reading wednesday
May. 8th, 2013 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelights• What are you currently reading?
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, for book group.
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Charioteer, by Mary Renault. This book is preoccupied with men's fear of being unmanly. This can make it hard for someone who thinks there's nothing unmanly about being gay and there's nothing wrong with being unmanly to read sympathetically. I do like watching people make their way through serious constraints. It is interesting to see how many things are charged with unmanliness. Ralph, Laurie, and Andrew are each working with two strikes already: Ralph and Laurie are gay and disabled, Andrew is gay and a conscientious objector. Will any of them incur the third strike of admitting their feelings or asking for help? Are they all doomed to sorry solitude?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
State of wonder, by Ann Patchett for the other book group.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, for book group.
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Charioteer, by Mary Renault. This book is preoccupied with men's fear of being unmanly. This can make it hard for someone who thinks there's nothing unmanly about being gay and there's nothing wrong with being unmanly to read sympathetically. I do like watching people make their way through serious constraints. It is interesting to see how many things are charged with unmanliness. Ralph, Laurie, and Andrew are each working with two strikes already: Ralph and Laurie are gay and disabled, Andrew is gay and a conscientious objector. Will any of them incur the third strike of admitting their feelings or asking for help? Are they all doomed to sorry solitude?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
State of wonder, by Ann Patchett for the other book group.
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