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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian

Joined September 2016

Bisexual. Librarian. Parent. Reader. Writer. www.caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com
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Okay, WOW WOW WOW. This collection of letters -- which sometimes take the form of poems, prayers, spells, and prompts -- is going to become my new spiritual guide to life. It's generous, fierce, sad, hopeful, inspiring, angry, loving, and incredibly powerful. Addressees of the letters range from trans femmes of colour to TERFs. This is an instant new queer classic and the kind of book that makes you feel alive, and glad to be. Dynamic #audiobook!

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Fly with Me | Andie Burke
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A moving, romantic, & steamy romance between two women who believe they aren't good enough for the other. They meet on a plane: Stella is the co-pilot, Olive is a nurse afraid of flying who saves the life of a passenger in an emergency. Cue: a mutually beneficial fake relationship that is never actually fake! Some heavy issues: Olive's brother is on life support & her family has ostracized her, Stella's dad has advanced Parkinson's. I loved this!

Prairiegirl_reading What a terrible cover. It looks like middle grade. Sounds really good though! 5d
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Prairiegirl_reading I don't personally dislike the cover, but I do think it doesn't fit the book! Best to ignore it, I guess! 5d
Prairiegirl_reading @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian I never would have thought that‘s what this book was about just judging by the cover. 5d
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Excited about starting this essay collection about queer womanhood and motherhood, told through the lenses of horror movies, tall tales, true crime, and more. Does anyone else remember the urban legend the title references? I thought it was so creepy as a kid! Doesn't really make sense in the 2020s though!

Clare-Dragonfly I sure do! I‘m intrigued by it as a title for a book about womanhood, too. 5d
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Clare-Dragonfly yes, that's an interesting observation! 5d
LeahBergen I remember that urban legend from junior high! 😱 5d
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On Community | Casey Plett
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Well this was a delight. It felt like getting to sit around with Casey Plett at the kitchen table after dinner talking, except with the luxury of citations. Plett shares a lot of her own life, and the many communities she has been a part of. Smart, vulnerable, and thoughtful. It doesn't present any judgement on community being an ultimate force for "good or bad" --it explicitly doesn't want to-- but I left feeling hopeful about community anyway.

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On Community | Casey Plett
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"Community can be fractured and slippery and seemingly ever at risk of dissolution at the same time that it can consistently regroup and resolder itself, mutate in ever-new fashions, form a balm to meet needs in ways it is difficult to predict or imagine."

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Fly with Me | Andie Burke
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This romance is a bit different from what I expected but I really like it! There is some really thoughtful inclusion of stuff like anxiety, an aging/disabled parent, death of a sibling, grief, and family estrangement. Despite this it doesn't feel heavy to read and is somehow also cute and funny? #Romantsy #QueerBooks

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Rereading the first volume of this comic in anticipation of the second volume that I just got in the mail!

jlhammar One of my favorite graphic novels. So excited for volume 2! 2w
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Bold! Unique! Funny! Nuanced! This novel-in-verse was everything I wanted. Composed entirely of sonnets, it's the story of a year in the lives of a group of queer trans women in NYC, complete with plenty of dyke drama. Don't think because this book is told in rhyming poetry that it doesn't engage in serious issues, because it does: consent, racism in queer/trans spaces, sex work, and financial insecurity. I have never read a book quite like this!

ShelleyBooksie @DinoMom - this quirky book sounds right up your alley!! 2w
psalva I really want to read this but haven‘t been able to get my hands on a copy. I‘m glad to hear good things! 2w
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @psalva I hope you can track it down. It's definitely worth it! 2w
DinoMom @ShelleyBooksie it sure does!! Stacked 1w
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Endpapers | Jennifer Savran Kelly
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This incredible book is an honest and fascinating character study of a mid-20s struggling artist and bookbinder named Dawn. Dawn is a gender fluid bi Jewish person living in NYC in 2003 and she is, well, lost. When she discovers a queer love letter written on the back of 1950s lesbian pulp novel cover, she becomes obsessed with finding the woman who wrote it, thinking it will somehow help her self actualize. Beautiful character development!

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So far I love this book! A novel in verse told in sonnets -- so old fashioned -- but about contemporary queer trans women and their relationships, drama, and community. So fun and funny!

