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PsyCop: Among the Living by Jordan Castillo Price
Victor Bayne, the psychic half of a PsyCop team, is a gay medium who’s more concerned with flying under the radar than in making waves.
He hooks up with handsome Jacob Marks, a non-psychic (or “Stiff”) from an adjacent precinct at his ex-partner’s retirement party and it seems like his dubious luck has taken a turn for the better. But then a serial killer surfaces who can change his appearance to match any witness’ idea of the world’s hottest guy.
Solving murders is a snap when you can ask the victims whodunit, but this killer’s not leaving any spirits behind.
A lingering-on-my to-be-read-pile book that turned out to be passable but barely.
An audiobook-narrator-kept-me-going story with a mildly interesting take on psychics doing detective work that couldn’t hold my full attention.
An I-see-dead-people urban fantasy with good potential for more stories (and it has more, a lot more) but didn’t really break new grounds.
A mostly-physical hookup I wasn’t invested in until…
“It was you, Vic.”
Rating:
3 Stars – not exactly setting my world on fire but I liked it
Soundtrack: To Repel Ghosts
Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Album: Lifeblood(source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5603414-among-the-living)
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[spotify id=”spotify%3Atrack%3A4wDgSz33gLEog03CBrTpg0&view=coverart” width=”540″ height=”620″ /]Soundtrack to PsyCop: Among the Living by Jordan Castillo Price
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what’s really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
—The good not done, the love not given, time
Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.Philip Larkin -
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Kiss mo Shiranai Kuse ni – Kinoshita Keiko
High school freshman, Fujisawa Satou, was molested in a train one morning. However, that was only a misunderstanding on his part, and he eventually found out that it was only a racket. The one who informed him was Ayase Chihiro, the transfer student who started a month late. It was awkward between the two of them at first, but they gradually became closer.
Not as sparkly as the author intended but it would do
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Kiss mo Shiranai Kuse ni – Kinoshita Keiko
High school freshman, Fujisawa Satou, was molested in a train one morning. However, that was only a misunderstanding on his part, and he eventually found out that it was only a racket. The one who informed him was Ayase Chihiro, the transfer student who started a month late. It was awkward between the two of them at first, but they gradually became closer.
Not as sparkly as the author intended but it would do
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A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo – Marlon Bundo & Jill Twiss
HBO’s Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a picture book about a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny.
Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa, Mike Pence – the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon’s life is about to change forever…
With its message of tolerance and advocacy, this charming children’s book explores issues of same sex marriage and democracy. Sweet, funny, and beautifully illustrated, this book is dedicated to every bunny who has ever felt different.
100% of Last Week Tonight’s proceeds will be donated to The Trevor Project and AIDS United.
The fluffiest of floofs!
Rating:
5 Stars – absolutely perfect
Soundtrack: Enjoy Your Rabbit
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Album: Enjoy Your Rabbit(source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39319227-a-day-in-the-life-of-marlon-bundo)
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Stink bugs are temporary.
Love is foreverJill Twiss -
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