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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

More

Books I forgot that I was reading

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Vergese

The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr

Surrender by Bono

More

[hermit-dragon]

Has this been done?

[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

[mewmewbeenz]

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

[onegiantmeep]

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

[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

[starkju0]

[abrillustrated]

personally very excited for whatever autism rock is going to do for the misfits this season

[caffeinatedvigilantewriter]

So Dani has gotten captured by the GIW, and got reverted to her chronological age (7, she was 19 when she was captured. Team phantom was attending collage and couldn’t get to her in time)

Luckily, Bruce Wayne, training to be Batman, breaks into the Base and rescues her.

He invites her to joins him while traveling and she accepts. But, after a while Bruce heads back to Gotham and they part way. (Dani was 8). Dani was the kid he never had.

Dani visits whenever Bruce’s kids are all away, so she’s never meet them. And Bruce forgets to mention the fact that they all have an older sister (Bruce is her emergency guardian)

There are multiple ways the batkids can find out about Dani

“Bruce? I found your old video logs from when you trained to be Batman, and who’s the kid you’re with?”

“Oh that your sister. She’s dead”

———————

“All in favor for Phantasm the ghost girl to join the JLD?!”

“Superman, I thought I said that none of my kids will be joking the Justice League while I’m still alive.”

“She’s your kid? But she dead!”

———————

“BRUCE! I thought you said you were in Paris for a mission with a partner?”

“I was.”

“Then why is there a photo of you in a cafe with a women three years older than Dick?!”

“She was my partner.”

“Who is she?”

“She’s your sister, Duke.”

———————

“Oh no!? How do we defeat big bad ghost baddie?!?”

“Hn. I will call in an expert.”

“Batman, you know someone who is an expert with ghosts? Who is she?”

“My daughter.”

“Black Bat?”

“No, my other daughter.”

“Spoiler?”

“No. My oldest daughter.”

“Oracle?”

“No.”

“What other daughter do you have?”

“Dani. She’s dead.”

[heytherecentaurs]

Everyone at the table this season has been incredible. I’ve been really blown away by their performances. But Danielle Radford has been so amazing. Her acting in dramatic moments has been so grounded and real, it hits me so hard. She is remarkable and I’ve been so thrilled to have her on my screen every week for the last 11 weeks. And I can’t wait until she’s on D20 again.

[island-pickney]

Where food is shared, happiness is doubled

[fruitfulchaos]

"the show is all about evan!" "all relationships revolve around evan!" "this person is stealing another person's spotlight!" i beg you to start watching adventuring party and maybe listen to how much they appreciate eachother and hype eachothers work up. touch grass

[brittanyacts]

I feel like Danielle is really hitting her stride with Sam this season. Like, it must be difficult to feel the same level of comfort as Aabria, Lou, Erika, and Brennan because those 4 play together all the time. But it seems like she's really letting herself/Sam be vulnerable (b/c let's be real, in an actual play it's both yours & your character's) and saying some of the most beautiful things.

I've always loved Sam & Danielle and it's really wonderful seeing them both shine this season.

*also shoutout for the Black women in wigs rep 🫶🏾 You love to see it!

[amanfromnewjersey]

repost from my insta (@trisideseye) bc @quiddie is active here and I'm mentally ill abr mismag

[bongwaterbunny]

as a kid who grew up raised on harry potter, had a harry potter themed party on my eleventh birthday, used to run a harry potter fanfic writing blog, mismag heals my soul. it takes harry potter and goes "fuck you. you dont own this concept and we can do it better." and then continues to do so much fucking better. like im so happy its not even funny.