Favourites from May
Favourites from May
For a busy gay about town, who often finds he’s lost his centre, this hit me like a truck. Note: when you do indulge in the 3 s’s after a period of prolonged living life at 1.5x speed, expect some Big Feelings to rise to the surface!
I had been in a bit of a rut with reading, as I mentioned last month, but after finishing Radical Intimacy (I still think about it every day) I absolutely devoured Monica Heisey’s novel Really Good, Actually. It tells the story of a woman who married young and then, unexpectedly, divorces young too. I thought t was sharp, smart, self aware, full of feeling and deeply enjoyable. The characters were lovable and their mistakes, shortcomings, arguments and neuroses felt so alive - not contrived or overly constructed as I sometimes find them in fiction. Bolu Babalola describes it as “Incisively funny, sneakily disarming and heartbreakingly tender…a story of love, loss, friendship and rediscovering yourself” - I couldn’t say it better than her and praise from Bolu is some of the highest one can aim for (I trust her cultural recommendations with my life).