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The Demon’s Lexicon

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, Cybil Challenge, Queer, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

Now I’m not sure I want it to be a trilogy, isn’t that weird? I have been looking forward to reading The Demon’s Lexicon since long before it made it to the Cybil’s shortlist and now that I finally made time to read it… I’m not sure what I think. I like that it’s darker than most books about magic.  I like that there was a happy unhappy ending. I almost always wish that stories with characters I’m interested in would come back for round two but this time… I just don’t feel it.  I’d like to just leave Nick and Steven where they ended right here. Maybe if book two was just about Mae and Jaime and left Nick and Alan where the landed…. But from what I can tell, all four characters return to Book two.

Go read it and tell me if you agree, please. Maybe it’s just me?

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The Dust of 100 Dogs

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, Cybil Challenge, Fiction, Queer, Women, Young Adult /

Remember when RJ was a pirate-aholic? Remember those good ole days? Before vampires? Sigh. I miss pirates. I had really high hopes for The Dust of 100 Dogs because –  Girl Pirate! And I did like it – or parts of it – but I didn’t like the whole boy/girl romance crap. It started in Ireland when Emir was a child and it lingered throughout the entire book. ‘A woman without a man is like wearing one shoe?’ BS.

Other than that, it was a fun story. But what happened to the jewels sewn into the capes? Did “he” rip those out and just replace them in the chest? Or what…? That wasn’t clear to me. I’m guessing he did because he’s a jerk, right?

And for those who might be wondering – there’s a wee bit of a gay (male) side story. Not a lot but it is there. And that’s why I’m going to drop this in the Queer topic… for those who might be wondering. 😉

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Goth Girl Rising

2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Young Adult /

TW was right, Goth Girl writing letters to Neil Gaiman was a nice touch. Without the letters, I don’t think I’d have enjoyed Goth Girl Rising nearly as much. The poetry pages were a nice touch, as well – slowly adding stanzas until we get to the end. Lyga does a nice job of building us up and then bringing us back down safely – or as safely as you can get when you’re dealing with Kyra.

Great sequel.

Normally I want a series I like to continue but I think in this case, Lyga should call it finished.

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Rage: A Love Story

2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Young Adult /

I didn’t mean to read Rage: A Love Story all the way through, last night. But – I couldn’t put it down.

Peters writes at the beginning of the book that this was the story she did not want to write … I can see why. Nobody wants to face partner abuse in teen relationships and certainly not partner abuse in queer teen relationships. But… thank goodness Julie Anne Peters did it. I’m not sure I know of another author who could have pulled this story off – The Joyland entries were a smart, smart addition to the story.

I literally could not put the book down and stayed up hours after TW had gone to sleep (that really never happens, it’s usually the other way around.)

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The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festvial

2010, Books in Bed, Fiction, Queer /

TW laughed so hard while reading the First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival that several times I thought she might fall out of bed or might die of asphyxiation from laughing so hard. Her sense of humor can be a bit weird, so I really didn’t know what to expect.

It was funny – in places. But not THAT funny. At least I didn’t think it was THAT funny. Definitely worth reading and I enjoyed it. But, I felt let down because of how funny TW had indicated the book would be. Maybe she just laughed so hard to trick me?  Or maybe she has a thing for priests (and not just nuns?)

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The Libyrinth

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Women, Young Adult /

TW kept telling me that I had to read The Libyrinth. I couldn’t figure out why. It looked like some run of the mill YA fantasy novel. What’s the big deal? TW likes fantasy but she tends to be not as big a fan of YA as I am.

It took all of two paragraphs for me to figure out why she liked it. Books. A library, the biggest library EVER. Ritualistic book burnings carried out by people who are either Eradicants or Singers, depending upon your point of view. Strong women, lesbians. The book had everything. EVERYTHING.

One of the characters, hears written text, and since she lives and works in a library (the Libyrinth) she is surrounded by books – random lines from random books appear throughout the story and it’s interesting to see how quickly we recognize (or don’t) the lines. (The list of quoted books is in the back, which was nice.)

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The Creamsickle

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, Fiction, From the Stacks Challenge, Queer /

I think we bought The Creamsickle at Women & Children First. TW read it a good long while back and it’s been sitting in the basket underneath my bedside table ever since. I added it to my From the Stacks Challenge list because it feels like it’s been awhile since I read a baby dyke/boi novel.

There wasn’t anything super special about The Creamsickle. If you’ve read one baby dyke fringe San Francisco based book, then you know what this was like. Lots of bed hopping. Lots of drugs. Lots of gender bending. Lots of skateboarding and biking. What was most interesting, to me, was picturing Katherine Forrest editing this. Now that was an interesting thought. And now I’m wondering what other queer books might be “Katherine V. Forrest Selections.”

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Ash

2009, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Young Adult /

I’m a fairy tale fan. I’m also a modern day fairy tale fan. When I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read mentioned Ash I went immediately to my library website and reserved the book.

Awesome.

Not just a lesbian Cinderella but there are also fairies and huntresses. Best adaptation of Cinderella I’ve read in a long long time.

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Going Bovine

1 Comment / 2009, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Fiction, Queer, Young Adult /

Not sure why I grabbed Going Bovine on audio, probably related to having just finished South of Broad on audio and feeling like something was missing by being in the car without an audio book.

It was a good choice for audio. I think it was probably better in audio than I’d have found it if I’d read it in paper.

Amusing story and I appreciated that the ending wasn’t fairy tale (TW was less appreciative of that and I bet if the kids had heard the ending, they’d have been disappointed.)

The best parts were related to the CESSNAB (Church of Everlasting Satisfaction and Snack and Bowl) and the “freeing of the snowglobes”.

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Kitchen

2009, Books in Bed, Don't Read This, Fiction, Queer /

Well that was disappointing.

I picked up Kitchen because it was a cute little paperback with an interesting cover, printed on interesting paper, the author’s name is Banana (cool!), and because I’d recently returned from BlogHer Food. I was infected by Foodies.

I picked it up on Saturday (or was it Sunday?) because it was due back soon and because it was short. I needed something short.

Oy. It was indeed short. Extra short since I didn’t read the second story tacked on at the end of the book. It was not really related to Kitchen and I figured suffering through Kitchen was enough.

OK Maybe suffer isn’t the right word. But it surely wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. It was weird and not in a good way. I kept saying “Huh? WT… Huh?” all the way through it.

It had transgendered people in it, for goodness sakes. I should have loved it. But I definitely didn’t love it. I’ll blame it on the translation.

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