheim and Samuel Beckett add glorious lustre. Their banter is warm-hearted and witty, the women always saying “what they wanted, dripping in irony or sarcasm but with a strange earnestness all the same.”Ī feel-good literary confection that will have you grinning in solidarity with these girls who dare to follow their dreams. Scribner/Marysue Ricci Books, 336 pages, $24.99īased on a true story from Leary’s family history, this absorbing novel follows 17-year-old Mary Engle as she is hired as secretary to Dr. ![]() ![]() While he finds some peace in the correction of this memory, he also is sad to know that this memory has faded. ![]() He has very few memories of his Baba Haji, for example, and when he asks his mother for more information about the most prominent of them, he is shocked to discover that he is remembering incorrectly. His memories are not perfect, but he clings to them. He has been in the United States for six years, having arrived when he was very young. I watch an arm disintegrate and instantly forget what was there” (49). Behind me is the elemental fiend of my memories crumbling into power. He says early on “he truth is that’s why I’m writing this. The name change is symbolic of Daniel’s identity crisis, the feeling that he is losing his past. It is his, but everyone calls him “Daniel.” His mother switched it for him one day, just asking “Daniel” for something without giving him further explanation. ![]() The narrator of this novel is named first as Khosrou, but Daniel is quick to articulate that readers don’t have to worry about pronouncing that name. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to combating censorship, Laurie regularly speaks about the need for diversity in publishing and is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. ![]() Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Two more books, Shout and The Impossible Knife of Memory, were long-listed for the National Book Award. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists, and Chains was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. ![]() Laurie has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. Her new book, SHOUT, a memoir-in-verse about surviving sexual assault at the age of thirteen and a manifesta for the #MeToo era, has received widespread critical acclaim and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks. Combined, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. ![]() UPDATE! SHOUT, my memoir in verse, is out, has received 9 starred reviews, and was longlisted for the National Book Award!įor bio stuff: Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() She explained that she doesn't “really care” what people think about her looks or what she is wearing. ![]() Knowing that it’s live, people are going to judge, that cancel culture exists and that people are pointing fingers.” The former Radio 1 DJ, who was on the show to talk about her Happy Place festival, said she did not step into the BBC Breakfast studio calmly on Wednesday, May 11, adding: “Considering I did so much live TV as a kid that has sort of been annihilated and I do have quite a lot of anxiety stepping into something like this. And my perspective on life changed, my ideas changed, my set of values changed." Speaking to presenters Dan Walker and Sally Nugent, the 40-year-old TV and radio star said: “I guess as you just grow older… I started TV when I was 15, so I’ve done a long slog of it. The presenter revealed during an interview on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday, May 11 that she does miss “bits” of the TV industry but admitted the “pressure” was too much now. Fearne Cotton has opened up about how she suffers anxiety being on live TV and says the pressure of "saying the right thing" is "not a pressure that I can handle". ![]() |