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< Fireflies > < My Fair Captain > < The Draegan Lords > < Seti's Heart > < Temperature's Rising: A Midsummer's Night Steam (Midsummer's Nights Steam) > < No Going Home > Ally Blue

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Samhain Publishing
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(Better Than the Cover Would Indicate)

(Wonderful Fantasy)

(FIREFLIES by Ally Blue)

(Fireflies by Ally Blue)

Not especially original, but fairly well written nonetheless. Both characters are fairly masculine--which makes me wonder about the excessively twee cover! Anyway, there is a nice sweetness about this book that surprised me. I appreciated the restraint of the "fairy" character, and was amused by the rather coarse, but charming, half-human kid. Making him biracial was rather a nice touch; fairies probably aren't racist, and abduct people of every color!

Ally Blue is a skilled writer; all she needs now is someone with equal skill to design her book covers!
The first time Joey Vines sees Braeden Shay, a Sidhe warrior, he is five years old. Braeden tells him that he is a faery but Joey's mother has the strangest reaction before warning him that faeries do not exist and he should not talk to him again. Braeden appears in Joey's room the next night as a firefly/faery and he is enchanted and in awe of him; when he is allowed to touch his wings he is so moved the event changes his life. Braeden promises to return for him when he's ready to assume his heritage but 20 years later Joseph, who now has a pair of wings tattooed on his back to remind him of Braeden is still waiting, until one fateful day when his life is transformed. Joseph is sent home from work that day because he is unwell but on his way home there is a strange occurrence before he falls into a deep sleep and he imagines that a firefly is hovering near him.

Joseph wakes up in a cabin in the wilderness where Braeden has taken him and he meets him again but as an adult this time, and he feels that he's living his dream with one very significant difference - he's attracted to him. When they kiss and Braeden wraps his wings around him he is transported into another world, one of sensuality and desire and longing. Joseph soon finds out that faeries are not that different from human men in terms of their sexual responses and he has the most wonderful sensual experience of his life. The lovemaking between them is breathtaking, intense and magical as they both appear to weave spells around each other in a mixture of lust and a more ethereal bonding of their minds and hearts.

Braeden later tells Joseph about his heritage, that his true father is a Lord of the Unseelie Court and he is half fae with an ability to control the plant kingdom. But there is a huge storm cloud hanging over him - his father Lord Caratacus, who is bound and determined that Joseph will never fulfill his destiny of saving the worlds because Caratacus wants to have power over both the Sidhe and human realms.

This story, while sad in parts, is beautifully told as Ally Blue always paints amazing pictures with her words and her world building is brilliant. Fireflies is a fantasy setting where anyone could escape to from real life for a few hours and inhabit Braeden's and Joseph's world. The author has an amazing gift of putting her readers in the heart of the action and if a writer can make me feel that I'm right there with her characters then she has done her job. The plot is very different from her previous books and she demonstrates considerable imagination and range in setting the stage and telling this engrossing story.

In Fireflies you have to suspend belief and once you do you are totally enchanted by this story of a love that triumphs over all odds and saves two worlds that are threatened, Tir-na-nog and earth - the age old fight between good and evil. The battle between Caratacus, Joseph and Braeden is well planned and executed, with magic being an integral force in the fight. Unfortunately, there are always casualties and loss in life and although the story is somewhat dark it does have its funny moments. I never knew that wings were such an erogenous zone and that there were so many erotic uses for plant life; Ms Blue has certainly given me new erotic avenues to explore

I was captivated by the characters which is a trademark of Ms Blue as her characterizations are what set her books apart and make them so popular with fans and new readers alike. I really loved Braeden's heart and the way he was so open about his love for Joseph and even though he was a warrior you felt his emotions which were always on the surface. I loved this book and highly recommend it to anyone who likes fantasies or just a really good story.

This is a good book. If you like fairies, you will most likely enjoy this story. It is original, full of interesting characters, and has an engaging plot. Though its length keeps it from being as satisfying as a full-length novel, it is still a quality read.

