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Woo Pig Sooie

Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

February 20, 2026 by G.D. Giant Leave a Comment

Come and Get It, by Kiley Reid takes place over one semester at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Most of the book takes place in the scholarship/transfer student dorm there. And the main cast of characters includes a few RAs and residents of the dorm, as well as a visiting professor/writer from the north. I know this book won’t be for everyone, but aside from a couple of issues, it was very much for me. One, I found much of the book to be […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: dark humor, dry humor, Fiction, friendship, Kiley Reid, LGTBQ, Mental Health, Social Themes

G.D. Giant's CBR18 Review No:3 · Genres: Book Club, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: dark humor, dry humor, Fiction, friendship, Kiley Reid, LGTBQ, Mental Health, Social Themes ·
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Page-turner mystery series alert

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

August 8, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Fortune Favors the Dead is the first book in the “Pentecost and Parker” mystery series. If you like a little bit of Sherlock Holmes and a little bit of hard-boiled noir, this could be the series for you! The Pentecost half of the series is the (in)famous NYC private detective, Ms. Pentecost. Ms. Pentecost is a 1940s Sherlock Holmes – she is hyper-observant, obsessive, and perhaps a little uncaring of her crime-solving crew at times. She is more interested in justice than anything else. Even […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Detective Fiction, LGTBQ, new york, private eye, Stephen Spotswood

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Detective Fiction, LGTBQ, new york, private eye, Stephen Spotswood ·
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Getting Steamy in San Francisco: #CannonBookClub2022!

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

May 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Fog rolling in off the Pacific! Illicit kisses in smoky clubs! Steamed buns filled with jammy pork and spices! What can I say about Last Night at the Telegraph Club that Malinda Lo didn’t already say with total confidence and care when she wrote the book? She felt as if speaking would ruin everything-then they’d have to put a name to this feeling between them, this rapidly growing heat and longing that made the sliver of air between their bodies charged with electricity. She could swear […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: AAPI, AAPI Heritage Month, AAPI voices, CannonBookClub, cannonbookclub2022, Chinese American, coming-of-age, LGTBQ, LGTBQ+ voices, Malinda Lo, midcentury America, National Book Award Winner, queer, queer love, San Francisco, young love

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: AAPI, AAPI Heritage Month, AAPI voices, CannonBookClub, cannonbookclub2022, Chinese American, coming-of-age, LGTBQ, LGTBQ+ voices, Malinda Lo, midcentury America, National Book Award Winner, queer, queer love, San Francisco, young love ·
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Introducing your new favorite crime solving duo

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

January 26, 2022 by Mikki Blu 3 Comments

Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn’t care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. Well, here we are in 2022 and this book starts off in 1942 New York.  Willowjean, aka Will, Parker is a young woman who works in the circus as a Jill-of-all trades.  When the book opens, she’s picking up extra work doing guard duty at a construction site.  As fortune has it, she saves the life of an older woman who […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: 1940s mystery, LGTBQ, Stephen Spotswood

Mikki Blu's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: 1940s mystery, LGTBQ, Stephen Spotswood ·
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One body holds a universe

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

March 14, 2021 by murderofcrows Leave a Comment

  Home is a feeling. That’s a line in the beautifully written Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, a Two Spirit, Oji-Cree author. But it’s also something of a manifesto for Jonny, an indigiqueer young man whose physical body carries all the love, pain and connections to land and people in his life. Like a beautiful hermit crab, he builds a shell to protect himself from homophobia, from feeling the generations of pain in his family, from loving too much. And that same shell is bedecked with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, First Nations, Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead, LGTBQ, Two Spirit

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, First Nations, Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead, LGTBQ, Two Spirit ·
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A Title Both Literal and Not

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

July 3, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I saw the author post something on social media before this was released about how some early readers didn’t think the novella had enough fighting to be wuxia. Zen Cho said that was because she meant for the novella to be a fan-fic of an imaginary 50 episode tv series of that genre. I don’t really know much about wuxia but I do think that The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water has the flavor of it at least. The general premise is […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, historical fiction, LGBTQ, LGTBQ, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, wuxia, Zen Cho

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:57 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, historical fiction, LGBTQ, LGTBQ, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, wuxia, Zen Cho ·
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    on a pre-Covid novella that I thought was post-Covid
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