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This book struck a lot of chords for me, and I found myself reading it in one session because I simply couldn’t put it down. Being raised myself by a Catholic mother with the same values and standards as Gabriel’s mother–don’t shame the family, don’t show yourself up, don’t give in to bullies, always look nice, study hard, do better–I could empathize with everything in this story.
Gideon is a normal little boy–until he starts to worry that he isn’t. He’s about six at the start of the book and goi ...more
Gideon is a normal little boy–until he starts to worry that he isn’t. He’s about six at the start of the book and goi ...more
I was disappointed by this book. I'd seen it compared to At Swim Two Boys, presumably because it's set in Ireland and has a gay protagonist, but really the two books have nothing at all in common. ASCG doesn't even read like a novel; it's more like one of those rather worthy over-detailed confessional affairs, in which everything that's there is there because it happened and not because it makes much narrative sense. There's very little narrative sense to be had in this book, in which one thing
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Jan 10, 2010
Ralph Gallagher
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Jan 30, 2011
Joseph-Daniel Peter Paul Abondius
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Oct 22, 2013
Fr. Andrew
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Jan 03, 2014
Kevin
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Mar 06, 2018
Jerry Delaney
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Mar 07, 2018
Matthew
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