PRIDE WRAP UP | 2020
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- I read a ton of queer books in June! Here are some reviews of all of them.
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BOOKS MENTIONED
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway
Goddess of the Hunt by Shelby Eileen
The Queen of Cups by Ren Basel
Meet Cute Club by Jack Harbon
Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O’Nill
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Close to Spider Man by Ivan E. Coyote
--Goodreads review: / 3197307530
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
Homie by Danez Smith
Check, Please: Sticks and Scones by Ngozi Ukazu
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno
The poppy war tw list
-all elements listed here are usually extremely graphic in their descriptions. This is a grimdark book with very serious themes, the most devastating of which is based on a real historical event.
TW: Racism, colorism, misogyny, suicide/suicidal ideation, drug use/substance addiction, death, torture (mental & physical, also specifically through involuntary lab experimentation), offscreen rape (extremely graphic descriptions, the most extreme and upsetting I’ve experienced in a book), animal death/mutilation, dismemberment, mutilation, graphic war scenes, self harm, child murder/dismemberment, genocide
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I’ve been binge watching your videos today bc it’s been a bad mental health day and then you uploaded🥺
🥺🥺 this is so sweet oh my god
I'm finally getting to A Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, and I'm already having such a good time. Your recs are always spot on.
I liked the Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali. I totally saw myself in her because I read it not long after I got outted and kicked out of my house. I can understand why you didn't like it, but I read it at a place and time where it had a profound impact on me.
The prince and the dressmaker made my heart swell. I loved it sooooo much!! 💜💜💜
I've had Summer of Salt on my TBR for so long, I think I'm finally going to pick it up soon after hearing you talk about it!
I recently started reading poetry and graphic novels. I was a bit lost on what to read next but your recs sound so interesting! Going to pick these up soon.
The Poppy War was sooo good but very painful lmao. Scared to read the sequel
i'm also someone who just glazes over during battle scenes. but hearing that the poppy war made them engaging for you has me intrigued. i hear so much amazing stuff about that book but i've been hesitant to read it since high fantasy isn't really my thing. but i may have to give it a shot!
I also read Felix Ever After in June and now I want to reread it again! Summer of Salt as well
yay for summer of salt! I thought that you would like it because it always gave me raven cycle vibes
I read Check, Please! as a webcomic after hearing you recommend it and I loved it so much that I had to buy the physical copies! it’s such a wonderfully hopeful and fun story
I COMPLETELY AGREE AB THE FIRST BOOK
I read red white and royal blue and haven’t been the same since. It was so funny and relatable and I just aghhhh, I’m a gay mess
I recently read summer of salt and absolutely loved it!
I like your energy and the way you talk about the books that you've read, it's so lovely! Maybe that's a bit of oversharing, but I most likely needed the positivity visible in your videos after I've been through a bit of drama concerning lgbt books in a bookstagram circle, so thank you for motivating me to try and go back to reading and once again enjoy it!
Wow, this is so thoughtful!! Thank you so much. I hope that the drama can fade and you can get into some great books! 💖
Thanks for the reviews and the content warnings! That's super important especially right now when we're all under stress. I love your content!
Reina thank you so much!! 😊😊
I am so glad I picked up Felix Ever After! :)
Ohhhh, such a lovely wrap up, a lot of these books sound really interesting, it's nice to see that you enjoyed the majority of it :D I'm really curious about Duyvis' works now! I enjoyed this video, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! Especially the content warnings are really appreciated, I'm one of those people who really needs those warnings about 'forced' coming outs, so thank you :)
Great wrap up. Good seeing you Ce ce. I have now gotten into adult romance from Chelsea (Chelseadoling reads) and Sam (ThoughtsonTomes). MeetCute Club's going on my TBR now.
I'm totally going to pick up This Is What It Feels Like it sounds like exactly what I need! Thank you so much for the recommendation!!
