Love Ruins Everything: A Novel

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	• Love Ruins Everything Karen X. Tulchinsky Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 2002 - 267 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I LOVED THIS BOOK!

I bought this book on a whim, and was half expecting another boring lesbian novel. Was I ever wrong. This book had everything, stories of love, stories of deception, stories of conspiracy, and all in all was a page turner. I highly recommend this book for anyone out there who has suffered from a breakup and needs a little material to read to cheer them up, or to anyone who just wants something to read that they will never wonder when the story is going to end. BUY THIS BOOK! ENJOY :)

And How!

A great book for young and old dykes and the people who love them. Toulchinsky is a master at original dialogue. This book is a quick, funny, real read. I highly recommend it!

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Love sucks, sometimes

Nomi is a Jewish butch whose lover leaves her for a man, despite the love they share. She crashes at a friend's place as she tries to figure out her next move, but her mother finds her nonetheless. Her mother is getting remarried and Nomi has to go home to Toronto. In the dead of winter. She reconnects with her cousin Henry, who's recovering from being gay-bashed. Henry discovers that he has developed AIDS, and his partner Roger tolerates, barely, Henry's continued involvement with Albert and his conspiracy theories about the American government trying to kill him. Albert has alarming proof about the origin of AIDS, which he claims the American government created, and he's looking for someone to write the article. Nomi also reconnects with Julie, the woman who got away, but this time the sparks fly and become a brilliant blaze. Meanwhile, Roger and Henry go through their own hard times. Full of humor and heartache, "Love Ruins Everything" is a delightful romance that will charm every reader.

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Engrossing, but predictable

Tulchinsky's account of a lesbian at large is an enjoyable, easy-to-read page-turner, but it too often becomes exaggerated and/or predictable, and the theories regarding the origins of AIDS come too late in the book. The similarities to the stories of Leslea Newman are uncanny; one wonders whether they are intentional. All in all, though, a good read.

Love Ruins Everything: A Novel

This was a fabulous read! It was a very realistic page turner that people like us can relate to! Encore Tulchinsky!

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When Nomi Rabinovitch's femme girlfriend leaves her for a man, Nomi seeks solace in watching schmaltzy videos at a friend's place, working her shift as a bartender at a neighborhood pub in San Francisco, and trying to talk her way out of wearing a dress at her mother's second wedding. But going to Mom's marriage in Toronto is just the ticket for this Canadian expatriate. Back home, Nomi runs into former crush Julie and sparks ensue. Then Nomi learns that her cousin Henry has been beaten up. It's not just a horrific case of fag bashing, but a specific hit to keep Henry from breaking a news story about the origins of HIV. Love Ruins Everything, Tulchinsky's first novel, shifts seamlessly from comic romance to political thriller and remains a page-turner throughout.

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