![]() “The problem with knowing you is that you've done everything I ever wanted to,” Neil once complained to his famous friend. But sometimes it is life's losers who have the most interesting tales to tell.įeaturing guest appearances by the Pope, Bob Dylan, and a galaxy of stars, Killing Bono offers an extremely funny, startlingly candid, and strangely moving account of a life lived in the shadows of superstardom. Bad drugs, weird sex, bizarre Neil experienced it all in his elusive quest for fame. As Bono and his band U2 ascended to global superstardom, his school friend Neil scorched a burning path in quite the opposite direction. ![]() Killing Bono is a story of divergent lives. The boy sitting on the other side of the classroom had plans of his own. There was only one thing he hadn't counted on. He had it all worked the albums, the concerts, the quest for world peace. ![]() ![]() It was his destiny to be a veritable Rock God. But as a young punk in Dublin in the 1970s, Neil McCormick's ambitions went way beyond mere pop stardom. Longtime friend and reporter, Neil McCormick, reveals childhood and present day stories about Bono and his band, U2.Įveryone wants to be famous. ![]()
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![]() lots of cute and sweet moments that will make you fall in love with the MCs (Jack and Teo's first time together is so romantic, even if they are perfect strangers at the time) age gap (Teo is ten years younger than Jack)īAKE at temperature of your choice (this book is BROIL-ON-HIGH HOT tho) LOTS OF SEXY TIMES (eager virgin alert!) skydiving (followed by an angry Jack who would never jump out of a "perfectly good plane") misdirected love (Teo is convinced he's in love with Chris, his best friend since elementary school, but loving Chris has become a habit what Teo feels for Jack is real) ![]() serious lack of communication (why, oh, why couldn't Jack and Teo have an actual conversation about their future instead of relying on assumptions?) an awkward encounter with an ex-boyfriend ![]() well-meaning family (especially Jack's slightly nosy but truly supportive sister) ![]() ![]() One sexy-as-sin pilot (Jack) who relies on hookups because he doesn't think he's relationship material (and because he still feels guilty about walking away from his ex, who was a good guy) One virginal nurse (Teo) who's in love with his "straight" best friend and scared of flying ![]() ![]() ![]() She was studying here when her father was brutally murdered by rival criminals. He paid for her to study French and Linguistics at a top Russian University, where she was awarded a medal for her shooting skills. ![]() Her father was often absent, so she was left in the care of an orphanage when he went on his missions. Oxana had lost a parent early on when her mother died at a young age from Chernobyl-related cancer. In the novellas, Oxana Voronstova - different to the show's Oksana Astankova - is revealed to have come from an upper-class father, who was a wealthy and celebrated war veteran who later turned to a life of crime in the Mafiya. The first novella in the series, Codename Villanelle, is very forthcoming with information about Villanelle's past, unlike the series which keeps her past a bit more mysterious and unravels some secrets but not all of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Touching our hearts with laughter and wisdom, lifting our spirits with compassion and goodness, James Herriot never fails to delight. In this repackaged volume, after serving in the RAF in World War II, Herriot gladly returns home to Yorkshire to his beloved family and multitude of patients, with many more tender, funny, sad and wise stories to share with us and warm our hearts.Īnimal lovers of all ages, and fans of Herriot's original classics, won't want to miss this beautiful treasure.Īfter serving in the Royal Air Force in World War II, James Herriot gladly returns home to Yorkshire to his beloved family and multitude of patients, with many more tender, funny, sad and wise stories to tell us. After serving in the Royal Air Force in World War II, James Herriot gladly returns home to Yorkshire to his beloved family and multitude of patients, with many more tender, funny, sad and wise stories to tell us. The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal storiesthe basis for the PBS Masterpiece television series, All Creatures Great and Small. ![]() Now available as an audio book for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories-the basis for the PBS Masterpiece television series, All Creatures Great and Small. The Lord God Made Them All Audible Audiobook Unabridged James Herriot (Author), & 2 more 4,077 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() ![]() ![]() (I was reminded of the way the characters in the Dark Tower books use the objects left behind by the old ones, only in Roadside Picnic, the knowledge gap is even greater.) This lack of