pickIts been a while since i read a queer book this is a gentle lesbian book. This book was better than expected, great story, a bit over descriptive in area's but over all I enjoyed it a lot.
The story didn't have a happy ever after ending which I did like. 4 🌟
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Finished reading The madmans hotel by Niall Breslin 5 🌟 with such a sad ending and no answers.
Started reading Coast guard Rescue one by Natalie Debrabandere.
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pick"Ugh, the pain of being ordinarily terrible," writes Febos, insightful and thoughtful as always. I love her writing and ability to look critically at herself. The subtitle is false advertising, though, this book mostly about why Febos needed to be celibate, ie about her history of toxic and otherwise harmful relationships, not about other types of pleasure she discovered while celibate. Missed opportunity to discuss asexuality/aromanticism too.
pickSuch an amazing book! It's set in the Dominican Republic in a science fiction universe where "pocket worlds" aka small alternative universes have been discovered. Time is either slowed down or sped up in these PWs. An archeologist and her biologist wife explore them with enthusiasm, until one day things go horribly wrong. A beautiful and smart meditation on motherhood, climate collapse, grief, capitalism, and the nature of time itself. #QueerBooks
pickThat was fucking weird (complimentary). BUT NOT TOO BOLD is sapphic monster mystery romance with a strong Gothic undercurrent. Normally I find the "all vibes" for hundreds of pages of gothic fiction tedious, so this novella length was perfect for me. Do not read if you're afraid of spiders, or, conversely, if you love them so much you'd be distraught to hear of them being deep-fried and eaten. #QueerBooks #LGBTQ
pickA mouth-watering and twisty mystery! The no-nonsense protagonist is Sagarine, a passionate chef whose love of food permeates most of the book's pages, when she isn't lamenting her attraction to a gorgeous Russian gangster for whom she finds herself working after the head chef of the restaurant where she works is found murdered. Fast-paced and compelling! I found Sagarine's truly terrible life decisions believable and the twists very well done.
I am intrigued by the premise of this book (a main character with dissociative identity disorder who has to solve a murder in a castle on an isolated island in a storm??) but can anyone else who's read this confirm (or not) if there are LGBTQ characters? I saw it tagged as a queer mystery but no signs yet 50 pages in. #QueerBooks
pickWhat if you woke up to your last night's date dead, and a mistake you made might have killed them? This book dips in and out of being a thriller, also giving time to self-discovery/relationships. The genre mashup works for an entertaining and suspenseful read, poignant and full of insight. Incredibly funny, if you find bad gay sex and a 20s author and his 60s literary agent lugging around a dead body in NYC trying to get rid of it funny (I do).
pickWhile it was lovely to hear the Cree in this book spoken aloud, I don't think audiobook was the best choice for this, as the print copy is full of art! The book traces the literal beginning of time to 19th cent. from the perspective of a queer Cree shape-shifting immortal being. Often funny, very sexy, and scathing. Europeans come out looking, rightly so, as heartless idiots. I would have liked more content that didn't focus on colonization.
The #bisexual choas in this reality TV crime thriller is delightfully ridiculous #QueerBooks
