At the heart of the Roys’ particular brand of family dysfunction is, of course, everyone’s deeply entrenched daddy issues. “I love him, I hate him, I’m gonna outsource it to my therapist,” says once-de facto company heir and now disgraced son Kendall Roy about his father, the dom...
Lackey 1: Daddy, I mean, Sir, people are after us cause we took these monkeys. Malhuer: You can call me daddy, lackey. Anyways, I’m holding this needle menacingly over a monkey right now so get to the point. Lackey: Okay, daddy. The General Coy and the Prince are on to us, ...
When you read a good epistolary novel, you have a sense of immediacy and realism that’s usually not found in a book narrated in the first or third person. You feel as though you’ve stumbled upon a cache of private letters. I think the first novel of this type I read wasDaddy-Long...
And while Daddy Dearest is preaching about divine wrath, there’s another sinister story unfolding. Enter the Low Man, Louisiana’s own bedtime terror, who likes to blend in a bit of vampy action with his kill-list. When the swamps start revealing secrets, Ruth and her old bud, Everett, ...
The little girl knows she’s been abandoned: “Daddy Daddy Daddy, you don’t think of me at all,” she complains. “You imagine that I am secure, but there is no security for me if you are about to die.” In the desert, Monty has a Plan. A great offensive against the Germans ...
Invasion Of The Baby Daddy by John Bell (RiverHouse Publishing, Dec 20, 2009) Friends 2 Lovers by Jonathan Anthony Burkett (Xlibris, Dec 17, 2009) The Darkling by Keoni Anderson (BookSurge Publishing, Dec 10, 2009) Between Good And Ghetto: African American Girls And Inner-City Violence (...
Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. When Ox was sixteen, he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. ...
Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. Shut up he explained. David Quantick is a writer with seven novels and over a dozen nonfiction books to his name. His most recent novel, Ricky’s Hand, was published in August 2022. You can find out more at davidquantick.com. The Young Immigrunts...
(Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society, Daddy Long Legs, Cold Comfort Farm and Julie Schumacher’s Payne University series). Turns out that LettersLive is actually a series of live events that began back in 2019. I’ve found four of them so far. There are usually 20 or so letters read ...
Jorah reveals his feelings whilst Dany is vulnerable and her grief complicates things, as she values and feels for Jorah strongly as a mentor, friend and father figure (good old daddy issues). The revelation that Dany is now infertile- or believes she is- also impacts her deeply: ‘What ...