BOOKS: What are you reading?

[CharmedFan28]

I usually read a lot of romance novels because they are easy to read and don't stress me out too much. Some easy light ones were: Red, White & Royal Blue, The Music of What Happens, and What If It's Us. Also: His Leading Man, Try Anything Twice, and Fake Dating the Prince. A little more serious and part of a series were: The Doctor's Secret, and The Doctor's Date. These were all gay romances that I enjoyed. I also read: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates which was not a romance and I enjoyed it as well.

I loved Red White & Royal Blue and What If It's Us! I will have to keep an eye out for those other ones you mentioned.

 

[goldenmoth]

The song of Achilles. It’s pretty fun but very young adult romancy

 

[Rickrock]

I loved Red White & Royal Blue and What If It's Us! I will have to keep an eye out for those other ones you mentioned.

Although I enjoyed all of these that I listed, they weren't all equal. The two that you mentioned were young and innocent and some of the best. Sometimes it is good to look up the author of a book you have liked and look to see what other books that author has written. What If It's Us and The Music of What Happens are also relatively innocent, but perhaps just as shade less enjoyable, although still enjoyable. His Leading Man is also somewhat innocent although older.

 

[Rickrock]

I have just finished reading "I, Eliza Hamilton" by Susan Holloway Scott. Although at over 400 pages it took some time to read, I am glad that I did. It gave me insights into Alexander Hamilton's life as well as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Aaron Burr. I was surprised that it somewhat diminished my high regard for Thomas Jefferson, although not entirely.

 

[CharmedFan28]

Dune By Frank Herbert

 

[Sousaphone]

Currently reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, quiet a good read.

 

[tommy_tommy969]

Utopia House - David Mitchell
Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales - Clarence Clemons

 

[Kulindahr]

Mortal Combat -- it's an in-depth history of the Korean War.

For lighter reading between those heavy chapters, I;m breezing through a dozen of the Pern novels by McCaffrey.

 

[jockofstrap]

The Life of John L. Lewis.

 

[cabinfever]

At the moment - three books -

The Blood of Abraham - Jimmy Carter

Return to the Garden - Shakti Gawain

Forgiveness is Power - William Fergus Martin

 

[72-Jay]

Currently reading:
Weathering The Storm by Gary England

 

[Rickrock]

"Felix and the Prince" by Lucy Lennox. It is a gay fiction romance novel about a nerdy Texan and a European prince. If you enjoy light reading and gay romance novels, I enjoyed it.

 

[Araucaria]

I just finished reading "The Flight Portfolio," by Julie Orringer. This is a fiction book about a real person, Varian Fry, who worked to get people in danger of the Nazis out of Vichy France during WWII. Fry was married, but he also had affairs with men. In the book, Varian Fry has an intense relationship with the fictional Elliot Grant, all the while plotting to get Jews, artists, writers, and intellectuals to America in a suspense-packed story. I kept having to look up the characters on Wikipedia: are these real people (many of them were), or are they fictional?

 

[Charon]

My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor.

 

[OlderNerd]

Like Crazy: Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends by Dan Mathews - - gay man becomes caretaker for his zany mom.

 

[ClubLevelVegan]

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

 

[Araucaria]

I just finished "How We Fight for our Lives" by Saeed Jones. It's a memoir of a black gay man, examining his life-- growing up with his mother and grandmother, abusive and dangerous sexual encounters, his emergence as a renowned poet and author, and finally, coping with his mother's death.

I also just finished "Band Fags," by Frank Anthony Polito. The book, published in 2008, is a nostalgia trip about a boy growing up in the 1980s, who is gay but in denial of his sexuality. Sometimes funny, sometimes annoying (he has one girlfriend after another to prove to himself and everyone else that he isn't gay). It made me hope that with gay-straight alliances, growing support and acceptance, and so on, that young lgbt+ kids today don't have to go through what us more mature gay men had to suffer.

 

[OlderNerd]

A gay love story

 

[CharmedFan28]

The Plains Of Passage By Jean M. Auel - Started re-reading The Earth's Children series a few years ago but stopped after 3 books. Decided yesterday to go back and read the final 3 and am enjoying the 4th one so far.

 

[Charon]

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage: A Chicana Punk Story.