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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!

This was very fun, very nerdy, and very cute! I swear I had no idea this had queer content, but I guess I have some kind of spidey sense because one of the leads is bi and demisexual. I loved this grumpy/sunshine combo, especially since both of them are older. Although lol on the cover artist who apparently thinks that's what a 48 and a 50 year old look like. Great secondary characters too, especially the ones you were meant to hate!

What a book, so smart and darkly funny!! Damani is a queer brown rideshare driver who's scrapping by, dealing with grief and taking care of her mom. When Damani meets a rich white woman named Jolene, she falls hard and fast. But you know Jo is going to betray her, and it is tense waiting! Guns can write, and she can really transport the reader into Damani's head. The ending was totally perfect, expertly open-ended and conclusive at the same time.

A lovely collection. I especially liked the poems to or from the perspective of Frida Kahlo, as well as ones that had images of west coast nature. I have a feeling I missed a number of references. The ones I did get really accentuated the poem's meaning: for example, there's one poem titled "All the Beyoncés and Lucy Lius" after the Outkast song. For bi/queer women of colour representation in poetry this book is especially interesting.

This was a wonderful character-driven novel about three generations of women, all deeply felt and empathetically drawn. Motherhood, abortion, sexuality, career, belonging, friendship, and family relationships are all recurrent themes. I haven't read a novel in a long time like this that felt so truly like it was about real people, a real slice of life in the 1990s and 2010s. I loved how Whittall dealt with the character Missy's bisexuality.

A lovely bi-for-bi romance about two oddballs with social anxiety finding each other and making a little found family for themselves, their queer (ace and gay, respectively) best friends, a couple dogs, and a quirky little French kid. Just so lovely, there's no other way to describe it. #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQ #BisexualBooks #Romantsy

My best queer books of the year is up today on Autostraddle dot com! This list is truly a labour of love and a very difficult thing to put together because there is so much abundance in queer lit today. Did your favourite queer books of the year make the list? Let me know! #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQ #TransBooks #BisexualBooks https://www.autostraddle.com/92-of-the-best-queer-books-of-2022/

"A visit from Andrew Kim-Prescott is usually a highlight in my sad-hermit life, but this is just the flammable tinsel on the dried-out Charlie Brown Christmas tree of my day." ?

I love a good thematically on brand metaphor.

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I may still be in the middle of a Halloweeny gothic science fiction book (Leech -- very good but a bit dense) but does that mean I can't also start a Christmas rom com? I think not. 🏳️‍🌈👭🎄

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This was fucking weird and dark! Quite short, just like a little snapshot of some people who call each other friends but seem to hate each other staying in a haunted Heian mansion in Japan and things going very wrong very quick. Very meta in terms of its use of the horror genre. Sharp writing, particularly the creepy, gross, and/or macabre metaphors, like when Khaw describes someone's words hanging out of their mouth like a body on a noose.