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		<title>Review: The German by Lee Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lee Thomas come a new thrilling novel. 1944 &#8211; Barnard, Texas. At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4496&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Junction X by Erastes</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/19/review-junction-x-by-erastes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set in the very English suburbia of 1962 where everyone has tidy front gardens and lace curtains, Junction X is the story of Edward Johnson, who ostensibly has the perfect life: A beautiful house, a great job, an attractive wife and two well-mannered children. The trouble is he’s been lying to himself all of his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4498&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Maroon: Donal agus Jimmy by P.D. Singer</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/05/review-maroon-donal-agus-jimmy-by-p-d-singer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best jobs in 1911 Belfast are in the shipyards, but Donal Gallagher&#8217;s pay packet at Harland and Wolff doesn&#8217;t stretch far enough. He needs to find someone to share his rented room; fellow ship-builder Jimmy Healy&#8217;s bright smile and need for lodgings inspire Donal to offer. But how will he sleep, lying scant feet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4326&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speak Its Name Awards 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to cut into the Advent Calendar which I hope you are all enjoying. We will be reviving the Speak Its Name Awards this year and introducing a new category, the Readers&#8217; Choice. The Awards will be: Best Novel Best Cover Best Author and Readers&#8217; Choice. The first 3 are chosen by Speak Its Name, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4435&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: By Honor Betrayed by Alex Beecroft</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/11/16/review-by-honor-betrayed-by-alex-beecroft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1748 Lieutenant Conrad Herriot and Seaman Tom Cotton have been master and servant for over a decade, and friends for almost as long. When Tom is injured during a skirmish, Conrad forgets himself and rushes to Tom&#8217;s side, arousing suspicion about the true nature of their relationship. All Tom wants is the chance to consummate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4046&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Lilac Tree by Marion Husband (short story)</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/10/10/review-the-lilac-tree-by-marion-husband-short-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lilac Tree is a short story included in Marion Husband&#8217;s short story collection &#8220;Six Little Deaths&#8221; dealing&#8211;as the title suggests with the subject of death. The only gay historical story, The Lilac Tree, is a reminiscence of an elderly man&#8211;in a care home, or rented accommodation, being looked after by non-relatives who has nothing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3962&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: If It Ain&#8217;t Love by Tamara Allen (short story)</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/09/17/review-if-it-aint-love-by-tamara-allen-short-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the darkest days of the Great Depression, New York Times reporter Whit Stoddard has lost the heart to do his job and lives a lonely hand-to-mouth existence with little hope of recovery, until he meets Peter, a man in even greater need of new hope. Review by Erastes Tamara Allen is a very talented [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3877&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Well Traveled by Margaret Mills and Tedy Ward</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/09/15/review-well-traveled-by-margaret-mills-and-tedy-ward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gideon Makepeace, a young man of twenty, knows who he is and what he likes: decency, men and women too, horse training, and fun&#8230; and in Livingston, Montana, in the lush autumn of 1895, he finds he likes a Lakota Sioux Indian better than he might ought to. Jedediah Buffalo Bird is seriously wounded and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3870&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Placing Out by P.A. Brown</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/09/11/review-placing-out-by-p-a-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the age of ten, Dylan Daniels was a placed-out kid sent from New York&#8217;s Five Points to a family in Nebraska. But Dylan ran away at the age of eighteen when he realized he preferred boys and didn&#8217;t want to be a farmer. Once he made his way to Hollywood, he wound up as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3828&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Violet Thunder by Kate Cotoner</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/08/19/review-violet-thunder-by-kate-cotoner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jfaraday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wu Jin has both brains and beauty. Though poor, his family are noble enough for Jin to sit the imperial examinations in the hope of obtaining a high-ranking government position at the court of Tang Dynasty China. When his parents are killed, Jin clings to his dreams, and travels to the provincial capital for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3744&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: This Rough Magic by Josh Lanyon</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/07/10/review-this-rough-magic-by-josh-lanyon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wealthy San Francisco playboy Brett Sheridan thinks he knows the score when he hires tough guy private eye Neil Patrick Rafferty to find a priceless stolen folio of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Brett’s convinced his partner-in-crime sister is behind the theft &#8212; a theft that’s liable to bring more scandal to their eccentric family, and cost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3659&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Muffled Drum by Erastes</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/07/07/review-muffled-drum-by-erastes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>speakitsname</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bohemia, 1866 They met in a port-side tavern, their lust-filled moments stolen from days of marching and madness. After eighteen months, Captain Rudolph von Ratzlaff and First Lieutenant Mathias Hofmann have decided to run away from everything they hold dear. Resigning their commissions is social suicide, but there&#8217;s no other choice. Someone will eventually see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3654&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Puppet Master by Kate Cotoner</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/06/09/review-the-puppet-master-by-kate-cotoner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Istanbul, 1622. Considered hotbeds of sedition, the city&#8217;s coffee houses are in constant danger of being shut down by imperial command. Haluk, who runs a cafe in an old caravanserai, is more concerned with brewing the perfect cup of coffee than inciting rebellion. While storms in coffee cups rage around him, Haluk tends his clientele [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3477&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Kindred Hearts by G.S. Wiley</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/05/28/review-kindred-hearts-by-g-s-wiley-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jfaraday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crippled by a devastating stammer, Alfie would prefer to hide himself away in the audience of London&#8217;s theaters. But as the perfect Georgian gentleman, it&#8217;s his responsibility to find a husband for his ward Eleanor. The pain of having to converse with strangers is lessened by the appearance of the kind-hearted Lord George Caldwell and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3434&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/05/20/review-the-affair-of-the-porcelain-dog-by-jess-faraday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue of a porcelain dog from Goddard&#8217;s blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone&#8217;s after it, including [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3401&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: Bound Forever by Ava March</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/04/13/review-bound-forever-by-ava-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Oliver Marsden’s life is perfect&#8230;well, almost perfect. His bookshop is doing well, his bank account isn’t empty, and his nights are filled with a deliciously dominant man&#8230;who tends to be a bit too domineering outside of the bedchamber. But Vincent loves him and that’s all that should matter. Right? And of course, Vincent still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3222&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Christopher and his Kind (BBC)</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/03/22/film-review-christopher-and-his-kind-bbc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1651062/ &#160; (from imdb) In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and would-be actress Jean Ross,who sings tunelessly in a seedy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3198&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Missouri by Christine Wunnicke</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/03/06/review-missouri-by-christine-wunnicke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written in the language of the period, this vivid and utterly transfixing love story between two men is set in the nineteenth-century American Midwest. Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet in England who flees the country for America following an Oscar Wilde-like scandal insinuating sexual impropriety; Joshua Jenkyns is a feral young outlaw who was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3157&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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