Book Review: Michael Tolliver Lives

by Armistead Maupin

It’s been nearly twenty years since the last installment in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series, about the intertwined lives of Michael “Mouse” Tolliver and his friends and lovers in San Francisco. Tales begins with the arrival of Mouse, a fresh-faced young gay man from Orlando, at the apartment building run by the colorful and eccentric Anna Madrigal in the mid-1970s. In the ensuing six books Maupin chronicles Mouse’s life through the decades that follow, incorporating current events such as the Jim Jones massacre and the rise of AIDS. Although part of the Tales series, Maupin’s latest book is a standalone novel, with enough background given for each character that new readers won’t feel lost. Read the rest of this review at Book Dads

Want One or Both of These Humorous Books?

We’re having a contest to giveaway 5 copies of these two books courtesy of the Hachette Book Group at our other site, Book Dads.  Read a description of the books and the contest rules here.

Book Review: We Belong Together by Todd Parr

Title: We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families

Author: Todd Parr

Todd Parr lends his distinctive picture book style to adoption in his latest book. Every two or three pages, Parr writes “We belong together because …” and then fills in the blank in different heartfelt – and sometimes whimsical – ways. The pictures show families of all different kinds (including same-gender and different color), and in a rare Author’s Note at the beginning, Parr encourages parents to change the pronouns in the text to fit their family. Read More

Cross posted from Book Dads

Book Recommendation Contest At Book Dads

Our other blog Book Dads is having a contest.

We started this blog just two months ago as a site for anyone to find books and book reviews that have positive views of fathers and fatherhood. We would love to hear any recommendations of books, from you the readers, that would be appropriate for review on Book Dads.

For this contest we are giving away an Amazon.com Gift Card worth $25.00.

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Banned Books Week: 9/27/08 - 10/4/08

This year’s Banned Books Week: Celebrating The Freedom To Read begins today and runs through October 4th. It is an annual event by the American Library Association, this year (2008) marks the 27th anniversary of Banned Books Week. The ALA website explains one reason for celebrating this event,

Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

See the list of the 10 most frequently challenged books in 2007 and the rest of this post at Book Dads.

Book Giveway at Book Dads

Book Dads is giving away two books to one lucky commenter in honor of Book Blogger Appreciation Week. The two books are: The Daddy Book and The Family Book by Todd Parr. Please visit Book Dads and leave a comment to enter.