Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite

Liquor: A Novel by Poppy Z. Brite


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Two New Orleans gay chefs live the dream and open up their own restaurant. There's also a vague crime/danger plot, but mostly this is just a book about food. This book made me want to eat things I don't even like.

I needed this today. It's fun and soaked in restaurant culture, with a generally interesting M/M long-term relationship around the edges. A light-weight escapist good time.

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Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon

Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
1757, London. Lord John – officer, gentleman, homosexual – pursues a military spy and unravels a private scandal.

A gently entertaining story that ambles through a convoluted plot and then just kind of coasts to a stop. The real interest is John, his unrequited love for the offstage Jamie, and the glimpses we get of hidden but lively and perverse eighteenth-century homosexuality. Gabaldon does do her research, I'll give her that. Overall a nice diversion, with not much heft to it.

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