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Most Anticipated Queer Adult Fiction: January-June 2024

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban (January 9th) Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here. Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and…

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Title: Seven Devils | Author: Laura Lam / Elizabeth May | Publisher: DAW (2020)

That time in the HOC when Michelle Rempel said the federal government treats alberta like a fart in the room and then Elizabeth May tried to get her to apologize for the unparliamentary language of "F-A-R-T" (she couldn't even bring herself to say the word.

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Fans of the Grishaverse should check out Cat's review of Light The Spark, a new romantic fantasy from Elizabeth May and DAW Books

Elizabeth May will once more lead the Green Party of Canada, along with Jonathan Pedneault, after her victory in the party's leadership race Saturday.

May and Pedneault have promised to helm the party under a co-leadership model, which will require an amendment to the party's constitution. For now, Pedneault will serve as deputy leader.

"It's difficult to put into words what it means to take the stage as the next leader of the Green Party of Canada," May said.

She added that it was a bit of "déjà vu," but Pedneault's presence was a major change.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

”February” 2/11/24

Seven Mercies by L. R. Lam & Elizabeth May After an ambush leaves the Novantae resistance in tatters, the survivors scatter across the galaxy. Wanted by two great empires, the bounty on any rebel's head is enough to make a captor filthy rich. And the seven devils? Biggest score of them all. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

That was the good. Nevertheless, the bad somehow always seems to creep in these days. The disillusionment in the conduct of some of our parliamentarians continued this week as news broke yesterday that the so-called ‘Palestine Friendship Group’ (which is comprised of Cabinet Ministers) held an event on Parliament Hill in which an alleged Holocaust denier and Antisemite was invited to attend. Apparently, he is the publisher of al-Meshwar, a newspaper that allegedly claimed the Holocaust was a Jewish plot, referring to it as a “holohoax."

But this is what we find most disconcerting: some of the high-profile ministers in attendance included Transport Minister Omar Alghabra and Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May. In what appears to be an effort by the group to undermine the UN Partition Plan -- which, in 1947, paved the way to the establishment of the modern State of Israel -- the event was timed to take place on the very same day: November 29th.  

Shockingly, Canadian ministers were photographed wearing the “Palestinian” scarf supposedly in solidarity with the movement (see picture below). Could they have been more sensitive to the murder of a 16-year-old Canadian last week by an alleged Palestinian terror cell? Absolutely. Could they have demanded the Palestinian Authority end the pay-for-slay program in which terrorists are rewarded for murdering and hurting Israelis? Absolutely.

Could they have wondered why Palestinian dissidents have disappeared; gay Palestinians are beheaded, and why every election has been cancelled by Mahmoud Abbas? Absolutely.

I have been involved in the Canadian political arena for nearly 30 years. Never before have I heard a Canadian politician in our parliament saying they take their "marching orders" from a foreign entity.  Yet this is what Elizabeth May appears to have said in an online video recording at the event.  She said, "I take my marching orders from the Permanent Representative of Palestine to Canada".

Canadian elected officials of the "Palestine Friendship Group" are willing to compromise Canadian values of freedom and democracy and allow an Antisemitic Holocaust denier into their gathering.  They would never stand with the Taliban. They would never compromise our ideals by supporting Russia, Iran, or China for that matter. Or would they?

a fic for the books Seven Devils & Seven Mercies by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May

and the future—it's here, it's bright, it's now

Fandom: Seven Devils Series - Elizabeth May & Laura Lam Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Rhea, Clo, Ariadne, Nyx, and Cato Additional Tags: Eris (Seven Devils) - mentioned, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, After Seven Mercies Summary: Dawn breaks on Nyx's farm.

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I sped through Seven Mercies and wasn't ready to let this universe go, so I wrote up a nice little 2,112 word post-canon fic.

Let it be known that this is the second ever fic in the Seven Devils series tag on AO3.

A RANT AFTER RE-READING THE SCENE OF KADAMACH'S DEATH

My girl Sorcha. My sweet little sarcastic traumatized beloved girl Sorcha. The love of her life dies and she can't even mourn him properly, because that right was taken my Kam, while Sorcha sits in the corner, crying, raging, essentially losing it, and she can't even hold HER consort in her arms, all the while she wishes to also die, and having her bond with Kadamach undermined.

New Releases: February 2024

Good Christian Girls by Elizabeth Bradshaw (1st) Lacey Heller is sure that nothing interesting could possibly happen at Camp Lavender, because it never does. Her parents have been running this Christian camp for girls ever since she can remember. Little does Lacey know that Jo Delgado is coming to camp this summer—and she’s going to change everything. After the incident, Jo’s aunt sends her to…

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#REVIEW: To Cage a God, by Elizabeth May

“I don’t understand reviews sometimes,” he said, as the first sentence of his book review. I have received two books through my new Illumicrate subscription– one, Fathomfolk, was already on my radar, but Elizabeth May’s To Cage a God was a book I’d never heard of by an author I’d never heard of. Which sounds like snark, but I hope it’s obvious that it isn’t– there are lots and lots of books, as…

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Book review: The Falconer trilogy by Elizabeth May

Rating:

The Falconer: 4⭐

The Vanishing Throne: 3⭐

The Fallen Kingdom: 3,5⭐️

If you like: fae, fantasy, romance, steampunk, YA book, situated in Scotland in the 1800s, well give this trilogy a chance.

Many hated it, many loved it, the typical. I have mixed feelings. I fell in love with the first book, but I slowly lost interest as I continued. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood, maybe I should’ve read it when I was younger, idonno. That’s how I felt.

If you’ve read it, pls share your opinion. If not, this is a light reading to add to your reading challenge ;)

January Wrap-Up & February TBR

**Links below are for the books’ StoryGraph pages for reference. I do not receive any compensation for clicking links.** The first month of 2024 is already behind us, and now, it’s time for a recap of what I read in January 2024.  I also want to take this opportunity to review where I am on keeping up with my reading goals, compare what I wanted to read to what I actually read in January, and…

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To Cage a God | ARC Review

Thank you to Daphne Press and Netgalley for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in anyway. Book: To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods 1) by Elizabeth MayRelease Date: February 20th 2024Tags: Fantasy | Gods | Russian Insired | LGBTQ+ | F/F Relationship | Marriage | Disability | Chronic DiseaseTrigger/Content Warnings: Drug Use | Alcohol Use | Violence…

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