Dear you,
I'm trying to be nice, but please go away.
sorry,
me

Dear you,
This isn't going to work. I'm hurting. Please call.
nothing,
me

Dear you,
I saw your brother today. Wish you were there. I need to talk to you. I miss you.
love,
me

Dear self,
Calm down. Everything is okay. Everything will be okay.
love,
me

Publisher: Grand Central, 2008
Genre: Romance
Sub-genre: Suspense



Cross-posted from genrereviews.

No Control features some of the same characters and similar themes as Butcher's No Regrets from 2007 and No Escape, to be released in October, but they don't seem to be marketed as a series. Which seems an odd choice to me, since series seem to be huge right now, but each of the books stand alone very well, so maybe they just wanted to skip all the confusion of people wondering if they had to start near the beginning or if they could just delve into the volume they held in their hands. (She says, as if she knows anything about it...)

The cover is certainly less embarrassing than the romance standard clinch cover, a faded, confusing jumble of blue arms and legs. Which is great. Smurf loving just doesn't get enough coverage, you know?

( La la la la la la, it's a happy song... )

One must be careful, when trying to be numb. When you can't feel the pain, you begin to forget that there was any to start with.

I'm going to London in August and as books are a LOT cheaper there than in Denmark, I have a list as long as a mile to look into. That's why I could really use your help in cutting it down somewhat. If you'd care to play along, tell me which 5 of the following I should get (and if you feel like it - why). Also tell me which one I should stay far, far away from.

( Books here )

Thanks! :-)

So, my college is requiring all incoming freshmen to read "Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future" by Jefferey Bennett, and I was just curious if anyone has read it and if so, what they thought of  it. I'm not much of a science person per say, but I was surprised at how much I actually enjoy reading this book (I'm half-way through it right now).

Just started reading Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin
I love it so far, and barely got sleep last night because I couldn't put it down.

Has anyone else read it? If so, I want to hear your thoughts on it :)

Originally published at Sasha's Den of Iniquity. You can comment here or there.

Jason Wilson, the spirits writer for the Washington post had a piece last week about the Manhattan. A nice article overall, but I especially liked the following quote:

“The Manhattan is the cocktail that every grown man comes of age upon.”

How very true in my case. Though I’ve always loved drinking, and though my tastes had been maturing before then, the Manhattan is the cocktail the opened up the whole world of cocktails to me. It was through the gateway of the Manhattan that I worked my way to my true cocktailian love: The Old Fashioned.

I am more excited about the upcoming symposium on American whiskeys than I am about any of the others because I hope someone else might have a similar experience. I am, after all, serving the Manhattan.

I reviewed The Blind Assassin a couple of days ago, and have been thinking about it since.

Something's been troubling me.

 
I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this.

R,
I'm in love with you.

M.

Hi everyone, I'm Darcy. I just joined this community but kind of wondered if anyone was interested in joining a brand new book club kind of community called moodybooks. I'm going to copy the first entry of the community under the cut so maybe, if any of you are interested, you could check it out! The membership is completely open and it's a casual sort of community where we can discuss the monthly books we read.

 
Thanks for reading, if you did. And also sorry if I bothered anyone by doing this!

Happy reading!

dear e,
I'm so proud of you. I really thought you were gonna have a hard time becoming a mom, but so far the only problems I see in your near future is fighting with that man of yours. You have taken to motherhood so easily, and the smallest bug could even see how much you love your new son. I can't wait to see how that bond will grow.
i love you
-your bffl

 x-posted to books, bookshare, bookish

Dear Life,

I go on vacation next week. But I have to pack, paint my room, move home and take the GKT which determines my college career in the 2 weekends that frame this vacation. Please go easy on me. Please don't suck. Please don't ruin my vacation.

Thanks and appreciation,

Me

Dear You,
I fell in love with you last year. I dreamt of you every week. The way I felt was unbearable, but I never told anyone. And certainly not you. You were the only person I loved without revealing. Sure, I've loved a lot of people. But I swore I love you more than anything in this world. I thought you cared after that short letter I gave you junior year just to prove to my boyfriend that it was normal to like other people while you were in a relationship. It's not normal. I was wrong, but I loved you more.
When we broke up, you were there with kind words. I thought you cared. But everytime you got around my now-ex you changed. When alone, you would talk, however assholish, to me. You'd actually converse. Other times you would just make fun of me to my face. Then you wanted to film me for your movie. It felt weird that you came to me of all people. You said I was the best actress you knew. You refilmed it like, 5 times... And then didn't speak to me after that.
You hurt me so bad in the library when we'd talk while on the computer.. you kept saying "you broke his heart." You became best friends with the one boy I wish I could patch things up with. You kept saying it was my fault what he did. But you were breaking my heart in the process.
Suddenly, I decided I wasn't in love with you.

But recently I started looking at your webpage again, hoping you'll talk to me. I know I'm in a relationship and I'm happy where I'm at... but I just wish we could have been friends. You're so damn hard to figure out. You've got your ego, all the loud obnoxiousness you surround yourself with, your drugs, your stupid friends. You told me you wanted to be a good person. You told me you wanted to go out for coffee. You asked me for two years to sing with you. You wanted to record my voice with your music...

That never happened.

I hope you are well. I hope you go to college. You're smart, but you'll never know that because you let your friends control your life.


Love, like, whatever,
The girl with the piercing.

Superpowers
Writer: David J. Schwartz
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 376

David J. Schwartz's debut novel is just not for me. I'm no comic-book geek by any means, but thanks to my fiance, I know more than I want to know about the genre and its history, and I've seen more movies than I normally would've and have read far more comics and graphic novels than I would've had my fiance and I had never met. The point of all of this is to say that I do have my tastes when it comes to the superhero genre, and those tastes tend to run dark, cynical, and twisted, and honestly, Schwartz's novel was none of those things, so it wasn't for me.

The premise: five college students wake up the day after a party with superpowers, and they decide to do use their powers to fight crime in the town of Madison, Wisconsin.

That's it. But I should point out that this story? It starts in the summer of 2001. Think about that. Do the math.

The full review, WHICH DOES INCLUDE SPOILERS, can be found in my journal if anyone's interested. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome. :)

REVIEW: David J. Schwartz: SUPERPOWERS

Happy Reading! :)