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Polari Prize Withdrawn Books Challenge

Lollythegiant on StoryGraph has made a Reading Challenge/List of the books that have been withdrawn from consideration for the Polari Prize this year

The short reason for why the authors are withdrawing: John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and noted friend of JK Rowling and TERF himself, is a nominee in the established author section.

Bluesky Post from Jay Hulme where I found out about it in the first place

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23 Queer Books for Disability Pride Month

July is Disability Pride Month! To celebrate, we asked our contributors to recommend their favorite queer books with disabled characters. The contributors to this list are: Neo Scarlett, Dei Walker, E. C., Polls, Rascal Hartley, Sanne, Meera S., Shadaras, Shea Sullivan, Annabeth Lynch, Tris Lawrence, Nova Mason, Nina Waters, and an anonymous contributor. Reminder: we encourage our rec list contributors to suggest books that spoke to them, which means that sometimes works on our rec lists do not include explicit representation.

Brooms by Jasmine Walls

Iron Widow (Iron Widow series) by Xiran Jay Zhao

Six of Crows (Six of Crows series) by Leigh Bardugo

Golden Stage by Cang Wu Bin Bai

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

The Tea Dragon Festival Treasury Edition by K. O’Neill

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

Feed (Newsflesh series) by Mira Grant

Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep series) by Mira Grant

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson

Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin

Body, Remember: A Memoir by Kenny Fries

The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost series) by C.L. Clark

The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus series) by Rick Riordan

The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade series) by Seth Dickinson

Chrono Crusade (Chrono Crusade series) by Daisuke Moriyama

Tokyo Babylon by Clamp

Godkiller (Fallen Gods series) by Hannah Kaner

A Tiny Piece of Something Greater by Jude Sierra

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive series) by Alison Cochrun

Umineko When They Cry by 07th Expansion

Copper Coins by Mu Su Li

What are your favorite queer books with disability rep?

You can view this list, and our many others, as a shelf on Goodreads!

Looking to buy any of these books or others we’ve recommended? You can browse our rec lists on Bookshop.org!

Want to chat your favorite reads with us? Join our Book Lover’s Discord server!

Love reading queer books? Our Queer Book Challenge is running on Storygraph through the end of 2024. Come join us!

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Time for the end of the month panic borrows from hoopla

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literary kinsey scale time

i’m just curious what mix of fiction and nonfiction the average tumblrina is consuming

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2024 Fantasy Bingo

My almost all hard mode bingo card! (I did swap out the Book Club square for a hard mode Horror read when I turned in my card - Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews)

Favorite book of the bingo has to be Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho.

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🩷 sapphic books by black authors for Black History Month

🦇 happy black history month, my bookish bats! part of my mission on this account is to amplify queer, bipoc, & diverse voices. with that in mind, here are some sapphic books by black authors to add to your tbr for Black History Month!

Escaping Mr. Rochester - L.L. McKinney The Relationship Mechanic - Karmen Lee Thirsty - Jas Hammonds So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole Broughtupsy - Christina Cooke Second Night Stand - Karelia Stetz-Waters & Fay Stetz-Waters Incendiant - Virginia Black Faebound - Saara El-Arifi Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis

Dead in Long Beach, California - Venita Blackburn Flirting Lessons - Jasmine Guillory The Payback Girls by Alex Travis Faebound - Saara El-Arifi A Little Kissing Between Friends - Chencia C. Higgins French Pressed Love - M C Hutson Brewed with Love - Shelly Page Something Kindred - Ciera Burch These Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste String Theory - L.M. Bennett

Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere This Ends in Embers - Kamilah Cole Pomegranate - Helen Elaine Lee Where Shadows Meet - Patrice Caldwell Taste the Love - Karelia Stetz-Waters & Fay Stetz-Waters

The Secret Crush Book Club - Karmen Lee

Cursebound - Saara El-Arifi The 7-10 Split - Karmen Lee The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron Francine’s Spectacular Crash and Burn - Renee Swindle Sleep Like Death - Kalynn Bayron Iron Tongue of Midnight - Brittany N. Williams Fate’s Bane - C.L. Clark

Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories - Demree McGhee Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love - Jessica Lewis Out of Step, into You by Ciera Burch Ready to Score - Jodie Slaughter If We Were a Movie - Zakiya N. Jamal One Summer in Miami - Amber Rose Gill Call Your Boyfriend - Olivia A. Cole & Ashley Woodfolk An Arcane Inheritance - Kamilah Cole I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Mariama J. Lockington

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eating this.

