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This book was so wacky and delightful. My favourite Amber Dawn by far! It's a book about returning home and facing trauma and challenges growing up. It's a lesbian love story. It's also a ghost story about a haunted amusement park (kind of)! It's like a queer Scooby Doo (not at all actually but what an image). Didn't want this one to end! #queerbooks

In a waiting room for much longer than expected and I don't have a book! 😱🤢 #rookiemistake

Next up! #queerbooks

Hallmark card: True Love Means Helping You Untangle Your Soul from the Undead. Glitter heart. Glitter heart. Lip print.

“…after we all got our Double Doubles and Timbits, Bobby spun donuts in the parking lot.”

If these references don‘t make sense to you, chances are you are not Canadian. 😉
#MoreTimmiesreferencesformycollection
#CanadianAuthor

(Internet photo)

After she‘s gone, I go through the motions of a quiet night at home. I sit on the sofa, flipping TV channels. I open the refrigerator again and again. I read one poem from Quilting by Lucille Clifton. Clifton is brilliant. Her poetry saved my life, but right now, even poems are not a worthy distraction.
#lesbian #poetry

My favourite comic book characters are Maggie and Hopey. If only they‘d make out more. My sex life is down to reading comics, so here‘s hoping for some graphic action.

(Image from Love and Rockets by Jaime Hernandez)

Set in an isolated small town. ✔️
Haunted closed amusement park.✔️
Body possession by restless spirit.✔️
BUT, it‘s not a typical horror/psychological thriller because:
-Characters have depth, demonstrating both good traits & bad.
-It‘s a lesbian ghost who possesses a lesbian who wants to be possessed.
-It‘s really about coming to terms with the fact that the past cannot be changed, and about separating wants from needs.
#LGBTQ #CanadianAuthor

Men who said, “Are you sure you‘re only 13?” & “Pretty girls are supposed to smile” & “I‘ll teach you how to mow the lawn/drive a car/mix a drink/iron a shirt/tie a tie” & “Your future husband will thank me” & “It‘s just a joke, right, Barbara? Tell her it‘s just a joke.” And Barbara laughed along, always advising me to “Enjoy it while you can. There will come a day when you‘ll be insulted when men don‘t pay attention to you.”

Tamara and I take turns reading to each other from Geek Love. […] Tamara‘s voice is punctuated by little hiccups when she reads lines she likes. “The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern [little hiccup] for anyone‘s comfort.”

“I‘ve got my stay-home date suggestions ready. I rented The Color Purple and I‘ve Heard the Mermaids Singing from the video store.”

Yup. Sounds like a lesbian date in 1990. Thanks, Amber Dawn, for the flashback!

Nine Loomis Crescent is coated in at least 6 layers of Lunar Eclipse—a purple shade of paint that my mother chose for its name—and to set her home apart from the neighbouring cottages. The colour absolutely realized its full potential. Too brazen for the white panorama, the neighbours viewed the house as a painted lady, a tramp. The house may as well have taught itself to say, “Hey, sailor.”

Very cool blend of family drama, queer person returning to small hometown, and a good old fashioned haunting, all while making interesting changes to your usual expectations of those stories. Instead of being afraid of the ghost -- who is a queer woman like herself -- Starla is drawn to her, although she's equally drawn to Tamara, a flesh and blood lesbian who's the self-described "town stripper." Dark at times but also funny! #QueerBooks #CanLit

Really great so far! I've laughed out loud a few times already. #QueerBooks #CanLit

I somehow ended up with six books in my backpack today and I feel like they're pretty representative of how ecclectic my reading tastes are.

Ah, the delicious feeling of a day off with good food and a good book when you've been working really hard!

Amber Dawn's new book!! So new it's not in the Litsy database yet. #QueerBooks