Boy 2 Girl
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Matthew's American cousin comes to live with them: Sam's small, blond and wild - with a giant...
Trans LGBTQI+ Cross dressing Friendship
Silver Bullets
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For Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta, tormented by past heartbreak and dismayed by all-pervasive...
Mrs Rosie and the Priest
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Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands,...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) in Movies
Feb 22, 2019
More of a curiosity than anything else, though I'm not sure I'd go as far as those suggesting this once-lost film would have been better off staying that way. It certainly lends weight to the suggestion that Stan was the more gifted comedian but Ollie was a more versatile actor - he still keeps doing those looks to camera, though. In the end, it's not outrageously bad, but mainly of historical interest.
Femme Faux Fatale (Dreamspun Desires #70)
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Mystery. Murder. Men in silk stockings. Hollywood nights are heating up. Hardboiled Los Angeles...
Dear Boy
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"Dear Boy" is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and...
Plaything (My Kinky Housemate #2)
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A one-night stand with my housemate wasn’t the best idea, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting...
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Debbiereadsbook (1324 KP) rated Femme Faux Fatale (Dreamspun Desires #70) in Books
Nov 30, 2018
Cain is hired by Ms Astor to find her husband, along with a Rodin statuette. But things don't add up to Cain, and he visits the club she works at to talk to her some more. Lily Lavender is on stage, and she pushes all kinds of buttons that Cain never knew he needed pushing. Riley, the man behind Lily, has a similar reaction to Cain. But Riley is keeping secrets, secrets that have gotten two people killed and Cain needs to know, if they are to get out of this alive.
I really rather enjoyed this!
It's got instant and powerful attraction, it's got steam and passion, it's got a nutty woman, it's got so many levels of secrets! It's deadly too.
Told from both Cain and Riley's point of view, in the third, so we get each and every reaction from both men. Reactions to each other, to the situation around them, to Riley's cross dressing and to Cain very unexpected reaction to that.
Loved Cain's reaction to Riley's cross dressing. It's clear Riley has been treated badly in the past because of that, but Cain is like, AND??? It's part of who Riley is, and Cain just takes it as it is, as Riley is. Cain does, admittedly, rather like Riley in his ladies knickers and stockings, so that helped!
There is a rather long winded conversation between Riley and Cain about pulp fiction and noir films (I think!) bit I got lost with that, mostly because I have no clue what they were talking about, so I glanced over that bit!
I did like the twist as to what was really in the statuettes, and where that led the plot, and just what Ms Astor had, rather that what she THOUGHT she had.
Not quite a one sitting read, but I did stay til after midnight to finish it, when I had a 6am get up!
I've read one other by Ms Laine, I'd like to read some more. She has a way of grabbing you and pulling you in.
4 solid stars
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated The Boy in the Dress in Books
Jul 2, 2019
Uniform is also a main theme in the book and very obviously gender and social acceptance. Walliams does a good job at showing that sexual preference is not linked to dress and that discrimination is wrong. In this book the child is able to experience how ludicrous gender representation by dress is by dressing the full football team up in ladies clothing, this normalises it.
The intrusive narrator who may be Walliams himself, also gives hints throughout the book about his own desire to cross dress.
Good book.
Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance
Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms
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This title offers the gender-bending performances of Dlane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day...