Tag: Flannelwood

• REVIEW: The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickles

  

  The Official Description: Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson’s death brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, Lambda Literary award-winning author Carter Sickels’s second novel shines light on an overlooked part of the epidemic, those men who returned to the rural communities and families who’d rejected them. Six short…

  charkinzie

  14 Feb 2020

  5 stars, Contemporary, general fiction, lgbtqia content, mental health

  2019 Review, AIDS, book, book review, Book Reviews, Books, character who is dying, character with AIDS, character with hiv, David Brendan Hopes, Edelweiss, family discord, Flannelwood, Helene Dunbar, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, Raymond Luczack, review, shame, The Falls of Wyona, We Are Lost And Found

• REVIEW: Unraveling by Rick R. Reed

  

  The Official Description: Randy Kay has the perfect life with his beautiful wife and adorable son. But Randy’s living a lie, untrue to himself and everyone who knows him. He’s gay. Marriage and fatherhood, which he thought could change him, have failed. He doubts if anyone can love him for who he really is—especially himself.…

  charkinzie

  12 Jan 2020

  Contemporary, lgbtqia content, mental health, own voices author

  2020 review, aaron hamburger, book, book review, Books, carter sickels, character coming out, coming out, first gay relationship, Flannelwood, gay man married to woman, Goodreads, netgalley, nirvana is here, Raymond Luczack, review, Rick R. Reed, the prettiest star, unraveling

• QUICK REVIEWS: July 2019

  

  Overthrow by Caleb Crain: I really struggled with this book. I’m probably not the appropriate audience for it. I found the start to be really interesting and I was drawn in but I got a bit lost in the politics of it all. I also found that I couldn’t really stay with any of the characters…

  charkinzie

  31 Jul 2019

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