Enjoy Dee Dee Day Illustrated By Mykola Dementiuk Publication

love the book, will read more of his work when I get the chance Its a new city, with new dreamsbut will he be able to forget the old and start anew A young man arrives in NYC and rents an apartment from Dee Dee Daywho gives him a little bit more than he expectedlove, passion, sex with heror is that with him Dee Dee Day is a story about a young man named Bill who arrives in New York City attempting to forge a new life for himself.
The setting appears to be the mid to lates, and the central character ends up finding an apartment in Greenwich Village.
He rents an upstairs tenement from an elderly lady named Dee Dee who resides in an apartment below him.


During the course of Bills occupancy of the apartment, he begins to form a friendship with theyear old woman.
Eventually he discovers that she is transgendered, and although she was born biologically male, she has lived nearly her entire life identifying as female.


As the two gradually start getting to know one another, a sexual attraction blossoms, Bill realizes he is utterly enamored by the elegant femininity and grace of this elderly lady, He confesses to himself that he has always been drawn to effeminate men, particularly those who dress as women.
He refers to them as “sissies”, and when he discovers that Dee Dee has a penis, it is wildly exciting to him.


The concept of the story was very appealing to me, The idea of transgenerational love within the context of a transgendered relationship is very unconventional, Unconventional appeals to me, generally speaking, I like to discover the possibilities of love which exist outside of the boxdefying the stereotypes,

In this particular case, though, there were several reasons why this specific story did not appeal to me.
Honestly it really pains me to even have to be this honest about my opinion, because I sincerely thought I would very much enjoy this book, and Id also hoped to be able to offer a glowing review.


Firstly, the writing itself was not strong, The manuscript was riddled with typographical, grammatical, and spelling errors, Many were very minor: using “too” instead of “to” or “its” instead of “its”, But there also were very obvious, glowing errors which could have easily been corrected by a thorough edit.
Here is an example: “Dee Dee was sitting at the table as a man stood before her and loudly talking.
They looked at me as I came in, the elderly gentleman with a frown, I wished I was elsewhere, ” Whoah! Does this paragraph make any sense This is one small sample of the writing style, Paragraph after paragraph, it continued,

Secondly, the dialogue was very stilted, At times I was honestly embarrassed as I read it, It bordered on ridiculous.

Thirdly, there were some boundaries within the story that were crossed which I am not openminded enough to embrace.
One of the three primary characters in the story was a pedophile, He was seventythree years old and very nonchalantly had sex with nine and ten year old children.
This was presented in such a casual, flippant manner that it literally nauseated me, Additionally, the central character tried to have sex with a corpse, and it was described as “beautiful”.


I wish that the story had focused upon the love that blossomed for this very unlikely couple.
I wanted to understand both Bill and Dee Dee, and I wanted to see something meaningful and powerful.
Instead I merely was shocked,

It is my sincere hope that my failure to understand and relate to the theme of this book is not a reflection upon the author.
Hopefully it is my own shortcoming as a reviewer, Im certain there are readers who would enjoy this type of story, and Im sure that there are many who are not as nitpicky when it comes to editing.
Id never suggest to a reader to avoid a book, In fact, I encourage the opposite, I hope you will check out this read for yourself and see if you have a more favorable opinion than I.


Id like to thank the author for sharing the story and for allowing me to present my review.
I welcome any guest reviewer to post a response or rebuttal, Bottom line, though, is I did not care for the writing or the story, and I cannot honestly rate it favorably.
If you know Mykola Dementiuks works, Times Queer, Holy Communion, you know that reading Dee Dee Day you will not find a classical romance.
And how it could be This is the story of a young man in thes who fall obsessed obsessed not in love with his elder landowner, ayears old woman called Dee Dee.


When Bill sees for the first time Dee Dee, he thinks she is an attractive woman of maybeyears, and he is not sexually attracted by her but then he has the chance to discover Dee Dees secret, she is born as Richard, but she never looked like a boy and her own parents decided to let her dress and be like a girl.
In those old time, Dee Dee was happy and in love with Billy, a same age boy who sadly died during the WWII.
Now Dee Dee is living in an house full of Billys memories, mainly photos of that period, and I think she is only waiting for the time when she will be with him again.


If the reader thinks this is a sad story, he has also to think that, truly, Dee Dee is not in love with Bill she is nice with him, and yes, maybe she is also attracted by him, who will be not But atyears old she has not a second chance at love, she is only having a nice affair that maybe it will be useful to Bill.
Bill is still uncomfortable with his body and desires, and Dee Dee helps him understand all better: Dee Dee knows that Bill is not for her, that Bill will go and find his true love, like Dee Dee did and found in Billy.


All the story is set in a past era, thes and thes of Dee Dees memories its strange how to see that Dee Dee considers thes not a good time for gay people, and instead she thinks that in thes they had a better life.
Its not the first time I read a story about gay lovers of thes and its not the first time that I have this feeling that, more or less, in thes they had no right, but simple since they were not recognized as existing, but in the end, they could love each other in the closet.


