Missing one but here‘s my progress on fable for August!

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero
#camplitsy25 @Megabooks @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB

August wrap up!

Loved this #camplitsy read and got through a lot of #lgbtqia books!

10 books is a lot for me! The job search continues but I‘m spending my downtime reading and crocheting to relax and not stress out!

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Beautiful graphic novel (look at the page designs!) about gender identity and finding yourself.

Loved reading this on my new kindle coloursoft.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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What would happen if a work home opened up inside an IKEA? Where would that wormhole lead to?

Lots of humour and action in this anti-capitalist multiverse novella. Ava has recently broken up with Jules and is called into work at LitenVärd on her fay off, hoping the won‘t run into Jules there, but things start to get weird when she goes in search of a missing shopper, lost in the store.

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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A world where you choose your own gender, and the magic of slackcraft can be learned and used to manipulate the elements. Interesting queer fantasy!

I enjoyed the first two more than the second two books, but they were low picks nevertheless.

Why did this end on a cliff hanger?? Does anyone know if more in this series are going to be published?

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

« For you, who feels seen when you read these books »

#queerBC
#lgbtqia2025

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Wow I loved this #CampLitsy25 read and will definitely be reading some of Crosby‘s other books!

Even Willow wanted to grab it 😂 #catsoflitsy

I can see it being too violent for some people but I enjoyed it a lot. Fast and lots of action.

🔥Everything burns🔥

Dress progress and my #littenkitten Willow trying to eat the stitch markers!

#litsycrafters #crochet #catsoflitsy # @Catsandbooks

Great author talk at the local B&N.

She‘s going to do a whole series of these historical romantasy novels based on the 4 elements!

Can‘t wait to read this one!

So Jefferson Run is a fictional place in Virginia (I think), but there is a Jefferson Run Rd! 😂

#WhereAreYouMonday
#camplitsy25

Reading buddies in the background.

#catsoflitsy
#camplitsy25

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Important, impactful words.

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Science fiction with a sprinkling of MM romance. My first TJ Klune but won‘t be the last!

Loved the characters but had a bit of trouble with the premise, once it‘s revealed what‘s actually going on so deducting half a star. Right up my alley otherwise!

#lgbtqia
#lgbtqia2025

I got a signed copy!! Yippee!! 🥳

Thanks Barnes and Noble.

Cute little free library in Harlem. Picked up a cope of The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman. Very battered but it is the content that matters.

#littlefreelibrary

#litsycrafters #showandtelltuesday

A close up of the skirt portion so far! I love the effect.

Colour of the yarn looks weird here. It‘s really a purple with red mixed in. The previous post is a better capture of the colour.

@Catsandbooks

#litsycrafters #showandtelltuesday

Dress I‘m working on with this variegated yarn!

You can see where I‘ve done the wrong stitch for a few rounds in the top 😅 oops. I‘m going to stitch in a pattern of the final pink colour there and hopefully it won‘t be noticeable? Any suggestions of what to do here are welcome! I‘m not frogging back. I‘ve been working on this for too long. Fingering weight and 70 rounds of single crochet is too much to redo.

I joined fable!

https://fable.co/kitta-514220423769?referralID=R0KF15JcSu

My username there is the same.

I don‘t think this aura is correct though, I like really dark books usually! I‘ve just read a lot of graphic very sweet novels lately. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Wow. #camplitsy25 favourite so far! I wouldn‘t have picked it up otherwise so I‘m glad it was a pick.

Heavily pregnant and in an IKEA when the earthquake hits, Annie must walk home through Portland to find her husband and get home. Lots of devastation to witness, she reflects on her life.

I loved this. Highly recommend.

#camplitsy
#litsycrafters

The month of Heartstopper!!! And when my new kindle arrived so lots of digital books

#Storygraph

https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/

I‘m always looking for more queer books to read and this list of shortlists always introduces me to some new stuff! Worth checking out.

