Tag: the birds began to sing

• 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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  November 3, 2025

  Historical Fiction

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• My October 2025 Reading Summary

  Overall Mood: content – I have spent a lot of months recently reading a lot of books, so I wasn’t expecting to get all that many read this month. In fact, I was half expecting to have to ditch my Spooktober plan halfway through and make up a lot of discussion posts to stretch out…

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  October 31, 2025

  Discussion Posts

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