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Jun 22, 2021 07:12PM
I want to read Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers at some point! I hear it touches on mental health issues, racism in academia, and includes something of a sapphic romance.
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id love to read Honey Girl!as for future months: id like to read Circe by Madeline Miller and/or The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner later down the line with you guys! :)
another future suggestion is On Earth We're Breifly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. it was so poetic and powerful. i would check out the trigger warnings on it first to make sure it's something everyone's okay with, though.
Just joining in, I’m super excited to read Honey Girl. I would also like to second the vote for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous suggestion, as I’ve been meaning to read it for a bit.
hey everyone! just a reminder that polls arent the only way we can choose books, and that you are not limited to whatever is on the monthly poll! if you guys have a specific book youd look forward to reading (whether its on the Mostly Queer Bookshelf or not), please feel free to suggest it in this thread for one of the coming months. if there is more than one book that wed like to read, we will create more monthly polls to help us choose.
for now, the December read will be the most recent poll's second place slot!
happy reading!
One book I'd like to suggest is The Black Flamingo. I read it earlier this year and absolutely loved it! Many of the quotes stuck with me, and I feel it is a book a lot of queer youth can relate to, in both the good and bad ways. I know I often found myself in parts of this book. It also resonates a lot for me as someone going to college, just like Michael is later in the book. Even if we don't read it in the club, I'd highly recommend it to anyone.
I'm actually going to make that February's book of the month! Anything that gets posted here takes priority over polls, so feel free to suggest more :)
What's the percentage of books by cis-male writers in this group? I'm of the opinion that the great majority of women who write m/m fiction don't portray men's emotions realistically.
after taking a once-over of our current bookshelf, it looks like the books we have either added as a to-read possibility or have already read have a mix of mostly nonbinary people and men for the m/m reads. i couldnt give you an accurate percentage off the top of my head, but im sure if you flipped through and looked through the specific authors, you could suss it out more accurately. typically, from what i have seen, m/m erotica has a large percentage of women as the authors, of which we do not read because this group includes teenagers as young as 15. hope this is helpful
I guess the women who write m/m fiction are seen by Amazon as cash cows, otherwise they wouldn't make finding the male writers such an exercise.
It's beyond Amazon. No bookseller/database takes author identity into account. The concept of Gay Lit has disappeared. Anybody can write anything and that's okay, but I too would like to be able to find stories of our lives (by and about gay men) without having to scroll through hundreds of other titles.
I would like to suggest "wolfsong" by the Klune, it's a great book I read it twice in one week haha.
