{"id":1327,"date":"2014-07-02T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T05:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T05:34:32","slug":"the-forever-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the-forever-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: The Forever Marathon, by Jameson Currier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseastationeditions.com\/TheForeverMarathon.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/forever-marathon.jpeg\" alt=\"Forever Marathon\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Currier, Jameson. The Forever Marathon. Chelsea Stations Editions. 2013. $18. 216p. PB. 978-1-937627-13-3.<\/p>\n<p>Middle-aged Jesse and Adam have spent the last 24 years together growing out of love but staying together like a bad habit. Their constant bickering erupts into a two-day-long epic battle (or at least as epic as any fight in a long-term relationship). Adam finds himself stranded when his Porche breaks down and Jesse is gone for a day trip to New York City, where they met. Each man uses the circumstances of the day desperately flirting with younger, better-looking men as a ploy to re-experience a spark of passion, but jealous thoughts and passive-aggressive phone calls show that their thoughts are rarely on anything but each other.<\/p>\n<p>Some readers may find peeking into the details of a lovers&#8217; quarrel uncomfortably relatable. Others may think Jesse and Adam are like dinner guests you wish would just go home. It is unfortunate the main characters were not a more fascinating mess, but rather unlikeable and not worth rooting for. The abrupt ending made the story feel too similar to the couple&#8217;s fight&#8211;tedious and unresolved. Even so, the novel is a good addition to a library&#8217;s LGBT fiction collection.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: Anna Fidgeon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currier, Jameson. The Forever Marathon. Chelsea Stations Editions. 2013. $18. 216p. PB. 978-1-937627-13-3. Middle-aged Jesse and Adam have spent the last 24 years together growing out of love but staying together like a bad habit. Their constant bickering erupts into a two-day-long epic battle (or at least as epic as any fight in a long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1190,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}