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Tell us what you are reading this month.

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Chulito

Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire
fascinating, though I may be feeling tired of theory.

highlights so far are Cervantes on Muslim subjects, with an argument to include him in Islamicate studies; and 'Female Cross-Dressing and Same-Sex Marriage', on French dilutions of Arabic originals.

Bryn wrote: "Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire
fascinating, though I may be feeling tired of theory.

highlights so far are Cervantes on Muslim subjects,..."

This looks so gripping!

Thanks, added this to my never-ending to-read list.

:)

You can see I am a nerd like that LOL

Reading Kraken by China Miéville. What a wondrous author!

Kernos wrote: "Reading Kraken by China Miéville. What a wondrous author!"

I enjoyed that book very much too. I want to read more by him.

Clodia wrote: "Kernos wrote: "Reading Kraken by China Miéville. What a wondrous author!"

I enjoyed that book very much too. I want to read more by him."

As do I. I love his style and new words he introduces me to, like 'horripilation', a most perfect word, IMO.

Kernos wrote: "Clodia wrote: "Kernos wrote: "Reading Kraken by China Miéville. What a wondrous author!"

I enjoyed that book very much too. I want to read more by him."

As do I. I l..."

Is he gay?

Chris wrote: "Kernos wrote: "Clodia wrote: "Kernos wrote: "Reading Kraken by China Miéville. What a wondrous author!"

I enjoyed that book very much too. I want to read more by him...."

No, I don't think so.

I didn't think so either but he looks gay.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It's a bit too bonkers for me.

I recently read The Unintentional Time Traveler, which was terrible, More Than This which was interesting but had (for me) an unsatisfactory ending, and Prudence: A Novel which I found rather boring.

So not a particularly good run!

Now I'm reading Harmonica's Bridegroom.

I just finished Bleed Like Me and I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas, and now I'm reading Hellenismos: Practicing Greek Polytheism Today

Just finished City of Whores. Really enjoyed it. I think you will, too. It was really tought being gay back then. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

City of Whores

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, the underappreciated sequel, forty years later, to A Canticle for Leibowitz.
I'm not sure where he's going with them but he has themes of androgyny, and he's made his main bisexual. There was no hint of this sort of thing in Canticle.

I finished Kraken and started reading The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu

It's not bad per se, but the racism strikes hard and fast.

I just finished Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography -- a fun, light read made more fun by the "Choose your own adventure" format. I probably read it through 5-6 times, choosing different options along the way. And then, for closure, I flipped through it page by page, reading anything that had been previously skipped. Curious to know how the audio book of this plays out...

The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard and it's a scream. So funny!

I finished The Giver Quartet—what a gem of YA fantasy. I saw the movie also which I really liked.

I started Forty Thousand in Gehenna an Alliance-Unionside novel by CJ Cherryh a prequel to her brilliant Cyteen. Cherryh is my favorite living Sci-Fi author.

I'm reading Made for You and Rue Toulouse

I finished Forty Thousand in Gehenna. Great book! I'm glad I read Cyteen first. Cherryh herself says 40,000 in Gehenna takes place Between Cyteen and Regenesis

When I finish a book, I have to start another immediately no matter the time or events. So I read a few pages of Makers by one of my heros Cory Doctorow at about 2°° am last nite—@BoingBoing

Clodia wrote: "Kernos wrote: "Reading Kraken by China Miéville. What a wondrous author!"

I enjoyed that book very much too. I want to read more by him."

I, too, need to try more of his books. I've just read The City & the City, and was fascinated by it.

Kernos wrote: "I finished Forty Thousand in Gehenna. Great book! I'm glad I read Cyteen first. Cherryh herself says 40,000 in Gehenna takes place Between Cyteen and Regenesis"

I've read and loved Cyteen and Regenesis as well. Do you like Cherryh's Foreigner series?

