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Post by janewheeler on Jan 22, 2013 21:11:17 GMT -5
Is he paralyzed in the miniseries?
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Post by Pisti on Jan 23, 2013 3:50:11 GMT -5
I remember that series! And yes, he is paralysed in the miniseries, too - that's why I remember it I guess... ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2013 4:30:21 GMT -5
Yeah he has an accident during the show and my interest in the show peaked!
Also remember watching a miniseries call Feilds oF Fire where a character losses his hand.
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Post by Pisti on Jan 23, 2013 6:06:17 GMT -5
Look what I've found! The accident is around 3:45:00.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2013 11:10:10 GMT -5
You guys are so good at finding this stuff !!! What about Fields if Fire, i was mad about Bluey, to this day i get a warm feeling
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2013 11:19:06 GMT -5
Oooh found out it was based on the novel Cane by Robert Donaldson .
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Post by janewheeler on Feb 8, 2013 14:32:53 GMT -5
(Mods -- I want to post this on the review blog, but I don't think I have access. Any help?) After a string of crappy ebooks (just do not get me started... I'll post later), I stumbled upon a really refreshing story that I think would appeal to a lot of readers -- even those who don't usually like cowboys, recovery stories or M/M books. Clouds and Rain, by Zahra Owens (Dreamspinner Press, available on Amazon) It was so nice to find a sweet and caring story with a LOT of intimacy between the MCs... especially when one is a stubborn, silent cowboy and the other is a guy who actually gives him space! Remarkable! (And it still has a lot of hot stuff, tee hee.) There are a lot of things about this story that follow familiar formulas, but they're dealt with in quietly unexpected ways. This was a real pleasure to read. Gable Sutton is an older (not really specified, but probably later 40s?) cowboy, very solitary, with an injured foot that won't heal (he refuses to go back to the doctor -- oh, MEN!). Flynn Tomlinson is younger, answering Gable's ad for a ranch hand. They (duh) fall in love, and then Gable ends up needing his foot amputated because of another accident. That's barely even the first half of the book. It's very Brokeback Mountain without the sad parts Gable is VERY strong, silent, stubborn, can't bring himself to express how he feels or ask for help, especially because he was really burned by his last lover. Yada yada yada, you know the drill... but the author makes it feel very natural to the character. The really lovely thing is Flynn's patience (and, naturally, frustration at times) as he helps Gable learn to trust himself and the relationship. Of COURSE Gable has a difficult time getting used to all sorts of things with Flynn around, before and after the amputation. But even though they have some genuinely difficult moments, Flynn sticks with him and keeps a really careful balance. They also don't get into that cliched "I'm going to do everything in my power to get you out of that bed!" thing that "recovery" stories often have. I should mention, too, that two other issues come into play: impotence and infertility. They don't distract too much from the plot, but there are a couple twists to how they deal with them. It deepened the relationship between the MCs. Even better: the plot doesn't get derailed by any deus ex machina betrayals, sneering drunk neighbors who want to avenge their pa, or incredibly stupid misunderstandings. The author keeps the action focused on the main characters, but the secondary characters fit well into the plot and complicate things without seeming forced. It was SO refreshing. If you're looking for something sweeping and anguished, this isn't your book. All of the conflict is very intimate and tender, although it's deeply felt. But it's still got a ton of incredibly hot moments I'm not particularly into M/M stuff, but I sure did like this one.
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Post by devogirl on Feb 8, 2013 22:12:39 GMT -5
If you want to start posting reviews regularly, send an email or PM to Lee and he will add you to the site. If you just want this one review posted, I can paste it in for you.
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Post by RyooT on Feb 9, 2013 2:25:47 GMT -5
Clouds and Rain, by Zahra Owens (Dreamspinner Press, available on Amazon) I absolutely love that story, too. It is definitely one of my top M/M romance stories, if not No 1. Others that stick in my mind are An Improper Holiday (Regency) by K.A. Mitchell and Paper Planes by M. Jules Aedin. Another one I liked as far as recovery stories go is Jess' Journey by SJD Peterson. At least it is realistic. The MC suffered compound fractures in both lower legs, muscle and nerve damage and progresses from a wheelchair to two KAFOs and cane -- no miracle cure.
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Post by janewheeler on Feb 9, 2013 14:47:31 GMT -5
Heh -- I suppose that's one thing about stories involving amputation vs. stories involving paralysis: no miraculous cures.
"Oh, Mother, isn't it wonderful? Herbert's foot grew back! I guess we really DID pray hard enough!"
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Post by devogirl on Feb 10, 2013 6:59:09 GMT -5
Yes, that's why there are so few romances with amputee characters.
Speaking of M-M romances, I can't believe I only just now discovered Scarlet Blackwell. Maybe you guys mentioned her and I missed it? Anyway I just posted a review of Blind Blondie, which I really liked. She's also written Half a Man about a WWI vet who's a paraplegic (not sure how realistic that is but ok), Rescue Me, and on her website is a short story about a deaf guy. Hmmm! Could she be a dev? Although according to her website she is now on hiatus as of last month, so we may never know. Too bad!
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Post by Pisti on Feb 17, 2013 13:32:50 GMT -5
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Post by janewheeler on Feb 18, 2013 1:47:05 GMT -5
This is kind of on the edge of what most of us would consider disability, but OH was it great. Dance With Me by Heidi Cullinan: m/m, one guy has a neck injury from football that ends up turning into a persistent pain issue, and the other has a lot of anxiety/mild PTSD. So it starts out being kind of "opposites attract" where Ed is a macho football player and Laurie (Laurence) is a ballet dancer who is slumming it teaching aerobics classes, and they get on each other's nerves. But then they both end up surprising each other and... I can't even explain it. The author does SUCH a good job with character depth. They got together because of ballroom dancing, and it was SO hot and sweet and sensual and wonderful. Really sexy. Both of them are struggling very hard with what their lives used to be like and what they'll do in the future. Laurie's problem is deeply personal as well as professional. They are incredibly tender with each other, and it's so lovely seeing how big strong Ed begins to fall in love with the beauty of Laurie's body and his dancing, when he'd originally dismissed Laurie as a femmy, stereotypical poof. And then Ed's pain starts getting worse, and (to someone who hasn't dealt with pain issues, anyway...) it felt so real -- the hovering, the give and take and worry in a relationship, the wondering how much you'll have to accept as part of your life, but finally realizing (as it says in the book) that the pain is not trying to take your life away, but it IS your life. So many parts of it hit me really hard today for some reason. I think I was due for a meltdown; when it got to be super late and I hadn't done anything I wanted to do today, my husband came in to say hi and I just fell apart. Complete mess. And even though it was SUPER embarrassing I kept saying "Then in the story the ballet dancer guy was still so in love with the football guy even though the football guy hated being taken care of..." and started crying... or "Then in the story the football guy didn't get ballet at all, but he fell in love with watching the ballet guy dance, even though the ballet guy was so scared and anxious that he couldn't do it like he used to..." and then I cried some more Anyway... no guarantee you'll get hit as hard as I was, but it was a really beautiful story. The author has a bunch of other books that apparently have more devvy bits, but I think you'll find a lot to enjoy in this one.
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Post by RyooT on Mar 9, 2013 14:35:03 GMT -5
I just wanted to mention two great books I recently read and hopefully, I'll get to put up a full review soon. The author is Ken Casper and the titles feature the same H 8 years apart: "As the Crow Dies" and "Crow's Feat". They are great mysteries and the H is a DAK.
I also enjoyed "Embattled Hearts" by JM Madden, H is an incomplete low-level para (cauda equina syndrome).
And finally the next installment of the Durrant Wallace mystery series by Stephen Legault will be released on Monday: The Third Riel Conspiracy. I will provide feedback shortly.
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Post by devogirl on Mar 24, 2013 7:48:25 GMT -5
Hey, I just put up a review for a new (to me) book called Thalidomide Kid: paradevo.blogspot.sg/2013/03/thalidomide-kid.htmlLook, I read a book that isn't about a blind guy! I really liked this one, especially because it's not romance genre fiction, but more like literary fiction.
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