![]() ![]() The author’s note serves as a preface to the e-mails and instant messages (IMs) we’re about to read, setting out a discourse between two women, one of whom is dead, while the case against the others’ involvement is still underway. LaRocca uses the narrative device of found documents to set out the tale. But that is not just where the tale starts. The novella which is the book’s namesake, Things Have Gotten Worse Since Last We Spoke, starts off as a sweet queer story about two women who seem to have found each other in the most unlikely places: an online forum, selling an apple peeler. This is the first time I’ve read any of LaRocca’s work, and I cannot imagine the novella being placed away from its sibling stories. Eric LaRocca became a viral sensation after the original publication of Things Have Gotten Worse Since Last We Spoke, which was nominated for a 2021 Bram Stoker Award. In July of 2022, it was announced that their debut was to be rereleased in hardback via Titan and include two original short stories entitled Things Have Gotten Worse Since Last We Spoke and Other Misfortunes. ![]()
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![]() Benny’s songs and Esther’s vocals are an explosive combination, a sound that fans can’t get enough of. ![]() But the music and the woman are too hard for the piano man to resist. And when Benny writes a hit song and performs it with her, their collaboration thrusts the duo onto the national stage…and stirs up old issues and new scrutiny that the mob-and Benny-would rather avoid. So he keeps to himself, writing songs for other musicians, avoiding the spotlight…until the night his father brings him to see Esther Mine sing.Įsther is a petite powerhouse with a gorgeous voice. With his father’s deep ties to the mob, the Bronx piano man has learned that love and family can get you in trouble. ![]() New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. Book Descriptionįrom the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Since This Changes Everything was published, Klein’s primary focus has been on putting its ideas into action. The documentary inspired by the book, and directed by Avi Lewis, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015. Nominated for multiple awards, it won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. This Changes Everything was an instant New York Times bestseller and is being translated into over 25 languages. ![]() Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). In her most provocative talk yet, Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon - it’s about capitalism. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. ![]() ![]() Could it be possible that Decker made a mistake all those years ago? As he starts digging into the old case, Decker finds a startling connection to a new crime that he may be able to prevent, if only he can put the pieces together quickly enough. Though a dozen years in prison have left Hawkins unrecognizably aged and terminally ill, one thing hasn't changed: He maintains he never committed the murders. He's the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he instantly recognizes the man's name: Meryl Hawkins. Published by Blackstone Publishing on April 16, 2019ĭetective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in the latest Memory Man thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Īmos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by an unfamiliar man. Today’s books are the rest of the Amos Decker Series I recently binged with Anne. This feature is for short reviews, reviews of books in a series where it might feel repetitive, or (as Michelle suggested) books I was too lazy to write a “real” review for. ![]() ![]() ![]() And Spensa’s seen the weapons they plan to use to end it: the Delvers. Now, the Superiority-the governing galactic alliance bent on dominating all human life-has started a galaxy-wide war. ![]() What’s more, she traveled light-years from home as an undercover spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small, desolate planet home. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell-the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. ![]() ![]() ![]() We rejoined the trail and crossed a nice bridge and finally saw our first signs for Carlisle, many more miles to go!Ĭame across a beautiful forest just as the sun was going down so decided it was a perfect time for a selfie. The next morning after a freezing cold sleep we prepared a sensational gourmet breakfast on our Trangia stove which I cannot recommend enough. We couldn’t say no and it was good to put our feet up by the fire before we retired to our tent. They kindly let us pitch our tent up outside if we bought a meal. In the absolute armpit of nowhere and with the sun rapidly setting we finally came across The Robin Hood Inn. This, for me, was one of the highlights of the trip. Nearing the end of the first day and facing exhaustion, we came across this Super Nintendo embedded in a wall outside a house. ![]() Little did we know we wouldn’t see the wall again for days. Only 100 metres long but still impressive. All you have to do is follow the acorn west across the country.įirst sighting of the wall at Heddon. Hiking and camping from coast to coast in the middle of January, with a Siberian shitstorm on the way.Īrriving in Heddon on-the-wall after leaving Newcastle, the trail is very well marked throughout. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The princess sat down with the Canadian public broadcaster at St. “That is a role I was asked if I would like to do for this coronation, so I said yes, not least of all, it solves my dress problem.” “I have a role as the colonel of the Blues and Royals in the Household Cavalry regiment as the Gold Stick, and Gold Stick was the original clothed protection officer,” she said. She added that she is looking forward to her role riding in uniform with the Household Cavalry unit. In an interview with Adrienne Arsenault of the CBC, Anne said that Charles hasn’t given her too much information about the coronation because they haven’t talked about it. When it comes to the details of the coronation of King Charles III, it seems like Princess Anne is going to be just as surprised as the rest of us come Saturday. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. ![]() Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. “One of the funniest books of the last few years” (Los Angeles Times) about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist and her affair with one of the patients. “Wild…hilarious…so good.” -Cosmopolitan, Best Books of the Year * “A laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong.” -Oprah Daily * “Always interesting…too fun to stop.” -Vanity Fair ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the series brilliance occasionally in the Season you will see episodes that suffer from poor pacing - 'The Troubled Spirit' for example, but these episodes are few in number only about 2 or 3 really, so they are easy to overlook, and all series will usually slip up somewhere!!! It is entirely forgivable. The series writing was, despite the bad press it has often received since, pretty exceptional, although there are a few let downs. Some of the best episodes of Season One include the wonderfully dark and menacing 'Dragon's Domain', 'The Alpha Child', 'Voyagers Return', 'The Last Enemy', 'Breakaway', 'The War Games', 'Space Brain' and many others. ![]() Produced and created by the great Gerry Anderson, it was the most expensive science fiction series of it's time and looks it!! The first Season provided us with some excellent episodes, and some excellent performances from the series leads - Martin Landau, Barbara Bain and Barry Morse. ![]() Space: 1999 to me is a truly excellent series. ![]() |