memoir

Review: Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar by Kita Mean

Nov 29, 2022 | 0 comments

Rating: 2.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Kita Mean is the more confident, more colorful, more well-known alter ego of Nick Nash. She is a drag queen made world famous first through her own internet drag competition with partner...

FILED UNDER: 2.75 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Non Fiction
TAGGED: drag queen, Harper Collins, Kita Mean, memoir, reality television

Review: Saint Unshamed: A Gay Mormon’s Life by Kerry Ashton

May 1, 2019 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Saint Unshamed: A Gay Mormon’s Life depicts playwright and actor Kerry Ashton’s painful, tumultuous, and empowering journey to physical, spiritual ,and emotional truth and healing, and living life...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Jovan's Reviews, Non Fiction
TAGGED: conversion therapy, Kerry Ashton, Lynn Wolf Enterprises, memoir, Mormon, rape, religion, suicidal thoughts, suicide

Review: Ripe by Alan Semrow

Nov 29, 2018 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Anthology This collection of micro essays chronicles the flings, romances, and loves of author Alan Semrow. The essays are formed like impromptu letters to the narrator’s former lovers. Each one has a...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Non Fiction
TAGGED: Alan Semrow, epistolary, friends to lovers, lovers reunited, memoir

Review: The PrEP Diaries: A Safe(r) Sex Memoir by Evan J. Peterson

Jun 16, 2017 | 2 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Evan J. Peterson’s journey of sexual discovery started out more or less as an unmitigated disaster. Growing up in the thick of the AIDS pandemic, there was so much stigma attached to gay men, it would...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Non Fiction
TAGGED: Evan J. Peterson, Lethe Press, memoir, non-binary, sexual abuse

Review: PopDaddy: Boy Meets Boy Meets Baby by Jeffrey Roach

Jul 1, 2016 | 0 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | All Romance | Amazon UK Length: Novel Jeffrey Roach recounts the heartwarming and hilarious tale of how he and his partner Ken started a family in one of the unlikeliest places. Narrated by Jeff, the tale starts in 2001 when one of...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Contemporary, Non Fiction, Wendy's Reviews
TAGGED: adoption, humor, Jeffrey Roach, memoir, self published

Review: My Razzle Dazzle: An Outsider’s True Story by Todd Peterson

May 18, 2016 | 0 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | All Romance | Amazon UK Length: Novel My Razzle Dazzle is an unforgettable trip of a lifetime. Beginning in the 1960s in a rural Wisconsin town, Todd Peterson captures every outsider’s candid, moving, and often hilarious coming-out...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Contemporary, Historical, Non Fiction, Wendy's Reviews
TAGGED: autobiography, coming of age, memoir, self published, Todd Peterson