#BiBookClub📚

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"Reading Melissa Faliveno’s essay collection as a newly out bi helped validate some of my fears and confusion — and acknowledging those things was the first step towards addressing them, in my daily life."

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"The Girls Are Never Gone" is a fun, character-driven horror that goes surprisingly hard on the fear...

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Books like "Perfect on Paper" remind us that we, as bis, very much belong in queer spaces.

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Happy Birthday to "Leah on the Offbeat" writer, Becky Albertalli!

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Rowell gives us many grisly, makeout-y details, complete with angst, trips abroad, walks in the woods, and merwolves.

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"Sometimes I reflect on all the things I want to do, learn, and see which I’ll never have time to for in one human lifetime. But what if I had the chance to expand my years without sacrificing my youth? What would I offer as the dire price for that exchange? And would it be worth the sacrifice? This is the question at the heart of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020) by V.E. Schwab, a centuries-spanning fantasy about the titular French girl who makes a Faustian deal with a dark god for an extended life. But in exchange, as she discovers, she will be utterly forgotten by anyone she ever meets."

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A corrective/homage to "Harry Potter" and slash/fanfic as a romance? We're in!

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To B or not to B? We're here to break down this bard's bisexuality! #OldSchoolBis

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"Was Shakespeare bi? His sonnets sure were."

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"First and foremost, I applaud @casey.mcquiston for putting a queer character of color front-and-center in the narrative. Not only that, the entire novel is jam-packed with a diverse cast from many walks of life. I also deeply appreciated both how Alex comes to realize his bisexuality and how his burgeoning orientation is not the main conflict of the story. McQuiston pulled from their own coming-out process in coloring in Alex’s realizations (McQuiston is also bi and nonbinary — hooray for #ownvoices!) This leads to a more varied and subtle epiphany for him as he comes to be surprised that he hadn’t realized earlier he was bi sooner — a revelation familiar to many, many bi people. This gives his arc of realization an extra dimension of verisimilitude. Add to that the fact that he has no problem owning the term 'bisexual', and that his loved ones support him exploring his sexuality, and we have a delightfully rosy level of acceptance I wish every bi person could experience. (Again, it’s not Alex’s bisexuality that is the crux of the conflict, but the timing of his realization — and with whom he is discovering this attraction.)

"While McQuiston’s dialogue between the two lovers is what really soars throughout the pages, I have to take a moment to commend the author for 1) taking time to render realistic same-sex scenes in what many would dismiss as 'chick lit', and 2) making sure the courtship is placed firmly in the present, with a modern take on epistolary departures in the text. In layman’s terms — watching Henry and Alex’s love grow over text messages and emails, both out of their need for privacy and also being 20-somethings who live across the pond, really grounds this fanciful (but wildly charming) premise."

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"Hunger continually returns to the subjects of fatness and trauma, it isn't really about either those things. It's about creating a life: relationships, romance, happiness. When she talked about her bisexuality, I was thrilled."

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"'The Black Veins' is a perfect read for anyone who likes an (almost) all-queer cast, found family, and fierce friendships."

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Let's talk about Stormy Daniels and her thunderous memoir Full Disclosure! ⛈️

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Gonzales’s willingness to bring biphobia to the forefront — and then address it so clearly and powerfully, as though she’d read my mind and picked out my insecurities — is what made this novel memorable for me.

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Let's cover the narrative of the Melancholy Dane, Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy play, "Hamlet".

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"If you need a breath of fresh, springy air that reminds you of 'the darling buds of May' and the euphorias of love, look no further than Shakespeare's sonnets."