Book 658: The Children of Harvey Milk – Andrew Reynolds
I’m not sure how I stumbled across this one, but when I did back in May I requested a copy […]
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Book 650: We Are Lost And Found – Helene Dunbar
This was an achingly beautiful book and I’m glad I stumbled across it after I saw someone else had read
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Book 645: The Porcupine of Truth – Bill Konigsberg
And, I’m back to playing catch up. The downside of all these teen/young adult rom-com books is that I read
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Book 614: Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower #5) – Stephen King
In general, I am LOATHE to enjoy a book as slow as this, let alone a 7(+) book series, but
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Book 605: Almost Like Being in Love – Steve Kluger
I knew Tim didn’t read this blog, but I didn’t realize how little he paid attention to what I read.
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Book 499: The Laramie Project – Moisés Kaufman
This is not the first time I’ve read this. I have seen the film adaptation and I have read this
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Book 104: People in Trouble – Sarah Schulman
So far of the books my boss lent me last September this is by far my favorite. Although I enjoyed
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Book 74: Babycakes – Armistead Maupin
Babycakes takes place two years after Further Tales of the City and of the four books I’ve read in the series this is my least favorite. I understand characters have to grow and evolve, but sometimes you just don’t want them to.
In comparison to the other novels in this series, the novel seems angst ridden and is darker than the previous novels. I’m not sure if this is a direct response to Maupin’s mindset at the time or the general feeling of gloom and doom of San Francisco and the LGBT community at the time. Originally published in 1984, Maupin wrote the tales in Babycakes while Reagan was President of the US and Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK and the AIDS crisis was on the horizon (although the Reagan administration didn’t acknowledge it until 1987).
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