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#Choose20 comics that stayed with you or influenced you. One comic a day in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. Day 9: Strangers In Paradise volume 2

repost for @PuddleJumper:

January's author is Malinda Lo!

I've read and enjoyed some of her YA/retelling books. I enjoyed Huntress and Ash. Anyone else have any recommendations? Drop them below

I'm going to #QueerBC May-May so I'll refresh the author list then and I'll do some feedback stuff March/April to see how to improve it

Thank you to everyone who has participated. I hope you are enjoying yourself and discovered some new authors

Here is the second card. More trope oriented. I will also use TV Shows as well as movies.

Feel free to join me.

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons

I'm going to try these two (second coming in another post) Christmas Movie Bingo Cards for #WinterGames

I can't do anything without some type of reward system apparently. I will make some adjustments because there are a couple movies I genuinely do not enjoy but I'm sure I can find replacements. If anyone would like to join me feel free.

#HolidayBookDragons

Great matching @monalyisha ! There is not one book on this list that I‘m not interested in. I really like the diversity of genres, and I always love a good graphic novel. I‘ve read 2, own 1, acquired 1 today. A few I‘ve been meaning to read for a while. The 📖 are the ones I will probably get to first, but as with previous years, I‘d like to work on it all year. #AuldLangSpine #ALSpine

Lindsay Gordon put murder to the back of her mind and settled down in the train compartment to enjoy the broken greys and greens of the Derbyshire scenery.
#firstlineFridays
@shybookowl

I am so glad I picked this up! It reminds me a bit of In The Time of Butterflies but sapphic.

A group of 5 Uruguayan lesbian women buy a tiny cottage on the beach and we follow them for the next 40 years as they fall in and out of love and as the country changes - politically and culturally.

A country I do not see many books set in this was a lovely read.

“...For what is happiness but growth in peace,
The timeless sense of time when furniture
Has stood a life's span in a single place,
And as the air moves, so the old dreams stir
The shining leaves of present happiness?
No one has heard thought or listened to a mind,
But where people have lived in inwardness
The air is charged with blessing and does bless;
Windows look out on mountains and the walls are kind.“
—from “The Work of Happiness“

A delightful reread for me. I read it first in paperback in the 70s. That book fell apart and this edition was given to me in the 80s. I believe Rita Mae has just turned 80. Amazing woman. I‘ve also, over the years enjoyed her cosy mysteries featuring a cat. Things have changed since she wrote this book but we still have a way to go .