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May.05.2013
This morning, as I stared blearily out upon the world in my housecoat, my husband came down stairs, already dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, and said, "Do you want to go shopping for some bricks and bedside lamps?"
I didn't, but we went. We didn't actually find either, but we did go get a cuppa...
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May.04.2013
After yesterday's reminder of Best Gay Romance 2010 thanks to some nifty gay dads and their adorable daughter, I ran my finger down the table of contents and remembered something one of the other contributors to the collection said once.
It was Jerry L. Wheeler, and what he wrote was that I had...
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May.03.2013
A while back, there were these gay dads who came into the store at my old location with their daughter. I saw them a couple of times (and it was always adorable) but not often. I've since realized they live closer to my new store, as I've seen them more in the past month than I had prior, and...
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May.02.2013
Today was long. Work was a bit of a long uphill trek - with a lot of heat and nearly no cooling air to take the edge off - and I lugged around heavy cases of books for most of the afternoon, re-arranging stock in the back room and trying to make things more organized for moving forward. I felt...
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May.01.2013
Poetry and a television show about do-overs pretty much stole my day from me today (and I loved it), so I snuck in a brief re-listen to one of the stories from the audiobook release of Fool for Love whilst I was soaking in the tub.
"Two Kinds of Rapture," by Andrew Holleran
Originally, when I...
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May.01.2013
Every year, when I visit the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, I'm lucky enough to be in the company of some of the finest GLBT poets for a few days. It's where I met Mark Doty, and Robert Walker. It's also where I met Jeff Mann, who - as I said yesterday - has an absolute lyrical finesse with...
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Apr.30.2013
I need to get my butt in gear and pick what I'll be doing at Saints and Sinners soon. One of the joys of the festival is going to the readings and panels, and one of the only pains of the festival is that at any given timeslot, there are two panels and a reading going on - and so often I want to...
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Apr.29.2013
I'm thinking of having a party for This is How You Die. I have swag (Machine of Death prediction cards! Copies of the first anthology!), I have a potential venue in mind, and I have the mind-shattering fear I'd organize an event and six people would show up. Maybe seven.
This is where having a...
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Apr.28.2013
If you've been paying any attention, you know how much I loved The Affair of the Porcelain Dog. After listening to that book compulsively, I went to order the other books done by Jess Faraday only to discover that among my collections of anthologies, I had one of her short stories in the wonderful...
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Apr.27.2013
I've been feeling the short fiction bug biting me again lately. Work is a wee bit crazy, but it's slowly falling under control, and I've been typing away on my phone quite a bit on breaks and lunches, and sometimes on the bus (until I start to feel woozy). A while back, Rebekah Weatherspoon...
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Apr.26.2013
Today on my bus ride home, there was this guy. He was loudly discussing how - more or less - the liberal agenda was out to get him.
Guy on bus, loud, to friend: "It's the damned liberals. They're totally screwing us over. They, like, watch us, and they report on us..."
Friend: "No they don't."...
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Apr.25.2013
Over the past week, via Netflix, I've been watching No Ordinary Family because I'm a sucker for superpowers. And I actually quite liked it - it's too bad it strayed from the "family" and focused too much on their powers and the big evil conspiracy afoot - but overall, it was a fun show....
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Apr.24.2013
Today my husband sent me a text suggesting we go see a movie. We love to go out to movies. Alas, the only thing we kinda-sorta wanted to see was "Oblivion." To say that there were a wee bet let down by the, uh, generous plot issues would be understating it. There are some interesting...
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Apr.24.2013
I'm a lover of audiobooks. Even if I were able to physically read on the bus - I can't, it makes me feel ill - there's still something so incredibly wonderful about the spoken word, and the experience of listening to a great story being told. Usually, I do this to make the time pass by on the...
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Apr.23.2013
I had "gaming night" tonight, where my husband and I are joined by some friends and we toss around dice and play Dungeons and Dragons.
Yep. That's what I said.
What's fun - beyond the social aspect and the actual gameplay - of D&D is the spontaneous laughter we generate. It's basically...
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Burgoine’s characters are as sharp as the points on their teeth and their dialogue snaps like breaking spines.”
—Out in Print Queer Book Reviews
About Nathan
‘Nathan Burgoine grew up a reader and studied literature in university while making a living as a bookseller—a job he still does, and still loves. His first published short story was “Heart” in the collection Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction. Since then, he has...
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Nathan’s Favorite Books
It Had To Be You (Timothy James Beck), Straight Lies (Rob Byrnes), A Coventry Christmas (Becky Cochrane), Murder in the Rue Ursulines (Greg Herren), Practical...