#Borrow a Boyfriend Club Page Powars

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Finished The Borrow a Boyfriend Club book. Very charming and cute story. I know strange title but super funny and a worthy read 😸Made me cry and warmed my heart ❤️ 8 or 9/10

SUPER funny, loved the characters and that’s SUCH a plus for me and so much more. I LOVE and heavily recommend this 🥰

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🍂 Trans Books To Read If You Love "Heartstopper" 🍂

Here are some trans books you should read if you love "Heartstopper":

Book titles:

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

Out of the Blue by Jason June

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars (comes out September 14, 2023)

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[starrlikesbooks]

This book is CUTE

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The Borrow A Boyfriend Club by Page Powars is making me so trans /hj (I’m already trans but FUCK)

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Me while reading book: Oh wow! This is great! I have such a vivid picture of the characters!

Me at the last chapter: HE'S WHITE?!?!??

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'Welcome to the Borrow a Boyfriend Club, Noah.'

Page Powars, from The Borrow a Boyfriend Club

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(via The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars)

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars is the kind of book that will bring a smile to any reader’s face. Depicting a boyfriend borrowing service posing as an Italian club, this one contains a cast of lovable characters and a fair amount of chaos. This is a well-executed feel-good story that is entertaining from start to finish. 

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Title: The Borrow a Boyfriend Club

Author: Page Powars

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2023

Genres: fiction, romance, LGBT+, contemporary

Blurb: Noah Byrd is the perfect boy...at least, that's what he needs to convince his new classmates of to prove his gender. His plan? Join the school's illustrious (and secret) Borrow a Boyfriend Club, whose members rent themselves out for dates. Once he's accepted among the bros, the "slip-ups" end...but Noah's interview is a flop. Desperate, he strikes a deal with the club's prickly but attractive president, Asher. Noah will help them win the annual talent show. In return, he'll get a second shot to demonstrate his boyfriend skills in a series of tests that include romancing Asher himself. If Noah can't bring home the win, his best chance to prove that he's man enough is gone...but even if he succeeds, he still loses. The most important rule of the Borrow a Boyfriend Club is simple: no real boyfriends (or girlfriends) allowed. As long as the club remains standing as high as Asher's man bun, Noah and Asher can never explore their growing feelings for one another.

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The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars

A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who joins a boyfriend borrowing service masquerading as an Italian Club to prove that he’s one of the guys, especially to its frustratingly handsome leader.

Noah Byrd is the perfect boy. At least, that’s what he needs to convince his new classmates of to prove his gender. His plan? Join the school’s illustrious (and secret) Borrow a Boyfriend Club, whose members rent themselves out for dates. Once he’s accepted among the bros, the “slip-ups” end.

But Noah’s interview is a flop. Desperate, he strikes a deal with the club’s prickly but attractive president, Asher. Noah will help them win an annual talent show—and in return, he’ll get a second shot to demonstrate his boyfriend skills in a series of tests that include romancing Asher himself.

If Noah can’t bring home the win, his best chance to prove that he’s man enough is gone. Yet even if he succeeds, he still loses . . . because the most important rule of the Borrow a Boyfriend Club is simple: no real boyfriends (or girlfriends) allowed.

And as long as the club remains standing as high as Asher’s man bun, Noah and Asher can never explore their growing feelings for one another.

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Hey QLL, I really just want to read some delightfully trashy tropey stuff (positive). What are your recs?

ahhhh fun! okay let’s see..

okay first of all we simply must give a shout out to our pulp fiction collection. if that isn’t a bit trashy we don’t know what is 😂

Adult Fic:

Those Who Wait by Haley Cass

Charm City by Monica McCallen

Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander

It Started With a Kiss by Claire Lydon

The Pink Bean series by Harper Bliss

Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism by MJ Lyons

Cleat Cute or Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Mrs Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

Truth & Measure by Roslyn Sinclair

His Fresh Start Cowboy by A.M. Arthur

and a few for YA for good measure:

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

the Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars

[margaretthotcher]

Queer Book Recommendations

It's pride season in Wellington, New Zealand and my local library has published its second "Teen Staff Picks" zine! In that spirit, I bring you, a collection of lesser-known queer books featured in the two that have been released so far! I've narrowed the lists down to books that have 1000 or fewer reviews on Goodreads as of posting (though I actually use Storygraph personally). I haven't read most of these, they're new to me as well but looking forward to getting into them.

Sapphic

Trouble Girls - Julia Lynn Rubin

Planning Perfect - Haley Neil

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches - Kate Scelsa

The Meadows - Stephanie Oakes

Never Trust a Gemini - Freja Nicole Woolf

This Is All Your Fault - Aminah Mae Safi

The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet - Jake Maia Arlow

Youngblood - Sasha Laurens

In the Role of Brie Hutchens - Nicole Melleby

Achillean

We Are Totally Normal - Rahul Kanakia

Two Can Play That Game - Leanne Yong

Blaine for the Win - Robbie Couch

I Like Me Better - Robby Weber

The Language of Seabirds - Will Taylor

The Feeling of Falling in Love - Mason Deaver

Charming Young Man - Eliot Schrefer

Emmett - L. C. Rosen

Pages I Never Wrote - Marco Donati

Trans Characters

Across a Field of Starlight - Blue Delliquanti

Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure - Lewis Hancox

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club - Page Powars

If I Can Give You That - Michael Gray Bulla

Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic - G. Haron Davis

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity - Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Magical Boy - The Kao

Kisses For Jet: A Coming-of-Gender Story - Joris Bas Backer

Between Perfect and Real - Ray Stoeve

Featuring Queer People of Colour

Ander & Santi Were Here - Jonny Garza Villa

The Loophole - Naz Kutub

Spell Bound - F. T. Lukens

Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues - H. S. Valley

Rise to the Sun - Leah Johnson

Never Kiss Your Roommate - Philline Harms

Rainbow! - Bloom & Sunny

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales - Melanie Gillman

Anne of Greenville - Mariko Tamaki

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💜 Queer Book Releases Coming Out September 2023

🦇 Trying to read queer all year? Make sure to check out these queer September releases!

