I read Grl2grl: Short Fictions, by Julie Anne Peters (151 pages) and Hello, Groin by Beth Goobie (271 pages). Grl2grl was a short book of really short stories… probably my favorite was the last one about the girls who met at music camp. I think I remember reading an interview with a queer librarian and Hello, Groin was one of her favorite…[Read more]

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I just finished Shadowflame by Dianne Sylvan (360 pages). It *finally* got here after accidentally being sent to my old address, then shipped back to the store, then forwarded to my new address!

It was worth the wait, though :) I realy love the world Dianne Sylvan has created here. Yeah, it’s about vampires, which I’m…[Read more]

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I just finished Hello, I Must Be Going by Christie Hodgen (312 pages).

A tomboy named Frankie has a father who is a Vietnam vet who lost his leg in the war. He does a good job masking his pretty severe depression with humor, but it’s still too much for him and he ends up killing himself. This book is about Frankie’s…[Read more]

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The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (395 pp)
A dystopian novel, year 2150. The US (now Gilead) is long past population 0, and a totalitarian regime takes over to reorganize society and encourage population growth. Women find themselves (again) without rights,…[Read more]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (256 pages) is an international bestseller so no doubt someone else is the group has probably read it and I’d be interested in your thoughts.

The story is that of London-based Juliet Barrows who is trying to write a new book but has writer’s block. She…[Read more]

jury duty can be useful @internrachel and @julia1 , I got to reread ‘The Walking Dead’ graphic novel series up to the 6th book (issue #72, I think) by Robert Kirkman, 848 book club pgs, 1696 actual pgs. As a person who is equally terrified and fascinated by zombies I love this series. I’m stoked that the next hardcover collection is coming out in…[Read more]

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I just finished Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (496 pages).

This was another dollar store find. I like Amy Tan’s writing and this book had a really interesting genesis. According to the introduction at the start of the book, Tan was caught in the rain in New York and came across a building marked “American Society…[Read more]

@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I finished ‘The Very Thought of You’ by Rosie Alison (350 pages). I chose it from a charity shop because it was sold as a ‘haunting coming-of-age novel with a love story at its heart’. It was set during World War II and seemed to have been nominated for lots of awards (albeit love story awards).

It is about a young…[Read more]

Aaah, I went on a queer young adult fiction spree at the library and started out with Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger (226 pages). The real subject of this book is the whole High School Hierarchy situation – think Mean Girls, but from a gay boy’s perspective. I’m about to go on a reading retreat (aka a trip to the beach) so I should have a…[Read more]

I can’t believe summer’s almost over @internrachel and @julia1 . This week I read ‘Geek Love’ by Katherine Dunn, 355 pgs, and ‘Nine Stories’ and ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction’ by J.D. Salinger, 198 pgs and 213 pgs respectively. None of these are new books for me but I really enjoy all of them (hence the…[Read more]

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Today I read The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin (416 pages).

This is another remaindered book I picked up at the dollar store. I find the most interesting, random books there!

At the dawn of the 20th century, a girl with the completely awesome name of Lilly Nelly Aphrodite is born in Berlin, Germany. Her mother is a…[Read more]

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I just finished A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (349 pages). She’s a contemporary American novelist, and this particular book won her lots of praise & awards (Pulitzer, NY Times, etc!). I’ve read her previous book, Look At Me, and so was pretty excited about this one. It’s structured as a series of chapters told…[Read more]

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After I read Fried Green Tomatoes I finally got a library card! I was under the impression that one needed a Texas-issued ID to get a library card here, but that’s not true. I just needed a piece of mail addressed to me, and any kind of picture ID. So a couple weeks ago I started checking books out of my local library. One o…[Read more]

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Today I read The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World by Betsy Block (261 pages).

This is an unusual book for me to read because I don’t have or want kids, but I’m glad I read it anyway. This isn’t really an advice book for parents who want their kids to eat better. It’s a book about a family…[Read more]

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I read Girl Walking Backwards, by Bett Williams (264 pages). It was alright, I think it sums up a lot of adolescent angst really well without being too melodramatic. I liked that it ended on a hopeful note. Although I wasn’t really a queer adolescent (instead, a late bloomer), I could relate to the protag’s feelings of…[Read more]