Queereaders discussion

Tell us what you are reading this month.

I'm reading The Assassination Game A book in the Starfleet Academy series, expanding on the universe of the newest Star Trek movie with Chris Pine et al. Fun and quick!

I'm reading Second Son: Transitioning Toward My Destiny, Love and Life
by Ryan K. Sallans.

Really good so far.

Just started reading Blood Zero Sky by J. Gabriel Gates. So excited to be reading my first advanced copy egalley!

I loved The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I just finished . It's a really good reference guide for writers.

Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War


On the strength of this review - http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
and a perfect cover. Read a third yesterday, I'm feeling it might fall a little short of that review, or else I read too fast. Anyhow, if you want quality histfic + gay

Also Mary Gentle Ash: A Secret History for fighting women. Ash is the captain of a mercenary troop and she's just great. Her surgeon, who's a woman disguised in order to practice, has just come out as gay.

I finished the Stratification SciFi series by Julie E Czerneda and just started that old classic A Canticle for Leibowitz. It has been so long since I read it, I barely remember the novel.

Bryn wrote: "Also Mary Gentle Ash: A Secret History for fighting women. Ash is the captain of a mercenary troop and she's just great. Her surgeon, who's a woman disguised in order to practice, has just come out..."

One of my all-time favorites!

I just finished a novella, Come to the Tower, Love

I just finished "Dracula," which was wonderfully creepy. Now I'm reading something totally different: "The Well and the Mine" by Gin Phillips. It is lovely!

Just finished "The Velvet Rage". I could disregard it as more psychobabble from yet another gay psychotherapist trying to figure out his own shit, but it is more than that: he gets it. I wouldn't personally use the word "shame" as he does for it's a bit religioso- retro, but the emotions are the same; I would call it "feeling different by someone else's standards". Gay men are very aware they are not the "norm" and have different responses to this.Personally, I don't feel abnormal, inferior, or like I have a "lifestyle" to be approved or not approved of. I live and work among straight people all the time; I would still rather be myself, thanks.

I finished A Canticle for Leibowitz and was blown away by this literary SF classic. I don't think I got much out of it as a teen. Review in progress.

I started Something WIcked This Way Comes for another group's read and in memory of Ray Bradbury. I love his word pairing which elicit strange images.

Wendy wrote: "I just finished "Dracula," which was wonderfully creepy. Now I'm reading something totally different: "The Well and the Mine" by Gin Phillips. It is lovely!"

Dracula is one of those ancient books that remains effective in our 'advanced', cynical world today.

I just started reading Something Secret This Way Comes

"The Velvet Rage." Who has the money to see a therapist these days? Skip it and read this book if u r a gay man; he nails it. My only quibble is I would not use the umbrella term "shame" to cover so much emotional ground. Is it "shame" when you know you are "different" or just "differentism" and all the attending feelings that brings? The term "shame" always conjures religious crap to me. Great book with wonderful insight to reflect upon and put into practical use. The last few pages, a summary of effective action, needs to be digested over time and reviewed periodically; it's radically effective, profound stuff.

About to begin reading Fahrenheit 451, on the recommendation of awesome author and vlogger, John Green, in honouring the memory and legacy of Ray Bradbury. I'm greatly looking forward to beginning.

I just began Where Nerves End by author, L.A. Witt. It's the first novel I've ever read by Ms. Witt, but I understand from others she's a rather popular M/M author. I'm reading Where Nerves End as an entrant to the 2012 Rainbow Awards.

Jon Michaelsen

I just finished reading The Rook and started reading A Discovery of Witches.

& now I'm on The Ninth Avatar

You're a reading machine, Jillyn. :)

I'm now reading Midnight Riot.

I'm currently reading The Riyria Revelations (Omnibus Versions) series by Michael J. Sullivan. About 2K pages of epic fantasy. So far fun and escapist.

Kernos wrote: Dracula is one of those ancient books that remains effective in our 'advanced', cynical world today."

Haven't checked in for a while and it seems like the group has been chugging along.

I agree with Kernos - this is one of those classics that's a classic for a reason. Still effective after 115 years!

I've been on a lite summer reading kick - just started an upper crust drama with book 1 of the Forsyte Saga. And have been trying to read the books that are laying around the apartment that I'd bought but have forgotten about. Was re-reading Personal History while waiting for the Forsyte Saga to come in from the library. Amazingly well-written, interesting book.

Also continued by exploration of John Irving by reading The Cider House Rules a couple months ago. His writing is amazing.

Nancy wrote: "You're a reading machine, Jillyn. :)

I'm now reading Midnight Riot."

I'm trying to read as much as I can before school starts again! :)

I'm reading
Moonlight on the Palms

Jon wrote: "I just began Where Nerves End by author, L.A. Witt. It's the first novel I've ever read by Ms. Witt, but I understand from others she's a rather popular M/M author. I'm reading Where Nerves End as ..."

I finished Where Nerves End and enjoyed it quite a bit; you can see my review here:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Jon Michaelsen
author of
False Evidence

I'm finishing up The Space In Between which is a hard, gritty but crazily honest and beautiful novel thus far. It was a review request posted to my site Flying With Red Haircrow, and in general is of GLBTIIQ interest with a lesbian vaguely bisexual protagonist. That's for my website though. Personally, I am reading Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

What I will be reading otherwise for my review site? I've quite a list:

The Oracle Bone by S.J. Mallory
Twin-Bred by Karen A. Wyle
Sunset by Arshad Ahsanuddin
An Atmosphere Of Angels by H.C. Turk
Shadowed by Ken Hughes
Percevale - I. Les spectres du temps by Anne de Gandt

there are a few more but...I am also trying to complete a number of reads before classes start again in August.

D. wrote: "Seven Gothic Tales Dinesen portrays women in non-standard roles and tropes (the book was written in 1934) and I even detected some queer visibility in "The Roads Around Pisa" with a possibly implie..."

Terrific tales. I'll have to go back to them, I have the dimmest memories of that Duchess... it's been years.

I'm reading Savage Hunger