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BOOKS: What are you reading?

^It's not in my local library system! They have two sports,-related books by Joan Ryan, but neither seemed appealing to me.
 
^The Water Giver was a book that I stumbled upon, a book in one of those free library exchange places, located in the local LGBTQ+ Community Center. That doesn't surprise me, since I think Joan Ryan was mostly a sports writer. But this story was about the harrowing ordeal of her teenage son suffering a life-threatening brain injury from a skateboarding accident. It was about him being kept in a medically-induced coma, and all the operations and procedures the medical people did to save his life. And really, how it affected her and her family. The book was published in 2009, and books tend to disappear after several years unless they become extremely popular.
 
Finally reading Dangerous Liaisons. Cruel Intention was my favourite movie as a teenager for multiple reasons, and a few years ago I watched the Glenn Close version, which was fantastic, so I'm happy to be reading the actual story, though it's the Penguin version so still edited.
 
Not sure if this is allowed or whatever, but I wrote a book about coming out, coming of age, falling in love, and all sorts of first-time experiences. It's full of angst, sex, romance, and fun. Inspired by Heartstopper, Taylor Swift lyrics, and my need to talk about my disability without actually talking about my disability. (Discrimination and fighting to live authentically without judgment is a universal feeling).

The book I'm currently reading is Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare, which is taking me entirely too long because it's HUGE

(More info in my bio)
 

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Welcome! Self-promotion is fine here. Most of us are delighted to meet an artist or author, and you should justly be proud of your work.

I'm reading psychology this week. Kahneman, who passed away in the past year, won a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on decision making.
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I'm currently reading "Giovanni's Room" and it is insane, just how relevant this book is to gay male culture, identity and issues. For real, all the archetypes of gay men are in this book. The same internal struggles, neurosis, and even the want for space. The antagonism of others coming into gay male spaces. The petty jealousies and ageing... the gay for payer is here, the drag queen / transvestite -is this term still allowed? anyway, I write it in the context of the book and the time-, the older man who has to rely on money in order to have company, the man who goes into the heterosexual world... it's impressed just how relevant this book this in the year 2025. This is the same complaints as those of a twenty something year old tiktoker.
 
Just finished this story of a gay high school senior stuck in a "time loop," like the movie Groundhog Day. But his repeating day is September 19. It's set in Chicagoland.
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Just finished reading Daniel Siva's The New Girl. It was a great book. it had a surprise ending too!
Highly recommend it!
 
Just finished Les Miserables, all 1420 pages. Fans of the musical don't know what you are missing.

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I picked up a book called Shameless Sex, by Amy Baldwin and April Lampert. It's dust jacket suggests to "Embrace your desires with confidence and embark on your own unique path toward life-changing pleasure with this guide to cultivating the sex life of your dreams." Off-hand, I'm a bit worried that it was written specifically for women in mind, but it was the only book in the sex toy shop that was close to what I was looking for.

I don't find myself to be attractive or interesting to any possible sexual partners (hence why I was in a sex toy shop, because I know the closest I'll ever be to being in a serious relationship with another man is to buy overpriced thermoplastic). Further, I'm scared that I wouldn't be able to satisfy someone on an emotional, let alone a physical one, or worse, that I won't feel anything. I'm a bookworm and I thought I'd find some kind of an answer, or at least push me down a road where I could find it. The book asks good introspective questions, and if you've grown up in a rural heavy area, you know that introspection comes difficult to some people. I'm only a couple pages in so hopefully my pessimism will go away.
 
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