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Tale of Two Summers

Brian Sloan

Start date: December 1, 2010

Finish date: January 31, 2011

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Sep 01, 2010 Bill rated it really liked it

Shelves: gay-fiction

Two adolescents, gay Hal just 16 and straight Chuck 15, best friends for 10 years, use as blog as a way to keep in touch when they are parted for the 1st time for 6 weeks during a summer in the Maryland suburbs of DC in 2006.

On one level the book is about Hal's sexual coming of age with Henri, a more experienced French diplomat's son. And about Chuck's coming of age as an stage actor, his life's dream. By blogging about their sexual and mundane lives, they reveal the real meaning of the book: w ...more

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Mar 16, 2008 Stephen rated it really liked it

Shelves: gay-high-schoolers, teen-reads, z-read-in-2006, gay-closets, z-read-in-2010, gay, gay-pg

An E-pistolary novel?

Book in blog form is an ideal way to tell this story. Two young best friends, one straight, one gay, communicate over the summer and share their feelings and doubts and insights in a blog. While the folks that they meet and the romances are interesting the underlying supportive friendship is clear to see and probably the highlight of the story.

Overall an interesting and engrossing read.

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