TomEdmonsonEnjoying a wonderful #BookClub discussion on YouTube of “The Code of Woosters” and its author #PGWodehouse
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FlanakeyBased on previous votes Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar will be the next #PrideAndPages book club read. Discussion begins 19 July. Feel free to join in. #bookclub #reading #fiction #bookstodon #lgbtqia
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Tiffany E. TaylorHappy Monday, lovelies! Here are 12 sapphic book suggestions for the 06/15/26 *NO AI SLOP* Sapphic Fiction Book Club weekly reading category: Interracial / Multicultural Relationship.
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Demo Ticker Berlin💥Announcement! Monday 15.06.2026💥
⚧️📖 FLINTA* Book Club at Café Cralle 📖⚧️
Monday, 15.06.2026 | 7.30 pm | Café Cralle, Hochstädter Straße 10a, 13347 Berlin
Directions: U9 Nauener Platz | Bus 247, 327 Maxstraße
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=17948 - @cafecrallekollektiv
On 15 June at 7.30 pm, the FLINTA* Book Club will take place again at Café Cralle.
We will be discussing “In the Park of the Magnificent Sisters” by Camila Sosa Villada.
We meet at Café Cralle on the third Monday of every month at 7.30 pm to discuss a book that we choose together.
So please feel free to bring suggestions for books, essays or poems to the next meeting.
So far, we have discussed, among other things
- Excerpts from “Women, Race & Class” by Angela Davis
- Poems from “100 Queer Poems”
- “Hunchback” by Saou Ichikawa
- “A Minor Matter” by Adania Shibli
We look forward to seeing you!
P.S.: Thanks to Amrei @amreigmn for the design!
cmrosensFan Art!
I’ve had some awesome fan art from ‘trie, a concept artist who discovered The Crows via the Romancing the Gothic book club. I’ve shared it on my Twitter and Insta but sharing here as well with the original illustration by Tom Brown, the artist who illustrated the eBook and paperback versions of the novel.
Ricky Porter was a very popular antivillain character among book club folks and featured in the Saturday lecture “BE GAY, DO CRIMES: QUEER GOTHIC REIMAGININGS” by Dr Sam Hirst, who organises and facilitates the Romancing the Gothic network and events [for free]. Support Sam here: https://ko-fi.com/samhirst
Sadly, the recordings of this lecture weren’t useable for uploading to the YouTube Channel, so GOOD NEWS! The lecture is going to be repeated, probably in August. So if you missed it or just want to hear it again, you can sign up to get RtG newsletters and info on the site (www.romancingthegothic.wordpress.com).
Ricky and his role in The Crows features with minor spoilers in Part 4 of the lecture which considered asexual/aromantic representation in Gothic fiction.
Dr Hirst discussed the relationship between the main characters [Carrie, Ricky and Fairwood House itself] in terms of a queerplatonic polycule, and how decoupling a sexual motive for murder from Ricky’s serial killer identity centred the complexities of his character and the development of the platonic/queerplatonic relationship within the plot!
If you’re intrigued, you can meet Carrie, Ricky and Fairwood House (also known as The Crows) in this extract of the novel: the first 5 chapters are available for free on Wattpad, and there’s a shorter snippet post introducing Ricky here on my blog. You can meet Carrie in this fun short (non-canonical?) post, set before the events of the novel, and get to know the house in this one.
If you want to know more about the topic in general, stay tuned! I’ll let you know when the date for the lecture’s repeat is announced and also post the link when the recording goes up at a later date.
Here’s Ricky as imagined by Tom Brown the illustrator (top), and as reimagined by ‘trie (bottom)!
‘trie blasingame || tentacle-made studios | | conceptual mixed media artist, illustrator, and writer
where to find tentacle-made studios:
quixotism and curiosity: from tentacle-made studios
tentacle-made studios on instagram
tentacle-made studios on twitter
online portfolio (housed on flickr)
tentacle-made studios on tumblr
tentacle-made studios’ facebook fan page
tentacle-made studios on youtube
where to support and buy tentacle-made studios’s art:
tentacle-made studios commissions
tentacle-made studios on redbubble
tentacle-made studios on etsy
tentacle-made studios on patreon
other projects ‘trie is involved in:
conversations from the north woods (podcast)
the adventures of squid & barnacle (webcomic)
@Fabirucho When I started reading Palaver I kept comparing it to Memorial, also by Bryan Washington, which I read not long ago and really enjoyed. However, as I moved through Palaver, which has similar themes, it was less the characters and more the concepts (home, family, awkward conversations) that really grew on me. The deliberate designation of ‘the son’ and ‘the mother’ to foreground the sense of relationship in their subjectivity rather than naming added to this, so the final shift of identification to ‘I’ really hit me at the end.
Although I’m not familiar with Japan geography the addition of pictures at the beginning of each of the chapters helped with the world building while still remaining abstract. I used to teach a subject to Planning students called Culture, Space and Place and this would have been a great addition (although students were resistant to reading anything of length).
Washington’s provocations on belonging (home, community, found family, the third space, self/identification) resonated with aspects of my own experience.
Often I also found myself being struck by revelations of aspects about a character that I hadn’t contemplated, and I think that’s often true of how we engage with people in real life as much as in fiction. Posting this online to interact with people I’ve never physically met makes this seem even more relevant as a consideration. It’s not that I was making assumptions about the characters, but rather a reminder of how little we know about the ‘whole’ of somebody, if such a thing is even possible (I think we are fractured, imperfect beings even to ourselves, changing with time and context).
There's probably a lot more I could say about this, and I haven't even dug into specific characters or elements but I'll wait for thoughts from others before saying more since I'm jumping in first given time zone differences.
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Curation TeamQueer Ecologies Book Club - Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
July 2, 2026, 7:00:00 PM EDT - GMT-04:00https://calendar.atlantaactivism.org/events/96e5c816-3e81-42c9-b1c1-ab10bd5504c1
Richard Foster - AuthorLooking for a new book 📚 to read? Love True Crime, Survival and resilience stories or Biographies? Why not try STOP, POLICE! 👉 Https://mybook.to/stoppolice
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Radio ORANGE 94.0Was sind Traditionen? Wer hat sie erfunden? Welche Funktion haben sie? Und: Wie tauchen sie in Spekulativer Literatur auf? Kilian Jörg liest im Science Fiction Book Club live aus seinem SF-Roman-Manuskript und wir sprechen über diese Fragen. Ruft an und redet mit!
Science Fiction Book Club
"Die Perchtentracht war etwas wirklich ganz besonderes..."
14.06.10:00-11:00
https://o94.at/programm/sendung/id/2584124
#bookstodon #scifi #bookclub #radio #freiesradio #wien #lesen #bücher