{"id":93,"date":"2009-11-12T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:21:47","slug":"gym_dandy_a_gay_romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/gym_dandy_a_gay_romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gym Dandy: A Gay Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/654170208\">Grant, Storm. <em>Gym Dandy: A Gay Romance.<\/em> Albion, NY: MLR Press, 2009. softcover. 193 p. $14.99. ISBN: 9781934531945.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bloglink\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"gym dandy\" src=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+3575269015837_140.jpg?SearchOrder=+-+TN,AV,FA,GO\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"196\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally enjoy romance novels, but Storm Grant&#8217;s <em>Gym Dandy<\/em> is a wonderfully light confection. Set in Toronto, it is the love story of Victor Brighton, a personal trainer, and his gym client, Douglas Newkirk, who comes to accept his sexuality over the course of his relationship with Victor.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is geared more toward humor than romance; and although that humor can be a bit corny, it is never forced. It is also juxtaposed to a surprising complexity in the characters. For example, it is refreshing to find an openly bisexual character, Victor, in a beach read. Too often, bisexuality is ignored in GLBTQ pop culture. Victor&#8217;s comfort with himself was a pleasant change of pace. The ending was also legitimately surprising, except, of course, for the fact that it&#8217;s a happy ending. Grant offers readers a fun book to take on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat: there is some Canadian English that might be confusing to American readers, such as &#8220;First Nations&#8221; and &#8220;poutine,&#8221; but nothing that interrupts the flow of the story or that a curious reader could not easily decipher.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended for public libraries with adult romance sections, or those libraries interested in increasing their number of popular GLBTQ titles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by,<strong> Travis A. Ferrell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant, Storm. Gym Dandy: A Gay Romance. Albion, NY: MLR Press, 2009. softcover. 193 p. $14.99. ISBN: 9781934531945. I don&#8217;t normally enjoy romance novels, but Storm Grant&#8217;s Gym Dandy is a wonderfully light confection. Set in Toronto, it is the love story of Victor Brighton, a personal trainer, and his gym client, Douglas Newkirk, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"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\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}