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October 28, 2020
Reading Challenge Tip #15
Hello all!
I am hoping to get you all the tips posted by the end of November so you don’t have to scramble at the end of the year trying to finish the challenge. Remember, you just need to read ONE book and email mibookreviews@gmail.com about it to be entered into the drawing for a small prize. If you read all the books, you are entered to win a small prize AND a big prize. No one has entered yet, so your chances are wonderful!
2. A book with a trans main character that doesn’t die or get ...
October 27, 2020
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
“The beloved author returns to the small town at the heart of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe with a heartwarming novel about secrets of youth rediscovered, hometown memories, and everyday magic.
Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church-going and proper, and his Aunt Idgie, the fun-loving hell-raiser. Together they ran the town’s popular Whistle Stop Cafe, known far and wide for its friendly, fun, and fam...
October 26, 2020
Stable Hand
“Book One in The Braided Crop Ranch series. BDSM/MMM/Erotic romance.
The Braided Crop Ranch is looking for stable hands. But this is no ordinary horse ranch. They cater to men with a certain interest. An interest involving harnesses, tails, and trainers.
Managed and expertly run by registered psychologist, Adam Marsland, the Ranch is a safe place for the expression of sex positive and kink positive needs and fantasies.
Jensen Moriarty is desperate for a job. He can handle horses. In fac...
October 25, 2020
Tarnished Are The Stars
This was one of my most anticipated 2019 novels that took me entirely too long to get around to read, because, hello, it’s SciFi, has an f/f romance AND an aroace protagonist?! What more could I possibly want???
And it didn’t disappoint!!
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher’s chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog — donning the moniker Technician — to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner’s tyrannical laws.
Nathaniel Fremont, ...
October 23, 2020
Princess Floralinda and the Fourty-Flight Tower
What a delightfully twisted descent – and I’m not talking of climbing down the tower.
When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Each flight contains a dreadful monster, ranging from a diamond-scaled dragon to a pack of slavering goblins. Should a prince battle his way to the top, he will be rewarded with a golden sword—and the lovely Princess Floralinda.
But no prince has managed to conquer the first flight yet, let alone get to the fortiet...
Phoenix Extravagant
“Dragons. Art. Revolution.
Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint.
One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers.
But when Jebi discovers the depths of the Razanei government’s horrifying crimes—and the awful source of the magical pigments they use—they find they can no longer stay out of politics.
What they can ...
October 22, 2020
Reading Challenge Tip #14
This should be the last tip today, I promise.
20. A queer book with a rainbow on the cover
This is also a generic, easy throwaway prompt. Any queer book with a rainbow counts. So many picture books have this, so many graphic novels have this. It is the easiest way to spot a queer book from across the room.
Ari is stepping in again to give you all you recommendations for this prompt. Have I mentioned that Ari is always looking for loopholes and is terrible to get into fake arguments wi...
Reading Challenge Tip #13
So my super queer partner is giving all the advice in this tip post. You still get my wonderful introduction, but that is because I control the keyboard and the log-in information for the site so they can’t stop me.
19. A queer book that doesn’t have a rainbow on the cover
This was one of those throwaway prompts. It is so open that almost every queer book that I read falls under it. I wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance of reading at least one book.
Literally any queer book...
Reading Challenge Tip #12
Hello all!
Just your friendly neighborhood queer trying to prove that he is capable to remembering to do things like post hints for a reading challenge that was his idea anyway. So here I am.
10. A book about someone coming out when they are older
This prompt is super subjective. What counts as “older”? I knew I was a boy when I was 3. So coming out at 7 might be older for me. People are coming out younger and younger now, because they have access to the information and the words that ...
October 21, 2020
Black Sun
Awesome fantasy novel that fills its pre-Columbian Americas civilisation inspired setting with complex characters and twisted plots.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.
A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun
In the holy city...
