"When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality."
I've neglected to mention how much I enjoyed Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam, the book that I mentioned having only 6 google hits. It was actually very well buildt and the characters were so endearing. I also loved how Lam has no sympathy whatsoever for his characters. And it was totally awesome how Chen saved Fitzgerald when he was dying of SARS.
Now it also occurs to me why the book seemed so neglected. Because I've mistyped the title in Google, that's why. Stupid Google. At times like that I expect you to point out my mistake instead of meekly offering a handful of matches to my mistyped search criteria on equally mistyped sites.
But anyway, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, quite an excellent read even if I don't feel quite as much like Columbus as I'd envisioned.
This of course was all part of my clever plot of convincing myself that I should get my hands on this novel by some author who I've never ever heard of that frankly sounds more than a little offensive too. Namely, The German Officer's Boy by some guy Harlan Greene.
It's a fictitious story about Herschel Grynszpan, the kid who kind of caused the Kristallnacht when he shot a German diplomat in Paris. After his arrest his lawyer cooked up a story on how Grynszpan and vom Rath, the diplomat he shot, were actually gay lovers and the murder the result of an argument. The idea was to depoliticize the murder so he'd be acquitted. Alas, they never got to court and he died in the camps.
Ernst vom Rath allegedly was out and about in the Paris gay scene himself, and based on that and the homosexual defense, this guy Greene has written a whole novel (although it's only 216 pages) on how they actually were ill-fated lovers.
The idea of putting a 17-year old Polish Orthodox Jew and a 28-year old Nazi officer together right in the eve of the final solution honestly makes me want to puke, because seriously, dude... However, I feel I must also detail why I find myself wanting to read it.
I watched this documentary about the Kristallnacht, and they showed pictures of Grynszpan. Man was he cute. So cute infact, that I'm not above confessing that he made me think all kinds of gay thoughts even before reading up on the whole gay defense angle. (Wow, so I'm not above confessing that I debased the memory of a Holocaust martyr...) Also, the Amazon.com review on another novel of Greenes reminds me of Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai. Shyam Selvadurai is all kinds of awesome.
To sum up; man that guy was cute, and man Shyam Selvadurai totally rocks.
According to my blonde and rather gay logic, these completely arbitrary reasons aren't quite enough, but very very close to being enough to actually buying this book. Because it has gay content, I'd even take the time to read it, despite there being books that are most probably better and most certainly more readily available.
Now it also occurs to me why the book seemed so neglected. Because I've mistyped the title in Google, that's why. Stupid Google. At times like that I expect you to point out my mistake instead of meekly offering a handful of matches to my mistyped search criteria on equally mistyped sites.
But anyway, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, quite an excellent read even if I don't feel quite as much like Columbus as I'd envisioned.
This of course was all part of my clever plot of convincing myself that I should get my hands on this novel by some author who I've never ever heard of that frankly sounds more than a little offensive too. Namely, The German Officer's Boy by some guy Harlan Greene.
It's a fictitious story about Herschel Grynszpan, the kid who kind of caused the Kristallnacht when he shot a German diplomat in Paris. After his arrest his lawyer cooked up a story on how Grynszpan and vom Rath, the diplomat he shot, were actually gay lovers and the murder the result of an argument. The idea was to depoliticize the murder so he'd be acquitted. Alas, they never got to court and he died in the camps.
Ernst vom Rath allegedly was out and about in the Paris gay scene himself, and based on that and the homosexual defense, this guy Greene has written a whole novel (although it's only 216 pages) on how they actually were ill-fated lovers.
The idea of putting a 17-year old Polish Orthodox Jew and a 28-year old Nazi officer together right in the eve of the final solution honestly makes me want to puke, because seriously, dude... However, I feel I must also detail why I find myself wanting to read it.
I watched this documentary about the Kristallnacht, and they showed pictures of Grynszpan. Man was he cute. So cute infact, that I'm not above confessing that he made me think all kinds of gay thoughts even before reading up on the whole gay defense angle. (Wow, so I'm not above confessing that I debased the memory of a Holocaust martyr...) Also, the Amazon.com review on another novel of Greenes reminds me of Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai. Shyam Selvadurai is all kinds of awesome.
To sum up; man that guy was cute, and man Shyam Selvadurai totally rocks.
According to my blonde and rather gay logic, these completely arbitrary reasons aren't quite enough, but very very close to being enough to actually buying this book. Because it has gay content, I'd even take the time to read it, despite there being books that are most probably better and most certainly more readily available.