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"August finds herself moving in with a cast of creative, generous, sex-positive roommates, and across the hall from the strait-laced accountant who on weekends becomes a drag queen named Annie Depressant. 12 Canadian books about love and romance to read in summer 2021.It has echoes of Armistead Maupin's classic series Tales of the City, and I found myself thinking as well of Dionne Brand's 2005 novel What We All Long For. "She's fled to the big city to get out from under the thumb of her single mother who loves her a lot, but who is really stuck in the past. She's part Encyclopedia Brown she's part adorable, confused, insecure, slightly nervous, still kind of in the closet. August is kind of part Nancy Drew - she loves to solve mysteries. She's just moved to New York City to go to college. "One Last Stop is the story of August, a woman in her early 20s. Martin's) One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston One Last Stop is a 2021 bestselling LGBTQ romance novel by Casey McQuiston. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. 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Based on the thrilling real-life story of Socialite spy Nancy Wake, comes the newest feat of historical fiction from the author of I Was Anastasia, featuring the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII. Parker, who completed her graduate work at NYU and now lives in Brooklyn, is young, African American, and a woman. This would be true of any era, but in the shadow of Donald Trump these questions are especially grave. Moreover, it suits Morgan Parker’s new collection of poetry, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, very well.įor an American poet who wants to write honestly, this reorganization entails uneasy questions about race, gender, and sexual identity in particular, who gets to describe them, and how. There is a long humanist tradition of saying this, but it bears repeating under market capitalism. In concert with a reader, it enacts a spacious, flexile, indeterminate vocabulary for paying more attention to the world, for italicizing human and natural events, for vocalizing selfhood. One way (of many) to describe how good poetry operates is to say that it reorganizes reality in some pleasurable or bracing manner. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé “John Ford did this a lot, but Sergio Leone’s execution of a frame within a frame - using props or shadows or doorways to frame characters - it feels like a comic-book panel. That manifested in some obvious visual references, such as extreme close-ups of eyes during the final duel - a classic in many of the Clint Eastwood westerns with Leone - and less-obvious ones, as when the filmmakers employed sets and framing to ape Leone’s in moments such as the Bear Family framed in a doorway as they crash into the house where Puss has been holed up - much as Leone framed a scene in 1968’s “Once Upon a Time in the West.” “Everything’s so dramatic and cool it made it so fun.” “When I saw a Sergio Leone spaghetti western for the first time, it was the closest thing to a superhero movie for me,” he says. It’s all part of how the “Puss” filmmakers used cinematic foreshadowing to convey that “characters chasing the future are oblivious to what’s right in front of them,” director Joel Crawford says. Several shots in the animated sequel are directly inspired by some of those masters’ most famous images. The DNA of “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” is less 16th century Italian fairy tale than it is 20th century Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa. and also an easy place to lose yourself.Īs the city comes under a catastrophic attack, Frey must leave the shadows and enter the chaos of warfare - because there is no other way for her to find her missing sister and have her revenge against her murderous father. Suddenly she is stranded on her own in Paz, a city where many of the citizens attempt to regulate their emotions through an interface on their arms. Her goal? To destroy the forces that created her.īut with the world watching and a rebellion rising, Frey is forced into a detour. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role. When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister Rafi. As the stakes grow higher and higher, Frey must decide whether she can trust him – or anyone in her life. Everyone thinks she’s her sister – but Col, the son of a rival leader, is starting to get close enough to tell the difference. Frey has never been out in the world on her own – until her father sends her in Rafi’s place to act as collateral for a dangerous deal. While Rafi has been taught to charm, Frey has been taught to kill. This is because Frey is Rafi’s double, raised in the shadows of their rich father’s fortress. but very few people have ever seen them together. Schwab’s tale of betrayal, self-hatred, and survival will resonate with superhero fans as well as readers who have never heard of Charles Xavier or Victor von Doom. In a genre that tends toward the flippant or pretentious, this is a rare superhero novel as epic and gripping as any classic comic. Schwab’s characters feel vital and real, never reduced to simple archetypes for example, Victor isn’t a particularly nice man, but he has enough conscience left to know that Eli needs to stopped. When he targets Sydney, a 12-year-old girl who can raise the dead, he gets more trouble than he bargained for. But “villain” Victor is innocent of the charges against him, while “hero” Eli has been killing people whose powers he considers more “unnatural” than his own. Victor went to jail and Eli began working with the cops. Victor Vale and Eliot Cardale, both brilliant and driven, were friends and college roommates who figured out how to give themselves superpowers. And he's not the only person Kit is surprised to see. But then Kit's path unexpectedly crosses with that of the dashing and handsome Rian Grant, Viscount Queenscliffe, who's working undercover on the Continent in his own efforts to stop Gerard. Gerard has no qualms about using dangerous magic to support his ambitions, so Kit and the crew of her ship, the Diana, are the natural choice to find him-and help stop him. The Isles and its allies will need every advantage they can get- Gerard Rousseau, the former Gallic emperor and scourge of the Continent, has escaped his island prison to renew his quest for control of the Continent. Captain Kit Brightling is Aligned to the magic of the sea, which makes her an invaluable asset to the Saxon Isles and its monarch, Queen. A Swift And Savage Tide (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Ĭhloe Neill's bold, seafaring heroine Captain Kit Brightling sets sail for the high seas and high sorcery in this swashbuckling fantasy series. It’s almost enough for me to be happy…īut a gilded cage is still a prison, and I’ll do anything to obtain my freedom-even betray the man I’m falling for. He sees to my every need, no matter how carnal or extravagant. We know each other-and the dark desires we share-far too well. We fight during the day, but when night comes, we play out every fantasy I’ve never allowed myself to admit to having. I foolishly assume I have a chance to come out on top. In my arrogance, I play right into his hands. On the night Jafar takes everything from my father, he offers me a devil’s bargain-walk with my freedom and nothing else, or attempt to best him and regain my inheritance. Once upon a time, I was a sheltered princess. Katee Robert is quickly becoming a BookTok darling and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around the premise for the ‘Wicked Villains’ series, so I obviously downloaded the first book, ‘Desperate Measures’, and gave it a whirl. If you’ve spent any amount of time on BookTok or BookTube recently, you’ll probably have stumbled across a series of erotic villain-led Disney retellings. |