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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a powerful book that unfolds beautifully. I wasn’t ready for it to end.
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Read April 2025
Oh, I really loved this!
Conversations between two queer men, from different generations, one of them dying. A book about queer lives, -love, -history, and -erasure. Piecing together different sources, filling in the blanks with fiction. I love the inclusion of the photos and the partially blacked out pages from books.
Oh, I really loved this!
Conversations between two queer men, from different generations, one of them dying. A book about queer lives, -love, -history, and -erasure. Piecing together different sources, filling in the blanks with fiction. I love the inclusion of the photos and the partially blacked out pages from books.
Sweetly melancholy and queer. I appreciated the extensive descriptions of the images for the audiobook.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
gonna read physically instead of audio for the redacted poetry fun
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is so short but jam-packed with things/ideas/people I know almost nothing about. I now have a list of things I need to look into. PuertoRican Syndrome?? Admittedly there’s a strong desire not to know more about the origin of that DSM entry, but there are so many other things I need to know more about.
One thing I did recognize fondly— when the young narrator mentions having lost both parents, we are treated to a reference to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: “to lose one parent may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
One thing I did recognize fondly— when the young narrator mentions having lost both parents, we are treated to a reference to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: “to lose one parent may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“When he spoke, he spoke in allusion, literally, often pausing to check, with a look, whether I followed. I don’t think he expected me to understand directly, but rather wanted me to understand how little i knew about myself, that i was missing out on something grand: a subversive, variant culture; an inheritance.”
theres something beautiful about queer oral history, and how the AIDS crisis drastically harmed culture that is passed down to younger queer generations. I feel like I know a fair amount of queer history, but i loved that i learned more, now gonna go read the book of Ruth lol
theres something beautiful about queer oral history, and how the AIDS crisis drastically harmed culture that is passed down to younger queer generations. I feel like I know a fair amount of queer history, but i loved that i learned more, now gonna go read the book of Ruth lol