#bianca torre is afraid of everything

[libraryleopard]

Young adult murder mystery

When a teenager birder witnesses their neighbor murdered, they embark on attempt to track down his killer with the help of their friends and end up uncovering a larger conspiracy

Absurdist & entertaining

Nonbinary lesbian main character with anxiety

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Title: Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

Author: Justine Pucella Winans

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2023

Genres: fiction, mystery, LGBT+, thriller, contemporary

Blurb: 16-year-old Bianca Torre is an avid birder undergoing a gender identity crisis and grappling with an ever-growing list of fears. Some, like Fear #6 (initiating conversation), keep them constrained, forcing them to watch birds from the telescope in their bedroom...and, occasionally, their neighbours. When their gaze wanders from the birds to one particular window across the street, Bianca witnesses a creepy plague-masked murderer take their neighbour's life. Worse, the death is ruled a suicide, forcing Bianca to make a choice: succumb to their long list of fears (including #3, murder, and #55, breaking into a dead guy's apartment), or investigate what happened. Bianca enlists the help of their friend Anderson Coleman, but the two have more knowledge of anime than true crime. As Bianca and Anderson dig deeper into the murder with a little help from Bianca's crush and fellow birding aficionado, Elaine Yee (#13, beautiful people, and #11, parents discovering they're a raging lesbian), the trio uncovers a conspiracy much larger - and weirder - than imagined...but when the killer catches wind of the investigation, Bianca's #1 fear of public speaking doesn't sound so bad compared to the threat of being silenced for good.

[transscribepage]

"There are many things we are uncertain of on this planet, like what happens after death, the possibility of life outside our solar system, and the existence of lesbian sheep.

Maybe that last one isn't widely regarded as one of life's great mysteries, but it is. I read an article about homosexual male rams but found no mention of homosexual ewes. It goes back to their mating patterns. When female sheep, so I'm told, are feeling some kind of way, they go still so a male sheep can mount them. Apparently, it's highly unlikely for any ewe to mount another sheep.

So it isn't that there aren't any lesbian sheep, it's that we can't figure out if there are. Somewhere out there, a lesbian sheep is frozen and horny, waiting for the ewe of her dreams to top her.

I really relate to lesbian sheep."

-Bianca Torre Is Afraid Of Everything, By Justine Pucella Williams

How to signal to women that I'm a meek prey animal (gay)

[livingfictionsystem]

-Xanthe

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

Disability in Books: Disabled Lesbian MCs

[ID: A poster. Large black text reading "Disabled Lesbian MCs" is in the centre. Above it, to the left, smaller black text reading "Disability in Books". The background is a straight diagonal version of the Disability Pride flag. In the upper right corner, the logo for the Disability Book Archive. In the lower left corner, the Lesbian Pride flag. /end]

[ID: The same poster. The flag and logo have shrunken slightly in size. The title has been removed, replaced with three book covers and some text. The first cover is "10 Things I Can See From Here" by Carrie Mac down the left hand side. Black text listed next to it reads "Anxiety", "Addiction (SC)", "Contemporary", "Romance", "Canada", "Bisexual SCs" and "Young Adult". The second cover is "Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything" by Justine Pucella Winans and is in the upper right corner. Black text listed next to it reads "Anxiety", "Contemporary", "Myster", "Transgender SCs", "Non-Binary SCs", and "Young Adult". The third cover is "The Degenerates" by J. Albert Mann and is in the lower left corner. Black text listed next to it reads "Club Foot", "Down Syndrome", "Historical", "1920s USA", "Young Adult" and "Multiple POV". /end]

[ID: The same poster. The book covers and text have changed. The first cover is "The Faithless" by C. L. Clark. Black text listed next to it reads "Adult", "Cane User", "Chronic Pain", "PTSD", "High Fantasy", "Series" and "2nd Bisexual MC". The second cover is "Harrow the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir. Black text listed next to it reads "Adult", "Schizophrenia", "Science Fiction Fantasy", "Horror", "Series" and "Necromancy". The third cover is "Honey Girl" by Morgan Rogers. Black text listed next to it reads "Adult", "Anxiety", "Depression", "Biracial MC", "Japanese-American LI" and "Romance". /end]

