With a bright enquiring and loving intelligent and geeky queer character at the heart of the narrative this coming-of-age, coming out story this is a splendid first novel from Becky Albertalli.
With a bright enquiring and loving intelligent and geeky queer character at the heart of the narrative this coming-of-age, coming out story this is a splendid first novel from Becky Albertalli.
There were some find physical jokes too and for me the play really took off when the clowning was allowed to bloom, the Marlborough is an intimate space and with five folk being strange and manic on stage it can be quite an electrically funny.
Alcock has written that most lovely of books, a wonderfully spot-on working class positive coming out story of the most precious kind, authentic, self-defined and rough, but veined with hope and life lived well.
This grim but absorbing read covers the events of June 24, 1973, when a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, an arsonist set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, 32 people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. This is a riveting account of a forgotten moment in gay history.
I was totally absorbed by its headlong rush into tragedy and the singing and music was of astonishing quality. Overall a music triumph, but with a confusing narrative, but a rich lush evening none the less.
A stirring miscellany of the new gin revival from the delightful Mr. Teacher brings us bang up to date with Hogarth’s favorite tipple, Great Britain’s secret shame and the most modern and chic way to ruin one’s Mother in Shoreditch, Swansea or Seville.
Angelo Sindaco has given us this curious kitchen cookery book, full of tasty instructions fresh from the hot sweaty recipe books of some sexy semi-naked hairy men.
A fascinating and compulsively readable book, filled with anguish, introspection, and courage.
Every now and again a book drops into my slot with perfect timing and I got this one for Halloween. Local boy Joshua Winning and his co-author Elliot Cross have conspired on this book based in a 1980s American summer camp where gay teens are sent to be straightened out but- as is the gore-norm for summer camps and teens- there’s also a crazed killer on the loose.
Chamberhouse Winds are a fun local group of professional orchestral woodwind players with a nice line in millinery who also know how to engage and hold the attention of young children for an hour or so and provide and entertaining and unusual performance for their parents too.