I love Ally Blue's imagery. She paints beautiful pictures with her words and invokes powerful emotions. She writes deeply thought-provoking prose. Personal touches like her trademark melancholy prose and original mythology help this book to stand out among recent bland offerings from other M/M authors. Her characters really come alive and jump off the pages.

I love the character of Braeden. He's a warrior, but he's sweet and tender and obviously wants what's best for his lover. Though I didn't feel much chemistry from Joey's side, Braeden's deep expressions of love made the relationship more believable than I expected.

The climax of this story is a little abrupt, but it is interesting and it works well within the context of the story. The epilogue is a tearjerker, though, so be prepared. This is a romance so you know Joey and Braeden will get their HEA, but it is bittersweet.

I wish the story had been a little more upbeat and "fun", but it was interesting to see a more serious side of fairies and their struggles. Ally Blue somehow possesses the incredible ability to make a story deep and melanchology without being dark and depressing.

All in all, this is a nice 4-star read, likely much higher if you are a true fairy fanatic and enjoy a more somber tone. Do make a point of reading this one.
When I read about sex between faery (of the original genre, with faery wings...) I always ask to myself: how can they lay back? the wings are not uncomfortable? Sooo, a lit of magic goes away when I think so, but Ally Blue has found a really interesting alternative to the problems... but you have to read the book to know what.

Joey is an halfling fae. His father is an evil unselie, and he is fated to kill him. He doens't know nothing except that, when he was 5 years old a beautiful fae man, Braeden, has visited him and kiss him on the forehead and say "I'll come back for you, when you're ready". All right, if a beautiful man, even if he has wings, says to me he will come back, I will sure wait for him. And so does Joey. And when this gorgeous man came back, you see, Joey has to make sex with him as first thing... twenty years is a long time...

All right, tonight I'm a bit silly, but really, this is not a funny tale, au contraire, it is also a bit sad. But I like very much Joey's character, he is so naivee and he has this passion for the Braeden's wings. The rest of the book is a fight between good and evil, between love and hate, generosity and avarice. Braeden has no doubt he is fated to love Joey as Joye is fated to rescue the faery world from his evil father.

And Matt, from Love's Evolution, made a little cameo appereance... and the cover by Anne Cain is gorgeous and give you an exact idea of the two characters.
A Sidhe warrior in exile. A young man with powers he's only beginning to understand. In their hands, the fate of two worlds. A childhood encounter with one of the Sidhe sets Joseph Vines' life on a fateful course. Unable to forget the beautiful creature who promised to one day return for him, Joey spends the next twenty years learning, dreaming and waiting. Braeden Shay, a warrior of the Sidhe, has spent those same twenty years watching Joey from a distance, waiting for Joey's heritage to make itself known. When the time is ripe, Braeden steps in to protect Joey from those trying to kill him, and to help him deal with the changes turning his life inside out. During the days that follow, as Braeden teaches Joey to harness and control his newfound power over the natural world, Joey finds himself falling for the gentle, patient Braeden. Braeden, who has watched over Joey for most of his life, is already deeply in love with him. When the forces targeting Joey for death catch up with them, it will take all their magic-and the power of their love for each other-to survive, and to save both their worlds. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit male/male sex, graphic language, violence, and inappropriate use of plants.
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< Fireflies > < My Fair Captain > < The Draegan Lords > < Seti's Heart > < Temperature's Rising: A Midsummer's Night Steam (Midsummer's Nights Steam) > freaks

< Partners > < Night Call > < The Rainbow Cedar > < Lethal Affairs (Elite Operatives Romance Intrigue) > < Calling the Dead > < Aftershock (Shaken Series) > Gerri Hill

price： 1395
Bella Books
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(Partners)

(A sweet story of faith and responsiblity)

