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		<title>Review: The Absolutist by John Boyne</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/05/27/review-the-absolutist-by-john-boyne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 22:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft, letters that she&#8217;d sent to her brother Will. Will and Tristan trained and fought together. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4865&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/05/06/review-shadowboxing-by-anne-barwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Can physicist Kristopher and Resistance member Michel find love and safety in the middle of World War II? Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell, available from Dreamspinner Press. 266 pages   Berlin, 1943. An encounter with an old friend leaves German physicist Dr. Kristopher Lehrer with doubts about his work. But when he confronts his superior, everything goes horribly wrong. Suddenly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4842&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Victor/Victoria dir. Blake Edwards</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/28/film-review-victorvictoria-dir-blake-edwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can&#8217;t get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn&#8217;t even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole &#8216;Toddy&#8217; Todd may befall the same fate as Victoria as he was just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4820&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Sail Away by Lee Rowan</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/15/review-sail-away-by-lee-rowan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrupt governments, divided loyalties,lovingly exchanged gifts, astral travel and sensual love; not to mention a sailors unwanted little lodgers are all combined in this charming and entertaining collection of short stories by Lee Rowan, plus an extra treat from Charlie Cochrane. THE CAPTAINS COURTSHIP Set in 18th century New England amid revolutionary rumblings, The Captains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4788&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Cross Bones (short story anthology)</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/23/review-cross-bones-short-story-anthology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahoy, me proud beauty, shiver me timbers! I ask ye to sail me jollyboat on the high seas, lubber, but will ye dare to accept? On offer be a pirate&#8217;s life full of danger and risk, and not just to yer neck, but to yer very virgin heart! There&#8217;s many a bodice to be ripped&#8211;or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4527&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Keta Diablo – The Devil’s Heel</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/09/03/review-keta-diablo-%e2%80%93-the-devil%e2%80%99s-heel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago Drew Hibbard dismissed Rogan Brockport from his life. Now, they meet again at the Governor’s Ball and Rogan will know the reason for the abrupt, unexplained cut. After Rogan saves Drew’s life during a pirate raid, he kidnaps him and the perfect opportunity to extract answers from Drew is finally at hand. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3811&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Colonel&#8217;s Treasure by Dirk Hessian</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/08/30/review-colonels-treasure-by-dirk-hessian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Rob Winston is deemed too small of stature and unsoldierly to take his place in the military ranks of the American Revolution. All he is seen fit to do is to become the sexual comfort and treasure of Colonel Seth Hampton of the army of General Nicholas Herkiner in the Mohawk Valley campaign. With [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3792&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Giovanni&#8217;s Room by James Baldwin</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/08/02/review-giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baldwin&#8217;s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3676&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: A Strange Love by Georges Eekhoud</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/06/29/review-a-strange-love-by-georges-eekhoud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very early gay novel, originally published in 1900, by a Belgian writer with the first English translation in 1908, set in 19th Century rural Flanders. A gay count returns after years abroad to an isolated uptight community where his love for a peasant boy brings furious attacks by fanatic and bigoted villages whipped up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3631&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Game of Chance by Kate Roman</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/06/20/review-game-of-chance-by-kate-roman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>speakitsname</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the young Duke of Avon takes a back exit at a masquerade ball, expecting to find like-minded players to share a high-stakes game of cards or dice, nothing can prepare him for what he finds. But in the arms of mysterious Lord Donahue, Sebastian finds this new game is more pleasurable than anything he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3609&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The New World by G.S. Wiley</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/06/13/review-the-new-world-by-g-s-wiley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toby&#8217;s life is simple and uneventful. He spends most of his time working alongside his brother at the Blue Boar Tavern, welcoming travelers and serving locals. Occasionally, he indulges in illicit, illegal liaisons with men he knows he will never see again. When an old friend, a man who left to make his fortune as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3493&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The High Class Highwayman by Julia Talbot</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/05/22/3405/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 05:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Julian is forced to turn to crime after he loses his inheritance, he decides that he can do better than the incompetent highwayman who tries to waylay him one dark night. That&#8217;s how the High-Class Highwayman comes into his own, and he does very well for himself, at least until Griffen Michalis comes along. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3405&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Matelot by Ariel Tachna</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/05/10/review-the-matelot-by-ariel-tachna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their pirate vessel destroyed, Captain Amery White, ship&#8217;s surgeon Gavin Watson, and quartermaster Quinn Davies are left without a livelihood or a home. The three men have served together since they were old enough to put to sea, sharing hardships and comfort until Amery and Gavin formalized their union with a matelotage—the pirate equivalent of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3357&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Young Man in Paris by Sophia Deri-Bowen</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/04/20/review-young-man-in-paris-by-sophia-deri-bowen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had always believed that I would return home to empty rooms for the rest of my life, for who would I want, and be wanted by in return? It had been an impossible alchemy until Alexander Montrose, and the summer of 1923. 1923 was the summer I fell in love with Alexander Montrose. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3300&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Hotel de Dream by Edmund White</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/03/08/review-hotel-de-dream-by-edmund-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Publisher&#8217;s Weekly) A biographical fantasia, White&#8217;s latest imagines the final days of the poet and novelist Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage), who died of TB at age 28 in 1900. At the same time, White also imagines and writes The Painted Boy, a work that he has Crane say he began in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3161&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Suffer the Little Children by Tracy Rowan</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/02/16/review-suffer-the-little-children-by-tracy-rowan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Victorian private investigator Nick Romney’s step-father, an Anglican bishop, is murdered, Nick refuses to get involved. At the urging of his family, though, Nick and his lover Davy step in to investigate. Together they uncover the truth of the bishop’s involvement in the dark and horrifying world of child prostitution, the reason why he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=3060&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Nobleman and the Spy by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/01/20/review-the-nobleman-and-the-spy-by-summer-dee-and-bonnie-devon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They once faced each other on a battlefield. Now soldier-turned-spy Jonathan Reese must keep watch over the man he’s never forgotten. A close encounter reveals Karl von Binder, the count’s son, also recalls the day he spared Jonathan’s life. Sparks fly between the former enemies and Jonathan begins to lose perspective on his mission. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2965&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communion</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/12/14/communion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>speakitsname</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALEX BEECROFT COMMUNION (an extra scene from The Wages of Sin) “Why must you be forever meddling in everybody&#8217;s business but your own?” They sat in what used to be Elizabeth&#8217;s chamber, which had now become a lumber room for unwanted odds and ends.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2690&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Father&#8217;s Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM HAYDEN THORNE A Father&#8217;s Love Vienna Boy&#8217;s Choir 1977 He abandoned the room and went downstairs to the study and to his bureau. He took out the minstrel and stared at it for a moment longer, a crooked little smile on his face. “I’d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2705&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Year Maybe</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/12/08/this-year-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ANTEROS This Year Maybe West Indies Station. Leeward Islands. HMS Savage, 98, Captain Heron. The Captain was in the great cabin, alone save for the ghosts of long dead comrades and vanquished foes. The seams of reason loosened by decades of war and unpicked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=2685&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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