Read with Pride Northwest discussion

As much as we live and breath GRNW (because we love it!), it doesn't have to be GRNW all the time.

Feel free to share with us your reading recommendations, or what you're reading right now. It's always awesome when someone points you in the direction of a new great book!

I'll start--two recent reads that have been very good were the paranormal mystery Spirit Sanguine by Lou Harper and the The Argentine Seduction by Keira Andrews, which was the short story sequel to the m/m spy adventure romance The Chimera Affair.

Both were great reads. Harper's was a really nice mix of mysteries and a neat twist on vampires, and the Argentine Seduction was a short but awesome revisit with some sexy characters. (I recommend checking out the Chimera Affair first though before hitting the short.)

What about you? What's been on your currently-reading shelf? :D

Well, since you brought it up . . . Spirit Sanguine is up for Book of the Month at the M/M Romance group. You can only vote if you're a member, but if you are and you want a good book, I recommend it. I love Lou Harper's stories.
http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/84...

Anne wrote: "Well, since you brought it up . . . Spirit Sanguine is up for Book of the Month at the M/M Romance group. You can only vote if you're a member, but if you are and you want a good book, I recommend ..."

Voted! It's a great book. I hope it gets the BOM slot.

Since we're post-Meet-Up, and now expanding our community features, we'll continue to also share about what we've been reading. :D

Just finished Lou Harper's Dead in the Desert. Great sequel to Dead in L.A., and recommended especially if you like mysteries.

Last week, thoroughly enjoyed the paranormal historical The Magpie Lord. (I wish that could be a movie!)

And I just got Fall Hard by JL Merrow, and can't wait to check it out. :)

What about you guys?

I resisted as long as I could, but I just finished Bloodlines. (Argh! The agony! Curse you, Andrea Speed -- **sob**). Now embarked on Life After Death because...well...Roan.

E.j. wrote: "I resisted as long as I could, but I just finished Bloodlines. (Argh! The agony! Curse you, Andrea Speed -- **sob**). Now embarked on Life After Death because...well...Roan."

Heh! I haven't read Prey yet. (Although it's sitting on my Kindle, waiting.) I really enjoyed Andrea's reading on Friday though. That definitely got me interested to read more Roan. :D

Just finished the very enjoyable m/m fantasy romance Dragon Slayer by Isabella Carter. A very fun, light romance (not too angsty, which I liked.) Don't go in expecting hot sexy times though; this is a very sweet developing romance.

It ends well, but there's definitely more story to come, so am looking forward to where things go. :)

Eva wrote: "I just finished Behind Every Cloud by Penny Brandon http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Every-Cl... and I really had to smile as I read it, remembering the forum where th..."

Oh, that's great! I'm glad you brought that up and shared the rec. :D

On that point about "effeminate gays" from the conference, I'm reading
Every Move He Makes, which I'm digging a lot, but at one point, they're at a hotel being served breakfast by a hotel worker who the MC classifies as "very gay" with his clothes, attitude, etc, and he mentally thinks that he and other MC are gay, but not THAT gay. It bothered me because it felt like shaming, and I was pondering after that scene if it's a part of the MC's character (the need to shame effeminate gay men) but it hasn't come out at any other part of the story (and the MC is very comfortable with his sexuality) or was it there because the writer was trying to set the MCs apart somehow (more "manly"?) to the reader. That whole scene left me confused, and made me think back about that discussion point about a stigma against too-feminine gay male characters.