I got my review copy of Toss, Whirl, Pass in the mail this weeknd and started reading it last night. I've already encountered my first memorable, yet rather jarring, line within the first 30 pages. The main character is a former addict and referring to a discussion at group, he says ( Read more... )

"I've always had a thing for men from unpaved places..."--from Becoming  a Man by Paul Monette

"I left him there admiring his own frozen beauty, . . . feeling sick in my soul that I needed him more than  I needed my self-respect . . . "--Revision of Justice

Her lips stretched into a smile that had fuck you written neatly between the lines. -- from John Morgan Wilson's Revision of Justice.

"We gotta make moments fabulous. Because no sooner is a moment noticed than it is gone, child. And a life ain't something to be avoided." -- Noxeema Jackson, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar

"She looked like her makeup had been applied with a paintball gun in a dark closet." ~~Myron Bolitar, Long Lost by Harlen Coben.

I'm finally getting around to listening this one in the car. Sounds like many of the drag queens I have met.

"Good sex and good friends will protect you from bad love." Blythe Mayfield, When You Don't See Me

"I promise to let you beat the shit out of someone very soon." --Adam Murphy in Christopher Rice's Light of  Day.

So today at work, I was going through some of the stuff that came in Tuesday's shipment. A great deal of it is still inthe backroom waiting to be shelved, due to the madness that was Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. Imagine my delight when I came across best Gay Romance 2009. Mainly because our dear friend Mark G Harris has a short story ( Read more... )

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