Queereaders discussion

Tell us what you are reading this month.

I'm currently reading Rebecca's Cove and loving it so far.

Just finished Arauco: A Novel which was wonderful. Haven't reviewed yet.

Created well, I thought, the cross-sexed/queer shamans of the Mapuche. "...at the Spanish advent machi [shamans] were often men, and not infrequently homosexual" says the author's note. I'll follow up with this nonfiction he's used: Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche

Halfway through The Charioteer.

Just starting Surprising Myself by Christopher Bram.

I'm starting to read

I just finished and now I'm reading

I am reading the City of Bones

I finished and now I'm reading

I finished a few days ago "The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots". Now I'm reading "Nevada" by Imogen Binnie.

Taking a break midway through Thompson's The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time to read The Waves by Virginia Woolf.

I finished Surprising Myself, and I liked it a lot better than the only other Bram novel I've read (Hold Tight: A Novel) but I didn't love it.

Now I'm reading Golden Boy.

I am reading The Maya Papyrus by Richard Cody, recommended by a friend.

I finished Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin, and I'm in love. It's about an intersex teen struggling with identity and it's beautifully written.

I gave four stars to the lesbian YA book Swans and Klons. Now I'm reading

I finished The Waves which was an interesting type of reading though the text sort of consumed itself at the end. Now I'm reading A Shropshire Lad .

I'm actually reading Without Reservations, and so far it's been an interesting story. Let's see how it ends.

I am reading The Last of the Wine and so far it is some of Renault's best.

I've just finished reading Inherent Gifts and really enjoyed it.

I'm 40% through The Third Rule by Andrew Barrett. It's a crazy fun read.

Just finished Talk Language (How to use conversation for profit and pleasure) by Allan Pease and Alan Garner. (Review)

Also just finished The Third Rule - Part One: Atrocities by Andrew Barrett. (Review)

Just started my second Agatha Christie (the second in the Hercule Poirot series) Murder on the Links.

Marsbound by Joe Haldeman. His sf books sometimes include gay themes or characters. This one doesn't, but I still suggest it.

The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. A strange, fun tale.

Growing Up Dead in Texas. Stephen Graham Jones captures rural Texas life in poetic language.

Duane Simolke

Enjoying a pretty weird book about literary detectives. Or something. ... The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.

Just finished The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, wonderfully wacky and really amusing book about time-travelling literary detectives.

Just started The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, which purports to be a mystery story (as is its subject, biology) and to read as if it were science fiction.

I am reading and enjoying it quite well.