Quote from: Frances on April 11, 2010, 04:36:25 PM
I have it. I thought it was about another trans woman. It is the only book in my collection that I regret buying. If if were not for the photos, I would swear it was all made up.
Yeah, I had never heard of Katherine Marlowe before. I think her life was just insane, it really is so crazy it seems unreal lol. When you read it though and you put together some of the names of famous friends and events it kind of blows your mind to process that it all is true (at least at the basis, who knows about some of the added things like emotional connections and whatnot).
I actually enjoyed the book a lot, but not as a transsexual book, more as just any other day of the week reading material. Definitely was not what I thought it would be like at all but good just the same. When I'm looking for something like a biography or memiore (sp?) about another trans person I seem to have a different kind of expectation and Call Me Kate didn't live up to that.
Have you read As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl? Very good book and even though it is about an intersexed individual it fit into what I think of more when I am considering a trans related personal story. Much more about the individual struggle, emotional reactions and life in regards to their gender and not just a life narrative, which is what Call Me Kate felt like.
I would recommend checking out As Nature Made Him if you weren't too into this book, I cried several times reading that story. Being FTM as well there was a lot more emotional stuff that I could personally relate to in that story, but so much of the struggle is universal in the way that we feel and react to the situation regardless of being intersex, ftm or mtf.... or probably just for gender queer people as well. Never having been one myself I don't really know lol.
