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As PRIDE month comes to a close I thought I would share some GREAT books I‘ve read recently. These are all written by LGBT authors and are so fantastic.
#pride🌈

I love EVERYTHING about this book - the insightful and engaging storytelling, the vulnerability, the humor, the sheer kindness of it all. Coyote is a nonbinary transgender person who uses them/they pronouns. Now in their early 50s, they recount stories of their life thus far as they have learned to carve out a space in their own way, despite living in a world that does not always make space for them. The writing is so honest and moving. So good.

I‘m only halfway through and am sure already this will be one of my favorite books this year. My oldest child is nonbinary and this author‘s experience is so similar to my kid. I just can‘t help but love this book. The writing is just fantastic and the way Coyote captures all these memories of their gender discovery helps me see my own child in a new way.

Ivan Coyote is such a charming and skilled storyteller! It was great to listen to Coyote read this audiobook. Tender, tough, inspiring, gut punchingly sad at times. Coyote speaks the truth about being a non-binary trans person in this world in such an important and insightful way! Already excited to revisit this one! #transbooks #nonbinarybooks

Next up! I love Ivan Coyote's storytelling and love that they narrate this audiobook! #queerbooks #nonbinarybooks

Went to hear Ivan Coyote in Edmonton tonight, an event that was part of MacEwan University‘s Pride Week. I didn‘t get their latest book because I already have this copy at home, signed by everyone who performed with Coyote at the Vancouver Writers Fest in Oct 2016. I love Coyote‘s writing and I‘m embarrassed to admit that I still haven‘t read this.

This book was fantastic. Each chapter is a different vignette in Ivan's life, and while it's not really linear, it's also not hard to follow at all. I didn't know they'd written other books, but one is called Gender Failure and I definitely need to track it down now!

Moving on to a book from #Canada for my Read Canadian Challenge! This is a memoir from a non-binary person, and so far is really good.

Narrated by the author of course!! 💛💜 This book is just beautiful and I don't normally do short stories. It's so honest and brave and real. Can a book be brave? I think the author certainly can be. All the ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐s

Tomboy Survival Guide, among The Evergreen Awards nominees 😄🌲 literally strung from a library evergreen. 🏫📚

Read. This. Book.

Then tell a friend, a parent, a sibling, a co-worker or the person standing next to you at the bus stop about this amazing book you just read that you couldn't put down and you wished everyone was reading at the same time so we could all talk about it. Not just because it is #pridemonth, but because it is that good, and we owe it to each other as citizens of this diverse world. #transbooks #LGBTQ

First off, any statement that begins with "no offense, but ... " is the ass-crack-smelling handshake of all sentence structure. I mean, it seems friendly enough, but it lasts leaves you sniffing the air afterwards, and wondering.

In case you had the wild notion that it wouldn‘t be: Ivan Coyote‘s latest and 11th book is possibly greater than everything they‘ve done before. If you‘ve never read an Ivan Coyote book before, this would be a great one to start with; it really shows this celebrated storyteller at the height of their powers. Powerful, funny, and sad true stories about trans/gender, family, & being a person in this world. #QueerBooks #TransBooks #LitsyAtoZ #LetterT

#Riotgrams Day 15: #BooksAndTreats! Honestly starting a new Ivan Coyote book feels like a treat in and of itself but the almond roca is pretty sweet too.

This is just one stack of #MyLocalLibrary for #Riotgrams day 7. It's the Joe Fortes branch of the Vancouver Public Library, a small branch in the West End / gaybourhood. It's so lovely to have this #LGBTQ section! The branch is named after a famous local African-Canadian lifeguard who used to work at the nearby bay.

Best #BookMail ever!!! I just got three review copies of queer and trans books from the wonderful Vancouver-based Arsenal Pulp Press. One is Ivan Coyote's new memoir about going up a tomboy in the Yukon and being a trans adult. On the right is an anthology of stories about health and health care by all sorts of trans and queer writers, edited by Zena Sharman. On the left is a YA about a bisexual teen girl figure skater. #QueerBooks #TransBooks

"Ivan writes about their years as a young butch, dealing with new infatuations and old baggage, and life as a gender-box-defying adult, in which they offer advice to young people while seeking guidance from others." [From the cover.]
I will see Ivan performing with Vivek Shraya later this week in Edmonton.
#orangecovers #tbr #queerbooks

"The kid keeps talking to me, asking me stuff, showing me her Lego helicopter. 'Leave her be,' the mom says. The kid looks right at me. 'I don't think he is a lady,' she says. 'I think he is a man with very pretty eyes.'"

If you ever have the opportunity to hear Ivan Coyote perform, you must go. The storytelling with live music event at #VWF16 was fantastic. #queerbooks

Up next at #VWF16: "a collaboration between Ivan Coyote and three friends who, through their story, music, lyrics, memories and photographs, have created a show that's part anthem and part instructions for dismantling the gender stories we tell."

Got my galley today! *happy dance*

Book bingo square "literary journal or magazine" - we have all kinds of these in the house because my sweetie gets paid in subscriptions when her stuff is published. Geist Fall 2015 has an excerpt from Ivan Coyote's latest.