Woot, we finished an audiobook! Right after we finished the last audiobook, which was MONTHS ago (or at the very least, weeks ago) I didn’t have another one waiting for us so I just grabbed something we hadn’t read that also looked like we wouldn’t hate it.
So, I ended up with Young Jane Young.
I didn’t hate it but didn’t love it. I liked parts of it quite a bit. I did not like the “choose your own adventure” section at the end. TW apparently didn’t enjoy the book at all.
I read The Wonder of Us almost a month ago… I have no idea where it came from. I thought it was a Cybil but upon reflection, it wasn’t interesting enough to be a Cybil. It’s also not a YA romance, it’s a YA friendship book. With that title, you’d probably be surprised by that. It’s a play on one of the girl’s love of the great wonders of the world. That was really the most interesting thing about the book.
Ho hum. Not great. Not horrible. Just ho hum.
Gah. I wasted hours of my life reading The Favorite Sister for what turned out to be no damn good reason. It had ZERO redeeming qualities and I’m so annoyed by whatever LGBTQ pride month list I found this book on. Whoever put that book on a PRIDE list should be shot.
Also, it was just a bad book. Not a single good human being in the bunch AND worse yet, the twist on the feminist reality show just plain pissed me the hell off.
Don’t read this. And if you read it and liked it, I’m not sure we can be friends. SO BAD.
PS. I will publicly apologize to TW because I questioned her hatred of the book and didn’t believe it could be that bad… I was wrong. I was mislead by a horrible PRIDE month reading list.
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Once I got over the fact that The Plastic Magician isn’t part of the Paper Magician series but is about completely different people, I enjoyed it. (Many characters from the Paper Magician trilogy do make appearances in The Plastic Magician, so that’s a bonus.)
I might actually like Alvie better than Ceony.
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Yay! Lesbian fiction I don’t hate! LOL
Stray City was very good. I liked every one of the characters. It’s exactly how you’d picture Portland in the late 90s. The Lesbian Mafia and Family dinners are perfectly imperfect. I didn’t even mind the jump from 1999 to 2009, and I normally find that really annoying.
Awwww, a fun lesbian romance! Lesbian chick lit!! Woohoo! When Katie Met Cassidy definitely arrived on my library cart because I saw it on a lesbian fiction list during Pride month. (It’s always nice when my library has LGBTQ books and I don’t have to ask them to buy something for the library or ask them to get it for me from another library.)
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I’m pretty sure Saving Montgomery Sole arrived because I saw a list of LGBTQ books during Pride month and I reserved a bunch.
This one is written by the author of Skim and if you’ve read Skim, I think the writing here will feel familiar. At least it felt familiar to me. The problem was that I didn’t particularly like Montgomery, though I understood her and why she was struggling. If empathy is all I can really summon for the main character, the book is not really going to be one of my favorites. (I liked all of the other characters more! Every single one of them. OK not the stupid minister.)
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We listened to Marriage of a Thousand Lies on audio. The first few minutes of the book were pretty darn depressing. Turns out the whole thing is pretty darn depressing but it’s also pretty darn good.
We don’t get a lot of decent lesbian literary fiction. We get lesbian chick lit, or lesbian erotica, or lesbian poetry, or token lesbian characters in mainstream fiction, and a ton of GAY fiction of all types, and we’re event seeing more trans fiction of all types. But literary lesbian fiction? GOOD literary lesbian fiction? Sooooo rare. Marriage of a Thousand Lies is worth reading for that reason alone. But prepare yourself for the depressing, frustrating, and not at all happy ending.
I very much hope SJ Sindu writes more books. I’ll read them.
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You may remember that I read all/most/some(?) of the Daughters of La Lune series and was troubled when I realized I hadn’t read the first book… so I read the first book and now I kind of wish I hadn’t read The Witch of Painted Sorrows. The end was rushed and left more questions than it answered. Worse yet, those questions were NOT answered in the follow up books.
SO ANNOYING.
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Woot! A new Christopher Moore book! (Sure was a long time coming, wasn’t it?) Noir was a lot of fun but not so much funny. That’s not to say it wasn’t good, because it was. I liked it a lot, more than Sacre Bleu and Serpent of Venice. He did a good job with the genre and didn’t let the humor overshadow the genre or the story. I’m not sure I loved the Moonman story line but it worked well enough that it didn’t annoy me.
I’m definitely a fan and wouldn’t be opposed to seeing Sammy and Stilton again, someday. (Or Lone, or Jimmy, or Moo Shoes, either.)