Kürzlich habe ich "Gestohlenes Licht" von @carolin_schreibt gelesen. Mein Review findet ihr bei Bookwyrm.
🌠 4/5 Übernatürliches Polit-Abenteuer in einer retro-futuristischen, von Krieg gezeichneten Welt
Review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/Nani/review/11539767/
Book 6 was Cross the Line by Lucky Hart (narrated by Julio Maxwell & Javi Wilder).
Basically, I loved the characters, liked the writing, but the relationship gave me the willies. YMMV. 🤷
Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7a702201-7d7e-4f11-b776-a7b41303e8d2?redirect=true
My listening supports
The Portal Bookshop
Libro.fm
Black Wave (Michelle Tea) – This is a pretty psychedelic memoir, seen through a kaleidoscope of self-reflection on one's life, relationship and the meaning of conveying an experience less in the literal and more in the metaphysical. Between addiction, toxic romance and a global apocalypse, Michelle travels through 1990s California in trying to find her way our of the vicious cycles she is trapped in.
I felt incredibly engaged in Michelle's tragicomedic protagonist and the turns she makes as it jumps into meta-textual commentary on memoirs with the characters themselves. And while Michelle is very much the focus of the chaos and self destruction, I can still feel, in her head, that she's the only sane person in the room.
Just finished a blog on why writing Aro-Ace & Nonbinary characters matters to me. (As an aro-ace, nonbinary author, with some shoutouts to autistic & ADHD characters, as I'm both of those too 😉.)
It spans my youth without seeing my queer identities in fiction, the power of fiction to understand yourself & others, countering allosexual & alloromantic 'norms,' & nonbinary rep as awareness & resistance.
https://elisecarlson.com/2026/06/08/why-writing-nonbinary-aro-ace-characters-matters-to-me/
RE: https://wandering.shop/@ElisesWritings/116701354357065680
The Boy Maeve spotted at The Hobart Book Shop!
I've never visited Hobart without popping into The Hobart Bookshop at least once (and usually leaving with at least one book) and so while I'm not there to see it in person, it's quite the buzz to hear that The Boy Maeve is currently sitting in a rather prominent position in their YA section!
#Hobart #Nipaluna #YAbooks #LoveOzYA #QueerBooks #Pride #TransBooks
As the sun decided to poke its head out, I decided to seize the chance for one last bookshop visit... Ramona Books, which is situated amid the lovely community vibe of Westgarth Village. Well worth a visit!
Queer Book Lovers,
Pride Book Fair has 4 bundles of 40(ish) books by #queer authors, at $40 each on Itchio, for 3 more days.
Main & side character rep across bundles includes many letters of #LGBTQIA+. Genres include fantasy, SciFi, Queer Romance & more!
My epic, portal fantasy; Manipulator's War (in Bundle 4), has #aroace, #nonbinary & Aussie main characters acting as catalysts for peace.
https://pridebookfair.carrd.co/#promos
#QueerAuthors: to join the Discord see 'socials' in🔗
Camille
Shouty person
Jaelyn 🏳️🌈
Elise (they/ them)🇦🇺🏳️🌈
adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)
Kai Ash