This is a very quiet and lovely story that I dismissed at first reading but have learned to love and can now read over and over. The heroine's future looks very bleak indeed, but her hard circumstances lead her to look for God. There are some very profound spiritual truths here having to do with God's care for us when life is difficult -- not everyone comes out unscathed -- and the main characters come to know God during the course of the book.
"Partners"is a story about a man and a woman who only know each other from passing each other on the stairs at the decrepit boarding house where they both live. One night, the man finds a baby lying on the boarding house doorstep and nearly frozen to death. Together he and the compassionate young woman fight for the baby's life, and fall in love in the process. It's a little bit simpler than a lot of Hill's books, but it's still a sweet story with a message of faith at the core.
Detective Casey O'Connor is back, this time with new partner Leslie Tucker. They join forces with Tori Hunter (from Hill's acclaimedHunter's Way and In the Name of the Father)to track down a killer targeting single women who live alone. But as Casey and Leslie grow closer, Leslie begins to question her sexuality. She craves more time with her partner and less is spent with the man she is supposed to marry, exposing their differences. Casey turns to Tori and Sam for advice when it appears her relationship with her new partner might follow the same path as theirs. Partners takes us from the squad room to the streets, and into the private lives of four of Dallas' finest female detectives.
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< Partners > < Night Call > < The Rainbow Cedar > < Lethal Affairs (Elite Operatives Romance Intrigue) > < Calling the Dead > freaks

< The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family > < The Kid : What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant > < Skipping Towards Gomorrah > < Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist > < When You Are Engulfed in Flames > < Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems > Dan Savage

price： 480
Plume
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(Most fun reading in a long time!)

(The Commitment: Yes, No, Maybe, Well, I Don't Know...)

(Same-Sex Marriage)

(A Good Read)

(Funny, intelligent personal memoir and comment on Gay Marriage)

I found myself laughing throughout the book. Very snappy writing and a story that I could identify with within my own relationship. The story echos today's society and the struggle (conflict) that a lot of relationships go through whether gay or straight. I think I loved the reactions of his son the best. A must read for anyone conflicted about marriage or a commitment ceremony.
This one I liked; it was fun reading about D.J. and good to see he has done so well with his Dads. The issues with his mom made my heart ache, and I wondered how that would progress over time. But the theme of the book - commitment - made my head ache. Back and forth, back and forth with the marriage thing. Dan makes the angst sound funny, although it wasn't at the time, I am sure. Still, in the end - I never quite got the point. It was entertaining reading for sure. Dan Savage could write a book about brushing his teeth and it would be funny. It's just with so few heterosexuals caring to get married and half of those who do divorcing, why the yen to do this straight-y thing?
Take a closer look at the issue of same-sex marriage with this examination and criticism of both sides of the debate.

An excellent sequel to Savage's The Kid. Funny, heartwarming, and thought-provoking all at the same time.
One of the things I liked best about this book was that Dan Savage didn't just destroy the arguments against gay marriage, but he also correctly criticized many of the popular arguments in favor of gay marriage for succumbing to the same double-standards as the opposition. What was left was arguments that are rational, clearly stated, and funny.

Savage's personal story is well told, reflective, and entertaining.
In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Savageoutspoken author of the column Savage Love makes it personal.

Dan Savages mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says no thanks because he doesnt want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads arent allowed to get married, but that hed like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dans straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyonegay or straight, right or left, single or marriedhowling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails. BACKCOVER: Hilarious, heartfelt.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

As funny as David Sedariss essay collections, but bawdier and more thought-provoking.
Publishers Weekly(starred review)

Most of all, a book about creating and appreciating family.
Seattle Times

I think America would be a better place if everyone on every side of the gay marriage debate would read this book.
Ira Glass, host of the public radio showThis American Life

The strongest argument here, which [Savage] brilliantly plays down, is that family means everything to these people: married, not married, blended, gay, straight, whatever.
The Washington Post
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< The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family > < The Kid : What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant > < Skipping Towards Gomorrah > < Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist > < When You Are Engulfed in Flames > freaks

< Maurice: A Novel > < Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection > < Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) > < Giovanni's Room > < A Passage to India > < Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Classics) > E. M. Forster

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W. W. Norton
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(An Excellent Piece of Literature)

("England has always been disinclined to accept human nature")

(The Beginning for Me)

(Forster's Most Surprising Work)

(Love is just Love)

"Maurice" by E.M. Forster is one of my favourite novels. It is so simply and beautifully written and tells a story that all readers will able to relate to in one way or another. A tragic reflection of Forster's own life of closeted homosexuality - the novel itself was written in 1914 when homosexuality was still illegal in Britain and remained unpublished until 1970 - the novel tells the story of Maurice Hall, a young man trying to come to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Edwardian England where his "sort" are arrested for such "crimes". However, when he meets Clive, a fellow student at Cambridge, he realises that he is not alone in his predicament after all. As the events of the story unfold, things become deely sad as Maurice suffers more and more because of a secret that he feels he cannot tell any of his family and friends. The heartwarming ending - which Forster must have hoped for himself as well - is ultimately uplifting and allows the reader to envisage what the future will be like for Maurice themselves.
At first blush, "Maurice" seems unlike any of Forster's other novels. An unapologetic tale of love between Maurice Hall and Clive Durham, two Cambridge students during the years preceding World War I, the book is still a sensation; it's no wonder that Forster chose not to publish it--it would have ended his career. Yet this story, too, explores the preoccupations apparent in all of Forster's fiction: the hypocrisy of British traditions and, especially, the absurdity of British class structure.

"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature," says a mesmerist to Maurice when he is seeking a cure for his "condition." In this scene, the doctor is referring, of course, to sexuality, but considered in the light of all six of his novels, Forster judges English attitudes toward the human condition as a whole. Once Maurice and Clive fall in love, "no tradition overawed the boys. No convention settled what was poetic, what absurd." But it is, in part, this knowledge of being outside the law (or, as Maurice admits, "outlaws") that ultimately rends the couple in half.

The last section of the book brings together all these themes. Maurice's unanticipated and tense liaison with Scudder--a servant, no less--is seemingly impossible not only because they are both the same sex but also because they hail from different classes. To society, the sexual element is intolerable, but to Maurice the class difference makes such a relationship even more inconceivable--"if the will can overleap class, civilization as we have made it will go to pieces."

To Forster, however, both taboos stem from the same tyrannical tradition; he had similarly depicted the futility of mixed-class relationships in his previous novel, "Howards End," with the illicit relationship between the blueblood Henry Wilcox and the lowborn Jacky Best. But here he brings to the story the possibility of hope. Indeed, only when Maurice has thrown over both proscriptions--that of class and of sex--can he "fully bring out the hero": to "live outside class, without relations or money," andto understand that love must be its own reward for an "outlaw" in England.

In many ways, "Maurice" is the least polished of Forster's books--if one judges such things on the basis of prose style and narrative structure alone. Scenes often feel sketched; transitional elements are scant; characters enter and exit the stage willy-nilly. Perhaps because the manuscript was revised in 1960, it has an occasionally minimalist, even modernist tone. Yet the abandonment of traditional considerations suits the story--and Forster has instead created two fully realized characters in what is surely his most caustic, most emotionally raw satire of British manners.
Maurice is one of the greatest books I have ever read. In terms of a gay novel, it is the only one that I can really stand. And it is the best one I have read thus far. This novel helped me to hope and dream at the start of a long sexual journey (I'm still young, so I have a long way to go).
Now, you might wonder for all my high praises, why I didn't give Maurice five stars. Maurice is not a simple a novel as one might figure. It's extremely layered, and more than most novels esp. the 'classics' different people get widely different things from it. If you read it at the surface, you get the story of the sexually confused/frustrated Maurice Hall who falls in and out of love with Clive, and eventually forms a lifelong companionship with Alec Scudder, a man of the lower classes who works on Clive's estate. But if you look closer, then look away real quickly the picture becomes clearer. Archetypes form, and a beautiful story takes shape. It might not come to you like a bolt, but more like a rainy day that floods the passages of the mind until it spills all over.

I must say though that while I commend Mr. Forster for his presence in the literary landscape, but I feel like he didn't work to his potential. I think he was bound by the time he was born in. If he was born nearly 100 years later, Maurice would have been a bestseller and a classic.
Born in 1879 England, E.M. Forster attended King's College at Cambridge; thereafter his family fortune enabled him to live as please. He traveled extensively; dabbled in the celebrated Bloomsbury Group, which included the celebrated Virginia Woolf; and strove to conceal his homosexuality from the general public until his death in 1970. Although he was widely read during his lifetime, a series of films based on his novels prompted a major re-evaluation of his work during the 1980s and 1990s, and he is now considered among the finest English prose stylists of the early 20th Century.

Written in 1913, MAURICE (prounced in the English fashion as 'Morris') was suppressed by Forster during his lifetime, and was not published until 1971--when it made quite a stir by exposing the author's long hidden sexuality through its story of a young homosexual man striving to find his way in late Edwardian England. As a teenager, Maurice Hall is given rudimentary male-female sexual instruction, but finds himself vaguely repelled. He quickly develops a sense of alienation from those around him, an alienation that continues unabated until he enters university and meets Clive Durham. Their relationship begins as aesthetic one, but soon evolves into a physical romance in which Maurice believes he has found peace with himself.

Unfortunately, the pressures of society work to separate the two men: Clive is of a socially well-placed family and is unwilling to reject the social and financial opportunities it affords. He ends the affair and continues on to a respectable yet loveless marriage, leaving Maurice to obsess about their relationship and to seek a way of escape from his own differentness. Ironically, a later chance meeting with Clive not only brings Maurice to recognize Clive's failings, it also has the effect of placing Maurice in the path of a new, more compatible relationship.

Forster's works are inevitably centered on class structure and struggle, and MAURICE is no exception: the demands of class force Maurice and Clive apart; the demands of an overbearing and indifferent society drive Maurice to both devalue himself and to seek a cure for homosexuality. In both instances Forster writes with tremendous power grace and clarity of the unthinking brutalities that Maurice must endure and the novel progresses with great power--but only up to a point, suddenly faultering at the end into a series of deus ex machina devices that are abrupt, artificial, and ultimately implausible.

Even so, the novel must be read within the context of its era. Forster was working distinctly new ground; English literature had produced nothing similar to MAURICE up that particular point, and it would be another three decades or more until such novels as THE CITY AND THE PILLAR began to paint a reasonably realistic portrait of homosexual men and the pressures society exerts upon them. Given this, and in spite of the flaws these circumstances produced, MAURICE is a truly remarkable book; although it is distinctly romantic and rather discreet in tone, in many respects it is as modern as today. Strongly recommended, but primarily to established Forster fans and those interested in gay and lesbian literature.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer
still laughing at the negative voter
This is one of the few books I plan to read again. What a beautiful story. For those of us who have not had a same-sex relationship, it illustrates that, love is just love, the emotions and feelings are the same regardless. This book was impossible to put down yet difficult to finish and say goodbye to.
"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,New York Times

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way, "stepping into the niche that England had prepared for him": except that his is homosexual.

Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971,Mauricewas ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmation that love between men can be happy. "Happiness," Forster wrote, "is its keynote….In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad businessman and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him."
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< Maurice: A Novel > < Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection > < Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) > < Giovanni's Room > < A Passage to India > freaks

< Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture > < Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition) > < Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay > < Brokeback Mountain > < Close Range: Wyoming Stories > < The Namesake: A Novel > Annie Proulx

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Scribner
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(A+)

(It's a story of love that can never be... not sex.)

(As beautiful as it gets)

(Great reading!)

