Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, V. 4)
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Bought off a library sale shelf. Excellent condition.
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
Adding to my LGBT Bookbox. Enjoy!
And one last already-read-it, just-commenting-before-sending-it-along book from the LGBT book box:
It was nice to check in with the residents of Barbary Lane once again, although many of them were not having the best time in this installment: Michael's still in mourning, Mary Ann and Brian are stressing about whether or not to have a baby, and Mona's been out of touch for long enough to cause worry to her friends and parent. While these problems all work themselves out one way or another by the end of the book, I found that there were too many deus-ex-machina solutions here - not that the series has ever been short on coincidental meetings, etc, but I thought this one took it a bit far. [The book also dealt more with the AIDs epidemic - which was looming when the book was written - and thus has a darker undercurrent than some of the previous books.]
Still, there were plenty of cute bits of business - starting with the opening chapter, in which we see San Francisco through the eyes of the visiting QE2. And then there's the camping trip... several other gay men are going camping in Death Valley just to get away from it all, and Ned, Michael's partner in the nursery business, talks the too-depressed Michael into going, too.
I also enjoyed Michael's trip, including the tired/disappointed/will-it-ever-stop-raining aspects - and young Wilfred, and the fox. And phallic hyacinths (I'd never thought of them that way before, possibly because I've never planted pink ones {grin}).
It was nice to check in with the residents of Barbary Lane once again, although many of them were not having the best time in this installment: Michael's still in mourning, Mary Ann and Brian are stressing about whether or not to have a baby, and Mona's been out of touch for long enough to cause worry to her friends and parent. While these problems all work themselves out one way or another by the end of the book, I found that there were too many deus-ex-machina solutions here - not that the series has ever been short on coincidental meetings, etc, but I thought this one took it a bit far. [The book also dealt more with the AIDs epidemic - which was looming when the book was written - and thus has a darker undercurrent than some of the previous books.]
Still, there were plenty of cute bits of business - starting with the opening chapter, in which we see San Francisco through the eyes of the visiting QE2. And then there's the camping trip... several other gay men are going camping in Death Valley just to get away from it all, and Ned, Michael's partner in the nursery business, talks the too-depressed Michael into going, too.
As dawn crept over Death Valley, Michael stirred in his sleeping bag and catalogued the sounds of the desert: the twitter of tiny birds, the frantic scampering of kangaroo rats, the soothing rustle of the wind in the mesquite trees...As Ned remarks, once the laughter has died down, "That's the nelliest thing that's ever been said in Death Valley."
"Oh, no! The vinaigrette leaked!"
I also enjoyed Michael's trip, including the tired/disappointed/will-it-ever-stop-raining aspects - and young Wilfred, and the fox. And phallic hyacinths (I'd never thought of them that way before, possibly because I've never planted pink ones {grin}).
Great book! I love this author.
Came back to me in the LGBT Bookbox. Sorry none of the participants wanted it. I shall try to find it another home elsewhere!
Journal Entry 6 by 
KateKintail
at Day Of The Book (Street Festival) On Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA on Sunday, April 19, 2015
KateKintail at Day Of The Book (Street Festival) On Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA on Sunday, April 19, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (4/26/2015 UTC) at Day Of The Book (Street Festival) On Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Making a journal entry here lets me know the book has been found and is safe in your hands. The book is yours now! Read it, give it to a friend, pass it on, or keep it forever--it's your choice.
If you pass it on to someone or leave it "in the wild" for someone else to find, please make another journal entry or release notes here to explain that it's travelling to find another home.
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I hope you enjoy the book. Happy reading!