I hope you love it!! 🥰🥰
This is my first time getting into books other than non-fiction. I ordered "This is how you lose a time war" cause it seemed super interesting. I'm so excited since its the first time I bought a book just for the pleasure of reading. I'm excited ahhhh
I personally got pretty much nothing done this whole summer (only read 3 books) so your 15 books in 30 days sounds i n s a n e to me. Great job!!! :}
The Poppy War was so good! I am so excited for the Burning God to finally come out.
Ivan E. Coyote! They are an incredible author. I think my favourite collection by them is Missed Her. I highly recommend watching some of their videos: they are a storyteller who tours a lot, and I've loved every chance I've gotten to see them live.
The Poppy War is just excellent and The Dragon Republic is even better, R.F. Kuang is iconic. can't wait for the burning god to crash my soul to pieces.
i've read my favorite books of the year so far in june: In the Dream House, Real Life, On Earth We Were Briefly Gorgeous. june 2020 was a hell month like the rest of this hell year but at least my book picks were stellar lmao.
[Currently reading two queer books: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan & More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera]
All The Queer Books I've Read This Year (in order of when I read them):
[not counting the titan's curse (reread) and the mortal instruments books but I did read those this year too]
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 1. Stranger Than Fanfiction by Chris Colfer [reread]
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 2. Aristotle & Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz [reread]
(Rating: 4/5 stars) 3. Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
(Rating: 3.5/5 stars) 4. A Boy Worth Knowing by Jennifer Cosgrove
(Rating: 3.75/5 stars) 5. The Hidden Oracle (The Trials Of Apollo #1) by Rick Riordan
(Rating: 4/5 stars) 6. The Upside Of Unrequited (Simonverse #2) by Becky Albertalli
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 7. Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 8. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo [reread]
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 9. Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 10. Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 11. Girls Of Paper And Fire (Girls Of Paper And Fire #1) by Natasha Ngan
(Rating: 3.5/5 stars) 12. If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
(Rating: 5/5 stars) 13. Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Queer Books I Hope To Read This Year:
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan [reread]
Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour [reread]
Of Fire And Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
Ash by Malinda Lo
The Gentleman's Guide To Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
I lovvvveeedddd summer of salt, it was so sweet and I literally felt like I was in the book
I read Rukhsana Ali earlier this summer, and you've put into words a lot of my frustrations with it. It definitely felt like it was written by a straight person. Also! I was hugely caught off guard by the grandmother's storyline, which had graphic descriptions of harm/rape she went through as a 12 yr old. For all the pain this book put us through, we didn't get enough of a payoff of happiness in the end (her family's "forgiveness" doesn't count).
LOVE this list! Added Summer of Salt to my TBR. always looking for good new LGBT books
I'm reading The Poppy War right now and it is incredible like I heard it was great but it still surprised me with just how great it is in particular I really love how it has a lot of information about the different provinces and previous poppy wars and the military and martial arts training Rin gets at Sinegard but it wasn't hard or boring to read and doesn't bog you down which is what happens sometimes in fantasy books which give you a lot of information about the world building
I've been waiting for dis *settles down with a morning cup of coffee and pancakes*
*The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali* was on my disappointing reads list of 2019 too. I gave it 2 stars and I was also infuriated by it. Not only it had serious craft issues, but it also managed to make me hate a happy ending. That kind of thing never happened before lol. It's very transparent in what it was trying to do with the way the characters were portrayed (her parents, her girlfriend etc.) and while predictability can be satisfying at times the ending threw off everything that this novel was trying to build. Meh!
*Meet Cute Club* was delightful. I really enjoyed it, it gave me the fuzzies💗💗
Definitely didn't feel the same way about *Something to Talk About* . It just never felt very romantic to me, so I DNFed. But we're on the same page with *Felix Ever After* 🥰
*The Poppy War* and *This Is What It Feels Like* are going to the top of my tbr after watching this video for sure.
i’m glad you loved the end of check please
I'm loving your channel.
