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message 1: by Bill (last edited Apr 02, 2025 01:13PM) (new)

Bill | 466 comments I'm finishing up Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi, a horror story set in a remote Catholic boy's orphanage.

When finished that I'm looking forward to reading this month's Book of the Month, SECRETS INSIDE THE ORANGE: 12 artists, 12 short stories by Michael Joe Armijo


message 3: by Bill (new)

Bill | 466 comments Baylan wrote: "Currently reading Last Summer by Michael Thomas Ford"

Hope you're enjoying it as much as I did. Provincetown is one of my favorite places in the US


message 4: by Charlie (new)

Charlie Spring | 84 comments I’m currently reading Cinderella is dead!


mkay ✧・゚: *✧・゚:* | 3 comments Currently reading The Silent Patient!


message 6: by saturn.chr (new)

saturn.chr | 30 comments still reading sunrise on the reaping!


message 7: by Kay (new)

Kay | 7 comments Currently reading the Lady of Darkness series!


message 8: by Amanda (new)

Amanda Edwards | 4 comments I have a bad habit of reading several books at the same time :<
For queer books tho I'm currently reading Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin and I Remember by Joe Brainard!!


message 9: by Bill (new)

Bill | 466 comments Reading Square Affair by Timmothy J Holt. Fiction set in a small Midwestern town in the 60s five men are arrested while cruising the men's room in the Court House.


message 10: by Richard (new)

Richard Derus (expendablemudge) | 60 comments Open, Heaven Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt is poet Seán Hewitt's debut coming-of-age novel, sad and beautiful as they are at their best, out tomorrow from Knopf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 11: by Carl (new)

Carl (Hiatus. IBB in Jan) (carlreadsbooks) | 34 comments I second Richard. Open, Heaven is superb. I’m currently reading and adoring Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens (it’s a dark fantasy exploring the Romany diaspora in Canada)


message 12: by Sarah-Hope (new)

Sarah-Hope | 56 comments I was quite impressed with Doug Jones' debut novel The Fantasies of Future Things. It's interesting in terms of both characters and setting. The characters: two young, Black men attempting to break into the real estate business. The setting: Atlanta shortly after the city has won its bid to host the 1996 Olympics.

My **** review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 13: by Richard (new)

Richard Derus (expendablemudge) | 60 comments Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli has a new translation in time for US #PrideMonth, by Simon Pleasance, and published by exciting new publisher Zando. I gave it all 5 stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 14: by Richard (new)

Richard Derus (expendablemudge) | 60 comments Everything Is Fine Here: A Novel Everything Is Fine Here A Novel by Iryn Tushabe by Iryn Tushabe is complicated by its insistence on honestly showing the cost of homophobia without rejecting a major source of it:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 15: by Bill (last edited Apr 22, 2025 07:49PM) (new)

Bill | 466 comments Our Deadly Reunion by A.V. Shener is the story of 4 formerly close friends, three of whom find out they've been wronged by the fourth, and they set about getting revenge.


message 16: by Richard (new)

Richard Derus (expendablemudge) | 60 comments A book I couldn't wait until #PrideMonth to talk about: The Fantasies of Future Things The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones by debut novelist Doug Jones:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 17: by Richard (new)

Richard Derus (expendablemudge) | 60 comments Or there's lesbian-led Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe, a good debut novel set in Uganda:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


message 18: by Baylan (last edited Apr 24, 2025 04:44AM) (new)

Baylan | 67 comments Just finished Paul Rudnick's recently published What Is Wrong with You?: A Novel and man oh man is he back with those characters you don't want to root for and are realy dislikable but at the same time he weaves his stories so well that it just sucks you right in


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