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Book 20/24: The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages Rating: 4/5 A friend recommended this book after I told her I watched Oppenheimer. It's historical fiction following 10-year-olds Dewey Kerrigan and Suze Gordon as their (fictional) families move out to Los Alamos to develop the atomic bomb. Of course, the kids do not know exactly why they are there. Only that there's a "gadget" being built to "end the war."
It's definitely a middle grade/young adult book and spent the first 100 pages on setup for young readers, but I thought it picked up a lot after that. By the end it's very affecting. The tone is simultaneously somber and joyful as the book celebrates children learning, growing and making friends, but with a very dark backdrop. I got a little choked up at one part because the book made me care about the characters. The last chapter was an excellent encapsulation of people in a complex and horrible historic moment, living their own significant lives with comprehension of the global context looming like a mushroom cloud.
#the green glass sea#ellen klages#reading challenge 2023#it also plays around with tense which i appreciate#at first i feared the whole thing was going to be in present tense (not my favorite)#but then the tenses became significant in the part that made me choke up
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Recently Read Books May-July 2023.
And The Mountains Echoed and The Yellow Birds were both for my grad class but the rest I chose myself. Most of these went towards my personal reading challenge for this year too.
The books pictured above:
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Appointed Hour by Susanne Davis
No one is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Care of by Ivan Coyote
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Lord John and The Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
Frankisstein by Jeanette Winterson
Grrrls on the Side by Carrie Pack
Vanessa & Virginia by Susan Sellers
I also read Edna O' Brien's The Lonely Girl and bell hooks' Feminism is for Everyone, neither are pictured here.
I'm currently reading Self Made Man by Norah Vincent.
#books#book covers#bookblr#they aren't in order either#and the mountains echoed#khaled hosseini#the yellow birds#kevin powers#the appointed hour#susanne davis#no one is talking about this#patricia lockwood#our wives under the sea#julia armfield#care of#ivan coyote#passing strange#ellen klages#the jane austen book club#karen joy fowler#lord john and the private matter#diana gabaldon#frankissenstein#jeanette winterson#grrrls on the side#carrie pack#vanessa & virginia: a novel#susan sellers#read in 2023#some of these are lgbt themed
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Review: Someone in Time Anthology
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed RomanceAuthors: Nina Allen, Zen Cho, Rowan Coleman, Jeffrey Ford, Sarah Gailey, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Alix E. Harrow, Ellen Klages, Lavanya Lakshimanarayan, Margo Lanagan, Seanan McGuire, Sam J. Miller, Sameem Sadiqui, Catherynne M. Valente, Carrie VaughnEditor: Jonathan StrahanPublisher: SolarisReleased: May 10, 2022Received: NetGalley Someone in…
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#Alix E. Harrow#Anthology#Book#Book Review#Books#Carrie Vaughn#Catherynne M. Valente#Elizabeth Hand#Ellen Klages#Fiction#Jeffrey Ford#Jonathan Strahan#Lavanya Lakshimanarayan#Literary#Literature#Margo Lanagan#Net Galley#NetGalley#Nina Allen#Review#Rowan Coleman#Sam J. Miller#Sameem Sadiqui#Sarah Gailey#Science Fiction#Science Fiction Review#Seanan McGuire#Short stories#Short story#Short Story Collection
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Good things so far this week
"She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically." from “In the House of the Seven Librarians” by Ellen Klages
"Sound is a way of touching at a distance" - John Luthor Adams in “A Sonic Geography of Alaska” via a profile piece by Ted Gioia
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so i read Passing Strange by Ellen Klages and it was really good quite enjoyed it. not only was it beautifully written and just gorgeous, but also something about what it is to live as a person who is not (or not quite) a woman but who is still defined by womanhood and in some ways always will be. about the balancing act between dragging yourself backwards and clawing forwards, how much can i degrade myself, how much of a show can i put on for people who care nothing for me so that i can carve out a place for myself. how much is worth it. and how even when you have worked so hard to build yourself a world where you can exist it is not enough.
