The Last Romeo by Justin Myres

This book was hated by most members and not even completed. It was about gay friendships. Found to be boring and not worth reading.

I did find some things informative and illuminating. For example, I had never heard of The Baader Meinoff syndrome. It depends on a frequency illusion. That is, something occurs that one hasn’t thought of for years, and then the same occurrence happens again and perhaps again. A cognitive bias if you will.

 A very confusing story, with many different names and aliases being used. The same old stereotyping as I have read before. In-group fighting, drinking of enormous amounts of alcohol, body image and the need to uncover those that try to keep their homosexuality a secret.

Wonderful write ups and recommendations on this book that we all couldn’t understand why.

We are now reading Snap by Brenda Bauer which is a thriller. Our next meeting is 9th October 2pm.

Pat Cluness