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Enum & Valerie

enumeration@kirja.casa

Joined 3 years, 10 months ago

@vivavaleria@eldritch.cafe on the mammooth site. Reading mostly wlw rom-coms, with the occasional exceptions. I try to rotate languages, but it isn't really easy to find queer romance books in other languages than English. Reviews and comments usually in the same language as the book.

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2026 Reading Goal

10% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 3 of 30 books.

Robin Gow: Ode to My First Car (Hardcover, 2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

It’s a few months before senior year and Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally …

Eine Ode an Babyqueers, und eine Ode an queere Elders

Ich fucking liebe es. Die ganze Geschichte wird in hunderten kleinen Gedichten erzählt, und es fühlt sich so erfrischend an, und ist so ein Spaß zu lesen. All diese lyrischen Stilmittel, die man im Prosa kaum findet, tragen krass zum Lesevergnügen bei.

Wunderschön ist auch, wie diese Ode sowohl Babyqueers feiert, die gerade erst rausfinden wie Gefühle und Dating und Kommunikation funktionieren, als auch Ü80 lesbische Omis, die besagte Teenies direkt in ihr Herz schließen.

Und ich mag das ganze Konzept, dass die autorierende Person das Buch an sich selbst als bisexuelles Teeniemädchen widmet, auch wenn they seitdem über diese Identität hinausgewachsen ist. Das macht mir grade hart Bock, dem 20-Jährigen Crossdresser meiner eigenen Vergangenheit ein paar Gedichte zu widmen.

Und an meine fellow Autohasser, die bei dem Titel erstmal cringen: Don't worry, zu lernen ohne Auto durchs Leben zu kommen ist tatsächlich ein ziemlich zentraler (und …

Sally Rooney: Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback, Faber)

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a wharehouse, and asks him if he'd …

Quartett of Indifference

(quotes not literal, just from memory) "Is it okay if I sleep with you?" - "That would be okay" - "I can also leave if you prefer that" - "Yeah if you'd like to leave you can do that"

"So you're still seeing someone else?" - "Yeah, but if you'd like me to, I could leave her" - "What do you want?" - "No what do you want?" - leaves him

right after sex "I don't like you, but I don't hate you either"

Oh god I just want to shake them all, why can't you just say what you want. None of those four characters ever does.

Well this book is very Rooney. If you enjoyed Conversations with Friends or Normal People, you'll like this as well. If not, don't bother.

Wendy Heard: Dead End Girls (2022, Little Brown & Company)

Gays doing crimes

The thrilling story of two dead-end girls running away from their shitty lives and their shitty families. Turns out, they're gay and they do crimes. Despite all obstacles, they manage to find a happy end for themselves.