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Motheater | Linda H. Codega
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Miners are dying in the mountain. & as Bennie tried to investigate, a mysterious woman is pulled from the heart of the mountain. A witch, who knows that the mountain is waking up, & it is angry.

Wow wow wow. Industry vs nature, & the rural communities caught between the 2. Fascinating characters, queer representation, wonderfully creepy magic, & a fantastic grasp of the scene of Appalachia. An author to watch for damn sure.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

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Soulstar | C. L. Polk
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The Kingston Cycle comes to a close as Robin tries to work to create a fair representative government, while helping the wrongly incarcerated witches rejoin society.

God this was good, but this was such an emotionally taxing time to listen to it. I loved all the characters & the gaslamp fantasy. But I was so stressed.😅Listening to people try so hard to bring about democracy, dealing w/ corruption, police brutality. Worth it, but rough.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

BookmarkTavern #TransRightsReadathon CW 👇🏻 #LGBTQIA2025 @Kenyazero A borrowed book (edited) 2d
BookmarkTavern General warning for forced institutionalization, implications of rape and forced pregnancies, police brutality; Specific warnings for Chapter 14, child death 2d
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Kenyazero
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I decided to pick up Deadendia for the #TransRightsReadathon since I‘ve been thinking about reading it for a while. The pacing is a little off, but otherwise this is a fun read. I definitely like how the characters and plot were reworked for the Netflix show. It‘s interesting that this was originally pitched as a cartoon for Cartoon Hangover before the comic was even made! This is a lower pick. #Comics #LGBTQIA #TRR

Kenyazero Almost forgot to tag prompts! #LGBTQIA2025 a twist ending; #GottaCatchEmAll Sliggoo: characters share one brain cell and a pre-loved book @PuddleJumper and #OwlHouseReadathon The Collector: a character with "the" in their title or name! (I thought it would take a long time to find one for that!) (edited) 5d
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Kitta
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Working as a traverser who moves between worlds in the multiverse, Cara mainly collects data and brings it back to Earth 0. She‘s been picked for the job because you can only visit worlds where your other self has died and she‘s dead in most of them. One day she discovers she‘s been murdered in one of the other worlds and she starts digging into what happened.

Excellent LGBTQ sci-fi. Would recommend!

#lgbtqia2025

Kenyazero This sounds super fun 🤩 4d
Kitta @Kenyazero it was great! Not too dense and I stacked the second one. 4d
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The In-Between Bookstore | Edward Underhill
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Darby returns to his small home town after losing his job. When he stumbles into the local bookstore & finds his younger self, he‘s forced to confront old choices & who he‘s become now.

I liked this liminal bookstore where Darby interacts w/ himself before he‘s come to terms w/ his identity, & “what would you tell your younger self”, but almost nothing else happens in this book.😅 Good characters, interesting relationships, but so slow.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

BookmarkTavern #TransRightsReadathon #LGBTQIA2025 a surprise or twist ending @Kenyazero (edited) 1w
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For Razia, growing up is complicated by being Pakistani in 1980s NYC, highly religious parents, & her developing feelings for a fellow classmate @ her new high school.

Oh, but this broke my heart. My parents weren‘t as religious as Razia‘s, but her complicated friendships w/ the girls in her community, academic pressure, the feeling that you need to follow your parents‘ plan, & the fear you‘ll disappoint them, all felt familiar to me.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern #QueerBC @PuddleJumper #LGBTQIA2025 @Kenyazero A sapphic book, CW 👇🏻 (edited) 1w
BookmarkTavern General warning for Islamophobia, homophobia, references to child molestation; Goodwill, brief violence against a child; Wild Roses, domestic violence 1w
Butterfinger I related to this book, too. 1w
Kenyazero I just started this one for QueerBC but I have plans to take it slow since it seems like it might be pretty tense/sad! 1w
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Kenyazero
Dark Moon, Shallow Sea | David R. Slayton
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During an excursion for revenge on the knights that burned his goddess, her followers, and his home, Raef discovers a man trapped inside of a frozen box who upends the dismal reality Raef has lived in for more than a decade. Absolutely a new favorite. Outstanding world building and character development. Vivid character emotions, and fun relationship development. #LGBTQIA

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 the letter y on the cover; #GottaCatchEmAll Marshadow: a fight, a sneaky character, and a murder @PuddleJumper ; and #OwlHouseReadathon Darius: found family involving a mentor, a character cares about their wardrobe. (edited) 4w
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Kitta
Something Queer at the Library | Mordicai Gerstein, Elizabeth Levy
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Just found out from a friend about the Queer Libration Library which offers membership cards to anyone living in the US and grants you access to their Libby library of queer books!

It looks fantastic. I just joined!

https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

#lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer #lgbtqia2025

Ruthiella What a great resource! 👍 4w
peanutnine Love QLL! Sometimes their wait times are long but they have so many books my other libraries don't offer ☺️🏳️‍🌈 4w
Kitta @peanutnine I saw a couple I ended up buying on kindle last year because they weren‘t available in my local library! I‘m excited to find some new stuff! Especially books in translation. 😊🏳️‍🌈 4w
Kenyazero Oh! Thanks for spreading the word. 4d
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Kitta
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More Murderbot!!

Mensah is in trouble and Murderbot (a bot programmed to protect clients and kill those who attempt to hard them) uses its free will to decide to help.

Dry humour & science fiction, I love this series so much.

#lgbtqia2025 as Murderbot sorta counts as asexual? @Kenyazero

Kenyazero Haha adjacent asexual counts 😆 4w
Kitta @Kenyazero Yay! Murderbot talks in this novel about not understanding humans and their sexuality. I‘ll probably read another Ace book but glad I can could this too. 4w
Bookwomble Murderbot is absolutely ace and non-binary 😊 3w
Kitta @Bookwomble yessss thanks! 3w
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The Price of Salt, or Carol | Patricia Highsmith
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Not a bad month, two bingos, even! A couple of books for #192025, #Nepal book for #FoodandLit, a couple of books #OffMyShelf, a couple of books for #LGBTQIA2025 Bingo/#TBRTarot, and a #1001Books,. Didn't manage one for #FictionalTraveler, as my book for Ireland was actually set in Copenhagen, oops.