#Hannah Moskowitz

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Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 1D

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​

To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.

Science fiction, fantasy, science fantasy, retelling, series, young adult

Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz

Endorsement from submitter: "Gay merboy, body horror, sadness: what's not to love? This book made me cry and also made me do sooo much fan art."

A gritty, romantic modern fairy tale from the author of Break and Gone, Gone, Gone.

Be careful what you believe in.

Rudy’s life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother. With nothing to do but worry, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and lies awake at night listening to the screams of the ocean beneath his family’s rickety house.

Then he meets Diana, who makes him wonder what he even knows about love, and Teeth, who makes him question what he knows about anything. Rudy can’t remember the last time he felt so connected to someone, but being friends with Teeth is more than a little bit complicated. He soon learns that Teeth has terrible secrets. Violent secrets. Secrets that will force Rudy to choose between his own happiness and his brother’s life.

Fantasy, fairytale, gothic, dark fantasy, paranormal, young adult

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Page 45 of Sick Kids In Love by Hannah Moskowitz

ISTG this books has just been hit after hit after hit

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JOMP BPC - February 26th - This Month's Favourite

this month it was a tie between Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison, a thrilling female-led horror novel, and The Love Song of Ivy K Harlowe by Hannah Moskowitz, a character-driven contemporary following three chaotic wlw trying to cope with their feelings for one another. both were 100% up my alley and I loved every page!

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Title: Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales

Author: Ashley Herring Blake, Rebecca Podos, Rebecca Barrow, Gloria Chao, Mason Deaver, Sara Farizan, Claire Kann, Malinda Lo, Hannah Moskowitz, Natasha Ngan, Lilliam Rivera, Laura Silverman, Amy Spalding, Rebecca Kim Wells, Julian Winters

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, romance, anthology, LGBT+, contemporary

Blurb: This collection of genre-bending and original stories celebrates how love always finds a way, featuring powerful flora, a superhero and his nemesis, a fantastical sled race through snowcapped mountains, a golf tournament, the wrong ride-share, and even the end of the world.

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My Roman Empire Reads

This was originally going to be a list of my favourite books of all time, but I realised that my favourites shelf on Goodreads is littered with books I haven’t read or thought about in five years, I thought I’d focus on the books that still do occupy my brain space to this day, some read more recently than others. And I know the ‘Roman Empire’ meme is dead by now, but I have no other way to…

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YA contemporary romance

Sixteen-year-old Isabel Garfinkel has one rule: no dating

It's easier and simpler not to when she's got secrets, issues, rheumatoid arthritis (which few people in her life, even her doctor father, understand) and an advice column to run

But when she meets Sasha, another chronically ill teenager, at the hospital and the two of them just click, Isabel will have to reevaluate her rule

Jewish main character with rheumatoid arthritis; bisexual, Jewish love interest with Gaucher's disease

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Power Rangers zeo meets cobra kai

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Be careful what you believe in. Rudy’s life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother. With nothing to do but worry, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and lies awake at night listening to the screams of the ocean beneath his family’s rickety house. Then he meets Diana, who makes him wonder what he even knows about love, and Teeth, who makes him question what he knows about anything. Rudy can’t remember the last time he felt so connected to someone, but being friends with Teeth is more than a little bit complicated. He soon learns that Teeth has terrible secrets. Violent secrets. Secrets that will force Rudy to choose between his own happiness and his brother’s life.

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at the point where i’m wishing i was sick enough to need to be hospitalized which i’m sure is indicative of a super healthy and stable mindset

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🦤 a quote you had to delete :( (but still wanna share!)

oooooooh!

from my short story -

this is from the second draft and it was deleted for a number of reasons. 1) it served little as a transition scene 2) I could move the conversation closer to the climax 3) the a-train to inwood had pissed me off that day so no cameo!

(why the fuck aren't there more direct subway lines in brooklyn?)

also, i forgot that micah was called ilya in the first few drafts. it was a leftover from a previous piece dealing with reincarnation as the main plot device, but micah felt like it straddled the secular and modern orthodox world better. `

wip game of birds!

