Den hemlösa sexualiteten: en antologi
by a number of different authors
&
For the A-Z and To Be Read reading challenges.
Swedish
286 pages
Bokförlaget Libris
ISBN: 91-7195-402-3
First line: n/a
Back cover blurb:
Homosexualitet är en av de mest brännande frågorna i kyrkorna i dag. Ämnet väcker starka känslor. Många tycker att det är svårt att ta till orda, andra [...]

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, D, GLBT interest, Religion, Swedish, To Be Read | No Comments »

Dream Boy
by Jim Grimsley

For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
195 pages
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0-684-82992-4
First line: On Sunday in the new church, Preacher John Roberts tells about the disciple Jesus loved whose name was also John, how at the Last Supper John lay his head tenderly on Jesus’s breast.
Back cover blurb: n/a
Thoughts: I really hate when there’s [...]

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Love
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Duktig pojke
by Inger Edelfeldt

For the Decades ‘08 (first published 1977) and A-Z reading challenges.
Swedish
208 pages
Rabén & Sjögren
ISBN: 91-29-64869-6

First line: Han var ett väldigt snällt barn, annars var det väl ingenting som skilde honom från andra barn; jag menar, ingenting som märktes.
Back cover blurb:
“Är det här nåt slags modenyck, Jim?” grälade min far. “Nåt sånt [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, A-Z Reading Challenge, Decades '08, GLBT interest, Swedish, Young Adult | No Comments »

Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan

For the Young Adult and A-Z reading challenges.
English
185 pages
Random House
ISBN: 0-375-83299-8
First line: 9 P.M. on a November Saturday.
Back cover blurb:
Love is never easy. Especially if you’re Paul. He’s a sophomore at a high school like no other—and these are his friends:
Infinite Darlene, the homecoming queen and star quarterback
Joni, Paul’s best [...]

Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, English, GLBT interest, Humour, Romance, YA Challenge 2008, Young Adult | 3 Comments »

Lord John and the Hand of Devils
by Diana Gabaldon

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
317 pages
Century
ISBN: 978-0-7126-8065-3
First line: Lord John Grey jerked his eyes away from the door.
Back cover blurb:
Diana Gabaldon, the New York Times bestselling author of A Breath of Snow and Ashes, delivers three tales of war, intrigue and espionage featuring the [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
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A Son Called Gabriel
by Damian McNicholl

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
346 pages
CDS Books
ISBN: 1-59315-231-0
First line: The choice was school or the big stick and seemed easy to make.
Back cover blurb:
Set in the hills of Northern Ireland in the 1960’s and 70’s, A Son Called Gabriel is a deeply felt and often funny coming-of-age [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters

For the End of Year Mini Challenge.
English
506 pages
Virago Press
ISBN: 978-1-84408-241-4
First line: So this, said Kay to herself, is the sort of person you’ve become: a person whose clocks and wrist-watches have stopped, and who tells the time, instead, by the particular kind of cripple arriving at her landlord’s door.
Back cover [...]

Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Love
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Ut ur skuggan
by Jessica Kolterjahn

Swedish
257 pages
Månpocket
ISBN: 978-91-7001-533-5
First line: Minne: Jag spelade piano.
Back cover blurb:
Jag fotograferar. Det är det enda som känns som om det är mitt eget. Allt annat är någon annans. Någon annans val.
Agnes växer upp i en rik överklassfamilj i Stockholm under 1920- och 30-talen. Hemmet är kyligt och kärlekslöst och Agnes [...]

Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: B, C, GLBT interest, Historical, Swedish | No Comments »

Leave Myself Behind
by Bart Yates

English
262 pages
Kensington Fiction
ISBN: 0-75820349-7
First line: I’ve never wanted a different mother.
Back cover blurb:
Meet seventeen-year-old Noah York, the hilariously profane, searingly honest, completely engaging narrator of Bart Yates’s astonishing debut novel. With a mouth like a truck driver and eyes that see through the lies of the world, Noah is heading [...]

Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: A, English, Fiction, GLBT interest | 1 Comment »

Now & Then
by William Corlett

English
346 pages
Abacus Fiction
ISBN: 0-349-10775-0
First line: The room he died in smelt of Dettol and bonfire smoke.
Back cover blurb:
Now, Christopher Metcalfe returns to his family home in Kent after the death of his father. Sorting through a box of memorabilia from his days at public school, Chris is suddenly confronted by [...]

Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: A, English, GLBT interest, Historical | 1 Comment »