Book 65: From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up – Ted Gideonse and Rob Williams (eds.)
This book is a bit unusual in that I have no idea when or where I picked up this collection […]
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Book 56: Slammerkin – Emma Donoghue
What a stark contrast to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. I’m not sure if this is because a woman wrote
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Book 55: Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
“Sex everywhere: it was slopping over, a neap tide that swept the props from under the city.” (204) This quote
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Book 53: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
First, I want to share that this book is staying on my shelf to re-read again and again. Emma Donoghue
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Book 52: The Boy Detective Fails – Joe Meno
This is the story of Billy Argos, the boy detective. The way the book is put together is fascinating and
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Book 51: The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
I’m not sure how to review this book. I’m surprised I’ve not heard more about it, but simultaneously not in
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Book 48: The Secret Fruit of Peter Paddington – Brian Francis
When I picked up this novel the back cover read as follows, “Peter Paddington is your typical thirteen-year-old paperboy with
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Book 45: The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
You can always tell the books I enjoyed more based on the length of the blog and my voice in
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Book 42: Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
I purchased this book with the 13 or 14 others at the Boston Book Festival last year in a bag
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