#The dyke and the dybbuk

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

[npdclaraoswald]

So does this demon company just not bother non-Middle Eastern Muslims?

[lesboevils]

Now reading: THE DYKE AND DYBBUK by Ellen Galford

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May TBR!!! 📚 📖🌸

Full titles under the cut!

The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

The Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

No. 6 vol 1 by Atsuko Asano and Hinoki Kino

Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada

The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Illan Pappé

Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

The Poppy War by RF Kuang

The Guardian Test by Christina Soontornvat

Justice League International vol 3 by Keith Giffen et al

Green Lantern/Green Arrow vol 1 by Danny O'Neil et al

Teen Titans vol 2: Family Lost by Geoff Johns et al

Red Robin vol 3: The Hit List Fabian Nicieza et al

[paandaan]

tagged by @heavenlyyshecomes to share some of the books i want to read this year <3 🥂☁️

modern korean literature: an anthology / the sand child / the dyke and the dybbuk / angarey / xenogenesis series / utopias of the third kind / sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass / anybody home / in another place, not here

tagging: @elderf1ower @syrejaden @aegissi @rakkhoshii @huayno @bigshoeswamp @shiftinyou @derridaspectres @sugarsugarunes @blissfulllyyours @metamatar @chelonates @cordeliaflyte @serpentgirls @khlur

[chicago-geniza]

This book chapter on "the queer uncanny" calls The Secret History transgender and mentions it on the same page as The Dyke & The Dybbuk, my taste has always been predictable to the point of parody lol

[nerdsbianhokie]

3. What were your top five books of the year?

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

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Top five books:

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare (some recency bias with this one cause I just finished it, but I loved it so much)

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

The Pits by Katy L Wood (got this one on Kickstarter and it's fucking beautiful)

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom

(and special mention for The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford, which I haven't finished yet, but I'm fucking loving)

Books I meant to read:

hmm, the main one I can think of is Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez. I didn't finish it before I had to return it and just haven't gotten back to it yet

I have a good amount of holds on Libby, including some that I keep pushing back cause i'm busy with other books

DNF:

Yeah, beyond the one above. I tried to reread both Gideon and Harrow the ninth, and never actually finished Nona the Ninth.

There are also a lot I just couldn't get into. I don't try to force myself to finish something I'm not enjoying cause I could, instead, be reading something I will enjoy

[the-distantprince]

hey you should maybe read The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford

uh that was not what i was expecting for a book rec. I'm glad uh a book about Jewish folklore and lesbianism from 1993 exists

[batbetbitbotbut]

The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford (adult, urban fantasy, queer)

Let me know if anyone wants a list of Jewish fantasy novels

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Maurice by E M Forster

Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer

Closet Case by Robert Rodi

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

The Charioteer by Mary Renault

Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault

The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

The Outing by Fabian Foley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Thank you!

These are now queued. Thanks!

[allevilsarc]

i think i would ship lucy with the dybbuk from the dyke and the dybbuk, Kokos

i don't know anything about this book but from what i've gathered from googling, it genuinely seems like it'd be an interesting pairing!

who do you ship my muse with?, accepting. / @strvhd

[fulane-de-tal]

FINALLY got the mail. i have finally. after months of searching. managed to purchase and receive a copy of the dyke and the dybbuk. i think it might be a first edition

[hailmaryfullofgrace55675]

Are you fucking serious? Section 28 prohibited “promotion of homosexuality” by “local authorities”, not by for-profit book publishers. The Dyke and the Dybbuk was published in 1993. Tipping the Velvet was published in 1998 and adapted by the BBC in 2002, while Section 28 was still in effect in England and Wales.

No surprise seeing historical revisionism from a Zionist!

Neil Gaiman actually did participate in a protest book against Section 28: Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia, organized by Alan Moore, to which Gaiman contributed the script for “From Homogenous to Honey”. You can tell it’s a protest against Section 28 because he protests Section 28 in it, instead of making a bunch of funny little jokes about characters looking and sounding gay that are funny because they aren’t gay and can’t be gay, and then maintaining this position for 20 years.

https://www.tumblr.com/violentrevolution/752841019765194752?source=share

Tumblr Tankie Grifters once again trying to frame a jewish man as a queerphobic zionist pedophile (in fact OP is presenting being a zionist as being just as bad as pedophilia!)

Some people just want to hate Neil and make up excuses for it. Oh he said we shouldn't censor loli, the pedo! Oh he said he thinks the hostages should come back alive, the zionist!

God forbid a creator make mistakes and apologize

scratch that god forbid a Jew do anything.

Also the username really does say it all

[lesboevils]

hi ofelia 👋🏻 do you have any favorite books? i generally think you have great taste so im curious :3

yesssss

when the angels left the old country by Sacha lamb! it's am ellis Island immigration story about a Jewish angel, a demon, and their little lesbian friend

the dyke and the dybbuk by Ellen gladford about a lesbian cab driver being haunted by a dybbuk in London I'm the 1990s (also v jewish)

frankenstein the modern prometheus by Mary Shelley a personal favorite

on Sunday she picked flowers by Yah-Yah Schofield @fluoresensitive I'm still working my way through it but it's a Gothic horror masterpiece

[read-alert]

May Wrap Up!

My favorite of the month was The Poppy War by RF Kuang! Full titles and star ratings for all the books I read under the cut!

No. 6 Vol 1 by Atsuko Asano and Hinoki Kino- 4⭐️

The Poppy War by RF Kuang- 5⭐️

The Guardian Test by Christina Soontornvat- 5⭐️

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada- 5⭐️

Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah- 4⭐️

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim- 5⭐️

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier- 4⭐️

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler- 3⭐️

A Masc for Purim by Roz Alexander- 4⭐️

The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar- 4⭐️

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan- 3.5⭐️

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru- 4.5⭐️

Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead- 4.5⭐️

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka- 5⭐️

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi- 5⭐️

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski- 4⭐️

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee- 4.5⭐️

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Illan Pappé- 5⭐️

Ma and Me by Putsata Reang- 5⭐️

Justice League International vol 3 by Keith Giffen, Kevin Maguire, and JM DeMatteis- 3⭐️

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan- 4.5⭐️

I also DNFed Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, Chew vol 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman and Rob Guillory, and The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford