![]() We hear both sides of their first kiss, first breakup, first getting back together, the death of a father, marriage, international fame, world tours, mental illness, and discussions about having children. ![]() In this candid, soul-baring memoir, Joseph and Meg recount their first ten years together, each telling their story as they remember it, without having consulted the other. Within five years they were touring the world, performing on some of the world's greatest and not so great stages. Joseph and Meg's stories meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped box office. Meg Bashwiner, a 22-year-old aspiring performer and playwright, was living with her parents in New Jersey, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with that same East Village theater company. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2009, 22-year-old Joseph Fink, newly arrived to New York City from the West Coast, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he could snag free tickets to their shows. A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his wife, writer and performer Meg Bashwiner, chronicling the first ten years of their relationship from both sides. ![]()
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Augustine Shaw was a notable photo-journalist, happily married with two small children – until he returned from a stint in Iraq missing a hand and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. ![]() Boston attorney Brady Coyne finds his own past coming back to haunt his professional life when his ex-girlfriend Alex Shaw, long out of touch, reappears, wanting Brady to represent her brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Remember, just like she had managed to make him able to see ghosts in Undead and Unemployed. Actually, I’m wondering what would happen if Betsy simply commanded Eric to bear that certain ability what she does. I really felt for Eric, I could understand his fear. So no threatening conspiracy or coup by him.īetsy and Eric have a relationship crisis, and fight after fight. There was a hint about a serial killer at the beginning of the novel, so I hoped for some excitement, and maybe a connection between the murderer and Betsy, but nope… He is just an ordinary serial killer, with no awareness of neither Betsy nor the vampire society. ![]() So, meanwhile Betsy’s lovelorn admirer, the ex-blade-warrior-now-a-biography-writer Jon is writing the not-so-fictional biography of Betsy, Betsy babysits her brother, BabyJon, she also contributes to the new vampire newsletter, and she is planning the first vampire monarch wedding of all time – with her openly reluctant fiancé, Eric Sinclair. The everyday life of Betsy and her housemates just can't keep me interested. ![]() The Queen Betsy series is still very entertaining, though sometimes I have to turn back the pages to recall what had happened. "See, things started out innocently enough - a visitor, a comment, finding out a new vampire rule - and the next thing I know, I'm up to my tits in undead politics, or attempted revolutions, or dead bodies." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pregnant at 17, she underwent an extremely dangerous abortion. ![]() During her own teen years, Dominick would ""diet"" by not taking her insulin shots, becoming near-comatose from the resulting high sugar levels. ![]() Always her ""hero,"" Denise died at the age of 33 from diabetic complications and heavy cocaine use. Eschewing the doctor's ""rotation"" method, she finds the triceps on her left arm hardening until it ""looks like an overdeveloped muscle."" She recounts how Denise, as a teenager, would inject peroxide into her pimples. Dominick spares the reader no gritty detail: she graphically describes everything from urine tests to her daily injection in a ""painless"" area of her arm. Once she's afflicted, though, she has to learn to cope with her schoolmates' teasing and the embarrassment of the occasional insulin reaction or sugar shock. She and her brother would use them for water fights and often took syringes to school to show off for the other kids. As a child, Dominick would fish Denise's used needles out of the trash and use then to inject her stuffed animals. She was already familiar with the disease, having observed her college-age sister, Denise, go through her daily regimen of insulin injections and blood-sugar testing. Dominick learned that she had diabetes at the age of nine. Iowa essayist Dominick's powerful first book is a harrowingly detailed, compulsively readable memoir of her life as a diabetic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. 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