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I am listing to a book and I’m not sure I want to commit to the last few hours. It’s a day (week) in the life (or something similar) where we follow a group of people who all live or associate with people who live (or are related to someone who associates with someone who live) in a building in London. But they have this gay character who thinks that he might really be straight (he’s never had a boyfriend) because girls are nicer now that when they were in school.
I’m uncomfortable with how the author is handing him. The characters never say gay or homosexual or attracted to men. They pause or say ‘that way’ or some other euphemism. No wonder he wants to be straight (although he shows no sign of actually being attracted to girls) if he can’t even say the words with his best female friend.
He has to figure out if he’s straight soon, so he’ll know if he needs to change majors. (Straight guys don’t major in Fine Arts?) And although it occurs to his friend he might be bi, she never brings it up (as if someone pointed this out during editing and he shoehorned that paragraph in without changing a single other word.) This friend is trying to decide whether to be his experimental girlfriend. She finds him fun and witty and good looking and he’s someone she could talk to and make cookies with for the rest of her life, but she fails to consider the sexual part of the relationship. But then she’s a girl who shudders when she has to face that her parents must have shared a bed for her to have been born.
She’s twenty-three. Anyone her age should be beyond that. Come on, Girl. Your parents are having sex. Get over it.
Title: Mr. Matheson gets his way
Series: A Balance of Harmonies (Three)
Status: Chapter seventy-nine of
Genre: m/m romance, drama, city life, businessmen
Rating: R
Content: offers of help, laundry, luck, concern, Mom, an apology, blushes, sketching, an uncomfortable question, a candid chat, Mr. Matheson, wide eyes, pleas, contentment, admiration
Length: about 2,600 words
Summary: Emil helps out, Kurt feels guilty, and Peregrine is proud of his men.
Master list
( does he love you like he should? )
I’m uncomfortable with how the author is handing him. The characters never say gay or homosexual or attracted to men. They pause or say ‘that way’ or some other euphemism. No wonder he wants to be straight (although he shows no sign of actually being attracted to girls) if he can’t even say the words with his best female friend.
He has to figure out if he’s straight soon, so he’ll know if he needs to change majors. (Straight guys don’t major in Fine Arts?) And although it occurs to his friend he might be bi, she never brings it up (as if someone pointed this out during editing and he shoehorned that paragraph in without changing a single other word.) This friend is trying to decide whether to be his experimental girlfriend. She finds him fun and witty and good looking and he’s someone she could talk to and make cookies with for the rest of her life, but she fails to consider the sexual part of the relationship. But then she’s a girl who shudders when she has to face that her parents must have shared a bed for her to have been born.
She’s twenty-three. Anyone her age should be beyond that. Come on, Girl. Your parents are having sex. Get over it.
Title: Mr. Matheson gets his way
Series: A Balance of Harmonies (Three)
Status: Chapter seventy-nine of
Genre: m/m romance, drama, city life, businessmen
Rating: R
Content: offers of help, laundry, luck, concern, Mom, an apology, blushes, sketching, an uncomfortable question, a candid chat, Mr. Matheson, wide eyes, pleas, contentment, admiration
Length: about 2,600 words
Summary: Emil helps out, Kurt feels guilty, and Peregrine is proud of his men.
Master list
( does he love you like he should? )
