Literary fiction. The story of a young man buffeted by the winds of the social world into not-belonging of many different forms, and then navigating that towards a clearer sense of self. Woven together with a storyline drawn from Hindu mythology and with black/green/grey illustrations. Simple, lyrical, and emotionally compelling. Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.
Mediocre fantasy, but make it queer. Princess from one kingdom makes the long journey to marry her childhood betrothed in another, to form an alliance and to bring her people’s magic to this land that is increasingly plagued by dragons. He dies before she gets there, and in this non-heterosexist world it is perfectly normal …
This is an eclectic collection “written and gathered” (as the author credit puts it) by organizer, facilitator, and writer adrienne maree brown. It contains many, many different kinds of pieces – both newly written and older re-published work by brown herself; pieces by other people, and pieces where other people are in dialogue with her; …
A chunky sci-fi graphic novel. Picked it up after hearing several people describe it as similar in feel to Becky Chambers’ novel The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, in that both are space-based gang-of-misfits found-family stories. The trippy graphics don’t necessarily work by the laws of physics but they certainly work for the …
YA contemporary queer rom-commish hate-to-love story. Originated, or so the rumour goes, as a Rory/Paris *Gilmore Girls* fanfic, and you can see those roots, but it has been turned into quite good YA. I thought one of the central characters (Rachel) felt a bit over-the-top and a bit caricatured early on, though less so as …
Literary paranormal thriller set in 1990 in a small southern Ontario border town that once had a famous amusement park. At the start, the haunted main character reminded me in attitude and sensibility of a more sombre version of the titular character from TV’s Wynonna Earp, with her mouthy ways, her personal and sexual recklessness, …
Middle-grade contemporary. A 12 year-old girl – Ivy, younger sister of one, older sister of baby twins, gifted but shy and closed-off artist – whose family loses their home to a tornado at the beginning of the book navigating post-disaster stress, topsy-turvy family dynamics, and figuring out who she is. And, of course, trying to …
The latest from Mariko Tamaki, a writer of prose and comics whose work I have enjoyed for a long time. This one is a graphic novel – teen heartbreak in slow motion, and a young woman’s move from bad decisions and the drama of her dysfunctional on-again-off-again first queer love to a friend- and community-rich …
A sweet if somewhat insubstantial graphic novel. It is set on a space station orbiting a no-longer-habitable Earth. The first generation to grow up on the station have reached their early 20s, and under the mantra of “Honesty keeps us alive” in such confined and precarious circumstances they have developed a relational/sexual culture distinct from …
YA contemporary. Teen Sana Kiyohara’s family moves from the US midwest to California, where she has to deal with a new and very different school environment, a new love interest, and her sneaking suspicion that her dad is having an affair. I have mixed feelings about this one. I like that it visibly weaves the …