People we meet on Vacation * Emily Henry or the story of the 12 year friendzone
Apparently it also got made into a movie! Not sure if I wanna watch it since I was pretty disapointed in the book. Meet free-spirited Poppy, quirky, outgoing, social. And her BFF Alex, quiet, introverted, teacher material. They form an unlikely friendship which is made stronger by annual summer vacations in different corners of the…
The Hours * Michael Cunningham
Seen the movie, wanted to read the book. What a load of posh suicidal ideation and Virginia Woolf boot licking… I can’t understand why people liked this book! The movie was better (gave it a 3/10) Blurb: The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.…
Dean Koontz Books adapted into movies
1977 – “The Passengers” aka “The Intruder” (1979 video release) This was adapted from the novel “Shattered,” which Koontz wrote under the name of K.R. Dwyer. It was filmed in France and Italy and released in French. The original title was “Les Passagers,” and it was also released on video in the US as “The…
Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of ‘Tribes of the Pacific Coast’ Neil Stephenson
Neal Stephenson was born on October 31, 1959. https://epdf.tips/excerpt-from-the-third-and-last-volume-of-tribes-of-the-pacific-coast.html Stephenson won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996 for The Diamond Age and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2004 for Quicksilver. His novel Snow Crash won the Prix Ozone, the Ignotus Award, and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. Stephenson’s novel Seveneves won the Kurd Lasswitz Preis and the Prometheus Award.…
Atmosphere – Taylor Jenkins Reid – or the story of the gay woman in space
From the same author as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a poetic approach of a woman’s struggle to reach the stars she loves so much while navigating family drama and coming out. I loved the fact that the book was not solely about coming out as a gay woman and the difficulty this…
Lisey and the madman by Stephen King
Short story that led to the bigger novel being written later on, Lisey’s Story Each long marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark. This is the dark heart of theirs, the one mad true secret. Only 33 pages long, the story covers the pictorial in the newspaper covering the shooting of a famous…
The Cabin at the end of the woods * Paul Tremblay
Two gay dads and their adopter daughter receive a few creepy guests at their holiday cabin in the woods. Apparently they were the forbearers of the Apocalypse, the 4 common horsemen, asking them to make a sacrifice in order to avoid the destruction of the world. My friends Sabrina, Adriane, and Redmond. The four of…
Mira Grant – Symbiont (Parasitology Book #2)
I can’t believe I read this even after I’ve promised myself I’d stop after being disappointed by book 1 in the series. But hey, at least I can write home about it. Synopsis: THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US.The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the…
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Read by Fenella Woolgar “You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.” TRIGGER WARNING: INFANT DEATH, MAIMING, RAPE, ABORTION. What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and…
John Scalzi – The Android’s Dream
A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth’s government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep (“The Android’s Dream”), used in the alien race’s coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war…
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