information might annoy some readers, but, like Tom, I enjoyed the mystery of it. The scientists and stalkers find uses for some of them, but they don’t understand how they work or if they’re even using them correctly. As Tom at Wuthering Expectations notes, we don’t learn much of anything about what all these objects do. When the novel begins, he’s turned his skills as a stalker into a legitimate career as a research assistant in a lab that’s attempting to uncover what these gadgets do. The main character, Red Schuhart, is a stalker, the name given to the people who visit the Zones where the aliens have landed to pick up the gizmos scattered around and then sell them on the black market. ![]() Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1972 novel Roadside Picnic, now available in a new translation from the Russian, tells of a world that is quite literally picking up the pieces after an alien visit. ![]() Thirteen years ago, they came and they departed, leaving behind pins and empties and shriekers and other detritus, all there for the taking if you’re brave enough to make your way into the deadly-and forbidden-landing zones. ![]() ![]() Ironweed, meanwhile, had been rejected by 13 publishers. His first two novels had gone out of print. When Ironweed was published, Kennedy was deep into his 50s. ![]() Things were suddenly going well for Kennedy, but overnight success had been a long time coming. That same year, Kennedy would win the Pulitzer prize for Ironweed, sold the film rights (as well as truck-loads of copies) and received almost universally glowing reviews around the world. A man (called, pleasingly, Dr Hope) called Kennedy and told him he’d won a MacArthur Fellowship – then $264,000 (these days it is a hefty $625,000). He’d assumed it was because “I was getting reviewed in about five different major places” – but that wasn’t the half of it. Six months earlier, he’d opened a fortune cookie that said he was going to have a lucky week. ![]() When the Paris Review interviewed William Kennedy in July 1984, he had just installed a new swimming pool outside his house. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Springsteen was on the verge of being left behind by the record industry. His first two albums for Columbia Records, “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” and “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle,” were not hits. ![]() The frayed fun of Asbury Park’s Palace Amusements was offset by a generation who felt left behind by the American dream of their parents. Only the diehards and dreamers stuck around. “Born to Run” is partly the story of Asbury Park in the mid-’70s, but it could also be the story of the United States, reeling from a recession, gas lines, racial strife and repercussions of the Vietnam War. The seaside resort town was in the midst of a downward spiral spurred by the emergence of the suburbs, a vanishing tax base and riots in 1970 that caused day-trippers and weekend visitors to stay away. ![]() ![]() ![]() What could terrify grown alphas? Jules will have to investigate!īut his investigation comes with surprises…like the Beast’s overwhelming effect on Jules’s omega nature. He sometimes hears growls and screams coming from the basement, and the men guarding the door look positively terrified. ![]() There’s a beast in the Blake family mansion Jules is sure of it. So when strange things start happening in their house, it piques Jules’s curiosity. “Nothing special” describes Jules’s whole life. He isn’t ugly or anything, but by omega standards, he’s nothing special. He’s not the most beautiful, or the smartest, or the strongest of the four Blake siblings. Jules is an ordinary nineteen-year-old omega from a perfectly respectable family. ![]() Sometimes kissing the Beast doesn't turn it into a Prince Charming-instead, he's a charming prince you want to punch. ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt that way at the beginning of "Luster," the crackling debut novel by Raven Leilani, a 29-year-old writer who sports a nicely tailored prose style and a stinging sense of humor. I want to grab them and say, don't let him do that to you. And they do it so casually that it unleashes my inner grandpa. ![]() And so they have sex, often really lousy sex. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: I can't say for sure when it began - probably with the brouhaha surrounding Lena Dunham's "Girls." But we're riding a crest of books, movies and TV series about bright young women who can't figure out what to do with their brightness. ![]() Our critic-at-large John Powers says the novel establishes Leilani as a writer with talent to burn. The book "Luster" by Raven Leilani, a young Black writer, tells the story of a 20-something woman caught between high artistic dreams and a messy personal life. Our critic-at-large John Powers has a review of a debut novel that's causing a stir in literary circles. ![]() |