Robyn wrote: "I just finished Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography -- a fun, light read made more fun by the "Choose your own adventure" format. I probably read it through 5-6 times, choosing different options along the way. And then, for closure, I flipped through it page by page, reading anything that had been previously skipped. Curious to know how the audio book of this plays out... "

I thought the audio was worth it, listening to him tell the story in his own voice. But the tradeoff is that he reads it straight through (ending each section with a slightly more vague, "if you want to do this, it's coming up; if you want to do that, you'll have to wait until I tell that story later") Well, he does it better, but you get the gist.

Fortunately, I was able to borrow it from the library, and borrow the hardcover at the same time, so I was able to see all the pictures, and the exact book format.

I grew up on Choose Your Own Adventure books, so this was truly fantastic to me.

Maurice by E.M. Forster, for my Queer Book Club. About an eighth of the way through. I'm enjoying the writing. But who is speaking in the dialogue is frustratingly hard to follow at times.

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Maurice by E.M. Forster, for my Queer Book Club. About an eighth of the way through. I'm enjoying the writing. But who is speaking in the dialogue is frustratingly hard to follow at times."

That's the only E.M. Forster novel I've ever read. I heard it's one of his weaker works?

Melville: A Biography.

Forster's Maurice a cult book in my family.

Alex wrote: "That's the only E.M. Forster novel I've ever read. I heard it's one of his weaker works?"

I'm not sure yet, Alex. I'm loving the subtleties of the story, but I can't tell who's doing or saying what, which is annoying.

Bryn wrote: "Melville: A Biography.

Forster's Maurice a cult book in my family."

In mine too Bryn. I like the movie too.

Kernos wrote: "Bryn wrote: "Melville: A Biography.

Forster's Maurice a cult book in my family."

In mine too Bryn. I like the movie too."

So do we. A well-done movie, does justice to the book.

Meanwhile, my Melville biography is good so far on his sexuality, his bisexuality even though she doesn't like to use an anachronistic word.

I hope your dog gets well soon, Emma. Merry Christmas!

Kernos wrote: "Bryn wrote: "Melville: A Biography.

Forster's Maurice a cult book in my family."

In mine too Bryn. I like the movie too."

I must confess, I like the movie better than the book.

I'm nearly halfway through Maurice now and I'm rather enjoying it. It's beautiful.

Don wrote: "Noticed that I'm not going to reach my goal of reading 35 books this year. I've been very distracted the last quarter of the year and fell short..."

I almost didn't make my 52 books a year challenge, but I cheated last minute and grabbed a manga. I can always read those in under 30 minutes.

I'm on book no.52 (Maurice), so I'm on track for my challenge this year :-)

I'm still doing older Sci-Fi. I finished Port Eternity a great horror/SciFi by C.J. Cherryh and started Missing Man by Katherine Anne MacLean

Maclean is a new author for me—actually I've nor heard of her, but read great things about her work. Is anyone a fan?

Just finished Because She Loves Me (non-gay fiction), a very enjoyable page turner. Review here: http://www.100wordreviews.com/blog/be...

This month I've read:
Teeth by Chele Cooke (An urban fantasy vampire novel with a few LGBT characters.)
Cell by Stephen King (Surprisingly one of the main characters is a gay man.)
The Disassembled Life of Duncan Cole by S. Hart (A steampunk gay romance between a disabled mechanic and a coal miner.)

I'm currently working my way through an advanced copy of Douglas Wynne's new cosmic horror, Red Equinox.

Those Who Saved Us by Jenna Blum. Historical Fiction taking place in Nazi Germany.

And Playing the Role of Herself by K.E. Lane for my Lesbian Book Club book of the month. Really enjoying it.

I am reading Down and Dirty by Rhys Ford and also A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Oops, it's January 2015, people. We need a new thread :-)

This is Dec/Jan—

I finished and reviewed Katherine MacLean's Missing Man and made extensive edits to the library entry.

I started reading Beholder's Eye book 1 of the Web Shifters trilogy by Julie E. Czerneda a favorite author.