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Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas
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This is so skillfully written but LORD I'm doing some mental gymnastics to keep up I fear 😭 The plot is a little covered by the petals of the flowery language I think, perhaps I need to focus more
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This is so skillfully written but LORD I'm doing some mental gymnastics to keep up I fear 😭 The plot is a little covered by the petals of the flowery language I think, perhaps I need to focus more
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In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado
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Stunning!
This book is so well written, it felt like listening to poetry at times, while refraining from being pretentious about it. The language used isn't difficult, but wielded in such a way that you can feel a rhythm, a slow drag of strings against a violin. It's gothic in all the best ways.
I LOVE how queer the book is, a real queerness that mature adults take part in. Gay literature often falls into a kind of picturesque love, but this feels very real. Family is a very strong theme for this book, but it doesn't rely on queer abandonment and trauma around being accepted. The queerness is just... there. As it should be.
A much different genre, but if you have ever seen Wolf Children, this book is its dark goth of a cousin.
This one will be sticking with me for sure.
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Monstrilio
Gerardo Sámano Córdova
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Monstrilio
Gerardo Sámano Córdova
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Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle
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So ngl I am pretty bad at recognising authors and celebrities ect but the name Chuck Tingle was familiar. Turns out I have read Bury Your Gays, hence why I recognised it but... all these other titles? Hello? Seems I have hit on two relatively normal ones first huh
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Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle
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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
T. Kingfisher
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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
T. Kingfisher
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Very fun! It felt like Kiki's Delivery Service meets The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. I wasn't expecting the radical themes, it would be great to introduce a kid into some real life lessons with the softened blow of it being in a cozy magical fantasy world. I didn't quite need so much poop and sewage scenery though 😭 But I'm glad I read it, was a nice change of pace from adult books