The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland. And according to author Chelsey Johnson, even the 90s were more 90s in Portland. Stray City is the story of Andrea (Andy) Morales, a young woman abandoned by her biological family when she comes out who seeks out a new family and a place to belong in Portland. It’s all grunge and Lesbian Mafia and family dinners until, for reasons even Andy can’t articulate, she falls into bed with a man. Her regular transgressions remain a secret […]
A necessary celebration of female friendships
The title and book jacket of this one just really roped me in. I fall squarely in the generation that Schaefer is speaking to and about – female, born in the late 80s, Boomer parents, came of age with technology, got a cell phone early. She does this so well because it’s also the generation she belongs to so the book is kind of a lot of anecdotes, but the good kind. It’s nice to read about strong female friendships and the genuine love they inspire. […]
The best way to exist in a story
I got the okay on this one on Twitter but mods please let me know if it doesn’t count. I didn’t listen to the audiobook of Neverwhere but rather the BBC’s radio play adaptation – the one with McAvoy and Dormer? It’s basically the greatest. So the gist of Neverwhere is: everyman Richard Mayhew accidentally stumbles into London Below, a society made up of the people London Above forgot, with danger at every turn. He is sucked into a mission to protect the Lady Door from assassins and […]
Not sure what or why
I’m not sure where I found this book and like I read the whole thing without putting it aside and it was entertaining but I’m also not sure what I read or why. You ever have those books? The House of Broken Angels (and that’s Angel, like the Spanish name, not angel like Islington) is about a sprawling Mexican-American family and its patriarch. Big Angel is said patriarch and is more or less the main character, but the book is about more than him. It’s […]
Stick around for the second half
I’ve always wanted to visit Ireland, but definitely not the Ireland in this book. The Heart’s Invisible Furies tells the story of post-World War II Ireland, a country culturally under the thumb of an oppressive Catholic Church. Most of my understanding of the legal impact of Catholicism in Ireland was in relation to abortion rights (or lack thereof) and horrifying institutions for unwed mothers, so it makes sense that it would be an equally horrible, horrible place to be gay. And oh boy. So this is […]
Like reading the show
Despite being born after the finale aired, I grew up on M*A*S*H. My parents bought each season on DVD as it was released and I’ve watched each episode at least three times. Maybe it doesn’t hold up quite so well watching it again as an adult (remember that episode where the guys in the Swamp convince a senior officer Hotlips is into him and he sexually assaults her … for laughs? Yeah.) But reading this book brought me right back to it all. The show (and […]
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