tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post2715695650073028891..comments2023-12-22T09:04:09.898-08:00Comments on Six Boxes of Books: Surreptitiously Gay: The Westing Game?Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11690852339559706714noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-69069107799234630362009-08-10T18:39:10.183-07:002009-08-10T18:39:10.183-07:00Another gay person and I were independently and im...Another gay person and I were independently and immediately sure that Voigt wrote the Professor and Brother Thomas as a couple. It's a lovely relationship of a sort still seldom seen in YA lit, and I'd have trouble reading it any other way.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11690852339559706714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-65751730792482802212009-08-10T16:04:38.103-07:002009-08-10T16:04:38.103-07:00A Solitary Blue is gay??<i>A Solitary Blue</i> is gay??RM1(SS) (ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13101367196599109034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-28860606852691749002009-08-10T12:14:49.966-07:002009-08-10T12:14:49.966-07:00Wendy -- WOW, you have so sold me on the Californi...Wendy -- WOW, you have so sold me on the California Diaries series. I did read the BSC books in my youth, but gave them up for racier fare (like Sweet Valley High) before this series started, I think. Time to make up for lost time!<br /><br />(Oh, and re: being on Wikipedia = official, here's advice I overheard a friend once give to another friend whose paper was due the next day: "Just put it in a Wikipedia article and then cite it!")Elizabethhttp://underagereading.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-26404692223899907142009-08-08T16:46:52.450-07:002009-08-08T16:46:52.450-07:00Right, because something being on Wikipedia means ...Right, because something being on Wikipedia means it's official...It's been up there before on at least one of their pages (the HDB one has been heavily revised since last time I looked at it; I have access to the American Journal of Nursing archives and will have to look up her piece about nursing school, v. exciting) and since taken down. I probably won't dig around for a source because I'm too lazy and have to spend more time playing, but someone should.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11690852339559706714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-86222674302328778982009-08-08T10:43:17.511-07:002009-08-08T10:43:17.511-07:00Laurie, I think there isn't enough "proof...Laurie, I think there isn't enough "proof" of the Lane/Boylston relationship for people to make it official. Or, someone could have put it in Wikipedia and then someone else took it out.Kathleen McDadehttp://technoearthmama.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-40505806755553776022009-08-07T18:44:11.870-07:002009-08-07T18:44:11.870-07:00Elizabeth, yes to the CA Diaries, especially if yo...Elizabeth, yes to the CA Diaries, especially if you ever read Babysitters Club once upon a time (or, you know, now). I was skeptical, but from the first one it was so exciting to read about some of the same characters in almost-real-life situations. The writing is better, the emotions are better realized, the characters more interesting. I first read them when I was working at summer camp, and after I realized how good they are, read one character's three books aloud to some 17-year-olds who loved them, too. (Actually, when I read the third Sunny book to myself I cried buckets and then told them I couldn't handle it and they'd have to do it themselves. I'm not exaggerating when I say it has probably the most realistic depiction of hospice and death I've ever read in fiction.) Another counselor read a different character's books, that deal with girlfriend-abuse, to the 14-year-olds--again, LOVE. And as for Ducky--yes, Elizabeth, you should read this.Wendyhttp://sixboxesofbooks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-80127062065138956352009-08-07T18:38:40.369-07:002009-08-07T18:38:40.369-07:00Really, the California Diaries series is worth rea...Really, the California Diaries series is worth reading?<br /><br />I thought that Westing Game essay was sort of interesting, but like you, I thought it seemed more to be about this very personal reaction to it than any reason to call TWG a "gay book."<br /><br />--Elizabeth, who is in the midst of reading as many gay (and other LGBT) teen books as I can get my hands onElizabethhttp://underagereading.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704532387089251856.post-83812428969966032652009-08-06T16:02:19.325-07:002009-08-06T16:02:19.325-07:00Well, someone should do a little work on the RWL W...Well, someone should do a little work on the RWL Wikipedia article, since it says of her love life only, "Lane's diaries reveal subsequent romantic involvements with several men in the years after her divorce, but she never remarried."<br /><br />I'm scared to touch the Helen Dore Boylston article, though--I've never SEEN so many footnotes.LaurieA-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01482323207701500679noreply@blogger.com