Quiz: What New Book Should You Read This Spring?

Their little quiz netted me this which actually sounds pretty interesting.
From amazon_Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement—and a great gift for its publisher.
          When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
          In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

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The story first:
It's called 'Hotel Sin' and is written by Brian Hennessey aka big-brian-o and for any of you who have read any of his other stories, this one continues in the same quality vein. It' takes place in modern day San Antonio TX and centers around the 'Gale Harold-esque' character of Jesse James, a troubled detective who finds himself investigating a gruesome murder case that has taken place at  'Hotel Sin', a decrepit, abandoned, except for the homeless who call it home, on-the-edge-of-town motel. Brian's story is graphic and intense and so worth the read. It now is at 10 chapters with plenty more to come, I'm sure. As a bonus, he really brings the city of San Antonio alive, with many insider details, which makes the story all that much more real.
The first chapter can be found here
His journal with all the postings can be found here

Now, for the vids: and please remember to click through so the vids record more view and so you can 'Like It'
The first is by our very own tv_fan_2008 who has done a terrific job with this. Send her some love & maybe even join her YouTube channel Equexin.


and the second is the improved version, as in very very little screaming to interrupt the enjoyment, of Adam's beautiful new single so very very beautifully sung.


-enjoy

... I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper_Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

So I am.

When Queer as Folk ended, some 5 years ago, I came here needing to find like-minded others because I didn't want the show, the characters to fade from me and while I haven't remain simply for QAF, I also haven't found another fandom to become a part of. I've only watched as other QAFers, not all most certainly but many, have moved, inevitably on. And it's been fun to watch, if not to be a part of, their excitement of discovery, to watch them not so much leave QAF behind as find something more relevant to invest in. I never expected to be one of them on any level.

So, imagine my surprise when I suddenly found myself becoming genuinely invested, in a non-participatory way, with the whole Adam/ Tommy friendship and quinn222 's wonderfully creative, as usual, graphic fic of The Glam Nation Tour. For those of you who know Quinn's work for QAF, I need say no more but, if you don't, then let me just say that her fics always emphasis the visual with this one revolving around scrapbooking

Her story is called Glam Nation 2010, As a bonus,  if you check past entries they are sprinkled with several gifs of concert interaction between Adam and Tommy mainly. They are very touchy-touchy and playful together, ya gotta love that. You'll find one here of Adam playing excessively with Tommy's hair and, seriously, who can blame him, along with a short little vid of Sutan, the makeup guy discussing his relevance to the tour.

This story is PERFECT for summer. Well, it's perfect for ANY time but for summer, it really is just perfect.

Some pics of the boys

   
Adam & Tommy                                                                Tommy                                     Tommy & Adam

Another bonus, they both actually seem to be really lovely human beings, and especially great with the fans.

plumsuede's made a lovely video highlighting some of her creations that I thought I'd pass along. Enjoy!!



Leftovers never looked so good!!