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[KC]

Awesome! :-)

[Jordan]

Alison wrote: "I know we have a lot of fans of Ada Maria Soto's His Quiet Agent around here, so I thought I'd mention that in her latest newsletter, she said she is hard at work on the sequel! :)"

Oh WOW!!!! SQUEEEEEE!!!

[Alison]

Thought that might be good news. ;)

[Josh]

SamSpayedPI wrote: "I joined the MMRG Scavenger Hunt (stupid), and I joined a competitive team (stupid x 2), and I agreed to 10 books per month (stupid x 3), and now I don't have time for anything but to search for hi..."

Well, there goes that idea! :-D

[Josh]

SamSpayedPI wrote: "Thanks! We had passed around those lists, but a lot of books on them aren't set entirely in those states, which they need to be for the contest criteria.

Someone from my team read [book:The Monum..."

THERE IS A REMOTE CONTROL THOUGH. :-D

[SamSpayedPI]

Josh wrote: "THERE IS A REMOTE CONTROL THOUGH. :-D"

Yeah, great, Josh, three points. 🙄

I'm rereading The Hell You Say for one of the other categories, though, and that one has tons of points, so thank you for letting Adrien stop in for a haircut (14 points total: 7 for the haircut, 7 more for walking into the salon)!

You wouldn't want to do a quick rewrite and have Adrien assemble some Ikea furniture for the win, would you?

[ttg]

Hi, all! (waves)

I haven't read much during the pandemic- I've found it so hard to sit down and read... I did finally finish a book (took about two months) that I did enjoy even though it took me a while. Wormwood Summer is a gay urban fantasy. The vibe is very similar to say, Hailey Turner's Soulbound series or Rhys Ford's UF work.

I enjoyed it a lot- the world-building was interesting and like the competing magic systems between the more nature-based Fae and witch magic vs the more orderly spells of alchemy.

It also felt good to just be able to finish a book- like, oh, I CAN do this...

[Alison]

I read Everina Maxwell's Winter's Orbit and I absolutely loved it! It's a political drama/suspenseful murder mystery/queer space opera and the romance is charming. It was super engaging and really vivid all around.

[Alison]

ttg wrote: "Hi, all! (waves)

I haven't read much during the pandemic- I've found it so hard to sit down and read... I did finally finish a book (took about two months) that I did enjoy even though it took me ..."

Hi Tracy! :) :) :)

I missed your message somehow! Good to see you! Hope you're well. I'm glad you are enjoying reading again. Yay! It's a great feeling isn't it? I've also had some times lately when reading has been difficult, and it's amazing to come out of that. Yes, you can do it! Actually, the book in my message above, Winter's Orbit, rescued me from my non-reading time and it was amazing. Anyway, hang in there and thanks for stopping by! See you around, friend! :)

[Loretta]

I am currently bingeing the Psycop series by Jordan Castillo Price. I got the first one free years ago, and I liked it enough that I got the second book, but with one thing and another I never got around to reading it. Then I had some Audible credits that were going to expire (I haven't had that problem in a while :)) so I picked up the rest of the series here and there. I am on the 5th book now. I'm really enjoying it. I don't know what took me so long to get to it.

[Jordan]

Yay! I love the Psycop books. I might have to restart them from book one in audio one of these days. I also love the narrator. He’s got the best voice!

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

There are still a few free JCP audio books here https://www.freeaudiobookcodes.com/?a...

Some of them are from the Psycop series.

[Karen]

Loretta wrote: "I am currently bingeing the Psycop series by Jordan Castillo Price. I got the first one free years ago, and I liked it enough that I got the second book, but with one thing and anot..."

I just finished Other Half, PsyCop #12. Looking forward to re-reading it when the audiobook comes out. A series re-listen is a great idea.

[Karen]

ttg wrote: "Hi, all! (waves)

I haven't read much during the pandemic- I've found it so hard to sit down and read... I did finally finish a book (took about two months) that I did enjoy even though it took me a while. Wormwood Summer is a gay urban fantasy..."

