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Starting this month with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

I just finished Famous Last Words, and my next read will probably be Victorian Psycho!

I just finished Coraline and The Silent Patient, now starting The Original Frankenstein! Hopefully I will get to read The Collector,The Goldfinch,Sadie, and other books.

Pumpkin spice and poltergeist 🎃

Gonna be reading the sun is also a star to start off this month.

I finished Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White last night. It was announced last month that Lilly Wachowski will produce a movie adaptation of it, which is pretty awesome.

I haven't written a review for it yet, but as a trans person, I can tell you, it's a very, very trans story. Like, it's full throttle rage at cisnormativity and the hell people invested in cisnormativity create for us trans people and others. I don't want to give any spoilers but it's a novel written by a righteously angry trans person and it has things to say to the cis world that the cis world isn't really able to hear right now, so no surprise Wachowski, whose own movie The Matrix, another very trans work, was misinterpreted for so long, took an interest in it.

EDIT 10/03/2024: my review of Hell Followed With Us

I just finished reading Shark Heart 🦈. My next read is going to be Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

Change of plans. Starting with Fourth wing not The sun is also a star.

Got started with Good as Gold: A Villainous Love Story last night

Read Graveyard Shift by ML Rio last night. It's pretty meh. Also finished Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and it's problematic and not just a little. I had no idea it was this problematic from how wildly popular it is but now that I know, I wonder if that's part of its popularity. My main issue is with its treatment of pedophilia and children's bodies, but relatedly, I also felt the book is kind of transphobic, with being voyeuristic towards trans kids' bodies, but it's hard to say any more about that without spoilers so I'll leave it at that. Just take that as a major content warning for that novel.

Checked out the graphic novel Homebody by Theo Parish from the library today. So far it looks great.

Also right now am reading the novella The Word for World in Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin and am loving it.

I've just started The Madonna of Bolton by Matt Cain

Currently about to start butcher and blackbird and then probably two sides to every murder

i finished My Dark Vanessa yesterday and just started The Haunting Of Hill House

Right now Im reading Spindle of Sin! Loving it so far.

On a Seth King binge read

I'm rereading "Space Opera" at the moment, in preparation for the new sequel.
I already loved it, but it's way more fun than I remembered it.

Ace! Hope to finish it by the end of the month.

y wrote: "Ace! Hope to finish it by the end of the month."

Excellent! I haven't read the whole book yet. I have to be particularly motivated to read a non-fiction book front to back, but as a fellow ace, I like Angela Chen a lot, she is a very good communicator and I'm happy she's part of our aspec community.

I read Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known About by George M. Johnson, who also wrote All Boys Aren't Blue, yesterday and loved it. It's very short, but very good.

I've been meaning to read All Boys Aren't Blue, will def check out Flamboyants too. I'm currently reading One Dark Window, which is so far a 5-star fantasy read. I don't think it has any queer rep, probably not but I'm on page 50 out of three hundred something so who knows. But its still really good so far

Currently I'm reading The Tragedy of Felix and Jake! I hear it doesn't have a ton or excess amount of shut (good for me) and it hits close to home because it's mainly about two former drug addicts who fall in love. Kinda excited because most reviews were positive and it seems like a "ruin you and make you wish you'd gone blind so you'd never had to read this" kinda book which makes me stoked

CJ wrote: "y wrote: "Ace! Hope to finish it by the end of the month."

Excellent! I haven't read the whole book yet. I have to be particularly motivated to read a non-fiction book front to back, but as a fell..."

I agree! Chen is truly a good communicator. The chapters are divided into short sections, each with a smooth combination of anecdotes and arguments, and the language goes straight to the point—all making the book easy to read for an easily distracted reader like me.

Bad Habit by Alana Potrero —about coming of age as a trans woman in Madrid in the 80s and 90s.

I just finished The Nightmare Before Kissmas. It was so good!

I’ve been reading A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft. It’s a Sapphic, Dark Academia, Academic Rivals Romance that’s perfect for Halloween’s :)

Finished up Homebody by Theo Parish, a YA graphic memoir about questioning and exploring gender and being comfortable with yourself even if you don't have all the answers yet. It's a great, affirming read. Highly rec'd.

i just finished A Botanical Daughter, currently pondering what to read next :(

CJ wrote: "I finished Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White last night. It was announced last month that Lilly Wachowski will produce a movie adaptation of it, which is pretty awesome. ..."

omg a movie has been announced??? that's so cool!! is there any information on estimated release date or anything like that?

I am currently reading a few books:

1984 graphic novel by George Orwell (reading very casually)
Heartstopper Vol 5 by Alice Oseman
The Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks

Just finished The Widow & the Will which was simply amazing. Could not put it down and finished in two days. Now moving on to The Leftover Woman

Ray wrote: "omg a movie has been announced??? that's so cool!! is there any information on estimated release date or anything like that?."

It's in development so we're still some time away from learning of a release day.

‘Salems Lot by Stephen King. Early into this, but I’ve heard there’s a queerest element between the two main vampires? Anyone have any insight?

Marshall Thornton just dropped a surprise and released the 7th book to the Pinx Video Mysteries series entitled Kapowie!. Hope I get my copy soon, can't wait!

I haven't seen a post from the group in ages, and now I know why...so please indulge me as I make a:
GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT.

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I'm reading Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher! That's really good so far! And I'm reading some mangas a friend lent me!

Do you want a funny, lesbian-centered cozy horror mystery for your #Deathtober reading pleasure? I'm here to tell you that you really do: Bad Makes Bad by Ilyn Welch got over 4* from me here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm about to start Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

I just finished reading the overnight guest by Heather gudenkauf. It’s a very Gude thriller with split timelines!

Currently, and slowly, making my way through The Book Eaters and just started A Little Life

Reading The Boys on the Mountain by John Inman

I'm trying to finish my current open series like the only a monster ^^

I just finished reading The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity

I am now reading We Are Not Broken

Reading Showmance

Currently Reading:
Heartstopper Volume 5 (Waiting for it to become available on Libby to finish)
Murder on Orient Express Graphic Novel
1984 Graphic Novel (very casually)

currently reading in memoriam by alice winn

Pumpkin spice and poltergeist also~! I just finished the Honeys as a late summer horror read and Honeybloods for the sapphic vampires.

Shades by Jaime Reese.

I'm joining the Hang Kang hype. Picking up The Vegetarian next!

Now reading Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón

Just started on The Dragon Blood collection (trilogy) by Lindsay Buroker