@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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63% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 19 of 30 books.
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some …
While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade.
— Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Page 51)
Is this even an insult or a compliment? :D
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some …
“Hello, I'm the woman who helped Harrowhark Nonagesimus's fascist rise to power,” said Gideon to nobody in particular. “Yes, the universe sucks now. I knew this going in. Also, she betrayed me afterward and now my body has been shot into the sun.”
— Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Page 41)
A small-town waitress and a Hollywood star’s worlds collide in this new romance by Ashley …
I really did like Ramona and Dylan and their stories. This book was so lovely to read.
But why on earth would you use this plot arc, where they needlessly hide shit from each other, then hear about it in the wrong moment and jump to conclusions? Whyyyyy? It's lazy and everybody hates arcs like that.
Die junge, lesbische Pastorin Kalli Krause hat sich aus Schwerin in das kleine Moorstede versetzen …
Oh nein, Kalli, du kannst doch keine Bullen knutschen /o\
Drittklassiger Roman, aber es war voll süß, ihn von @internet_memme@books.theunseen.city vorgelesen zu bekommen :3
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, …
This book is so full of beautiful little side stories and wonderful twists, it was a real joy to read.
Minus 0,5 points: There are no lesbians.
Dan and Liss are witches. The Black Book granted them that power. Harnessing that power …
about naïve teenage witches doing naïve teenager witch shit
If you hate committees and cops as much as Stella does, this work of magical fiction is for you.
The books are restless.
At the Eternal Library, books are more than the paper, ink, …
...which is also very nicely queer-normative, despite being very anglo. Everything in here is about books, and there's a nicely working magic system and religions. Lots of queer polyamory, prominent depiction of hearing-impaired and disabled characters, and a world that caters to all of them. There's also a beautiful accompanying oracle card deck :)
The books are restless.
At the Eternal Library, books are more than the paper, ink, …
[praying] “Founders, I call to you for help with my foolish bullshit. Please? Eirlys, Daryn? I could really use some guidance right now. Maybe not from you, Isylwyn, you're part of the reason I ended up here in the first place,” I say.“Also, you're probably a murderer. Sorry.”
— The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud (Eternal Library, #1) (Page 265)
when will “you're kind of a jerk” be a common part of prayers?
The books are restless.
At the Eternal Library, books are more than the paper, ink, …
“Someone put in an order wrong, and the library received a hundred kilos of red beets, instead of ten.” [...] “All those beets. We're going to be eating borschtsch for weeks,” Siobhan says mournfully. “Everyone's poop will be so red‘, I add
— The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud (Eternal Library, #1) (Page 185)
Yes, please tell me more about your poop
Also, apparently this made-up Casporan language also includes a they/them/their pronoun set for the case where somebody's pronouns are not yet known ... which really doesn't make sense to exist in a language that only ever had one pronoun set o_O Oh god, the anglos are at it again...
The books are restless.
At the Eternal Library, books are more than the paper, ink, …
“I'm Amane Sol, she/her pronouns, please,” the stranger says. Ah. Traditionally, the Casporan language only has one pronoun set: e/em/eir. Casporan culture doesn't include a concept of gender, so that's all we needed. But since language is a living, breathing thing, it's come to reflect our diverse immigrant population, too. Some people who come from cultures with genders, like Amane, have come up with their own Casporan pronouns to help them feel more at home. As a polyglot, I think it's fascinating. I just wish I understood what the hell gender actually is. No one can explain it to my satisfaction.
— The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud (Eternal Library, #1) (Page 31)
Nice idea. I just wish the author had checked how this works in the real world, in real languages with only one 3rd person pronoun set. There's quite a lot of them after all, and still you don't really see people introducing gendered pronouns to, e.g. Finnish or Turkish, just because their native language has them. Just because there's gender as a cultural concept, really doesn't mean you need gendered pronouns for that o_O
Just like Last Night at the Telegraph Club, this book follows the journey of a young adult in finding out about their gayness - in a different century and different circumstances. Most of this book, I liked a lot. There's so many reflections on different parts of life, it's just enjoyable and thought-inspiring.
However, I'm a girl that needs happy endings. This book does not have a happy ending. Starting at about 2/3 of this book, everything turns sad in every way. I would not have read this book if I had known.
Enum & Valerie
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Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was …
Gay and beautiful all-around stem girlies at their best
CW: the pigs do more than squeal in this one.
"Do you hear me? Everyone knows you're a good Chinese girl. This is just a …
This is the story of 17-year old Lily Hu in 1950s San Francisco Chinatown and her slow and risky introduction into lesbianism. It's all embedded within real historical events, with so many references to things and places and events and people that actually existed (the Author's Note explains a lot of them - well-researched! and if you want to read up on them, there's even a bibliography list). I devoured this book with lots of joy. It's interesting and thrilling and capturing. Go read it!
