Queereaders discussion

Still working s l o w l y on From Here to Eternity: The Restored Edition by James Jones. I don't often do so, but I'm highlighting passages a lot.

I've also started The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst. I've been told that my own writing style is reminiscent of his.

I'm about to start The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, which I'm hoping won't prove too much of a downer.

I'm reading After Francesco by Brian Malloy

I've just been approved for a NetGalley ARC of Savage Love from A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras by Dan Savage.

just finished The Death of Vivek Oji and was absolutely mindblown, and now i've started The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping which is equally intense

So, I'm reading Lorde of Chicago, mystery set in 1932 Chicago, when 2/3 of the way through a lesbian angle (subplot) appears!

Just finished My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel for a book club and found it thought-provoking and altogether wonderful, though imbued with sadness. a solid four stars.

Currently reading The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois which is turning out to be a powerful epic story, spanning generations of a Black family and amazing Black feminist characters. There are gay and lesbian family members but that's not the focus. A novel written by poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Not Love Alone edited by Martin Humphries, gay verse published by Gay Men’s Press in 1985

I've been working my way through the Booker longlist, but taking a brief interlude to read The Performance by Claire Thomas - really enjoying it!

I’m reading The Maze Runner and have been for the last 4 and a half months. I’ve entered such a long reading slump, any tips to get me out of it?

Thanks David, for the tip of The Performance. kindle sample downloaded.
I just finished the last in Carsen Taite's Texas romance/mystery series. Satisfying reading from a Texas author Carsen Taite

Run River by Joan Didion.

Checking out some Russian lit - Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev.

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Slowly the city appears to be returning to "somewhat normal" after the lockdown. Let's hope it doesn't happen again.
In the meantime I'm reading New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor.

And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality by Mark Segal.

Carved in Bone by Michael Nava.

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell. It’s the third book in the series and I’m loving the character development and how far the relationships have come.

Just started Jan Morris' In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary which is so far a pleasant, undemanding read.

TimInCalifornia wrote: "Just started Jan Morris' In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary which is so far a pleasant, undemanding read."

I read it recently, finding her a bit too much of a curmudgeon after a while.

Currently reading two books. Just starting Heaven is for real by Todd Burpo and also almost halfway through a the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

“One by One” by Ruth Ware and “The Diviners” by Libba Bray

After the beautiful The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, I am reading now A Quiet Vendetta by R.J. Ellory and it is a very solid candidate for the worst reading of the year (even worse than Recursion). I am very tempted to stop reading it...

Matt wrote: "“One by One” by Ruth Ware and “The Diviners” by Libba Bray"

Ruth Ware is very much hit-or-miss with me.

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

right now i’m reading a true crime series: Tiger Girl & the Candy Kid: America’s Original Gangster Couple by Glenn Stout

Bunny by Mona Awad. Finally. People kept telling me I must read it. If it's as good as Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, which I loved, then I may need to make 'bunny books' my next goodreads shelf and seek out more of them.

The Assistant by S.K. Tremayne

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow. No, I didn't knock off The Portrait of a Lady in two days; I just delayed posting an update to this discussion.

Working on my book club read When the Moon Was Ours, and also slowing reading a #Netgalley ARC for The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets. Neither are as good as I'd hoped for (so far).

Eugene wrote: "Ravelstein by Saul Bellow. No, I didn't knock off The Portrait of a Lady in two days; I just delayed posting an update to this discussion."

I was mesmerized by this novel. The forward momentum of the prose is like a torrent.

I loved it most in its audio form, narrated by Dakin Matthews and produced by PublisherHighBridge Audio. The newer Audible recording is no where near as amazing, sad to say, and I'm not sure the Dakin Matthews version ever made it past audiocassette technology.