Queereaders discussion

Tell us what you are reading this month.

Now reading The Children of Men. I read it shortly after it came out and found it again on the Go on a Blind Date display in February. All the books there were wrapped in plain brown paper with a red heart. Underneath the heart is a little teaser. Mine said "receptive and chilling".

Inside the book is a pink sheet asking the reader to "rate your date".

I'm reading . Meh.

Looks interesting...what aren't you enjoying?

Nancy wrote: "Looks interesting...what aren't you enjoying?"

It's not bad or anything, at least so far. The sentence are just awkwardly broken up/incomplete and it's making it hard for me to focus on the story.

James Tiptree Jr., sf writer, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. Words cannot express. I admired the hell out of her in the era of 'Dangerous Visions'. This is a collection of her short stories and I am blasted anew.

Also Algernon Charles Swinburne, Victorian poet who liked to write in Sappho's voice. I always took him seriously, although the poetry world seems only to see his shock value. I memorised his 300-line poem 'Anactoria', that is Sappho to her absent lover.

Hi! I am reading Boxer Beetle by Ned Beauman and A Life Apart . I have a few pages in Beetle to go and its pretty good.

I am reading Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. Into it three chapters and good so far. I also just finished the first chapter of Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II by Allan Berube, Estelle B. Freedman and John D'Emilio. It is very interesting but I keep getting distracted by fiction so it is a slow going.

I am reading The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro, I am about 1/3 finished and I'm really liking it.

I just finished Without a Testimony and would like to recommend it. It is self-published and there are some editing and proofreading issues that can be annoying, but the writing is very good and the story compelling.

It looks like it is always free on Amazon.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

I'm reading Being Emily by Rachel Gold. It's about a male to female teen tryinmg to come out. I have to say I like it much better that Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher which is about the same subject. Almost Perfect had a bad ending and an ending which I think very few teens would choose. At least the ones at the GLBT center in Baltimore won't choose it.

I just finished Something like Winter which I liked a lot. It's amazing how well telling the same story from a different point of view worked for Jay Bell.

I'm now reading Excession book 5 of Iain M. Banks Culture series.

Just got my hands on a copy of Kate Bornstein's memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger. It's a little heavy on the "here's how Scientology really works" so far, but her prose style is magnificent and keeps the book from being too bogged down.

Just starting Maurice by E.M. Forster. Saw the film for the first time last week and had to read the novel.

I love Maurice, both the book and the movie. My main problem is remembering to pronounce the title character's name like a Brit.

Agreed. I admit I had it wrong at first too.

I am reading Weaveworld by Clive Barker, this book is so trippy i feel like i've overdosed on acid,

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I started The Disciples of Goedric A Trilogy last nite. Looks good. Have others read this Gay SF?

I'm reading Canada which starts off gangbusters but is losing me a bit toward the end.

About a month ago I read The Art of Fielding which was good and has a really sweet gay subplot - good for a summer read!