A Book Review? A Diary Entry? Both?
I just read a book. I knew two facts when I started it, 1) the characters were queer and 2) it was available at the OCPL. Everything else was a surprise. Turns out the novel is about two artists on a road trip through Pennsylvania. Imagine that! I used to live there. Here are some other facts I learned. Our main characters are a photographer and a journalist/writer. The setting is primarily in Eastern and Central PA, and bursting with specific and precise descriptions of Philidelphia streets and city life (communal living! university students! gentrification!). The start of the book is just fine, but its unusual narrator* caught my attention and kept me reading long enough to get me fully invested in the characters, and the places they were going. Part one is about attention. About being picked, or perhaps, getting someone to pick you. Having a mentor, being a mentee. It touches on what it's like to get something really important, maybe even life-chan...