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Alv:

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was just looking at Goodreads and I think we got a cover reveal for Teo's Durumi already!?!

(and a plot summary copied under the cut)

"Teo Anand, former ne’er-do-well second son of the Anand Tech empire and current solar fugitive, has just crash-landed on the Moon after escaping the latest attempt on his life. But if anyone can help exonerate him, it’s his best friend, bold Korean space pilot Ocean Yoon.

Falsely accused of murdering his family, Teo is running out of both time and options. But loyalties are uncertain in their group of steadfast comrades and tentative new allies, and it’s difficult to know who to trust in the tangled web that awaits them in Artemis, a city on the Moon rich in Korean history and haunted by ghosts from Teo’s and Ocean’s pasts. Further complicating matters are Haven—the pensive medic whose beliefs challenge Ocean’s—and the dashing Phoenix—a space raider who’s come blazing into Teo’s life in more ways than one.

All the while Corvus, the real culprit behind the slaying of the Anands, is sowing a path of destruction that threatens to swallow the solar whole. The crew will wrestle with clashing ideals, flying bullets, and undeniable feelings, as they race toward a stunning final stand.

Teo’s Durumi brings Cho’s space opera duology to an exhilarating close, one that contends with questions of identity and acceptance; grief and redemption; and loyalty and sacrifice, as Teo, Ocean, and the people they love will decide once and for all how to forge their paths into the future."

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end-of-year book ask

How many books did you read this year?

Did you reread anything? What?

What were your top five books of the year?

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

What genre did you read the most of?

Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

Did you get into any new genres?

What was your favorite new release of the year?

What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Any books that disappointed you?

What were your least favorite books of the year?

What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

How many books did you buy?

Did you use your library?

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

What’s the longest book you read?

What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

Did you DNF anything? Why?

What reading goals do you have for next year?

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🎬🌟Ocean's Godori fancast🌟🎬

Oscar Isaac as Gemini

Booboo Stewart as Haven Sasani

Arden Cho as Ocean Yoon

Sendhil Ramamurthy as Teo Anand

Colin Morgan as Phoenix

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aro & ace Fairytale books

retellings

Until The Last Petal Falls - beauty & the beast aro/aro m/m QPR (prev known as The Beast of Okeme)

The Language of Roses - beauty & the beast with an aro belle

More Than Enough - beauty & the beast ace/ace m/m

The Story of the Hundred Promises - fairytale inspired (+ a little beauty & best), aro major characters and aro themes, m/nb

Little Thieves - high fantasy goose girl retelling, demi/demi m/f

Dithered Hearts - cinderella retelling, fairy godfather is aro (and has some POV)

Create My Own Perfection - aroace medusa, short story

The Ice Princess' Fair Illusion - king thrushbeard, ace lesbian & aroace, in verse

Sea Foam & Silence - the little mermaid, demiromantic & aroace, in verse

original fairytales / fairytale vibes

Come Drink With Me (& other Tales of The Thread) - Chinese original fairytales with aro themes

The Dragon of Ynys - aroace MC

Royal Rescue - aroace MC

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

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What I Read in August

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What I read in July

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What I read in June

The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk, 4.5⭐

Originally written in Estonian and definitely has a darker mood

About the last man in the forests who still speaks the ancient tongue of animals (snakish) while the world is progressing to the medieval era around him

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman, 4⭐

Such a fun book about 'old spinsters' who refuse to simply fade into the background of society as their brother wishes and instead turn their wits towards discretely solving cases of attempted murder and kidnapping

Looking forward to the next book 👀

Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle, 4⭐

Felt like a modern fairy tale set in Ireland and I enjoyed the characters - even if it felt like there were way too many characters to keep track of at first (5 all with plant names), a little page flipping to see who was who again never hurt anyone

Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry illustrated by Julian Peters, 4⭐

Always fun to see how other people interpret poetry - and there were several different mediums/styles which was cool

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, 5⭐

Loved the dynamics of the crew - especially Kaz and Inej's interactions/thoughts about each other.

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(this was exactly the case, but at least it ends happy with the icky other love interest completely shattering his chances)

time to try and finish Daughter of the Moon Goddess because it's due at the library tomorrow, and I haven't finished it in 3 months because I got 1/3rd of the way in and everyone is so happy and I don't want to see them suffer 😭