Reading Round Up: June 2010
Happy Canada Day! June was quite the eclectic reading month for me from contemporary romance, to horror, to political intrigue. I re-read and finally put pen to paper to review Purple Hearts by Reno...
View ArticleLet Them Try by Reno MacLeod and Jaye Valentine
The police motto “to serve and protect” takes on all new meaning in Let Them Try. Twenty-six years of dedicated duty as one of Baltimore’s finest should earn a man some reward. One autumn night in a...
View ArticleReading Round Up: July-August 2010
Given all the activity and travel over the months of July and August I’m quite surprised that I managed any reading at all. Not much actually, but certainly more than originally anticipated. Reviewing...
View ArticleReading Round Up: The Best in Gay Fiction for 2010
When I began writing this post I had the intention of listing ten of my favourite books in gay fiction for 2010. But it quickly became apparent that it would be impossible to restrict the list to only...
View ArticleStarCrossed 4: In The Blink of An Eye by Reno MacLeod and Jaye Valentine
StarCrossed 4: In the Blink of an Eye takes us back to Salem, Massachusetts, where the town is evolving from openly making amends for its witch-burning past to something darker. While some people...
View ArticleReading Round Up: NYC Road Trip, Meeting Online Friends and Books!
This year’s road-trip season kicked-off early on May 13 when I boarded a train from Montréal to New York City. My partner was attending a conference at the United Nations, so I though it a perfect...
View ArticleReading Round Up: The Best in LGBTQ Fiction for 2011
Each December I compile my list of favourite books read over the course of the year. Unfortunately, the trend I experienced in 2010 persisted in 2011 and my reading and reviewing time was extremely...
View ArticleReading Round Up: Words and Music
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Reading Round Up. This post, however, is slightly different from my periodic summaries of the books I’ve read and reviewed in that it is focused on reading and...
View ArticleReading Round Up: The Best in LGBTQ Literature for 2012
If I were to choose a theme to characterise my reading year in 2012 it would be the year of the debut and independent author. The majority of books I read either for my own pleasure or specifically for...
View ArticleThe German by Lee Thomas
The German by Lee Thomas had been on my reading list since its release by Lethe Press in March 2011. I was finally able to get to it in late 2012 and read it in virtually one sitting. As a long-time...
View ArticleReading Round-Up: Author Q & A with ‘Nathan Burgoine
‘Nathan Burgoine grew up a reader and studied literature in university while making a living as a bookseller – a job he still does, and still loves. A cat lover, ‘Nathan managed to fall in love and...
View ArticleReading Round Up: Q & A with Author Jeffrey Ricker
I’ve mentioned many times of my love for the anthology Fool or Love: New Gay Fiction and one of the reasons is that this compilation of short stories introduced me to several wonderful writers, one of...
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