Comments on: Review: Gaywyck by Vincent Virga http://speakitsname.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/review-gaywyck-by-vincent-virga/ Gay Historical Fiction Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:29:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: speakitsname http://speakitsname.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/review-gaywyck-by-vincent-virga/#comment-10 speakitsname Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:01:18 +0000 http://speakitsname.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/review-gaywyck-by-vincent-virga/#comment-10 Hah. I was a bad reviewer, I did it at work without the book in front of me *bad erastes* so I couldn't remember their names. I quite sincerely confess though that I hadn't even noticed that they were a mixed-race couple. That's ... rather unbelievable - unless (which it seems like they weren't) they were masquarading as master and servant. Just shows you what I miss when I read!! Thank you! Hah. I was a bad reviewer, I did it at work without the book in front of me *bad erastes* so I couldn’t remember their names.

I quite sincerely confess though that I hadn’t even noticed that they were a mixed-race couple. That’s … rather unbelievable – unless (which it seems like they weren’t) they were masquarading as master and servant. Just shows you what I miss when I read!! Thank you!

]]> By: Lee Benoit http://speakitsname.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/review-gaywyck-by-vincent-virga/#comment-9 Lee Benoit Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:01:39 +0000 http://speakitsname.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/review-gaywyck-by-vincent-virga/#comment-9 Funny you should mention Gaylord's New York friends; they were the sharpest part of the book for me, and the element I retained after reading it several years ago (you didn't mention the rainbow-coalition quality of the secondary characters, but it's another grating aspect of the book; these two lovers are an interracial couple). One passage in particular stuck in my mind: when Robert is first visiting New York the friends (Mortimer and Goodbody - ergh!) give him lists of places to see and things to do "coded by different-colored pencils as 'musts,' 'perhapses,' and 'WE-like-its.'" Perhaps the episode claimed a fond place in my memory as this was exactly the spirit in which two gay grad school buddies of mine introduced me to San Francisco a couple of years ago -- and how I ended up in a Latino drag club, but that's another tale entirely. Funny you should mention Gaylord’s New York friends; they were the sharpest part of the book for me, and the element I retained after reading it several years ago (you didn’t mention the rainbow-coalition quality of the secondary characters, but it’s another grating aspect of the book; these two lovers are an interracial couple). One passage in particular stuck in my mind: when Robert is first visiting New York the friends (Mortimer and Goodbody – ergh!) give him lists of places to see and things to do “coded by different-colored pencils as ‘musts,’ ‘perhapses,’ and ‘WE-like-its.’” Perhaps the episode claimed a fond place in my memory as this was exactly the spirit in which two gay grad school buddies of mine introduced me to San Francisco a couple of years ago — and how I ended up in a Latino drag club, but that’s another tale entirely.

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