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I re-read The Shuteyes last night
Jul. 11th, 2015 06:17 pmI loved that book as a kid. I don't know if I realized it then (I could be a little oblivious to subtext as a child), but hey, that book is a whole allegory for gays.
To my knowledge, I've read three books by that author. (Well, four, but one was a sequel.)
1. Deliver Us From Evie, which was blatantly about gays (and fairly overwrought as well, but maybe that's just the effect of not aging well)
2. The Shuteyes, which turns out to have been allegorically about gays
3. Shoebag and 4. Shoebag Returns, which are books about a extremely sympathetic young cockroach who turns into a human. And now that I look at the synopsis, it is entirely possible that those books are also about gays.
Of course, it often is the case that authors have a pet issue or concern that they keep on coming back to. Ann M. Martin, for example, has a bug up her butt about autism (but her autism-centric books are not as well-written as M. E. Kerr's, so I don't recommend them. I do recommend The Shuteyes.)
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To my knowledge, I've read three books by that author. (Well, four, but one was a sequel.)
1. Deliver Us From Evie, which was blatantly about gays (and fairly overwrought as well, but maybe that's just the effect of not aging well)
2. The Shuteyes, which turns out to have been allegorically about gays
3. Shoebag and 4. Shoebag Returns, which are books about a extremely sympathetic young cockroach who turns into a human. And now that I look at the synopsis, it is entirely possible that those books are also about gays.
Of course, it often is the case that authors have a pet issue or concern that they keep on coming back to. Ann M. Martin, for example, has a bug up her butt about autism (but her autism-centric books are not as well-written as M. E. Kerr's, so I don't recommend them. I do recommend The Shuteyes.)
Troubled Socotra – the “World’s Most Alien Place” – Seeks Autonomy
Suburbs and the New American Poverty
Could Travelling Waves Upset Cognitive Neuroscience?
Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Parole
Inside the secretive world of parole boards, where your freedom may depend on politics and whim.
Welsh government responds in Klingon to UFO airport query
How Washington helped create Puerto Rico’s staggering debt crisis (I think future articles about Puerto Rico's debt crisis, like those on Greece's, are getting filed below the cut.)
CIA: Repeat After Me. The NYPD Is NOT A REAL Intelligence Agency.
What's your favourite vowel?
A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption
Hawaiian Natives have been waiting since 1920 for promised land
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As Anti-Choice Fundamentalists Descend on Alabama, One Abortion Doctor Refuses To Be Bullied
The 6 Worst Jobs Ever (Were Done by Children)
The Art of the Paragraph
Officer buys diapers and shoes for homeless mother caught shoplifting for her kids
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This beautiful video of plankton eating plastic is also a little disturbing
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