Review:Whoa. This book sure got me in the feels. The story line is so amazing. The characters are priceless. I am broken by people who are bullied or marginalized or treated unfairly. I loved Poppy and her family in this book. I loved how they loved each other unconditionally. The book was painful but hopeful, sad but joyful. This author is brilliant. God bless her and her precious child and all the people who are "different", but just want to be free to be themselves. They are Gods precious people to... Read more

Review:This book takes on an interesting point of view, but its sole quality is the descriptive power of the author. This alone will should not create a classic. Naked Lunch is read and applauded simply because of its unconventional approach, and not for its content. It has been considered controversial ever since the first printing, and is still admired solely for that reason. If you needed to read the entire book through to get his simple message, then you probably never got it, anyway. If this b... Read more

Review:I got an ARC in return for an honest review on NetGalley.

I am going to admit something that should make me ashamed: I picked this book solely off the cover. I do it so often that my friends are just used to me picking up books as we walk by displays in the library and leaving before we even make it back to the stacks. How could I pass up on this cover? I love it and it looks exactly like something that would drag me in. Why would a jellyfish have pillow thoughts? I was immediately drawn ... Read more

Review:This was an excellent read and really different from the typical run-of-the-mill gay romance novel. There is depth to the emotion in this book and characters that you can't help but wish the best for. I'm so glad I decided to read this. I read it in less than 24 hours in 2 separate sittings. Highly recommended. Read more

Review:I think I'm setting myself up to be abused for an imperfect understanding of Forster's work, but I love Maurice, and I only like everything else he wrote. Forster's plots to me are so controlled that his novels become more like chess games than stories--his characters move entirely according to their classist/symbolic value; their minds are types, their types interact. Sometimes this interaction is delightful, as in Room with a View. Sometimes it is genuinely touching, as in Where Angels Fear... Read more

Review:Readers familiar with Highsmith's writing may know her best for the Ripliad, a series of five novels about her character, Tom Ripley. Her writing is just as riveting, if not more so, in this unprecedented novel about two women in love. Don't expect the standard, usually tragic lesbian-love-story ending from this novel. Instead, prepare to be enraptured, moved, heartened, and maybe even swept off your feet by the relationship that forms between a lonely, introverted New York department store empl... Read more

Review:I enjoyed the book and the readers did a fantastic job.
This a story about A woman who took matters into her own hands to get what she wanted, and now at the end of her life having to reconcile those choices. Read more

Review:This is my second reading of Rubyfruit Jungle. I read this one back in the mid-80's, right around the time I heard Rita Mae Brown speak at Gay Games II in Kezar Stadium, San Francisco. Back then the book was considered a landmark. But reading it now it is not hard to see how far the gay movement has come. I have often thought that in the 50's, 60's and 70's nearly any book written by anyone on the subject of "coming out" saw publication, and this book confirms my thinking. If Rubyfruit were ... Read more

Review:Recently, in a review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first published novel, "This Side of Paradise" (1920), I mentioned that I thought his contemporary, friend, expatriate and fellow writer Ernest Hemingway had definitively won the battle for "number one" writer of their generation, variously named the post -World War I, "lost", or "Jazz Age" generation. Paying due respect to the greater literary merit of Fitzgerald `s "The Great Gatsby" as, perhaps, the best of the individual novels (or short stories... Read more

Review:I really liked Child 44 therefore I am determined to read all 3 books in this trilogy. The Secret Speech is even better. It started a little slow for me but this author really delivers. Momentum builds quickly and this becomes a real page turner. Tom Rob Smith is an amazing author and this is most definately a 5 star read. Can't wait to read the 3rd book. Read more