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Excellent, but I kept falling asleep while reading the beginning (still sick). I can‘t tell if I was bored or the start was slow or if I was just still too sick to read. Worth persevering for the ending.

An LGBTQIA classic published in 1956, about an American living in Paris coming to terms with his homosexuality. His girlfriend Hella is on an extended vacation to Spain, when he meets Giovanni.

#LGBTQBookBingo2024
#10beforetheend

Partners in mystery solving & life, PJ & JP are solving the most difficult problem of their home remodeling TV series yet. A house rumored to be haunted by a 25 year gone dead beauty queen.

I wanted to like this because the mystery was really interesting. But all the characters felt vaguely cartoonish, the writing felt amateurish, & the flashbacks really killed the flow of the story. The final resolution was interesting, but not enough.🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑

#hyggehourreadathon (from last night!).

I started this book about grief. It was on my StoryGraph recommendations and I plowed through about a third of it yesterday.

Beautifully written and devastating depiction of losing your wife at a vulnerable time, during childbirth. The main character struggles as a new mother, alone.

It‘s got a dystopian flavour, and is lgbtqia. Definitely up my alley, thanks StoryGraph algorithm.

#lgbtqbookbingo2024

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Love this series! It‘s so cute and heartwarming. A great prequel, even if I knew exactly what was going to happen.

Before Legends & Lattes, Viv the orc is flighting with the Ravens against a fearsome necromancer and is injured in the battle. This is the story of her convalescence and maybe of a few fights along the way.

Worth a read if you like cosy fantasy with lgbtqia themes.

#lgbtqbookbingo2024
@Kenyazero

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I think this is an important book, the messy emotions and queer family structure highlighted are all true, but I struggled with it a bit. Accepting the decisions the three of them had come to was … I didn‘t really believe it.

I saw myself a lot in Ames, their trauma, struggles with dissociation. It was hard to sit with and see on the page. I‘m not trans, but as a queer person I struggled a lot.

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#lgbtqbookbingo2024

I didn‘t think I could love a book more than I did the first two, but it happened! Marske makes excellent use of a trope I usually hate - enemies to lovers - and continues to build on already vivid character and world dynamics. She‘s also a master at spicy scenes if those are your jam, constantly one-upping her prior scenes somehow. Given how much I love this series, I was delighted to see a glimmer of more on the horizon. #lgbtqia #magic

Update on #lgbtqbookbingo2024 #lgbtq @Kenyazero

Planning on reading Giovanni‘s Room for published before 2000 and need to find a aro/ace book!

Anyone have any suggestions?

#asexual #aromantic

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Funny and feel-good, but in a chaotic real life kind of way. I usually stay away from books described as funny because they‘re cringeworthy, but this isn‘t like that at all.

Definitely literary, more about the characters and their development than the plot. It‘s about a brother and sister who live together in New Zealand. Their lives, their loves, and their family.

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@Kenyazero

#LGBTQBookBingo2024 progress! I‘m going for a full card this year.

@Kenyazero
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Sequel to The Mimicking of Known Successes, a novel I read after taking a @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian quiz, this is a queer science fiction novel about an Investigator, Mossa, and a scholar, Pleiti, who are once again investigating something mysterious on their home space colony, Giant.

Life on earth as we know it has changed drastically and everyone evacuated. Living on platforms above the gaseous planet, things are *mostly* harmonious