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50bookchallenge

This is getting long so I'll put it behind a cut,


1 - Julie & Julia
2 - The Olive Farm
3 - Playing With Trains
4 - Queens in the Kingdom
5 - Tender at the Bone
6 - Comfort Me with Apples
7 - Garlic and Saphires
8 - The Kid by Dan Savage
9 - Memory in Death by J.D. Robb
10 - Since The World Began: Walt Disney World, the First 25 Years by Jeff Kurtii
11 - Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
12 - Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
13 - Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
14 - The Resuce Artist, by Edward Dolnick
15 - The Commitment, Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family, by Dan Savage
16 - Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
17 - Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
18 - Kentucky Rich by Fern Michael.
19 - Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg.
20 - MacBeth by William Shakespeare.
21 - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
22 - Without You by Anthony Rapp

23 - The Best Little Boy in the World by Andrew Tobias. A sequel but you don't have to read the first one to enjoy this one.
From Amazon:
A quarter of a century ago, shortly after receiving his MBA fromHarvard, Tobias wrote The Best Little Boy in the World. Alreadyestablished as a finance writer (The Only Investment Guide You'll EverNeed), he decided to write his account of growing up gay under the nameJohn Reid. The book's publication and reception led Tobias to questionhis closeted life and slowly undertake the careful and selectivecoming-out process that is the crux of this loosely spun and overlyanecdotal memoir. Via accounts of his coming-out experiences withfamily, friends and colleagues and various trials and tribulations ofdating and relationships, Tobias sketches the shifting landscape ofhomophobia in America. Tobias's journey encompasses the closeted '60sat Harvard to gay Fire Island in the '70s, to AIDS and the rise topower of Bill Clinton (for whom Tobias reserves his greatestaccolades). While Tobias writes with a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor and sarcasm, the endless encomiums by supportive liberals orpowerful gay men as they broke down the barriers of homophobia becomes tedious. The recurrent message? basically "wow! we've come a long way!"? is obvious. And if Tobias's enthusiasm for society's greater tolerance is refreshing, his outlook from the top of the social ladder is somewhat narrow and the tone tends to be self-congratulatory. Tobiasis most at home when writing about the intricacies of relationships,wittily depicting the subtleties and nuances of friendship, romance,lust and love for modern gay men.

I'm not sure I agree with the criticisms here, or at least not entirely. I enjoyed it. Not my favourite book ever but certainly well worth reading.