The House Of Hidden Meanings is the latest memoir by Ru Paul Charles, international star, known as a drag queen, actor, singer, the show runner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Ru Paul’s Drag Race is now an international series with 31 different series with a mix of being from different countries around the world, including the Phillipines, Mexico and a number of countries across Europe and down under. But in this memoir, Ru Paul delves back to the start, growing up in San Francisco as a poor, black kid in a predominantly white city. Ru Paul shares about his numerous struggles and challenges in building his brand and business. From learning to flip cars, networking and selling his brand until he got this name. If nothing else, this memoir shows how cleverly Ru Paul has managed to work through to build the brand he has and the one that has provided an international platform nearly world wide for drag queens. A previously underground world, to one that is beloved and sought after. 

Don’t let my personal star rating put you off reading this book. It’s incredible what Ru Paul has managed to achieve for himself and shows some of the powers had in consistently believing in yourself. But overall the writing is slow and there’s a lot of detailed car talk to kick off for my liking.🤣🤣