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Tim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Tim Trent
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in London, The United Kingdom
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February 2019
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Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Special promotion for Christmas
Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying is on special offer for Christmas, rock bottom prices, less than a cup of coffee!What do you get for the price of a tiny cup of coffee?
Over 500 pages of teenage angst! You get a view of an English Public School in the second half of the 1960s and a kid growing up and losing his innocence.
Tim falls in love, is outed cruelly, almost kills himself, bu Read more of this blog post »
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Thought proving With no idea what to expect, I started, read, finished , and asked myself a major question. I wonder if I have…..? |
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Great fun Wonderful fun, varied mysteries, well drawn characters, glorious eccentricity, magnificent film references, sufficient pathos, romance with twists, common room intrigue. |
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"In this book, written in the form of a private journal (absolutely not "Dear Diary") the author skilfully recreates his life as a teenage boy at an English public school (i.e. a fee paying private school) in the 1960s. An only child, he suffers from "
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Tim Trent
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Patrick Notchtree’s review
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Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying
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You have made me think of Philip Larkin's 'This Be The Verse'. Place that alongside W H Auden's 'Johnny' which features unquoted as a repetitive theme
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Ah, Liam Ostermann, you have noticed the obvious difficulty in lives that are dissimilar to your own thought patterns. I am gay. I remain gay. I am ma
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"Tim’s story begins on his thirteenth birthday and follows him until he’s eighteen. It despises the struggles of a growing, closed teenager, as he comes to terms with things around him and things occurring in him. During the progression of Queer Me!: "
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Tim Trent
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2 other people
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Johanna Aldridge's review
of
Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying:
"A definite 5*, this book made me laugh myself silly one moment, and cry my heart out the next. It’s like the Adrian Mole diaries, but better.
Much, much better. I could hear the author’s voice in my head and can only conclude that, not only is he a de" Read more of this review » |
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Tim Trent
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Breathtaking set of adventures with a Hitchcock cameo role This is a lengthy read, and hard to review without spoilers. I’ll restrict myself to the pace and characterisation. The pace varies from domestic detail to extraordinary but believable adventur ...more |
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“This is meant to be special, this is. I’m a teenager, I’ve just left my old school and I’m starting my new one in September, and I’m in some God forsaken hole in a rotten caravan with no friends and it’s my birthday.”
― Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying
― Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying
“This is meant to be special, this is. I’m a teenager, I’ve just left my old school and I’m starting my new one in September, and I’m in some God forsaken hole in a rotten caravan with no friends and it’s my birthday.”
― Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying
― Queer Me!: Halfway Between Flying and Crying
