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“If she closed her eyes she might fix this in her memory always: the pulse in Kath’s throat; the warmth of her body; the scent of her skin.”

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

May 18, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In Last Night at the Telegraph Club Malinda Lo created National Book Award for Young People’s Literature winner which aims to challenge pervasive perceptions of the 1950s in the United States, including stereotypes about Chinese Americans, the invisibility of the lesbian and gay community, and the role of women in the space program, and the reach of Red Scare paranoia on people’s day to day lives. It is also the story of two young women falling in love during their senior year of high school […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Young Adult Tagged With: 1950s, CannonBookClub, historical, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, queer love, YA

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:34 · Genres: Book Club, Young Adult · Tags: 1950s, CannonBookClub, historical, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, queer love, YA ·
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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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Community, Queer Romance, Near-Future SF….What More Could One Want?

The Short While by Jeremy Sorese

January 10, 2022 by GentleRain 4 Comments

This was a really nice surprise to read, as I had no real expectations going in besides being a follower of Jeremy Sorese’s illustrative work on Twitter. I knew he dealt with queer themes and I like his art style, so when I saw on Twitter that he’d done a graphic novel, I looked at the excerpt and decided to buy it. Pricey at US$30, but it is 432 pages and a mixture of illustration, comic panel style sections, and text, so you are getting […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, community building, gay fiction, Jeremy Sorese, near future, queer love, queer romance, trans character

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, community building, gay fiction, Jeremy Sorese, near future, queer love, queer romance, trans character ·
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“Don’t you think it’s possible that this could be good? That maybe this won’t lead to disaster after all? What if we find out that we fit together, like your grandparents and their hands?” (Bingo #8)

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

October 23, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Blackout is a novel comprised of several short stories covering five hours in the course of one night in New York as it experiences a blackout. Tiffany D. Jackson writes The Long Walk which is broken up into five acts, Nic Stone contributes Mask Off (perhaps my favorite of the bunch), Ashley Woodfolk’s Made to Fit, Dhonielle Clayton provides All the Great Love Stories… and Dust, as well as being the person who sparked the project into existence, Angie Thomas’s No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love ·
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“She had lifted me to her star…”

Olivia by Dorothy Strachey

June 8, 2021 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

Welcome to a small world in which “a world in which everything was fierce and piercing, everything charged with strange emotions, clothed with extraordinary mysteries, and in which I myself seemed to exist only as an inner core of palpitating fire.” Isn’t that a place you want to go? I happened across this slim novella by chance in the classics section of a nearby indie bookstore. The author’s surname caught my eye, and I did a quick search to see if she was related to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dorothy strachey, olivia, queer love

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dorothy strachey, olivia, queer love ·
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all ABOARD!

Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

April 30, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Mysterious and melancholy adventure awaits! Otto and Xavier, legally paired but not traditionally wed, receive a lavish not-honeymoon gift from a fabulously wealthy aunt: a trip on a strange and fabulous train. They don’t know where they are going, why they have been invited, or who is truly pulling the strings behind this event. They don’t know if the reclusive woman who lives full-time on the train (what a dream!) held up a sign that said “HELP” or “HELLO”, and they don’t know if they […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Helen Oyeyemi, lgtbqia, magical realism, queer love, train travel, Urban Fantasy, whimsy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Helen Oyeyemi, lgtbqia, magical realism, queer love, train travel, Urban Fantasy, whimsy ·
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