Again, if the reader thinks that this novella has not a happy ending, I think he is wrong.
It has the only possibly happy ending and this experience serves to Bill to be able to build his life the same Dee Dee I think was not expecting nothing else, and probably she was the first to push Bill to find his own path in life.


A note on the publisher: I think they dared a lot with this story that is not their usual trend, an historical novella ifs can be considered “historical” and an out of

romance rules story, and I think they should be awarded for it with readers taking notice of that.


sitelink amazon. com/dp/BGLY/, . . Mykola's work is often challenging and difficult to read, coming across more as jagged pieces of an imperfect life than as idealised slices of a fantasy.
The stories never quite develop the way you expect, or even hope, Instead, they follow their own natural flow, illustrating a small part of an unfinished life, with questions and loose ends aplenty.
His characters are not always attractive either physically or mentally, but theyre real and that realism is what makes his work come alive.


Dee Dee Day is easily the most accessible of the stories Ive enjoyed so far.
Its actually quite sweet and romantic in many places, exploring the relationship between a younger gay man and a much older transsexual woman.


Its clear that Mykola is playing with opposites here, but its an approach that works well within the context of the story.
Bill is still young and very much discovering himself, whereas Dee Dee is at the age where shes more remembering than discovering.
Bill is somewhat naive and still in the closet, while Dee Dee is both experienced and completely open about her gender and sexuality.
Most importantly, perhaps, Bill has temporary lost the love of his life due to his own insecurities, while Dee Dee has forever lost her lover due to the horrors of WW.


Its a relationship that shouldnt work, but which does, . . at least, for a while, They both provide the other with something that was missing in their lives, with a sense of physical and emotional intimacy that brings them closer together.
The sex here is beautiful and understated, with as much happening off the page as on the page.
Its not the stuff of wild, kinky fantasies, but of two lovers discovering one another and sharing in the frantic passion of newfound affection.


What ultimately throws a kink into their affair is the presence of George an old friend and exlover of Dee Dee who is unfortunately presented to us as a sad and broken yet unrepentant pedophile.
Its another instance of playing with opposites, contrasting the generation gap between Bill and Dee Dee with the even greater age gap between George and his victims.
Fortunately, were never forced to watch George in action, to to listen to him reminisce, but I for one could have done without his presence.
Although Dee Dee and Bill are quite clear in their condemnation of Georges sexual history, the fact that they continue to entertain his friendship may be offputting to some readers.
Its certainly uncomfortable, but also necessary to the plot, ultimately leading to a series of tragedies,

Ultimately, Bill comes out of the story better off than when we first met him, and there is the suggestion that he may indeed enjoy a happy ending.
Like I said, it's an imperfect slice of an unfinished life, but one that compels you to keep reading.
. . and which ultimately pays off in the end,

sitelink blogspot. com/r ½ This is the first book that I've read by sitelinkMykola Dementiuk but it's definitely not the last.
His stories are NOT runofthemill but he's excellent when it comes to creating the characters, In Dee Dee Day that's quite apparent they're different, but that's a big part of their charm, and they definitely work.
There is, overall, an edge to the story that may initially make one secondguess reading it, but there is also a complexity and a freshness that make this, in my opinion, a story not to miss.


I'll say right out that this isn't a book for everyone, but for those who like to push past their boundaries, or who like to explore brave new worlds, then to you I highly recommend Mykola Dementiuk's Dee Dee Day.


I just finished this one, It was interesting in a “you cant look away from the train wreck” kind of way, The characters were not charismatic enough to understand what would motivate a young man to be so attracted to ayear old cross dressing woman.
Additionally, the talk of pedophilia and the characters that engage in it is apparently accepted as a part of their gay life.
There is an appalling nonchalance to the idea and actualization of having friends that actively engage in sex with underage children.
One character, ayear old man named George long time friend of Dee Dee that Bill sucks off at one time dies in a fire with a young prepubescent boy in his arms that police pretend must be his son.
And the main character Bill tries to touch and the cops believe suck and they may be right the cock of Dee Dee Day once s/he dies.


But at times they are sweet together when she is telling him about her young adulthood.


It isnt a poorly written story but I couldnt recommend it because of the casual treatment of the old men/young boys sexual interaction.
Bill does go into detail about his own abuse he doesn't think it is abuse when he wasat the hands of a much older man who shaves his pubes and treats him like a young boy until he trades him in for ay/o.
At one point George, is described as having his young underage boys dress like girls too, I mean, it's not narrated but they discuss it between them as though it is just a regular practice to describe engaging in when they feel like being spiteful.


Even if it was classic literature, which it's not, I just can't see telling casual m/m readers to read it.
I didnt find anything erotic in the sexual interaction small dicks that barely work and dribble out cum or that much of a glimpse into the psychology that would lead anyone to seek out this life.


This author is apparently a fan of Victor J, Banis and Ann Bannon. I Am a Woman by Ann Bannon and The Why Not by Victor Banis are referenced while going through her boxes of vintage gay novels several times.
Finally, I have no idea what the cover is supposed to represent, Both of the characters do not in anyway that I could determine represent Dee Dee Day or Bill
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