"Ripeness is just the beginning of rot"
"Someone has to tell them what zines to read!"
#TransBooks #QueerBooks

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Endpapers | Jennifer Savran Kelly
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"Sometimes, being lost is an opportunity."

I sure hope this ends up being the case for Dawn, the protagonist! She isn't sure how to get out of her artist's block and she isn't sure about how to embody her gender fluidity, and she isn't sure whether her current relationship fits her anymore.

DebbieGrillo Your user name is the best! Hello fellow Canadian. ✌️❤️🇨🇦 2w
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Panpan

There were some elements of this contemporary rom-com that I liked -- a bi breastfeeding new mom main character -- but overall it just didn't hold my interest very well and I found some of the writing pretty cliché. If you're looking for a solid genre romance, this isn't it; other plotlines take up just as much space as the romance. Speaking of the romance, these two didn't excite me much. I found River, the love interest, pretty bland. 🤷‍♀️

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Are "G-ma" and "Big Daddy" genuine alternatives to Grandma and Grandpa that people in the American South actually say with a straight face?? I cannot. Like, the other adults in this book are calling them that??

mcipher My southern mother in law tried to get the kids to call her G-Ma but they refused (this was also when they were teenagers 🤣) 3w
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @mcipher haha! Yeah I think to get that to stick she would have had to start them younger than that! 3w
Bookzombie I feel like I have heard G-Ma before, but not in my family. Big Daddy is silly and just makes me think of Blanche on The Golden Girls as that is what she called her father. 2w
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Bookzombie Yeah Big Daddy is very silly... I didn't know that about Blanche! 2w
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This book opens with a new mom crawling on the floor in search of a pacifier as her baby cries and her boobs involuntarily squirt milk. So far, I am sold!! I can relate.

charl08 Aw 😍 3w
ShelleyBooksie Beautiful baby ♡♡♡ 3w
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Ask the Brindled | No'u Revilla
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Although a bit opaque at times, I really liked this queer Ōiwi (Indigenous Hawaiian) poetry collection:

"what-should-haved-killed-you-but- / under-these-circumstances-keeps-you-wondering-anyway- / how-honorable-is-it-really-to-swim-upstream-with-your-mouth-open”

“tell me where it hurts, no one will say. / leave land. / leave sleep. / walk to the ocean”

“so sacred / so queer / so queer / my / afterbirth / planted / so sacred"

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Bailedbailed

Genuinely bummed that at a couple chapters in this one is not doing it for me since I just finished this author's previous book, Perfect on Paper, which I loved! I don't think this plot / characters / set-up work or are believable as a YA novel. I'm curious why Gonzales didn't write this as an adult romance.

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Perfect on Paper | Sophie Gonzales
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A delightful YA. Darcy runs an anonymous relationship advice service that is very successful until, of course, it blows up in her face. She is such a real, messy teenager, who makes mistakes and fails to see things clearly, but she's also smart and has a lot of heart. I loved the bi representation (I don't think I've seen internalized biphobia as a romance obstacle before?). Character growth! Romantic! Lovely side trans girl character! Funny!

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Bailedbailed

I can tell this is a "love-or-hate-it" kind of book, with its unique, blunt style and quirky deadpan character. Unfortunately it is just not jiving with me. I can see this story really working for other readers, especially if you're looking for neurodiverse queer representation.

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Mehso-so

My mom bought me this book that she read in the 80s. It helped her overcome the damaging parenting that she went through, particularly as a kid of an alcoholic. Reading this book with that context in mind made me grateful she broke the cycle of not treating you children as human beings and the normalizing of abusive behaviour as 'good parenting.' I wouldn't recommend this book in any other circumstance other than the one I read it under, though!

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Learned by Heart | Emma Donoghue
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This was gorgeously written but very sad, made all the more so when you realize Eliza Raine's story is true. Set in the early 1800s, it follows Eliza, an Anglo-Indian orphan, and the now-famous queer icon Anne Lister, as they meet at boarding school when they are 14 and fall in love. The book is meticulously researched, with fascinating and excruciating details about being a young woman of colour in England at the time. Heavy, but beautiful.

batsy Great review! My heart still aches for Eliza 💔 3w
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @batsy thanks! I know, me too 😢 3w
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Just like the first in the series, this cozy sapphic science fiction mystery set a la Holmes and Watson was lovely. I love how Older manages to balance the cozy gaslamp mystery vibes with some serious questions about the nature of humanity and existence. Also: Pleiti and Mossa are tentatively rekindling their college romance and academics are squabbling. Reading this is like a warm cup of tea that the characters are constantly drinking.