#on todays episode of i read a book and now need to wordvomit about it#passing strange#passing strange ellen klages#queer books#its so fucking beautiful and bittersweet#it sparkles like its going to cut you right open
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I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.
This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.
For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
IRL by Tommy Pico
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun
Witching Moon by Poppy Woods
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto
#queer books#queer history#lgbt history#honestly#libraries are a massive resource in terms of preserving and uplifting marginalized narratives#and as a community#that has been so very excluded from both fictional and nonfictional narratives#this is a great way to reclaim and care for the stories that have been surpressed for so long
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part 3 of the 2023 version of this post: adult books!
part 1: middle grade books | part 2: young adult books
this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!
list of books under the cut ⬇️
yerba buena by nina lacour
if we were villains by m.l. rio
everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin
i want to be a wall by honami shirono
portrait of a thief by grace d. li
the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhadar
on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong
love & other disasters by anita kelly
take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert
boyfriend material by alexis hall
almost like being in love by steve kluger
the charm offensive by alison cochrun
something wild & wonderful by anita kelly
red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston
something to talk about by meryl wilsner
honey girl by morgan rogers
one last stop by casey mcquiston
once ghosted, twice shy by alyssa cole
kiss her once for me by alison cochrun
a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow
finna by nino cipri
every heart a dooryway by seanan mcguire
the starless sea by erin morgenstern
under the whispering door by tj klune
space opera by catherynne m. valente
light from uncommon stars by ryka aoki
dead collections by isaac fellman
the city we became by n.k. jemisin
light carries on by ray nadine
an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green
feed them silence by lee mandelo
summer sons by lee mandelo
upright women wanted by sarah gailey
lavender house by lev a.c. rosen
fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
a master of djinn by p. djeli clark
witchmark by c.l. polk
a marvellous light by freya marske
a restless truth by freya marske
when women were dragons by kelly barnhill
plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth
a lady for a duke by alexis hall
infamous by lex croucher
passing strange by ellen klages
even though i knew the end by c.l. polk
the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo
whiskey when we're dry by john larison
wake of vultures by lila bowen
silver in the wood by emily tesh
the once and future witches by alix e. harrow
the kingdoms by natasha pulley
a tip for the hangman by allison epstein
she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan
the song of achilles by madeline miller
spear by nicola griffith
this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone
gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir
some desperate glory by emily tesh
all systems red by martha wells
a psalm for the wild built by becky chambers
the mimicking of known successes by malka older
winter's orbit by everina maxwell
fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard
empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo
legends and lattes by travis baldree
the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune
other ever afters by melanie gillman
the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon
a day of fallen night by samantha shannon
a strange and stubborn endurance by foz meadows
the unbroken by c.l. clark
real queer america by samantha allen
fun home by alison bechdel
in the dream house by carmen maria machado
better living through birding by christian cooper
why fish don't exist by lulu miller
#lgbtq+ books#queer books#book recommendations#gay books#book flow chart#part 3 of 3!#AND THAT'S IT oh my god this took me days#mp
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books ive read so far in 2024
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers
Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers (are you seeing a theme)
The House on the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
The Galaxy and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers
A Marvellous Light, by Freya Marske
A Restless Truth, by Freya Marske
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Under the Whispering Door, by TJ Klune
Affinity, by Sarah Waters
The City We Became, by NK Jemisin
A Power Unbound, by Freya Marske
Passing Strange, by Ellen Klages
The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin
Witchmark, by CL Polk
The Obelisk Gate, by NK Jemisin
