Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir Author: Jake Shears Publisher: Atria Books Length: 336 Pages Category: Autobiography At a Glance: Shears is nothing if not a natural born storyteller who picks at the threads of memory and weaves them into a compelling novel. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: In this deeply affecting memoir, one of rock... Continue Reading →
Please join me in welcoming author and youth worker Ryan Berg to The Novel Approach today. Ryan's book, No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions, brings to the fore the subject of youth homelessness and the percentage of those kids who identify as LGBTQ. Ryan was kind enough to sit down... Continue Reading →
“Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.” ― William Goldman Blurb: When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly,... Continue Reading →
“Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.” ― William Goldman Blurb: When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly,... Continue Reading →
“What’s the difference between codependency and love?” “When you don’t have to ask me that, then you’ll know what the difference is.” – William Henderson They say that truth is stranger than fiction. Well, sometimes truth isn’t so much strange as it is… heartbreaking. William Henderson’s Second Person, Possessive is a story of addiction. It... Continue Reading →
“What’s the difference between codependency and love?” “When you don’t have to ask me that, then you’ll know what the difference is.” – William Henderson They say that truth is stranger than fiction. Well, sometimes truth isn’t so much strange as it is… heartbreaking. William Henderson’s Second Person, Possessive is a story of addiction. It... Continue Reading →
Touch. By touch we are betrayed and betray others. – Wallace Stegner Monogamy has been rather fluidly practiced over the centuries, the shape of it changing with the times and the attitudes of each generation. And let’s face facts; there was a double-standard for a very long time, a time when it was not only... Continue Reading →
Touch. By touch we are betrayed and betray others. – Wallace Stegner Monogamy has been rather fluidly practiced over the centuries, the shape of it changing with the times and the attitudes of each generation. And let’s face facts; there was a double-standard for a very long time, a time when it was not only... Continue Reading →
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