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Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique
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Finding the Health: Thoughts on Osteopathic Diagnosis and Treatment
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The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's
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Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production After the Mobility Turn: 2017
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Cairo: Renewing the Historic City
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East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy: Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide
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Cori June (3033 KP) rated Happy Hour in Hell (Bobby Dollar #2) in Books
Apr 29, 2021
This book never fails to make me cry--and not for the reasons you think. There is plenty of torture, trauma, even rape--he is going to actual Hell after all-- which makes the interludes on why he is doing what he's doing refreshing even if they make me blush.
I admit my imagination fails me after a while with this book and while he does cheat on some of the torture it is still quite graphic, having both sex scenes (also in the non rape variety) and torture scenes. It is actually how Bobby himself slowly changes that is the most chilling as he adjusts to slowly losing himself in his new environment.
This book will make you think and may even challenge some of your views.
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Xoe: or Vampires, and Werewolves, and Demons, Oh My! (Xoe Meyers, #1) in Books
Jan 11, 2021
Admittedly I only downloaded/read this because of an A-Z challenge in one of my groups. It's not something I would have picked up of my own doing (that sounds horrible, I know, but it's true.)
I never gelled with the story; the way it was written was too strange for my taste and it didn't seem to have an ease to it. It just didn't pull me in like most other YA books do.
The storyline (what bit I read) was just a little odd: a new guy arrives at school and two of your friends like him like him and you instinctively know he's a little dodgy because he can't stop staring and within days he's been invited out with you and your fiends to the cinema where it all goes downhill. I stopped reading a little after this point.
I just couldn't connect with the story, the characters or the writing style.
Totally not for me, I'm afraid.
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Jordyn (A Daemon Hunter, #1) in Books
Jan 12, 2021
I liked the beginning, how she went after the demons and just being within metres of her makes them combust. And Emrys' introduction was kinda fun.
I think it was just everything else. We didn't seem to get much information on anything else though, or I was having that much trouble with the style and plot that it just didn't register, and I just lost interest.
I found Jordyn quite annoying/immature and Emrys wasn't really in it that much for me to get an opinion on him...
Admittedly it was a freebie and had been on my kindle for a long time...and I only really tried to read it now as part of an a-z challenge in one of my groups.
It just wasn't really up my alley at all.