The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsin Muir
Winter’s Orbit, by Everina Maxwell
The Stone Sky, by NK Jemisin
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo (5/27/24)
Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki (5/31/24)
Tinkers, by Paul Harding (5/31/24)
Strong Motion, by Johnathan Franzen (6/6/24)
The Magpie Lord, by KJ Charles (6/10/24)
Trust, by Hernan Diaz (6/12/24)
The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller (6/16/24)
A Case of Possession, by KJ Charles (6/21/24)
Flight of Magpies, by KJ Charles (6/25/24)
Our Hideous Progeny, by CE McGill (6/27/24)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by NK Jemisin (6/28/24)
Ocean’s Echo, by Everina Maxwell (6/30/24)
Wolfsong, by TJ Klune (7/7/24)
The Broken Kingdoms, by NK Jemisin (7/10/24)
We Could Be So Good, by Cat Sebastian (7/12/24)
Ceremonial Time, by John Hanson Mitchell (7/12/24)
The Employees, by Olga Ravn (7/18/24)
Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen (7/19/24)
Ravensong, by TJ Klune (7/22/24)
Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (7/31/24)
The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan (8/3/24)
Remedial Magic, by Melissa Marr (8/4/24)
Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (8/8/24)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (8/14/24 or thereabouts, i was without wifi for a few days)
The Pairing, by Casey McQuiston (8/20/24 or thereabouts)
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (again) (9/10/24)
Lightning Flowers, by Katherine E. Standefer (9/15/24)
Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (again) (9/23/24)
The Stars Too Fondly, by Emily Hamilton (9/27/24)
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (10/2/24)
Comedy Book, by Jesse David Fox (10/8/24)
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, by Ashley Herring Blake (10/14/24)
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, by Ashley Herring Blake (11/9/24)
(i only decided to start dating when i finished each book when i was like halfway thru the year oops)
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do you have any book recs for books about girls that feel like girl out boy. i want to read about girls but i don't want to read about fall out boy yk
I love this question! I am constantly seeking for books that feel like Girl Out Boy because I want to live in that muggy girlspace at all times. These cut a wide swath of genres and probably only 2 of them are genuine read-alikes in tone; the rest share a headspace or ethos or were otherwise important in shaping that world. I would love to collect other peoples’ recommendations on this question, so please chime in!
Nonfiction:
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Any book by Melissa Febos
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper
The Riot Grrrl Collection ed. by Lisa Darms
Fiction:
The Scapegracers series by H.A. / August Clarke—the most GOB thing I have ever read in my life!
Supper Club by Lara Williams
Anything Resembling Love by S. Qiouyi Lu
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
You Know I’m No Good by Jessie Ann Foley
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
Comics:
Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Man-Eaters by Chelsea Cain
Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughn
Girl Town by Casey Nowak
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
Okay, I'm stopping myself now, because this is clearly just becoming a "Book About Women Sharks Want You To Read". And I could go on, and on, and on. Please let me know if you read and like any! Reading and talking about reading are my favorite things in the world.
Go forth and read about girls!
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Bonus Books for the Pinterest reading challenge- more 2023 TBRs!
#hear us out#nancy garden#scanty particulars#rachel holmes#that's the dr. james barry book#genocide of the mind#vine deloria jr.#marbles#ellen forney#passing strange#ellen klages#too loud too fat too slutty#anne helen peterson#the unlit lamp#radclyffe hall#we are water#wally lamb#the liar#stephen fry#lord john and the private matter#diana gabaldon#lgbt lit#gay lit#lesbian lit#bisexual lit#trans lit#8 out of the 10 books have gay subjects or the authors are lgbt#books#bookblr#tbr
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Fic (and nonfic!) Recs for Pride!
In honor of Pride, have some of my favorite F/F and F/NB reads!
Short stories (available online)
Radcliffe Hall by Miyuki Jane Pinckard - 40k word novella, with a Japanese student attending an American women's college in 1908. It's a Gothic novel with the characters encountering the supernatural, which is no less malevolent than systemic racism and homophobia.
The First Stop Is Always the Last by John Wiswell - Short and sweet time loop flirtation!
Scallop by J.L. Akagi - A woman begins growing eyes all over her body, and struggles to hide them. All the warnings for body horror, eye injury, and referenced sexual assault.
The World Ends in Salty Fingers and Sugared Lips by Jen Reese - Time loop story about the end of the world and the ways we try to deal with the crushing uncertainty of the inevitable.
