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.The Price of Salt
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by: Patricia Highsmith, W. W. Norton

February 23, 2004
I love Patricia Highsmith with her sadistic view of human nature. Her description of the character's boyfriend (his forehead reminding her of a whale and his hands looking like paws) was hilarious. She is an excellent writer who uses similes and metaphors well. Not to mention the unconventional story for that day and time!
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.Fireflies
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by: Ally Blue

May 01, 2008
Not especially original, but fairly well written nonetheless. Both characters are fairly masculine--which makes me wonder about the excessively twee cover! Anyway, there is a nice sweetness about this book that surprised me. I appreciated the restraint of the "fairy" character, and was amused by the rather coarse, but charming, half-human kid. Making him biracial was rather a nice touch; fairies probably aren't racist, and abduct people of every color!

Ally Blue is a skilled writer; all she needs now is someone with equal skill to design her book covers!
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.Partners
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by: Gerri Hill

November 18, 2008
This is a very quiet and lovely story that I dismissed at first reading but have learned to love and can now read over and over. The heroine's future looks very bleak indeed, but her hard circumstances lead her to look for God. There are some very profound spiritual truths here having to do with God's care for us when life is difficult -- not everyone comes out unscathed -- and the main characters come to know God during the course of the book.
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.Maurice: A Novel
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by: E. M. Forster

December 19, 2005
"Maurice" by E.M. Forster is one of my favourite novels. It is so simply and beautifully written and tells a story that all readers will able to relate to in one way or another. A tragic reflection of Forster's own life of closeted homosexuality - the novel itself was written in 1914 when homosexuality was still illegal in Britain and remained unpublished until 1970 - the novel tells the story of Maurice Hall, a young man trying to come to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Edwardian England where his "sort" are arrested for such "crimes". However, when he meets Clive, a fellow student at Cambridge, he realises that he is not alone in his predicament after all. As the events of the story unfold, things become deely sad as Maurice suffers more and more ... Read More:
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.Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture
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by: Annie Proulx

November 01, 2005
The raw emotion of this short story dares to punch you in the stomach; the tear ducts start to sting, but inevitably, do not yield, because the bitter bite of the narrative does not fall to melodrama. To feel the devastating triumph of a love ended too early is to experience the very essence of what literature exists for. Proulx's sweeping, sometimes complex images encompass an entire world into a few short words; the briefness of the story parallels how the characters feel there is never enough time. As always, Proulx betrays her extensive knowledge of the written word as a motif. The colloquially written dialogue is blunt and entirely convincing; not an ounce of it seems forced or unrealistic. To read Brokeback Mountain is to have your nerves catch on fire and belief ... Read More:
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.With Caution
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by: J L Langley

September 30, 2008
Print! Damnit, print! I don't have the money for a Kindle, I don't have my own computer with internet access, and this book has been 'out' (no pun intended) for ages! I want to read more than just a stupid excerpt, I want to read this book! I know it's more environmentally-friendly...for at least a decade or so...and better for the economy not to put so many books in print, to have them on a Kindle instead, but I NEED this book in print. Am I the only bookleech who thinks like this?
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.Easy
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by: Ally Blue

April 20, 2008
WOW loved the story line in this book. The character build up was great and left you irritated that it took so long for them to get romantic but when it did WOW.
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.Strings Attached
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by: Nick Nolan

April 19, 2006
I started reading this book and it didn't grab me right away, so I put it down in favor of one or two others, then picked it back up to read on my beach vacation. It is a good beach read. Like other reviewers have said, it is a teen-themed coming of age/coming out novel with many parallels to teen TV soaps. But it was enjoyable and did keep me interested and turning the pages. But by the end I was disappointed in the turn it took. After the other star on the swim team makes a pass at the main character, he just kind of drops out of the story. Then, the teen drama sort of takes a back seat when the mother shows up and the story takes a turn into murder-mystery territory. I thought that direction for the ending was too melodramatic so I ended up not liking the book as much because of that. Too ... Read More:
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.And Playing the Role of Herself
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by: K. E. Lane

January 07, 2007
I found this an absorbing, entertaining, very well executed lesbian romance. K.E. Lane is a skilled, thoughtful writer who generates here that most delicious of recreational reading pleasures: an erotic novel whose characters are drawn with care and whose attraction to one another is utterly convincing. The author did her homework and took her time to generate a plausible context for this relationship; I believed in these actors' lives, and I learned something--about television production, about the peculiar loneliness of celebrity and the self-doubt that co-exists with a certain kind of public excellence. . . and about the difficult dance of courtship between two intelligent, passionate women. These are, needless to say, extravagantly privileged people, but there's fantasy for ya!
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.Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
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by: Don Kulick

November 15, 1998
I was actually in the field in Salvador Bahia at the same time as Don Kulick was doing his fieldwork for this book, and I also read the manuscript before it was published. He and I have discussed at length various theoretical aspects of the book (I have a different interpretation of how gender works in Brazil). Knowing the accuracy of his ethnography as I do, I think this is one of the important books to have been published in anthropology and gender in recent years. It is also an engaging, insightful and fascinating read.

I write this review to counter some insinuating remarks I have just read here about Dr. Kulick and the nature of his fieldwork. Dr. Kuluck is a linguist; he studied Portuguese intensively when he arrived in Brazil and was very soon completely fluent. His understanding of Bahia ... Read More:
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