#Dennis Powell

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Reading update

Light Up the Lamp by Kit Oliver - 5/5 stars

Kit Oliver can do no wrong, I guess. I figured I'd like this one a lot given that I loved her other two novels, but hockey books usually aren't five star reads for me. Along comes this book! Unrelentingly lovely, and even though I knew it was going to have an HEA, I still found myself worried that Gil wasn't going to figure shit out.

The Faerie Hounds of York by Arden Powell - 5/5 stars

Gorgeous book that read like a dreamy, dark fairy tale. The first book by Arden Powell I read was really funny, and this was like the complete opposite. Powell has range! This one is sad, but still has a happy ending. If you like Emily Tesh's Greenhollow Duology, I highly recommend this one. They're definitely in the same vein.

Deosil by Jordan L Hawk - 4.75/5 stars

I was SO SAD to get to the end of this series. Whyborne, Griffin, Christine, Iskander, Persephone, Maggie, Niles...I could go on, I love them all. It's hard to say good-bye but they all got a wonderful ending.

The Inside Edge by Ashlyn Kane - 3/5 stars

The Taste of Desert Green by Kim Fielding - 4.25/5 stars

Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass - 1/5 stars

Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James - 4/5 stars

Roustabout by Morgan Brice - 3/5 stars

Prince in Disguise by Tavia Lark - 5/5 stars

Loved this one just as much as the first in the series. I expected the Draskorans to be...idk, like stereotype fantasy barbarians, so it was extremely refreshing that they weren't.

Old Time Religion by EH Lupton - 5/5 stars

Ahhhhhhhh I love this series!! I really really enjoyed the first book, and I loved this one even more. Really good, really original. I can't recommend this one and Dionysus in Wisconsin enough!

A Thief and a Gentleman by Arden Powell - 3.5/5 stars

The Devil to Pay by Katie Daysh - 4.75/5 stars

If you like Patrick O'Brian but find yourself thinking, surely this could be more gay? Then Katie Daysh's books are for you. This is the second in the series and I was delighted to learn yesterday from her newsletter that she's working on the third, because I definitely am not ready for the series to end! The first book was from Nightingale's POV (there might have been some bits from Courtney's POV? But not many), and this one is entirely from Courtney's. Courtney and Nightingale didn't actually get to spend much time together in this one so I hope they catch more of a break in book 3.

Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson - DNF at pg 6

The Engineer by CS Poe - 4/5 stars

The Larks Still Bravely Singing by Aster Glenn Gray - 5/5 stars

If you're not reading Aster Glenn Gray yet, why not? Why not??? Seriously, if you like Cat Sebastian, PLEASE give Aster Glenn Gray a try. I have yet to read a book by the woman that isn't gorgeous. This book is set right at the tail end of WWI and into the interwar period and is about two young English men who were injured and invalided out of the army. They're both disabled (Robert, the POV character, is missing a leg, and David is missing a hand) and have PTSD.

Also recommended if you like KJ Charles's Will Darling Adventures trilogy. The Larks Still Bravely Singing is just straight historical romance, not romantic suspense, but it deals with similar themes.

Guardians of Dawn: Zhara by S Jae-Jones - DNF at pg 24

Mr Warren's Profession by Sebastian Nothwell - 4.75/5 stars

LOVED this book. I think it's the only historical romance I've read that uses the Industrial Revolution so heavily in the plot, which I really enjoyed. Plus, gorgeous cover.

Honey Mead Murder by Dahlia Donovan - DNF at pg 5

A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey - 3.25/5 stars

String Theory by Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James - 3.75/5 stars

One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny - 5/5 stars

I honestly don't know why, when I received this book in like, November, I didn't immediately put it on the top of my TBR pile. I knew I was going to love it; I was super excited to get my copy. Every time I've shuffled my TBR (like, my actual physical TBR...it's a whole thing...it's actually been mistaken for my full book collection but haha no that's just 200 books I haven't read yet sitting on my stairs...), I've lamented that it's not closer to the top. And then I realized, this is literally my TBR and my own weird fake rules that I've made up about it, so I can actually just pull it from the stack and read it now. So I did!

And yeah, I loved it. So much. Raff and Penn will probably live rent free in my mind forever, not to mention Ash and Lily. I loved the medieval setting (another setting you don't see much in queer historical romance!) and how it really felt like a different world than ours. Plus I'm a sucker for road trip romances. And daddy issues. And horrific scars.

And ugh, the training scenes. The sexual tension. The PINING. Masterfully done. Chef's kiss.

Also we're going to find out who Oliver was, right? RIGHT??? And what happened to Penn's brother?

