Thank you so much for
offering one of your novellas for free. I really do appreciate it. I’ve not
read the book as of yet, because I tend to read in groupings, mostly arbitrary.
Currently my grouping is May/December, but I did somehow find a way to include Call Me By Your Name in that set and
that’s more September/December, but sometimes I make allowances.
I have two more books in
my current grouping. I read in sets of nine—it’s a Goodread thing and a
consequence of some neurotic tendencies all my own. I will, of course, endeavor
to include your novella in my next set.
As you offered something
of yourself, I will present myself in kind. I am a middle age (well that’s a
bit of a stretch unless I delude myself into believing I’ll live to be more
than one hundred, which really I don’t) woman, which is my understanding tend
to be the primary audience of M/M genre.
I believe I read my first
few M/M books in the late 70s and early to mid 80s. Back than those books
followed the same motif as books like The
Yellow Wallpaper did a century earlier. I can clump them altogether as evocative,
but only in as such that they evoked emotions that were terribly depressing. These
books were meant to teach a harsh lesson in the consequence of deviation from
the socially acceptable norm, whether it was an attack on gender or sexuality.
I did draw an imaginary line with a purple crayon on anything that aimed to
pigeonhole my ethnicity, because really I had television for that.
In 2015 (at my sister’s
sort of suggestion) I returned to the M/M genre and was happy to discovered books
without the omnipotent smiting. I also discovered my sister wasn’t homophobic,
go figure.
As of today I’ve read 1,267
M/M books. I’ve probably read in every other genre imaginable thousands of
books that will never be included in my Goodreads account because I simply
can’t remember them, except self-help books, I avoid those like the plague—not
Camus’ because I read that one.
So now you’ve met me,
after a fashion, and when I pick up your book and read your words, I will have
met you as well … after a fashion.
Lil
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