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Omg very excited that queer cyberpunk mystery novels CAN be good. I was worried after the last one I read (and wasn't able to finish but maybe I will come back to it) that such a thing was too niche. But I think its just I found that authors ideas quaint and not interesting 🤷🏽
Anyway. This one is hilarious so far and very cool with the cyberpunk. I am very pleased.

I know from spoilers WHO is gonna die at this point. But its still really interesting. This book has been great for my therapy lol

"As if she *had* been asleep, not just now....not just this morning....but for years and years, like Snow White after the apple. But now she was awake again, wide awake, and looking around with eyes that were just beginning to see." (Emphasis original)

I can only focus on audiobooks right now. But every historian gay should read this book. I'm actually learning a lot I haven't read before. So its really good.

I just realized its less that I enjoyed the stories of Hemingway and Great Gatsby when reading them for school and more just that at that time writers had such beautiful pose. After reading one page I think Baldwin could write about literally anything and I would say its the best shit ever.

"Turns out that being closeted is bad for you. Shocking, I know." (88) I hate to be that guy, but this comes across as incredibly naive. Being in the closet can equal survival and allow someone to get a job they would otherwise not have (even in my modern personal experience)To make a generalization like this ignores the reality of what being in the closet has meant and means in our queer culture and others.

Oh boy! A science fiction detective novel thats queer! And set in an area I lived around. How sad would it be if I hated it.

I see why its so beloved by King fans!

Guessing on percentage because I'm listening to a CD audiobook. Number ten of fourteen. I was very pleased at the reference to Pennywise. I can imagine Hill asking: "hey dad....can I reference your book It in my book about an energy vampire taking kids to christmasland?"

Well this is tough to read post pandemic. I don't think I could have read it sooner than 5 years after COVID started. I'm surprised I never heard anyone talking about this book during that time. And now I know why King had a quote about Wyndham on newer editions of the latters work. He must have read Day of the Triffids.

Being sexually attracted to viruses is WILD. The Title makes sense now XD

I was figuring that the uncle was the witch in the previous '08 chapter. I like that twist!

I have a bad feeling Andy's mom works at a gay conversion clinic based on the trigger warning in the book.

I really wish I had an Aunt like Lena does. I think natural remedies are so interesting but have never had the attention span or mind to really learn them. For some reason its hard for me to remember this is taking place in the present. But I'm really engrossed so far!

I found the gay! I'm so happy one of my favorite living authors is featuring LGBT characters. This is very different than other stuff she's written, other than the fact that all the books I've read of hers take place in the past. But I'm loving it still.

I'm loving this so much already. I like the writing style. And Willow-goes-by-Will is so cool.

Having the house both be really old and have custom smart house technology is actually a brilliant idea. It makes it both kinds of creepy and an entity in itself.

This book is also going to take me forever. Because reading about the homophobia around the AIDS crisis makes me so angry, or the amount of deaths are so sad, that I take frequent breaks.

I was alarmed to find my copy is an original. So I'm reading it slowly and delicately. Its a paperback and in very good condition, so I am scared to damage it. I thought I had all the ERB books I wanted. But this is a series it seems so now I gotta look for the others.

The Raft is terrifying! Definitely in the top three of the stories I've read in it so far.

Mentioning Dicks and Five Guys in the same sentence is the best Seattle joke, hands down.

I know I said I was going to wait till after August but I needed an audiobook and Hoopla has it so 👉🏼👈🏼

The fourth CD in my library's audiobook didn't work §∆§ So I have to wait to get a different copy.

Really bothers me how pushy Taylor is to get Emmett to date. Reminds me of an manipulative ex who would nag me into wanting something and then when I snapped out out it and said "no" would say "but before you said you did want it!" For all the mature things about dating and love she says its weird she isn't being any good around Emmett's boundaries.

Shusterman is such a master world builder. Bro should teach classes on the subject, its what writers should aspire to.
Reading this for therapy work but its hard to walk away from because its just so good XD