Out of Touch by Michael Sarais - DNF at pg 7

The Long Call by Ann Cleeves - 4.25/5 stars

Always enjoy a mystery that's well-paced and well-written. I've never actually read anything by Ann Cleeves but I'm going to pick up the rest of this series.

The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu - DNF at pg 284

[chernobog13]

Will Eisner's The Spirit by Eric Powell.

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David Bowie "Stay"

[lixxen]

So I watched Twisters today in 4DX

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Outfits from Far From Heaven (2002) Production Design by Mark Friedberg Art Direction by Peter Rogness Set Decoration by Ellen Christiansen Costume Design by Sandy Powell

[fiveandknives]

I have to acknowledge it but i now know two blond white dudes named glenn. This is amusing to me. Or dirty blonde or whatever

And they both play a pretty boy with a bitchy personality in their show/movie with a brunette dude + homoerotic tension

These bitches gay.

[ulrichgebert]

Ein Powell und Pressburger-Musikfilm, den ich noch nicht kannte! Es gibt Gründe dafür, daß er nicht gar so bekannt ist. Oh, Rosalinda!!, eine modernisiserte Fassung der allseits beliebten Operette Die Fledermaus (der deutsche Titel lautet sinnigerweise Fledermaus ‘55) im geteilten Nachkriegs-Wien spielt zwar in schönster unrealistischer Hein-Heckroth-Ausstattung (die allerdings jetzt auch nicht so überzeugend als das aufgeteilte Wien rüberkommt wie beispielsweise das echte Wien in The Third Man), Anton Walbrook ist bewährt charmant, Mel Ferrer hübsch und forsch, Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre, all die schönen Kunstzutaten, und vieles ist wirklich sehr niedlich. Es ist aber insofern etwas unbefriedigend, als Komödie ihnen einfach nicht recht zu liegen scheint. Braucht aber möglicherweise auch eine zweite Sichtung, jetzt wo ich weiß, worauf ich mich eingelassen habe, und mit Champagner.

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Tananarive Due and Kelsey Ramsay transform the Werewolf genre in Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs

Tananarive Due and Kelsey Ramsay transform the Werewolf genre in Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs #comics #comicbooks

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Get ready for an action-packed episode of What's New to Netflix, where we rise to the challenge and fight our way through all of the new titles of July 2024 with a vengeance!

We also watch Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn team up and stop some bad guys in National Security from 2003. Then Glen Powell tricks Adria Arjona and a whole bunch of would-be criminals into thinking he's an assassin-for-hire in Hit Man from 2023. And next, we meet up with Jessica Alba as she tries to uncover the conspiracy of who killed her father in Trigger Warning from 2024.

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[mychameleondays]

David Bowie: Lodger

RCA Victor, 1979

Orginally released: May 18th, 1979

[mitjalovse]

You have to admire Bowie for all his work after the middle of the 70's on. If you need a refresher on the period, Bowie's Stage might be the best places for this. I mean, he even played his songs from the early part of the decade there despite them being miles away in the style of the late 70's. For instance, a tune from The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars becomes something different. Whereas the original sounds angry, the live version finds him a bit detached from the piece. True, him healing from the addictions probably contributed to that, yet there's a sense he's also making peace with what that part of his career represented. Bowie always struggled with him meaning different things to different people, though he transcended that at times.

[thefollyflaneuse]

Waterloo Tower, Quex Park, Birchington, Kent

John Powell Powell (1769-1849 – the double Powell acquired to meet the conditions of an inheritance) was passionate about bell-ringing and erected this ‘light, elegant and fanciful building’ at Quex Park, his seat in Kent, where his hobby could be indulged. Not content with a lofty tower, he almost doubled its height with a unique cast iron spire – years before a certain Parisian landmark took…

[jazzdailyblog]

Preview: The Eddie Gale Collaborative - A Spiritual Jazz Celebration

On August 15th, the world of jazz will come together to celebrate the musical legacy of the late great Eddie Gale, on his birthday, with a special release titled “The Eddie Gale Collaborative.�� Led by guitarist Dennis Kyne, who played with Eddie Gale for twenty years, this album is a mesmerizing exploration of spiritual jazz that will captivate and uplift jazz enthusiasts around the…

[evenleo]

beauties

Ace Kefford Stand, featuring Cozy Powell and Dave Ball

[thousandmovieproject]

reading the ellroy biography when i should have been working

I should have gone thrifting with my day off but instead I stayed home and played with two books on the couch. There’s a newish biography of the novelist James Ellroy called Love Me Fierce in Danger by Steven Powell that I got an early copy of (thanks NetGalley!) but that was back in December, before the January release, so now I’m late to the game. Ellroy is still alive and publishing and the…