Category: LGBT

The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg

Posted on March 28, 2019 by

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Bill Konigsberg’s THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS takes its name from a Seamus Heaney poem, titled “Song.” In the final couplet of that poem, Heaney’s poet tells of, “that moment when the bird sings very close / To the music of what happens.” And, in… Continue Reading “The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg”

Category: Bill Konigsberg, LGBT, Young Adult

The House of the Vampire by G.S. Viereck

Posted on February 18, 2019 by

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George Sylvester Viereck published The House of the Vampire in 1907. It is one of the first “psychic vampire” novels ever written, but what makes it even more interesting is the romance at its center is a homosexual one (in fact, a homosexual love… Continue Reading “The House of the Vampire by G.S. Viereck”

Category: 2019 TBR Pile Challenge, George Sylvester Viereck, Gothic, LGBT, vampire, Victorian

Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips

Posted on August 24, 2018 by

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Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips is a modern-day retelling of the classic Cinderella fairy tale, aptly sub-titled “A CinderFella Story” because the central romance is between two young men named Nate and Cameron. Nate is the orphaned son of a troubled but genius… Continue Reading “Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips”

Category: Contemporary, L. Philips, LGBT, Mental Health, Music, Romance, Young Adult

Lincoln, Socrates, and A Funeral

Posted on June 24, 2018 by

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In this third “potpour-reads” post, I share some quick thoughts on three recent reads, all of which were completed in June. Somehow, none of these books are ones from any of my challenge lists. Go figure. I read Lincoln in the Bardo because it is… Continue Reading “Lincoln, Socrates, and A Funeral”

Category: Book Review, Christopher Phillips, Death and Dying, Fiction, George Saunders, Grief/Recovery, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Potpour-reads, Will Walton, Young Adult

Ten LGBT History Books for Harvey Milk Day

Posted on May 22, 2018 by

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Today we remember an important figure in LGBT American History: Harvey Milk. Harvey Milk, known as the “Mayor of Castro Street,” was a gay rights activist and community leader. In 1977, Milk won a seat on the San Francisco Board. He became the city’s… Continue Reading “Ten LGBT History Books for Harvey Milk Day”

Category: Harvey Milk, History, LGBT, LGBTQ History, Top Ten Tuesdays

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