Category: LGBT

Mostly History

Posted on June 25, 2021 by

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I’ve decided that I’d like to devote my reading time this summer to biography and history. In the last few years, I’ve read a lot of history, particularly “people’s history” or “revisionist” history—you know, those things that are typically left out of traditional education… Continue Reading “Mostly History”

Category: Albert Einstein, Biography, Don Mee Choi, Joan Didion, Korean War, Leonardo da Vinci, LGBT, LGBTQ History, Michael Bronski, Poetry, Tracy Daugherty, Walter Isaacson

April is the Coolest Month

Posted on May 1, 2021 by

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Hello, everyone, and Happy May Day! I had an incredibly active reading month in April, so I’m going to post the list of titles that I read (by genre) below, with very, very brief comments on each. I read a total of 16 titles,… Continue Reading “April is the Coolest Month”

Category: AAPI Heritage, Anne Lamott, Books, ccspin, Chris Tse, Classics Club, Dark Academia, Donna Tartt, Ernest Hemingway, Essay, Glyn Maxwell, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Jamie O'Neill, Jean Valentine, Joseph O. Legaspi, Justin Phillip Reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, LGBT, Louise Glück, Maggie O'Farrell, Poetry, Robert Frost, Short Story, Tracy K. Smith

What I Read in January

Posted on February 6, 2021 by

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Somehow, I managed to read (or finish reading) nine books in the month of January (2021). I wasn’t expecting such a high number, but I think the fact that I was on vacation for ten days at the start of the month helped. I… Continue Reading “What I Read in January”

Category: Andrew Eliopolous, August Wilson, Buddhism, Drama, Essay, Fantasy, Fiction, Joan Didion, Joan Duncan Oliver, John Keats, Lao Tzu, Lawrence Weinstein, LGBT, Magical Realism, Native American, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Tommy Orange, V.E. Schwab, writing

Thoughts: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Posted on January 13, 2021 by

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I had grand plans of writing this review in fairy tale style, inspired as I was by Trung Le Nguyen’s adaptations of classical fairy tales to share this beautiful story. But, alas, I’m not the wordsmith Nguyen is, and definitely not the artist! So,… Continue Reading “Thoughts: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen”

Category: coming out, Coming-of-Age, Fairy Tale, Graphic Novel, LGBT, Trung Le Nguyen, Vietnamese

Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey

Posted on November 24, 2020 by

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Magic’s Pawn is the first in a fantasy trilogy written by Mercedes Lackey. I found this one in a random Barnes & Noble search a few months ago, when I was on the hunt for LGBTQ+ fantasy. I don’t read genre fiction all that… Continue Reading “Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey”

Category: Fantasy, LGBT, Mercedes Lackey

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