(You Won't Want it to End)

The raw emotion of this short story dares to punch you in the stomach; the tear ducts start to sting, but inevitably, do not yield, because the bitter bite of the narrative does not fall to melodrama. To feel the devastating triumph of a love ended too early is to experience the very essence of what literature exists for. Proulx's sweeping, sometimes complex images encompass an entire world into a few short words; the briefness of the story parallels how the characters feel there is never enough time. As always, Proulx betrays her extensive knowledge of the written word as a motif. The colloquially written dialogue is blunt and entirely convincing; not an ounce of it seems forced or unrealistic. To read Brokeback Mountain is to have your nerves catch on fire and belief restored in the power of the written word.

It doesn't matter if you're straight or gay... this is a story of love that can never be. If anyone has every been in a relationship that just can't happen, this story will hit a nerve.
**SPOILER ALERT**
The sex part of Brokeback Mountain is so minimal, it's not even really an issue. So get over that.
**END OF SPOILER ALERT**
The story tugs on the heartstrings on those who can understand what it's like to be in relationships that aren't working, but they're stuck... and when you meet someone or you're wanting to be with someone, yet it's just not possible. It truly shows how two people, over the course of twenty years, can honestly care and love each other. It reaffirms that love knows no distance, boundaries, number of years, or gender or sexual orientations. Love is just purely that... Love.
Brokeback Mountain is exactly what our world needed, at at time, where understanding and compassion for one another is often disregarded.

Brokeback Mountain is a poem hidden away under beautiful prose. It is a short story, about 55 pages, yet it is profoundly heartwarming, with a subtle flow of true emotions and comes across as a refreshing, cool, light rain showering on your heart but comes back to haunt you and touches your soul in the deepest way.

I had seen the movie last year. It was kind of slow, but the beauty of the story was uniquely brilliant. So when I saw the book at the library I instantly grabbed it and read it within a couple of hours. It is all about 2 guys, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, coming to know each other while herding sheep on Brokeback mountain. It is the sad story of their difficult lives, separate yet entwined, and your heart reaches out to them. It is a remarkably enchanting story of forbidden love and longing.

The prose is astoundingly elegant and beautiful. Annie Proulx, critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer prize winner, writes as if painting a beautiful picture. The story flows like a serene river - quiet, beautiful, calm and exceedingly sure of itself. See a couple of excerpts to get a taste of her eloquent prose-

"They stood that way for a long time in front of the fire, its burning tossing ruddy chunks of light, the shadow of their bodies a single column against the rock. The minutes ticked by from the round watch in Ennis's pocket, from the sticks in the fire settling into coals. Stars bit through the wavy heat layers above the fire. Ennis's breath came slow and quiet, he hummed, rocked a little in the sparklight and Jack leaned against the steady heartbeat, the vibrations of the humming like faint electricity and, standing, he fell into sleep that was not sleep but something else drowsy and tranced until Ennis, dredging up a rusty but still usable phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, said, "Time to hit the hay, cowboy. I got a go"."

"Without getting up he threw deadwood on the fire, the sparks flying up with their truths and lies, a few hot points of fire landing on their hands and faces, not for the first time, and they rolled down into the dirt. One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough."

... and I never get enough of stories as beautifully told as this. Never enough.

5 stars, if not more.
I really enjoyed Campbell Scott's reading of Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx. I'd read the story several times before, and HEARING it was wonderful.
Although some say the book is not as good as the moving, this compelling story will leave you wishing it was longer.

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece.

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.

Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.

The New Yorkerwon the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included inPrize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards.In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.

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< Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture > < Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition) > < Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay > < Brokeback Mountain > < Close Range: Wyoming Stories > freaks

< With Caution > < My Fair Captain > < No Going Home > < The Broken H > < Without Reservations > < Easy > J L Langley

price： 290
Samhain Publishing(2008-09-30)
Not yet published

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(PLEASE PUT IN PRINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(With Caution)

(WIth Caution!)

(This series continues to improve...)

(With Caution by J.L. Langley)

Print! Damnit, print! I don't have the money for a Kindle, I don't have my own computer with internet access, and this book has been 'out' (no pun intended) for ages! I want to read more than just a stupid excerpt, I want to read this book! I know it's more environmentally-friendly...for at least a decade or so...and better for the economy not to put so many books in print, to have them on a Kindle instead, but I NEED this book in print. Am I the only bookleech who thinks like this?
Remington Lassiter has suffered at the hands of his abusive father
Dirk his entire life. Remi's younger brother Sterling is still under
Dirk's roof and therefore in constant danger.

