pickA wonderful, warm and heartfelt story about four friends in NYC, but centering on the main character Artie, a gay man who has turned sixty and doesn‘t know how to pick his life back up again after all his loved ones have passed away. In chapters alternating between the 1980‘s and the present time, written in gentle prose, we learn how he copes.
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pickWe follow Artie, a gay writer in New York, with alternating chapters when he is 30 yrs old in 1992 and in 2022 when he is 60. In the first timeline Artie is starting a relationship and has a bunch of friends - in the second he is feeling very alone. There‘s a lot to love in this book - found family & wonderful insights & reflections - but i felt it was trying to fit in a lot of characters & didnt have the space to make them all feel fully formed⬇️
Really charming picture book illuminating the life of activist Clive Jensen and his plan for what would become the NAMES project and the AIDS Quilt. 5🌟(Also, he‘s still alive, living in San Francisco, and he contributed to this story!)
pickVerghese wrote two of my favorite works of fiction so I had to read his memoir about his time as an infectious disease specialist in Johnson City, TN during the early days of the AIDS crisis. His perspective as an immigrant was really unique I thought and the stories of his patients were very touching. This was another Verghese five star read for me.
Just realized the $3 copy of this paperback I got from Thrift Books is signed!
pickThis was another well done children's book about LGBTQ+ history. It details the life and activism of Cleve Jones, who worked with Harvey Milk and came up with the concept of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. There is a really moving poem comparing stitching a quilt to building a community and a movement, which was threaded throughout the book nicely
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so-soI liked the 80s nostalgia of Westchester County, where I grew up. As for the story itself, eh, it was alright and not as compelling as I thought it would be. I hate going into books with high expectations 😕
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