#lgbtq
#queer
#lambdaliteraryaward

Audition made the #BookerPrize longlist! Interested to see what other #camplitsy people think of this!

Personally I didn‘t enjoy reading it. But I can see how it‘s a good novel? I just don‘t like being confused! 🤣

#camplitsy25
@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

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#hyggehour has me finishing this graphic novel series alongside Hazel. Apparently there‘s going to be a sixth one! I can‘t wait.

Really glad the #QueerBC turned me onto this series and author. I love it.

#catsoflitsy #lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero @PuddleJumper

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Volume 4 of Heartstopper ❤️

Touches on mental health issues and coming out to family as a queer teen. Very heartwarming.

#queerBC @PuddleJumper

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

I can tell already I‘m going to love this book.

Thanks #camplitsy25 for suggesting it, it wasn‘t even on my radar.

@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

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Loving this series and probably going to power through all of them today 😂

Super cute coming out story.

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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Omg squee this is just so cute. ?

Graphic novel about Charlie a gay boy in high school who befriends Nick who‘s the year ahead of him. It has all the questioning and adorable shared looks and confusion of first thinking you might be gay, without being overly clichéd about it.

Definitely worth a read and I‘ll be getting the next one from Libby asap!

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 sports @Kenyazero

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Oof tragicomic is a great way to describe this. It focuses on, in graphic novel form, her life from childhood to the time surrounding her fathers death and her coming out as a lesbian. This memoir is hard hitting.

Helps to be fairly well read to understand all the implications of all the books mentioned but not essential.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

#ShowandTellTuesday with #LitsyCrafters and @Catsandbooks

I‘m working on a planned pooling project! You have to count the stitches per colour of a variegated yarn and put in the number of stitch repeats into plannedpooling.com and determine how many stitches per row to do to get a cool kind of plaid pattern. Keeping the number of stitches the same is hard and requires varying tension and frogging a lot. This has taken me ages but I love it!

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

Just need a Latinx author or rep to complete the card!

Any recommendations Litsy??

I enjoy mostly science fiction and literary fiction, things I don‘t enjoy are young adult and romance - but find queer books with it more tolerable 😛.

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The third book in this Sherlock and Watson but if they were lesbians living on the rings of Jupiter series! Newly out.

There‘s another case and it looks like Pleiti is investigating on her own this time. Off to one of the outer platforms to the University where there‘s an academic in trouble, receiving threats and having odd things go wrong in her lab right before a big academic award is being bestowed on her.

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

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Wow I read this in a day! Partly because it was due on Libby tomorrow and partly I just got so into it.

Erica starts to realize she might be trans later in life and doesn‘t know who to turn to. She‘s a teacher at a high school, she‘s divorced, and she‘s numb. The story jumps between her POV and that of Abigail a trans student at the school.

Engaging story, though a bit predictable

#campLitsy2025
#lgbtia2025
#transrightsreadathon2025

Re posting @Suet624 ‘s image - my copy is the same!

Different covers on the book jacket and hardcover! So cool and clever. I didn‘t even notice until she mentioned it.

Anyone else have the deluxe edition as well with this?

#camplitsy2025

Omg guys my kindle colorsoft arrived!!! I‘m so excited!

My old one had a problem with the screen so I did a trade in and got this one for a great price with a 20% trade in discount plus 39% off discount for prime day, and a $20 gift card.

This is the 2nd one they sent because the 1st “went missing” from the mail storage station after the delivery driver didn‘t bother ringing my doorbell and marked the building as inaccessible. 🙄 Stolen I think

Rotating bookcase #ShelfLove for @Chrissyreadit & @BarbaraJean

This is Willow surveying her domain. 😂

#shelfie #bookcase #catsoflitsy #littenkitten

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This has all the things I should love in a book but it just didn‘t hit the mark for me. I was frustrated a lot and although the ending was interesting, I was kind of annoyed by it.

I will add some spoiler comments below.