Jake Romero has been waiting for Remi to admit his feelings for him.
He can smell and sense Remi's attraction to him, but Remi is not ready
to admit that he is in love with a man, so Jake waits.

While Remi struggles to come to terms with being a newly changed
werewolf, his feeling for Jake, and keeping his brother safe, he
discovers something amazing about himself that will change everything
for him and those around him.

With Caution is a gay paranormal romance that has elements of BDSM,
aspects of physical abuse and murder and mystery. It's a fantastic
story. It's well written and very engaging. Remi's submissiveness is
sexy and Jake's desire and concern for Remi is endearing. I love them
together. With Caution is another great story by J.L. Langley. I am
absolutely dying for Sterling's story!

Nannette
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In this new installment of the With or without series our focus is on Remi, Chayton's friend the gorgeous half Native American guy who was attacked and then turned into a werewolf. The last time we see Remi we learn that Jake is his mate. I was really happy that With Caution came out and it was only going to be based on Remi and Jake's relationship. I really loved this book, though I have to admit I was a little put off of the fact that the story strayed a bit from the original characters at times focusing more on Sterling, Remi's younger brother. It should also be noted that Remi is submissive in this story a really big change in his personality when he was really dominating in the last. There also a few surprises and secrets that we learn about Remi that come from long suppressed memories and powers with him becoming a werewolf. Its a good read with lot's of foreplay and sex so for all m/m fans enjoy!
This werewolf romance series by Langley gets better with each offering! In Without Reservations, we met Chay's slightly homophobic friend, Remi. He was made a werewolf by Jake, who is also his mate but hesitant to reveal the fact. But, the real reason behind Remi's attitude is heartbreaking and shocking. Physical abuse from his father was hinted at in the previous installment, but now the truth is fully revealed.

This book does stand alone, but a reader will benefit from reading the previous ones. While I really enjoyed the last one, this book has more depth and much richer character development, especially in Remi. He is flawed, loving, vulnerable and in need of someone to care for him for a change. Jake is that person, but first they both must deal with the very real danger Remi's brother Sterling is in from their abusive father, Dirk. In their efforts to find evidence against Dirk so they can take Sterling away, Jake and Remi uncover a mystery revolving around an incident when Remi was a teen. And incident so horrifying, Remi's mind completely blocked it out - except for the dream he keeps having. There is a lot of action regarding the mystery, and plenty of Langley's trademark hot sex. Langley also expands on her werewolf mythos, with new insight into alpha and omega status within the pack. This was hinted at in the first short story, "With Love" in the anthology Hearts from the Ashes. There is a lot to enjoy here in addition to the romance.

My only disappointment with this novel, and it was a small one, was the very predictable storyline with Sterling. Warning, small SPOILER:

Sterling is beaten nearly to death and is saved by being made a werewolf by his mate. This is exactly what happened to Remi in the last book in order to segue into his story! So, the next book will likely be Sterling's romance. However, this was a minor hitch and doesn't make me want to read Sterling's story any less. I just wish it had been done differently, maybe as a choice this time. Langley did throw in a great surprise concerning Sterling that should make the next book more interesting.

Overall, this was a wonderful paranormal M/M romance. I will definitely be buying this in paperback come summer so I can re-read it. Highly recommended!
A J.L. Langley's book is a sure reading. You will find a good story, hot sex, a lot of humor and romance for your heart. Yesterday I bought three books, but when I had to choose from what book start my reading, I had no doubt: J.L. Langely will not deceive me

With Caution is the third in the With or Without series, even if it is strict connected only with Without Reservation. Remi was turned in werewolf by Jake in the first enstallment in the series, and he has now to learn how to live like a werewolf and in a pack. In the Chay and Keaton's