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Jumping into Robert Jackson Bennett’s High Fantasy Novel Foundryside
We all know I love the Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett, and I managed to find this fantasy series of his written before The Tainted Cup, so I bought the paperbacks and have had them sitting pretty on my bookshelf, awaiting their turn to be read. The time has come, and…
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An Enchanting Fantasy Short Story in Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots
If you’re looking for a short read to pass the time, whether you have only a few hours to spare or you reading mood has been reduced due to external circumstances, then The River Has Roots is something for you to check out. With it’s immersive prose, beautiful illustrations, and gripping tale, it is full…
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A Touching Exploration of Identity in Jeffrey Buchanan’s The Birds Began to Sing
Jeffrey Buchanan’s Gifkins Award-winning novel, The Birds Began to Sing, is precious, tender, and sombre. Exploring many queer themes like homosexuality, transexuality, internalised homophobia, identity, and living in a world where homosexuality is a crime, this novel is full of many heartfelt moments, revelations, and complexities that make it not only a standout novel, but…
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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is an LGBT Classic
This classic is powerful, mesmerising, and heartbreaking in so many ways. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is one of those short novels that fills the whole space, with life in every word and emotion seeping off the page. It is lyrical and intense and complex and impossible to ignore. It is rough, focusing on many…
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A Sinister Mystery in Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
This dark academia is probably the darkest of my selection here. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is a YA dark academia novel that not only delves into serious, heavy, and dark subjects, but criticises many sexist and elitist elements surrounding these topics, especially in an private academia institution. It is a hard-hitting read,…
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Cosy Sci-Fi Vibes in A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
I enjoyed my read of The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers many moons ago, and A Psalm For the Wild-Built was always in the back of my mind, a book by association that one day I should pick up. Then it popped up as a book rec by one of…
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A Powerful Search for Identity in Shilo Kino’s All That We Know
Long-listed for the New Zealand Ockhams Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Shilo Kino’s All The We Know grabbed my attention and interest. Then I started reading it and I couldn’t put it down. It is the perfect book for young readers, readers exploring their identity, and those wanting to connect or reconnect with their…
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Queer Book Recs to Celebrate Pride Month
It is Pride Month in New Zealand, so for today’s post I have a collection of book recommendations for you with LGBTQ+ themes and characters, some of which are also written by authors who are part of the LGBTQ+ community. With so many perspectives, experiences, and voices to listen to from this community, I thought…
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