Teal’s Reviews > The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story > Status Update

Yep, that's one I reread every few years. All-time-favourite. But I actually don't think of it as Romance (tm) and/or m/m. It's a love story.

And I actually don't know why it is important for me to make that distinction. Maybe because it's not tropey? Idk. Should it matter? Idk.

Anyhow, after all these years I'm just so helplessly fond of these MCs as they bumble around just trying to live their lives. Maybe it's time for a reread for me as well.

Anyhow, have fun, Teal! Enjoy :-)

I'm so glad to know someone else loves it too! ❤️

Yeah, it's not m/m — m/m didn't exist then, and the story isn't constructed of tropes. I just settled on that as a descriptor because a "gay love story" from the olden days usually meant "no HEA" at best, and all too often "at least one of them dies." I didn't want to scare any potential readers off. 😁

Teal wrote: "I'm so glad to know someone else loves it too! ❤️

Yeah, it's not m/m — m/m didn't exist then, and the story isn't constructed of tropes. I just settled on that as a descriptor because a "gay love ..."

Ugh, tell me about it! I think the first book about lesbians or let's say "lesbian love" I read was called something like "Sonja - a melancholy for advanced learners" from 1979. It's about a woman whose female love interest jumps out of a third (make that fourth if you're American) floor window because she doesn't want to be a lesbian but fails to kill herself, So she ends up in wheel-chair and they still are together somehow and it's so, so terrible.

I wish I could blot that from my memory. I got that at the age of idk maybe 14 from the one buck reject pile of my local book store.

WhatAStrangeDuck wrote: "I wish I could blot that from my memory. I got that at the age of idk maybe 14 from the one buck reject pile of my local book store."

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OMG Duck that sounds awful 😭

Teal I wish I could jump in with you... but I have too many books-in-progress as it is right now, dammit!

Hopefully you'll get to read it some day, Moony. I know all about the too-many-in-progress problem — I had to hold myself back from starting a 3rd book today, and that's not even counting the one you and I agreed on earlier.

At least that one won't be a BIP for long! 😂

Just thought about this one a couple days ago. Very fond memories. I'm not much of a re-reader tho. Wish it was out in audiobook.

Glad to hear from another friend who liked it! I guess it's too old for an audio version... If there ever used to be one, it would have been one of those "Books on Tape," or maybe CDs. :)