#DIKBChallenge23 Day 5-a book w. LGBTQIA+ representation. A bit left field: Forrest Reid's highly-rated Tom Barber trilogy. The mutedly gay Reid's "youthful male characters are often in search of an ideal companion & often trying to compensate for unhappy relations with family."
Quotation from Dan Studer's article on the trilogy in Issue 1 of #SwanRiverPress's journal The Green Book, which contains writing on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic literature. https://swanriverpress.ie/green-book-issue/the-green-book-1/
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“To my young fellow-countrymen, at home and in exile, in the cottage and the mansion, amidst the green fields and in the crowded cities, soon to be the men of Ireland, I dedicate this little book . . .” – Alexander M. Sullivan, The Story of Ireland (1883) This journal’s inception arose from a series […]

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#DIKBChallenge23 is running throughout October. Day 1: a book with an animal on the cover. The one we're choosing has not one, but three (an Owly Trinity!): the wonderful Owl Babies by Martin Waddell, illustrated by Patrick Benson.🦉🦉🦉 #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks