What kind of man, indeed!!!! (I love books)

Listen, not every book needs to be as big a pervert as I am, but this sex scene (which avoided both directly referring to, or even alluding to, genitals) was real... weird.

I'm seeing the next book is about Vasic, but how can that be, when he and Aden are already married??? (What I would give for queerness and transness here in the cishet mines.)

Gotta saw, when Kaleb got his first name and I got the feeling he'd be a lead someday, I was kinda doubtful. It speaks to the strength of the series that by the time I got here I could understand it, and the strength of this book that it totally works. Less sure about the series' preoccupation with the romantic feelings of teenage girls towards adult men, but you win some and you lose some.

Kaleb Krycheck wearing -cargo pants- is a hilarious image to me

My Scar reading has sped up, because it's going well so far. Here's 2 things I've thought about this morning:
1) this book could pull the exact same twist that Perdido Street Station did, with Tanner. Please don't, book.
2) hearing about the different lands makes me think very strongly of the Wayward Children series

I have made it to the bombs dropping segment and I gotta say, I don't love reading it right now! It kinda makes me feel sick!!

It's a novella, so any amount of discussion of how human beings are biologically incapable of interacting with vampires without becoming hateful is going to tip the mix. And it comes up A Lot! What do you call it when your chosen family tries to kill you? I don't know, but I am not a fan.

I read Perdido Street Station 9 years ago, and I found a reveal in it so off-putting that I have read any Miéville since. However, I want to try listening to a podcast (shocking!) and their first topic is The Scar, so, with trepidation, I'm reading it. Slowly.

A short, gorgeous book. So many nonbinary feelings! So good to know that what I feel, I don't feel alone!

Sometimes you try to investigate a new shared author series, and you see a book up for pre-order, and it's a polyamorous riff on Ratatouille (don't worry, the rat appears to be a man transformed into a rat by a military experiment), and you think to yourself 'Books are incredible.'
(Book by G. M. Fairy)

Got further in this than I have in awhile, but I still cannot engage with trad pub single POV. I'll keep testing it periodically! Sorry, perfectly nice book!

Every time Amara gets mentioned, I'm pumping my fist and chanting Amara! Amara! Love that bad vibes lady.

Kaleb out here, hanging out on the actual edge of a cliff, the world's biggest drama queen

Almost made a so-so before that wild ass reveal that brings in some transphobia without seemingly understanding that trans people are real. The man needs and editor BADLY

I decided to experiment with the sort of romance novel I think of as a "porch book" aka a book with a porch on the cover, and I really tried, but so much of it is just repelling me like a magnet - this, I think, is what I expected romance novels to be when I decided (as a teen) that I wouldn't be reading them.

Wait, at nearly 60% this book is deciding to propose that social media is like cults from the 70s, specifically the cult that has 100% already caused supernatural shit to happen?? This is only my second Nevill book, but I don't think he's great at writing characters getting upset, because it's always about the wrong thing.

Picked this up from Hoopla because I saw one of the leads described as a "horror author", but this guy just dismissed the very idea of writing supernatural horror. I hope his ass gets haunted.

I do not think this burgeoning subgenre is for me: too much cross over with "literary horror", too slow a burn. A single nightmare is the first 60 pages of a horror novel (while the rest is a basically straightforward family drama) just... isn't enough for me.

A wonderful, wonderful book - structurally trickier than Dead Collections, but, to me, just as emotional. Hoping I get to read new Isaac Fellman books for a long, looooong time!

Got stressed out by my pile of books to read (can I go to 2 back to back horror book clubs, especially when one of the books I have to read I am dreading??), but as this evening reminded me, I also GET to read a new book by one of my favorites. Book good so far! I've already cried quite a bit!

Hell of a first line!

Boy, I wish I hadn't forced myself to finish this! Real no thank you hours!

Writing just rubbing me the wrong way

Just saw this title on an upcoming book list and immediately had to see if there was any cross dressing involved and there doesn't appear to be?? And, while making this post, I see that there are a handful of books with this title and do any of them have cross dressing??? You are riding the title coat tails of one of the great comedies with no respect for tradition?!?!?!

It's ALWAYS crying about siblings o'clock!!!!!

Got the reading together for the next Shelved by Genre unit! They're doing post apocalyptic fiction.

"When I'm fighting to live, I think to myself: what a story to tell my sister. I will be her favourite story. I will be the greatest story she ever heard."

It's crying-about-siblings o'clock in these parts

Meanwhile, if Sally Shears isn't Molly Millions I will eat my cyberspace deck and also be disappointed

The first half of this book is a reread for me, but I feel compelled to say: Nate SUUUUUUUUCKS

Finished this one and yeah, I loved it! My favorite sort of werewolf narrative (where figuring it out is a big part of it), with a more thoughtful take on fandom than I was expecting, and two leads I loved. The emotional stakes/situation at the end was pretty perfect. Awoooooo

Confirmed!

I am currently listening to this audiobook, because it turns out hoopla has it and I can't just take a day off to read the book like I want, but what that means is I cannot check if, indeed, Devin describes himself as taking a "big, slutty inhale" - dirtbag puppy indeed!

oh my god, this book maybe takes place in Florida

Let me meet these ocean changelings! Let me meet them right now! I hope one of you is some kind of star fish, one of the voracious predators, just to keep that changeling theme going!

When you gotta finish one wolf book to read a completely different wolf book

🚨I think some side characters might be gay in this book! Finally!!!🚨

This thing was never going to be a pick, but that last slog really took it out of me. Get your shit together! And don't even get me started on the fucking MMC POV as epilogue and you switch to 3rd person!!!

The grim, -grim- feeling that a book should be wrapping up, but it still 150+ pages left...

I read a little more and, uh oh, I am in danger of loving Bobby aka Count Zero aka an idiot who just got his brain computer scrambled by maybe touching a vast, alien machine intelligence. Try not to pull your own face off, Bobby!

Reading along with Shelved by Genre, starting the parts of the Sprawl trilogy that I don't think people talk about much! Very interested to more properly meet the possibly titular Count Zero, who has been around for about 3 pages and spent them all stupidly computer-dying

Oh, this YA graphic novel is Charming As Hell! When the children I know get older, they will be getting a copy.

I enjoy this series, really I do, but they are definitely trips into the cishet mines, and now that Sascha is pregnant it's just getting weirder. You know your fetus's gender, psychically??? And don't even ask me about feeling the life-force at a couple weeks post conception...

Gift Card Books (minus 2 February preorders)

Honestly, the horror of some of the final chapter bumps this Gothic up to a light pick. Good for you, book!

I... I don't think this book understands It's A Wonderful Life very well