Read for #camplitsy2025.

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It took me so long to read this, I must have borrowed it from Libby 4 or 5 times. It‘s interesting but didn‘t hold my interest well. I was something to dip into between other reads (and not on the subway).

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I was pleasantly surprised! Beautifully written and an interesting story of Violeta: born maybe in Chile (the country is never specified) during the 1920 influenza pandemic and follows her life through the Great Depression, dictatorships and coups, her loves and her children. It‘s written as a letter to her grandson. It‘s sentimental without being overly so.

Taking off one star because it dragged at the end, but I would recommend it!

June #storygraph book report, right on track for 52 books this year!

#camplitsy25 pick Wild Dark Shore and a Murderbot novel take first place!

I think that‘s the last of the Murderbot novels. I hope Martha Wells‘ health improves and that she can possibly write more, I‘m obsessed with the series.

Mary Oliver ❤️

On the train to Boston for a conference and starting this.

My kindle screen stopped responding, usually I only travel with my kindle! This will help me get through the pile of physical TBR books though until Prime Day. Then I will buy a Paperwhite Signature Edition with my 20% trade in credit.

Very tempted by the ColourSoft but omg so expensive. Anyone have one? Is it worth it? So pretty but I don‘t often read graphic novels or comics.

#kindle

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Soo atmospheric and I loved reading the chapters from Orly about the seeds (maybe the biologist in me coming out). There was one instance where the science was wrong which always bothers me but I still love this cli-fi novel about a woman who washes up on the shore and the family living in a lighthouse on a deserted island who find her.

Interested in hearing @Ruthiella ‘s view on this one for our #camplitsy discussion!

#camplitsy25

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Interesting fantasy world where you decide what gender you will be and where a magic know as slackcraft is practised. The story is about twins Mokoya and Akeha born to the Protector.

Interesting storyline, I just checked for book 2 in the series but it‘s not available in my library! 😩 Might purchase it as it ended without really resolving some things.

Reading by my moon happy lamp for #hyggehour.
#QueerBC
#LGBTQIA2025

I love when a book has a map!

Catching up on #QueerBC from last month.

#lgbtqiabookbingo counts for this one too!

#hyggehour reading

Happy Pride Month all 🏳️‍🌈

#Kindle hive mind!

My 10th gen kindle Paperwhite isn‘t responding well when I press in the pink circle so I can‘t really open my library or remove the banner to “stay here” when syncing across devices. I contacted Amazon and they‘ll give me 20% off if I trade in.

Should I get a Paperwhite Signature Edition or a Coloursoft? I‘d love to have the colour but the price tag is high and I don‘t really read much in colour, I‘m not sure it‘s worth it.

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First #Camplitsy25 book is not a pick for me unfortunately!

I don‘t like reading things with unreliable narrators where you don‘t quite understand what is happening, and I get that the book mirrors the play, but it doesn‘t really rescue this for me. I‘m left with too many questions unanswered. Maybe I just didn‘t “get” it and the discussion will change my mind.

#camplitsy

8 books in May! Can you tell I‘m between jobs? 😂

I‘m also halfway through Audition for #CampLitsy2025. Finding it a little tough going as I dislike the main character. I‘ll probably push through to finish it this week and start on something queer for Pride month.

#storygraphwrapup #storygraph

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Set on Preservation, MuderBot helps to investigate a murder of a human who‘s body is dumped at a mall.

Always love a MurderBot novel but this one wasn‘t quite as good as the previous one. Hearing about MurderBot‘s interactions with ART was my favourite parts of the previous novels and this novel was a bit too much focused on interacting with humans who don‘t trust it. Still worth a read if you‘re reading the series.

#lgbtqia2025

Forgot to post this but I finally finished the #TransRightsReadathon challenge for this year!

I‘ve been making #LGBTQIA books a priority and it‘s got me reading a bit more out of my comfort zone and introduced me to new authors!

Definitely recommend giving this challenge a try!