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Bailedbailed

There's nothing wrong with this, per se, but it is not grabbing me. Too bad, as the story of 4 out of 5 of the author's family coming out as queer or trans later in life sounded so interesting!

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"sex fills me up & love reminds me / it's okay to be empty" - "dream boy" by Justin Ducharme

"You are utterly in love. What is the distinction between you and this swirling world?" - "a celebration of darkness" by Jaene F. Castrillon

"to my clients who tell me I look tired / i am / because your dick is the 8th one today ... because the bees are dying and i can't make my rent" - "to my clients..." by Stickie Stackedhouse

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We Could Be So Good | Cat Sebastian
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Well this was just beautiful, excellently narrated by Joel Leslie as usual. It‘s a friends to lovers queer romance set in the newspaper world of 1950s New York. Nick and Andy were just so easy to love and root for, as they sloooowly stumble into the cutest, sweetest domestic bliss. At the same time they gradually create a small circle of queer community and friends. The historical setting is wonderfully rendered, as are the secondary characters!

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Luster: A Novel | Raven Leilani
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Well this debut (!) novel is quite simply full of some of the best prose I have ever read. Other writers would be lucky to come up with once or twice in their lives the turns of phrase that Leilani peppers this book with. The protagonist‘s devastating loneliness and lack of belonging are difficult to sit with, but at the end there is a glimmer of hope, of Edie stumbling into an art practice. I'd trust Leilani to take me anywhere w/ her next book.

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We Could Be So Good | Cat Sebastian
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ARE THEY FINALLY GOING TO KISS??? This is such a slow burn but good thing I love a slow burn!! 🐌 🔥

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A delightful Arthurian story about queer friendship, queer siblings, and queer love! I love how Croucher balances wit/comedy with vulnerable characters and heartfelt takes on serious issues. This book is full of great relationships (Gwen the princess with her years long crush on the kingdom's only lady knight that finally comes to fruition!!) but my favourite was the friendship that blossoms between her and Arthur. From hate to queer friend love!

rachelsbrittain I'm reading this one right now! Glad to hear it's good. Feels like the perfect Valentine's Day read. 1mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @rachelsbrittain it is perfect for V day! 1mo
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Luster: A Novel | Raven Leilani
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WOW WOW WOW the writing in this book 😮

Ruthiella I loved this book! So fraught and complicated but so compelling. 1mo
Kitta I loved this one too! 1mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Ruthiella exactly my experience so far! 1mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Kitta I'm so interested to see where it goes! 1mo
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Greta and Valdin | Rebecca K. Reilly
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A showstopping debut!! I absolutely loved this story about two queer siblings and their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian family. It‘s laugh out loud throughout but also makes you cry and think. Reilly makes it look effortless. I loved the characters fiercely and felt so moved by the book's insights into family, parenting, queerness, and cultural identity. These wonderful weirdos will live on in my mind like real people for a long time.

TrishB I‘ve just finished it. ❤️ amazing. 1mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @TrishB I'm excited to see what Reilly writes next! 1mo
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Greta and Valdin | Rebecca K. Reilly
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My view while reading for the next little while! 😍 🐣

TheBookgeekFrau A most beautiful view 😍 1mo
BookmarkTavern Precious! 1mo
julesG Enjoy the honeymoon! They grow so fast. (my view 14 years ago was similar - can't believe it's been 14 years already) 1mo
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @julesG I know! I can't believe my first kid is 2.5 now. She looks so grown up compared to a newborn! 1mo
marleed What a view!😍 1mo
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Onto another #audiobook to keep me awake and occupied while breastfeeding my newborn!

I'd have a crush on the kingdom's only lady knight too if I were Gwendolyn! This is interesting so far although I'm a little iffy on the voice actor for Arthur; hopefully he wins me over. The actor for Gwen is great.

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The Bell in the Fog | Lev AC Rosen
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What a great historical mystery! And an amazing #audiobook performance by Vikas Adam, who does unique voices for each character. I love how Rosen doesn't shy away from the complexities of being queer in 1950s San Francisco and the tough sometimes unethical choices people made for self-preservation. A meandering surprising plot with lots of local colour in the setting. I also love how Andy frequently uses the library in his detective work!

