User Profile

Enum & Valerie

enumeration@kirja.casa

Joined 3 years, 3 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.

This link opens in a pop-up window

Enum & Valerie's books

Currently Reading (View all 5)

2025 Reading Goal

43% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 13 of 30 books.

Becky Albertalli: Leah on the offbeat (2018, Balzer & Bray, Balzer + Bray, Balzer & Bray/Harperteen)

Leah Burke girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier s best friend takes center …

This tension really needed to be addressed

Back when I read this I didn't realize it's a direct sequel to "Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda" rather than just existing in the same universe, and I guess mixing up the order really did spoiler me a lot. So, yup, don't do that - read Simon first, then this.

And yup, the tension between Leah and Abby goes way back and really needed to be addressed with its own backstory and future, they deserve it. However, once again, why the wizard school references everywhere??? Really ruins it.

Casey McQuiston: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022, St. Martin's Press)

How To Torture Your Nemesis

Oh there are so many things I loved in this one. First of all, this huge fucking scavenger hunt - Shara organized her disappearance so well, she must truly be a genius. All to distract her nemesis, Chloe, who's certainly not obsessed with Shara, but still can't stop trying to find her.

On and on they try to win the upper hand on who wins valedictorian and who makes whom obsessed with them, it's kind of kinky, but also just mean. They're assholes and they're angels. They're bitches and they're hell fucking amazing. They deserve each other.

But this is not just about Chloe and Shara. On this journey, you discover so many side characters, where you first think "probably a douchebag", but then this football quarterback turns out gay and non-binary, another one just loves kissing absolutely everybody but never thought about having a queer identity. Heck, they're all …

Casey McQuiston: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022, St. Martin's Press)

"Ohhhh noooo, look at my poor exposed and vulnerable arteries, wouldn't it be absolutely tragic if someone were to come along and slurp them?"

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by  (Page 263)

Despite absolutely no sex happening, this book is so full of horny power play and teasing and distracting each other just to lower each other's school grades (they're mortal enemies after all), it's absolutely amazing. Who needs porn when you can have this.

Casey McQuiston: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022, St. Martin's Press)

Rory blurts out, "I kissed Shara." Smith [Shara's boyfriend] freezes. Rory freezes. Untipped cows on the edge of town freeze. When Smith speaks again, his voice is low. "What?" "I mean, uh," Rory says. It's almost funny, the way all his class-cutting, shoe-gazing edginess shrinks into nothing. Boys are so embarrassing. "She, uh - before she left, we, um -" "He kissed Shara. And so did I," Chloe says, stepping up like the Spartacus of people who kissed Smith Parker's girlfriend. "I mean, she kissed me, if we're being specific. But I kissed her back." Smith stares at her face, then at Rory's, then Chloe's again. "Y'all think this is funny?" he asks. "Because it's not." "It's a little funny," Chloe notes.

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by  (Page 19)

Leah Johnson: You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover, 2021, Thorndike Striving Reader)

Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in …

#FuckYourFairyTale

It's really messed up, how in the US people can't study without a scholarship or a lifelong credit. For fuck's sake, build a better education system. Anyway, Liz really needs that Prom Queen scholarship. And heck, does she conquer that crown, despite being black and bi on a very white, very heteronormative school. Of course she also conquers a girl's heart in the process.

Tess Sharpe: Six Times We Almost Kissed (Paperback, 2023, Hachette Children's Group)

Six fun facts about Penny and Tate: 1. They've known each other their whole lives. …

I love both of them so much.

A lot of trauma processing happens here, and it's affecting P. & T. a lot. Some are coping in more healthy ways, others in less. But what I find fascinating is that everybody in this book has the most wonderful people in their back who're regularly dropping everything to be there for them. Well and after all it's a wlw romance and they both get the girl.

CN for the book: parental death, parental abuse, PTSD

Tess Sharpe: Six Times We Almost Kissed (Paperback, 2023, Hachette Children's Group)

Six fun facts about Penny and Tate: 1. They've known each other their whole lives. …

I have to bite my tongue to keep from shrieking. Gran is soft-footed and values the element of surprise, and because of that, I've been on edge my entire life. She'll appear out of nowhere like the grim reaper - but one who gives you cookies and teaches you how to hot-wire a car instead of dragging you off to the great beyond.

Six Times We Almost Kissed by  (Page 11)

dream granny

Michael Ende: Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (German language, 2007, Thienemann)

Silvester. Der geheime Zauberrat Beelzebub Irrwitzer und seine Tante, die Geldhexe Tyrannja Vamperl, haben ein …

Sehr niedliches Märchen

von einem Kater und einem Raben, die es mit vereinten Kräften schaffen, einem bösen Laborzauberer und einer Geldhexe das Handwerk zu legen und dabei Frieden, Gesundheit und Wohlfahrt für die ganze Welt zu schaffen. Alle vier Hauptcharaktere wachsen einem dabei ans Herz, auch die beiden Bösen, sodass ihr Schicksal fast schon traurig ist. Der Humor ist 1a und wholesome, gerne wieder.

Michael Ende: Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (German language, 2007, Thienemann)

Silvester. Der geheime Zauberrat Beelzebub Irrwitzer und seine Tante, die Geldhexe Tyrannja Vamperl, haben ein …

»Was?!«, kreischte der Rabe. »Jetzt haut's mir aber doch gleich den Stopsel hinaus! Wer is' hier ordinär? Das is' doch kein Spaß nicht, wenn einer in meinem Zustand durch Nacht und Sturm flattert, um seine Chefin anzumelden, und dann kommt er grad zum Abendessen recht, aber nicht, wo er kelber was zum Schnabeln kriegt, sondern wo er selber auf der Speisekarte steht. Da möcht ich schon recht hörbar fragen, wer hier vielleicht ordinär is'.«

Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch by  (Page 48)

Endlich gutes Deutsch <3