Last night I finished reading “Dream Boy” by Jim Grimsley. The book started out interesting. Young love between to boys who live next door to each other. They discover each other and go through the steps to become intimate. The intimacy is one way though. Nathan, the younger of the two, has an alcoholic father who sexually abused him. Nathan spends the entire story avoiding his father and hiding from him. The disturbing part comes towards the end of the novel when Nathan and Roy, the older boy, go camping with some friends and are caught having sex, which is the first time that Roy reciprocates the intimacy. When they are caught they run. One of the friends catches up with Nathan and beats him and sexually abuses him. I was sad while reading the last several chapters of the book. I felt so sorry for Nathan and hoped that Roy would come through and be there for him. I won’t tell you the end incase you decide to read the book. I’m not sure I would recommend the book or not. And I can’t say I completely enjoyed the book.

I just started reading “The Boys Of Swithins Hall”. The description on the back of the book says it’s set in an English boys’ boarding school and is the story of Tim Dunn’s sexual awakening-in overdrive. Sound promising. Of course I’ll tell you what I think when I’m finished reading it.