Thanks for this mention. I also enjoyed it. Happy that Book 2 is due in late June.

[WMD]

Hello for those who have enjoyed, the Murderbot series by Martha Wells has a next book out.Fugitive Telemetry
I am re reading the series and enjoying every sarcastic nonhuman comment on humanity.

[Jordan]

Thank you!!! Just purchased the audiobook!

[Jordan]

Just want to say that I'm currently reading Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex and it's REALLY good. It's not the same as The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, which was also good. This is very different, covers different topics, and is over all, spectacular.

I just finished the chapter on romance and it really made me think about how the world puts romance on a pedestal so much that you can't have a close friend or other family member be on your insurance, or be the person to take care of you when you get older if you don't have a romantic partner/husband/wife. And that's mostly because the way the system works, they want your spouse to be your unpaid caregiver when you get ill or get older.

I have not yet read this one, but on a similar note, sorta, I found this book Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America , which my dad is going to start reading soon and I just highlighted it in my Biography & Memoir library newsletter that's going out early next week.

Anyway, reading lots of things to give me thinky thoughts.

[Alison]

Jordan wrote: "Just want to say that I'm currently reading Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex and it's REALLY good. It's not the same as [book:The Invisible..."

Sounds interesting, Jordan. Keep on thinking those thoughts! :)

I love looking at non-fiction and learning about new things, but I am really bad at actually reading it! I've read two(!) non-fiction books all the way through(!) in the last year and I am very proud of myself for it! I've started a few others and not finished (yet!), which I am less proud of. :)

[Alison]

I read TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea last week and I absolutely loved it. It's completely delightful and heartwarming and uplifting and so *nice*. I highly recommend it as a pandemic feel-good book, if you need a lift. I've somehow never read TJ Klune before, so it was an amazingly pleasant surprise to be bowled over by how much I loved this book. I gather this is to be the BOM one day, so I do hope people enjoy it as much as I did. It's charming and lovely and I'm looking forward to re-reading it.

[Jordan]

Alison wrote: "I read TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea last week and I absolutely loved it. It's completely delightful and heartwarming and uplifting and so *nice*. I highly recommend it a..."

I actually just finished the audiobook myself the other day and it was a very lovely book!

[Jordan]

Alison wrote: "Jordan wrote: "Just want to say that I'm currently reading Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex and it's REALLY good. It's not the same as [boo..."

I'm not always good at reading nonfiction either. But this was a topic I was interested in and then it just grabbed me and was/is a very interesting look at being asexual.

[Alison]

Jordan wrote: "Alison wrote: "I read TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea last week and I absolutely loved it. It's completely delightful and heartwarming and uplifting and so *nice*. I highly...

I actually just finished the audiobook myself the other day and it was a very lovely book!"

I wish I'd read it a year ago when it first came out and a lovely, feel-good, kind, hopeful book would have done me a lot of good in the early days of the pandemic! Anyway, now I've read it and it made me really happy. If anyone's looking for a nice, gentle book where people are kind and there's a lovely big queer happy ending, this one's worth a look. Take a mental health break to the seaside. :)

[Jordan]

Alison wrote: "Jordan wrote: "Alison wrote: "I read TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea last week and I absolutely loved it. It's completely delightful and heartwarming and uplifting and so *..."

"Don't you wish you were here?" :-D

[Alison]

Jordan wrote: ""Don't you wish you were here?" :-D"

Right on!

[Antonella]

Harper Fox published the last Tyack & Frayne book
To Find Him and Love Him Again: Volume 3

Info and buy links here:
https://www.harperfox.net/to-find-him...

[Johanna]

ttg wrote: "Hi, all! (waves)

I haven't read much during the pandemic- I've found it so hard to sit down and read... I did finally finish a book (took about two months) that I did enjoy even though it took me ..."

Thank you for the recommendation. And yeah, I totally hear you about those book reading difficulties. I hope it has gotten better by now!

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: "Harper Fox published the last Tyack & Frayne book
To Find Him and Love Him Again: Volume 3

Info and buy links here:
https://www.harperfox.net/to-find-him......"

Cool! Thank you for the heads-up, Antonella.

[Antonella]

Review in «The Washington Post» of Lies with Man by Michael Nava:

'Lies With Man' shines a light on anti-gay policies. It's also a great legal novel

[Josh]

SamSpayedPI wrote: "Josh wrote: "THERE IS A REMOTE CONTROL THOUGH. :-D"

Yeah, great, Josh, three points. 🙄

I'm rereading The Hell You Say for one of the other categories, though, and that one has tons ..."

LOL

[Josh]

ttg wrote: "Hi, all! (waves)

I haven't read much during the pandemic- I've found it so hard to sit down and read... I did finally finish a book (took about two months) that I did enjoy even though it took me ..."

I had the same difficulty--to be honest, I'm not quite past it yet, but I've started buying books again, so that's (probably?) a good sign.

[Jordan]

Antonella wrote: "Review in «The Washington Post» of Lies with Man by Michael Nava:

'Lies With Man' shines a light on anti-gay policies. It's also a great legal novel"

Oh wow, that's great!

[Jordan]

Josh wrote: "ttg wrote: "Hi, all! (waves)

I haven't read much during the pandemic- I've found it so hard to sit down and read... I did finally finish a book (took about two months) that I did enjoy even though..."

Sounds like a good sign to me!

[Karen]

Kaje Harper's Hidden Wolves series. I'd read Unacceptable Risk a couple of years ago (the MLR edition with an unfortunate cover) and re-read this slightly edited edition with a lovely new cover a few days ago. Books 1-5 (originally published 2011-2016) have been slightly edited with lovely new covers. A brand new Book 6 came out this month.

I'm now on Book 4, which has been a bit slower going for me due to dreading the consequences of one of the MCs actions... Nonetheless, this has made be remember how much I've enjoyed Kaje's writing.

As noted in Ebook freebies and special offers, Book 1 is still free, at least on Amazon U.S.

[Jordan]

Yes! I love that series, though book one is my favorite. I’ll get to the latest one eventually lol

[Clary]

“Ben rose up suddenly and seized him in a fierce, possessive hug. “I only left you because I love you. I’m so fucking dumb.” Nikolas hugged him back, breathing in the warm scent of his skin in the sharp, cold air. “And I don’t tell you things because I love you, and then I don’t tell you I love you either. So I’m even more—fucking dumb—as you so eloquently say.””

— The Bruise-Black Sky (More Heat Than The Sun Book 5) by John Wiltshire
https://a.co/0bK5NEJ

I’m currently obsessed with this John Wiltshire series. Audio narration is exceptional as well.

[Johanna]

Clary wrote: "“Ben rose up suddenly and seized him in a fierce, possessive hug. “I only left you because I love you. I’m so fucking dumb.” Nikolas hugged him back, breathing in the warm scent of his skin in the ..."

I only read the two first ones in the series. Maybe I should continue!

[Johanna]

The bookclub with my colleagues always reads several books during the summer vacation. One of the books this summer is Lee Child's One Shot which is book #9 from his Jack Reacher series. Surprisingly I enjoyed it so much that I started to listen to the series from the beginning. We're also reading Andre Aciman's Call Me By Your Name, which I suggested and nobody else had read. I'm curious to know what they think of it! :-)

Oh, actually two of my suggestions were accepted into our summer-reading-list. The other one is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I'm looking forward to rereading that! (Or rather: relistening to it! I have the highly enjoyable audio narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal.)

[Johanna]

Johanna wrote: "The bookclub with my colleagues always reads several books during the summer vacation. One of the books this summer is Lee Child's One Shot which is book #9 from his Jack Reacher seri..."

We've had our bookclub with colleagues for 10 years now and in addition to great meetings, interesting discussions, fun company and delicious food :-D I've read so many books I would have never picked out by myself. That's truly the beauty of a bookclub. :-)

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

I have Lee Child in my to read pile. I must read a few of his this year.

