At forty, long-time lovers Jeff O'Brien and Lloyd Griffith are the still-sexy poster boys for contented domesticity, running their P-town bed and breakfast together. But, with their wedding day approaching, can these two famously non-monogamous freethinkers really agree to "forsake all others"? M...
4 1/2 stars Excellent read.(view spoiler)[After I got over my qualms about reading a whole book in present perfect tense (yeah, ironic, since I'm writing in that form ...), I discovered a story full of fascinating characters who are just trying to live their lives to the fullest and get along wit...
I don't read many gay novels; I burned out on them in the Nineties, since so many seemed to be about AIDS and its impact. That's why it was strange reading this one, written in 1997, now. AIDS figures into the plot, but it's more a post-AIDS look at gay relationships, why they're different, and w...
If nothing else this book would make an ideal film with a cast of characters - good, bad and indifferent. Personally I found the book just as much about Regina,his mother, than about Wally the protagonist. We are part of her interior world, listening to her voices and seeing what really isn't the...
That was the nickname she’d given Arbuckle’s wife, Minta Durfee, back when they were all just kids, jumping out of cars and slipping on banana peels for Sennett’s Keystone pictures. In those days, Mabel had nicknames for everybody. Arbuckle was Big Otto, after the elephant at the Selig Zoo in Lin...
On a warm morning in September 2006, Elizabeth Taylor, seventy-four, left the diamonds at home and boarded a sightseeing boat, the Kainani, off Oahu's North Shore. Wearing a baggy white T-shirt over a one-piece bathing suit, she gripped the arms of her black wheelchair tightly as the craft zipped...
Nana sat on the couch, watching as Dad and I stuck the artificial branches into the plastic tree trunk. Nobody was saying much. In silence, I handed Dad branches in order of increasing size, starting with the small ones up near the top, finishing with the big ones that filled out the bottom of th...