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Another (Accidental) Picture Book for Me

The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint by Ylva Hillström, Karin Eklund (Illustrator)

February 15, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

While perusing the Arlington Public Library’s List of Books You May Have Missed Last Year I spotted The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint written by Ylva Hillström and illustrated by Karin Eklund. I vaguely recognized af Klint’s name and popped it onto my list since a YA non-fiction was on my to read and this one struck my fancy, especially once I found out that Hillström is a curator at the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm. Woohoo for museum people writing books outside of […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Abstract Art, CBR16SweetBooks, picture book, Queer Artists, read harder challenge, we need diverse books, Woman Artist, Ylva Hillström, Karin Eklund (Illustrator)

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:9 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: Abstract Art, CBR16SweetBooks, picture book, Queer Artists, read harder challenge, we need diverse books, Woman Artist, Ylva Hillström, Karin Eklund (Illustrator) ·
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Angst, Drama, and Love

For Never & Always by Helena Greer

January 11, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I’m feeling a little rusty in my reviewing skills and kicking myself for not getting this specific review written when I finished the book because I had thoughts and now, I have fewer. I should probably start by saying that I really, truly enjoyed For Never & Always by Helena Greer in much the same way I did reading her previous book Season of Love. For Never & Always is also a queer romance which unpacks big emotions, specifically grief and trauma responses and like […]

Filed Under: Featured, Romance Tagged With: Angst meter high, Carrigan's, demisexual representation, fat representation, For Never & Always, For Never and Always, Helena Greer, Jewish characters, LGBTQ romance, queer romance, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Romance · Tags: Angst meter high, Carrigan's, demisexual representation, fat representation, For Never & Always, For Never and Always, Helena Greer, Jewish characters, LGBTQ romance, queer romance, we need diverse books ·
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“Sometimes I feel like my brain is a machine built by someone who lost the instruction manual.”

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

October 4, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I haven’t often re-read books in the past decade as I’ve gone on my Cannonball journey. But sometimes I revisit an old favorite, or earlier books in a series before continuing with the newly published. Due to my personal commitment to reading banned and challenged books it has also meant that our Banned Book Week book clubs have included re-reads. I try to review the re-reads on their own merits – what was the reading experience this time. But in the case of Gender Queer my […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Non-Fiction Tagged With: banned book club, banned book week, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, Queer Lives, read harder challenge, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:25 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Non-Fiction · Tags: banned book club, banned book week, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, Queer Lives, read harder challenge, we need diverse books ·
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I Can Always Rely on Stashed Romance Novels

The Write Escape by Charish Reid

January 10, 2023 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I read my first Charish Reid novel back in 2020 right before COVID shut everything down for a while. Hearts on Hold has been a book I think of often. In 2021 I read (Trust) Falling for You, but somehow managed to skip Reid in my 2022 reading excursions. Since the books I brought with me for holiday travel were a bit hit and miss (Make You Mine This Christmas and The Holiday Trap were good, the other two books I had with me probably […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Charish Reid, debut novel, Ireland, The Write Escape, vacation romance, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Charish Reid, debut novel, Ireland, The Write Escape, vacation romance, we need diverse books ·
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“The fifth glass is unarguably clean. Especially because Haf has been pretending to scrub at a stain that isn’t there, like a horny Lady Macbeth wanting to prolong the moment.”

Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

January 2, 2023 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I love the fake dating trope, so I was pleased as punch that November’s Illumicrate Afterlight book was Make You Mine This Christmas, even more so when forced proximity and all the bisexual chaos enter the equation. The story focuses on Haf who has been having a terrible year and lets her roommate convince her to join them at crashing a Christmas party they may or may not have been invited to. It’s at that party that Haf meets Christopher and following feeling badly for […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: debut, disaster bisexuals, fake dating, first in a series, holiday romance, Lizzie Huxley-Jones, queer romance, read harder challenge, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Romance · Tags: debut, disaster bisexuals, fake dating, first in a series, holiday romance, Lizzie Huxley-Jones, queer romance, read harder challenge, we need diverse books ·
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A Wintery Asexual Romance

Ace of Hearts by Lucy Mason

November 19, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Even before Read Harder had a task for reading a book with an asexual or aromantic character, I had been on the lookout for a Romance featuring them. It was a niche within the larger Romance genre that I wanted to explore. With that in mind I had added Lucy Mason’s Ace of Hearts to my to-read list in October of last year. And then I waited, patiently (or not so patiently) for a publication date to be announced. Fast forward to this fall, and […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: LGBTQIA romance, Lucy Mason, queer romance, read harder challenge, romances with content warnings, romantic asexual, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:68 · Genres: Romance · Tags: LGBTQIA romance, Lucy Mason, queer romance, read harder challenge, romances with content warnings, romantic asexual, we need diverse books ·
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