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August's Read is I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson! Join us Sunday, August 18th for our meeting!

**Please note that while this blog does not typically do content warnings before selecting books, we are aware of content warnings for sexual assault in this book, and it felt responsible to warn book clubbers.

At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways... but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor. The early years are Noah's to tell; the later years are Jude's. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they'll have a chance to remake their world.

You can view any potential content warnings (and other info) on Storygraph!

The Lavender Book Club is a chill, queer, online book club run through text chat on Discord and through this blog. If you’re interested in joining the server, the link is here. Follow this blog for updates on the club and our other activities!

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seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is…. u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020… and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov…. and it stars natalie portman…. okay

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I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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remember what’s really truly important in life : local bookstore

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Pdf of The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

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i was about to make a post like “they should invent books that are free” then i remembered they DID invent books that are free isn’t the world so beautiful and full of love

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You want more minority representation in media but if they have flaws its problematic and if theyre perfect theyre a patronizing mary sue. If they crack under the pressure of the conflict the author thinks that minority is weak and if they overcome the adversity they must be a neoliberal bootlicker who thinks real world bigotry is a matter of personal attitude. You want minority characters but if theyre a villain its violently problematic and if theyre the protagonist then we circle back to the very first sentence. If theyre a side character theyre being sidelined and the author is once again bigoted, and don't you know that every single minority character death is unilaterally bigoted, without exception? You want more minority characters but if their identity is a big part of their personality or struggles then they're problematic and if their identity has nothing to do with their personality or struggles then the author is tokenizing that identity for clout. You want more minority characters but every time theres a minority character who doesnt have every single experience that you have then you tell the author to kill themselves on twitter. You wonder why not even minority authors will write minority characters.

I would ask you to read Catch-22, but you'd just call the military base problematic.

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I'm so fucking tired of listening to people carve exemptions for parental privilege out of every single principle they express. "sure it's reasonable for parents to want a say in what books their kids check out of the library, but they shouldn't be able to control what others—" NO! FUCKING NO!! THAT IS NOT REASONABLE ACTUALLY! and the kids whose parents are most invested in having that control are exactly the kids who most need to be able to access those books

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people will read books they Do Not Like™ and then wonder why they hate reading

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when you start reading again and it's like oh. oh . the sun actually does still shine.

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

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Join us May 20th for our next book club meeting! We will be reading volume one of Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (and additional volumes if you weren't able to put the series down like me).

Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they’ve never met … until one day when they’re made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn’t think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.

You can view any potential content warnings (and other info) on Storygraph!

The Lavender Book Club is a chill, queer, online book club run through text chat on Discord and through this blog. If you’re interested in joining the server, the link is here. Follow this blog for updates on the club and our other activities!

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pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later

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annual friendly reminder that CAMP DAMASCUS and BURY YOUR GAYS are not my foray into 'real books' or 'serious writing'. SPACE RAPTOR BUTT INVASION and POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY MY OWN BUTT are real books and serious writing. heck yeah. trot on buckaroos lets prove love for all kinds of art

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I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.