#Patrick Shannon

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"The Price of Glory" by Patrick Shannon

An Elegant Sweep of History Through the Lenses of a Brilliant Storyteller #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

The Price of Glory Patrick ShannonOutskirts Press (2023)ISBN: 978-1977266132Reviewed by Lily Andrews for Reader Views (12/2023) “The Price of Glory” is a fresh and captivating historical fiction novel written by award-winning author, Patrick Shannon. Here, readers are introduced to Robert de La Salle, a French explorer and a fur trader who manages to convince the king that France’s influences…

[the-dark-artifices-trees]

I find it extremely sad that & ironic:

That edel & john wanted a big family but was never able to

And that...

Marie & Teddy didn't want kids but had 6

[mzradyer]

queen x stud

aoife molloy and joey lynch from saving 6 and redeeming 6 (boys of tommen #3 & #4) by chloe walsh

[ola-na-tungee]

The Fortune of War Jack's formidable spit bowl cuirass had me a little confused when I first read this scene. but of course everything probably makes sense somehow

[stargirlie25]

lizzy young and Patrick feely

GAHHHH MY BABIESSS!

HOW COULD CHOLE CHOSE TO MAKE HUGHIE OF ALL MOTHERFUCKERS HER ENDGAME? WHAT DOES IT MATTER SHE LOVES HIM WHEN HE DOES NOT? HUGHIE TO END LIZZIES MISERABLE STATE?

Feely literally defends her but also calls her out on her actions like a smart person does not yelling at her like an animal. THEY WILL BE ENDGAME IS MY HEART 😭

Also let's just acknowledge the fact that Claire calls gibsie gerad (his actual name not his nickname) and lizzie calls feely Patrick Ahhhhh

I love Katie but Lizzie is my viper just like Nesta Archeron.

[starryyvenus]

What I would love to read is a book or small tidbit of marie and teddy when they were teenagers

[genevieveetguy]

. My mom gave me this 9-mil for my 13th birthday. Yeah. I'll always remember what she put on the card, "Jesus Loves Winners". That's why no matter what I do, I aim to win.

Drop Dead Gorgeous, Michael Patrick Jann (1999)

[ginbrucobooks]

Good morning my ass

Johnny’s Point of View

Ring. Ring. Ring. I opened my eyes and looked at the alarm. 5:45 Ring. Ring. Ring. I stretched out my arm and stopped it. I was too sore. There was no way I was able to go the gym today. Screw it, I’m sleeping in today.

I slept for another couple of hours when suddenly a huge weight was thrown on me and I opened my eyes. What the fuck?

“Wake up. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and big brothers are out to kill me.” Gibsie sang while on top of me.

“Get off me, ya little gobshite.” I screamed. “We’re leaving in a couple hours, I want to sleep.”

“No can do, Joey the hurler texted me and told me to get my pretty bottom over there.” He stated.

“Then tell him you’re busy and you’ll be coming by later.” I replied exhausted. I looked at the alarm clock once again. 9:12 God, why me?

“I’m already on thin ice with this lad, I have no intention of giving him any other reason to beat me up, not after yesterday.” He gave me a glance. “Don’t think I’ve forgotten that you still haven’t told me what happened.”

“I did tell you what happened.” I retorted.

“You gave me a generic excuse.” He pointed out.

“It was a generic occurrence.” I tried. “You know that girl can’t stand me.”

“She’s not a fan of you because she thought you meant to hurt her cousin.” Gibsie reminded me. “And you know she wanted to apologise to you.”

“Then you had to go and ruin it by doing whatever it is that you did.” He concluded. “I wanted her to join our friend group.”

“You’ve been obsessing over that girl ever since you met her last week.” I wondered. “Do you like her?”

“What? No.” He declared. “You know I only have eyes for Claire-Bear.”

“Like that has stopped you from screwing half the female population at Tommen.” I rolled my eyes.

“I have no intention of screwing your sunshine, rest assured.” Gibsie emphasised. “And I didn’t meet her last week, I met her last November at Biddies, during one of the parties you refused to go to.”

“You did?” I asked. “How?”

“Some lad from her school got a little rapisty and I had to drag him off her.” He explained. “Patrick was there too that night, he helped me beat the guy up, though I doubt Maeve remembers him, she looked pretty shaken up.”

“What?” I was seeing red. “Why didn’t you tell me this?”

“Because she made it known to me, in no uncertain terms, that she didn’t want anyone minding her business.” He spoke. “Also, you didn’t even know her name back then. It’s not like I go around telling you of every maiden I save.”

“Every maiden you save?” I gave him a glare.

“There are quite a few of those.” He grinned.

“Who was it?” I questioned him. He knew immediately what I was referring to.

“Paul Rice, apparently Lynchy stole his girlfriend and he wanted to get back at him by fucking his sister.” He exclaimed disgusted. “After a few punches he spilled everything. Don’t worry he got back home with a broken nose and more than a few bruises.”

