The Circle (Circulatim Book 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00F12HENS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 491 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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JNSNemo said Awesome Read. This is a great story of coming of age, finding yourself, and finding your life long friends. It follows a young man through self discovery, love, loss, and all of the type typical teenage drama without the whining or angsty flip-flopping. The writer takes you back to 1970's Chicago to walk you through the life of a young man who realizes he is different, a gay teenager in a less accepting time, who finds love. Candidly captures the highs and lows of life, love, loss and faith Neil in Morgan Hill A 5-Star rating for Ray Smith's "The Circle". Rarely does a novel capture so much of what gay men and men open to their feelings to other men experience as they grow from adolescence into adults. I love this story as it is so much more than a gay coming of age story as it embraces the experiences of boys who are discovering and experimenting with sexuality as they discover the complexity of their emotions and . "Excellant book" according to Barry Bergeron. I absolutely loved this story. I liked how the author gave so many details to the story. It really grips and pulls you into the story. He is an awesome writer. I am now starting to read the second of the series Ciculatim sqared. Can't wait to see how the guys finish up high school and what becomes of them.
I couldn't stop reading and I felt so badly for Alex's pain. Secrets can be fun, but they can also be trouble.And Alex has many secrets - especially Toby.His best friend, Tom, knows most of his secrets; that Alex is gay, that he is falling for his second-best friend, Jeff, who is straight, and that Alex is no virgin.His friends have secrets too, and during the party thrown by them he is going to learn a few. We get to follow Alex's developing personality through dialogue, both internal and with others, which has pain, pathos, and a good deal of humor.Alongside the earthy reality of a brave exploration in the risky territory of multi-faceted love, there is a parallel story that explores a changing and growing spiritual maturity dealing with important questions around the possibility of existence beyond death.The story is romantic, and it could all be a great deal too sugary and indigestible if it were not for the realistic mix of hatred, anger, injustice, revenge, and the pain of loss that accompanies the working out of a whole range of the different forms taken by love.Although the main focus of the story takes place over only a few weeks, flashback chapters are inserted that explain references i