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Winter
 leafless7:

@Winter

I am currently checking review and prices of mentioned books. These books are totally new to me. If I decided to buy it. I will write my review here. Thanx.

Cool. Looking forward to it if you do ^^

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Selbee
 The Butterfly:
Finally got around to reading this classic anti-war novel which described the physical and mental traumas soldiers suffered during WWI.

I'd been away for a few months so I've been checking out what I missed.

Your post about EM Remarque's book (I read the book ages ago!) immediately made me think of Sebastian Faulk's Birdsong. Have you read it? I still remember the feeling of being punched in the gut by this amazing book.

Someone I know came back yesterday from a school trip visiting sites of the first world war (Verdun etc.) and he was devastated with the realization of the horrors of that war. Or any war, for that matter. The cemeteries with endless white crosses, monumental walls with the names of the missing, tunnels and trenches.....all of that made him so sad!

 

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But back to my own reading. 

Fed up with dramas (event known as "the slump"!) and not  finding any BLs worthy of watching, I went back to reading full time about 6 months ago. I was looking for some light fare and discovered a genre I never knew existed: M/M romances or western BL novels.

After a couple of duds (more about them some other time), I thought I'd hit the jackpot with Alexis Hill's books. They were smart and very very funny. But unfortunately, too much of a good thing, ruins the good thing. Or at least the impression I had of it. I loved the first two books I read but every subsequent one I found less funny and emptier, conforming to today's societal injunctions and downright boring! My saturation point had been reached very quickly: I read another four books of his, desperately looking for the buzz the first two gave me. No such luck!

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