Announcing the Tag for June

[Karin]

While I didn't vote for the dragons tag as my first choice, for LGBT I have When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill--it's the L in LGBT as far as I know so far, but we'll see what happens when I have it all read.

It's also a fantasy book set mostly in 20th century USA.

[Book Concierge]

Today's Book Riot features Sapphic Romances
https://bookriot.com/best-sapphic-rom...

I haven't read any of them and cannot comment on how good they are or how easily available.

[NancyJ]

So many possibilities!

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - libby
The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway
Fingersmith or Tipping the Velvet - audible
Cantoras or The Gods of Tango - for a South American book

Maybe:
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
30 names of night - Libby
True Biz - Libby
Conversations with Friends - Libby
Clap when you land - Libby
Detransition, Baby
Middlesex - on my tbr since before
I heard of a "tbr."
Elizabeth Acevedo - which one?
Rivers Solomon - Non-binary author

Rereads that I am craving:
A Ladder to the Sky
Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical - Audio!!!
The Color Purple
This Is How You Lose the Time War

Also on my TBR - Any opinions? Do they fit? Did you like? Teenagers or adults?
A Single Man
Agatha of Little Neon
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
My Real Children
Black Wave
The Left Hand of Darkness - leGuin
Pride byIbi Zoboi
Passing - Larsen
Women of the Silk
Swimming in the Dark
Call me by my name?
Days without end
The Waves - Woolf

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@NancyJ
a single man, call me by your name and tell the wolves I'm home will all work. last 2 i think are ya.

[Holly R W]

NancyJ wrote: "So many possibilities!

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - libby
The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway
Fingersmith or Tipping the Velvet - audible
[book:Can..."

Nancy, while I liked "Agatha of Little Neon" and would encourage others to read it, I don't think it has LGBTQ content. (I just checked how others have tagged it though, and see that other readers disagree with me.)

[Karin]

@NancyJ

I liked With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo at 4 stars.

It kept putting my comment in the italics even thought it was after the < /i > !!! I no longer remember if it has LGBT content because I read it in 2019 and then did so much reading during covid, but it counts because the author fits somewhere and it's tagged a number of the various gender tags (mostly longer ones that this one.)

[Jen K]

Karin wrote: "@NancyJ

I liked With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo at 4 stars.

It kept putting my comment in the italics even thought it was after the !!! I no longer ..."

The bestie is a lesbian.

[Hannah]

NancyJ wrote: "So many possibilities!

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - libby
The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway
Fingersmith or Tipping the Velvet - audible"

I really liked A Single Man. I also read all of Sarah Waters books last year. I liked both of the books you have mentioned - I think I gave them both 4 stars - but I thought Fingersmith was the better of the two.

[Karin]

Jen K wrote: "Karin wrote: "@NancyJ

I liked With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo at 4 stars.

It kept putting my comment in the italics even thought it was after the !!!..."

Thanks--I knew that at the time, of course!

[NancyJ]

Thanks for the help everyone. I think this shows how mainstream the topic has become. I don't always remember sexual orientation either, unless it's a big part of the story. The same is true about sex scenes and violence. (In real life, it's glasses. I'd be a terrible eye-witness.)

A Single Man is a definite yes for this month's tag.

With the Fire on High sounds like a fun summer read, so I might read it just for that reason.

Station Eleven also has LGBT tags. Does anyone remember why? I loved this book (I read it before covid), and I recommend reading it before Sea of Tranquility, which has a gay character.

[Kelly]

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Cemetery Boys
Six of Crows
The Raven Boys
If We Were Villains
The Red Scrolls of Magic
The Atlas Six
This Is Where It Ends

these are on my radar for this month!

[Amy]

I think my books, I probably already said this way back when, are going to be Thirty Names for Night, and the Invisible Life of
Addie LaRue in print, and Marrying the Ketchups in Audio.

Plus, I have two quick books before I start Madame Fourcards Secret War. For both my pleasure and fpr the Walk Down History Lane Challenge. My Beloved Beatles have been waiting for me for a long time now, so its time to get on the stick - (or the chaise) as it might be,

[NancyJ]

Amy wrote: "I think my books, I probably already said this way back when, are going to be Thirty Names for Night, and the Invisible Life of
Addie LaRue in print, and Marrying the Ketchups in Audio.

Plus, I h..."

I'll be reading Thirty Names for Night too this month. My library's "suggest a purchase" came through for me once again. I might suggest it for my bookclub too.

[Sue]

NancyJ wrote: "I'll be reading Thirty Names for Night too this month. My library's "suggest a purchase" came through for me once again. I might suggest it for my bookclub too."

I totally forgot my library has a "suggest a purchase" option too. I'm off to sift through my TBR and make some suggestions!

[Amy]

Great!

[NancyJ]

I could not get into Thirty Names of Night. The writing sounded lovely but I couldn't focus, and I had to keep restarting. I think my brain just needed a few days off.

The narration was odd. The character was talking about their mother, TO their dead mother. It was also confusing to hear a male voice talk about his period. I guess that was the point. That was how the (transgender) character felt about it too. I'll try again some other time.

[Robin P]

I will be listening to the audio of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, though I might not get them both in this month.