#queer book club

[thatmexisaurusrex]

Prompt: Tommy invites a very excited baby bi Buck to his queer book club. 🌈

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Queer Book Club

Tommy had known Evan was a reader.

There were piles of books littered around Evan's loft. Recently published books with spines newly cracked; old, tattered books the size of a hand, made to fit in a large pocket with their covers falling off and their glue barely holding the pages together; books from take a book, leave a book little libraries at national parks and novels from a book fair that happened recently over on a college campus nearby; books owned by Evan and books Evan always returned early to the local library.

Tommy had an inkling that Evan might enjoy the queer book club he was part of with Karen, Hen, and Josh, especially since Evan had spoken of an affinity for novels made by the Bronte Sisters and Austen. His eyes seemed to light up when Tommy explained that their next meeting would be about two adaptations: Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa and Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney.

"I hope I'm prepared enough," Evan had nervously whispered when he got into Tommy's car.

At the next red light, Tommy glanced over and could see Evan fidgeting and flipping through the pages. There were color-coded highlights and notes in every single margin; about themes, motifs, symbolism, the expansion of the idea of the original through this new lens of the story.

Tommy could tell Evan that this was mostly an excuse to read queer romances and drink craft beer together with some friends.

But Tommy didn't have the heart for that.

"You're impossibly prepared," Tommy almost gushed - okay, maybe completely gushed, smiling at his boyfriend.

The most adorable dork in the world.

"You think so?" asked Evan, relaxing a bit.

Tommy leaned over and gave Evan a quick kiss before the light turned green.

"Oh, I know so," said Tommy, making it his mission to listen to Evan's entire infodump about each novel tonight.

Because he adored it when his boyfriend was this excited about something.

[lavendershowcase]

October's Read: Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang. Join us Sunday, October 20th to discuss this horror novel!

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City. Holistik is known for its remarkable products and procedures—from remoras that suck out cheap Botox to eyelash extensions made of spider silk—and her new job affords her entry into a world of privilege and gives her a long-awaited sense of belonging. She becomes transfixed by Helen, the niece of Holistik’s charismatic owner, and the two strike up a friendship that hazily veers into more. All the while, our narrator is plied with products that slim her thighs, smooth her skin, and lighten her hair. But beneath these creams and tinctures lies something sinister.

You can view any potential content warnings (and other info) on Storygraph!

The Lavender Book Club is a chill, queer, online book club run through text chat on Discord and through this blog. If you’re interested in joining the server, the link is here. Follow this blog for updates on the club and our other activities!

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out February 2024

💖💜💙 Do you know what we could always use a little more of? Bi books! Here are a few coming out in February that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💖 In Plain Sight by Siobhan Muir 💜 Big Date Energy by Bethany Rutter 💙 Wine Ghost Goes to Hell by Sage Coffey 💖 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops 💙 Rupture in Total Eclipse by Sem Thornwood 💖 King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green 💜 Master and Favorite by Rachel Cherry 💙 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee 💖 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 It's Ours to Write by Blanche Maze 💙 Projections by S.E. Porter 💖 The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez 💜 Witch Boyfriend Wanted by Colette Rivera 💙 Tune Me Up by Renée Dahlia 💖 Cloti's Song by Dani Finn 💜 Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 💙 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💖 Snowed In With Summer by Tiana Warner 💜 Green Dot by Madeline Gray 💙 Falling For You by Mariah Ankenman 💖 Breaks by Emma Vieceli, Malin Rydén 💜 Signals by Nika 💙 Mortgage of Convenience by Dani McLean 💖 Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner 💜 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett 💙 An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson 💖 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💜 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💙 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett 💖 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💜 Letters to Her Love by Katherine Grant 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💖 Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan 💜 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💙 Redsight by Meredith Mooring

[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

It’s Disability Pride Month, and we’re chatting Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller with @IndiaReadsALot! Let’s talk mother-daughter dynamics, middle child syndrome, and murderous women 🦌🔥⚔️

Listen now on Spotify or find us wherever you get your podcasts.

Transcripts available on our website. Closed captions available on our YouTube.

[b-a-pigeon]

Interest check: would any of you all participate in an online queer SFF book club??

Fell & I have discussed this as an option for our (inactive & mostly empty) Discord server that we made for readers/patrons and I will actually start organizing if we get any interest!! Interact with this post or I guess just join the server now & I'll make it happen if enough people seem down :)

[godzilla-reads]

Last minute “I want to go to that book club so I gotta speed-read the book in a week” moment.

