It's Pride Month and as a member of the LGBTQA+ community I will be attending. I also wanted to finish up 'and the band played on' as it seemed appropriate to connect with my community's history, despite the rather harrowing contents.

Then, as you know, Orlando happened.

There are details of the attack, my community's reaction and dues to the dead, but this isn't the right platform for it.

So I'm just thinking about books. I couldn't continue reading 'and the band played on', not right now. But I'm certainly not going to stop reading. And I'm certainly not going to stop reading about my community. I will just look for something less tragic right now. I've already been recommended some excellent non-fiction books, and now hope to search out and find some fictional ones too. Hopefully with happy endings.