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< Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice > < A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 > < The Letters of Noel Coward > < Exit Ghost > < The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century > < The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes > Janet Malcolm

price： 850
Yale University Press
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(the author inserts herself)

(Smarty pants!)

(Why was this book written?)

(Are you looking for a conventional biography?)

(Concisely Told)

This short book rounds out a few pieces of the Gertrude/Alice relationship. I liked the way she gives a flavor of Stein's first book, relieving me of any desire to read it myself. Malcolm is a good writer and she touches on subjects relating to her own drama being sued for fabricating quotations and she inserts her own biases as in, "Wills are uncanny and electric documents. They lie dormant for years, and then spring to life when their author dies, as if death were rain. Their effect on those they enrich or disappoint is never negligible, and sometimes unexpectedly charged. They thrust living and dead into a final fierce clasp of love or hatred. But they are not written in stone--for all their granite legal language--and they can be bent to subvert the wishes of the writer. Such was the case with Stein's will."
Interesting, but I fear the author seems to set out to defend an agenda rather than seeking to a rational conclusion from the evidence at hand. She also falls prey to a need to appear very clever which she may well be. Is she more clever than profound?
Malcolm writes very well but she fails to offer any reason why Stein/Toklas were (was?) worth the effort of researching and writing, or reading, this book. To a non-specialist reader, Stein's writings seem like either baby-talk (Toklas called her Baby) by the youngest of five children who was petted when she talked that way, or an outright scam, or perhaps both. It appears that these two Jewish ladies were near-collaborationists during the German occupation of France where they inexplicably lived openly while other Jews were being dragged out of hiding places to be murdered. But even if they were merely friends with highly-placed Vichy officials who protected them, no one suggests they played a particularly admirable role at that time. What, then, makes them worth close study now? This book did not answer this basic question for me and it certainly did not inspire me to go read something by Stein - the few examples in the book are nonsense and uninspired nonsense at that.
Then don't read Janet Malcolm. Malcolm is not the kind of biographer who delivers more than you ever wanted to know about a subject. But if you want to know how biographers do their sleuth work, how one wrong date can determine whether we think Stein horrid or not, and how the personalities of Stein scholars have shaped what we do and don't know about this writer, then read Malcolm. Along the way, you will be treated to delectable prose and delicious literary gossip. And you will get to know the personalities of Stein and Toklas in all their lively and quirky splendor.
Concisely told biographical work of Stein and Toklas. If you are looking for a definitive biography, this is not the book for you. If you want to understand the essence of their relationship and enjoy good writing and insightful phrasing, pick this up.

"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master“whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness” and“thin, plain, tense, sour” Alice B. Toklas, the“worker bee” who ministered to Stein’s needs throughout their forty-year expatriate“marriage.” As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple’s charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth.“The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties,” she writes.

The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat.

Two Livesis also a work of literary criticism.“Even the most hermetic of [Stein’s] writings are works of submerged autobiography,” Malcolm writes.“The key of 'I' will not unlock the door to their meaning—you need a crowbar for that—but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion.” Whether unpacking the accessibleAutobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein“solves the koan of autobiography,” or wrestling withThe Making of Americans, a masterwork of“magisterial disorder,” Malcolm is stunningly perceptive.

Praise for the author:

“[Janet Malcolm] is among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . .able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight.”—David Lehman,BostonGlobe

“Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography.”—Christopher Benfey

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< Becoming a Visible Man > < The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male > < Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience > < True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism--For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals > < Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities > < From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond > Jamison Green

price： 848
Vanderbilt University Press
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(Great book for anyone to read.)

(Amazing!)

(A Personal Transformation)

(Becoming a Visible Man)

(A most excellent read!)

This is an easy, fun, and interesting read. The book rekindled my sensitivity and respect for humanity.
It's a very good book, because it's one of the very best books I've ever read on trans issues. It's good if you need it for a positive outlook on transitioning. It's a book that has helped me as a person and I know that this book can help other guys out there see that they're not alone and there is a good way to transition.