Romance
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston - Subway time travel romance! August moves to New York and meets Jane, a butch punk from the 70s who’s trapped on the subway. It’s warm and sweet and funny, with all the feels and queer found family goodness.
Fatal Fidelity by Rien Gray - Dark romance/erotic suspense featuring a bi femme fatale and a nonbinary assassin! The series begins with Love Kills Twice, in which Justine hires an assassin to get rid of her abusive husband…unaware that Campbell was also hired to kill her. Absolutely delicious.
Feminine Pursuits series by Olivia Waite - While I’m listing it as a series, each novel is entirely stand-alone! These are a set of historical F/F novels featuring women in arts and science (and beekeeping!) making their way and falling in love with one another!
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan - Historical romance as two older women (73 and 69 years old, respectively!) plot the downfall of an absolutely Terrible Nephew who deserves everything that happens to him. An absolutely delicious comedic romp.
The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz - An AI repair technician and an autonomous robot who runs a small tea shop, set in a retro-futuristic America. It’s warm and gentle and yearning in very good ways.
Horror/Suspense
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin - Gender apocalypse featuring trans women! A virus has turned anyone with over a certain level of testosterone into cannibal rape monsters, so we’re following our trans protagonists as they try to survive feral men, murderous TERFs, and a sociopathic bunker brat. This deserves a LOT of content warnings but it’s also been blurbed as a ‘bleeding love letter to trans women’ and it really is.
Blackwater Sister by Zen Cho - A Malaysian-American lesbian moves to Malaysia with her family, where she is haunted by her grandmother’s ghost. Her grandmother is out for supernatural revenge, involving our protagonist with gangsters and a terrifying goddess.
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - Historical crime novel in which a thief poses as a lady’s maid for a con, and ends up developing feelings for the mark. Except the lady’s not as innocent as she seems, and it’s difficult to add more without spoiling the novel but it’s good!
Science fiction
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - Ambassador Mahit Dzmare travels to the capital of the interstellar Teixcalaanli Empire, discovers that her predecessor has died, and must find not only who murdered him, but why—while trying not to get murdered herself, and trying to maintain her small station’s independence from Teixcalaan’s ever-expanding empire. And there is a sequel but that has its own plot and requires you to read this one anyway!
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages - Set in San Francisco, built on artifice and delight as we follow a group of queer women both present and in the 1940s. Central story is a romance, two women trying to navigate both joy and the brutality of the worlds they inhabit.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - An epistolary love story across time and space, in far futures and alternative pasts as two rival agents—post-singularity Red and bio-consciousness Blue—foil and thwart one another.
Fantasy
The Burning Kingdoms by Tasha Suri - Indian-inspired fantasy trilogy (third book coming in 2024!) that follows a captive princess and a maidservant with forbidden magic who navigate the the tension between their different loyalties and the politics of empire. Just! So good!
The Kingston Cycle by C.L. Polk - A fantasy trilogy (that’s actually complete!) set in a world where witches are persecuted and placed in asylums…while secretly, the witches of elite families use that power in service of the crown. The first book (Witchmark) starts with a murder mystery and a doctor with PTSD who follows that mystery to government secrets that force him to confront his estranged family. It’s also M/M, but the sequels (Stormsong and Soulstar) center around F/F and F/NB main pairings, respectively.
The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir - The first book starts with swordjock butches and lesbian necromancers in space going through (essentially) a haunted mansion together, and it just keeps going after that! It’s delightful, deranged, and full of fantastic characters I want to gnaw on!
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo - A beautiful frame story with a very fairytale feel, where the cleric Chih is telling the story of a tiger and her lover, a female scholar, to a trio of hungry tigers who threaten to eat them if Chih tells the story incorrectly!
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark - Mystery and magic and suspense in a steampunk Cairo, set forty years after magic returned to the world! The first female agent for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities is assigned to discover who murdered members of a secret cult. In addition to solving the case, she’s also assigned a rookie partner to train, and navigating the surprise return of her girlfriend, who has her own secrets! This is a really fun romp, full of joy and wonder. (And Fatma’s fabulous suits!)
