Last night while browsing at my local Barnes & Noble, I was thrilled to see Stephanie Gayle’s new release, Idyll Fears, faced-out on the New In Paperback Mystery shelves. I talked about Idyll Fears on Episode 26 of the Book… Read More ›
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My Thinning Years: Starving the Gay Within by Jon Derek Croteau (Giveaway)
My Thinning Years is a well written and engaging memoir. As a little boy Jon Derek Croteau liked to play dress up and hang out with the girls. He was always a disappointment to his atheletics-obsessed father who berated him… Read More ›
Chicago Lambda Literary Reading–TOMORROW 5/22
What: Reading by multiple Lambda Literary Award finalists from Chicago & the MidwestWhere: The Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted Street in the Senior CenterWhen: Wednesday, May 22 at 7:00 PMWhy: The Lambda Literary Award Ceremony is just around the… Read More ›
Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert
I saw an advertisement for this book on the sidebar of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s website. Any book with the word ‘prairie’ or ‘plains’ in the title catches my eye. Although I grew up in an urban environment, my family… Read More ›
The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta is back. We were book buddies for a long time, but I didn’t see her for a while. Then a few years ago we caught up again in my car via audiobooks and have been seeing each other… Read More ›
The Edith Wharton Murders by Lev Raphael
I bought this book at the Gerber/Hart Library‘s book sale some time ago and wasn’t planning to read it just now, but as I was browsing around my office trying to locate Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt, I stumbled… Read More ›
The Literary Others: An LGBT Reading Event
October is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) History Month and to celebrate I’m participating in The Literary Others: An LGBT Reading Event hosted by Adam over at RoofBeamReader.com. It’s also Banned Books Week which is a great time to… Read More ›
The Absolutist by John Boyne
I love everything about this novel–the characters, the story, the time period, the writing style. It’s an epic World War I story that flows back and forth in time from 1919 to 1916, with a concluding chapter set in 1979…. Read More ›
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen
I didn’t learn in school that “homosexuals” were a group targeted by the Nazis. I distinctly remember first hearing about it in the late 80s from the silence = death campaign created during the early years of the AIDS epidemic…. Read More ›
Author Event: Anne Laughlin
Last night I attended the book launch for Anne Laughlin‘s new novel, Runaway. Anne was a 2008 attendee of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Emerging LGBT Voices writers retreat and studied under Australian mystery writer extraordinaire Claire McNab (Pen name for… Read More ›