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Fathers and Sons: Autobiography of a Family

2007, Books in Bed, Don't Read This, Non-Fiction, Queer /

OK. Well. I finished Fathers and Sons: Autobiography of a Family. I don’t really recommend it – unless you are a fan of one of the Waughs. I am not. Why I spent more than a week reading this is really beyond me.

I thought it would be interesting. And I guess it was. But it was also tiresome. The Waugh men – ugh. Just, UGH. That’s about all I can say. Some woman in their lives should have just shaken them – or shot them. (I should say that the author of the book I don’t necessarily include in the shaken or shot idea. He seems like a nice enough guy and he survived generations of Waugh fathering. I’ll reserve judgment though until his children write their books.)

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Fictional History of the United States….

2007, Books in Bed, Fiction, Queer, short stories /

I was avoiding Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing because I errrr thought it was non-fiction. I didn’t really pay attention to the title, just knew something about US history was on the library shelf, getting closer and closer to the top of the pile, and I just wasn’t feeling like reading it.

I mentioned my hesitation to TW and she informed me that it was fiction and really good and funny. She was right. Very amusing. I’m sorry I waited so long to read it.

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The Deathly Hallows

1 Comment / 2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Harry Potter, Queer /

I did finally finish Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows. Finally. I cannot believe it took me more than a week. Well yes I can since I had one of the craziest weeks of my life.

I liked it, the book not the crazy life – well I guess I liked that too. There are some parts that I was disappointed in, the “19 years later” part is probably the biggest disappointment. She should have just left it alone.

Rather than ramble on and on, and include some spoilers that piss people off, I’ll just link you over to Mombian and her post about Rowling and lesbian literature. That won’t piss anyone off, will it?

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Original Sins

2007, Books in Bed, Feminism, Fiction, Queer /

I finally finished Lisa Alther’s Original Sins. I’ve only been reading it for weeks. I can’t remember when it has taken me so long to finish a book but it wasn’t the book’s fault, it was mine – I was distracted. So, about the book. It was much better than Kinflicks but again, very doggone long. I liked the characters quite a bit better. I liked watching them move from childhood into the adulthood – figuring out how to navigate through racism and feminism and a wee bit into orientation. And, I liked the ending.

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The Good Fairies of New York

2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Sci Fi and Fantasy /

Heh. TW reserved The Good Fairies of New York when she heard one of the characters in it has Crohn’s. TW read it and was amused. I read it and was also amused. I love the alternative “teen” type fairies with colored hair and ripped kilts trying to corrupt the young fairies of Scotland. Awesome. The fairy war was a little much and the darn “poppy” chase was a lot much. Other than that, awesome. And like Neil Gaimon, I have no idea why this hasn’t been made into a play or a movie.

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Again with the knitting

2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Women /

Yesterday I blogged World Wide Knit in Public Day and today I’m back to review another knitting book. I’m still NOT a knitter.

The Knitting Circle is the best “knitting book” I’ve ever read. Loved every character and every word and I did not want the book to end.

Men and women dealing with grief and loss and fear through knitting and through relationships created and strengthened through the knitting circle. There are some happy endings. Some not so happy endings. Some endings that are both happy and not.

Loved it. Read it. (Thanks for recommending it, mom!)

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Kinflicks

2007, Books in Bed, Feminism, Fiction, Queer, Women /

We have a bunch of Lisa Alther books sitting on the TBR pile from the library. TW read them all last month or the month before that. When she started reading the first one, I knew right away how it appeared on our shelf – Chalice Chick was so excited about Alther’s newest book, and some of her old ones, that I headed to the library website and reserved all they had.

So, I read Kinflicks and found it as CC described – Rita Mae without the hokey (and the damn cats). I’m looking forward to reading the two that CC says are the best (though my library has neither so I’m waiting for them to appear via ILL for now).

Loved the snake handling. Loved the moving from relationship to relationship and adapting a new personality each time. The only thing that I didn’t love were the super long chapters. I prefer to break at a chapter and Alther made it difficult to do that, lol.

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Almost Doesn’t Count

2007, Books in Bed, Fiction, Queer, Women /

Almost Doesn’t Count is the library book that disappeared from our shelves ages ago that neither of us could remember ever seeing. It’s the one I paid for to clear my library account. It’s the one I found on our bookshelves a month later. It’s the one TW said “Oh that was good! I wouldn’t mind owning that!”

Well I finally made time to read it and I can’t figure out why TW would want to own it. It isn’t a bad book but it isn’t great and the editing was troubling in a lot of places. A Georgia black woman dealing with childhood abuse and intimacy issues. Lots of rough sex, really rough sex.

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