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Kitta
Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin
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Excellent, but I kept falling asleep while reading the beginning (still sick). I can‘t tell if I was bored or the start was slow or if I was just still too sick to read. Worth persevering for the ending.

An LGBTQIA classic published in 1956, about an American living in Paris coming to terms with his homosexuality. His girlfriend Hella is on an extended vacation to Spain, when he meets Giovanni.

#LGBTQBookBingo2024
#10beforetheend

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BookmarkTavern
Haunted to Death | Frank Anthony Polito
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Partners in mystery solving & life, PJ & JP are solving the most difficult problem of their home remodeling TV series yet. A house rumored to be haunted by a 25 year gone dead beauty queen.

I wanted to like this because the mystery was really interesting. But all the characters felt vaguely cartoonish, the writing felt amateurish, & the flashbacks really killed the flow of the story. The final resolution was interesting, but not enough.🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑

BookmarkTavern General warning for dealing with the loss of a parent 1mo
OutsmartYourShelf On to the next! 1mo
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Kitta
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#hyggehourreadathon (from last night!).

I started this book about grief. It was on my StoryGraph recommendations and I plowed through about a third of it yesterday.

Beautifully written and devastating depiction of losing your wife at a vulnerable time, during childbirth. The main character struggles as a new mother, alone.

It‘s got a dystopian flavour, and is lgbtqia. Definitely up my alley, thanks StoryGraph algorithm.

#lgbtqbookbingo2024

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Kitta
Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
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Love this series! It‘s so cute and heartwarming. A great prequel, even if I knew exactly what was going to happen.

Before Legends & Lattes, Viv the orc is flighting with the Ravens against a fearsome necromancer and is injured in the battle. This is the story of her convalescence and maybe of a few fights along the way.

Worth a read if you like cosy fantasy with lgbtqia themes.

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@Kenyazero

Kenyazero Excellent pick! I'm looking forward to reading this one eventually. 2mo
Kitta @Kenyazero I got it from Libby! The Brooklyn library has a great selection. 2mo
Kenyazero @Kitta oh nice! Looks like I'm in luck, my library has it on Libby too! 🤩 2mo
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Kitta
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Mehso-so

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I think this is an important book, the messy emotions and queer family structure highlighted are all true, but I struggled with it a bit. Accepting the decisions the three of them had come to was … I didn‘t really believe it.

I saw myself a lot in Ames, their trauma, struggles with dissociation. It was hard to sit with and see on the page. I‘m not trans, but as a queer person I struggled a lot.

#readyoukindle
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Kenyazero
A Power Unbound | Freya Marske
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I didn‘t think I could love a book more than I did the first two, but it happened! Marske makes excellent use of a trope I usually hate - enemies to lovers - and continues to build on already vivid character and world dynamics. She‘s also a master at spicy scenes if those are your jam, constantly one-upping her prior scenes somehow. Given how much I love this series, I was delighted to see a glimmer of more on the horizon. #lgbtqia #magic

Kenyazero Used for #OwlHouseReadathon The Boiling Isles: an unclear or muddled history; #LGBTQBookBingo2024 a 5 star read #lgbtq2024; and #GottaCatchEmAll SirFetch‘d: a titled character @PuddleJumper 2mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2mo
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Kitta
Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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Update on #lgbtqbookbingo2024 #lgbtq @Kenyazero

Planning on reading Giovanni‘s Room for published before 2000 and need to find a aro/ace book!

Anyone have any suggestions?

#asexual #aromantic

Kenyazero A few I can think of for ace are: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune; Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe; Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault; Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger. 2mo
TieDyeDude Non-fiction or fiction ace book? Loveless by Alice Oseman or Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kahn are good YA options. Amanda DeWitt has a couple novels with ace characters, too, but I haven't read them yet. 2mo
Kitta @Kenyazero Elastoe was all over my feed for a while and I‘ve been meaning to read it! I‘ll look into the others too thanks so much! 2mo
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Kitta @TieDyeDude I‘m thinking fiction but also willing to read non-fiction. Not into YA or romance which is making this a bit more difficult. I don‘t mind a romantic plot but find most romance novels to be too much and a bit cringey. Amanda DeWitt‘s Aces Wild sounds interesting though! Have you read 2mo
Kitta Ace (tagged above) has been on my radar for a while, considering that too. @TieDyeDude 2mo
TieDyeDude I haven\'t read Ace, but my wife did and liked it. I don\'t like romance either, but since ace-centered stories are more about figuring out how to navigate a relationship where sex may or may not be involved, they seem more complex and more interesting. Let\'s Talk about Love is a little more generic, but Loveless was a nice twist on the college experience. I haven\'t read Aces Wild yet, but I am hoping it is good, I want to read it soon. 2mo
Kenyazero @Kitta I‘ve read Ace! I‘ve heard a lot of good things about it. It presents many interesting ideas, and introduces and explores topics thoroughly. I didn‘t like it as much for a variety of reasons but still felt like I learned a lot and connected with a lot. 2mo
Kitta @TieDyeDude thank you so much, that clarifies a lot for me! I think I find sex scenes in romance books a bit contrived and cringey so I‘d probably enjoy an ace romance if the focus is on the relationship more. Thanks for the recommendations! 2mo
Kitta @Kenyazero ooo thanks, I‘ll keep that in mind if I decide to go with Ace! I feel like I have a lot of options now. The litsy community is great! 😊 2mo
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Kitta
Greta and Valdin | Rebecca Reilly
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Funny and feel-good, but in a chaotic real life kind of way. I usually stay away from books described as funny because they‘re cringeworthy, but this isn‘t like that at all.

Definitely literary, more about the characters and their development than the plot. It‘s about a brother and sister who live together in New Zealand. Their lives, their loves, and their family.

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@Kenyazero

CBee One of my favorites this year so far! 3mo
Kenyazero Sounds like a good pick! 3mo
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Kitta
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#LGBTQBookBingo2024 progress! I‘m going for a full card this year.

@Kenyazero
#lgbtq

Kenyazero You're doing great! You can do it! 3mo
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Kitta
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Sequel to The Mimicking of Known Successes, a novel I read after taking a @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian quiz, this is a queer science fiction novel about an Investigator, Mossa, and a scholar, Pleiti, who are once again investigating something mysterious on their home space colony, Giant.

Life on earth as we know it has changed drastically and everyone evacuated. Living on platforms above the gaseous planet, things are *mostly* harmonious

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian Yay, I'm so glad you liked it! 3mo
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