I have always been a big reader. Anything that is of any interest to me, I want to read about it. Obviously, I decided to look-up some books on crossdressing recently.
The first I tried was Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success by Veronica Vera. I was very disappointed by this book. The writing-style was very over-the-top, almost veering into stereotypical drag queen territory. The format was in reference to what I was assuming to be a real school for crossdressing and reference to who you would meet and what they would do with you. If this were a brochure for prospective students it would be fine, but in a book marketed to helping crossdressers it was often less than useful. The actual content was quite poor too, in my opinion. The majority of the book was made of brief paragraphs on a topic containing a URL for a website on the topic. Because a good number of these links were for e-commerce, the book was far too American-centric to be any use to me (the postage would have been a killer!). Being largely a collection of URLs, the book sets itself up with an undefined expiration date too. Most of those addresses I decided to investigate further turned out to no longer exist, and I would imagine that is true for the rest of the book. I could not recommend this to anyone!
Following this, I decided to try Tricks of the Trade: A Beginners Guide to Cross Dressing by Carollyn Olson. I found this book to be a lot more practical. Again, I was not entirely thrilled by the format. The writing-style was perfectly fine, but often you would have successive sub-chapters telling you essentially the same thing, just in a slightly different way. This gave the book a 'padded' feel. On occasion I felt there were paragraphs that were repeated word-for-word, though I honestly did not go back to confirm this. Apart from that, however, the content was good and should be useful. The book provides a lot of practical advice and step-by-step instructions that, while possibly useless to those who already have their own routine, would be invaluable for those yet to establish one. The book was not particularly useful to me at this very moment in time, as the topics were largely aimed at someone who has gone 'deeper' into crossdressing than where I currently reside, but it one I can see myself going back to in the near future. Chapters providing advice on how to apply makeup and present better in photography will be quite useful to me once I start trying those things!
While I have briefly skimmed over a couple of other books, these are the only two I have read so far. Are there any good books on crossdressing that you have discovered?
Mules, clogs, flats? Sounds like we're pioneering in 1880s North Dakota. 
Originally Posted by Morion
