Posted in Gay Novel Review, TyRain Rant on Feb 29th, 2008
When I was young gay man, there never seemed to be enough science-fiction novels for me to read, with Frank Herbert’s Dune and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation remaining my classic favorites. As I have matured I have found myself with quite a varied taste in literature. I just finished reading “American Theocracy – The Peril and [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Jan 17th, 2008
With working two jobs to make ends meet here in the USA, I don’t have as much time as I had in the past to read for simple pleasure - finding it hard to be able to sit still for only a few hours a week.
Regardless of time lacking, this year I have decided to [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Jan 10th, 2008
I just finished reading The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce – an enjoyable gay gothic mystery.
Many time-honored expected gothic cliches are included in this tale. The year is 1899 and Andrew Wyndham is twenty years old. When a friend arranges for him to work as tutor to the son of a wealthy patron of [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Oct 15th, 2007
Gay author Edmund White has written over twenty books including
the classic gay coming of age novel - A Boy’s Own Story
and was co-editor of The Joy of Gay Sex
In 1991 Edmund White wrote about being gay:
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn’t [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Aug 26th, 2007
Back in the mid-1970’s, a naïve 20-something Mary Ann Singleton arrived in San Francisco for the first time. Making her new home at a boarding house at 28 Barbary Lane, Singleton’s life soon became intertwined with the building’s colorful tenants: the enigmatic and magical transsexual Anna Madrigal, the womanizing Brian, and the sweet, sexy, hopelessly [...]
