Happy Pride Month ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🤎💗

 

Goodreads Pride Month releases (click here) 

Happy Pride Month to the entire LGBTQIA2S+ community and allies. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🤎💗

I eagerly await the day when ALL literature is supported and celebrated.

I eagerly await the day when ALL writers / publishers celebrate the stories and lived experiences of ALL people.

Happy reading my friends. 

TransReadathon TBR and Recommendations

I am so excited about this April's TBR. 

I am so excited to live in a world where more and more of these stories get published. I am speaking as a straight cisgender woman. I am HERE for it all. 

I'll post the photos of the books I recc in hopes that you go and do research on EACH one. 

Tips for recommendations:

1. Go to the publishers and authors homepages
2. PURCHASE the book if you are able. It sends a clear "yes, more of this please" to the publishers and authors
3. Show and discuss these books far and wide
4. Let's normalize what should already be normalized: equal shelf space for ALL authors

Now let my TBR & recommendations begin with one of my favorite novels of ALL time:

one of my top favorite novels of all time

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous,
razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine
wends his/her way through a world
gutted by loss, pulsing with music,
and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.

gothic psychological thriller

Tripping Arcadia is a page-turning and shocking tale with an
unforgettable protagonist that explores family legacy and inheritance,
the sacrifices we must make to get by in today’s world, and the
intoxicating, dangerous power of wealth.

Click below to check out Penguin Randomhouse's detailed reccs.

Happy trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming reading! 

Day 6: Book Recommendation- You Are Eating An Orange, You Are Naked by Sheung-King

 

Goodreads Description:

A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman’s frequent unexplained disappearances.

You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King’s debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Asian-Canadian literature.

Why you should read it

This is just one of those novels that pulls you in and you can feel alongside the characters. I was so in the moment for those relationship conversations and I could really sense the translator's confusion about his partner's behavior. It just gave space to those "unsure" moments most of us have felt while communicating with others in close connection.

I adore Sheung-King's writing and I highly recommend this one.