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Just a bit late for the #Romancelandia #TBRChallenge ! I listened to Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez and loved it. It's character and romance driven rather than trope and sex driven, so very much my cup of tea.

https://willaful.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/tbr-challenge-just-for-the-summer-by-abby-jimenez/

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My #TBRChallenge read was Dauntless, a gay romance with some mystery set on a very isolated Australian island. Bonus Simpsons overtones. 😂

https://willaful.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/tbr-challenge-dauntless-by-lisa-henry-and-j-a-rock/

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I read To Broadway by Maurane Mazars, a #GraphicNovel with images that made me think of Jules Feiffer's passionate modern dancers. That's apt because it's set in the late 1950s.

Uli is a young gay man studying dance at a prestigious studio in Germany. But no one there understands his love for popular dance. (One of my favorite scenes is of him alone in a theater, entranced by what I recognized as an impressionistic watercolor vision of "An American in Paris.")

He decides to pursue his Broadway dream, but nothing is as he expected; his new friends mock pop culture too, and the Black American dancer he fell for in Germany won't pursue a relationship with him.

There's not a lot of text in this--it's mainly images and atmosphere and you have to work a bit to follow the story. I found it very relatable and often beautiful.

(Thanks to the #QueerLiberationLibrary for making the book available)

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My third #TransRightsReadathon book was The Left Hand of Dog, an excellent recommendation from @Knien . It's just the kind of audiobook I like -- lots of distinct voices, and all British as a plus. 😂 The story is good silly fun, full of geeky references -- Spock's brain, I about died! -- but also has a lot of humanity, as femme-agender-asexual-disabled Lem finds herself feeling home at last with the motliest crew of silly aliens imaginable.

I think it might have felt too twee for my tastes in print, but the audio really sells it. First in a series.

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I tried The Burnt Toast B&B for the #TransRightsReadathon but it's not really my cuppa so I'm DNFing. I think I originally bought it because I wanted to support including a trans character in an m/m romance series, so I guess my work there is done. 😂

Still reading Pretty by KB Brookins, which is really powerful writing.

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My second #TransRightsReadathon book was Women's Hotel by Daniel Lavery. I immediately felt right at home, because though set in 1960s Manhattan, it reminded me so much of the sort of classic British books #FurrowedMiddlebrow reprints -- which I later learned was quite deliberate. https://mainstreetmag.com/a-conversation-with-daniel-m-lavery/

I thought it somewhat lacking in plot and through line -- which can be an issue for me with those books as well. Perhaps Lavery found the perfect way to play to his strengths and weaknesses as a writer, by being somewhat out of time.

My favorite part of the book was the depiction of early AA and one character's journey with alcoholism.

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For the #TBRChallenge I read a dated but entertaining Harlequin Intrigue from the 90s. I do love me some amnesia romance.

https://willaful.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/tbr-challenge-the-other-laura-by-sheryl-lynn/

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My first book for the #TransRightsReadathon was Beyond They/Them by em dickson and illustrated by Cameron Mukwa. It's short profiles of people in entertainment, politics and sports who identify as nonbinary, genderqueer, two-spirit or otherwise gender-diverse. Feels a little written down to kids at times, but the author's passion for the work of the subjects shines.

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1. After being sick for a week, I seem to have turned a corner.

2. I was well enough to keep my Friday night online #JustDance date and to write a book review.

3. A friend's birthday gift I planned with some other folks worked out much better than I feared it would. I didn't get to be there because of the sickness but they took some great pics for me.

#AmReading "Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness" by Michael Koresky. Not very far in, but I think it's going to be fascinating. It's about finding value in older film depictions of queerness. Seems to be a bit in response to "The Celluloid Closet."

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My daughter got her first estradiol shot today and she is *spiralling*. She was already upset before the shot though, and also low on sleep and has been eating like crap. Should we be concerned? (She's been on the pills for a long time.)

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I'm in a book club reading #FurrowedMiddlebrow (#DeanStreetPress) titles and nominated a Margery Sharp book and a Susan Scarlett (Noel Streatfeild) book for next year. Someone else in the club also nominated a Sharp and a Scarlett. So cool to have found my people!

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Finished At Midnight Comes the Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming. As I feared, its well-meaning anti-racism elements get a bit cringey at times but it's a good nail-biter of a suspense story. It could be an entry into the series, though romance fans would want to start at the beginning.

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