I had some time to kill between voting and picking up my daughter, so I went to the library and got some books.
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Our Wives Under the SeaThe Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I would have finished this #NYWD22 selection from @MeganAnn in one sitting easily (but, you know…life). I would love to see what happens after the story ends. And I‘m definitely interested in exploring more of Gailey‘s novels. They‘re a voice we need more of! 💜
pick#top21of21 ❤️ Thanks for the tag @MaleficentBookDragon
The top row = my top favorites, but all of these were 5⭐️ reads.
Highlights:
📚excellent choices from @BarbaraJean for #newyearwhodis in January. Including honorable mention pick Magic for Liars which led me to the tagged book that I loved even more so it wins the spot.
📚#lmpbc picks Last Night at the Telegraph Club & For Today I Am a Boy
📚rereads of The Bone Season & The Hollows series
pickI enjoyed this short, but felt that the author blamed the state too much and not individuals for the horrors of this world. A post-apocalyptic USA where gender roles are strictly defined and enforced, Librarians carry approved material between settlements in a dry and war focused world. A young women who feels she is poison to all those around her wants to be a librarian and stows away only to learn that the world is more than she imagined. 3/5 ⭐️
pickI liked this book, but it ended just as I was getting a feel for the world the author created. I hope there are more coming.
pick🎧 A violent love story
Esther was in love with her married best friend B who was hanged by her father & now he‘s arranged a marriage to B‘s husband.
RUN! She stows away in a book wagon belonging to 3 librarians & GO!
Summary fits. Of course I didn‘t read it, “The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, & queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.”
Not my genre but it was a quick well-written read.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI never would have read this if there wasn‘t a Western prompt on the Popsugar RC this year, and I‘m so glad I did! I hope the author writes more books or novellas set in this world, because I am here for queer librarians leading the resistance in a dystopian future that brings back many elements of the Wild West!
One prompt to go on #pop20, and I have a picture book picked for it. 🤣
pickI do think this was fun, but it felt a little light. Would be thrilled to read more in this world.
Read this book, you'll thank me later.
Queer librarians in a future that has fascists...the librarians are spies.
Read this. You'll Thank me later
pickAre You A Coward Or Are You A Librarian?"
Badass Rebel Librarians! Hell yeah!
The only thing wrong with this book is it was way to short. I could definitely see this as a series, especially in graphic novel form. ?
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Ah, yes, the dreaded reading slump has sunk its nasty claws into me. This was all it amounted to in July. It's so frustrating to kinda want to read but then at the same time nothing really seems right 😥 Here's to hoping for August to be better 🤞
pickEnjoyed this western novella, packed with action and romance and resistance and representation. (A note for anyone who might have, like me, tried this on audio and bailed: the print version worked MUCH better for me.)
pickAs a story, I liked but didn‘t love this LGBT dystopian future western. I felt like I wanted more from it. As a queer “embrace who you are” rallying cry, I thought it was great.
Ahhhh I ADORED this discussion between Mark Oshira and Sarah Gailey hosted by N.K. Jemisin this evening!!! 😍😍😍
pickI read this today in one sitting. Loved it. Great story and execution. I will have to check out more of their work in the future. This was one I saw recommended on Litsy so thanks!
pickI work from home, so I‘ll be back at it tomorrow, but my husband works at a grocery store and has seen a MASS of humanity over the past four days, so we are self-quarantining from social events and public places. This was my first quarantine book and it was a ROMP. Bad ass women librarians, a resistance against a State that censors information, and sheriffs, bandits, and horses, oh my!
pickA Western featuring LGBTQ+ characters and librarians - how can I not love this book!
I am blessed with a very good friend who not only has excellent taste in books, but is exceedingly generous. This was a Galentines present. She gets me. Kickass librarians for the win.
Tiny bit late in February, but this was the first month is ages that I had a hard time deciding what covers I loved best - there are so many swoon-worthy books out this month! Without further ado, my #Top6 best covers for February 2020!
#CoverLust #CatchyCovers #IJudgeBooks #LibraryBooks
pickNo one does westerns better than Sarah Gailey and this one includes even more of my favorite things! Librarians who travel the desert to take approved reading material to the masses, or a plot for resistance fighters? There‘s bandits, a shoot out, characters who save the day and maybe fall in love. I really love tor novellas and I hope Gailey creates more in this world. The story isn‘t done yet! It‘s just as good as the American hippos series!
pickTried to lure Dexter into a picture with fuzzy results. #catsoflitsy
The cover says it all: (which of course he is in front of) Are you a coward or are you a Librarian?
This was such a unexpected and fun read. 👍❤️😊
pickThis was a delightfully pulpy Western that was just a ton of fun. Gailey really has a knack, too, for building worlds that suggest so much more than what we see. I couldn‘t help thinking about how many other stories this setting could hold.
Dang, Sarah Gailey. Hit me right in the feels why don‘t you.
Check out BR's most anticipated books of 2020 and my pick, Upright Women Wanted!
https://bookriot.com/2020/01/13/most-anticipated-books-of-2020/
bailedI bailed on this at the 25% point because it just didn't ring true to me. It should have been right up my alley and the concept is great. The execution though reads like some lesbian Deadwood fanfiction with the names all find-and-replaced. Disappointed.
Unrelated: I made this Polaroid walkaround costume at work. The shirt is part of it.
How...how am I ever supposed to decide what to read next?
(I mean obviously it's going to be Upright Women wanted but STILL. I want to read all of them Right Now.)
I‘ve spent much of this week trying to fight off a bad cold/headache, which I am still trying to evict. At least the sun has made an appearance today while I am camped out on the couch. And I have built a reading nest and stocked it with the books I hope to start/finish over the next couple days. What are you reading this weekend? 📚
“The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.“
TAKE MY MONEY PLS WHY SO FAR AWAY 2020
We have to wait until NEXT FEBRUARY for this! “The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.“
