Maurice

I really hate reading books or seeing movies that I know are going to make me cry, so I don't know why I chose to read this one.

It's a beautiful and heart-breaking story of same-sex love and loss. It also has an ambiguous ending a la the movie version of Brokeback Mountain. So, the reader is left wondering about what will happen to Maurice next. If you're of a hopeful bent, you might choose to think they live out their days in a boathouse somewhere in France or elsewhere in realms where their love is not illegal. But if you're a pessimist, you may recall that it was not so many years after the time in which this story is set that Alan Turing was chemically castrated and driven to suicide for being gay.

I hope I can be an optimist when I think back on this book.