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Queer Book Club’s Hogwart’s House Reading List
…WOW! I’ve been thinking, hmm, maybe I should combine the Hogwarts posts into one big post - but KNOWhomo did it for me! Thank you!!
See KNOWhomo’s full post, which includes the full text of all four of my Hogwarts posts!
So amazing, you guys!
Source: knowhomo
[Pictured above: Giraffe People by Jill Malone, Broken In Soft Places by Fiona Zedde, Freak of Nurture by Kelli Dunham, We Can Fix It!: A Time Travel Memoir by Jess Fink, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea, What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth, Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook for Youth edited by Matt Hern, Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg.]
Queer books out in May 2013. Looks like a good assortment of of youth titles out this month! Stay Solid has some great contributors, and I had no idea Michelle Tea was working on a YA title. Do you know of any other queer books out this month?
(via fuckyeahlesbianliterature)
Source: queerbookclub
In case all the books mentioned in the book club don’t give you enough reading stress, I put together an Ultimate AfterEllen Summer Reading List! It’s split into three parts: all the books from the last year you never got around to; books soon to be released; and classics.
I also created a handy-dandy Goodreads list of all the books I included, although it looks like some folks have already added some books of their own to the list. I’m not opposed to this at all, as I always enjoy a good recommendation, but I do worry about things spiraling into self promotion instead of honest recommendation. (For instance, all the books I included on my original list were genuinely my own recommendations.) And I’m not quite sure how to control or edit the list. So, hey, maybe that’s a lesson learned.
Anyhoo, putting this together was real fun, and I’m hoping to read as many as possible myself this summer, and using an “AfterEllen Summer Reading” tag on Goodreads, for anyone else who wants to play along.
The official discussion post is up at AfterEllen.com for The Raven’s Heart! Sorry it’s a few days late, but I just finished it this week myself. :)
And for those of you who are really ahead of the game, discussion posts for May for Silhouette of a Sparrow, Nevada, and After the Rain are also up on Goodreads. Since Silhouette of a Sparrow isn’t as long as some of our recent choices have been, I’m hoping to actually read one of the other selections this month for the first time ever!
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When Leslie Feinberg talks about their failing health, I feel so worried.
So.
Worried.
(via many-worlds)
A.S. King discusses the inspiration behind her L.A. Times book-prize winner, Ask the Passengers, which also garnered an SLJ star.
I loved Ask The Passengers - Astrid is one of the most three-dimensional girl protagonists I’ve read in ages. A.S. King gives her room to be smart, funny, loving, and also as insecure and unsure of herself as I was at that age. I also completely related to Astrid’s account of her suffocating hometown - full of the good, normal, all-American kind of people who think they are immune to racism and homophobia (spoiler alert: no).
I kind of want to drive to my old high school and hand it out… or maybe just go back in time and give my sixteen year old self a copy.This book, and A.S. King herself, are so absolutely wonderful. I actually had a conversation with A.S. King about how publishers told her that if you write gay books, they can only win “gay awards,” so I was so, so, so, happy when Ask the Passengers won the L.A. Times Award. Also how cool is it that I can say “I had a conversation with A.S. King,” because I did. My life is ridiculous and awesome.
I wrote the thing immediately above ^^ on my personal tumblr before realizing it would also be relevant here. Also, if you watch the short video on the LA Times website, you get to see King’s remarkable pair of green boots.
Source: schoollibraryjournal
One of the Lambda nominees for Best Lesbian Fiction this year, and your choice for the April book club!
