Category: Gay Lit

Review: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

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Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 57 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful When I heard that John Green and David Levithan were teaming up to write a novel about the… Continue Reading “Review: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan”

Category: Book Review, Coming-of-Age, David Levithan, Fiction, Gay Lit, GLBT Challenge, John Green, Young Adult

Review: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

Posted on September 19, 2010 by

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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 51 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful Kenzaburo Oe’s Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids is the story of a group of teenage boys who are… Continue Reading “Review: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe”

Category: 1001 Books, Book Review, Dystopia, Fiction, Gay Lit, GLBT Challenge, Japan, Kenzaburo Oe, World War II

Review: Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White

Posted on May 21, 2010 by

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Summary: The Beautiful Room is Empty picks up shortly after where White’s earlier memoir, A Boy’s Own Story, leaves off.  This work discusses not just the growth of boy-into-man, but also gives a historical account of the period. The 1950s and 1960s – the… Continue Reading “Review: Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White”

Category: 2010 TBR, Book Review, Edmund White, Fiction, Gay Lit, GLBT Challenge

Review: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Posted on April 2, 2010 by

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Summary George, the main character, is an English-born gay man, living and working as a literature professor in Southern California.  George is struggling to readjust to “single life” after the death of his long-time partner, Jim.  George is brilliant but self-conscious.  He is determined… Continue Reading “Review: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood”

Category: Book Review, Christopher Isherwood, Fiction, Gay Lit, GLBT Challenge

Review: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs

Posted on January 30, 2010 by

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Summary: The Soft Machine is a semi-continuation of what Burroughs began in Naked Lunch and also seems to be a prelude to Nova Express, though I have yet to read the latter. This novel, in typical Burroughs fashion (read: shocking, course, disturbing, blunt, incoherent,… Continue Reading “Review: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs”

Category: Book Review, Fiction, Gay Lit, GLBT Challenge, William S. Burroughs

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