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“What I was feeling, I now recognize, was the desire to be one of these people. To be proud and to beam and to look good.”

Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs by Dave Holmes

February 24, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

When I was putting together my TBR pile for this year I specifically went back to lists of much older cannonballs for books I didn’t get to and was bummed about having not read and added a handful of them to this year. I’m having mixed results with that plan, though, although Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs by Dave Holmes got three stars from me which is better than the other so far, French Milk (incidentally I added them both in 2016 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, dave holmes, growing up/coming of age, mtv, music, party of one

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, dave holmes, growing up/coming of age, mtv, music, party of one ·
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Pop Culture, Self-Discovery, and Dark Humor

July 10, 2016 by ModernLove 3 Comments

So it’s been just over three months since my last review. Not coincidentally, I started my new job just over three months ago. While I love it, it is a little bit of a time suck. I’m keeping up on my reading, but after 8 hours of sitting in front of a computer and talking to people, the last thing I want to do is sit in front of a computer at home. It was going to take a very special book to get me […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, dave holmes, lgbt, modernlove, party of one, Pop Culture

ModernLove's CBR8 Review No:18 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, dave holmes, lgbt, modernlove, party of one, Pop Culture ·
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