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'Emma Donoghue'
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mage4mage
mage4mage rated it 10 years ago
I really want to give this more stars, but I was majorly disappointed. I went into this expecting an LGBT anthology. It described itself as anthology of gay, lesbian and transgender stories. But I think a more accurate description would be "a cis gay male romance anthology with a sprinkling of lesbi...
Sesana
Sesana rated it 13 years ago
Anthologies are almost always a mixed bag. Especially anthologies by multiple writers. There's always at least a few stories that I just don't like, for whatever reason. How Beautiful the Ordinary is doing good to have only two stories that didn't resonate with me.The subtitle (Twelve Stories of Ide...
catherinehaines
catherinehaines rated it 13 years ago
About a 3 and a half. Would have been a 4 if the bi-erasure in one of the stories hadn't peeved me off so much. This should not have come as such a surprise when re-reading the introduction: "This collection contains stories by twelve of our finest authors for young adults, writing about what it mig...
Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it 15 years ago
The story from which the title of this collection comes is by David Levithan. It took me apart. Entirely. I think Levithan writes from the same place L'Engle wrote from- that calm and sure center where love lives, that place of hope untainted by delusion. He's rapidly becoming one of my favorites. I...
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