![]() ![]() There’s pretty much no man that Luca won’t have sex with and this is described graphically. There is A LOT of sex in this book and not necessarily between the two main characters. This is not done easily as there is quite a bit of violence that must happen before the resolution of the story. It takes Ryder and his team to figure out the who and the why. As the threats increase, it becomes obvious that one or more former lovers (who has been disgraced publicly) is behind the threats and attempted kidnappings. That is the one thing that he can control and he does… often. When he’s in bed with a man, Luca is in charge, not his partner. It’s also a way for Luca to deal with anxiety issues where he feels the loss of control. ![]() For Ryder to do so only adds to the challenge and Luca is determined to have him in his bed just as he has had dozens of others. This kid will have sex with anyone with a penis. This adds more danger to his life on top of his wealth and his mother’s position. Each of these men, who had a lot to lose if they were found out, are exposed publicly by Luca long before Luca is forced back to America. Luca has had sex with dozens of men since he turned sixteen. ![]() Someone is out to get Luca and is using his past to hurt him. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book came quite close to being good. But, you know what happens when the premise is so strong. Horror & mystery in one novel was also strong. Young women stationed as the night shift clerks to deal with it all. One creepy motel unchanged in over 30 years. But something isn’t right at the Sun Down, and before long she’s determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden… ~~THOUGHTS~~ Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City. Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. ![]() Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. ![]() Here’s the brief review! ~~GOODREADS DESCRIPTION~~ I like the book, but I did not get the hype at all. When Goodreads was hyping up The Sun Down Motel few months ago, I fell for it & decided I had to read it. Hi Readers! After a long time of spending time with this book, I finally finished it last weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is gorgeously illustrated with rare examples of each artist’s work, including full stories from mainstream comic books from rare titles like All-Negro Comics and Negro Heroes, plus unpublished artist’s photos. Then there is Matt Baker, the most revered of the Black artists, whose exquisite art spotlights stunning women and men, and who drew the first groundbreaking Black comic book hero, Vooda! Middleton’s imprisonment became a cause célèbre championed by Will Durant, which led to Middleton’s release and subsequent comics career. ![]() Perhaps more fascinating is Owen Middleton who was sentenced to life in Sing Sing. Stoner, a descendant of one of George Washington’s slaves, who became a renowned fine artist of the Harlem Renaissance and the first Black artist to draw comic books. Using primary source material from World War II-era Black newspapers and magazines, this compelling book profiles pioneers like E.C. The life stories of each man’s personal struggles and triumphs are represented as they broke through into a world formerly occupied only by whites. Hear the riveting stories of Black artists who drew-mostly covertly behind the scenes-superhero, horror, and romance comics in the early years of the industry. ![]() ![]() I knew exactly what Grace was doing in making me take this test. ![]() Like maybe when I was in my late thirties or forties. At eighteen years old, why should I? I’d have plenty of time later in life to settle down and choose a woman to spend eternity with. I just didn’t want to be in long-term relationships with them. She wanted to be, but she knew how I felt about stuff like that. Okay, maybe the term “girlfriend” was a little strong. I was taking this test for one reason and one reason only: my girlfriend was making me. I stared down at the test lying on the desk in front of me and rolled my eyes so hard I think I might have strained something. To everyone who supported this book on Wattpad and FictionPress. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or otherwise are entirely coincidental.ġst Edition Electronic book published 2018 by Names, characters and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission from the author at book is a work of fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about "concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery." With eerie prescience, Greene's satirical tale had foretold the Cold War's most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. It includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. Twelve weeks after its publication, in January 1959, the Cuban Revolution triumphed, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold.Combining biography, history, politics, and a measure of psychoanalysis, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fiction. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Castro's guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writing his iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Our Man down in Havana by Christopher Hull, 2019, Pegasus Books edition, in English Our Man down in Havana (2019 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and the former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() an indispensable work of contemporary history' ? Guardian 'Probably the best biography I have read' - ***** Reader review 'It's hard to imagine that this work can be bettered' - ***** Reader review 'Simply outstanding' - ***** Reader review 'A terrific read and genuinely the type of book you can't put down after you start reading.' - ***** Reader review *************************************************************** A myth in his own lifetime an international martyr-figure upon his death a revolutionary fighter a military strategist a social philosopher an economist a medical doctor a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. ![]() ![]() The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be' - The Times Literary Supplement 'Absorbing and convincing. 'Masterly and absorbing' - The Sunday Times 'Brilliantly evoked. With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most fascinating figures by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson is truly definitive and monumental - not least because its creation solved a twenty-eight-year-old mystery: the whereabouts of Che Guevara's body. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am very grateful that Antony Loewenstein has brought his meticulous reporting to this subject, and the result is a keenly observed and timely investigation into rampant resource plunder, privatized detention centers, and an array of other forms of corporate rapacity on four continents. "The forces of disaster capitalism are increasingly on the defensive, but their attacks on the global commons have expanded in the years since I wrote The Shock Doctrine. ![]() ![]() giving out sufficient clues for the reader to solve the mystery. The Maze Agency is notable for being one of the few mystery comic books to "play fair" with the reader - i.e. A second prose story appeared in the anthology, "Sex, Lies and Private Eyes," published by Moonstone in 2009. They also reprinted #1-5 of the original series in trade paperback. IDW Publishing printed a three issue miniseries in 2005/2006. Caliber Comics brought it back in the late 90s as a three-issue miniseries. Alpha Productions released a single Maze Agency story in the anthology comic, The Detectives #1 in 1993, as well as a prose story in Noir #1 in 1994. The Maze Agency was first published by Comico Comics for 7 issues in 1988-1989, and shortly before that company ceased operations, it moved to Innovation Comics for another 16 issues (8-23), plus an annual and a special continuing the numbering and running to 1991. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lies have become part of the fabric of daily life.īut part of Arendt’s point in writing her essays on “ Lying in Politics” and “ Truth and Politics” which are cited so widely today was that we’ve never really been able to expect truth from politicians. For a long time campaigns have been run by Madison Avenue aficionados, so it shouldn’t alarm us that the lies have become so abundant and transparent that we almost expect them. Their laughter reveals something about the state of affairs we’re living in.įake news is nothing new in politics. ![]() ![]() When I’m lecturing on Hannah Arendt these days people usually laugh when I say that truth and politics have never been on good terms with one another, and that the lie has always been a justified tool in political dealings. “.how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or torn to shreds by the organized lying of groups, nations, or classes.” (Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers.”) ![]() ![]() ![]() Homes, bridges and whole towns have flooded, many suffering record breaking flood levels.įor the rest of us, it is has been an unending, uninspiring scene of grey skies, dampness and leaks…and frightening news updates. Most of the time, it has been regular steady, persistent rainfall, but sometimes it turned into torrential downpours, dumping hundreds of mls of rain in short periods of time. The east coast of Australia has endured several weeks of non-stop rain. It turns out that lots of people had been thinking about this story lately. It was a Ray Bradbury short story called All Summer in a Day. ![]() ![]() It didn’t take long for people to text in with the details. One of the presenters remembered a story she read as a child about a planet where it rained ALL the time. “Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it ?”įirst published on the 1st March 1954, Ray Bradbury’s short story came to my attention today thanks to a chat on our local ABC radio morning show. ![]() |