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🌈 Happy Pride! 🌈

This June, good things come in sets of six as I spotlight some of my favorite rainbow reads.

✨ Category is: Be Gay, Do Crime✨

Learn more about these titles under the cut!

A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar (a YA historical sapphic thriller as a girl gang sets out to pull off a heist on the high seas. But the mission turns into a deadly race against the clock when the Titanic strike an iceberg… Rep: F/F, BIPOC characters)

Outlawed by Anna North (Historical fiction, in a world where AFAB people are reduced to their reproductive value, an outlaw band seeks to create a paradise for the forgotten queer children who dare to defy the norm. Rep: trans/nonbinary mc, sapphic characters)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Dark Historical Romance, In Victorian England, a thief poses as a lady’s maid to con her employer. But what happens when she falls for the mark? Rep: F/F)

Aces Wild by Amanda Dewitt (YA, a group of online friends meets IRL to plan a casino heist to save one of their own. Ever thought Ocean’s 11 would be better without the distraction of sex and romance? Rep: NB/M, trans/nonbinary mc, asexual mcs, asexual scs, aromantic scs, BIPOC characters)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (Historical Romance, a young lordling hires an ex highway man to teach him how to stand and deliver. The two find their partnership becomes more than they bargained for. Rep: M/M, gay mc, bisexual characters)

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen (Historical Mystery, an ex policeman newly outed and ostracized is given a new job: investigate the death of a mysterious soap magnate. But behind the doors of Lavender House hides more than one secret…could someone among this queer found family have murdered one of their own? Rep: M/M, F/F, gay characters, lesbian scs)

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Currently reading

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Outlawed by Anna North

Informal

First of all, North, fucking thank you for a bad ass, no pronoun, leader cowboy awesometastic fucker because damn, I did not know how badly I needed to see someone like the Kid.

Like how often do you get someone who obstains from pronouns in a leadership role?

And fuck, my dude, I learned a thing or two reading it. I always wondered, how the fuck do you write a no-pronoun mofo without sounding klunky as hell.

Spoilers: it’s creative sentence structure and making said character VERY dialogue heavy lol

It wasn’t until a couple of kid scenes that it really hit me: “wait a second, why don’t my no-pronoun characters sound this good.” It’s very artfully done.

In fact, the whole book is aesthetic as fuck. Like from the descriptive prose, to the way scenes are laid out. Coming from The Murderbot Diaries, which, don’t get me wrong, are hella fun books but the heavy lifting is done vi Murderbot’s personality and less flowery prose.

Flowery prose like this *chiefs kiss* it’s like dining on the equivalent of candied rose petals. Utterly decadent. *mwah!*

It has a slow start. Granted, it’s set in the 1800s and makes it perfect for some scenery chewing.

If I had to pick my 3 favorite scenes, I’d say it’d be

pg49-55 the fire pit scene (you’ll know when you see it ;)

pg62- 69 Elzy and Kid teaching Ada to shoot

pg247-249 i love when lose ends come together

I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did tbh. It has a little lull before the half way point that maybe me question it after Ada gets in with the Hole in the Wall gang but then fucks up. So if you get to that point where it feels like it’s lasting forever, push through if you can. It’s totes worth it <3

Edit: yeah technically no pronouns isn’t neo but I count it cuz fuck yeah.

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Reading outlawed by Anna North and like. Huge kudos to Sonia Bonné (translator). Because one of the characters (the kid) is enby I'm pretty sure she somehow managed to just. Not use pronouns when talking about them. Like, at all.

At first he/him was used but ever since it was basically explicitly stated that they are enby (p sure the pronoun is they/them in the original) I think she just managed to. Not use pronouns altogether (cuz there isn't a gender neutral one in german)?? And did it so well I'm only really noticing about halfway through?!

Gonna be keeping a closer eye now but if she really did that? Huge kudos. Like oh my god. Especially cuz the translation is still genuinely good. Wtf.

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tw// sa

no bcs what the fuck is this

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2023 Reading Challenge | A book that's on a celebrity book-club list. [x]

35/40. Fuorilegge - Anna North

"Il sapere può essere molto prezioso," spiegò, "ma solo se la gente lo vuole. Se non lo vuole, può essere ancora peggio che inutile."

Knowledge can be very valuable... but only if people want it. If they don't, it can be worse than useless. [Outlawed - A. North]

★★★✩✩

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7 More Books Read in my 26th Year

1. 'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury

2. 'Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom' by Sylvia Plath

3. 'Outlawed' by Anna North

4. 'The Call of the Wild' by Jack London

5. 'Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Other Stories' by Karen Russell

6. 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain

7. 'Go Ask Alice' by Anonymous

10 Books Read in my 26th Year

1. 'A Sloth's Guide to Mindfulness' by Ton Mak

2. '1984' by George Orwell

3. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson

4. 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum

5. 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen

6. 'Catch-22' by Joseph Heller

7. 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott

8. 'The Old Man and The Sea' by Ernest Hemingway

9. 'The Death of Jane Lawrence' by Caitlin Starling

10. 'Dune: Messiah' by Frank Herbert

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Anna’s hummingbird

by Tim W. Oliver

NANPA’s 2024 Showcase - North American Nature Photography Association

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show a little loving,

shine a little light on me

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International Kissing Day

July 6th 

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Nansen - art by Boris Artzybasheff (1940)

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Just thinking out loud

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The horse’s eyes were wild and her muzzle foamy, and I knew she could knock me or Amity unconscious with one kick, but Amity didn’t stumble or shy. Instead she befan to nuzzle Prudence along her snout and neck in a gesture so tender it made me miss my sisters, the way they would lean in to butterfly-kiss my cheeks with their eyelashes.

pg104 of Ch5, Outlawed by Anna North

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9090 words.... and counting!! but i'm almost done!! will have the fluffy little jelsa fic up by CHRISTMAS <3