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Title: The Blind Season : Common Threads in the Life by Ronald L. Donaghe ISBN: 0-595-18976-8 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 17 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lively, Engaging Book by a Talented Author
Comment: In the middle 1980s, author Ronald Donaghe envisioned a four book series which he called Common Threads in the Life. The initial book, Common Sons, was published in 1989 and found a cult audience, particularly among youth, both gay and lesbian, who were struggling with their own coming out issues. Then it took well over a decade to bring the sequel to fruition. The Blind Season is that long-awaited sequel and is the continued story of Joel Reece and Tom Allen, two young men from Common, New Mexico. The sequel picks up in 1970, four years after Common Sons left off. The two boys are now young men who live together, work on Joel's parents' farm, and consider themselves married. Though the townspeople continue to be suspicious, prejudiced, and unsupporting, Tom and Joel are mostly happy-but not entirely happy because they want children of their own.
The boys set out to find a young woman to carry their child, and they meet Sharon Minninger, who is a shunned Mennonite runaway living over the border in Mexico. Sharon has dreams of her own, including getting an education and making something of herself. She agrees to bear Tom and Joel's child in return for help to go to college. The circumstances of the baby's conception, Sharon's pregnancy, and the little girl who is subsequently born bring strong feelings out in the open from the townspeople and from Tom and Joel's families as well. The story of how they navigate all of this is suspenseful, dramatic, and touching. While many people are against Tom and Joel - particularly the vicious, latent homosexual police officer in town - they gradually find others like Margaret, the low-key lesbian from the local diner, who support and encourage them. In addition, there are some real surprises from members of their families.
This story evoked a tear or two along with a few chuckles. It's lively, entertaining, and a highly effective sequel to Common Sons. Mr. Donaghe is a talented writer who continues to put a realistic and reflective face on the gay young men about whom he writes. This is a book anyone from high school to age 100 could enjoy, and I highly recommend both this book and the series.
~Lori L. Lake, Midwest Book Review
Rating: 1
Summary: Hiking a Moral Mindfield with Blind Guide!
Comment: Be forewarned. The reviews of this writer's books are effusively generous with their praise - suspiciously and undeservedly so, in my opinion.
This book would probably appeal to someone in the 13- to 15-year-old age range (like "Uncle Sean," "Lance," and "Common Sons"). It is not for adults. It is not for those who enjoy good reading. It is poorly written, repetitive, and unsatisfying. The characters are sappy and emotional - they cry a lot. While the situations and themes created for them are serious (child abuse, bigotry towards gays, commitment in relations), the solutions are sensational, melodramatic, and ultimately unrealistic.
The book relates the story of how one of its main (gay) male characters and his lover impregnate a young girl in order to have a child of their own. The dubious morality of how this is accomplished is lathered over by page after page of justification, rationalization, and excuse. After finishing this book I felt that I had somehow (miraculously) survived a hike through a moral mindfield with a blind guide!
Rating: 5
Summary: continuing their story
Comment: This book continues the love story of Joel and Tom which Ron began in "Common Sons". It's so wonderful to see the two of them in love, strengthening their relationship, and starting a family with their birth daughter(that's pretty interesting!!!) I'm hoping that Ron can continue their lives for those of us fans who need to know more. But he'll have a fantasy series coming out soon, "Twilight of the Gods", beginning with Cinatis, that also looks fantastic. Can't wait.
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Title: The Salvation Mongers by Ronald L. Donaghe ISBN: 0595098355 Publisher: ToExcel Pub. Date: 13 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Into This World We're Thrown : by Mark Kendrick ISBN: 0595214681 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 30 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Desert Sons : by Mark Kendrick ISBN: 0595191304 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 24 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Lance : The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett by Ronald L. Donaghe ISBN: 0595222676 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 21 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: All Over Him : The Continuing Journals of Will Barnett by Ronald L. Donaghe ISBN: 0595269141 Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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