#Leah on the offbeat

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September Fun Day Book Photo Challenge September 23, 2024: Bi Visibility Day

If it's about bisexuality, I'm recommending some bi disasters

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Tori Spring- Solitaire by Alice Oseman

Cliopher Mdang- The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard

Abby Suso- Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Magnus Bane- The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

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I found out about Yaoi years ago through the sequel book to Love, Simon in which the character that Hannah Baker played had yaoi strung up all over the walls of her bedroom.

Anyways, would definitely recommend Leah on the Offbeat.

[isaacbookclub]

This Place Is Still Beautiful by Xixi Tian

Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Princess Ever After by Connie Glynn

The Prom by Saundra Mitchell

Season 2 Episode 3

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[autumnrory]

I hate when assholes have talent. I want to live in a world where good people rule at everything and shitty people suck at everything.

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

[slaughter-books]

Day 16: JOMPBPC: Cool Colours

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Leah on the Offbeat

Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.

Category: Book

Genre: Romance

Length: 352 pages

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: Leah is bisexual

How relevant are the sapphics: The main character

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - Yes

Sexual Violence - No

Homophobia - A bit

Religious Trigger - No

[doomsdayboombox]

fandom so small we could fit on the short bus

[plasmi]

Queer Books I like

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (by Becky Albertelli) Leah on the Off Beat (by Becky Albertalli) Boyfriend Material (by Alexis Hall) Red, White & Royal Blue (by Casie McQuiston) Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe (by Benjamin Alire Sáenz)

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October Fun Day Book Photo Challenge: October 11, 2023 National Coming Out Day

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Ead Duryan- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Leah Burke- Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Arthur Parnassus- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Seonid Traighan Sedai- Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

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☆Some of my books 📚 ☆

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Pride Edit 3/?

Pairing: Leah Burke & Abby Suso Song: Counting Paths by Matthew and the Atlas Media: Simon vs. the Homo Sapien's Agenda / Leah on the Offbeat / Love, Simon

(fanart in the first couple shots by @kidovna and @allarica)

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Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.

Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

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Book Review: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Before I begin, is it just me, or did Leah gain weight since the first book, and I didn't notice? Like, maybe I missed it in Simon's book, but I had no idea she was a plus-size character. I love the body representation; I just must not have noticed that in her character description cause when I was reading this book, I was a bit thrown off by her being a bigger girl. But she owns it, and I love that.

Anyway, that aside, I loved this book. I love a good sapphic romance. Also, I love the bi representation. We need more of that in media, I think.

Leah did come off a bit too teen antsy for me, but that's her character, so Albertalli nailed that. I would have liked to see her do a bit of the nerdy stuff she's always telling us about than just, well, telling us she's into nerdy things. My inner nerd needs it. But still, I enjoyed reading her much more than Molly in book two. She felt more fleshed out as a character.

One nitpick I will say, however, is that Leah telling Abby she can't be a little bi and that she has to label herself properly irked me. It's Abby's choice on how she wants to be labelled. If Abby is only 5% into girls and 95% into guys, she's still bi. No one should tell you how you identify.

That being said, this was a cute read and a worthy sequel to Love, Simon. It was nice to see the OG cast again, and fun to read little cameo's to characters in the second book. This book was a much better fit for the Simonverse than book two. (Which, it being a sequel and featuring the main cast again, wasn't hard to do).