Man, is this book funny. It's also sweet, swift and brilliantly written. A memoir about a gay kid in Catholic St. Louis growing up in the 1980s does not exactly break a whole lot of new ground but in Dave Holmes's hand, he's has a clever yet honest way around al the stations of the cross of this story. Which means that even though you see them all coming (out), you're surprised, you're delighted, you're just plain happy for the guy, who is incredibly likeable, good hearted and you want good things to happen to.

Holmes you may remember as the frequent host of programs on MTV in the mid 1990s. So if you're childhood afternoons were TRL and N'Sync videos, there's a lot of that too.

Enjoy. You can't, not.