I found your channel a short time ago. I'm learning English and consuming content LGBT+ at the same time,it is amazing. :)
The Poppy War sounds awesome!! (Did you forget the tw in description though or can't I read?) Summer of Salt went way darker than expected, it was a great book.
batju i did forget the tw! They are in the description now, thank you for reminding me 💖
I read Let's talk about love by Claire Kann in June
Summer of Salt is *so good*! I loved it so much when I read it. And Felix Ever After is one of my favourite books this year, and I loved it so, so much, too (Felix isn't a trans guy like you said, though, but a trans demiboy. The difference matters! =) ).
Meet Cute Club sounds delightful, haha, so I'll need to read that soon.
Too bad about The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali =/ The Henna Wars also features a Muslim lesbian but does it much better. Not perfect, but better.
And I think the author of The Poppy War confirmed that Rin is bisexual. I have read both books that are out so far, and Rin is indeed attracted to both women and men. It wasn't that obvious, but it's there. Hopefully book 3 sheds more light on that. And based on what you said, I think you'll enjoy the second book even more =D
Any recs for the characters sharing minds trope? Books or otherwise. (I loved Sense8!)
Btw, I see you read a lot of poetry collections. Do you have any recommendations to get into poetry?
And finally, I want to recommend You Don't Live Here by Robyn Schneider. I finished it last night and fell in love! It's a YA Contemporary coming-of-age story with a bisexual MC who gets into an f/f romance. It was perfect. But CW for grief. Tonight I'll be starting The Dark Tide by Alicia Jacinska, which was one of my most anticipated 2020 releases. It's YA F/F Fantasy.
*Sorry about the lonnnng comment*
The Poppy War is definitely NOT a YA novel... It's really based on the Sino-Japanese war and speaking from the perspective of a Chinese person who grow up learning the part of history which the author drew from as inspiration, I'd say the author really went full on by displaying all the most brutal details of the casualty of that war and the horrific war crimes that were committed on page. So yeah... It is DEFINITELY not a YA and honestly shelving it as YA can be truly harmful if someone wasn't given a trigger warning for some of the content in the later half of the book (especially that chapter... yep).
Thanks for writing that here omg. I was almost gonna buy it today. Tysm
I read books and I cry... damn what a mood. I always end up in the same place after finishing a book, snot crying on my bed at 3am! 😂
This probably comes as no surprise because when have I ever agreed with you on anything 🤪 but I TOTALLY disagree, gay people should 100% accept straight people's reactions to their "gayness". Life is not a one way street, you can't tell everyone they have to accept you, your choices, your lifestyle, your wants and then in turn say "but I don't have to give you that same respect. My Mother had a very hard time with my coming out, and I would NEVER think to shame her for it. She has a right to feel as she feels, she was brought up to think being gay is wrong and it would be unfair of me to just expect her to drop all of her ingrained beliefs because I was gay. So I lived my truth and gave her time to adjust, and now our relationship is the best it's ever been. She still carries beliefs I don't agree with be she is allowed to live her life as she sees fit and the same for me.
15 books in 30 days???? GIRL I READ 4 BOOKS THIS YEAR (yes I’m disappointed in myself but concentrating is hard)
This is What it Feels Like sounds really good, but I'm always afraid to read books about bands because I was in bands and then I stopped playing (and then I actually started playing again a year ago and started a solo project and then covid happened oops).
And while I liked Rukhsana Ali, I definitely agree with you about the girlfriend being terrible and the parents not deserving to be redeemed so cleanly. The scope of what they did, complete with putting her behind in school by months, didn't deserve to be just all tied together neatly with a bow on top.
I know that the story is heavily based on her own experience with her parents not wanting her to be with a white guy, and I think the parents' redemption would have made more sense if THAT was what the story was about, but it definitely doesn't translate as well to Rukhsana's story.
Agreed about everything
Okay but I need meet cute club...
Captain Jack 😂😂😂
My life has been altered in ways I wasn’t prepared for. He is Captain Jack. 🙃
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I highly recommend listening to the audiobook for The Tradition. It really enhanced my reading experience!