[ID: The same poster. The book covers and text have changed. The first cover is "The No-Girlfriend Rule" by Christen Randall. Black text listed next to it reads "Young Adult", "Anxiety", "ADHD (SC)", "Romance", "Contemporary", "Comedy" and "Fat MC". The second cover is "Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl" by Brianna R. Shrum. Black text listed next to it reads "Young Adult", "Autism", "ADHD", "Romance", "Contemporary" and "Jewish Characters". The third cover is "The Second Mango" by Shira Glassman. Black text listed next to it reads "Young Adult", "Severe Food Intolerances", "Fantasy", "Romance", "Series", "POC MC" and "Magic". /end]

[ID: The same poster. The book covers and text have changed. The first cover is "The Outside" by Ada Hoffman. Black text listed next to it reads "Adult", "Autism", "ADHD (SC)", "Science Fiction", "Horror", "Space Opera", "Series", "Asexual SC" and "Genderfluid SC". The second cover is "Everyone in this Room Will Some Day Be Dead" by Emily Augustin. Black text listed next to it reads "Anxiety", "Addiction (SC), "Depression", "Contemporary", "Canada" and "Transgender SC". The third cover is "How to Become A Planet" by Nicole Melleby. Black text listed next to it reads "Middle-Grade/Young Adult", "Anxiety", "Depression", "OCD (SC)", "Non-Binary Questioning LI", "Contemporary", and "Astronomy". /end]

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A short collection of books featuring disabled lesbian MCs!

I missed lesbian visibility week, and I wanted to post this on Saturday but my internet decided to die a fiery death over the weekend so I am very very late on everything. Hopefully this begins to makes up for it!

Books on this list:

❤️ "10 Things I Can See From Here"- Mac, Carrie

🤍 "Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything"- Winans, Justine Pucella

🩷 "The Degenerates"- Mann, J. Albert

❤️ "The Faithless"- Clark, C. L.

🤍 "Harrow the Ninth"- Muir, Tamsyn

🩷 "Honey Girl"- Rogers, Morgan

❤️ "The No-Girlfriend Rule"- Randall, Christen

🤍 "Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl"- Shrum, Brianna R.

🩷 "The Second Mango"- Glassman, Shira

❤️ "The Outside"- Hoffman, Ada

🤍 "Everyone in this Room Will Some Day Be Dead"- Augstin, Emily

🩷 "How to Become A Planet"- Melleby, Nicole

Every book on this list and more can be found in the disability book archive!

Happy Browsing!

[autumngracy]

Literature recommendations for the coming days (Pt 70)

The Song of Achilles: A Novel - Madeline Miller

Panpocalypse - Carley Moore

The Gravity of Us - Phil Stamper

Spin Me Right Round - David Valdes

Vermilion: A Novel - Molly Tanzer

Blackwater - Jeanette Arroyo and Ren Graham

Notes of a Crocodile - Qui Miaojin (Translated by Bonnie Huie)

Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything - Justine Pucella Winans

Gearbreakers - Zoe Hana Mikuta

Godslayers (Gearbreakers #2) - Zoe Hana Mikuta

[quillnqueer]

Happy Pride Month! | Favourite Queer Books

The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin: A novel in verse set during the Weimar Republic, this is a story set during a time that could have changed the course of Queer history, had it not been lost.

Stars, Hide Your Fires: This is a sapphic heist mystery set in space, very fun and very campy.

Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything: A non binary teen bird watcher with anxiety attempts to solve a murder mystery while falling in love with a girl in their birding group, while trying not to get murdered.

Burn: a speculative fiction story, set in an alternate America in the 50s, except there's dragons, a prophecy, and two FBI agents.

Loveless: The first book about aromantic, asexual identity I ever read, showing the confusion of finding yourself in the chaos of college perfectly.

The Black Flamingo: A novel in verse about a mixed-race gay teen, finding joy as a Drag artist.

This Poison Heart: A sapphic romance with plant magic, this has such a strong family bond that I loved.

Teach The Torches To Burn: A Romeo retelling where Romeo instead falls in love with Valentine. This is not a gender swapped Juliet - she makes an appearance in this story too, and there's a bit of a Found Family Vibe.

Milo and Marcos at the End of the World: the closer Milo and Marcos get, the more disasters seem to befall them. Is there a larger, unseen force at play, trying to keep them apart? And if so, is their love worth risking the end of the world?

