A Home at the End of the World: A Novel97 reviews Michael Cunningham Picador, 1998 Compelling story of friendship and love + Tragic. Beautiful. Intimate. + I Really Enjoyed This + So much better than the movie + Engaging story of family, friendship, love             Long Firm Trilogy Jake Arnott SCEPTRE (HODD), 2005             Line of Beauty108 reviews Alan Hollinghurst PICADOR (MACM), 2006 A Modern Cousin Bette + On the Outside, Looking In + Life among the plutocrats. + What a Beauty indeed.             Carol Patricia Highsmith Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2005 Therese first glimpses Carol in the New York department store where she is working as a sales assistant. Carol is choosing a present for her daughter; she looks preoccupied, exuding an aura of elegance as perfect as a secret. Standing there at the counter, Therese suddenly feels wholly innocent - wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese was nineteen, and loved by a young man she ...             The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things92 reviews J. T. Leroy Bloomsbury USA, 2002 just cuz its made up + couldn't put it down + Shocking! Rivetting! Exquisite pain! doesn't mean it isnt worth reading.. people are like.. if its not real.. i dont wanna read it.. i guess they're just looking for a molesters eye view or something.. the story is makes you think.. what if he would have stayed with his foster parents.. how would he have ended up.. the same can be ...             Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture147 reviews Annie Proulx Scribner, 2005 A+ + It's a story of love that can never be... not sex. + As beautiful as it gets + Great reading! + You Won't Want it to End             Hallucinating Foucault26 reviews Patricia Duncker Bloomsbury, 2006 Hallucinating Real Literature + A beautiful story + A fine little novel. + Love song + Scholarly madness             The Monkey's Mask (A Mask Noir Title)5 reviews Dorothy Porter Serpent's Tail, 1997 A Good Cross-Genre + Questions stereotypes of genre and themes + A luscious thriller + An astoundingly readable mystery poem.             Desert Of The Heart8 reviews Jane Rule Bella Books, 2005 An Emotional Landscape + Fascinating--in an Oppressive Sort of Way + Timeless - One of the best books I ever read + On the boundary             Tipping the Velvet: A Novel162 reviews Sarah Waters Riverhead Trade, 2000 Great storytelling + SUBVERSIVE, SHOCKING AND SINFULLY GOOD + An engrossing tale + Charming and completely absorbing of a search for love through the sexual underbelly of London that meanders down many roads             Trumpet: A Novel24 reviews Jackie Kay Vintage, 2000 Pure poetry + Awesome Novel! + Heart and Soul + A short review + Satisfying Conclusion Makes it Worthwhile             Crocodile Soup: A Novel6 reviews Julia Darling Ecco, 2002 Tasty and good for you.... + What a wonderfully inventive interesting book! + Read This Book + glad you made it, Gert!             The Story of the Night: A Novel27 reviews Colm Toibin Scribner, 2005 An evocative story, told with extraordinary sensitivity. + Well developed characters in an unusual time and setting + History and the AIDS epidemic Colm Toibin is one of my favorite Irish authors writing today. Among his books that I've read to date ("The South", "The Heather Blazing", "The Blackwater Lightship", "Mothers and Sons" and this one - I haven't read "The Master" yet), "The Story of the Night" is my favorite. Set in Buenos Aires ...             At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel98 reviews Jamie O'Neill Scribner, 2003 Not just a "gay" book. + Deeply, deeply touched + Beautiful and Heartbreaking + Searing, affecting, heart-breaking.             Back Around the Houses Amanda Boulter Serpent's Tail, 2004 "Tales of the city to make you shake, weep, and giggle out loud. I'm already looking forward to the next one."-Patricia Duncker The quirky residents of Madrigal Close are back as Anna and Cass prepare to celebrate their baby, Florrie's, christening. Andy, Florrie's gay father, is dating his old flame Tony, but Tony has other plans. But it's not just Anna and Cass' family that is falling apart. ...             Rough Music9 reviews Patrick Gale Flamingo, 2000 Simply Brilliant! + So Sad, So Beautiful + A very unusual novel and true "page-turner". + Perfect symmetry + A Tapestry of Words! Bravo!             Middlesex: A Novel854 reviews Jeffrey Eugenides Picador, 2002 You Are Such a Flirt + One of my favorites! + A Wonderfuf Read + From a pediatric Urology Nurse's view point, well done             Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)107 reviews Armistead Maupin Harper Perennial, 2007 An All-Time Favorite + If you can't wear some flowers in your hair + A Modern Day Classic This book will make you laugh, cry, and leave you hungry for more. Do yourself a favor and read the entire series. Maupin creates a coterie of friends that I love and revisit often. They may be fictional, but I think of his characters as family.             Calendar Girl (A Five Star Title)1 review Stella Duffy Serpent's Tail, 2000 Good this book is pretty interesting..I like it. GOod details             Crocodile Soup: A Novel6 reviews Julia Darling Ecco, 2002 Tasty and good for you.... + What a wonderfully inventive interesting book! + Read This Book + glad you made it, Gert!