#AR Capetta

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“Enjoy the days of your life that are all about doing what you love.”

-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

#quotes #book quotes #books #mydailybookquotes #inspirational quotes #inspire #birthday quotes #poetry #life quotes #lifeisbeautiful #life #ar capetta #the heartbreak bakery #lgbtq+ #lgbtpride #page 136 #carpe diem

[stardustandrockets]

Happy International Asexuality Day! 🖤🩶🤍💜

Much like last year, here's a recommendation list of aspec books I've read and a few on my tbr. I've also added some aspec authors, too. It's obviously not an exhaustive list, but it'll get you started.

I'm spending this rainy day celebrating (i.e. reading) instead of educating. I've got some posts already on my page with my experience being ace. I'm tired of constantly educating and defending my sexuality to people. Google is a good starting point. Search out ace bookstagrammers and content creators. We aren't a monolith and all of our experiences are different.

I hope you enjoy the recs! Have you read any of these or have any favorites I should put on my radar?

#international asexuality day #asexuality day #book recs #ace book recs #asexual bookstagrammer #the charm offensive #alison cochrun #the dead romantics #ashley poston #the heartbreak bakery #ar capetta #under the whispering door #tj klune #lgbtq reads #lgbtqia #queer book recs #read with pride #read queer all year #stardustandrockets #backlog from april #april 6

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JOMP BPC - November 5th - Books and Food

I just went with The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta for today, a beautiful book all about food that actually has some really interesting recipes in it 👀 I should try them out one of these days

#the heartbreak bakery #ar capetta #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #lgbt books

[lgbtqreads]

Agender Pride Day Book Spotlight: The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta

Agender Pride Day Book Spotlight: The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta

Happy Agender Pride Day! In its honor, may I shove your face in the general direction one of the most delightful YAs of all time, which happens to contain magic and baking a queer found family and an agender baker with a massive crush on a demisexual transmasc bike messenger? Treat yourself to The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta! Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big,…

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#Agender #AR Capetta #Candlewick #nb/nb #Romance #Speculative #The Heartbreak Bakery #YA

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It's that time again friends! Here are my top 5 LGBTQ+ reads from the past 12 months. This year we've got some old, some new, some (all) borrowed, and at least one blue. Let's get to it!

(Here are past years' picks: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

You know that phenomenon where one person in a group is queer and then everyone else in the group kinda figures it out too? You'll find lots of that in this book - a YA rom-com featuring angry bisexual Chloe Green vs. her prom queen nemesis at a conservative Christian high school in Alabama.

The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin

This installment in the Hainish Cycle (you don't need to read the others but do yourself a favor and grab at least The Left Hand of Darkness) tells the story of Sutty (wlw), a sort of anthropologist who travels to a planet ruled by the Corporation, which has outlawed all 'traditional' customs, culture, and beliefs.

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

An epistolary novel telling the story of two agents, Red and Blue, on opposite sides of a war spanning time. One leaves a letter for the other, and then we're off. This novel is a love letter to love letters; intense, lyrical, and not like anything else I've read. (wlw)

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

A m/m historical fantasy romance. If you are looking for a fun read about two nerds in Edwardian England who fall in love (and also there is some magic) then this is the novel for you!

Rebel Robin by A. R. Capetta

I know, I KNOW - it's a tie-in novel, and those are cheesy at best and, more commonly, just plain bad. Not this one. It was an excellent character study of Robin (yeah I like books where characters share my name WHAT OF IT) and the author's work with the side characters they created for the book was fantastic too - I wish we could see them in the show!

See more of Robin's recs

#robin buckley #stranger things #lgbtq reads #queer fiction #wlw books #mlm books #bisexual representation #a marvellous light #freya marske #casey mcquiston #i kissed shara wheeler #ursula k. le guin #amal el mohtar #ar capetta #max gladstone #LCPL recs #robin's recs #the telling #this is how you lose the time war #rebel robin #a. r. capetta

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The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

YA fabulism novel

After a bad break-up, a teenage baker who works at a queer bakery accidentally bakes a batch of magical brownies that makes everyone who eat them break up and has to fix the damage inflicted by the brownies

Agender, bisexual main character (no pronouns), demisexual transmasculine nonbinary love interest (he/they), loads of other queer characters 

A love letter to queer communities, self-discovery, and baked goods

Very heartwarming and uplifting

#I just really loved this! #it made my heart very full <3 #and I read it in like one day #also it's set in austin texas and really makes use of the setting #like it felt very grounded and specific #also made me SO hungry and their are a bunch of actual recipes included #oh additionally I liked that it explored how coming out is a complicated process #like the main character has been out as bi for years but is struggling to find the wordsto come out as agender #love some nuance #the heartbreak bakery #books #ar capetta #pride reading 2022 #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads the heartbreak bakery

[strugglinguist]

January's Books

I've been thinking it might be fun to do a month-by-month look at the books I've read and thoughts about them. I read a whopping 12 books in January! This is a mix of winter break energy plus getting lots of Audible credits for Christmas.

Another Time, Another Place by Jodi Taylor

Martyr's Promise by Elizabeth Hunter

A Catalogue of Catastrophe by Jodi Taylor

Paladin's Kiss by Elizabeth Hunter

Once & Future by Cory McCarthy & A.R. Capetta

Sword in the Stars by Cory McCarthy & A.R. Capetta

Doing Time by Jodi Taylor

Hard Time by Jodi Taylor

White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

A Psalm of the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Saving Time by Jodi Taylor

About Time by Jodi Taylor

I've provided in-depth thoughts below :)

I finished a re-read of Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St. Mary's series. This is one of my all-time favorites, and it was a joy to read again. Also on Audible, the voice actor who reads them is one of my favorites. Hands down. She does great voices for each of the characters. By the end of the first or second book in the series, she has them down so well that you know who is speaking immediately.

I then read the the 2nd and 3rd novels in the Elemental Covenant series by Elizabeth Hunter. I'm really digging this new series and cannot wait for the next one to release! Elizabeth's world building is amazing, and I have read every single book in her Elemental world. That's 17 books, 8 novellas, and a short story, by the way. Can't recommend her work enough. She also has a few other series that I love like The Irin Chronicles and The Cambio Springs Series.

On the recommendation of my girlfriend, I picked up Once & Future and Sword in the Stars by Cory McCarthy and A.R. Capetta. They were a really fun sci-fi/fantasy YA experience about a reincarnation of the Arthurian legend. Arthur as a lesbian in space plus time travel? It was queer and nerdy and all around wonderful. I loved it!

I then dug back into Jodi Taylor's writing with her spin-off series about the Time Police from the St. Mary's world. The four books were seriously wonderful. I loved learning about each of the main characters. Jodi is also very good at getting me invested to the point that I find myself openly weeping over her stories. I really hope more books come out in that series.

Two more books! I read White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo. Well... most of it. I still have about an hour of listening. I definitely did a lot of chewing on ideas and reactions to this one. She does well as encapsulating the stumbling blocks to genuine conversations about race because of how White people are socialized. I think it's worth reading as a White person, which is the intended audience, but I think a Black American or other People of Color would find it elementary and waste of time for them.

Finally, a college friend recommended A Psalm of the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers and sent me a Kindle version. It is such a beautiful story about what it means to be alive and worthy. It's a sci-fi book about a future where robots have become sentient and chose to leave humanity behind to learn about the world, and humans have made due without that technology since. A human and a robot meet and go on a journey together learning about one another and life. It hit me right in the feels several times!

#reading #reader #January books #sci fi #fantasy #YA books #Elizabeth Hunter #Jodi Taylor #Cory McCarthy #AR Capetta #Robin DiAngelo #Becky Chambers #book review #book recommendations #books

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#rebel robin #quotes #stranger things #robin buckley #ar capetta

[book-quotes-and-moodboards]

...too many people believe that difference is the enemy of unity.

