#A Scatter of Light

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Currently reading: A Scatter Of Light by Malinda Lo

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Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In June

My prideful June, 2024 reading wrap-up!

🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

[thegreatgay-tsby]

Reading A Scatter of Light after Last Night at the Telegraph Club not knowing they're connected but then 'Cousin Eddie's sister who works at the Jet Propulsion Lab' is mentioned

[jennamacaroni]

But here's the important thing when it comes to art.  This is what I've learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings.  You have to serve it.  It is not you.  Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people who do understand it.  And you need to understand it yourself.  Whatever you're creating may come from within you and your life, but then–almost like a child, it comes out of your body and it grows up and walks away.  It walks away and affects other people you don't know and have never met.  That's the beauty of it, and the reason why I keep trying new things.  You never know who it will affect.

Malinda Lo, “A Scatter of Light”

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Quick Review: A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo Rating: 5/5

Another wonderful queer romance from Malinda Lo, this one with lovely layers of complexity around figuring out your identity, falling in love for the first time, and figuring out what to do when your world turns upside down. And I loved the little glimpses into what happened to Lily and Kath from Last Night at the Telegraph Club. 

I hope Malinda Lo writes something new soon because I've well and truly fallen back in love with her writing this week.

[sigmastolen]

malinda lo understands what is truly important to the people

[owlperson-reviews]

One of my favorite authors is Malinda Lo. Luckily my local library has a few of her books. I've read Ash, Huntress, Adaptation( they don't have the sequel "Inheritance") and Last Night At The Telegraphic Club. And I own A Scatter of Light though I am considering unhauling it because it is my least favorite only a 5 out of 10.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: A Scatter of Light | Author: Malinda Lo | Publisher: Dutton Books (2022)

[melancholytimes]

Lily and Kath are MARRIED

IM SOBBING

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A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

Today's sapphic book of the day is A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo!

Summary: "Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Lo's new novel also offers a glimpse into Lily and Kath's lives since 1955.

Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost becomes unforgettable--for Aria, her family, and the working-class queer community Steph introduces her to. It's the kind of summer that changes a life forever."

[hufflepuffhabs]

If you ask me what made me cry today, it was this masterpiece

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Day 29: JOMPBPC: Extra AF

My beautiful February, 2024 book haul! 💛

[libraryleopard]

a scatter of light by malinda lo is like. painfully capturing the very specific feeling of being new to understanding your queerness and having a crush on a butch lesbian who is unattainable by virtue of being in a relationship and 2019 me feels SO fucking called out by this book

[lalalenii]

I finished Malinda Lo's A Scatter of Light today and let me just say // spoilers // that I really really love that the epilogue didn't even mention steph or any other partner. It seems so important because it let's us know that even though the pain may feel all-consuming and never-ending there is an after and there is a life outside that person waiting for you. Even if it seems unfathomable, you can /be/ without them.

[never-sated]

"The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people who do understand it. And you need to understand it yourself. Whatever you're creating may come from within you and your life, but then, almost like a child, it grows up and walks away. It walks away and affects other people you don't know and have never met. That's the beauty of it, and the reason I keep trying new things. You never know who it will affect."

A Scatter of Light - Malinda Lo

[sigmastolen]

A Scatter of Light | Malinda Lo

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[id: an excerpt from a scatter of light by malinda lo, dark text on a beige background, which reads:

"Guilt is a shape-shitter. It can fester like a sore, burning for attention, or it can lurk like a beast in the dark, always there but never clearly visible. If you don't look at it directly, it can seem as if it's gone, and the only proof that it remains is the shadow it casts in the corner.

My guilt comes out late at night or early in the morning, a specter that hovers over me as I drift into or out of sleep. Sometimes I like to see it. It can be seductive if it wants to. It knows exactly what I like. It knows precisely which memories to recall.

Sometimes I hope it will never go away."

there is a large blank space below the text. /id]