“Does her brother know about this?” I rubbed my chin.

“I doubt it.” He sighed. “If he did, Paul Rice would be six feet under right now. That lad doesn’t take kindly to someone messing with his family.”

“Alright, get off me.” I pushed Gibsie. “We’re going to Maeve’s house. Tell me the address.”

And maybe we were stopping by Biddies on our way there.

“Why are you making that face.” Gibsie got off the bed.

“What face?” I rolled my eyes.

“Your scary face.” He commented.

“I don’t have a scary face.” I protested.

“Yes, you do.” He responded. “You’re making it right now.”

“Just get ready, Gibs. We’re heading out in fifteen minutes.” I told him and motioned for him to get out of my room so I could prepare.

“You’re not going to kill anyone are you?” He asked.

“No, Gibs.” I assured him. “I don’t even know where the lad lives. I’m just going to make sure he’s not going to bother Maeve again.”

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Heathers (1989) Michael Lehmann

September 5th 2024

[queerdiazs]

eddie diaz whose queer awakening was watching patrick swayze in dirty dancing—and then the outsiders, and roadhouse, and next of kin, and to wong foo, which made him think of gender and how it applied to him—and it wasn't a mind-blowing moment of realization, not really. it settled in his heart like a rock in a river during a flood: natural and easy and perfect.

[lizzieyoungdefender]

it’s been so long ?? sm has changed ?? but my real question is how does someone make a fake instagram for a book character ?? i HAVE to know !!

[the-dark-artifices-trees]

Ok, so I like to imagine that johnny will wake up at 5am to do his morning work out

Then at 6:30 am he'll go home & wake shannon up. Like he'll brew her a perfectly made cup of tea and breakfast. Wake her up with kisses on her neck & whisper in her ear

[moviesandfood]

The Conjuring

[hydrogenandhelium]

Oh reading update I should have given you guys a couple of days ago!!!

Wow this ended up being longer than I expected. Preview of what I talk about below the cut so I don’t take over everyone’s homepage if you’re only here for cosmemes: Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon), The Slow Regard of Silent Things (Patrick Rothfuss), Kings of the Wyld (Nicholas Eames), The Broken Eye (Brent Weeks)

I finished priory of the orange tree. I loved it, but I felt like the last 300 pages or so dragged until I got to the ending. It could just be me though, the changes at work really cut into my reading time so I spent more days reading that book than I’d planned. Definitely recommend, it’s got dragons and politics and court intrigue and queer rep and spies and secret sects and all sorts of things.

Then I read the slow regard of silent things in one night. It was cute and weird and a lot of fun. I wouldn’t consider it essential reading for kingkiller chronicles, but it IS Auri’s pov and she’s definitely my favorite character so I could t skip it. Another highly recommended, and it’s spoiler free so if you just want to read a week in the life of a quirky girl with maybe OCD and definitely anxiety living in the tunnels under a city, I’d recommend it. The tunnels are cool, not icky, there’s an abandoned ballroom down there!

Now I’m reading Kings of the Wyld. I’ve seen it described as the A-team reunited and someone’s wild dnd campaign. I’m only on page 70 but I’m already comfortable saying those people are wrong. This is a 70s rock band trying to hold a reunion tour in 2010 when emo reigns. I’m really enjoying the campy humor especially after priory of the orange tree, which was so so so serious.

I’m also about halfway through book 3 of lightbringer (the broken eye) too on my audiobook. I’m liking that series a lot. Brent Weeks isn’t great with characterizing women and I’ll never argue with that but I think people overstate how bad he is. The women of Night Angel seriously needed some personality but the women in lightbringer actually have agency and a lot of depth. They’re not perfect and Karris is more motivated by men than she probably should be, but she still makes decisions for herself. And Teia might be my favorite female character he’s written. So it’s not all bad, just depends on how sensitive your meter is for unintentional sexism. For me, I tend to be more forgiving of older books than newer books, especially when you can see the author is making an effort to improve.

I think that’s all I’ve got. Based on how fast I’m going through kings of the wyld in the rare opportunity I do get to crack it open, I’ll go through it pretty fast, so I’m already starting to think about what I’ll be reading next. I’ve got a few things standing out on my bookshelf to me right now but we’ll see how I feel when it’s time for the next one. Mood reader problems I guess 😂

[2ndaryprotocol]

The slick slasher sequel ‘The Collection’ sliced its way into theaters this day 10 years ago. 💀🔫🔥

“𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍. 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚘𝚝. 𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚏 𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚑𝚎’𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍.”

[starryyvenus]

Tell me why I just noticed that the covers for boys of tommen represent what happens in the books; binding 13 & saving 6 both have blood, keeping 13 & redeeming 6 have fire & taming 10 is water like that’s so funny in a not funny way