(I apologize if this thread has been recently done. I haven’t kept up
with the boards as much as I’d like to lately.)
So anyway…I’m actually just dying to plug a great book I just
finished. It’s called The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My
Family, by Dan Savage. As many of you probably know, Dan Savage is a
gay man who writes a sexual advice column. He’s also written several
other books, such as Skipping towards Gomorrah : the seven deadly sins
and the pursuit of happiness in America; The Kid : what happened after
my boyfriend and I decided to go get pregnant; and Savage Love : straight answers from America’s most popular sex columnist. I heartily recommend all of them.
The Commitment (as you may have guessed) is about love, sex, and
family, but mostly about gay marriage. It was very funny and moving.
At one point I even had tears rolling down my cheeks. I don’t know
anyone IRL who is…open-minded enough to enjoy this book as much as I
did, although if I could get some of them to read it, it would definitely give them some food for thought. Fortunately, I have you guys to talk to, and I wish to say “Please please please please please go read this book!” Whew!
Next up: Not in Kansas anymore : a curious tale of how magic is transforming America, by Christine Wicker. I’ve just started on this one. I think it will be interesting, but I haven’t read far enough to determine whether or not the author is as flaky as the people she investigates.
The to-be-read pile:
Robbing the bees : a biography of honey, the sweet liquid gold that seduced the world, by Holley Bishop. Recommended by a fellow Doper! Sorry, but I don’t remember who.
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, by Mary Roach. I’m really looking forward to this one! I loved Stiff.
Growing up too fast : the Rimm report on the secret world of America’s middle schoolers, by Sylvia B. Rimm. I sure read a lot of books with colons in the title!
Lost in Place, by Mark Salzman. A memoir.
Narnia beckons : C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and beyond, by Theodore Baehr. I glanced at this already and it looks like a long sermon with lots of Narnia references and a bunch of crappy illustrations. It’s my current “car book” for when I’m stuck waiting for the kids to get out of school or whatever.
So, what have you got?