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

International Non-Binary People's Day

🦇 Good morning, bookish bats! It's International Non-Binary People's Day! Looking to add some great non-binary books to your ever-growing TBR? Here are books from authors who publicly identify as non-binary, starring characters that are non-binary, too! Which are you reading first?

✨ Fiction ✨ 💛 She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan 🤍 Loveless by Alice Oseman 💜 Nettleblack by Nat Reeve 🖤 Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor 💛 Truth & Dare by So Mayer 🤍 X by Davey Davis 💜 Chlorine by Jade Song 🖤 Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee 💛 I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver 🤍 On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden 💜 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 🖤 The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 💛 The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey 🤍 The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang 💜 Outlawed by Anna North 🖤 An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon 💛 The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta 🤍 Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans 💜 Jamie by L. D. Lapinski 🖤 Mordew by Alex Pheby

✨ Non-Fiction ✨ 💛 In Their Shoes by Jamie Windust 🤍 Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon 💜 Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 🖤 Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale 💛 A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson 🤍 What’s the T? The No-nonsense Guide to All Things Trans And/or Non-binary for Teens by Juno Dawson 💜 Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

[disabled-dragoon]

Disability in Books: Spooky Edition! #1

[ID: A poster reading "Disability in Books: Spooky Edition" in black writing in the centre. A small, circular logo is in the top right corner. It is red with an open book in the middle, white leaves around the book, and the word "The Disability Archive" across the bottom. In the lower left corner, cartoonish clipart of a smiling Jack O Lantern, wearing a large pointy hat with a buckle. All of this is overlayed onto the disability pride flag. /end]

[ID: The same poster, edited. The writing has been removed and replaced by three book covers, with bulleted lists next to each. The images in both corners have been shrunken slightly. The book covers, from top to bottom, are:

"Bath Haus" by P. J. Vernon

The phrases "Addiction", "Adult", "Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary, Horror" and "LGBTQ+" are listed next to it in black writing.

"Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything" by Justine Pucella Winans

The phrases "Anxiety", "Young Adult", "Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary" and "LGBTQ+" are listed next to it in black.

"Deathless Divide" by Justina Ireland

The phrases "Amputee", "Young Adult", "Horror, Historical", "Zombies" and "LGBTQ+" are listed next to it in black. /end]

[ID: The same poster, with three different book covers. The book covers, from top to bottom, are:

"Defying Doomsday" edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench

The phrases "Numerous Disabilities", "Young Adult", "Science Fiction, Apocalyptic" and "Short Story Anthology" are listed next to it in black.

"Even If We Break" by Marieke Nijkamp

The phrases "Autism", "Young Adult", "Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary, Horror" and "LGBTQ+" are listed next to it in black.

"The Final Girl Support Group" by Grady Hendrix

The phrases "Wheelchair User", "Adult", "Horror" and "Horror Movies" are listed next to it in black. /end]

[ID: The same poster, with three different book covers. The book covers, from top to bottom, are:

"Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir

The phrases "Terminal Illness", "Adult", "Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction" and "LGBTQ+" are listed next to it in black.

"Highway Bodies" by Alison Evans

The phrases "Anxiety, Facial Scarring, Amputation", "Young Adult", "Horror, Dystopia", "Zombies" and "LGBTQ+" are listed next to it in black.

"Into the Drowning Deep" by Mira Grant

The phrases "Hearing Impairment, Autism, Physical Disability", "Adult", "Horror, Science Fiction", "Mermaids" and "LGBTQ+" are listed next to it in black. /end]

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A collection of fiction books featuring disabled characters, across the horror, thriller, mystery and science fiction genres!

As it is Spooky Season, and the build-up to my favourite holiday of the year, I figured I'd do something to get into the spirit of it all.

(Get it? "Spirit". Hehehe)

Also, having read Gideon the Ninth myself, I can see why people might think the representation of terminal illness is a little iffy.

If you want more information on the disabilities in 'Defying Doomsday', check out @cannondisabledcharacters.

