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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

    Happy Birthday – YMZ

    Sakuto, a company employee. Kousuke, a bar manager. Yuutarou, a shop manager. The three of them met in college and have been close friends ever since. Although they each have different sexualities, jobs, and personalities, the three friends have each lost his own grip on life, friendships, and love. Even then, they believe in themselves and move forward. 

    Took its own sweet time resolving feelings but wasn’t shy about shouting them in public.

    (source: http://www.mangago.me)

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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

    Happy Birthday – YMZ

    Sakuto, a company employee. Kousuke, a bar manager. Yuutarou, a shop manager. The three of them met in college and have been close friends ever since. Although they each have different sexualities, jobs, and personalities, the three friends have each lost his own grip on life, friendships, and love. Even then, they believe in themselves and move forward. 

    Took its own sweet time resolving feelings but wasn’t shy about shouting them in public.

    (source: http://www.mangago.me)

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    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

    Happy Birthday – YMZ

    Sakuto, a company employee. Kousuke, a bar manager. Yuutarou, a shop manager. The three of them met in college and have been close friends ever since. Although they each have different sexualities, jobs, and personalities, the three friends have each lost his own grip on life, friendships, and love. Even then, they believe in themselves and move forward. 

    Took its own sweet time resolving feelings but wasn’t shy about shouting them in public.

    (source: http://www.mangago.me)

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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

    Happy Birthday – YMZ

    Sakuto, a company employee. Kousuke, a bar manager. Yuutarou, a shop manager. The three of them met in college and have been close friends ever since. Although they each have different sexualities, jobs, and personalities, the three friends have each lost his own grip on life, friendships, and love. Even then, they believe in themselves and move forward. 

    Took its own sweet time resolving feelings but wasn’t shy about shouting them in public.

    (source: http://www.mangago.me)

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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

    Happy Birthday – YMZ

    Sakuto, a company employee. Kousuke, a bar manager. Yuutarou, a shop manager. The three of them met in college and have been close friends ever since. Although they each have different sexualities, jobs, and personalities, the three friends have each lost his own grip on life, friendships, and love. Even then, they believe in themselves and move forward. 

    Took its own sweet time resolving feelings but wasn’t shy about shouting them in public.

    (source: http://www.mangago.me)

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  • book,  Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

    The Shamwell Tales: Caught! – J.L. Merrow

    You can run from the past…but the past runs faster.

    Behind Robert’s cheerfully eccentric exterior lies a young heart battered and bruised by his past. He’s taken a job teaching in a village primary school to make a fresh start, and love isn’t part of his plans. But he’s knocked for six—literally—by a chance encounter with the uncle of two of his pupils.

    Sean works in pest control, rides a motorbike, and lives on a council estate. On the face of it, he shouldn’t have anything in common with Robert’s bow-tie, classic-car style and posh family background. Yet Robert is helpless to resist Sean’s roguish grin, and a rocky, excruciatingly embarrassing start doesn’t keep the sparks between them from flaring.

    Despite Robert’s increasingly ludicrous attempts to keep his past where it belongs, his past hasn’t read the memo. And soon his secrets could be the very things that drive Sean away for good…

    Warning: Contains the alarming misadventures of a pest control technician, a stepsister with a truly unfortunate name, and a young man who may have more bow ties than sense.

    Hipster pretenses aside, I am of the opinion that bow ties are cool. Had I the physique to pull off tailored menswear with credibility, I would probably wear one myself. 

    Robert, effortlessly rocking that Dr. Who vibe, is just too cute for words. Unfortunately, Robert, gifted in Math but lacking in sense, is also hiding some sordid secrets that would come biting him in the ass. How he handled the situation when these secrets came calling was definitely not cute. However, his POV and observations were funny in that not-keen-on-social-cues kind of way

    Sean, a pest control technician and a motorcycle riding ginger, is a nice guy but I think, him always being the first one to make an effort to reconcile when Robert was the stupidly rude one is just too much. I get a kick out of Sean getting a kick out of Robert’s dress sense but they seem to not have much in common other than the mutual attraction. Maybe mutual attraction is enough to work on for some people but it might work to the book’s advantage if we had Sean’s POV.

    Rose, co-worker and BFF, is a voluptuous, recently single woman with a wicked sense of humor. As the voice of reason and snark, she has no problems telling Robert or any body what she thinks. She played mostly a sidekick/wingwoman role and although she did not actually come across as cardboard, it would have been nice if she did other things and had her happy ending too.

    This is my first L.J. Merrow book and it certainly won’t be the last.

    Points in the book’s favor are the delightful British humor and setting, and the wonderfully eccentric and quirky characters. The big misunderstanding was predictable and is the kind of plot device I’m tired of reading about although this was offset by the good parts. The writing is the fun, easy to digest kind that makes reading a breeze. Overall, a highly enjoyable read. 

    Rating:
    3.5 Stars – that place between like and love

    Soundtrack: Chances
    Artist: Athlete
    Album: Tourist

    (source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22030684-caught)

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  • song,  Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments


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    Soundtrack to The  Shamwell Tales: Caught! by J.L. Merrow

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  • Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

    Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

    Sarah Dressen
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  • Uncategorized
    June 24, 2018 / No Comments

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Our favorite  MM authors a.k.a. castaways are asked, what books, songs and luxury item would they take to a desert island?

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After spending the year suffering as a reality TV villain IRL, Alec Braud will do anything to get his redemption arc.

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Falling for a royal guard with glowing eyes and a lethal energy punch? Definitely not on my Terrafeara survival bingo card. But here we are.

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