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What Are GLBT Book Are You Reading?
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Is anyone reading any GLBT books at the moment?
I'm not reading any at the moment, but I do plan to get back on my Lesbian Romance Novels. It has been quite awhile since I read one.
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Right now I am reading memoirs. I just finished Alone in the Trenches and I plan to read Billy Bean's book Going the Other Way soon. I am also reading Without You by Anthony Rapp from Rent.
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Sandy
(last edited 06/09/2008 08:37PM)
06/09/2008 08:26PM
Currently reading
A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics. Interesting (and affirming) look at gay marriage from a Presby theologian and lawyer.
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i'm curently reading lady cablis really interesting. How her family came to except her as well as her excepting herself awesome !!
The lady chablis
bythedore bouloukos.
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I'm currently reading a memoir by Craig Seymour called "All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington D.C.
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I just finished Kevin Sessums’ book, MISSISSIPPI SISSY, his memoir of growing up gay in the south. It’s beautifully written and reads like a novel. Also very touching. My only criticisms might be that the timeline skips around rather too much and that Sessums seems in love with his writing style (not a bad thing in itself, I just don't want it to be obvious when I'm reading). There were a few minor grammatical errors that surprised me, given his otherwise excellent command of the written word.
And if I might be allowed a little shameless self-promotion, I’ve written two books about gay teens, starting with A SECRET EDGE. On the surface, this looks like a coming-out book for a gay 16-year-old track star, a runner, who falls for a high-jumper on his team. But the high-jumper is from India and is obsessed with Gandhi, while the runner carries a switchblade. The story explores the concepts of honesty, violence vs. non-violence, and includes a smattering of Hindu philosophy. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
This April my second novel came out (heh). It’s called THINKING STRAIGHT. The main character is Taylor Adams, a Christian, gay teenager whose parents send him to a summer camp designed to straighten him out. Over the course of the story, he manages to figure out how to remain true both to himself and to his religion. He learns to think strategically about religion. He learns that it's all about love, and he does that in a very surprising way.
You can read excerpts from both books on my Web site:
http://www.robinreardon.com.
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I'm now reading a book called Unchartered Lives by Stanley Siegel and Ed Lowe Jr. It was a little difficult to find (try Amazon sellers and Half.com), but it is very well written thus far. Much of the novel is stanley's story and I think many of us will be able to relate it.
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I found “Boys, Lost and Found” by Charles Castillo completely engrossing. Casillo has written a really engaging collection of short stories, interspersed with some factual first-person narratives. His writing is crisp, entertaining, and a quick read. His portraiture is always astute, whether describing a horny number in a bar, a true love object, or a group of queens at a Starbucks -- hot young guys who are growing older by the minute. The protagonists are young men. The antagonists are their older well-heeled lovers whom they crave. And, the result? Well, no spoilers here! Themes in the stories include gay sex, love, self-love, loneliness, self-esteem, kindness, decency, humiliation, aging, and the effect of glam lifestyles on gay relationships. At heart, though, “Boys, Lost and Found” is really about longing, in the sense of irrepressible, uncontrollable desire.
Some favorite lines:
“This was only sex, I tried to reason. Only another man and his body. But I couldn’t help myself. I had been dead. Now I was alive.”
“I have a tendency to think too much. This is something that, after much thought, I’ve concluded is wrong.”
“The one you love first always makes an imprint. All the others that come after will have to, in some ways, match up to the first one.”
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I am now reading "My Miserable,Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy" by Andrea Askowtiz
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I am about to read "Kitchen"
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(last edited 07/19/2008 06:58AM)
07/19/2008 06:57AM
I just finished Christopher Rice's, Blind Fall. If you like a fast-paced, suspenseful, murder-mystery, Chris's lastest is excellent - ironically the protagonist is straight, yet the novel is as much about acceptance as it is about solving a murder.
Here is a blurb posted on Amazon.com
Home from Iraq, John pays a visit to his former captain, only to discover the captain has been gruesomely murdered. John pursues a strange man he sees running from the scene, but he discovers that Alex Martin is not the murderer. Alex is, in fact, the former captain's secret male lover and the killer's intended next victim.
When it becomes clear that local law enforcement has direct connections to the murder itself, John realizes that to repay his debt of honor, he must teach Alex Martin how to protect himself, even if that means teaching Alex to kill. In the process, John confronts the painful truth about the younger brother he was unable to protect and the older sister he always felt he failed.
Blind Fall is a story of honor and integrity, of turning failure into victory. It is a stunning departure for Christopher Rice: the story of two men, one a Marine, one gay, who must unite to avenge the death of the man they both loved--one as a brother-in-arms, one as a lover--and to survive.
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Finishing up
Swish: My Quest to be the Gayest Person Ever by Joel Derfner. It's incredibly well-written, though the author tends to be just a tad on the shallow side.
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Hey, John, about Swish: My Quest to be the Gayest Person Ever. The abstract for it sounds pretty cool, but there's nothing like a nice succint review! Thanks!
Ted
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Hi, John. The Goodreads page for Blind Fall doesn't say much about it. Maybe you can get Scribner's (or Goodreads) to publish your excellent review.
Ted
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Ted -- that review came with the book -- I'll write mine in a day or so when I finish the final chapter.
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Has anybody read At Swim, Two Boys? I was thinking of reading it before school starts...I've had it on my shelf for years :)
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Troy, nope sorry.. but tere are some good reviews of it on here. Btw, happy birthday!
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