Books - Patience & Sarah and The Lovely Bones

2. Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller - I really enjoyed this book about two young women who fall in love in early 19th century New England. While there is some angst along the way, it is overall a happy story and it has a happy ending.

3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - I read this thinking I wanted to read it before I saw the movie, but am now having second thoughts about seeing the movie. (I adore Peter Jackson's early film "Heavenly Creatures" and suspect that many of the things I like about it are going to be things I'll like about "The Lovely Bones," but am worried about the beginning of the movie being triggery.) It was a beautifully written book and an amazing story. The fact that I liked it surprised me, because I thought that since it was so popular it was bound to be crap.

GLBT movies!

I have a list here of GLBT movies that people liked or didn't like -- haven't updated it in ages, but there it is.

Surprisingly, I've seen several decent GLBT movies in the past couple of weeks. I say "surprisingly" because I've seen so many sub-par GLBT films that I've come to expect them to be bad -- either the plot or the acting or the dialogue or all three. But here are a few that weren't!

Mulligans - Married guy who thinks he's straight falls for his son's college friend.

Arizona Sky - Guy returns to his home town to visit the best friend he left behind many years before. Reminds me of "Big Eden" in some ways, though it's obviously a much lower budget production and is really carried by the two main characters (whereas Big Eden is more of an ensemble piece).

Make the Yuletide Gay - Not great, but there were things about it that I liked, and some scenes that I thought were well done.

Coffee Date - I'd seen this before but it was on Logo so I watched it again, and I liked it just as much the second time around. Straight guy's brother sets him up for a blind date with another guy as a prank, but the two guys hit it off (as friends) and get very close.