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12-11-24: My 46th finished book of 2024! This was a sexually charged novel about the life of a bisexual writer. From growing up in a small town in Vermont where his mother and stepfather taught him a love for Shakespeare to the town librarian who taught him a love for reading and himself. We follow him into his late 60s through his youth, to NYC and the AIDS epidemic, and back to Vermont again. A love letter to being true to yourself. 💖

One new - one used. Bookstore finds while driving through Lansing, MI. #deadtimestories #wayfarerbooks 😊
Let's see if I get to these in the next 6 years. 😅

I don't feel like Shaw has much to say that's new, interesting, or intellectually challenging. I found her discussions of complicated issues at best unintentionally omissive, at worst harmfully reductive. She does present interesting if depressing research on bi+ people re: mental health, discrimination, refugee status, and sexual assault/harassment, but issues pertaining to people of colour, non western cultures, & nonmonogamy are not done well.

How is it June already?! And my first born turns 8 tomorrow?! Life is moving so fast - thank goodness for #bookspin and the kickoff of summer reading!

I did DNF this, but only because it was lacking something. What that something was I can‘t really explain, because I was rooting for the characters. Bo has a reputation because of her mom who needs taken care of herself, which definitely was not fair. Then Agnes is legally blind with a friend who thinks she‘s a burden and parents who are afraid for her to do anything. I did ready the end to see how it turned out and I was mostly satisfied.

“I‘m exhausted from the burden of representing almost two billion people.”

I bought this book 10 years ago when it came out and struggled to get into it. Finally made it through, but most of the info was stuff I‘d learned in that decade gap. While it wasn‘t my favorite, this book helped validate some experiences I‘ve had, like “compulsory bisexuality” or being asked/expected to participate in threesomes or multi-partner sex. Great for someone who‘s starting out or has some knowledge.

Thankfully this was only 0,99€ on Kindle. The characters have one very annoying trait - Emma is obsessed with love, Sophia thinks love doesn‘t exist. Together with their terrible friend group, they want to make a film. Sophia can‘t shut up about artsy French movies and never explains what artsy means. There is a lot of lying & manipulation and a half-cooked coming-out story.

⭐️/5

#lgbt #yafiction

I'm jumping on the double bracket train that I've seen a bunch of others doing. My goal to read more nonfiction this year is going pretty well so far, so it'll be nice to see these choices separately.
My favorite from January was Bi
#readingbracket2023