Why can't I read all these books!? 🍋🟩
🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction et de fiction, de poésie, des classiques, du spéculatif, du réalisme magique, etc.
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La réélection de Trump confirme la renaissance d'une internationale réactionnaire que traduit un violent backlash …
Petit bouquin trouvé à ma librairie. Il a l'air plutôt France-centric mais il est court.
Petit bouquin trouvé à ma librairie. Il a l'air plutôt France-centric mais il est court.
A THEM AND BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant and intimate …
Finished reading this in a bit of a fugue state last night. I have a lot of thoughts and I'm probably going to blog about them. What a book.
Finished reading this in a bit of a fugue state last night. I have a lot of thoughts and I'm probably going to blog about them. What a book.
A THEM AND BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant and intimate …
Reading this for Frankie DLC's OOYL book club this January.
Reading this for Frankie DLC's OOYL book club this January.
if your goal is a good all around yuri experience do NOT miss "how do we relationship" which is just so brutally real
if your goal is a good all around yuri experience do NOT miss "how do we relationship" which is just so brutally real
A slow-burn vintage lesbian romance about desire, freedom, and daring to embrace your truth.
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Like most readers who end up reading at least some romance, I tend to try very hard not to worry about things like realism or historical accuracy. But this novel set in the (all white, all Christian, all conforming) American suburbs in 1969-we-can-just-taste-the-70s blew me away. I later learned the writer has a background in both history and research, so chef's kisses all around! If you know anything about the 70s and USA queer history, there are a lot of tiny details that are going to jump out at you and grip your heart.
I'm going to be rereading this book on a regular basis, that's for sure. It's just beautifully done. There are a couple of scenes that are going to live rent-free in my head, forever!
Like most readers who end up reading at least some romance, I tend to try very hard not to worry about things like realism or historical accuracy. But this novel set in the (all white, all Christian, all conforming) American suburbs in 1969-we-can-just-taste-the-70s blew me away. I later learned the writer has a background in both history and research, so chef's kisses all around! If you know anything about the 70s and USA queer history, there are a lot of tiny details that are going to jump out at you and grip your heart.
I'm going to be rereading this book on a regular basis, that's for sure. It's just beautifully done. There are a couple of scenes that are going to live rent-free in my head, forever!
Making the yuletide gay
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart’s Landing. Playing on …
As I wrote about the first book in this series, everyone wants to see love stories about gay hockey players and I am so here for the masc representation this book is giving me.
Especially compared to the first book, I found the circumstances surrounding JT (who has a very memorable but small part in the first book) really well done and compelling. It's really hard to return to the small town you grew up in when you're visibly queer and gender non-conforming and Cochrane does a really good job of painting the feel of rural New Hampshire.
While Yours for the Season is reasonably tropey (I mean, to start, it's set around the holidays!), the mechanics feel less obvious than in the first novel and it was easier to turn off my brain and just enjoy the ride. For example, I'm usually not into "Hallmark Christmas …
As I wrote about the first book in this series, everyone wants to see love stories about gay hockey players and I am so here for the masc representation this book is giving me.
Especially compared to the first book, I found the circumstances surrounding JT (who has a very memorable but small part in the first book) really well done and compelling. It's really hard to return to the small town you grew up in when you're visibly queer and gender non-conforming and Cochrane does a really good job of painting the feel of rural New Hampshire.
While Yours for the Season is reasonably tropey (I mean, to start, it's set around the holidays!), the mechanics feel less obvious than in the first novel and it was easier to turn off my brain and just enjoy the ride. For example, I'm usually not into "Hallmark Christmas Movie" type films or books, but I got on board with this one from pretty much the first page of the first chapter, because Cochrane figures out how to mix just enough bitter with the sweet without everything getting either melodramatic or treacly-sweet.
Cut from the U.S. women’s hockey team right before her third chance at gold, Natalie …
For what it is, it's a fun read. Some bits of Nat in particular were very well executed and compelling. Second chance romances (un peu à la Persuasion de Austen) are in particular a special interest of mine, so I could not not love to see this one.
It does, however, contain my writing technique arch-nemesis: NOOOOOOO to flashback chapters! (I don't know why but 2025 was the year I decided I really disliked almost all iterations of this technique and while it was more tolerable here than in most things, I still was very annoyed. Mon royaume pour un second chance romance sans chapitre flashback!!)
For what it is, it's a fun read. Some bits of Nat in particular were very well executed and compelling. Second chance romances (un peu à la Persuasion de Austen) are in particular a special interest of mine, so I could not not love to see this one.
It does, however, contain my writing technique arch-nemesis: NOOOOOOO to flashback chapters! (I don't know why but 2025 was the year I decided I really disliked almost all iterations of this technique and while it was more tolerable here than in most things, I still was very annoyed. Mon royaume pour un second chance romance sans chapitre flashback!!)
Cut from the U.S. women’s hockey team right before her third chance at gold, Natalie …
Très recommandé, bouquin trouvé dans la newsletter Out of Your League (qui est super bon d'ailleurs)
Très recommandé, bouquin trouvé dans la newsletter Out of Your League (qui est super bon d'ailleurs)
Supergirl returns to DC’s comics this summer to headline her first new series in years: …
Artwork had me dreaming of a different decade, reminding me of the best that the (old old old) Valérian, Thorgal, and Métal Hurlant could deliver. And the narrative frame was immediately compelling.
Supergirl remains a favourite for exactly the themes described in this book: an exploration of how you keep living in unimaginable pain and grief, when your world has ended and keeps ending every single day.
The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we …
Deuxième édition, première lecture, ça fait des années que j'avais envie de le lire, même en tenant compte certaines critiques.
Deuxième édition, première lecture, ça fait des années que j'avais envie de le lire, même en tenant compte certaines critiques.
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
I always forget how much Western Scientist Commentary On The Soviet Union there is. But also, the Soviet scientist, Vaygay Lunacharsky, is both an underdeveloped and underused character and it makes me sad.
@leifur do you know if we have this one squirrelled away somewhere?
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
The Laurel Lekfow narration is so well done. I wonder what other audiobooks she has narrated, because honestly I'm not having much trouble with her narration at all!
The Laurel Lekfow narration is so well done. I wonder what other audiobooks she has narrated, because honestly I'm not having much trouble with her narration at all!
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
I think the reason so many young millennials and gen x'ers went feral over this book is because Ellie Arroway's childhood as a girl interested in tech and math but also kind of uninterested in school is so intensely relatable.
I think the reason so many young millennials and gen x'ers went feral over this book is because Ellie Arroway's childhood as a girl interested in tech and math but also kind of uninterested in school is so intensely relatable.
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
Listening to the audiobook while I emerge from migraine-brain land, narrated by Laurel Lekfow (what a gorgeous voice, she's great). I don't usually handle audiobooks super well, but I've read Contact before so I'm hoping that will help compensate with my slight audio processing issues!
Listening to the audiobook while I emerge from migraine-brain land, narrated by Laurel Lekfow (what a gorgeous voice, she's great). I don't usually handle audiobooks super well, but I've read Contact before so I'm hoping that will help compensate with my slight audio processing issues!