Green, explores his own experiences and tells them in great detail. He's very educational and has helped me get through some tough times. It's a book I couldn't help not buying. It's in my library when I need to go back and see that I don't need to apoligize for who I am.
Personal experiences mixed with arguments about transgender issues provide the reader with insight about what it really means to be a transsexual.

Definately an excellent read, and one to keep in the library of any FTM.
Jamison Green's book Becoming a Visible Man is easily among my current top choices of trans-related texts. Not only does Green give readers pieces of his own personal experiences (following the trend of many other trans texts), but he also offers accessible, educational, and nuanced arguments around trans issues. In this way, Becoming a Visible Man is not only the story of Green's own personal becoming, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the story of the structures, institutions, and other forces that circumscribe, shape, and color all our becomings. In this vein, I'm confident that this book would appeal to transpeople and non-transpeople alike, both those with none or very little knowledge of trans issues, as well as those with much experience in this area.

While I haven't had the fortune (yet) to be familiar with Green's writings in the FTM Newsletter, I have no doubt that he provided much help and wisdom to its breadth of readers. His writing is balanced and aware of its biases, always mindful of questioning the existing structures of power, and responsible to those with whom he seems himself in community and alliance. By no means does this mean that Green attempts to speak for or about all transpeople or all transmen, or that he understands all transpeople or their experiences to be the same. Rather, Green is quite adamant about the differences between and among transpeople, at the same time that he is clear that we must come together in all our differences to effect true social change. And to his credit, through this all, his author's voice is calm and poetic; a great combination indeed of form and context!

I really could go on at length about the merits of this text...there isn't one thing I didn't like or find useful in its 231 pages. But, I'll settle for highlighting some of my most favorite passages:

(68) "I realized that if I could live in a way that declared my own self-acceptance--that is, not to broadcast my history every minute of the day, but to speak up honestly when it was appropriate, not necessarily with anger or even impatience, but with the compassion that I was finding within myself, to dispel myths and stereotypes that people cling to about us--that it would show others they could do it, too. Together we could change the conditions that generated our fears."

(78) "Politics is the art of negotiation among divergent goals, and cooperation is difficult when people are unaware of their motives or goals, or unable or unwilling to reveal them."

(89) "Being a transsexual is not something we do in the privacy of our own bedrooms; it affects every aspect of our lives, from our driver's licenses to our work histories, from our birth certificates to our school transcripts to our parents' wills, and every relationship represented by those paper trails."

(127) "For some people, the consequences of a transperson's assertion of his or her identity are simply too frightening because it threatens their own position within a particular community of ideology or faith."

(128) "My brother was not exactly disapproving of my sexual orientation, nor was he resentful of my ability to pitch in with his friends on construction projects or to manage home electrical problems, but he was much more comfortable when he didn't have to explain me anymore. This is not a reason to transition, as far as I'm concerned, but is a fact that an appearance of conformity with normative gender behavior does cause less social friction, a fact that every child has had drummed into her or him from earliest consciousness.

(177) "The extent to which we convey the truth of our experience is the extent to which any audience will receive us, yet so long as other people control the forum, or so long as the analyzing or commenting voices are not informed by direct experience of us, we are still vulnerable to being treated with nothing more enlightened than prejudice."

(180) "Social conventions and institutions support individual prejudice against the rights of transsexual people, adding to the burden of secrecy. These conventions persist because no one has tried, until very recently, to correct them."

(191) "Gender is a private matter that we share with others; and when we share it, it becomes a social construction, thus it requires, like language, a `speaker' and a `listener.' It is between the two of these actors that gender is defined, negotiated, corroborated, or challenged...But if we don't speak a language that others understand, then it can be a source of difficulty, even conflict, if we find ourselves in an intolerant environment."

(210) "If we are concerned that others will perceive our physical differences as laughable deficiencies, the answer is not to dehumanize and desensitize ourselves so we can manage rejection, but to sensitize others to appreciate us, and to learn to manage our own self-doubts so that others will be able to see worthy partners in us."

Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment.

For more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual people—as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as others—enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done.

Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green's own experiences—including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgery—the book examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, Becoming a Visible Man also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one's life honestly, openly, and passionately.
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< Becoming a Visible Man > < The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male > < Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience > < True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism--For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals > < Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities > freaks

< Footsteps in the Dark Partners in Crime #3 > < Hostage > < No Going Home > < Treasure: Raised By Wolves, Volume Three (Raised By Wolves) > < I'll Be Dead For Christmas Partners in Crime#2 (Partners in Crime) > < The Draegan Lords > Josh Lanyon,Sarah Black

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MLR Press
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(Partners in Crime)

I am one of Josh Lanyon's groupies so you ought to know that going in. However, this was a new direction for him and I really enjoyed the story. Sarah Black's stories are always good and this one was great. I can't say enough good things about the Partners in Crime Anthologies. MLR has done a really good job of putting complementary authors together to help balance each story.
Footsteps in The Dark Partners in Crime 3 By Josh Lanyon&Sarah Black Spy Something Bloody Espionage was always a game, but now British spy Mark Hardwicke wants to retire and settle down with ex-lover Dr. Stephen Thorpe -- if Stephen will have him. Unfortunately, Stephen has other plans -- and so do the terrorists who want Mark dead. Murder At Black Dog Springs Code-talker Logan Kee returns to his home on the Navajo Reservation from the battlefields of Saipan. But a new battle is waiting for him. Uranium mining has begun within the four sacred mountains. When the old hand-trembler dies at Black Dog Springs, rumors fly that Leetso, the yellow monster, has been set free to walk the land.
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< Footsteps in the Dark Partners in Crime #3 > < Hostage > < No Going Home > < Treasure: Raised By Wolves, Volume Three (Raised By Wolves) > < I'll Be Dead For Christmas Partners in Crime#2 (Partners in Crime) > freaks

< I Say a Little Prayer > < A Love of My Own > < Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel > < Any Way the Wind Blows: A Novel > < Not a Day Goes By > < Abide With Me: A Novel > E. Lynn Harris

price： 279
Anchor(2007-08-21)
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(You Go Boy!)

(E. Lynn Harris does it again!)

Once I started reading this book I couldn't put it down. It had more twists and turns than a roller coaster. I was rooting for Chauncey especially after he found out that the man who took his virginity with men was a homophobic nut case. Grayson was truly a scary character. I found myself wanting Chauncey to slap her as hard as he could. I think this book makes a really interesting point. It seems that those who speak out the loudest against homosexuality are usually closeted homosexuals who hate who they are(Donnie McClurkin). I was happy Chauncey came out on top in the end. I was also surprised that Basil made an appearance in this book. I hope to see more of Chauncey in the future. This book is a great buy and I highly recommend it to all.
Here was yet another grand reading written by E. Lynn Harris. When I began to read it, I was immediately hooked to the point that I seriously did not put it down until I had completed the entire book in one sitting. Of course I took small respites to eat, etc. but I did not, and could not, fall asleep until I had finished reading it to the end. I cannot wait for the next release.
AUSA Today, New York Times, Washington PostBestseller

Chauncey Greer, the suave and successful owner of the Cute Boy Greeting Card Company, never wants for the attention of guys just as hot as he is. After a couple of bad dates Chauncey finds himself in church, where the minister’s message inspires him to return to the singing career he had launched as a teenager. Things heat up when Chauncey’s rediscovered singing talent lands him in the middle of a protest over homophobia in the black church, and Chauncey’s old singing partner–and former lover–makes a dramatic and unexpected entrance.
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< I Say a Little Prayer > < A Love of My Own > < Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel > < Any Way the Wind Blows: A Novel > < Not a Day Goes By > freaks

< Hearts Aflame > < Winds of Fortune > < Second Season > < The Cottage > < The Lonely Hearts Club > < Focus of Desire > Ronica Black

price： 510
Bold Strokes Books
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(Erotic and intriguing)

(Hearts Aflame burns bright)

(A Must Read Romance)

(good read)

(Potential tragically unrealized - 2 1/2 stars)

Thirty year old California Realtor Krista gets a sudden call from her relatives that she is desperately needed at their horse ranch in Arizona. She rushes to their side after not visiting for 15 years to find her beloved Aunt terminally ill and her uncle suffering the onset of dementia. The horse ranch is in ruins from years of neglect and it is up to Krista to decide how to salvage it for her relatives last days.

