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		<title>Review: Quatrefoil by James Barr</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phillip Froelich and Tim Danelaw are irresistibly drawn to each other. Both are in every obvious respect what is generally considered masculine, and live and work in a completely normal man&#8217;s social and professional world. Other men respect and admire their courage and ability and even their physical prowess. Women are very much attracted to both of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4553&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Home Fires Burning by Charlie Cochrane</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two stories, two couples, two eras, timeless emotions.  &#8220;This Ground Which Was Secured At Great Expense&#8221; It is 1914 and The Great War is underway. When the call to arms comes, Nicholas Southwell won’t be found hanging back. It’s a pity he can’t be so decisive when it comes to letting his estate manager Paul [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4021&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Captain Harding&#8217;s Six Day War by Elliott Mackle</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/09/20/review-captain-hardings-six-day-war-by-elliott-mackle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assigned to baby-sit a loose-cannon colonel at remote Wheelus Air Base, Libya, handsome, hard-charging Captain Joe Harding spends his off-duty time bedding an enlisted medic and a muscular major, then begins a nurturing friendship with the American ambassador&#8217;s teenage son. The boy swiftly develops a crush on the man, feelings that Joe, a Southern gent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3699&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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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&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3676&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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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&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3631&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Perfect Score by Susan Roebuck</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/05/18/review-perfect-score-by-susan-roebuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feckless, exasperating Alex Finch is a rich, handsome and talented singer/songwriter who longs for two things: a career as a professional rock singer, and to have his love for Sam Barrowdale reciprocated. But drifter Sam&#8217;s two aims are simply to earn enough money to pay his sister&#8217;s medical bills and to hide from the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3394&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Wingmen by Ensan Case</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/05/08/review-wingmen-by-ensan-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEROES IN HELLCATS Jack Hardigan’s Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Japanese Zekes out of the blazing Pacific skies. But a more subtle kind of hell was brewing in his feelings for rookie pilot Fred Trusteau. As another wingman watches–and waits for the beautiful woman who loves Jack–Hardigan and Trusteau cut a fiery swath through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3351&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Evening Crowd at Kirmser&#8217;s by Ricardo J. Brown</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/02/26/review-the-evening-crowd-at-kirmsers-by-ricardo-j-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Publishers Weekly &#8220;Kirmser&#8217;s was the underground queer bar in St. Paul, a hidden sanctuary for homosexual men and women in the 1940s. It was the haven I found in 1945 after being drummed out of the navy for being a homosexual.&#8221; This extraordinary memoir of postwar, pre-Stonewall Midwestern gay life is as historically crucial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3122&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Praise Singer by Mary Renault</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/01/07/review-the-praise-singer-by-mary-renault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>speakitsname</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned Ionian singer. Travelling through fifth century BC Greece, Simonides learn not only how to play the kithara and compose poetry, but also how to navigate the political intrigue surrounding his rich patrons. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=2906&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Prove a Villain by K C Warwick</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/10/09/review-prove-a-villain-by-k-c-warwick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having returned to Elizabethan London after an absence of two years, Hugh Seaton is happy to resume his old job as tailor to the company of actors known as Strange’s Men. He is less content when he finds himself looking for a murderer, and hiding his former lover, playwright Christopher Marlowe, who is suspected of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=2567&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Berlin Novels (Mr Norris Changes Trains, Goodbye to Berlin) Christopher Isherwood</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2010/06/03/review-the-berlin-novels-mr-norris-changes-trains-goodbye-to-berlin-christopher-isherwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We apologise for the break in reviews being posted. Personal reasons, real life, yadda yadda. We will back to normal as soon as possible! Collection of two previously published novels written by Christopher Isherwood, published in 1946. Set in pre-World War II Germany, the semiautobiographical work consists of Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935; U.S. title, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=2386&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Room in Chelsea Square by Michael Nelson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick, fabulously wealthy and with a good eye for pictures and young men, brings the impressionable Nicholas Milestone to London, intent on reducing him to utter dependence by playing on his naivety and greed.  But Nicholas proves to be not quite as pliable as hoped, and a witty social comedy develops as he struggles with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=2329&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: It Takes Two by Elliott Mackle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;who and why-done-it&#8221; mystery set in 1940s Florida, Dan Ewing is the manager of the Caloosa Hotel, which privately caters to the very special needs of its guests, and Bud Wright is a police detective whose passionate desire for Dan is in conflict with his desire to shut Dan&#8217;s business down. When one black [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=2266&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author&#8217;s favorite of his own novels. When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=2200&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colorful novel of the circus world of the 1940s and 1950s, rich in detail, bursting with power and emotion.  Mario Santelli, a member of the famous flying Santelli family, is a great trapeze artist. Tommy Zane is his protege. As naturally and gracefully as they soar through the air, the two flyers find themselves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=1958&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Outbursts! A Queer Erotic Thesaurus by A.D. Peterkin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=1352&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Fellow Travellers by T.C. Worsley</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2009/10/25/review-fellow-travellers-by-t-c-worsley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Harry Watson, an attractive and personable ex-Guardsman, becomes involved with the young novelist Martin Murray, he is quick to assimilate Martin&#8217;s left-wing views.  He fits readily into Martin&#8217;s circle, along with the earl&#8217;s daughter and communist Lady Nellie Griffiths, her playboy nephew Pugh, and the unconfident Oxford undergraduate Gavin Summers.  But then Harry&#8217;s enthusiasm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=1228&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Man, oh Man: Writing M/M for kinks and cash by Josh Lanyon</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2009/10/20/review-man-oh-man-writing-mm-for-cash-and-kinks-by-josh-lanyon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lambda Award finalist Josh Lanyon takes you step-by-step through the writing process: from how to find fresh ideas and strong hooks, to how to submit your carefully edited manuscript. With help from the genre&#8217;s top publishers, editors, reviewers, and writers &#8211; experts in the field of M/M and gay romantic fiction &#8211; Lanyon offers insight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=1177&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Golden Age of Gay Fiction</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2009/10/05/review-the-golden-age-of-gay-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by Leslie H. Nicoll It was the first great explosion of gay writing in history. These books were about gay characters. They were written mostly by gay writers. Above all, they were for gay readers. And, as this entertaining chronicle of the emergence of gay literary pride makes clear, it was a revolution that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=1015&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set in 1920s Chicago, The Folded Leaf follows two very different boys who find themselves forming an unlikely friendship. Lymie is thin, clever and terrible at sport. Spud is athletic and quick to fight and blithely accepts Lymie&#8217;s passionate devotion to him. The bond between them is obsessively close, until they leave home for college [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=844&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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