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A quiet yet engrossing tale of female friendships. Three Mexican girls have in common their love of embroidery. As Mila plans a memorial service for one of them, she looks back on their lives, especially how they began to grow apart during a trip to Europe in their late teens. #Translation by Christina MacSweeney #LGBTQ

Fish male pregnancy was not on my bingo board for this year ...

This is still delightful but I didn't enjoy it as much as the other volumes. I don't like the perfect children trope and the children featured very heavily in this

Wanted to read a banned book, & I can see why this would be challenged by some horrified parent afraid their teen might get ideas. 🙄 Mostly memoir/part guidebook for teenagers about growing up & finding their identity & belonging as a LGBTQIA+ person. A couple of sex scenes from the author‘s first experiences. An interesting book, Johnson has good stories to tell.

This was a fun read. It was an epic end to a series. It was full of laughs and good humor. This is a great book to read after a long day. And I finished the audiobook perfectly by turning on the radio and listening to Huntrix‘s Golden, after a long day of dashing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Unfortunately I really didn't like this book. I was expecting a sweet forbidden lesbian romance set in Iran, and instead got a couple of naive selfish drama merchants -[cont in comments]

Also, be aware, though sold as a romance this is NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL.

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I don‘t know what to say about this book. I was really looking forward to it, and so many of the reviews are beyond glowing, but it ended up being a big letdown for me.
I never had any real connection to either main character, the plot and relationship felt disjointed, and while I liked the vulnerability portrayed, it did seem like every vulnerable moment was just a vehicle to get to another spicy scene, and that got real old.

Interesting to read back to back books that mix fiction and nonfiction in different ways. The Mobius Book did so with memoir and this one includes surprisingly large chunks of Gay history, specifically marriage. As an absolute lover of nonfiction I found it enhanced my listening experience, but I wonder how others feel. The “gayest love story ever told” is a good one, but perhaps took a backseat to all the facts?

“An erasure of history was an erasure of personhood.” This is one of those books that just takes your breath away. The story is loosely based on real transgender people living in Germany during WWII. It wasn‘t a lighthearted book since it dealt with the many atrocities that trans people faced (trigger warnings about assault & Dachau). Learned that the Allied forces after WWII were rounding up & imprisoning trans persons. Eye opening book about

TW: s€xual absue, r@pe
Please mind the trigger warnings!

This story shows us clearly what it means to live in a r@pe culture. What it means to live in a female body and how society treats those born in those bodies. It also shows the affects an assault has on the victim's life(s). Yes, this book is a road trip, but it's not a fun one.
I just wished the author would've explained more clearly, why the girls couldn't go and ask for help.