Book 89: Hood – Emma Donoghue
Hood is the first of the 40 books I’ve committed to in Reading Challenges for 2012. It comes from the Mount […]
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Book 80: I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. – John Donovan
I finished reading this book last week, but wanted to take the time to digest what I’d read. I’m still
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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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Book 73: Further Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
Are you sick of the Tales of the City reviews yet? I hope not! I’m just finishing up Babycakes and should
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Book 72: More Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
More Tales of the City picks up where Tales of the City ends and is just as entertaining and difficult to put down!
As the story opens, we find that Mary Ann has inherited money form her former boss Edgar Halcyon (Dede’s father) and she decides to take herself and Michael on a cruise to Mexico. While on the cruise, Mary Ann meets a lovely young man (Burke) and they hit it off. Michael meanwhile meets a former lover and they fall madly back in love.
While Mary Ann and Michael are out cruising, yes that is a double entendre, Brian becomes obsessed with a phantom of love, Mrs. Madrigal and Mona both find family in each other after Mona runs away and discovers her past, and Dede and Beauchamp continue to struggle in their marriage with their impeding children and their marriage.
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Book 71: Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
I first read Tales of the City for a class my final year of undergrad. It was for a course on
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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
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 46: Hero – Perry Moore
Let’s just say that any book that assumes superpowers are commonplace in society is already off to a good start.
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