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Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald, Lorenzo Marquez

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Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life covers a wide range of subjects in shallow depth. The introduction is open about this, and the authors suggest you go ask Youtube and Google about further details. On the one hand, this is a good goal, to encourage people to further explore things of interest. On the other hand, it can also be a problem such as when a queen named Michelle is important but not discussed much […]

CBR Diversions – Show Off Your Pride!

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While talking about books to celebrate Pride Month, andtheIToldYouSos brought up discovering Becky Chambers last year during Cannon Book Club’s The Future is Queer event. “That was a huge game changer- as a reader, queer person, and a disillusioned Harry Potter fan. Rowling was at her worst, and CBR gave me Chambers at their BEST.” Personally, I love recommending books that show all kinds of people, and especially queer people, finding joy and happily ever afters. I have a huge list, but right now I […]

Ghost in the Machine

U Up? by Cate Disabato

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In the end, this one receives the thinnest of four stars. I’m nudging it over the line because I think it has a lot going for it, even with the protagonist driving me absolutely bonkers for the last 20-30 pages. I guess I should start with the positives: I like Catie Disabato’s writing. She has a gift for creating real, believable characters, even the ghost ones. Her vision of how witchcraft works in this world: that mediums have the power to see ghosts, with certain […]

Read this, it’s Important

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

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I have to admit I was a little surprised to see a Pride display at the local Barnes and Noble that still had a copy of I Wish You All The Best. Also for the record, I really dislike the use of the word “important” to designate something genuinely meaningful that everyone should seek out, but this might be one of those titles which actually deserves that term in that sense. If you can’t imagine the struggle of someone who wants to come out but […]



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