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thatsmybook · 26 days

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"It's been a month since Young Royals officially ended and, if you're like me, you're still sobbing over that beautiful finale and missing Prince Wilhelm, Simon, and the entire squad from Hillerska (and Bjärstadt).

Don't worry, I've got some royally good YA book recs for your favourite characters from YOUNG ROYALS that you can add to your TBR to fill the space we're all missing after watching this fantastic series."

From YA author Julian Winters on IG @wintersjulian

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lgbtqreads · 3 months

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Happy Black History Month 2024!

Happy Black History Month! Like the other eleven months, it’s an excellent time to buy queer books by Black authors! For even more recs, check out previous years’ posts! Books to Read Now Alex Wise vs. the End of the World by Terry J. Benton-Walker Alex Wise feels like his world is ending. His best friend, Loren, is leaving town for the summer, his former friend and maybe sort of crush Sky hasn’t…

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vkelleyart · 1 year

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“The chorus hits. Diego throws his head back, putting as much rasp into his singing as possible and that’s it. I can’t let him suffer alone. This is *our song.*” - RIGHT WHERE I LEFT YOU, by Julian Winters

I have long been a fan of Julian Winters’ work and have been so undecided about which scene to tackle first of the MANY scenes he’s written that I adore. But when I picked up this book and got to this moment between Isaac Martin and his best “friend” Diego Santoyo, the decision was made. This book is so joyful and wholesome, and more people need to read it, not the least because more Afro-Latine boys deserve their HEA and Julian is actively out here writing that world into being.

PS: I make no apologies about putting MANU’s poster on the wall. Diego is a queer Puerto Rican and my headcanon says he’d dig Manu’s story. Look close for the other Easter Eggs! ;)

#fanart #Julian Winters #Isaac Martin #Diego Santoyo #Isaac and Diego #Right Where I Left You

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redwhiteandroyalbluesuggestions · 1 month

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Be compared with many, many other books that come after you

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #casey mcquiston #lgbt books #winters orbit #everina maxwell #freya marske #a marvellous light #HS Valley #Tim Te Maro #prince of the palisades #julian winters #prince of fortune #lisa tirreno #the gay dictator #sean kraig

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ace-artemis-fanartist · 1 year

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My piece for @rainbowcrate’s January book box.

Julian Winter’s As You Walk on By.

#as you walk on by #julian winters #rainbow crate #commission #artists on tumblr #lgbt books #booklr #my art

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haveyoureadthisqueerbook · 10 days

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#right where i left you #julian winters

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pridepages · 2 months

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Been a little MIA recently, but here’s the tea on my latest LGBT reads…

As You Walk On By by Julian Winters ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A sweet tribute to the power (and importance) of queer friend groups. (But did we really need another version of the Breakfast Club?)

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This cozy fantasy owes an (obvious) debt to Legends and Lattes. But I do respect that the romantic leads are older sapphics who model healthy relationship communication alongside the magical hijinx!

And I’ve been lucky enough to receive a few highly-anticipated ARCs! Since the pub date is closest, I’m cracking open one of the reads I’m most excited for in ‘24: Alison Cochrun’s third novel: Here We Go Again. (My queer little English teacher heart is glowing…)

XOXO

EJ

#lgbt reads #queer lit #book recs #as you walk on by #julian winters #mlm #gay #nonbinary #sapphic #wlw #can’t spell treason without tea #rebecca thorne #lesbian #fantasy #cozy fantasy #here we go again #alison cochrun #romcom

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nataliekabra · 1 year

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oh yeah no I'm such a slut for best friends to lovers angst i can handle anything heap it up *proceeds to aggressively loop two best friends to remind myself they will get through this they won't lose their friendship IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY*

#right where i left you #julian winters #picture us in the light #kelly loy gilbert #LITERALLY STOP THIS IS CAUSING ME PHYSICAL PAIN #girlfriend material #katia rose #I've been reading so much of this trope lately wtf #cazzie #brittana #oh shit is all my favourite ships #catradora #LITERALLY WHY DID I NOT REALISE THIS BEFORE

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the-final-sentence · 1 year

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So tonight, I'm making my own rules.

Julian Winters, from As You Walk On By

#Julian Winters #As You Walk On By

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tea-intheworld · 11 months

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Was reading a slow nonfiction book the last few days, but I picked up As You Walk on By by Julian Winters for gay main character and finished it in a day. Very fun high school story about choosing your friends and making them family and living inside others expectations. Definitely worth the read if you need something fun and not dark.

#qll pride book bingo #book dragon #the hoard #julian winters #as you walk on by

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queer-books-bracket · 1 year

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#running with lions #six of crows #leigh bardugo #julian winters #books #lgbt books #polls

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thatsmybook · 19 days

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A book Wilmon will read to each other over the summer.

