Book Title: "Mary Ann in Autumn"
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 364
First Published: 2010
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

In this newest installment of the "Tales of the City" series Maupin reaches back to a dangling thread left in one of the very early novels.He also re-introduces Mary Ann, about to ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Michael Tolliver Lives"
Author: Armistead Maupin"
Page Count: 277
First Published: 2007
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

So this is, so far, the last novel* about the inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane, though, spoiler, none of them lives there any more. Told from ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Sure of You"
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 284
First Published: 1990
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Final installment of the "Tales of the City" series, but not as neat a wrap-up as I would have hoped. (Hey, I know there's "Michael Tolliver Lives", I have it ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Significant Others"
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 322
First Published: 1987
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Fifth (I think) installment in the "Tales of the City" series. Or even second to last. Some people have changed A. LOT. in this one, which I found neither ( Read more... )

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Book Title: "Further Tales of the City"
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 271
First Published: 1982
Summary: Third installment in the series. Set several years after the last novel, it's the 80s all of a sudden, and things have changed a lot for the inhabitants of 28, Barbary Lane.
Rating: superfunk -golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh

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Book Title: Mehr Stadtgeschichten (More Tales of the City)
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 326
Summary: Obviously, more Tales. Another Brief glimpse into the life of the inhabitants of Barbary Lane and various associates.
Rating: superfunk -golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh

I love these books. I think the second was even better than the ( Read more... )

Book Title: Tales of the City
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 250ish
Summary: A series of vignettes detailing the lives of very different people in San Francisco of the 1970s.
Rating: superfunk -golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh

They say "far out"! There's disco and rollerskating and meditating and lots and lots of pot! This book is ( Read more... )