[Clary]

Johanna wrote: "“I only read the two first ones in the series. Maybe I should continue!"

I do recommend the third: The Bridge of Silver Wings. It's a very suspenseful story and you should appreciate Nikolas more. Admittedly, some readers will not find Nikolas tolerable at all and his character definitely pushes against the envelope of being thoroughly irredeemable.

I did this weird thing and began the series reading Book 7, Enduring Night, and then went back and read Books 1-6. That obviously meant I read all the spoilers but it also made me appreciate Nikolas from the start.

[Karen]

My “summer reading” this year has been heavily weighted towards fantasy and paranormal.

I read M.A. Grant’s Rare Vigilance and just finished her The Darkest Court trilogy (Prince of Air and Darkness, The Iron Crown, The Marked Prince). Before that Kaje Harper’s Hidden Wolves series, Josh’s Bell, Book and Scandal audiobook, and ZAM’s The Deep series (https://www.goodreads.com/series/1463...).

[Johanna]

Clary wrote: "Johanna wrote: "“I only read the two first ones in the series. Maybe I should continue!"

I do recommend the third: The Bridge of Silver Wings. It's a very suspenseful story and you..."

I've now purchased The Bridge of Silver Wings. :-)

[Alison]

Johanna wrote: "Clary wrote: "Johanna wrote: "“I only read the two first ones in the series. Maybe I should continue!"

I do recommend the third: The Bridge of Silver Wings. It's a very suspenseful...

I've now purchased The Bridge of Silver Wings. :-)"

Bought this years ago and I haven't read it yet! I will get to it eventually! It's an entertaining series.

[Alison]

On the subject of "things I bought years ago and haven't read yet" (see above), I'm really making an effort to read ebooks I bought years ago and haven't gotten to yet, and it's been interesting. I've just read three books I picked up in 2014, all angsty contemporary romance. I enjoyed them, but it's kind of funny because I know now that angsty contemporary romance is not really my thing, and I don't think I would have bought them now, but back then, I was picking up everything that was popular in m/m and on sale or free and I just collected an enormous amount of books in the early years of having an ereader. They all got a little lost as time passed and it's interesting to go a little "back in time," as it were. It's also very satisfying to finish a book that's been sitting there in the "to read" list for many years!

I've just decided that my goal for this year is to read all the ebooks I acquired in 2013. It was my first year of Kindle (and Calibre with its lovely dates!) and there's maybe ten things left, so it's totally doable. I'm embarrassed to say there's a book of Josh's on that list! What a terrible fan I am!

[Johanna]

Alison wrote: "I've just read three books I picked up in 2014, all angsty contemporary romance. I enjoyed them, but it's kind of funny because I know now that angsty contemporary romance is not really my thing, and I don't think I would have bought them now, but back then, I was picking up everything that was popular in m/m and on sale or free and I just collected an enormous amount of books in the early years of having an ereader."

Funnily enough, I can absolutely, totally, completely relate. :-)

[Antonella]

Julie Bozza will publish her historical Writ in Blood on the 26 October 2021. Hier you can read an excerpt: https://juliebozza.com/book/writ-in-b...

[Antonella]

I was checking out The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons, which I'm going to buy*, and I found this list:

11 Anticipated Books By Trans/Non-Binary Authors.

It is a good thing that it was published in Teen Vogue. Not that I knew that it existed before 10 minutes ago ;-), but it is a branch of Vogue, so it is an important mainstream magazine.


*on paper, because the paperback costs less than the ebook (!).

[Antonella]

Interesting stuff:

- Queernorm World: 35 Fantasy Books With No Homophobia or Transphobia

- Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Database

I'd like to thank Jordan for pointing out the site Book Riot with its newsletter Our Queerest Shelves, where I found the article as well as the database.

[Jordan]

You’re welcome! I was just looking at that database myself!

[Averin]

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