#ray stoeve

[lgbtqreads]

Happy (Upcoming) Trans Day of Visibility 2024!

March 31st is Trans Day of Visibility, and we’re celebrating as we do by highlighting a whole bunch of wonderful trans books! For even more recs, check out previous years’ posts.  Books to Read Now Middle Grade Magical Princess Harriet by Leiah Moser “To put it simply, Harris Baumgartner was late to school on the first day of the seventh grade because something he saw in the abandoned lot at the…

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#TDOV #Cass Donish #Crystal Frazier #Gabe Cole Novoa #Izzy Wasserstein #Just Happy to Be Here #Katherine Packert Burke #Kelly Caldwell #KT Hoffman #Lee Mandelo #Lilah Sturges #Lily Seabrooke #Lucy Uncensored #Mel Hammond #Most Ardently #Naomi Kanakia #Nico Lang #Ray Stoeve #Talia Bhatt #The Prospects #The Summer Love Strategy #These Fragile Graces This Fugitive Heart #Trans Day of Visibility #Trans Romance #Transfem #Transgender #translit #Transmasc

[slaughter-books]

Day 20: JOMPBPC: Lgbtqia+

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #lgbtqia+ #the luis ortega survival club #sonora reyes #the sun and the star #rick riordan #mark oshiro #between perfect and real #ray stoeve #jamie #l.d. lapinski #heartstopper #vol. 5 #alice oseman #not your villain #c.b. lee #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #bookish #i love books

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - April 18th - LGBTQIA+ Character

I love the queer characters in Ray Stoeve’s books 💖 and I can’t wait to read their upcoming release The Summer Love Strategy featuring a romance between a trans girl and a cis girl 🥰🏳️‍🌈

#arden grey #between perfect and real #ray stoeve #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #lgbt books #transbooks365 #trans authors #asexual #trans

[sunstonedplus]

i just finished listening to between perfect and real and oh my god dean is so me its absolutely fucking insane. the trans realization the drama the theatre kidness that whole binder situation (minus the duct tape) just literally that entire book felt like me reflected in a slightly different way ugh i wish there was more

#between perfect and real #ray stoeve #transgender #audiobooks #dean foster

[micahthemoon]

June 5 2023 Just finished reading a book about a trans guy and it has some relatable quotes I want to share with you. The book is called Between Perfect and Real:

Maybe my gender is tangled-up headphones.

‘My chest feels like it belongs to someone else. When you touch it, I remember it’s mine. And that sucks.’

It’s me versus the binder in a wrestling match to the death.

‘It is like (…) [my body] it’s a piece of clothing that shrank in the dryer. It’s not terrible most of the time, but it’s weird.

#I had many more qoutes but I wanted to keep this to my limited post size #the book is by a nonbinary author too #ray stoeve #between the perfect and real #transgender #nonbinary #transmasc #gender dysphoria #queer literature #gender identity #entry #findingmicah

[canonlgbtqcharacters]

Dean Foster from Between Perfect and Real is a trans boy

#trans #transmasculine #trans boy #trans man #between perfect and real #ray stoeve

[the-final-sentence]

I’m so glad it’s Talia.

Ray Stoeve, from The Summer Love Strategy

#Ray stoeve #the summer love strategy

[desdasiwrites]

– Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real

#book quote of the day #ray stoeve #Between Perfect and Real #trans boy #ftm #trans main character #ya #book recommendations #diverse reads #nonbinary author #book quotes

[plantdad-dante]

Book #46 - Between Perfect And Real by Ray Stoeve

(first time read, jumbled, less coherent than probably ideal thoughts)

I read this book in two smaller and one bigger chunk, and only when alone. I... I just couldn't stop reading it. And the only thing that made me put it down was... well, having company? As a trans guy myself, one with some egg-shell still stuck to him, I just couldn't read this with other people around, because I wasn't ready to feel so seen around people who didn't, yet.

But I felt seen. Reading this felt reassuring and motivating and dreamlike all at once, but most of all it felt like someone pointing at me and saying "I know exactly who you are and what I see is totally rad" and... yeah!

This post is very short because I can't really say anything else? Just....

Reading this felt good in the way being "mistaken" for a guy by the cashier feels good. Like hearing the word "brother" and knowing it's referring to me feels good.

I need literally everyone to read this book.

#between perfect and real #ray stoeve #trans pride #trans

[lilibetbombshell]

#arc review #arc reviewer #arc reader #book review #book reviewer #book blog #book blogger #netgalley #ABRAMS Kids #amulet books #ray stoeve #arden grey #coming of age fiction #ya fiction #lgbqia romance #lgbtqia romance

[theobviousparadox]

Review: Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve

Review: Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve

Arden GreyRay StoeveAmulet BooksPublished April 26, 2022 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About Arden Grey Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey is struggling. Her mother has left their family, her father and her younger brother won’t talk about it, and a classmate, Tanner, keeps harassing her about her sexuality—which isn’t even public. (She knows she likes girls romantically, but she thinks she might be…

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#abuse #asexual #best friend #divorce #friendship #grief #netgalley #photography #Ray Stoeve #Romance

[slaughter-books]

Day 22: JOMPBPC: Books And Plants

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #books and plants #the sky blues #robbie couch #we are lost and found #helene dunbar #grown #tiffany d. jackson #between perfect and real #ray stoeve #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #pretty flowers #eeyore #i love books

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

If you liked Loveless by Alice Oseman, try Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve

They both include:

characters learning they are asexual

the struggles of maintaining friendships as new experiences come along

making new friends through hobby and special interest clubs

a broader cast of queer characters

#book recs #book recommendations #booklr #alice oseman #ray stoeve #bookblr #loveless #arden grey #lgbt books #asexual #trcc original #now that alice oseman is popular i need a new under the radar author to boost #and i reckon it's gonna be ray stoeve #their books are so queer and heartfelt and wonderful #and tackle big topics in a similarly senstive way to what alice does

[apocalypseofvanities]

got denied for a book on netgalley a while ago and today i literally just sent an instagram dm to the author saying i was sad i got denied bc i was literally transgender and now i have the bool

#it’s the summer love strategy by ray stoeve btw #hopefully it is good

[tradedsymmetry]

The 17 year old main character/narrator in this book set in 2019:

"The jukebox fills the silence with a terrible old rock song from the early 2000s."

😂🤣😭💀

#im choosing to believe its nickleback not fall out boy #lol as if those are the only two options #thats what i love about details like this in books. you get to decide what terrible old rock song from the 2000s it is #Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve

[lgbtqreads]

Do you have any recs for trans self-discovery stories? Where the protagonist starts the book thinking they’re cis and realizes they’re trans during the plot. I didn’t realize I was a man until I was 19, so I find stories about trans people who haven’t always known very comforting!

We're still talking high school, but three YAs that do this are Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve, Birthday by Meredith Russo, and Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky. In adult, definitely try Bellies by Nicola Dinan, and I don't think this is spoilery because though it's not in the blurb, the book is classified as LGBT/Transgender - keep an eye out for All Things Seen and Unseen by RJ McDaniel. (It's Horror, so couldn't say if it'd be comforting, but! Do read the TWs.) (It's possible the upcoming Shae by Mesha Maren fits this as well? I haven't read it yet, so I don't know when the realization happens, but certainly the transition is later.)