👑 A Black and queer bad boy prince

👑 A pink-haired American boy with a secret

👑 Young Royals angst

👑 Red, White and Royal Blue banter

👑 Fighting to flirting to late night sneaking around the palace

#young royals #Prince of the Palisades #julian winters #wilmon #simon eriksson #prince wilhelm #young royals book recommendations #Instagram

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lgbtqreads · 6 months

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YA eBooks on Sale for Under $4

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aurorawest · 9 months

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Reading update, part 2

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan - 4/5 stars

All the Way Happy by Kit Coltrane - DNF

Couldn't get past the fact that it was blatantly Drarry fanfiction that had had the serial numbers filed off. It was seriously distracting. I don't have an issue with fic authors doing that (I'M ONE OF THEM), but this read like a find and replace had been done on the names, and nothing else had been changed. If the prose hadn't been so overwrought I might have enjoyed it, but the combination of Drarry AU + purple prose was just too cringey for me.

Total Creative Control by Joanna Chambers and Sally Malcolm - 5/5 stars

Ahhhhh I loved this book. I've only read Chambers's historical fiction so I was curious what this would be like, and it was so good. So so good.

Also, sometimes my wife says stuff and I'm like 'that's not a real thing that English people say, that's probably some weird thing her family says.' But then I'll read it in a book by an English person and I am schooled. Anyway that happened several times in this book.

The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez - DNF

I don't mind a slow-paced book but there was just so much info dumping in the first chapter, when chapter 2 started with more info dumping, I gave up.

Crossroads by Riley Hart - DNF

This book started with a description of the main character's apartment. There wasn't anything special about it, nor was it described in a unique way. I DNFed halfway through page 2. I know I have another Riley Hart book sitting in my TBR, which I will be digging out bringing to my local bookstore's used book buyback.

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner - 4.5/5 stars

Did Not Expect to enjoy this one. I got this in an IllumiCrate and I just remember the little blurby thing you get where the author talks about the book saying something about how she loves angry women. I'm over it. Angry is not a personality! Stop writing women who are angry and thinking you've written a well-rounded character!

But actually this book was really good! Predictable, but a good read. Unusually, my favorite character was the child. It helped that she had an adorable hare/bird/deer god of white lies following her around.

Tommy Cabot Was Here by Cat Sebastian - 5/5 stars

I love Sebastian's regency romances but I might love this series more. This is a very, very quick read (right around 100 pages) but she's just so good at creating these wonderful, fully-realized characters that you love from the first sentence.

As You Walk on By by Julian Winters - 2/5 stars

So at this point I think I have to concede that Julian Winters is not the author for me. He's constantly lauded as this wonderful writer whose books will make you smile for days. This is the third one I've read and I nearly DNFed it. The only thing that kept me going, ironically, was that I really liked the love interest and was rooting for them to get together. Typically I find the romances in Julian Winters books to be very flat and un-swoony. This one was actually quite nice though.

But the main character. Jesus Christ. He's SO annoying. Him and his shitty BFF who he falls out with deserve each other, honestly. There's only so many times I can sympathize with you because you have a comfortable, middle-class life and you go to a fancy pants private school, but waaaaah sometimes your friends don't say exactly the right thing about you being queer. Also having your MC tell the teenage girl who gets slut-shamed, gossiped about, and sexually harassed everywhere she goes that actually she doesn't have it as bad because she's white was...an interesting touch.

And idk if the Youth actually act and talk the way the teenagers do in this book, but if they do, I'm very glad I don't know any teenagers.

Why did I rate this book 2 stars instead of 1? Oh! I really liked Luca. He deserved a better book. And I liked River a lot, too. And the fact that this was clearly a take on The Breakfast Club was fun, just...not executed as well as I would have liked.

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#all the way happy #kit coltrane #total creative control #joanna chambers #sally malcolm #the name bearer #natalia hernandez #crossroads #riley hart #godkiller #hannah kaner #tommy cabot was here #cat sebastian #as you walk on by #julian winters #reading tag

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marsmachtmobil42 · 11 months

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Title: Running With Lions

Author: Julian Winters

Page length: 307

Synopsis: Bloomington High School Lions' star goalie, Sebastian Hughes, should be excited about his senior year: His teammates are amazing and he's got a coach who doesn't ask anyone to hide their sexuality. But when his estranged childhood best friend Emir Shah shows up to summer training camp, Sebastian realizes the team's success may end up in the hands of the one guy who hates him. Determined to reconnect with Emir for the sake of the Lions, he sets out to regain Emir's trust. But to Sebastian's surprise, sweaty days on the pitch, wandering the town's streets, and bonding on the weekends sparks more than just friendship between them.

#young adult #romance #lgbtq #summer camp #gay #bisexual #sports #football #julian winters #running with lions #book recommendations #book aesthetic #moodboard #aesthetic #bookblr #booklr

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stardustandrockets · 10 months

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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.

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