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Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones: C+

September 18, 2007 by Michelle Smith Leave a Comment

From the inside flap: Is it fair to be mad, mad, mad at your boyfriend for being gay? Anything but straight in small town Maine won't exactly be a walk in the park, even for invincible Dylan. But can't heartbroken Belle whine just a little? What's a girl to do when her perfect soulmate says Goodbye Belle, Hello Bob? For starters, she makes a list on how to deal. Review: I … [Read more...] about Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones: C+

Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe: A-

August 18, 2006 by Michelle Smith Leave a Comment

From the back cover: With wonderful delicacy and subtle insight and intimation, McCabe creates Mr. Patrick "Puss" Braden, the enduringly and endearingly hopeful hero(ine) whose gutsy survival and yearning quest for love resonate in and drive the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the Troubles are a distant and immediate echo and refrain. Twenty years ago, her ladyship … [Read more...] about Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe: A-

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: A

April 24, 2006 by Michelle Smith Leave a Comment

From the back cover: Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban … [Read more...] about Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: A

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