April 2017 Book of the Month - POLL UP - go vote

[Kaje]

Please nominate any LGBTQ-focused YA book that we have not yet read as a book of the month for our April-June group read.

(The titles of past books of the month are on all the threads in this "Book of the Month" folder, and you can also check with a search of the group's book-of-the-month Bookshelf at - https://www.goodreads.com/group/books... )

Up to two nominations per member. Nominations will be open through Midnight March 30th, which for once should give you some time to post your choices. (Authors please do not nominate your own books - but readers can definitely nominate a member author. If you enjoyed a book you got on read-to-review you can nominate it here too.)

Remember that books are now up for two months for reading, so we have two current reads. What should we consider next?

Nominations closed - poll here : https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Vote through April 6.

[Jess]

I like to nominate Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova!

[moni]

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde.

[Kaje]

Natalie wrote: "The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and As I Descended by Robin Talley are both great!"

I'll add them to the nominees. I want to read The Inexplicable Logic of My Life - but I'm a bit nervous - I loved Ari and Dante so much. Hard act to follow. (I'm nervous about the sequel too - the curse of writing a beloved book I guess.)

And this is the link for Queens of Geek

[Rez]

I'll nominate Honestly Ben and Dreadnought

[Kaje]

Do you think "Honestly Ben" can be read without reading the first book? I'm thinking it might be better as a buddy read.

[moni]

I don't think you can read Honestly Ben without reading the first one because you wouldn't understand why Ben didn't end up being with Rafe.

[Rez]

I haven't read more than the synopsis for Honestly Ben (nor have I read the short story segue) but I was operating on the assumptions that since it has been such a long time between novels (4 years?! Has it really been that long?) and because the POV has changed, that any background info that is necessary from Openly, will be repeated. I've asked about the stand-alone ability on the book's GR page; maybe Bill will enlighten us, but probably not in time for the poll. So I'm all for moving it to a BR.

So I'll nominate Timekeeper instead.

[Kaje]

Rez wrote: "I haven't read more than the synopsis for Honestly Ben (nor have I read the short story segue) but I was operating on the assumptions that since it has been such a long time between novels (4 years..."

Sounds like a plan - I'd want to read this one regardless of the vote, so I'll set up a BR thread for Honestly Ben - here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Kaje]

Nominations closed - poll here : https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Vote through April 6.