An LGBT reading event: Maurice

While I bought Maurice by E.M. Forster some decades ago together with a Room with a View, I had not bothered until now to actually read it.  Being a teenager at the time, the romantic aspect of A Room immediately got my full attention, leaving Maurice in the dark...

So much so, that I didn't even know about its storyline or about it being published post-humously.  Not to worry, Adam provided the opportunity for me to dust the book, open it (finally!) and immese myself into puritan early 20th century England... Reader's delight was waiting around the corner!

An LGBT Reading event: Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice)

I regard Thomas Mann as one of the more esteemed German writers of his era.  He has provided enough material to mark his place in German literature, and his works are almost always taught at university.  

Despite all this, I had never read any of his works, and Adam's The Literary Others event provided a very good excuse to read one of his more famous novelas, Death in Venice.

LGBT reading event: The House of the Vampire

With all the rain and the wind that has been filling my days lately, I was in that perfect situation where I could well imagine all the gothic parameters of a novel.  On a particularly stormy night, I read the House of the Vampire, by G.S. Viereck, a gothic/vampire novel that would prove to be innovative, in more ways than one...