Bookzombie I love this series and agree that the narrator is amazing. I noticed yesterday that the third one comes out in October. 1mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Bookzombie ooh that's exciting! 1mo
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The Bell in the Fog | Lev AC Rosen
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My second baby was born a few days ago! This #audiobook is getting me through late night and early morning feedings. It's really good!

TheBookgeekFrau Congratulations!! 1mo
BookmarkTavern Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 1mo
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monalyisha Big congratulations for your little wonder! ✨ 1mo
Soubhiville Aw, congrats! ❤️ 1mo
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llwheeler Congrats! 1mo
Ruthiella Congratulations! ❤️ 1mo
Julsmarshall Congratulations! Such a special time! 1mo
AmyG Oh wow! Congratulations. How wonderful. ❤️ 1mo
Suet624 Gorgeous photo. Congratulations! ❤️❤️ 1mo
CrowCAH Congratulations, Mama!!! 💞 1mo
KathyWheeler Congratulations! 1mo
DaveGreen7777 Awww, congratulations! 1mo
UwannaPublishme Congratulations! 👶🏻❤️🎉 1mo
Bookzombie Congratulations! 1mo
TheBookHippie Beautiful!!! 💕💕💕💕 1mo
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LeahBergen Congratulations!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
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zezeki Congratulations!! 🥳🥳💕 1mo
TheLudicReader How exciting. Congratulations. ❤️ 1mo
DocBrown Aww how precious! Congratulations and well done! 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly Congratulations! 🥰🥰🥰 1mo
marleed Congratulations - beautiful pic! 🤱 1mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian Thank you everyone! 1mo
TieDyeDude Lovely! Congratulations. 1mo
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This queer horror novel is the first authorized return to Shirley Jackson‘s iconic queer horror The Haunting of Hill House from 1959. Same setting, new characters. I had high expectations and they were pretty much met (I wanted a bit less action pre-house and a little more buildup to the climax). But Hand does an amazing job creating a spooky atmosphere and I found the borderline unlikable characters and their relationships fascinating.

Clare-Dragonfly Ooh, “high expectations and they were pretty much met” is high praise! I have this on my library holds list—I‘m excited to read it! 2mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Clare-Dragonfly hope you like it too! 1mo
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Greta and Valdin | Rebecca K. Reilly
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Reading in the car while my toddler sleeps in the backseat. This book is very funny so far. I love a sibling story, and in this one they are both queer!

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Unnatural Death | Dorothy L. Sayers
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This was a great re-read of a classic mystery! The #audiobook version is read wonderfully by Ian Carmichael. I love Mrs Climpson, Wimsey's detective for hire, who gets all sorts of juicy information from people because she's an inquisitive older lady and no one suspects her of being a spy. This one also has interesting (for the time) sapphic subtext, both for the murder victim and the killer.

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I haven't read a book that did such a good job doing exactly what it set out to do in a long time. A melancholy character study of a young woman whose mother recently passed away who has a life-changing affair in her first year of college with an older woman professor. I was tempted many times to record some of Hart's beautiful but sparse writing but decided to just stay in the moment and keep reading. An incredible book, especially for a debut.

Ruthiella Agree. This was a great debut. Well written and thought provoking. 2mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Ruthiella I'm looking forward to seeing what she writes next! 2mo
Megabooks Yes agree!! 2mo
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I was really excited about this one -- how often do we get historical queer Latina love stories!! -- but it ended up falling a bit flat for me. Something about the writing and/or characterization didn't quite work for me, but I'm finding it hard to put my finger on it exactly. I did love all the details about sapphic Latin American expats in Paris in the 1880s. I would love to time travel to go to one of those lesbian get-togethers!

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Ha! Two women who have a brief encounter in the sapphic quarters of a Parisian brothel unexpectedly meet again at a business meeting where the power imbalance is immediately thrown off... What a fun beginning!

I only wish the publisher could have sprung for a photographic cover that featured both women. I would love to see the older, masculine presenting Latina woman who wears trousers!

