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[Jordan]

SAME!

[Antonella]

12 of the Best Books by Trans Authors That You Need to Read»
We're living in a trans literature renaissance.
by Torrey Peters

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainm...

Talking about Torrey Peters: I've just read her Detransition, Baby and I liked it.

[Antonella]

From Michael Nava's introduction to Fadeout by Joseph Hansen, now republished*:

Type into your browser “greatest noir mystery novels” and you’ll gets lots of lists, but not one of them includes a work by Joseph Hansen. That’s inexcusable. Joseph Hansen is not only one of America’s best mystery writers, he is a great American writer. Period. Full stop. In a better world, one liberated from its idiotic prejudices, he would be recognized as such. The republication of the Brandstetter novels by Syndicate Books is a hopeful sign that this marvelous writer will, at last, find the place he deserves in the pantheon of American literature.

https://crimereads.com/joseph-hanson-...?

* https://bookshop.org/books/fadeout-97...

[WMD]

rereading Cat Sebastian's Hither Page (i think her best!) in prep for the imminent release of The Missing Page...Book 2

[Antonella]

WMD wrote: "rereading Cat Sebastian's Hither Page (i think her best!) in prep for the imminent release of The Missing Page...Book 2"


I loved as well Hither, Page.

Thank you for reminding me of the imminent release of book 2!

[Antonella]

I know what I'm going to read during the weekend. It came out on the 18th:

The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian

[Darlene]

I'm starting the 4th book in the series "Cinders & Ashes: A Gay Retelling Of Cinderella" by X. Aratare. That'll make my 7th book for my 2022 Challenge.

[WMD]

Alexis Hall's Something Fabulous is publishing Jan 25th. Historical mm

[Karen]

Antonella wrote: "I know what I'm going to read during the weekend. It came out on the 18th:

The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian"

Just finished it last night. :)

[WMD]

I enjoyed it!

[Antonella]

WMD wrote: "Alexis Hall's Something Fabulous is publishing Jan 25th. Historical mm"

Thank you for the reminder! I've just bought it through Alexis's homepage:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096RTMJTG?...

[Antonella]

Karen and WMD: I liked as well The Missing Page.

[Jordan]

Ginn Hale's Master of Restless Shadows: Book Two is coming out on March 1st!

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Restles...

I've only read the first two in the series. I was waiting for the last book to come out to do a reread of those two and then to read all the others. Would anyone want to tackle this with me this year as a BOM? We could just do the first book, or we could treat it like a challenge and read the whole series within the year. Thoughts?

[Ije the Devourer of Books]

Yes - count me in. I would be happy to do a BOM or a challenge.

[Antonella]

Jordan wrote: "Ginn Hale's Master of Restless Shadows: Book Two is coming out on March 1st!

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Restles......"

Me three!

[Jordan]

Great! Let’s continue the convo over in the BOM candidates thread!

[Antonella]

18 LGBTQ+ Books That Are Banned In Schools in 2022

https://www.advocate.com/books/2022/2...

[Jordan]

Thank you! I’ve been hoping to find a list of recent banned books for my book group!

[Jordan]

A brief history of the fiction female police detective! This is quite fascinating: https://topanganewtimes.com/2021/07/0...

[SamSpayedPI]

Loving The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian. I'm at that point when I can't stop reading, yet I don't want it ever to end!

[Karen]

SamSpayedPI wrote: "Loving The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian. I'm at that point when I can't stop reading, yet I don't want it ever to end!"

Loved it. I know what you mean.

[WMD]

Am reading Hex Works by TA Moore (Babylon Boy series). First in a series. Some squicky horror tones, about a guy trying to get away from a dark magic background, trying to go cold turkey on hexing. Lots of hints and threads and connections being laid, I look forward to learning details as the series continues. If you like the in-progress
White Trash Warlock series, by David Slayton, you will definitely like this series too.