Once and Future (by AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy)

#once and future #ar capetta #cory mccarthy #quote #book quotes #books

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BOOK REC

Hello to the 14 people who follow me, love you all, have a book recommendation,

the lost coast by amy rose capetta

witchy, queer, beautiful book. I always come back to it.

Amazon.com: The Lost Coast: 9781536200966: Capetta, A. R.: Books

#ar capetta #witchblr #representative

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Title: The Heartbreak Bakery

Author: A.R. Capetta

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, LGBT+, romance, fantasy, contemporary, magical realism, food

Blurb: Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different...except now, Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin, Texas, and everyone who eats Syd’s breakup brownies breaks up. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin, and their breakup might take the bakery down with it. Being dumped is one thing; causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. But the cute bike delivery person, Harley (he or they - check the pronoun pin, it’s probably on the messenger bag), believes Syd about the magic baking. Harley believes Syd’s magical baking can fix things, too...one recipe at a time.

#the heartbreak bakery #heartbreak bakery #standalone #ar capetta #a r capetta #2021 #lgbt #romance #fantasy #contemporary #magical realism #food

[asexualbookbird]

24 in 2024

Tagged by @bigcats-birds-and-books even though we were going to do this TOGETHER

anyway! The 23 in 2023 tag was fun so lets do it again :D Here are 24 books I want to read this year, and this time I AM color coding them :3

purple - books I own

blue - ebook backlog

green - everything else

bold - carry over from the 2023 list

I'm only including books I think I'll enjoy, so none of the stack of ones I know I want to donate eventually. Good intentions only in this year of our hokage 2024

The Dragon of Jin Sayeng by KS Villoso

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward

Labryrinth's Heart by MA Carrick

The Faithless by CL CLark

Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennet

Among Thieves by MJ Kuhn

Starling House by Alix E Harrow

The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu

Strange The Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Witch King by Martha Wells

City of Bones by Martha Wells

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Sword of Kaigen by ML Wang

Once and Future by AR Capetta

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickenson

System Collapse by Martha Wells

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher

Servant Mage by Kate Elliott

The Hourglass Throne by KD Edwards

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

There we go! Somehow a lot harder than last year, probably because I'm running out of books on my shelf I haven't read, so I guess that's a good thing. Once again, this will be deleted if I don't read any of them have a wonderful year <3

Tagging: @alloreli @logarithmicpanda @bookcub if you want!

#bookbird babbles #24 in 2024 #tag games #books #booklr #maybe i shouldve used the donation stack lol

[stardustandrockets]

This is my last post in my series of rainbow recs. If you've enjoyed my content and can donate, my ko-fi is linked in my bio and my stories.

Thank you to everyone who has read my posts, saved them, shared them, and commented. It really means a lot that so many people have said they resonate with what I’ve said. It hasn’t been easy sharing some of this stuff as it’s not something I always like talking about. But with the #JesusJune reading challenge that was created by Christian bigots, I felt it was an opportune time to let my fellow religiously traumatized queers know that you’re not alone.

It’s been a hard journey to get to where I am today, and I don’t think I could have done that if it weren’t for my partner and queer representation in books. Before joining booksta back in 2017, I can think of only two queer books I’d really read, M or F? by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts and Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. I read them both in high school and then fell off the reading wagon because college was a lot and I was too busy surviving to leisurely read. But it was the first time that I had read books with explicitly queer characters.

I am so very thankful that queer books exist at the capacity they do now. Even though scared adults are trying to ban queer content, it’s there for kids that need it and I greatly hope the ones that do need it are able to get it. If I had books like Loveless by Alice Oseman or known of any out and proud asexual authors, I might have discovered my asexuality sooner. That being said, I’m so glad that kids these days have better access to information that I did growing up (despite what some people want) and seem to know who they are at an earlier age. I think they’ll turn out okay, all things considered.

Remember: whether you are out or not, know you are greatly loved and my account is a safe space. 🌈 Bigots can't and won't win.

