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  • Joe Vs Elan School

    Joe Vs Elan School

    So full disclosure: This is a webcomic, which I read as a webcomic, which was published as a three-volume graphic novel series after web publication. I’m splitting the difference and entering it as a single book here. Quite an astonishing memoir about a…

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  • The Correspondent

    The Correspondent

    Baby’s first epistolary. Selected based on coworker hype and I enjoyed the experience even though I don’t really know how I feel about the overall book. Some components felt very powerful through the letter format while others felt like sanitized boomer slop character…

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  • She Disco on My Witches til I Fire Island

    She Disco on My Witches til I Fire Island

    Read this for my Big Gay Bookclub. This follows a cast of gay characters on Fire Island in 1989, sort of at the tail end of the worst of the AIDS epidemic. Our main character, Joe, moves for the summer to bartender with…

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  • Organized Hate

    Organized Hate

    An account of a hate crime in Orange County, California, with a deep dive into the subculture of white nationalism and hate that created a murderer. This scratched two itches for me: true crime and history. The Real JB 1

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  • A Sorceress Comes to Call

    A Sorceress Comes to Call

    very solid and spooky book. Not horror, but a different narration of the same events could be. Thought the ending was a little too happily-ever-after convenient, but thats probably just genre. Panda 1

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  • Persuasion

    Persuasion

    Last year I reread all of the Jane Austen’s completed novels for the summer reading challenge. I figured this year I could at least do my reading name namesake! As a bonus, this is the next book that will be discussed in my…

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  • I did it

    I did it

    Finally managed to wiggle my way over to this one. Enjoy the story and the shape of the narrative, switching between the two timelines really grounded the story. Crazy that the book about a world end pandemic had a more optimistic ending than…

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