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Letās Go Lesbians! 32 Books for Lesbian Visibility Day
TODAY! is Lesbian Visibility Day, the first day of Lesbian Visibility Week ā April 26, 2024. We are, Iām sure youāre shocked to discover, celebrating with LOTS of lesbian books! 15 people contributed to making this list, all of us sharing our absolute faves, from graphic novels to epic novels, from memoirs to horror fiction, with explicit rep and implied. With this many awesome books to share, weāre prepared to guarantee that everyone who loves wlw lit can find something new to them on this amazing list!
Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw
She Wears the Midnight Crown Anthology
Delilah Green Doesnāt Care by Ashley Herring Blake
The Scapegracers & The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke
Spinning by Tillie Walden
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Red Scholarās Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Those Who Wait by Haley Cass
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough
From Here by Luma Mufleh
Alice Isnāt Dead by Joseph Fink
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Female General, Eldest Princess by Please Donāt Laugh
Clear And Muddy Loss of Love by Please Donāt Laugh
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Canāt get enough books with lesbians? Yeah, us neither ā this new list for 2024 is on top of THREE rec lists of titles featuring lesbians that we posted last year.
Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 1
Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 2
Duck Prints Press Short Stories with Lesbian Characters
You can also view this list (along with all our other wlw faves!) as a shelf on Goodreads!
See a book you want to buy? You can grab it through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate shop!
What are YOUR favorite reads with lesbian characters?
#booklr#book recs#lesbian books#wlw books#queer book recs#lgbtq+ book recs#queer books#lgbtq+ books#books#reading
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this one was pitched to me as āif The Summer I Turned Pretty grew upā - and somehow itās totally true and I still ended up loving it ?
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge
April 16 - Books and Flowers
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Here are bisexual books out in April!
Books listed:
In Universes by Emet North
Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure by J.R. Yussuf
Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur
Of Blood and Aether (Harbingers, #1) by Harper Hawthorne
Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. Williams
Darker by Four (Darker by Four, #1) by June C.L. Tan
Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford
Moon Dust in My Hairnet by J.R. Creaden
What Is Love? by Jen Comfort
Finally Fitz by Marisa Kanter
The Boyfriend Fix by Lee Pini
Playing for Keeps by Jennifer Dugan
She Came for Blood (Dreamers & Demons: Sapphic Monsters Book 3) by Darva Green
Call Forth a Fox by Markelle Grabo
I'm The Same by James Ungurait
Something Kindred by Ciera Burch
Calling of Light (Shamanborn, #3) by Lori M. Lee
Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Even If We're Broken by A.M. Weald
Harley Quinn: Redemption (DC Icons Series Book 3) by Rachael Allen
Rainbow Overalls by Maggie Fortuna
Smile and Be a Villain by Yves Donlon
Lights, Camera, Passion by Isabel Lucero
Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer
Aubrey McFadden Is Never Getting Married by Georgia Beers
Court of Wanderers (Silver Under Nightfall, #2) by Rin Chupeco
Good Mourning, Darling (Darling Disposition, #1) by Azalea Crowley
All the Hype (Oak Haven Romance) by S. Bolanos
The Devil to Pay by Katie Daysh
Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris
You can find these books in this list on goodreads
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āUndineā by Patricia McKillip was low key kinda funny because the story can be summed up to an undine wants to lure a man into polluted water and winds up getting lured into his eco-political movement.
4/5 would recommend.
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Things Iām learning about All For the Game fans: a lot of yāall didnāt grow up with a cheese drawer in your fridge and it shows
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Finally getting some cooler weather in the mornings! Gonna spend the next hour in bed with my coffee and coles bakery danish
I've just started reading The Next Big Thing by James Colley.
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thrifted bookish finds 15.apr.24
today's book haul is made up of murder mysteries, irish fiction, contemporary fiction, historical fiction and fantasy.
book titles:
The Battersea Park Road to Paradise by Isabel Losada - memoir, self help.
The Appeal by Janice Hallett - murder mystery, thriller.
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman - murder mystery, cozy mystery.
The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan - romance, chick lit.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - historical fiction, dark academia.
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse - historical fiction, dark academia.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - literary fiction, mystery.
The Soil by Yi Kwang Su - translated lit, classic lit, Asian lit.
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs - myths & legends, classic lit.
The Oxford Book of Ireland edited by Patricia Craig - Irish lit, anthology of short stories & poetry, classic lit.
The Winter Road by Adrian Selby - epic fantasy, dark fantasy.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - sci fi, mythology, African lit.
taking the education of irish history and culture into my own hands. I'm still conflicted over my identity as someone with parents from two different countries and cultures while having been born and raised in a third country. time to stop wondering and get educated on the things, people and places that made me.
I took these pictures myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin. Find more bookish content under the 'nejj bookblr tag'.
