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[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2025

Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week! Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th) At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give.…

[thingsreadinthedark]

Still reading • • •

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 54%

Small Joys by Elvan James Mensah 62%

Red Island House by Andrea Lee 42%

Perfect Peace by Daniel Black 40 %

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond 15%

Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate 24%

The Urgent Life by Bozoma Saint John 18%

Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh 63%

Random thoughts:

I feel so incredibly lucky to be able to read black women writers at work it’s such a magnificent experience. It’s life affirming and eye-opening and a specific look into all these incredible women writers lives and I’m learning about folks I don’t know a lot about on a person level and I love to read their thoughts and see their connections and linkages to each other. It’s incredible

Matthew Desmond is like — he’s Tim Wise of this America shit. Tim Wise with nothing but pure facts, not to say Tim Wise ain’t got facts because both of them got facts on facts! Poverty, by America has got me in its grip. It’s so good.

Red Island House is weird but also what I need sometimes. It’s such a unique and gothic sort of novel in its execution. It’s giving African gothic and im here for it.. I love the dynamic of the married couple — gorgeous, well educated Black woman who speaks multiple languages experiencing Africa moved from the US to Italy married an Italian, who built this crazy masterpiece of a house in Madagascar. It’s different, but engaging. So much going on in the town it’s giving Edwidge Danticat vibes.

Perfect Peace is traumatizing. I love Daniel Black but I’ve reached a place in this book where I’m scared for everyone involved. It’s a lot. Well-written as usual but my heart is beating outta my chest!

Small Joys is a sleeper hit. It’s so fucking good. Levels and layers to this shit good. Mensah is really making me feel like I’m in a mix of Queenie and I May Destroy You!

Pillars of the Earth — I’m loving this novel as a homestead type of novel. An anchor to come back to, it’s my long story to continually engage with when I want my brain to feel connected to a people.. a world.. something. Yo only crazy readers know what I mean by that. If you’ve ever read Harry Potter, LOTR you know what I mean by that. I get why people read long series that never end it’s like a place to stash your mind.

Urgent Life is good but boring

Sweet Vengeance sweet hot and dirty and you know what it’s fun can’t complain

Other things I’ve been reading

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

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Books I forgot that I was reading

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Vergese

The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr

Surrender by Bono

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[queerveganbooknerd]

Book 23 of 2025

“We don’t create our baggage, Isaac, but we can unpack it. Everyone has agency, whether they use it or not. Nothing has ever happened to you that’s greater than your power to heal it. Blaming others is merely an excuse to avoid activating your own personal strength. It’ll never work. No one cares to heal you as much as you need it because that’s your job. How smart is it to get mad at a mountain?” I’ve never forgotten that question. It shifted my whole perspective. “Either climb it or go around it, but don’t spend a lifetime waiting for it to move. Only a fool does that.”

Beautifully written. Daniel Black does that well. I didn't LOVE this as much as Don't Cry For Me, but still a phenomenal read.

4.5/5

[professorfcknmoriarty]

I feel normal about this

[thebellekeys]

leave him alone that's my emotional support grumpy middle aged white man with a layered past and zero bitches who's also really good at his job

[limeshade]

Wouldst thou like the taste of . . . butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? Yes. Wouldst thou like to see the world? What will you from me? Dost thou see a book before thee?

THE WITCH (2015) Written and directed by Robert Eggers

[theblvcksupreme]

Daniel Kaluuya in NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET on AppleTV | A Very Powerful in depth Documentary about Black Actors in Hollywood.

[mewmewbeenz]

Ngl I thought the original tweet was about mismag but it wasn’t lmao 😭

[hermit-dragon]

Has this been done?

[fascinationstreetmp3]

half of daniel's memoir being covered with static thats wiping away/obscuring the full picture is sooooo fucking delicious i love it

[shafershouse]

Books Read: 2022

January:

Desert Flowers (Paul Pen)

Tomorrow Will Be Different (Sarah McBride)

The Postmistress of Paris (Meg Waite Clayton)

February

March:

• The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles)

• The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict)

April:

• A History of Wild Places (Shea Earnshaw)

• The Longest Echo (Eoin Dempsey)

May:

• Lifting Heavy Things (Laura Khoudari)

• Don't Cry For Me (Daniel Black)

June

July:

• Woman of Light (Kali Fajardo-Anstine)

August

• The Shadows (Alex North)

September

• Half Sick of Shadows (Laura Sebastian)

• Killers Of A Certain Age (Deanna Raybourn)

October

November

December

[nemfrog]

Daniel's Comet. 1907.

Astronomy of to-day. 1909.

Internet Archive

[starkju0]

[astronnova]

proposition: danny's hair turns white in random patches when he's used too much power, he just dyes it back to all black when he gets home

[island-pickney]

Where food is shared, happiness is doubled

[onegiantmeep]

truly have not stopped thinking about “that’s a dough” since this aired.. i miss you danielle