[WMD]

Oh, and countdown is on for KD Edwards next book in his Tarot series: The Hourglass Throne (which is not a tarot card...?)...I need to start rereading The Last Sun and The Hanged Man.

[Antonella]

WMD wrote: "Oh, and countdown is on for KD Edwards next book in his Tarot series: The Hourglass Throne (which is not a tarot card...?)...I need to start rereading The Last Sun and The Hanged Man."

I'm waiting as well for it, but we have time to reread the first two books: The Hourglass Throne Expected publication: May 17th 2022

[Jordan]

Definitely not a tarot card, but I’m sure it’s relevant some how. Lol. The first two were major arcana cards, so this will likely be related to one. Maybe The Wheel of Fortune or The World. Since we didn’t start with The Fool, presumably The World can fit in anywhere. But I’m really just guessing.

[Calathea]

WMD wrote: "Oh, and countdown is on for KD Edwards next book in his Tarot series: The Hourglass Throne (which is not a tarot card...?)...I need to start rereading The Last Sun and The Hanged Man."

I think it's the hermit. For some reason there are several names for the thrones and houses and lords/ladies, like Lord Tower holds the Dagger throne, if I remember correctly.
And, yes, looking very much forward to the next book in the series!
Did you guys read the free stories? http://kd-edwards.com/extra-content/

[Jordan]

Oh! The Hermit! My favorite! It’s my soul card. :-) yay!

I’ve not read the free stories

[WMD]

I did find one version of Death card with an hourglass on it....it made sense to me, time ticking away to the inevitable. But then found this statement about the Hermit card...."The hourglass, the lantern, the pillar, the staff and the snake, all represent the same: the divine energy in the hermit's pelvis has awakened and flows through his spine to his crown." So....just saying...The Hermit is ready for action!

[Karen]

Calathea wrote: "...Did you guys read the free stories? http://kd-edwards.com/extra-content/..."

The K.D. Edwards website appears to be down. I had "The Sunken Mall" and "Tales From Quarantine," but could only access "Scenes From the Holidays" via a search for his Twitter postings. I found three stories from Holidays. Were there more?

[Calathea]

Karen wrote: "Calathea wrote: "...Did you guys read the free stories? http://kd-edwards.com/extra-content/..."

K.D. Edwards website appears to be down. I had "The Sunken Mall" and "Tales From Quarantine," but c..."

Weird. I checked the page when I posted the link and now it's down. I hope it's nothing permanent.
Only recently I found The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy there with four parts and still ongoing.

[Antonella]

I've got my hardback copy of the special 20th Anniversary edition of Fatal Shadows!

BTW I can't find it in GR, someone should add it, if it is not there.

[Jordan]

WMD wrote: "I did find one version of Death card with an hourglass on it....it made sense to me, time ticking away to the inevitable. But then found this statement about the Hermit card...."The hourglass, the ..."

That's interesting!

[Karen]

Calathea wrote: "Weird. I checked the page when I posted the link and now it's down. I hope it's nothing permanent.
Only recently I found The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy there with four parts and still ongoing."

Just checked and it's back up. Downloaded what I didn't have. :)

[Antonella]

Karen wrote: "Just checked and it's back up. Downloaded what I didn't have. :)..."

Thank you for telling us!
And thanks Calathea for mentioning this: I hadn't read all the stories.

[Antonella]

K.J. Charles published this blog post with the warning: contains recs ;-).

Twelve Random Books (a trip report)
https://kjcharleswriter.com/2022/03/0...

[Jordan]

Karen wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Weird. I checked the page when I posted the link and now it's down. I hope it's nothing permanent.
Only recently I found The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy there with four part..."

He posted that he was moving to a new website so it would be down sometimes for a few days.

[Antonella]

Ideal in this worrying times, also as an answer to people deriding pacifists:

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant.

Legal and for free here as e-book in different formats:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50922

Or you can read a summary ;-):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetu...

