Monday Mentions: November 7, 2016
November is upon on us and another week of Monday Mentions. Wow, where has this year gone?
Lucky for you this week’s selections both released today so you can pick them up now and get started. What better way to begin a work week than with some new reading material?
Venona Keyes and Kim Fielding co-author Running Blind. Running Blind is a book about how your life, and all you knew of it, can change in an instant. When Kyle has a stroke and loses all he held dear he never imagined meeting Seth. Will he get a second chance or is Seth not what he appears?
Lorelie Brown brings you her latest novel, a lesbian read titled Take Me Home. In Take Me Home a young woman decides to find a date on Craigslist to take to family Thanksgiving, only to irritate her homophobic aunt. But this “date” ends up becoming more than she bargained for.
Make it a great week!
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BLURB:
Kyle Green is on top of the world. He and Matt have been together for ten years, and—as the voice of Ecos, the wildly popular anime character—Kyle is treated like a rock star in anime circles. But in an instant, a stroke leaves him blind. When photographer Matt gets the opportunity of a lifetime, Kyle reexamines their relationship, discovers it has been a safety net rather than a true romance, and sets Matt free to pursue his dream. Kyle’s life and career as he knew them are gone, and he must now find the courage and creativity to draft a new plan.
After being away for fifteen years, Seth Caplan comes home to Chicago to care for his mother and to partner with a small start-up tech company. He and Kyle meet after Kyle’s collision with a child’s sidewalk toy, and they hit it off. Kyle wants to get back into running, and Seth becomes his guide. As they get to know each other, they start seeing each other beyond their three-times-a-week runs. But Seth’s revelation of the dark reason why he left his career in California sends the relationship into a tailspin and leaves both men running blind.
BLURB:
***Thanksgiving arrives in one week and one day. Feeling hemmed in by parental expectations? Are they disappointed by your sapphic proclivities? I can help! The only pay I want is the holiday meal!*** I didn’t know what I was looking for until I saw her Craigslist ad. I love my family. I’m lucky to have them -- well, most of them. But my aunt? I’m so tired of her giving my mom crap because I happen to be a lesbian. So one pink-haired tattoo artist pretending to be my girlfriend will annoy my Christian fundamentalist aunt right back and make my Thanksgiving perfect. Only . . . Brooke turns out to be cuter and more complicated than I expected. And before you can say “yorkiepoo,” we kiss . . . and abduct a dog together. I want to keep them both—but Brooke isn’t the kind to be kept. Lucky for me, I’m the kind to chase what I want.
