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love queer lit, books about nature, poetry and being surprised by books that are none of the above

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simply rat-tastic

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title mentions rats? the book goes into this list.

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)

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I Cheerfully Refuse

Leif Enger

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician setting sail on Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. An endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, he seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. After encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, he eventually lands to find an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, a crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society. As his guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his wake.

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Avalon, Rise

Madeline Ffitch

From the acclaimed author of Stay and Fight comes an uproarious, unabashed novel of an Appalachian town, the diverse locals who make it home, an influx of white nationalists trying to take over, and the ways in which the battle brings out our light.Ditched on the side of the road, two friends shelter for the night in a barn. When they wake, one comes face-to-face with his destiny—an antique letterpress, the Vandercook No. 4.Woody and Leroi have been friends their whole lives. But as Leroi falls in with the collective that cooks every Sunday in the park, learning about traveler symbols and how to slice a cucumber, Woody starts to snort the pills he’s been selling. He makes his beautiful letterpress signs for protests, and business cards commissioned by a woman he knows as Stasia but whom others know to be the leader of a white nationalist movement. Stasia bought the barn with the Vandercook in it; she says Woody can use it anytime. What does she want in return?Woody and Leroi are just two residents of this Appalachian town. Their lives intersect, often at the library, with a cast of delightfully eccentric individuals. Eloise, the town librarian and lifelong activist. The punks at Food Not Bombs. Sharon, a wry social worker. Emma, a mom trying really hard not to take out her anger on her kids. Amber, the health goddess who runs the Discipline Cafe. Sylvester, an unhoused man with a long history in town. Matt Mistelthwaite, a World War II veteran with his own connections to the Vandercook. When Stasia insists on hosting a European Heritage Rug Braiding workshop at the library, everyone’s lives will be upended.In Avalon, Rise, an ensemble novel genuinely rooted in the collective, Madeline ffitch asks big questions and doesn’t look away from the answers.

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Aug 08, 2026

Brotherless Night

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 3.5

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Stay and Fight

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.5

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A Language of Limbs

Dylin Hardcastle

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power that could implode a family, a friendship, a life. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, 1972, a choice must be to act upon these desires, or suppress them? To live an openly queer life, or to try desperately not to?Over the following three decades, these two lives almost intersect in pivotal moments, the distance between them at times drawing so thin they nearly collide. Against the backdrop of an era including Australia's first Mardi Gras and the AIDS pandemic, we see these two lives ebb and flow, with joy and grief and loss and desire, until at last they come together in the most beautiful and surprising of fashions.A Language of Limbs is about love and how it's policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak - the jokes you tell as you're dying and the ways laughing at a funeral softens the edges of our grief. An unashamed celebration of queer life in all its vibrancy and colour, this story finds the humanity in all of us, and demands we claim our futures for ourselves.

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My Government Means to Kill Me

Rasheed Newson

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl “Trey” Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death. Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning.

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libro.fm announces ebooks!

who else is super excited about 🔗 this announcement? i’m so happy to have a new way to support my fav local bookstore!

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snailtay0228

Queer book recs

Lately I've been feeling very out of touch with my queerness, and im really craving that connection. Does anyone have any book recs that could help?

It can be fiction or nonfiction, but preferably romance wouldn't be the main focus. I'm looking for queer culture, queer joy, gender-queerness.

Thank you in advance to my beautiful queer people on pagebound 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Book Holidays

When my son was five, he asked if we could make up our own holidays like Christmas and Easter. I said we could and as a result, I chose to dedicate a day to reading each year.

I chose August 30th as it's the birth date of Mary Shelley (who authored my favourite story) and so every year since we have celebrated Mary Shelley Day by gifting books to each other and spending the day reading.

I was just browsing book catalogues, looking for books to gift my children and partner, and it made me wonder if other people also had book-based holidays that they celebrated.

If you do have a book-based holiday or tradition, I'd love to hear about it!

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Shootout to forgotten/underrated books!!

This is the place to list the books you adore that have <5 posts in the book forum or you're the only person posting there! Maybe also as a tiny promotion so that more people can interact there.

Here are my underrated favourites:

Songs of the Kisaeng; a collection of ppetry from Korean courtesans throughout Korea's empires until the Joseon dynasty, overlooked until now
Boys Run The Riot (the later manga volumes); cozy story about a trans boy and an outcast forming a clothing brand in Japan
Sailor Moon (after the first volume); magic girl transformations with deep, traumatizing lore
My Brother's Husband; a Canadian visits his Japanese brother-in-law who is a divorced father
Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut; queer survival strategies in contemporary Beirut despite being labelled as a queer tourist hotspot
M. Butterfly; a play that takes a post-colonial spin on Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly and inspired by a true story of a French diplomat falling in love with a Chinese male spy disguised as a woman

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read your colour

hey! has anyone done or heard of the read your colour test? my sister just told me about it and it's pretty accurate to both of us.

i'm an experimental orange reader! what about you guys?

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readyourcolor.com

EDIT: just been notified that apparently the site has very blatantly used ai before. i wasn't aware of this when posting so just take note! fuck ai ‼️

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Evil Genius

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Evil Genius

Claire Oshetsky

An exuberant novel about a young woman’s quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way It’s 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen-year-old Celia Dent keeps telling herself how lucky she is to be married to Drew, a man who says he loves her. But Celia’s contentment with her little life is shattered when a woman she knows is murdered in a love tryst gone awry. What would that be like, Celia wonders, to die—or kill—for love? What would it be like to live each moment passionately and with full knowledge that each breath is bringing her closer to her final breath? Before Celia knows it her musings about love-and-death happenings are bleeding into daily life. She’s practicing her marksmanship at a local gun range. She's searching for a love tryst of her very own. She's thinking about how good it would feel to bury something sharp inside her domineering husband’s ear. It’s all pretend, though, until the night comes when Celia finally goes too far, and she and Drew are set on a deadly collision course. Exhilarating, surreal, and bitingly clever, Evil Genius is a comic noir about obsession and desire—and what happens when a sweetly seditious young woman dares to imagine a better life for herself. Claire Oshetsky is also the author of the novels Poor Deer and Chouette, which was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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