Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 150
January 22, 2015
Bloodletting
“Punk rocker and sadomasochist Denny Bowie, a legwork guy for a private investigation firm, is out to find the killer of five masochistic men, as well as his childhood friend, fetish photographer Tommy Heat. He gets back with Penny Dallion, the goth-girl of his dreams, and is enthralled by his hot and androgynous new boyfriend Erin Marr. While investigating Tommy���s murder, Denny discovers pictures missing from Tommy���s meticulous collection. These photos not only hold the key to the killer...
January 20, 2015
Vivaldi’s Virgins
“Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the “Red Priest,” Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she came from, Anna Maria embarks on a journey of self-discovery that carries her into a wondrous and haunting world of music and spectacle, bringing eighteenth-century Venice magically to life.”
I found this near the train station on the side of the road one night. I w...
January 15, 2015
Jenna’s Cowboy
“Jenna Callahan has a young son and rewarding work on her father’s ranch. She’s content. But she never expected to see Nate Langley back in town–the first guy she noticed, the one her father sent away all those years ago. And she never thought the attraction they felt would be as strong as ever.
Jenna’s cowboy has some healing of his own to do, though, after two tours of duty in the armed forces. With the help of good friends, strong faith, and a loving family, he hopes to put the horrors of t...
January 13, 2015
Broken in Soft Places
“Some mornings, Sara Chambers wakes in bed next to her girlfriend and her girlfriend���s lover wondering how she ended up there. Beautiful, successful, and a force to be reckoned with at her Atlanta law firm, Sara is still powerless in her attraction to the rebellious and reckless, Rille Thompson.
As college girlfriends, Sara and Rille���s relationship had been incendiary, burning away Sara���s innocence and self-respect even as it widened her world beyond her wildest imagination. Now, almost...
January 8, 2015
The Book of Kink: Sex Beyond the Missionary
“How to get your Fifty Shades on…
For anyone who���s felt…inspired…after��reading Fifty Shades of Grey, The Book of Kink��both entertains��and enlightens, showing you the��who, what, where, why, and how of kink.
People everywhere are into kinky sex. For some, it’s a way to spice up a withered sex life; for others, it’s a way of life. No matter how or why we do it, kinky sex is as old as Adam and Eve and as commonplace as your next-door neighbor. For example, did you know:
Japan organized the lar...
January 6, 2015
A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir
“A memoir of gay coming of age offers the amusing and touching tale of one man’s memories of growing up as a gay child in suburban Little Falls, New Jersey”
I picked this book up at a queer resource center in Berkeley when they were clearing out their bookshelves. I thought it was going to be able a trans person, but instead it was about a gay boy growing up.
Overall this book was boring. It had whole chapters devoted to really inane things like taking family drives. I feel awful saying someone...
January 1, 2015
Clear Water
“Meet Patrick Cleary: party boy, loser, and spaz. Patrick���s been trying desperately to transform himself, and the results have been so spectacular, they���ve almost killed him. Meet Wes ���Whiskey��� Keenan: he���s a field biologist wondering if it���s time to settle down. When the worst day of Patrick���s life ends with Whiskey saving it, Patrick and Whiskey find themselves sharing company and an impossibly small berth on the world���s tackiest houseboat.
Patrick needs to get his life toget...
December 30, 2014
Sarah’s Key
“Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel��� d���Hiv��� roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel��� d���Hiv���s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France’s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of lon...
December 25, 2014
Wayne of Gotham
“Behind every mask is a real man.
Two men joined by blood but separated by murder: Thomas, the rebellious doctor and heir to the vast Wayne empire, and Bruce, his son, whose life is forever altered when he witnesses the brutal death of his parents.
The slaying of Thomas and Martha Wayne is the torturous point on which Bruce turns to become the mysterious crusader Batman—the genesis of a simple mugging gone horribly wrong. The Dark Knight’s file on the case has long been closed, the foundations...
December 23, 2014
The Thing I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know
“xRussel Middlebrook is twenty-three years old, gay, and living in trendy Seattle, but life isn’t keeping up with the hype. Most of his friends have a direction in life—either ruthlessly pursuing their careers or passionately embracing their own aimlessness. But Russel is stuck in place. All he knows is that crappy jobs, horrible dates, and pointless hook-ups just aren’t cutting it anymore.
What’s the secret? What does everyone else know that he doesn’t?
Enter Kevin, Russel’s perfect high schoo...
