Movie Icons: Cary Grant
by FX Feeney and Paul Duncan (ed.)
English
192 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2212-8
First line: He is the most self-invented man in movies, this side of Charlie Chaplin.
Thoughts: Much like the book on James Dean, this book on Cary Grant was chock-full of photos, but not so much actual text (a fair few quotes, by and [...]
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Love
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Movie Icons: James Dean
by FX Feeney and Paul Duncan (ed.)
English
192 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2220-3
First line: He died at age 24 in a car crash, testing a new, lightweight, ultra-swift Porsche Spyder en route to a weekend race in Northern California.
Thoughts: Full of photos, but not so full of actual text (though there are quotes and a [...]
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Love
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The World of Normal Boys
by KM Soehnlein
English
282 pages
Kensington Books
ISBN: 0-965-14638-3
First line: Maybe this is the moment when his teenage years begin.
Back cover blurb:
The time is the late 1970s - an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday Night Fever. The place, suburban New Jersey. At a time when the teenagers around him are [...]
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Love
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Mitt brinnande hjärta
by Tasso Stafilidis
Swedish
234 pages
Normal förlag
ISBN: 91-855505-13-7
First line: Det är tidig höst på Fredriksdalsskolan i Helsingborg.
Back cover blurb:
Mitt brinnande hjärta är Tasso Stafilidis personliga resa genom politiken och teatern. Det är en självutlämnande bok om rättsröta och rättspatos, men också om svikna ideal och slitig vardaglig kamp för förändring. Tasso Stafilidis berättar [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Love
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I’ve been so busy with work lately that I have little to no energy left over for anything else, which means that my reading has suffered. As a consequence, there probably won’t be a new review (if you can even call what I do that) in a little while yet.
Instead, I thought I’d take the [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2007 by Love
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So Hard to Say
by Alex Sanchez
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English
232 pages
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 1-4169-1189-8
First line: My name is (drum roll, please) María Xiomara Iris Juárez Hidalgo, but nobody calls me María.
Back cover blurb:
When Frederick shows up at school, Xio is thrilled. The new boy is shy, cute and definitely good boyfriend material. Before long, she pulls him into her [...]
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Love
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Rainbow Boys
by Alex Sanchez
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English
262 pages
Simon Pulse
ISBN: 0-689-85770-5
First line: Jason Carrillo walked around the block a third time, working up his courage to go into the brownstone.
Back cover blurb:
High school’s hard enough as it is without falling in love with your best friend–who’s crushing on the most popular guy in school. Or feeling like your [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Love
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Phonephucker
by Tanja Suhinina
Swedish
203 pages
Hydra förlag
ISBN: 978-91-976885-0-5
First line: Fan i helvetes jävelkuken!
Back cover blurb:
Tanja Suhinina tar dig in i den svettiga världen av telefonsex. Långt in. Som smart, ung, blivande psykolog filéar Tanja telefontorskarna på löpande band. I sin självupplevda debutroman skildrar hon hur kampen för det nattliga brödet kan ta sig många, vitt skilda, [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Love
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Paper Moon
by Marion Husband
English
332 pages
Accent Press
ISBN: 1-905170-14-9
First line: The robe the man had given her to change into was dark blue silk, printed with storks and Japanese gardens and tiny bridges on which pigtailed men crossed shimmering streams.
Back cover blurb:
The passionate love affair between Spitfire pilot Bobby Harris and photographer’s model Nina Tate lasts [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Love
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Faghag
by Linda Leopold
Swedish
263 pages
Atlas
ISBN: 978-91-7389-318-3
First line: Året är 1985.
Back cover blurb:
“Man lär känna en och sen lär man känna en till. Sen upptäcker man att den tredje också är supertrevlig. Och sen börjar man liksom samla på dem.”
Faghag är en reportagebok om det speciella förhållandet mellan heterosexuella kvinnor och homosexuella män. Den utspelar sig [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: F, GLBT interest, Sex, sexuality & gender, Swedish | No Comments »
