The Second Book Read Of The Year Did Not Do It For Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                           I read Justin Torres' "We The Animals," when it first came out in 2011, and I can tell you it did nothing for me.  "Blackouts" won the National Book Award For Fiction, and I can recommend it to connoisseurs of Queer Fiction, but aside from that this novel did nothing for me.

                                              It incorporates an historically famous study on human sexuality--not Kinsey, though the name is mentioned more than once--with the story of a dying man, Juan and his companion, Nene, as they sort through both the study and a review of Juan's life.  The prose style is pristine, but the story and characters are not at all engaging.  Nor are they repulsive; they are just not that interesting.  Torres scores, with me, the same result he did with 'Animals;' interesting on a glance but nothing that is going to stay with one.  Unless his next book is a really breakout one, I will not be following this writer.

                                                Sorry, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!