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The Transmasculine Guide to Physical Transition: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks by Sage Buch
This book covers physical transition for trans masc. From the start to all the options to choose from. Factual, clear, and even adding the author's own experience. A valuable book for sure.
informative
3.5
This book covers physical transition for trans masc. From the start to all the options to choose from. Factual, clear, and even adding the author's own experience. A valuable book for sure.
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine by Jen Gunter
informative
lighthearted
4.5
A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
There is a room in a small town motel. People die in that room, will the next occupants get next?
I enjoyed the pacing and style of this book. Love the photos included, bw being my favorite form, and the errieness of room 9. It's a Suttle hunt. Enjoyed it
I enjoyed the pacing and style of this book. Love the photos included, bw being my favorite form, and the errieness of room 9. It's a Suttle hunt. Enjoyed it
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
dark
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
This wasn't the book for me. Johhny is sexing his way through clients to get enough money to get back to the rez for a funeral. Interwoven with his cash earnings is his life on the rez. More than anything in this book I was board. Yes, the writing had some good points and was great for a two-spirit rep, but as I typed above, it just wasn't the book for me.
The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup by Evan Hughes
informative
sad
3.5
We've heard about the big guys behind the opioid epidemic, and now this book tells of a little company with a novel way to administer fentanyl, through a spray. Once this company had it go head they aggressively marketed the drug, which was intended for end-of-care cancer patients, to anyone with slight pain. It was turning those who took it into addiction and despair.
It was an interesting book where the top was ordering the bottom to sell sell sell. Collecting the facts, the company inside to see where the corruption was started and bleed into was very interesting. There were a lot of moving parts from the heads up of who is who to who was fired all the way to those who were pushed to get the medication approved. Greed can really corrupt and this company did just that
It was an interesting book where the top was ordering the bottom to sell sell sell. Collecting the facts, the company inside to see where the corruption was started and bleed into was very interesting. There were a lot of moving parts from the heads up of who is who to who was fired all the way to those who were pushed to get the medication approved. Greed can really corrupt and this company did just that
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
dark
mysterious
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
The writing in this book is done pretty well if not repetitive sometimes. Andrew comes to Nashville at first to study at the university where his friend (maybe it was not to clear to me) Eddie committed suicide. Or was it a suicide??
I was able to keep going through this book only because of the audiobook format. Once I hit a certain point in an audiobook for me the sum cost fallacy gets to me. I didn't think the book did a great job at a foundation of the supernatural for this book. Everything describing the supernatural elements in the beginning felt like I was missing the basics of it and as it went on the only reason I caught onto the later ones was because some things were explained. But not all supernatural elements get explained so it leaves you wondering what are the rules for the supernatural.
I felt like more time should have been spent at the university rather than on drag racing and drugs because that part felt more random and pointless than actually getting into the story about what Eddie studied before he died.
Overall just not a book for me.
I was able to keep going through this book only because of the audiobook format. Once I hit a certain point in an audiobook for me the sum cost fallacy gets to me. I didn't think the book did a great job at a foundation of the supernatural for this book. Everything describing the supernatural elements in the beginning felt like I was missing the basics of it and as it went on the only reason I caught onto the later ones was because some things were explained. But not all supernatural elements get explained so it leaves you wondering what are the rules for the supernatural.
I felt like more time should have been spent at the university rather than on drag racing and drugs because that part felt more random and pointless than actually getting into the story about what Eddie studied before he died.
Overall just not a book for me.
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
lighthearted
reflective
3.0
Johnson gives his perspective as a queer black man growing up. He has gone through a lot in his short time and focused on the community his family fostered as well as its challenges, and him finding his own path as he navigates away from his family in growing up. Nice, sweet, and I wish there was a little more show not tell, but overall all well done.
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
emotional
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
This book stuck with me. We see the wasting process as Brian returns to his hometown from New York to Ohio because now that she has seen all his friends die, Brain will die himself of AIDS. And the path it is taking him is not in madness or skin lesions but waiting away day by day. Barely a soul wants in this backwoods town wants him in the town. Brian can't even be sure much of his family wants him there but his mammaw and Sadie- the dog aged 6 years since he last saw her.
This is a raw emotional book where I was listened to and got caught up on my runs. And continued with the text as did mindless house stuff just to continue to listen to it. I just felt like I was emersed in the time period where AIDS truly was the worst thing one could be diagnosed thing with. I felt for all the characters (maybe except rt for Travis even though what he does in the end). Where it was the gay disease and god was the only thing that matter even if it meant exclusion. It is beautiful, sad, and was a great listen.
This is a raw emotional book where I was listened to and got caught up on my runs. And continued with the text as did mindless house stuff just to continue to listen to it. I just felt like I was emersed in the time period where AIDS truly was the worst thing one could be diagnosed thing with. I felt for all the characters (maybe except rt for Travis even though what he does in the end). Where it was the gay disease and god was the only thing that matter even if it meant exclusion. It is beautiful, sad, and was a great listen.
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
I just couldn't get into this book. The book being about the barrs the queers flocked to have a sort of community would be interesting if it was more of a nonfiction of the nightlife minus the memoir aspects of the book. It jumped around from different bars and locations and i occasionally got confused. And with his portions of him in just didn't do it for me. I can't be sure how to place it other than a board that it is bar hopping through the ages with a little bit of history of the life of that bar visited or others nearby