tortuguita21
🏳️🌈🇵🇪🏳️⚧️ |📍somewhere in the libby trenches 🦞| he/him “the right side of history includes the universe itself.” such a trail mix of genres: flavor of choice? 🌈💅🤸🧚💁🐛 {usually queer}
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tortuguita21 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I have only ever sobbed over one book - 'The Book Thief'. I'm not even too sure why it destroyed me that much but I sat on the public bus and cried my little heart out. I wish to feel this again. Did anyone react the same way to this book and any recs for more books to do the same ?
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RexGertSpud completed their yearly reading goal of 50 books!
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this was a very informative read, and i loved the addition of queer history onto the history of emancipation and enslavement of Black people in the United States. that being said, format wise is where it really fell short. i think it works much better in an auditory or theoretical visual medium, and the text alone is very hard to engage with. it’s cumbersome, the language is clunky, and there’s no like necessarily big plot arc. that isn’t bad, but the novel format and the setup in the beginning makes it feel like it’s going to go somewhere, whereas in actuality the development lies in dialogue and character relationships, not in a lot of progress being made other than what we know will happen, ie, the album release and show. the ending even felt so rushed despite having that expectation, especially after departing in Part II for a trip down memory lane. once i mixed in the audiobook and learned into it being more of an oral history, i understood it a lot better and connected with it more. overall, it was interesting and vastly different than any other novel i’ve read, but the world building and development of a strong narrative besides characterization ultimately fell short. i’d still reccomend this if only for how interesting this is as a vehicle to deliver history & a real look at the ugly parts of what the United States was built on.
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Bob the Drag Queen
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Laila Lalami
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Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones (Check, Please!, #3-4)
Ngozi Ukazu
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Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones (Check, Please!, #3-4)
Ngozi Ukazu
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Bring Me the Head of Susan Lomond: A High School Story
Connor B.
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tortuguita21 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hi everyone!! it’s official— we’re somehow already one week in to pride month. so how has y’all’s month been so far?? any amazing reads, memories, vibes, good times? (not only limited to queer happenings of course) anything planned, reading or otherwise?
i have been feeling the queerness lately, wanting to just steep myself in it as much as i can, especially with what i’m reading. i just finished Hazelthorn by CG Drews and i’m at a loss to describe what i feel, in a good way. might even finally get around to watching interview with a vampire this month but we’ll see!! virtual hugs to you all :))
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hi everyone!! it’s official— we’re somehow already one week in to pride month. so how has y’all’s month been so far?? any amazing reads, memories, vibes, good times? (not only limited to queer happenings of course) anything planned, reading or otherwise?
i have been feeling the queerness lately, wanting to just steep myself in it as much as i can, especially with what i’m reading. i just finished Hazelthorn by CG Drews and i’m at a loss to describe what i feel, in a good way. might even finally get around to watching interview with a vampire this month but we’ll see!! virtual hugs to you all :))
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Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
Catherynne M. Valente
0tortuguita21 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
So, yesterday I watched Bottoms for the second time and I was wondering if you know any books (lesbian preferably or at least queer) with the same vibes/energy?? You know, funny, a bit wtf, with questionable character
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hello everyone!! yesterday, may 31st, marked the end of our readalong of bright dead things. if you didn’t get a chance to participate, all the discussion questions for the poems in this collection are completely up and available for you at your leisure! and thank you to everyone who posted responses during may, it has been such a pleasure to read your thoughts and even glean new takes on the poems in this collection. it was such a fruitful and different way to engage with a collection, and every ounce of work i put into it was worth it tenfold.
with all that said, this post is also meant to serve as a space for general feedback, and constructive feedback, not just for myself, but for anyone else planning readalongs in the future. feel free to post your general thoughts or answer some of these questions:
- Did the loose schedule work for you all, with each week having a specific part vs each day having specific poems?
- Did the kinds of questions asked helped you think about the poems, or were they too hard to follow at times? Abstract? Vague?
- What really worked for you? What didn’t, and could use some improvement?
thank you all again!! ☺️
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