#heartstopper #alice oseman #the feeling of falling in love #mason deaver #the heartbreak bakery #ar capetta #vicious #ve schwab #simon vs the homo sapiens agenda #simon vs #love simon #becky albertalli #check please #omg check please #omgcp #ngozi ukazu #cemetery boys #aiden thomas #as you walk on by #julian winters #rainbow books #lgbtq reads #lgbtqia #queer reads #queer book recs #read with pride #read queer all year #ace books i've read #stardust book recs #stardustandrockets

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JOMP BPC - June 4th - Precious Cinnamon Roll

both of the protagonists in The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta were precious cinnamon rolls 🥰

#the heartbreak bakery #ar capetta #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #lgbt books #nonbinary

[lgbtqreads]

Do you know of any lgbt ya with a snarky/funny narrator, preferably fantasy? I have a sibling that seems to only read the first few chapters of a lot of stuff and struggle to keep picking them up unless the narrator is really engaging and funny and then they’ll sit next to me and read all the parts aloud that make them laugh. I’d really love to find more things they’ll enjoy. Lately trans and sapphic stuff has been especially requested by them, and we’re looking for more trans fem things in particular, but anything with stuff that’ll make them laugh would be phenomenal! Their most recent favorites were Legends and Lattes and Aces Wild if that helps at all. Thank you so much for everything! Reading through your recommendations and website has been such great resources for us!!

Ooh The Afterward by EK Johnston might be a great pick for them - Sapphic, I believe there’s trans rep in there too (maybe even transfem? It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but I’m pretty sure), and it’s just a fun read with a fun voice. And while the rep isn’t quite as much a fit, I’d try them on FT Lukens as well - they write really fun, light fantasy. And maybe The Brilliant Death by AR Capetta? Demigirl MC and genderfluid LI and I remember finding it really engaging. Ooh and it’s trans masc but I recall solid snark in The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon.

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New Releases

This week's an exciting one for new YA books! Quite a few of these books coming out tomorrow are at the very top of my must-read pile, like Transmogrify! and Venom & Vow. What's on your TBR?

Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic edited by g. haron davis Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you’ll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and expressions and experiences—because magic is for everyone, and that is cause for celebration.

Featuring stories from: AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy g. haron davis Mason Deaver Jonathan Lenore Kastin Emery Lee Saundra Mitchell Cam Montgomery Ash Nouveau Sonora Reyes Renee Reynolds Dove Salvatierra Ayida Shonibar Francesca Tacchi Nik Traxler

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs—in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt’s struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn.

Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan’s stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding in the Hamptons.

In Theo’s glittering world of pomp, privilege, and crazy rich drama, their romance is supposed to be just pretend . . . but Dylan finds himself falling for Theo. For real. Then Theo’s relatives reveal their true colors—but with the mooncake contest looming, Dylan can’t risk being sidetracked by rich-people problems. Can Dylan save his family’s business and follow his heart—or will he fail to do both?

Hurt You by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Moving beyond the quasi-fraternal bond of the unforgettable George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Hurt You explores the actual sibling bond of Georgia and Leonardo da Vinci Daewoo Kim, who has an unnamed neurological disability that resembles autism. The themes of race, disability, and class spin themselves out in a suburban high school where the Kim family has moved in order to access better services for Leonardo. Suddenly unmoored from the familiar, including the support of her Aunt Clara, Georgia struggles to find her place in an Asian-majority school where whites still dominate culturally, and she finds herself feeling not Korean “enough.” Her one pole star is her commitment to her brother, a loyalty that finds itself at odds with her immigrant parents’ dreams for her, and an ableist, racist society that may bring violence to Leonardo despite her efforts to keep him safe.

Hurt You is a deep exploration of family, society, and the bond between siblings and reflects the reality that people with intellectual disabilities are far more likely to be the victim of a violent crime, not the perpetrator.

Last Canto for the Dead (Outlaw Saints #2) by Daniel José Older

Two gods-turned-teenagers wage simultaneous battles in the Caribbean and Brooklyn in this sequel to Ballad & Dagger.

