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Mark Griffin: All That Heaven Allows (2020, HarperCollins Publishers)

Career and life

A pretty well told biography. This tells the life story from birth, childhood, before stardom, and the breadth of the career, and to the death, of Roc Hudson. I feel like it tries to be fair to the sources used. It doesnt seem to play favorites much.

It also talks about the many sig-Os Roc had. Both serious and hot and heavy. Rock liked to party, but he was also looking constatly for something steady.

It's a pretty good book. I feel like I know him well. And have some movies I should watch now. #Bookstodon #Books #RocHudson #LGBTQ #Queer #Gay #MLM

Everina Maxwell: Ocean's Echo (EBook, 2022, Tor Books, Tom Doherty Associates, Macmillan Publishing Group)

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate …

Brilliant second novel

The second novel from Everina Maxwell is just as delightful as the first. She builds a complex world with a background of competing factions and layers of politics.

One of the things I really love is that homosexual and heterosexual relationships are viewed the same and gender identity is just something personal and people can control the level they share. Huge strides have been made for #LGBTQ progress but from growing up in a world where you are still treated as other to seeing one where it is not even a concern is a subtle but poignant paradigm shift.

If you like Becky Chambers then definitely read Everina Maxwell!

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