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  • manga,  Uncategorized

    MANGA: Kuma to Interi

    August 11, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Kuma to Interi – Basso

    Collection of interconnecting oneshots:

    1) Con Te (With You)
    A waiter, Neri, working in a high-end restaurant likes intellectual gentlemen and is currently involved in a “sexual relationship” with a third-class politician. Will the politican ever become the gentleman Neri prefers?

    2) Orso e Intellettuale (Bear and Intellectual)
    A politican and a photographer meet during a holiday. But is the photographer really what he said he is?

    3) Manifesto

    4) Discorso del Gelato (Discussion of Ice Cream)

    5) Uomo che è stato Inseguito (Man Who was Chased)

    6) La Camera del Primo Pomeriggio (The Room of Early Afternoon)

    7) Sigaro (Cigar)

    8) Ricco e Riparatore (Rich Man and Repairman)

    9) Kuroyama-san no Nioi (Mr. Kuroyama’s Scent)

    I’m so glad I discovered this mangaka. Their stories were quite refreshing. This collection, for example, featured politicians as the protagonists, something rarely seen in BL manga.

    This josei manga is set in Italy and captures the vulnerability and internal conflicts of gay politicians. The art is clean and simple yet expressive. Highly recommend this for those looking into a more mature and sophisticated BL experience.

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    AUDIO REVIEW: Gideon by Lily Morton

    August 11, 2020 / 2 Comments
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    Finding Home: Gideon – Lily Morton

    Gideon Ramsay is so far in the closet he should be a talking faun.

    A talented, mercurial, and often selfish man, Gideon has everything he should want in life. Fame, money, acting awards – he has it all. Everything but honesty. At the advice of his agent, Gideon has concealed his sexuality for years. But it’s starting to get harder to hide, and his increasingly wild behaviour is threatening to destroy his career.

    Then he’s laid low by a serious illness and into his life comes Eli Jones. Eli is everything that Gideon can’t understand. He’s sunny tempered, friendly, and optimistic. Even worse, he’s unaffected by grumpiness and sarcasm, which forms ninety percent of Gideon’s body weight. And now Gideon is trapped with him without any recourse to the drugs and alcohol that have previously eased his way through awkward situations.

    However, as Gideon gets to know the other man, he finds himself wildly attracted to his lazy smiles and warm, scruffy charm that seem to fill a hole inside Gideon that’s been empty for a long time. Will he give in to this incomprehensible attraction when it could mean the end of everything that he’s worked for?

    From the bestselling author of the Mixed Messages series comes a story about a man who needs to realise that being true to yourself is really just a form of finding home.

    This is the third book in the Finding Home series but it can be read as a standalone.


    Lily Morton is a much-raved about author among MM readers. With Gideon, I could definitely see why.

    This is my first book from the author and the third book of the Finding Home series. I highly recommend starting from the beginning because Gideon and his friends are a hilariously snarky, close-knit bunch you’d wish you’re a part of.

    Gideon Ramsey is a successful actor more recently known for bad behavior. He is a certifiable asshole by all accounts. He’s also very closeted. He has long been brainwashed by his manager that coming out is career suicide. He suddenly came down with a case of pneumonia and had to be looked after by a nurse.

    In comes a ray of Welsh sunshine in the form of Eli Jones. Eli is a nurse whose competent skills and perennial happy nature charmed everyone. His backchat charmed Gideon who would rather eat his designer shoes than admit he loves it. Hah! As if Eli doesn’t know.

    It doesn’t take long for Eli to suss out that his grumpy patient is hurting, not just from his illness, but from being abandoned by his parents at 7 and years of hiding his true self. This is one of the most beautiful parts of the book.

    Eli is a person who likes to be needed and Gid is a man who felt he never belonged. It was delightful to witness how Eli brought out the real Gideon Ramsey one cheeky remark, one kind act at a time.

    I loved how Eli got Gideon just like that. He never pressured him to do anything. He let Gideon decide when he was ready. He said things should be taken at their own time. And he was right. Everything came together at exactly the right time.

    Blessedly, there were no contrived relationship drama. There is internal conflict within Gideon but he and Eli remained a solid pair throughout

    The real Gideon Ramsey? He was a pleasure to met. Still a grump but also a loyal friend, a caring brother, a giving lover and more. Certainly more as the author gifted us with the most thorough (and a tad repetitive) epilogue ever, neatly tying all loose ends in a definite HEA.

    This is a fantastic story brought to life by a fantastic narrator. I have always been a fan of Joel Leslie since I started listening to audiobooks. The man can make a scene with multiple characters sound like a radio play. And the accents! Days after I finished the book, I kept hearing Eli’s Welsh lilt in my head. He’s that good!

    Gideon is the book to read if you’re up for some stories where TLCs come with sass and snark, where separations end with midnight visits and Welsh endearments, and movie stars thank god for pneumonia and dissolute living.

    P.S.

    Thank you to Gay Romance Reviews and Audible for giving me a copy in exchange for an honest review.

    Rating:
    4.5 Stars – perfection is only half a step away

    Soundtrack: Babe, You Turn Me on
    Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
    Album: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus

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    August 11, 2020 / No Comments

    Stay by me, stay by me
    You are the one, my only true love

    The butcher bird makes it’s noise
    And asks you to agree
    With it’s brutal nesting habits
    And it’s pointless savagery
    Now, the nightingale sings to you
    And raises up the ante
    I put one hand on your round ripe heart
    And the other down your panties

    Everything is falling, dear
    Everything is wrong
    It’s just history repeating itself
    And babe, you turn me on

    Like a light bulb
    Like a song

    You race naked through the wilderness
    You torment the birds and the bees
    You leapt into the abyss, but find
    It only goes up to your knees
    I move stealthily from tree to tree
    I shadow you for hours
    I make like I’m a little deer
    Grazing on the flowers

    Everything is collapsing, dear
    All moral sense has gone
    It’s just history repeating itself
    And babe, you turn me on

    Like an idea
    Like an Atom bomb

    We stand awed inside a clearing
    We do not make a sound
    The crimson snow falls all about
    Carpeting the ground

    Everything is falling, dear
    All rhyme and reason gone
    It’s just history repeating itself
    And, babe, you turn me on

    Like an idea
    Like an Atom bomb

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