#QueerBooks #Romantsy #QueerRomance

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Unnatural Death | Dorothy L. Sayers
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Getting a cold when you are 33.5 weeks pregnant: not recommended

Listening to an old Dorothy L Sayers mystery you've already read while sick and very pregnant: recommended

Soubhiville I hope you‘ll Feel better soon! (edited) 2mo
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Here We Go Again: A Novel | Alison Cochrun
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This was a wonderful lesbian romance with equal amounts of humour and tragedy. Two small town childhood best friends turned enemies turned opposites-attract soul mates are forced to spend time together and heal their old wounds when their shared queer elder and teacher mentor tells them he has terminal cancer and wants to do a cross country road trip to die in a cabin he owns on the other coast. Feat. demisexual and lesbian representation!

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Some of my five star reads from 2023! (Titles cut off from the screen shot are Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, & The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.) A few were rereads of favourites (Anne of The Island, Six of Crows duology) that I read while sick with pregnancy nausea and some October rereads of classic horror, but the rest were mostly new authors!

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Here We Go Again: A Novel | Alison Cochrun
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This is so good so far! Old best friends turned enemies have to take a cross country road trip as it's their queer former high school teacher / mentor's dying wish. Pretty sure part of his plan is to get these two ladies to forgive each other and fall in love #QueerBooks #Romantsy

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Much Ado About Nada | Uzma Jalaluddin
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Ahhhh! This was so good. My favourite Uzma Jalaluddin yet. A wonderful second chance romance and a Jane Austen's Persusasion retelling set in Toronto's Muslim community. You know a romance is well done when the plotting feels tense and unpredictable even though you know the characters will end up together. The protagonists' dynamic was awesome, so much chemistry and such a unique story. Loved all the secondary characters too and hated the villain.

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I wrote a best of queer books list for Autostraddle! It's a joy to highlight queer/trans writers and to connect readers to their books. Every year this list gets harder to make! 2023 had a few books that I think are truly new queer classics (HIJAB BUTCH BLUES, ROAMING by the Tamaki cousins, I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN).
https://www.autostraddle.com/65-of-the-best-queer-books-of-2023/

LiteraryinLawrence I just read the article and it‘s great! I added several of your suggestions to my TBR! 3mo
psalva Awesome! I took notes for a queer book club I‘m starting to facilitate. It‘s always good to have more suggestions, and a bunch of these weren‘t on my radar 📚🏳️‍🌈 3mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @LiteraryinLawrence yay, so happy to hear it. Hope you get some good reads from the list. 3mo
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @psalva yay! Hope your book club goes well. 3mo
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Much Ado About Nada | Uzma Jalaluddin
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This book is so good!! And I'm only half way through, so I've got lots more to savour. Uzma Jalaluddin is so good at creating flawed and lovable characters. I was immediately on Nada's side. And she and Baz have such a history and chemistry! 🔥

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Roaming | Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
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Oof this book was so good and too real. Two old high school friends meet up on spring break of their first year of university in NYC, where they've always wanted to go. One of their classmates tags along ... and throws a huge wrench in the dynamic. Young sapphics making questionable decisions, evolving friendships, a strong sense of place, gorgeous drawings, impeccable dialogue! Great job with the charismatic but ultimately toxic character.

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Men I Trust | TOMMI. PARISH
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A very thought-provoking graphic novel. The art is a strange mix of surreal/abstract, with hyper realist backgrounds and people drawn with oddly out of proportionate heads and bodies and unnatural skin colours and changing hair. I felt like I didn't quite *get* what the art was doing. It‘s about two women who almost make a connection, but one of them being entitled and pushy ruins it. I really felt for the character who's a single mom.

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This graphic novel about a queer softball league second chance romance is just a ridiculous amount of silly, gay, and horny. Haha, I laughed out loud multiple times. Deliberately campy but also serious when it needs to be, this is a messy story of three people (two women, one nonbinary person) in a love triangle. The art style is appropriately whimsical, and the jokes are vulgar. Read this book to fill the League of Their Own hole in your heart.

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How to Excavate a Heart | Jake Maia Arlow
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Got about an hour into this but I'm not really feeling it. It's not bad, just kind of meh. I feel like the author is constantly telling me why the character's behaviour is bad, because of her recent breakup. I get it, stop overexplaining! This is probably a better queer Jewish pick for the target audience, teens, than 38-year-old me lol. #QueerBooks