I figured that if I read 30-pages a day, then I’ll be able to finish this book by the time the Queer Book Club meets in November. Fingers crossed that I don’t get sidetracked 🤞

📖 Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers

[biggayenergypod]

A sneak peek of yesterday's interview with Meryl Wilsner! Want to hear more? Check out the links below to watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts 💜

[bethelctpride]

Brooms by Jasmine Walls

Mississippi, 1930s. Magic simmering beneath the surface, kept in check by unjust laws and societal expectations. But for six extraordinary women, the roar of enchanted engines and the thrill of the forbidden broom race offer a chance to rewrite their destinies.

Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that allows Black folks to legally use magic and take part in national races.

Cheng-Kwan – doing her best to handle the delicate and dangerous double act of being the perfect "son" to her parents, and being true to herself while racing.

Mattie and Emma -- Choctaw and Black -- the youngest of the group and trying to dodge government officials who want to send them and their newly-surfaced powers away to boarding school.

And Luella, in love with Billie Mae. Her powers were sealed away years ago after she fought back against the government. She'll do anything to prevent the same fate for her cousins.

"Brooms" is a heart-pounding graphic novel soaring with magic, friendship, and rebellion. It's a Fast and the Furious with broomsticks instead of cars, a historical spotlight on struggles silenced by time, and a celebration of the indomitable spirit that dares to defy the odds. Buckle up, witches and dreamers, for this ride is about to take flight.

Drop into Discord anytime during the two days of book club and discuss it via text chat.

[mogai-sunflowers]

im currently reading a wonderful book about this history of gender across cultures! I highly recommend it if you’re looking to broaden/intersectionalize your mindsets! https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/before-we-were-trans-dr-kit-heyam-phd/1140863854?ean=9781541603080

@makingqueerhistory @wearequeer-andwearehere @queerasfact

[lgbtqiamediaclub]

Happy Pride Month everyone! This month for the Queer Book Club we are reading Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell! It’s not too late to join us on discord here 

[rainydaypaperback]

Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It's hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time.

Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don't interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake.

Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he's going to win.

Text based bookclub via Bethel CT. Pride's Discord.

[gaybookcoven]

Kaylene and Claire discuss The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

*Our next book will be The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

Kiran Millwood Hargrave on the real women of the Vardø witch trials

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[lavendershowcase]

August's Read is I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson! Join us Sunday, August 18th for our meeting!

**Please note that while this blog does not typically do content warnings before selecting books, we are aware of content warnings for sexual assault in this book, and it felt responsible to warn book clubbers.

At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways... but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor. The early years are Noah's to tell; the later years are Jude's. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they'll have a chance to remake their world.

You can view any potential content warnings (and other info) on Storygraph!

The Lavender Book Club is a chill, queer, online book club run through text chat on Discord and through this blog. If you’re interested in joining the server, the link is here. Follow this blog for updates on the club and our other activities!

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

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[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

Somehow it’s that time again already! We’ve got a busy few months ahead at The Hidden Bookcase, so peek under the cut for what we’re reading and chatting about on our upcoming episodes as autumn ambles on in… 🍂🧣🍁

Before we get to our autumn reads, we couldn’t let Disability Pride Month pass without celebration! We’re joined by the stellar Ella T. Holmes, disability advocate & organiser of the upcoming disability in fantasy anthology, for a chat about writing fantasy with disability in mind.

Then it’s time for Ahistorical Autumn to begin! We’re setting sail on August 5th with Natasha Pulley's seafaring adventure The Kingdoms, for which we are joined by a very beloved member of The Hidden Bookcase crew, the incredible Kit Lovick!

Afterwards, we have yet another fireside chat for you all, this time celebrating Fat Liberation Month in August! For this episode, we’re accompanied by the wonderful Anya Josephs, author of sapphic fantasy novel Queen of All 👑⚔️🏰

Then it’s back in the saddle as Ahistorical Autumn continues with Lucy Holland’s Song of the Huntress on September 2nd! 🐴🌙🌳 Longtime bookwyrms will know Sistersong was one of the first books we read on the show- we can’t wait to delve into this world again!

We’ve got something especially exciting for the latter half of September- an author interview with Jessica Mary Best! Audiodrama lovers may know her as writer of our of this world @starshipiris. We’ll be chatting sapphic, sci-fi, YA murder mystery Stars, Hide Your Fires on the 16th!

Last but certainly not least, Ahistorical Autumn finishes with a flourish on October 7th- we’re talking the epic She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, alongside author of Home, the one and only Cailean Steed ☀️🔥🐉

Told you things were going to get busy- we can’t wait! Are any of these books on your TBR, or perhaps already amongst your current favourites? We’d love to hear what you bookwyrms are most excited about! 📚🐉💜💛

[e-kathryns-shadows]

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