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Deathless is SO good! I read that one in hardback, but I’ve been meaning to check it out on audio too because I think it would make a fantastic audio book.
I nominate
This is the discussion thread for 
by Emily Carroll'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.'
Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.
These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll.
Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...
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by Alison BechdelIn this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
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by Chelsey JohnsonA warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are.
All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .
Twenty-three-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood—and the closet—to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend’s betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a man. To her utter shock, Andrea soon discovers she’s pregnant—and despite the concerns of her astonished circle of gay friends, she decides to have the baby.
A decade later, when her precocious daughter Lucia starts asking questions about the father she’s never known, Andrea is forced to reconcile the past she hoped to leave behind with the life she’s worked so hard to build.
A thoroughly modern and original anti-romantic comedy, Stray City is an unabashedly entertaining literary debut about the families we’re born into and the families we choose, about finding yourself by breaking the rules, and making bad decisions for all the right reasons.
D - I forgot to set up the discussion threads! I'll do that now :) We are reading Huntress, Stray City, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Through the Woods
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by Malinda LoNature is out of balance in the human world. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The people's survival hangs in the balance.
To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever.
The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance.
Here is the thread for nominating our October Manga/GN/Comic. It will be open for nominations until the 14th of September. Our genre for October is Mythical Creatures..A Few Reminders About Nominations
- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.
-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.
- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.
- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.
- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.
- Nominations will close the afternoon of September 14th
Current Nominations:
by Ryan Colucci
Here is the thread for nominating our October book. It will be open for nominations until the 14th of September. Our genre for October is Mythical Creatures..A Few Reminders About Nominations
- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.
-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.
- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.
- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.
- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.
- Nominations will close the afternoon of September 14th
Current Nominations:
by Jacqueline Carey
by Naomi Novik
by Catherynne M. Valente
by Michael Ende
Kindle has this ebook on sale today for $1.99 if anyone is interested
Here is the thread for nominating our September Manga, Comic or Graphic Novel. It will be open for nominations until the 14th of August. Our genre for September is GLBTQI+ (either character or author).A Few Reminders About Nominations
- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.
-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.
- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.
- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.
- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.
- Nominations will close the afternoon of August 14th
Current Nominations:
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Through the Woods
Here is the thread for nominating our September book. It will be open for nominations until the 14th of August. Our genre for September is GLBTQI+ (either character or author).A Few Reminders About Nominations
- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.
-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.
- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.
- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.
- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.
- Nominations will close the afternoon of August 14th
Current Nominations:
I have no objections to that! I liked Kindred better than The Parable of the Sower
I have no objections to that! I liked Kindred better than The Parable of the Sower
This is the discussion for My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy
I lost an arm on my last trip home.
Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that suddenly transformed in to the frightening world of the antebellum South.
Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder--and her progenitor.
Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.
This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white--and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word.
This month we had a 3 way tie for our books. In order to get the discussion thread up in time for August, I just put the three book names in a bowl and drew two.The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The international literary sensation, about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
Barcelona, 1945 - just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.
As with all astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for comparisons—The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?—but in the end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice. As one leading Spanish reviewer wrote, "The originality of Ruiz Zafón’s voice is bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature." An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller’s art.
This month we had a 3 way tie for our books. In order to get the discussion thread up in time for August, I just put the three book names in a bowl and drew two.This is the discussion for The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction
