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Book Haul!!! 📚

My library hosted a second hand sale this weekend amd I got 5 books for $7!

Swan Lake by Mark Helprin and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers by Phil Farrand

The Making of Star Trek by Stephen Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry

Dragonsong by Anne McCaffery

#bookblr #book haul

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#one last stop #the lesbiana's guide to catholic school #last night at the telegraph club #she drives me crazy #the priory of the orange tree #and #this is how you lose the time war

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I haven't actually played Fallout, so I'm not sure how similar it is, but he might like Survival Kit by AH Haga? It's about a couple trying to make their way to a family cabin hoping it's safe from the ongoing zombie apocalypse

Hi hello. My spouse is looking for stories which take place in a post-apocalyptic world. He loves Fallout, so I think he's leaning towards something like that. He also enjoys comedy and suspense. I'm wondering what books you might recommend under that umbrella?

(Thank you in advance regardless ily)

Hi! I don't read a lot of post-apocalyptic books, but for mid-apocalyptic + suspense + some humour (+ queer characters), check out The Future by Naomi Alderman. Avoid spoilers, there are parts that might seem annoying, but they serve a purpose.

Does someone know books similar to Fallout?

#there's also earthseed of course but i think that has even less fallout vibes

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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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#i DNFed it 😞 #got 150 pages in and still felt like i didn't really know the characters or their world

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#red white and royal blue #simon vs the homosapiens agenda #carry on #and will grayson will grayson #have to say tho I'm not overly fond of any of them #though tbf I'm definitely not in the young adult target audience anymore

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“You can either let this journey crush you, or let it transform you into someone stronger.”

A scene from the newly-released, New-York-Times-bestselling (?!) book Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, art by 最后的L and water effects by me! 🤗

Honestly, Zachary Ying is a book I didn’t think I’d have the strength to write. The concept is very wild and wacky, yes—the First Emperor of China possessing a young Chinese American boy’s AR gaming headset and compelling him on a journey across China to heist magical artifacts—but writing the story required me to dig deep into my complicated relationship with my heritage.

When I immigrated to Canada in 6th grade, I spent a year as the only Asian kid in the school of a small town. In that one year, I became self-conscious of all sorts of things that didn’t seem to matter before: the way I looked, the way I spoke, the clothes I wore, the media I liked. The white kids wouldn’t insult me outright, but they’d ask me questions that made me embarrassed of my differences from them. I felt backward, alien. The feelings of isolation and rejection I experienced took me many, many years to unpack. It’s been a long journey, learning to love myself again, and I drew much strength from stories in Chinese history to do so.

However, as the years passed, I’ve also watched in horror as the government of China became increasingly authoritarian, cracking down on dissent and committing genocidal atrocities against minority ethnic groups, of which I belong to one myself. Being Chinese has become so painfully political. Pride in Chinese culture is no longer as simple as that, but could accidentally play into the Chinese government’s use of traditional culture as propaganda. Yet on another hand, there’s the necessity of demystifying and defending Chinese culture to combat anti-Chinese racism. Many diaspora like myself are caught in the crosshairs, struggling to find the balance. But what I firmly believe is that traditional Chinese culture and history don’t belong to the Chinese government. It belongs to the Chinese people, both native and diaspora. If we distance ourselves from our heritage specifically because of the Chinese government, that’s letting them win, validating their claim to be the one true representative of Chinese culture when that is absolutely not the case.

Through Zack’s journey in this book, I wanted to engage with the complexities of Chinese identity, but I also want to have fun. This book remains a love letter to my 12-year-old self, taking inspiration from everything I love—anime, video games, sci-fi, and of course, Chinese history and myths. You’ll find appearances by real figures from said history and myths, wielding magic inspired by their legends, along with many famous Chinese artifacts.

If any of that sounds fun to you too, especially if you like Percy Jackson or Yugioh, I really think you’d like this book as well 😩✌🏼 You can find out where to get it at ZacharyYing.com!

#zachary ying and the dragon emperor

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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy Lesbian Visibility Day! We have 26 books to celebrate lesbians for your TBRs! To all the lesbian readers out there, we are wishing you a very happy day and lesbian visibility week!

We love books starring lesbians and hope to see even more books with lesbian MCs, especially books that use the label in the text!

What’s your favorite lesbian book? Drop us the title and author in the comments! Authors please feel free to self-promote your lesbian books!

Books listed above their respective graphics.

ID: A post of six slides. All slides have the same background of a lesbian flag with five stripes (dark orange, orange, white, pink, dark pink). Overlaid is an opaque white square with a thin white outline. Slide 1: In the white square the text reads “26 books to celebrate lesbian visibility day”. The 26 is in the stripes of the lesbian flag. The next three lines are dark orange, orange and white. The last line has the first word in pink and the last in dark pink. Slide 2 displays six book covers in two rows of three book covers. Slides 3-6 display five book covers in two rows: the top with two and the bottom with three book covers. End ID.

We got the Beat by Jenna Miller

A Wolf Steps in Blood by Tamara Jerée

Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley

She Who Earned Her Wings by Vaela Denard & Micah Iannandrea

The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield

Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Outdrawn by Deanna Grey

If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie

Perfect Rhythm by Jae

How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

Wherever is Your Heart by Anita Kelly

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell  

The Third Daughter by Adrienne Tooley

Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera

Project Himbo by SJ Whitby 

Mechanics of Love by Meka James

The Game Changer by Finley Chuva

The Orc & Her Bride by Lila Gwynn

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta 

Cheer Up: Love & Pompoms by Crystal Frazier, Oscar O. Jupiter, and Val Wise 

Tangled Vows by Anna Stone

You’re not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron 

Make My Wish Come True by Alyson Derrick & Rachael Lippincott

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#none of them yet #i know why the caged bird sings is on my tbr though

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Another commission from @xiranjayzhao! Both Yugi Muto and Zachary Ying, two nerd boys getting along. The two tyrants though.... not so much.

#yugioh #zachary ying and the dragon emperor

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Started reading Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor and the Yugioh influences are so clear, it's so much fun

#zachary ying and the dragon emperor

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I really love reading all of Ted Chiang’s works. He’ll craft these interesting settings and scenarios and wax poetic about some fundamental piece of human existence, and then you go read his notes in the back of the book and it’s always just like, “I heard a man say something in 1998 and thought I’d write a little thing about it :)”

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Series info:

Book 1 of The Sunbearer Duology

Book 2: Celestial Monsters (expected publication September 2024)

#yes

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#p&p and emma

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#no but it's on my tbr #a booktuber i like loves this author

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idk maybe a weird ask but any advice on how to enjoy romance books without being bummed out by discourse? i know they aren’t the pinnacle of literature or anything, but the recent stuff people have been saying about romance not counting as books has been kind of discouraging. have no idea why i’m asking this, i just wanna read my silly gay romance in peace without feeling guilty i’m not reading Super High Brow Literature. currently my main method is reading out of sheer spite, but any other advise is helpful. it’s not even just online, i get this irl too.

hey man in the most respectful way possible. who gives a shit. reading is for fun and guilt is for catholics. do whatever you want forever.

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! 📚📖🏳️‍🌈

Again, I'm not 100% certain these all feature characters who identify specifically as lesbians, especially given that I haven't read them yet, but they are all sapphic. Full titles under the cut!

Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C Higgins

Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

Alice isn't Dead by Joseph Fink

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

How to Succeed in Witchcraft and Aislinn Brophy

D'Vaugh & Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C Higgins

Stud Like Her by Fiona Zedde

Second Night Stand by Karelia & Fay Stetz-Waters

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

The Art of Saving the World by Corrine Duyvis

The Final Strife by Saara el-Arifi

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

The Divines by Ellie Eaton

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

The Dyke & the Dybuk by Ellen Galford

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley

Boyish² Butch x Butch Yuri Anthology by Akizora Sawayaka, Hanakage Alt, Nekobungi Sumiro, et al

Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alisom Bechdel

A Masc for Purim by Roz Alexander

Chlorine by Jade Song

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

The Seafarer's Kiss by Julia Ember

The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist by SL Huang

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera

#bookblr #queer books #queer lit #queer reads #lesbian books #lesbian lit #lesbian reads #lesbian #lesbian visibility week

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6 Queer Books for Autism Acceptance Month!

April is Autism Acceptance Month, so the group of folks at Duck Prints Press who suggest titles for these rec lists dug into personal favorite queer reads to find these six titles that include queer characters who are explicitly or implied to be autistic. Our picks are:

The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes

Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers—despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen.

Luis’s attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party—while Ari didn’t say no, she definitely didn’t say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to be mad at Luis, the rumor mill begins churning—thanks, she’s sure, to Luis’s ex-girlfriend, Shawni. Boys at school now see Ari as an easy target, someone who won’t say no.

Then Ari finds a mysterious note in her locker that eventually leads her to a group of students determined to expose Luis for the predator he is. To her surprise, she finds genuine friendship among the group, including her growing feelings for the very last girl she expected to fall for. But in order to take Luis down, she’ll have to come to terms with the truth of what he did to her that night—and risk everything to see justice done.

May the Best Man Win by Z. R. Ellor

Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdate school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise–and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King? 

Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother’s funeral and the loss long-term girlfriend–who turned out to be a boy. But when Jeremy threatens to break his heart and steal his crown, Lukas kick starts a plot to sabotage Jeremy’s campaign. 

When both boys take their rivalry too far, the dance is on the verge of being canceled. To save Homecoming, they’ll have to face the hurt they’re both hiding–and the lingering butterflies they can’t deny.

Hell Follows With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.

But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.

Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor

Sam Sylvester’s not overly optimistic about their recent move to the small town of Astoria, Oregon after a traumatic experience in their last home in the rural Midwest.

Yet Sam’s life seems to be on the upswing after meeting several new friends and a potential love interest in Shep, the pretty neighbor. However, Sam can’t seem to let go of what might have been, and is drawn to investigate the death of a teenage boy in 1980s Astoria. Sam’s convinced he was murdered–especially since Sam’s investigation seems to resurrect some ghosts in the town.

Threatening notes and figures hidden in shadows begin to disrupt Sam’s life. Yet Sam continues to search for the truth. When Sam discovers that they may be closer to a killer than previously known, Sam has a difficult decision to make. Would they risk their new life for a half-lived one?

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Wei Wuxian was once one of the most outstanding men of his generation, a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts, knowledge, and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of war led him to seek a new power through demonic cultivation, the world’s respect for his skills turned to fear, and his eventual death was celebrated throughout the land.

Years later, he awakens in the body of an aggrieved young man who sacrifices his soul so that Wei Wuxian can exact revenge on his behalf. Though granted a second life, Wei Wuxian is not free from his first, nor the mysteries that appear before him now. Yet this time, he’ll face it all with the righteous and esteemed Lan Wangji at his side, another powerful cultivator whose unwavering dedication and shared memories of their past will help shine a light on the dark truths that surround them.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.

Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organised much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot – if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war.

What are your favorite queer books with Autistic rep? We’d love to hear about them!

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#hmm #i have no memory of autism in may the best man win #but that's cool! #and i didn't know hell followed with us had autistic rep! I'm really excited to read that one