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Swamp Thing is one of the DC characters that I didnāt know a single thing about. But I really enjoyed the plants and the nature and the southern summer vibes that I got from this. So now I kind of want to do a deep dive into his character/background. Another thing I really liked about this graphic novel was the twins dynamic. They were yearning for stronger connections but were having trouble relating to each other after some family drama. In the end they were able to overcome that, if not in the way they or I thought they would. So. This is getting a solid four stars and now I have some researching to do.
#swamp thing twin branches#booklr#reading#books#read#book#bookish#bookworm#book review#graphic novels#graphic novel review#dc comics#books and (fake) plants#books and plants#diabetic representation#diabetic rep#type 1 diabetic rep
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Iām bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book youāre currently reading.
#booklr#aftg#the kingās men#swamp thing twin branches#proficiency bonus#so many books going at once! šµāš«
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Wait what did Freydis Moon do? :( I've read their books and really liked them, but I don't follow them anywhere online, so that last ask you got worried me
Freydis Moon has been exposed to be Taylor Barton, a white person from the state of Oregon, someone who had a history of faking their race, being racist, and general abusive behavior. You can read more here about this Taylor person here, and you can find an incredibly long thread here.
Freydis was a colleague of mine, and they took me under their wing when I entered the indie book scene. They presented themselves as a Latine, mystic, queer trans author ā who was older than me, I should add ā so I deeply admired them and confided in them. I don't think ABM would have ever gotten much attention if I hadn't received their guidance.
There had been some whispers that Freydis was really Taylor, but I'd seen Frey's seemingly darker-skinned hands and heard their real name, which was supposedly Daniela.
Two things I should say before the big reveal: Freydis briefly hired a publicist named Cordi, who was also an agent with their own agency, named The Lynne Agency. Cordi, very randomly, decided to leave the industry and left their clients, and Freydis, hanging. Someone else to mention is Saint Harlow, an author of gay, cannibal erotica. On twitter, Saint was known for peddling a lot of drama ā sometimes, he was on the good side of things and sometimes the bad, but he tended to be a massive bully. Freydis allegedly comforted some of Saint's victims.
And the reveal:
Freydis is the race faker Taylor Barton. The evidence is substantial, but most notably, some of the files they shared with other authors, including me, had metadata with the names of Taylor Barton's other identities. I was able to check the files myself to confirm.
They were also Saint Harlow. Meaning Freydis was bullying people secretly on one account and comforting them on another. And the bullying was a lot more disgusting than you might think, but for the sake of the victim, I won't share details.
They were also the publicist/agent Cordi. Why did they pretend to be an agent at all? I'm not sure but they wasted a lot of authors' times, that's for sure. Were they just looking to plagiarize off manuscripts sent to them? Who knows. (A friend of mine who sent their manuscript to them fears so).
There were a lot of interactions between Taylor and I that are much much weirder in retrospect. They critiqued the industry use of #ownvoices, which I agreed about, but blew the issue out of proportion, like thinking #ownvoices gay-trans author book lists shouldn't exist because of potential outing, mlm books by mlm authors lists shouldn't exist because of potential outing, and that lists of books by people of color about people of color also shouldn't exist because... potential outing? Taylor was, to me, oddly sympathetic toward certain authors accused of racism and shot down my concerns of a certain book with what I felt to be pro-colonizer themes inconsistently ā their response to racism seemed to depend on whether they already disliked a person or not.
I could say a lot more but as someone who spoke to Taylor in private at times, there were a lot of things I was unsure about even when I was on their side of things. To some people, apparently, Freydis had said they were part Mexican, but only ever told me they were Peruvian (they might've known I'd clock them as a faker). Regardless, when this all came to light, their response was shockingly dismissive.
This may be more info than you asked for but TLDR:
Freydis Moon faked their race and ethnicity, bullied and manipulated many readers and authors using various fake identities, took advantage of latine author resources, and so on.
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04 October 2023: National Cinnamon Roll Day
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I haven't purchased a HP item in close to a decade - I use the books I already had as doorstops or to prop a laptop up for meetings nowadays.
There is NO "death of the author" with JK Rowling - she controls and continues to profit from her IP, and uses that money to fund hate groups.
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I know Iāve said it before, but I love this series so much! Each book keeps getting better and better. And adds more layers to the Mulvaney universe that I want to dive right into.
I loved Avi and Felix! They had such good banter and they would argue, tease, and snipe at each other at every given opportunity. I also loved the fact that everyone around them could see that they were into each other before they did. And I totally agree, Felix is a barbed wire wrapped marshmallow and Avi is a murderous golden retriever. They just fit together so well! Another thing I loved about this book was the little peek we got at Zane and Felixās queerplatonic relationship. And I canāt leave Aiden out! It was so nice to have his presence more firmly rooted in this book. I canāt wait to see how things turn out for him and Thomas. Mad Man is getting five stars!
Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:
Alphabet Challenge: alliteration in the title
#mad man#necessary evils series#booklr#book review#reading#books#read#book#bookish#bookworm#lgbtq+ books#queer books#necessary evils#dark romance#mm romance
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