Book List:

'Bath Haus' by P. J. Vernon- Addiction

'Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything' by Justine Pucella Winans- Anxiety

'Deathless Divide' by Justina Ireland- Amputee

'Defying Doomsday' edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench- Numerous

'Even If We Break' by Marieke Nijkamp- Autism

'The Final Girl Support Group' by Grady Hendrix- Wheelchair User

'Gideon the Ninth' by Tamsyn Muir- Terminal Illness

'Highway Bodies' by Alison Evans- Anxiety, Facial Scarring, Amputation

'Into the Drowning Deep' by Mira Grant- Hearing Impairment, Autism, Physical Disability

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[lgbtqreads]

do you know any YA books that have a demiromantic non-binary sapphic character? if that’s too specific, are there any with a non binary lesbian? or perhaps a gender fae, gender fluid or non binary character? or a demiromantic and/or asexual character? tysm /gen

Hmm I would say the best fits for you are The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta, Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans, Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor, The Brilliant Death by AR Capetta, and At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp. You may also want to browse these pages and see if anything else strikes your fancy!

[elizmanderson]

Hi there! 14 an 22 from the end of the year asks, if you like 💜💕

I have actually answered these ones, so I will paste my answers here!

(14 is linked here)(22 is linked here)

(I have also answered 4, 6, 8, 17, & 23, I should probably mention!)

14. favorite book you read this year?

damn that’s a tricky one lmao. I’ve ready many excellent books this year and struggle to choose singular favorites. but the first book that comes to mind is Priyanka Taslim’s The Love Match, a YA romcom with a love triangle that seriously kept me guessing right up to the end!

I also really enjoyed Justine Pucella Winans’s Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything, a YA thriller with a bird enthusiast nonbinary lesbian MC who younger me would have deeply related to.

and I also finally read The Song of Achilles, which much to my shock I found deeply satisfying even though it made all my friends cry lmao. I’m far too soft for tragedy so idk why I didn’t weep, but. idk. maybe it’s bc I knew how the story would end going into it

AND! I reread, for the first time since high school, Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and enjoyed it about as much as I did back then, when it was one of my favorite series

22. favorite place you visited this year?

savannah bc my parents live there <3 I mean also it’s beautiful and very old and very artsy and very gay and there are live oaks everywhere and actually I love it in general, but. my parents live there <3

[libraryleopard]

Some books I would personally recommend for the Trans Rights Readathon (sorry I don't have time for in-depth descriptions)

Transmasc/trans man rep

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Viscera by Gabrielle Squailia

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury

Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A.

The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill

A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee

Transfemme/trans woman rep

Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise

For the Love of April French by Penny Wise

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Little Fish by Casey Plett

Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau

It Gets Better…Except When It Gets Worse (And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me) by Nicole Maines

Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel

kitten by Olive Nuttall

Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood

A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy

Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky

Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero

Tar Hollow Trans by Stacy Jane Grover

Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Bellies by Nicola Dinan

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States by Samantha Allen

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

Nonbinary, Agender, Genderqueer, and Other Gender Expansive Rep

Pantomime by L.R. Lam

Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

The Palace of Eros by Caro de Robertis

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Dragonfall by L.R. Lam

Something to be Proud Of by Anna Zoe Quirke

Really Cute People by Markus Harwood-Jones

Homebody by Theo Parish

Model Home by Rivers Solomon

How Far Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith

Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas

Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

Intersectional Trans+ Rep Outside Your Own Experience (obviously depends on your own experience but here are some intersectional books in general)

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Bellies by Nicola Dinan

Miss Major Speaks

Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Something to be Proud of by Anna Zoe Quirke

Model Home by Rivers Solomon

How Far Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

2Spirit, Indigiqueer and Indigenous Gender Expansive Rep

Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon

(I will have to do some more readings in this last section, clearly!)

[liltherianpaws]

my dad got a cup called "fowl language" and it just has names of birds with words like cock and tit in them

to quote one of my favorite books (bianca torre is afraid of everything, its a murder mystery with some gender and queerness and birds thrown in there as well):

"ornithologist have a thing for boobs"

[alexnonamesstuff]

I’m currentlyreading Bianca Torres is afraid of everything by Justine Purcella winans and so far I’m enjoying it

[livingfictionsystem]

[cyclone-rachel]

favorite books read in 2023 in no particular order:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise by Lauren James

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia

Deadendia volumes 1 and 2 by Hamish Steele

Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Ducks by Kate Beaton

Chlorine by Jade Song

The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

Mister Magic by Kiersten White

It’s Better to be Feared by Seth Wickersham

Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven

All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang

Parasocial by Alex de Campi