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I'm reading Circle in the Sand by Fox Emerson

I'm reading Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson

1984 the graphic novel (reading very casually)

I've been reading Two Twisted Crowns and then after I finish it I have Just for the Summer, both checked out from my local library :)

i’m rereading If We Were Villains :)

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the risks of this new US administration don't fall equally on all here. The Spring before Obergefell by Benjamin S. Grossberg brings that home.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Twisted games

The Way of the Hermit by Ken Smith

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking!!

I'm reading Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

Im reading Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley

1984 graphic novel (very casually)

I'm currently reading The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis (about halfway through and unsure so far) and Open Throat by Henry Hoke (I saw this described as "a fever dream of a novel" and I couldn't have put it better myself)

Naked and Unafraid

The Women

Gideon The Ninth!

Just finished Reading Queer Ducks and going on to read Asha Thanki’s A Thousand Times Before :)

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lise See

I’m reading Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros, then I’m gonna finish up Every word you never said by Jorden Greene

Was so happy to find a library copy of the no-longer-available ebook of Trouble and her Friends by Melissa Scott, a queer SF author who won multiple Lambda awards in 1990s for writing queer-inclusive SF (including for this novel) but is largely overlooked today by both SF and queer readers. I only just learned of her and it's because I am currently doing a cyberpunk-focused reading project and was researching older cyberpunk novels. I may have to spend 2025 hunting down Scott's other books, especially after learning her partner died of breast cancer (which I'm currently fighting), so I have a ton of sympathy towards her.

Also reading 1666 by Lora Chilton and Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse in honor of Native American Heritage month.

I'm reading G'morning, G'night: Little Pep Talks for me and You as well as Daughter of the Moon Goddess. I never saw Hamilton but I like how Lin Manuel Miranda weaves words together. Or maybe I'm biased because of his love is love speech lol. Hearing him is very pleasant.

Daughter of Moon Goddess romance feels like a speedrun but I like that Xingyin can fight and hold her own. We love to see strong ladies.

I’m reading The Secret Life of Bees!

Just started Middle of the Night. About 200 pages in on the first day. Really enjoying it. And some surprise LBGTQ+ storylines!

Terrific novel in R.B. Lemberg's Birdverse, a dense fantasy storyverse I love: Yoke of Stars Yoke of Stars...almost five stars!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

finally reading some books I've stashed away in my tbr since they got nominated 🥲 halfway through dark and drowning tides of rn tho

finally began reading captive prince today!

i’m currently reading bury your gays! :)

I'm just starting Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna

Currently reading The Spellshop! 💙

Haley Cass’s Those Who Wait. So good!

Bookends Just finished this. Really like the characters, especially the daughter, Brianna, and the sensitive way the author dealt with her neurodiversity, and the main character's grief and loss.

I just finished reading The Cabin at the End of the World, and I really liked it! Also just started rereading The School for Good and Evil :)

CJ wrote: "Was so happy to find a library copy of the no-longer-available ebook of Trouble and her Friends by Melissa Scott, a queer SF author who won multiple Lambda awards in 1990s for writing..."

i have a physical (used) copy of this book, it's one of my favorites ever. its definitely kinda hard to track down lol

Yeah, after I returned the ebook to the library, I bought a used copy and am still waiting for it to come.

But I'm genuinely baffled by how Trouble and Her Friends is so overlooked now. Now having read it, I see it very probably having been one of the sources that the Wachowskis drew on for The Matrix (among various things the two works share, like the intersection of queer existence with cyber culture, Trouble... uses Alice in Wonderland as an analogy for virtual existence on the internet--I need to do more research to see if there was an earlier work that made a similar analogy). Yet the Wachowskis have never mentioned it to my knowledge (and I was a snoop and checked to see if Lilly follows Scott on social media, and no, not as far as I can tell). Nor have I see any article on the making of The Matrix mention it. Yet it won the Lamdba award so queer creatives in 1990s, even closeted ones like the Wachowskis at the time, would have likely known of it then.