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Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen. Pride month may be over but I like reading LGBTQ+ themed books all year. This one is about 5 people of varying sexualities and identities in Greenland.

I just finished Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin and I am absoluterly mesmerised

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline. So, so interesting. The stories of Marsha as a teen in New Jersey, Stonewall participant, co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, beloved performer, and caregiver to friends with AIDS. Discussion of her suspicious death. Lots of biography of Sylvia Rivera, too.

I’ve been on a queer fantasy/sci-fi kick. This month ive read Prophet by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blanché, Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin and Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell.

Prophet was a sci-fi story about two men dealing with secret goverment agencies and reality bending technology.

Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead is a lesbian story centering around everyday life and mental illness

And Someone You Can Build a Nest In could technically be called a lesbian love story, but i think better described as a look at humanity and what makes us who we are, told through a lesbian fantasy.

All really different but really interesting reads!

Would love any recommendations

Ive been reading a wlw graphic novel called The Girl From The Sea. Super adorable & beautifully drawn. Such a cute read.

Edelweiss+ did me proud with The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J. West...a solid 4* queer historical thriller read, with one troubling flaw:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I am so overdue for one of those books that is so wonderful that I have to slow down while reading to savor every word of it—and that is exactly what Eloghosa Osunde's Necessary Fiction offers. It's sent in present day Nigeria, mostly Lagos, and features a wide range of gay/lesbian/queer/nonbinary characters. Most of the characters come from families wealthy enough that they're not concerned with making a living, but those who are not prove to be ingenious in figuring out services that seem to become essential as soon as they're offered/invented.

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

I'm reading what some might consider a slightly blasphemous m/m romance set in Hell between Satan & Judas Iscariot. The book is The Saint of Heartbreak by Morgan Dante

Miss Veal and Miss Ham by Vikki Heywood got 4* from me here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Tow of my latest reads in sociopolitical advice, both very good in writing and in message:
The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism by longtime public-affairs lawyer Ray Brescia.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
–and–
How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out by La June Montgomery Tabron.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Both are well worth your time as reads.

I just finished The Hobbit, now I am starting to read Call me by your name & Intermezzo!

Just started "I Who Have Never Known Men" by Jacqueline Harpman and I'm really enjoying it so far!

I just finished Swimming in the Dark…. And my heart aches so badly. That familiar pain you can never forget. The pain of doing what’s best for yourself, but knowing what’s best doesn’t make it any less hard. It’s so damaging… but honestly such an amazing read.

• When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
• The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

Not a romance, or even a romantic book, but historical queerness investigated in Lightborne by Hesse Phillips:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Accepting recs for books similar to these

Now reading Dublin Bay by John Patrick. It's centered on 2 teenaged boys in Dublin; one a local kid from the slums and the other the son of a German diplomat. On meeting they each see the other as a means of improving their status, then a friendship develops and soon more. But it's 1939, war breaks out in Europe, and neither can foresee how things will change even in neutral Ireland.

Two young sapphic women commit an unnecessary crime...hijinks ensue...and the story unfolds fast: No Body No Crime by Tess Sharpe...perfect for y'all Yellowjackets fans.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...