Healer. Destroyer. Creator. Mateo Matisse and Chela Hidalgo are not just two teenagers in love–they’re powerful gods in human form. Powerful enough to have saved their Brooklyn diaspora community from the wrath of an ancient enemy and to have raised their once-sunken native island of San Madrigal from the sea. But soon they discover that their problems are far from over. On the shores of San Madrigal, two creature armies are battling for survival. And on the streets of Brooklyn, a once tight-knit community is divided, with two sides at each other’s throats. But worst of all, a heartbreaking prophecy rips these two young lovers apart, sending Mateo back to the city, where cops are now patrolling the streets, and keeping Chela tethered to the island, where chaos and death lurk around every corner.

Healer. Destroyer. Creator. As gods, their powers know no limits. But as teenagers–separated, desperate, grieving–what will become of them? And what will become of their people? Join their battle and witness their love in this thrilling conclusion to the epic saga that began with BALLAD & DAGGER.

Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy.

Cade doesn’t know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. Valencia doesn’t know that every time she thinks she’s fighting Patrick, she’s fighting Cade. And when Cade and Valencia blame each other for a devastating enchantment that takes both their families, neither of them realizes that they have far more dangerous enemies.

Rubi Ramos’s Recipe for Success by Jessica Parra Graduation is only a few months away, and so far Rubi Ramos’s recipe for success is on track.

*Step 1: Get into the prestigious Alma University. *Step 2: Become incredibly successful lawyer. But when Alma waitlists Rubi’s application, her plan is in jeopardy. Her parents–especially her mom, AKA the boss–have wanted this for her for years. In order to get off the waitlist without her parents knowing, she needs math tutoring from surfer-hottie math genius Ryan, lead the debate team to a championship–and remember the final step of the recipe.

*Step 3: Never break the ban on baking. Rubi has always been obsessed with baking, daydreaming up new concoctions and taking shifts at her parents’ celebrated bakery. But her mother dismisses baking as a distraction–her parents didn’t leave Cuba so she could bake just like them.

But some recipes are begging to be tampered with… When the First Annual Bake Off comes to town, Rubi’s passion for baking goes from subtle simmer to full boil. She’s not sure if she has what it takes to become OC’s best amateur baker, and there’s only one way to find out–even though it means rejecting the ban on baking, and by extension, her parents. But life is what you bake it, and now Rubi must differentiate between the responsibility of unfulfilled dreams she holds, and finding the path she’s meant for.

As Long As We’re Together by Brianna Peppins A heartstring-tugging, uplifting, modern spin on Party of Five — a love letter to family, hope, and finding strength in unexpected places.

Even though she has six siblings, sixteen-year-old Novah still knows what it’s like to feel lonely. Her friends never remember to invite her anywhere because they assume Novah will be too busy overseeing dinner, baths, and homework — tasks that fall to her when her parents are at work. She wouldn’t mind it so much if her “perfect” older sister, Ariana, wasn’t always excused from helping out. She’s the star of the volleyball team, and their parents don’t want anything to jeopardize the scholarships she’ll need to become the first member of their family to attend college.

Needless to say, Novah feels like she’s been given a raw deal, especially when she’s forced to cancel a maybe-date with her crush, Hailee. Then one terrible night, their parents don’t make it back home. A car accident takes their lives and leaves seven heartbroken kids on their own. The Wilkinson siblings have no grandparents, no aunts or uncles. Since Ariana has just turned eighteen, she manages to convince the judge to give her temporary custody. If she can keep her family running smoothly, they’ll get to stay in their home. If not, they’ll be placed into foster care.

Novah will do whatever it takes to keep her family together but finds herself in a constant power struggle when Ariana refuses to take her advice, even once it becomes clear that they are all in way over their heads. Will Novah find her voice and summon the strength to do the impossible? Or will she be forced to say the hardest goodbyes of all?

#transmogrify! #fake dates and mooncakes #ya lit #new releases