Nonfiction
In the Dream House by Carmen Machado - A memoir about surviving domestic abuse, with each chapter using a different trope or genre convention to not only explore the way the relationship affected her sense of self, but also about trying (or failing) to find that representation in cultural history. It’s a rough read in places, but absolutely worth it if you’re in a space to handle that sort of content. (And in case it’s not obvious: her ex was another woman. Abuse isn’t limited by gender.)
#pride#book recs#story recs#f/f#f/nb#genre fiction#I wanted to keep this list short'n punchy but if you have questions or want to know about content warnings hmu!
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JOMP BPC || February 28 || Read In February:
While most of what I read this month was delightful, I read far less than I wanted too. My brain just refused to Focus. Sometimes that's just how the cookie crumbles I guess. May my brain be kinder in March!
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 6 by Naoko Takeuchi ★★★★
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley ★★★★
Sunstone Vol. 1 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★ [RR]
Sunstone Vol. 2 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★
Sunstone Vol. 3 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★
Sunstone Vol. 4 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★
Sunstone Vol. 5 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★
Sunstone Vol. 6 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★
Sunstone Vol. 7 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton ★★★
Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra ★★★★★
Lorehaven Bound: A Hunger Pangs Short by Joy Demorra ★★★★★ [K]
Crewel Intentions: A Hunger Pangs Short by Joy Demorra ★★★★★ [K]
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages ★★★
Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander ★★
#books#jompbpc#book photo challenge#justonemorepage#book photography#2024 Reading#Not out of void but out of chaos
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Episode 200 - Library Fiction
It’s episode 200, which means it’s (finally) time for us to discuss Library Fiction! We talk about the stereotypes and tropes of library fiction, unacknowledged work of library workers,and more. Plus: we talk way more about our actual jobs than we usually do.
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore by Paula Guran (below are direct links to many of the stories from this collection)
In the House of the Seven Librarians by Ellen Klages
In Libres by Elizabeth Bear
Those Who Watch by Ruthanna Emrys
Paper Cuts Scissors by Holly Black
Summer Reading by Ken Liu
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came by A.C. Wise
The Librarian’s Dilemma by E. Saxey
The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar
A Woman's Best Friend by Robert Reed
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu
The Sigma Structure Symphony by Gregory Benford
The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt
The Last Librarian: Or a Short Account of the End of the World by Edoardo Albert
How Can I Help You by Laura Sims
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen
Other Media We Mentioned
The Library of Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Empty Crown by Rosemary Edghill
Meghan meant The Abortion by Richard Brautigan (not Trout Fishing in America)
The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Bookhunter by Jason Shiga
Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes
Library Comic by Gene Ambaum and Willow Payne
Welcome to Night Vale
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Abbott Elementary
Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides by Chuck Tingle
My Librarian Is A Beautiful Lesbian Ice Cream Cone And She Tastes Amazing by Chuck Tingle
Party Girl
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Fictional Librarians
50 Fictional Librarians, Ranked
Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Barbara Gordon (DC Comics)
The Librarian (Discworld)
Lucien (The Sandman)
Evelyn Carnahan (The Mummy)
Marian Paroo (The Music Man)
Librarians (Welcome to Night Vale)
“While their description is never fully given, minor details of their physical characteristics have been described:”
yellow, gnarled teeth
sharp claws and pincers
Wings
Tentacles
thousands of spiny legs
rattles (that make noise when they move)
thoraxes
Links, Articles, and Things
Two-Fisted Library Stories zines
North Boulder Library is ready to open (there’s a slide in image 6!)
15 Librarian & Library Fiction by POC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts
Cora's Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown
The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana
The Plotters by Kim Un-Su
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Bookhunter by Jason Shiga
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Join us again on Tuesday, October 1st we’ll be getting ready for spooky season with the Weird West! (That’s Supernatural Horror Westerns)
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