Into the desperate mix enters gorgeous Rae who has been burnt emotionally and is keeping romance at a distance. The attraction is palpable and when the two women come together it is intense.

The most interesting part for me was learning the large cast of characters that enter the picture as the solution to the financial problems experienced by the ranch.

Very entertaining read that is a page turner. A substantial book at almost 250 pages I did not put it down til the last issue was resolved.

Don't Miss the author's other novels including - Wild Abandon
First, I've read 2 other books written by Ronica Black. Wild Abandon and Deeper. This book was just as well written, maybe better, and had a different setting than the previous books I have read.

Ronica Black's book Hearts Aflame is a wonderful, heartwarming Romance. Now a city girl, Krista Wyler is back at the ranch where she spent all of her summers until a traumatic event 15 years ago changed that. Rae Jarrett, the local vet who works with the large animals on the ranches, has her own reasons for not wanting to be involved with anyone. Of course - when the 2 of them meet sparks fly! They don't appear to want the same things, What's important to Rae doesn't seem important to a city-girl like Krista. Krista doesn't think that she needs any help and resents the help offered by Rae. Rae is sure that Krista hates her and doesn't understand why.

The ranch is in danger of financial ruin so Krista decides to turn the place into a dude ranch. Of course, that brings a whole lot of interesting characters into the mix, doesn't it?

This was a great book to curl up with. It's certainly seems like a great series could come from this too. Imagine the stories that could traspire with all of the characters that come to a dude ranch?

Go buy this book. Enjoy it. I did.
I just finished this book after having read the author's In Too Deep series.

This book was completely different and it took me by surprise. But what a truly delightful read! This is one of the best lesbian romances I've ever read.

Truly a wonderful read. It was such a great story with extremely interesting and well defined characters, a beautiful setting and heart pumping desire.

I laughed, I cried, I flushed with "heat" on several occassions.

Highly recommended.

the book is a good read, but the two main characters needed to get together sooner. Once they are together the story ends. Overall I enjoyed the book it kept me reading.
I've read one other Ronica Black book, and I liked it well enough that when I found myself in the picked-over selection at my local bookstore, I decided to give Hearts Aflame a chance. It had an intriguing premise. I like westerns. I really like books where the characters are *doing* something, whether it be river rafting, climbing a mountain, boat racing, etc. Also, the whole "we must save our home" motivator is always a sure thing for drama and character motivation to the extremes of their personalities. The description of the book talked about adventure in the desert. I wanted heat and excitement. And while the book wasn't wholly lacking in that, I spent a lot of it either being annoyed at the main characters for being some of the worst communicators I could ever hope to never know, or being disappointed that the cowboy adventure they were all on was bascially one big prop, like a back-drop in community theater. It never felt like I was there. My senses were only sporadically engaged.

Ultimately the author played too fast and loose with language to satisfy me, and I was left with unavoidable observations:
*It's no wonder Rae has such muscle tone with the amount of time she spends with her arms flexed
*I like oatmeal, but does it really "smell good enough to eat"?
*During the tender sharing of the hat scene, it would have been nice to have it explained that by "not prepared" Rae meant for the sun exposure, making her gesture make more sense from a care-taking perspective, rather than making it seem a random act with little meaning
*I don't buy Rae's "fear of abandonment" motivation, when guilt seems to be her central emotion
*After leaving Krista in a total lurch how surprised can Rae be when Krista doesn't hug her? Hello? Have some cheese with that whine.
*Is Sonja really like family? Is it a small town thing? Because her staying on with practically no discussion about her contract, etc. (this is her *profession*) seemed unrealistic.

The plot and characterizations weren't tight. The characters would allow incidents from their past to firmly dictate their current actions, usually in very unflattering ways (like Krista abandoning her beloved Aunt and Uncle for 15 years) but at the same time never expressed any of this motivation in their internal dialogue until it could be used as a plot device, thus not selling their foibles to this reader. The author seemed to think that in order to create dramatic tension leading to an exciting climax that she had to be miserly with the details of past traumas, to the point that the "big revelations" were actually anti-climactic, and instead what was built was frustration.

