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“Temperature’s Rising” by Karen Kelley
This week, Sheridan fell into a vat of love juice (gutter minds people! gutter minds!!) and found herself loving a book that would have otherwise easily fallen into the category of Books that Wish She Hadn’t Paid For As Monies Would Have Been Better Spent Buying Booze. It’s all about the priorities people. Though there were no epic scenes of heart-wrenchyness featuring such classic elements as The Longing, The Manly Clenching Of Jaw Followed By Silent Manly Tears, Grovel, nor passionate speeches in “Temperature’s Rising”, Sheridan found herself charmed nonetheless by the oddball cast of characters that were featured in the book. She may or may not have laughed at some point. Perhaps it is a sign of impending global warming, or a foreshadowing of the apocalypse, for nay did once irritation pass her mind, and the This Is Stupid bat lay untouched.
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