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I've always read. While growing up, reading was a refuge when I found life too unpleasant or stressful. Consequently I've bought a lot of books over time as well.
Now that I'm no longer in the rich corporate phase of my life I've rediscovered the library. Dayton's library may be maligned by some but is still a great resource. One type of book I like to read is gay fiction and I was surprised to see a lot of it in the Dayton library's catalog. Plus you can even ask them to buy particular titles, and they will!
Below you can see the five most recent books either that I'm reading or that I've acquired. You can search my books, or you can see all my books. Also my classes page has links back to this page for the books for each class.
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ISBN: 1401303641
| 2007-07-03 | 1401303641 | Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage | McGreevey, Dina Matos | | | | Of course reading Dina McGreevey's book only just now means I'm a bit behind the news cycle, since she made the rounds a few months ago to get her say about her life with New Jersey's gay former governor Jim McGreevey, but I really had no interest in giving either one of the McGreeveys any of my money, and so I had to wait until my turn to check the book out from the library came up. This book is as good (and as bad) as any ghost-written autobiography rushed out to get a celebrity's (or pseudo-celebrity's) point of view out into the court of public opinion before the public forgets who they were. To hear Mrs. McGreevey tell it, she was utterly in love with Jim McGreevey and didn't see any warning signs, not even, for example, when he had an intermediary propose marriage to her on his behalf. How romantic! Mrs. McGreevey makes a big deal of meeting Pope John Paul II on her honeymoon and how she thought that getting his blessing a good sign about the future of her marriage, never mind that she and her new husband met the pope for about 60 seconds in line with a bunch of other people attending a papal mass — surely if John Paul had known he was meeting a Catholic woman who'd just been married to a divorced Catholic man by an Episcopal priest, he wouldn't have been pleased, would he? Still, whether she was willfully ignorant of signs she should have seen or whether she was blinded by true love, you have to feel a little sorry for her by the end of her tale, when the governor, having announced his gay Americanness and his resignation, practically boots her and her daughter out to fend for themselves. By his own admission he's a liar and an adulterer, so even if Dina exaggerates some, that leaves a lot in her story to believe about him that isn't very nice. I'm listening to the governor's Confession on audiobook now to get the other side of the story. Check back later for a report on that. | |
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