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Enum & Valerie

enumeration@kirja.casa

Joined 3 years, 1 month 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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2025 Reading Goal

26% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 8 of 30 books.

Andrea Lawlor: Paul takes the form of a mortal girl (Hardcover, 2019, Picador)

A Guide to US-American 90s Queer Cultures

Damn this book felt long and boring. Mostly, nothing happens except that Paul/Polly moves around Iowa City/Michigan/Provincetown/San Francisco and fucks around. No tension, no bigger story. I do have to appreciate however, how this book visits quite some different sides and forms and subcultures of gay and lesbian communities. Paul's shapeshifting allows it.

Casey McQuiston: The Pairing (Hardcover, MacMillan)

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and …

American view on Europe

Let me first stress how fucking American this is. The entire book plays during a “European Food and Wine Tour”, with the following stops: London, Paris, Bordeaux, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, San Sebastián, Barcelona, Nice, Monaco, Cinque Terre, Pisa, Florence, Chianti, Rome, Naples and Palermo. Because, of course, food and wine culture only exists in France, Northern Spain, Italy and .... London.

Oh, no, excuse me, London is not a proper stop on this tour. There's no food and wine served in London. The tour only starts in London, and the first thing they do on the tour is a bus ride to Paris. Wait what? Who the fuck travels to London first, if the real start is Paris? One of the protagonists actually even lives in Paris, but travels to London for the tour start and the bus ride to Paris. Holy hell.

Of course, there are Europeans on the tour (from …

Casey McQuiston: The Pairing (Hardcover, MacMillan)

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and …

“Nobody's straight on a European vacation.” “Sounds like you're speaking from experience,” I observe, picturing Kit picking up tourists at bars in Montmartre. “Historic precedent. They switch everyone to bisexual at passport control.”

The Pairing by  (Page 80)

Isabel Abedi: Isola (Hardcover, 2010)

Zwölf Jugendliche, drei Wochen allein auf einer einsamen Insel vor Rio de Janeiro - als …

Jugenderinnerungen

Ich erinnere mich noch genau, wie ich dieses Buch früher im Sommer-Lese-Club der lokalen Bücherei verschlungen habe, und ich habs damals geliebt. Als ich es dann Ende letzten Jahres unter den aussortierten Büchern einer anderen Bücherei gesehen habe, musste ich es einfach mitnehmen, und nochmal lesen ♥