Book Reading.....

[disneydream06]

Just finished book No. 23.
I read Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. It's the third book in the City series.

I liked this book better then book 2. It's got a whole mystery running through most of the book. It centers around Dede Day who ran away with her twins and her lesbian lover. They ended up in Jonestown, Guyana. It's the home of a whack job prophet who ended up commiting mass suicide with his flock of followers. True story for all you youngsters reading this.
Minneapolis is also briefly visited. Including the Gay 90s bar that actually does exist. It's the BIG gay bar that fills up with all the straight suburbanites that come in to see the drag shows. :p
One of the funny things about the book is a Hollywood star who's gay but closeted and get's mentions as ____ ___. lol... My deduction is that it's suppose to be Rock Hudson. I could be wrong, but that's who I see it as.

Grade: A-

Book List 2013:

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
3. Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
4. Hello, Gorgeous Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J. Mann
5. Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
6. Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
7. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb by R. L. Stine
8. One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
9. Monster Blood by R. L. Stine
10. How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away Wth It
The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of The Most Feared Sea Rovers From 1500-1800 by Benerson Little
11. Two For the Dough by Janet Evanovich
12. Kingdom Keepers VI Dark Passage by Ridley Pearson
13. Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward
14. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
15. Heat Wave by Richard Castle
16. Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
17. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
18. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
19. She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
20. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
21. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
22. More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
23. Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Comments

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

My deduction is that it's suppose to be Rock Hudson.

You're correct. Mr. Maupin was a close friend of Rock Hudson. Maupin basically used Michael Toliver as a stand-in for himself in many of the early books.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info.

Yes.

[thirteenrocks.livejournal.com]

The joy of the books is the inclusion of historical period events that occured at the time the books take place. As the series goes on, there is much talk about the aids crisis that emerges. And as another commenter said, Rock Hudson is the ___ ___.

Re: Yes.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued about the follow up books.
Will have to look them up. :)