❤️ Forget I Told You This by Hilary Zaid 🧡 The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans 💛 The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan 💚 Every Star That Falls by Michael Thomas Ford 💙 Fly With Me by Andie Burke 💜 Wound by Oksana Vasyakina 🖤 Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline ❤️ A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee 🧡 Straight Expectations by Callum McSwiggan 💛 Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson 💚 Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge 💙 The Mossheart’s Promise by Rebecca Mix

💜 Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson 🖤 The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars ❤️ Ryan and Avery by David Levithan 🧡 What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell 💛 Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass 💚 The Meadows by Stephanie Oakes 💙 A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien 💜 Monstrous by Jessica Lewis 🖤 OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro ❤️ Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura 🧡 The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu 💛 Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz

💚 You, Again by Kate Goldbeck 💙 Godkiller by Hannah Kaner 💜 The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven 🖤 Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo ❤️ A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey 🧡 A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney 💛 In the Ring by Sierra Isley 💚 How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok 💙 This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin 💜 The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern 🖤 Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas ❤️ Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in NYC by Elyssa Maxx Goodman

🧡 Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner 💛 Mall Goth by Kate Leth 💚 The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda Hall 💙 This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson 💜 A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles 🖤 The Problem with Gravity by Michelle Mohrweis ❤️ Alex Wise vs. the End of the World by Terry J. Benton-Walker

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any suggestions for queer books for a junior high school library? there's a book order coming up in december and i noticed my school is severely lacking in queer books so i need some ones to request. in particular, we're really lacking in books with transgender and/or bisexual main characters. (also, i'm in the south so books that have been targeted by bans may not be available here)

Absolutely yes. The ban-targeting is definitely a challenge (my Cool for the Summer is actually a great fit for this but may be an issue for that reason), but let’s see what we can do!

For trans main characters I think are a good fit for that age, try Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker, the graphic novel Cheer Up! by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter, the upcoming graphic novel Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau (upcoming as in 3 weeks from now, so it’ll be out by December), Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller (genderfluid MC), The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta (agender MC, transmasc LI), The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons, Spell Bound by FT Lukens (nonbinary MC), Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa, I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (nonbinary MC), Self Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore, and The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars. (Those are all YA except Zenobia July, but I felt like that one might work for older tween readers in a way other titles might not, just because the MC’s a hacker, which is cool.)

For bi main characters, some of the above also fit (I Wish You All the Best and The Borrow a Boyfriend Club come to mind immediately), and also try Cool for the Summer, Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan, You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson, Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin, Running With Lions by Julian Winters, Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (Imogen is newer and great but not sure if college visits are as interesting to junior high students?), Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales, Hani & Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar, I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee, The Disasters by MK England, the Emry Merlin series by Robyn Schneider, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, and They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera.

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25 Books for 2025

Was tagged a day or so ago by @zwiazdziarka and just tagged by @14carrotghoul - thank you! I'm always up for talking about books!

1. Circe- Madeline Miller (it counts, I'm only a few pages into it)

2. Artemis - Andy Weir

3. Ayesha at Last- Uzma Jalaluddin

4. One More Day- Emma Heatherington

5. Not the Witch You Wed- April Asher

6. Not Your Ex's Hexes- April Asher

7. The League of Gentlewomen Witches- India Holton

8. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches- Sangu Mandanna

9. Red Queen- Victoria Aveyard

10. We Could be So Good- Cat Sebastian

11. Love & Other Disasters- Anita Kelly

12. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love- Lex Croucher

13. The Borrow a Boyfriend Club- Page Powars

14. The Diablo's Curse- Gabe Cole Novoa

15. Most Ardently- Gabe Cole Novoa

16. Divine Rivals- Rebecca Ross

17. Her Radiant Curse- Elizabeth Lim

18. Legends and Lattes- Travis Baldree

19. The Ten Thousand Doors of January- Alix E. Harrow

20. The Once and Future Witches- Alix E. Harrow

21. Dune - Frank Herbert

22. The Holiday Trap- Roan Parrish

23. Cleat Cute- Meryl Wilsner

24. Book Lovers- Emily Henry

25. Here We Go Again- Alison Cochrun

Tagging @myheartalivewrites @tailsbeth-writes and @badbitchbeauchamp @thighzp plus an open tag, I want more book friends!

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New Young Adult Releases! (September 12th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Name Drop by Susan Lee

Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass

These Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson

Monstrous by Jessica Lewis

A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O'Brien

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

Rez Ball by Byron Graves

Goddess Crown by Shade Lapite

The Borrow A Boyfriend Club by Page Powars

Fault Lines by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

The Eternity Gate by Katherine Briggs

The Meadows by Stephanie Oakes

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Happy reading!