Follows Elliot, a gay television writer with cerebral palsy, as he struggles to find love and connection in a world that was not made for him. “With his singular voice and unforgettable wit” (Steven Rowley, author of The Guncle), Ryan O’Connell presents a candid, biting, and refreshingly real commentary on gay life, laugh-out-loud exploration of self, and a rare insight into life as a person with disabilities. Ryan OConnell explores the lessons that the vulnerable human body has to teach us, and he does so with humor, heart and heat. Just By Looking at Him: The filthiest, most hilarious and original novel of the year Ryan OConnell Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Paperback 9780751585469 RRP 22.99 Pre-Order Hardback 9780751585445 RRP 45.00 Buy Now Audiobook 9781405552509 RRP 35. Just by Looking at Him: Directed by Ryan O'Connell. But facing your demons is easier said than done. But behind his Instagram filter of a life, he’s grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, he can’t seem to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and his cerebral palsy is making him feel like gay Shrek.Īfter falling down a rabbit hole of sex, drinking, and Hollywood backstabbing, Elliott decides to limp his way towards redemption. From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and beautiful” ( Gary Janetti, New York Times bestselling author) novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.Įlliott appears to be living the dream as a successful TV writer with a doting boyfriend.
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The trailer reveals how Carmy with fellow workers Adamu and Richard will try to reinvent their beef eatery and get it transformed into a next level-spot. Kk0JjPABYbĪccording to Variety, a US-based media house, season one arrived as a surprise package for the production house as the audience instantly fell in love with the character of chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, played by American actor Jeremy Allen White. The sequel will narrate a follow-up story to the ending of the prior season where the protagonist (Carmy) tries to reinvent the ‘Bear restaurant’ after finding out a lot of money hidden by his late brother.įX’s returns for Season 2. The official Twitter handle of Hulu which is the streaming platform for the show, dropped the debut clip to reveal the plot line and star-cast for another fun ride. In the recent update, on Monday, the creators dropped the debut trailer for the upcoming season. Washington, May 16 (ANI): The comedy-drama series ‘The Bear’ will be sooner returning to impress the audience with the continuation of the humorous storyline as makers gear up for season 2. Feeling guilty about not taking the guy seriously, Dirk stays on the case and confronts exploding airport check-in counters, the gods of Norse mythology, insulting horoscopes, a sinister nursing home, an I Ching calculator, an omnipotent being who gives his powers to a lawyer and an advertising executive (in exchange for clean linen), and an attractive American woman who gets angry when she can't get pizza delivered in London. The perimeter is swarming with police and inside, in a heavily barricaded room, lies his client with his head neatly removed and spinning several feet away on a turntable. Dirk only comes to realize the man was truly in dire straights when he arrives late for a meeting at the man's estate. 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Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln allows the man to breathe again. As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes over the best course of action and comes to his great decision only when all else seems to fail. In Gore Vidal’s Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Adapted from Gore Vidals bestseller, this biopic chronicles Abraham Lincolns (Sam Waterston) life, beginning with his inauguration and ending with his. To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. I first started writing for children when the boys were toddlers…. Misty Inglis! ❤️ 2003-2022 □ Becoming a children’s author… She was at my side for all of my children’s book writing so I am keeping her memory alive here! But she had a very happy life - and she still looked almost as young as in this picture. Very sadly she crossed the rainbow bridge in the summer of 2022, and we still miss her. Below is a picture of our beautiful tabby cat Misty - we adopted her from a cat rescue charity almost 19 years ago when she was about a year old. We have two sons who are working and also living in London. I live in Barnes, South-West London with my husband. I’m Karen Inglis – welcome to my author website! Whether you’re a young reader, a parent, a school or a bookseller I hope you’ll enjoy looking around! Here I am at The Barnes Bookshop close to where I live He joins them undercover and is just getting them to trust him, when they kidnap our heroine Lady Iris Jordan, who was returning from a wedding. To murder their leader and end all of their horrible acts. He lives in a dark abbey surrounded by his Corsican servants, and one thing on his mind – to infiltrate the Lords of Chaos and bring them down. No one knows how he got the scar that runs down the side of his face but people fear him. Now with his father dead and Raphael inheriting the title, he is back in England, surly and scarred. Instead, he found himself going to Corsica to stay with family and mature into an adult. Althogh he was initiated, he didn’t join this ugly group. Unspeakable acts were done to him which changed his life forever. He was initiated at the tender age of twelve. Raphael de Chartres, the Duke of Dyemore unfortunately knows all too well what the Lords of Chaos can do. This group has been the “villain” for a couple of books now, and it all comes to a dramatic climax in Duke of Desire. They are after power and money – and obviously other things as well. The Lords of Chaos are a clandestine group of men, who wear masks and torture, rape, kill and abuse women and children. If you are new or not up to date with this series, you can easily read this one as a stand alone. If you are current with this series, you know all about the Lords of Chaos and their dark, horrible, abusive ways. Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt (Maiden Lane #12) She is more familiar with farmers, and her blunt opinions and rough manners offend polite society. I’m taking three weeks off writing soon and hope to catch up on a LOT of reading in this time. Outspoken and opinionated, Katherine Sutherland is ill at ease amongst the fine ladies of Regency London. Note, this list only includes the print books and I shudder to think how many more are on my e-devices!! That Amazon and iBooks one-click thing is SHOCKING for book addicts.Īnyway am going to write my list of books below and I’d love you to let me know, which ones you’ve read and recommend. This week, I decided to count these books and find out EXACTLY how many unread books I own. As a result, I have shelves and shelves of books and many of them are still waiting for me to read them. It just doesn’t seem right not to give at least one of those books a happy home. Cowan seriously, and deliberately, messes with the usual Regency romance tropes, in a way that I found both entertaining and worthwhile. It’s almost impossible for me to go somewhere that sells books and walk away empty handed. Lord knows I buy far more books than I read. I often refer to my ridiculous To-Be-Read pile. A collection of Untamed drabbles, written at different times. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. Bedier (Bdier), Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fantasy, Historical. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Īs a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph M. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Bernard Cornwell included a historical interpretation of the legend as a side story in Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur, a 1996 entry in The Warlord Chronicles series. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Joseph Bdier's Romance of Tristan and Iseult is quoted as a source by John Updike in the afterword to his 1994 novel Brazil about the lovers Tristo and Isabel. For Pullman, he says, the ethical opposite is the "void", which is "evil". Oram argues that Pullman follows Milton in presenting "matter" as inherently good. Analogs Paradise Lost Īnne-Marie Bird links Pullman's concept of "Dust" to "a conventional metaphor for human physicality inspired by God's judgment on humanity." Writing in Children's Literature in Education, she suggests that the first trilogy develops John Milton's metaphor of "dark materials" from Paradise Lost "into a ‘substance’ in which good and evil, and spirit and matter – conceptual opposites that form the basis of religious dualism – coexist." ĭust as "dark matter" is compared to the "dark materials" of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Pullman described Dust in an interview as "an analogy of consciousness, and consciousness is this extraordinary property we have as human beings". In the multiverse in which these trilogies are set, Dust is attracted to consciousness, especially after puberty the Church within the series associates Dust with original sin and seeks its end. In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies, Dust or Rusakov particles are particles associated with consciousness that are integral to the plot. In Northern Lights, Lord Asriel travels to the frozen North to investigate the mystery of Dust. |