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its been a good long while since i’ve read a YA novel but i feel like a key feature of the genre is if you pick up a book on a whim you should run the risk of having something truly insane happen at you and I fear that’s an aspect that’s been lost 

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🕸️ grief 🕸️

‘Growing Around Grief,’ Lois Tonkin | ‘Time is a Mother,’ Ocean Voung | How Do I Say Goodbye, Dean Lewis | Where Things Come Back, John Corey Whaley | Wandavision, ‘Previously On’ dir. Matt Shakman | Gena/Finn, Kat Helegson and Hannah Moskowitz | tumblr, @fairycosmos | twitter, @/ sugamoozi | Andrew Garfield on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Hanif Abdurraqib at Smith College | pinterest, @/r6nj | twitter, @/bemyweedbae |

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Hello! Do you have any recs of books with polyamorous relationships that aren't heavy on the sex scenes? It doesn't need to be a romance, or for the main character to be in that relationship

Sure! Check out This Song is (Not) For You by Laura Nowlin, 3 by Hannah Moskowitz, Brighter Than the Moon by David Valdes, This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke, and I haven't read them yet, but I'm going to venture to say This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska and Death's Country by R.M. Romero, which are YA fantasy/paranormal, are safe bets as well.

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JOMP BPC - August 16th - Love, Love, Love

just some pretty books with "love" in the title 🥰

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Title: The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe

Author: Hannah Moskowitz

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, contemporary, LGBT+, romance, mental health

Blurb: Ivy K. Harlowe is a lot of things - she’s Andie’s best friend, she’s the centre of attention, and she is, without fail, the hottest girl in the room anytime, anyplace. She has freckles and dimples and bright green eyes, and with someone else’s energy, she’d be adorable...but there is nothing cute about Ivy. She is ice and hot metal and electricity. She is the girl who every lesbian wants, but she has never been with the same person twice. She’s one-of-a-kind but also predictable, so Andie will always be Andie, her best friend, never Andie, her girlfriend...then she meets Dot, and Ivy does something even Andie would never have guessed: she sees Dot another day, and another, and another. Now Andie’s world is slowly going up in smoke, and no matter what she does, the flames grow higher. She lit that match without knowing who or what it would burn. Ivy K. Harlowe is a lot of things...but falling in love wasn’t supposed to be one of them, unless it was with Andie.

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heyyy do you have any recs for where i could read more about ideas similar to those you discussed in your post abt representation of s*xual violence?

sorry the censoring of one single letter in sexual violence is taking me out lmao but yeah sure! not sure if you’re asking for fiction or nonfiction recs but i can give a few for both. obviously blanket trigger warning for sexual violence in all of these

nonfiction:

screw consent: a better politics of sexual justice, by joseph j. fischel - it’s been a few years since i read this now, but it was the first text that really explicitly introduced me to alternative ways of thinking about sexual justice & helped me understand and think through some of the issues i had with the dominant models i was seeing

king kong theory, by virginie despentes - this is a pretty controversial text largely because of the way despentes treats sexual violence and sex work, but i found her analysis of sex work pretty useful. my main issue with this book is that even as despentes tries to develop a critique of the ways gender is socially constructed she herself falls back into bioessentialism quite a bit, which weakens her arguments significantly

texts after terror: rape, sexual violence, and the hebrew bible by rhiannon graybill - again been a few years since i read this & the topic is pretty specific, but i def recommend reading the intro & conclusion if u want another example of alternative models for thinking about sexual violence & justice

reading up on prison abolition also really changed the way i think about sexual justice; some starter texts on that topic i’d recommend are are prisons obsolete? by angela y. davis and the end of policing by alex s. vitale

fiction:

the feverwake duology, by victoria lee - i think this one is pretty easy to fit into a straightforward evil perpetrator/innocent victim model by the end if that’s how you read it, but the way lee explores some of the nuances and messiness of sexual violence really resonated with me and i personally think one of the strongest parts of this series is the fact that lee humanizes the ‘bad guy’ in many ways and pushes the reader to sympathize with him at various points while still forcing the reader to confront the harm he’s clearly doing

mysterious skin, by scott heim - really excellent & gut-wrenching story about the aftermath of csa in which none of the victims fit neatly into narratives of innocence

a history of glitter and blood by hannah moskowitz - one of my fave books of all time about teenage sex workers trying to survive a war. v messy webs of sexuality & violence although i wouldn’t say sexual violence is quite as explicit thematically, it definitely undergirds the story

the captive prince series by c.s. pacat - heavy on the sexual violence in this one especially in the first book. but one of my fave fantasy series of all time largely bc i found the series as a whole to be a really lovely exploration of how/whether we can forgive forms of harm that are usually deemed unforgivable

bloodchild by octavia butler - this one is a short story with a very poignant exploration of sexual harm & family dynamics