DORA: A Headcase © 2012 by Lidia Yuknavitch Hawthorne Books, Portland OR ISBN: 978-0-9834775-7-0 This book is filled with examples of gorgeous if not stunning language and imagery: “the scent of something too sweet and lingering in the room. Like childhood.” (page 113) For those [read more]
Missed Her by Ivan E Coyote Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver BC ISBN 978-1-55152-371-2 © Copyright 2010 Another collection of two dozen plus short stories. This was a quick read, partly because some of the stories are also found in One In Every Crowd. This is [read more]
One In Every Crowd by Ivan E Coyote Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver BC ISBN 978-1-55152-459-7 © Copyright 2012 A collection of short stories; some from previous collections. The rear cover blurb says it’s their “first specifically for queer youth.” I agree that young queers will [read more]
This is not a review in any traditional sense. Rather, I will talk about how much I identify with certain quotes, themes and images from its pages. This book is a memoir, a look back at the author’s early years- born in 1985 and just [read more]
W O W That’s the Executive Summary. I read someone’s description of this book as ‘YA [young adult] stories of a few young gay kids told through the eyes of the spirits of gays past who watch over them‘. As so often happens, that description [read more]
Further to my review of Gratitude & Trust from July of 2014. At that time I wrote “(a)s I have only just begun to implement their six steps in my own life I can not say they work for people with compulsive or other self-destructive [read more]
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