Along the same lines, there were too many oddities in structure to allow me to submerse myself in this story. In fact, this led me to experience one of the most bizarre moments I've ever had while reading a book: in a pivotal scene Rae, Krista, and I think Sonja are gathered around Aunt Judith's sick bed discussing what can be done to solve their problems, when suddenly at the end of the scene Clinton sits up in bed. What?! Apparently there was more than one bed in the room. And apparently Clinton was still asleep in his bed, or laying there for the entire conversation, or something. But that stage was never set. The characters never acted like someone else was in the room who they were leaving out of the conversation. I swear to you, if it had been a movie I'd have screamed in startlement at his sudden appearance, but reading it in reality made me burst out laughing at my shock. In addition, I was sure Sonja's age was much higher than it apparently is; something you have no evidence about except for her mannerisms and relationship with Judith and Clinton (which seem matronly) until the end of the book. It was just too odd for words to find out that she was nearer Krista's age than Judith's.

I barely finished this book, but it wasn't wholly without redeeming quality. The execution was what was lacking. Perhaps if the editing had been more disciplined this book could have reached another level.

Believe it or not, I think that many people will read this book and be delighted with it, quite possibly if you were delighted with prior Ronica Black books. There will likely be themes that speak strongly enough to some readers that they're able to fill in the gaps, and take leaps in logic along with the author. There were fun moments, gross-out moments, well-written scenes and emotional moments. But even though I generally read books for pure escapism, and thus reality would seem to not necessarily be a must, I still like a story or its characters to feel real, and in the end I didn't feel like I'd experienced anything with the characters. The coyness the author exercised with the details was unnecessary, and created a distance I could never successfully cross.
A poignant, erotic romance packed with adventure and set in the harsh beauty of the Arizona countryside.

Real estate guru Krista Wyler is soon at the mercy of the Arizona desert when she learns she has inherited her family's business, Wyler Ranch. Her aunt is dying and her uncle is no longer capable of making decisions. Krista reluctantly moves in, but her plan is to sell the ranch as soon as possible.

Rae Jarrett, the strong, stubborn vet who has cared for the ranch as well as the horses, objects to her selling and offers her aid. Krista resists the help as well as her attraction to the mysterious vet, but decides instead to turn the ranch into a dude ranch. Soon city folk are knocking at the door ready to pay good money to get a chance to herd the Wyler cattle across Arizona. The plan seems full proof until Krista herself, along with Rae, has to set out on the trail with them.

The journey leads to a life changing adventure neither woman could have foreseen and will never forget.
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< Hearts Aflame > < Winds of Fortune > < Second Season > < The Cottage > < The Lonely Hearts Club > freaks

< Call Me by Your Name: A Novel > < Strings Attached > < The Tin Star > < The Back Passage > < A Secret Edge > < Out of Egypt : A Memoir > Andre Aciman

price： 736
Farrar, Straus and Giroux(2007-01-23)
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(Oh, to be a ripe summer peach in Elio's room...)

(Exceptionally moving.)

("The Course of True Love Never did run Smooth")

(An extraordinary novel)

(Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?)

"Call Me by Your Name" is my favorite book since I can't remember when. More than a week after reading the last line, images of the Italian seaside and the characters continue to be etched in my mind. I hope they stay with me for a long while, and suspect that they will. I haven't had a book accomplish that feat in years. I agree with the reviews comparing the book somewhat to Catcher in the Rye because Elio's obsessive nature is so effectively captured by Aciman. However, he uses just the right mix of peering into his young character's mind to ground the very compelling coming of age story. And I like that the sometimes graphic gay theme plays second fiddle to the overall work, which is a testament to the masterful skill of the author. Aciman is certainly a gifted story teller, and I eagerly await his next book. As for the summer peach....well that's a surprise. I highly, highly recommend this book.
If only we all could express who we were at 17 with such grace, honesty and lucidity.
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

The course of true love never did run smooth -

The story of star-crossed lovers runs throughout literature, from Shakespeare's sonnets onward. In "Call me by Your Name," Andre Aciman explores adolescent sexuality through the eyes of a sensitive, 17- year- old Italian boy who develops a crush on a slightly older summer visitor. Elio lives with his father, a university professor, and mother in a villa on the Mediterranean. It is in this languid setting that the romance between the two youths develops over the course of long, hot summer afternoons spent playing tennis, swimming and reading --- Aciman captures the mood perfectly. The sexual tension grows intense, even brutal, as the two explore one another's psyches and physiques. While explicitly homoerotic, it is never pornographic.
There is a lot of suggestive, but not overt dialogue between the two.
Much of their testosterone-driven energy is dissipated through talk of art, literature, and females, which appear to be a subject of mutual interest.
Aciman is an academic who specializes in the works of Marcel Proust, whose style he sometimes emulates. Although straight, Aciman perfectly conveys the emotional and physical traits of his gay/bi characters.
It's a shame that more "gay" literature doesn't ring as true as this book by a straight author. Love is still love, whatever its variations and permutations.

# # #

I bought this book based on all the positive reviews found here and elsewhere on the Web, and I'm glad I did.

It is rare to read something that seems as if the author wrote it just for you. But that's exactly how I feel about "Call Me by Your Name." The writing is exceptionally beautiful and I found myself re-reading pages and pages of text just to capture and absorb all of Aciman's wisdom and insights.

I wish there was something new I could say about the book, but so much has been written in other reviews that my accolades would be duplicative. So I'll just say that this book affected me deeply.

The author has conjured one of the finest novels ever written about love, the choices we make, and how emotions change and endure over time.
Aciman does a wonderful job in this novel of reconstructing young love in all its brilliant absurdity. The narrator, reflecting on his teenage self from the safety of middle age, slowly (a bit too slowly for my taste) builds the story of his obsession with Olivier, 24 to his 17. It's a realistic description, but it's hard for first love--at least in the unrequited stage--to avoid feeling melodramatic. (Melodrama, after all, is what teenagers are all about.) When the lovers finally come together midway through the book, the text comes alive, with passages of poetic expression that bring tears to the eye. One extended sequence, at a book party in Rome, offers one of the best descriptions I've ever read of how one can fall in love with literature. It's the human romance, however, that remains prominent, and Aciman is a master at showing how first love can blind one to reality: the narrator believes that Olivier is his soul mate, that they are one during their time together--and insofar as he believes that feeling will last, the story is a tragedy as well as a romance, as neither character will ever know this intensity of love again. (And the reader will never eat a peach so innocently again, but that's another story....)Chemistry

Call Me by Your Nameis the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks’ duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman’s frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.Call Me by YourNameis clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.

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< Call Me by Your Name: A Novel > < Strings Attached > < The Tin Star > < The Back Passage > < A Secret Edge > freaks

< Looker: A Novel > < Manhood: The Longest Moan > < Right Side of the Wrong Bed > < A Private Affair > < My Man My Boyz > < The DL Chronicles: The Complete First Season > Stanley Bennett Clay

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Atria
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(Looker....A tale of love amongst US)

(Enjoyable Novel)

(Eloquent Novel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(A page turner)

(SBC DOES IT AGAIN...OUR OWN MASTER AMONG US!)

Stanley,
Thank you for "Looker." The characters were as real as the pages and
paper on which they were written. Your knowing and seeing of Black gay Men's lives made the book a page turner. The tapestry of lust, love, pain, joy, anger, betrayal, safe hatred, sardonic sex, rage, crime, and bliss wove a tale reminiscent of what "real" Black gay men know to be our truths. Never before have had I read such a description of Black gay men living on the periphery of our community; while we exist in its midst.
Bran was a man undamaged by the gay experience, simply reluctant to love.

Most importantly you aptly connected the lives of varying generations
of "WE".
Love unrequited and finally realized and revealed. A love based on friendship. Wow!

Do it again,

Borris Powell
New York

This is no E Lynn