[Jordan]

Just finished How Civil Wars Start by Barbara Walter. Must read for Americans. Very scary read. I learned a lot.

[Antonella]

The Lambda Literary Awards have announced their 2022 finalists!

https://bookriot.com/lambda-literary-...

ETA: The complete list is here:
https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/cur...

[Antonella]

A bit late for Trans Day of Visibility on 31st March ;-).
Still, here two lists of trans or nonbinary books.

One list is from https://lgbtqreads.com:
https://lgbtqreads.com/2022/03/31/hap...?

The other from Shonda Rhimes' website:
https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/bo...?

[Clary]

The Missing Page was so good I’m annoyed it ended. I feel like camping out at the author’s doorstep until she writes a new one. (You know what I mean).

[WMD]

:) for my favorite authors, I often do think."are you writing now?" "Are yiu writing now?" "Are you writing now? What about now?" And then I lecture myself a little to try and get.some perspective...

[Antonella]

I missed the International Asexuality Day on the 6th April.

Here one list of 14 books, seen thanks to the latest Book Riots ''Our Queerest Shelves'':

https://lgbtqreads.com/2022/04/06/hap...?

[WMD]

SE Harmon's Spookology series has come out with a new one.The Spooky Life
John Wiltshire has released the final book to the More Heat than the Sun series.The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks
T.A. Moore has released the first in a new series, Dirty Work.Dirty Work
R Cooper is releasing a new Beings story (f/f) in the next couple of days.Something Bright
A.J. Demas released the first in a new Pheme series, Honey and Pepper
Ben Aaronovitch also released the next in his River of London series.Amongst Our Weapons
That list should have something for almost everyone.

[Antonella]

WMD wrote: "SE Harmon's Spookology series has come out with a new one.The Spooky Life
John Wiltshire has released the final book to the More Heat than the Sun series.[book:The Bright and Hungry..."

Thank you. I didn't know about book 9 of More Heat than the Sun series. I've got the others on paper, but probably I'll buy this as ebook, because I dislike to have a mismatched series. I know I'm fussy ;-).

[WMD]

Its kindle.unlimited at the moment.

[Jordan]

Thanks for that list!

[Karen]

WMD wrote: "...A.J. Demas released the first in a new Pheme series, Honey and Pepper. Ben Aaronovitch also released the next in his River of London series..."

I bought the new A.J. Demas book and Ben Aaronovitch's audiobook (love Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's voicing) last week. Thanks for the heads-up on S.E. Harmon's 4th Spookology book. I loved the first three and just grabbed it.

I'm on a paranormal kick with two books from a series that had good ideas, with not as good execution. And I'm about 70% through Jordan L. Hawk's new ghost story — The Forgotten Dead. Not my favorite of her books, but one I'll follow if it becomes a series.

[Karen]

Ariana Nash's Shadows of London series, starting with Twisted Pretty Things. I'm on the second book of four — a well-written urban fantasy alt-reality series with some interesting takes on magic, magic wielders, and cultivated prejudices.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/3065...

[Jordan]

Karen wrote: "Ariana Nash's Shadows of London series, starting with Twisted Pretty Things. I'm on the second book of four — a well-written urban fantasy alt-reality series with some interesting t..."

Ooohhh, thank you!

I'm feeling very dated in M/M Romance. I can't keep up with all the new stuff that's coming out, especially since it's mostly self-published these days. I'm working to update my reading guides this week and I mostly have a lot of classic stuff on the lists. Which is not bad, but finding new stuff is hard.

I did find this website that has reviews and also recent release lists: https://www.mmbookwormreviews.com/rev... and it's scary how many of these authors I've never heard of. Are they any good? It's a pain to click on every link just to find out. lol. Anyway, maybe this will be of some use to others here too.

ETA: I was initially just looking for new release lists. Stumbled on the reviews today and I can't say they are well written/professional. They are also all written by one person. I'd thought a review site would have multiple reviewers, but not here it seems. Ah well.