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Adam Burgess
A stunning piece of realistic fiction – Bock truly surprised me. For a first novel, Beautiful Children was a home run. I’m typically cynical of new novels which are marketed as “New York Times Bestsellers” and large corporate bookstore centerpieces, as this book was,… Continue Reading “Review: Beautiful Children by Charles Bock”
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank A sad classic. Should be required reading fo all time. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier I read this book in junior high and played the part of “Sam” in… Continue Reading “Review: Earlier Reads, Reviewed (Briefly)”
>In Looking For Alaska, John Green has created a page-turning coming-of-age novel which is every bit as exciting, dangerous, ignorant, and profound as the subject matter itself is: real life. Green scrapes the surface of the most timeless stories of wisdom and transcendence, then… Continue Reading “>Review: Looking for Alaska by John Green”
Sessums’ memoir is beautifully – and painfully- honest. He describes his experiences as an effeminate homosexual boy, youth, and teenager in rural Mississippi, in a time and place where it was more popular to applaud the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr.… Continue Reading “Review: Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums”
Cute, witty, and honest to a fault. Ferguson’s epistolary novel about the (rather graphic) goings-on of a seventeen-year-old gay boy is fun, fast-paced, entertaining, sad, and smart. I will agree with some other reviewers who mentioned that one of the novel’s downfalls is its… Continue Reading “Review: Screwed up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson”
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