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Lenaribka

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

 

~Henry Miller

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Sid Stills' Blues - Three-Quarters in the Bag in Alphabet City

Sid Stills' Blues - Three-Quarters in the Bag in Alphabet City - shukyou Where is the red carpet ?!

Where are photographers?!

Where are publishers standing in line and waiting for their chance?!

Where can we read interviews with [a:shukyou|6478559|shukyou|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1390588703p2/6478559.jpg]??!!

I hope soon we'll see all of it....but now...

I'm on the stage and I have to say my thank speech.

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First of all I'd like to thank [a:Julio-Alexi Genao|6974899|Julio-Alexi Genao|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1388384657p2/6974899.jpg], for introducing me to this amazing author, because his updates made me curious. As always. Thank you very much!

Then I'd like to thank [a:Domashita Romero|6471957|Domashita Romero|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1373548132p2/6471957.jpg] and GR user Trix , because they on their part introduced Julio to [a:shukyou|6478559|shukyou|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1390588703p2/6478559.jpg]. Thank you, thank you!

And my biggest thanks goes to the author herself! Thank you, [a:shukyou|6478559|shukyou|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1390588703p2/6478559.jpg] for the pleasure to read your books! And thank you for the great possibility to read them for free!

And now to the story... FORGET THE COVER!!!
Sorry, but I have to say it! It doesn't do the story any justice.
Many of readers marked it as short story. It is not. It has almost 200 pages. Here you can find out how many pages has a book with 85764 words.

Sid Still, a 61 years old musician who spent his time from hangover to hangover in his NY apartment and who left his best days far behind woke by his agent one morning. "You have to see it on youtube". A cover version of his old hit song "Times Fucking Square".
It was good.
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Good grief, who was this kid?! His Agent:
"Nathan Vaughn, frontman of Big in Janpan, pop-punk band from Chicago broke up about a year and a half ago, so he's doing his own solo stuff. In fact, he's going to be in your area tonight, doing a secret show at Jim's Tavern..."

And here begins the story of a wonderful friendship between Sid Still and Nathan Vaughn. And not only friendship. Excellently told and beautifully written. For me - until now the best book of this great author.
I swear I didn't know up to the very moment that it would be a romance. I didn't know and it was absolutely Okay for me. But as it turned into an amazing romance, an unusual love story(I have to warn you may be, there is a big age difference and could be not everybody's cuppa, though I would have admitted- I was sure before reading it that it was not mine also)...it blew me away.

Every book of [a:shukyou|6478559|shukyou|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1390588703p2/6478559.jpg] like a miracle bag: You have no idea what is inside. And every time you open it, it is exactly what you need. And told in the best imaginable way.

This woman and her writing are

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