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Tell us what you are reading this month.

Just sped through Adaptation and Natural Selection . Working on Inheritance .

Malinda Lo is an amazing storyteller!

Role Models by John Waters.

finished The Master and Hominids. have started Darkening Island by Christopher Priest. As a Henry James fan, I felt Toibin's
vignettes were mildly enjoyable. I enjoyed Edel so much more. Toibin does have a way with words tho.

Now reading How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity and will be adding some new authors to my reading list.

I just finished Heart of Timber by Brandon Shire

Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm just about to start reading

I finished Perdido Street Station and Reviewed it.

Last night I started CJ Cherryh's 15th book in her Foreigner series: Peacemaker

Kernos wrote: "Last night I started CJ Cherryh's 15th book in her Foreigner series: Peacemaker"

Do post a review when you finished? I bought as an e-book the moment it was released.

I just finished Fun Home and it was fantastic. Alison Bechdel may be my new favorite author. I'm now reading Hild though.

Audrey wrote: "I just finished Fun Home and it was fantastic. Alison Bechdel may be my new favorite author. I'm now reading Hild though."

Have you tried the Dykes To Watch Out For series?

I've started Hild, too, but it's not grabbing me so far.

Alex wrote:

Have you tried the Dykes To Watch Out For series?

I've started Hild, too, but it's not grabbing me so far. "
I have been working my way through it online, while I'm waiting for my hard copy to come in the mail, and so far it's great! I've barely scratched the surface of hild, but I can see what you mean.

Alex wrote: "Kernos wrote: "Last night I started CJ Cherryh's 15th book in her Foreigner series: Peacemaker"

Do post a review when you finished? I bought as an e-book the moment..."

I shall try, though reviewing a 5,556 page continuous story in 15 parts seems a bit daunting ;-)

Slogged my way through The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall for the second time (for the Lesbian Book Club BOTM). My review.

Now on The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins.

Alex wrote: "Audrey wrote: "I just finished Fun Home and it was fantastic. Alison Bechdel may be my new favorite author..."

Have you tried the Dykes To Watch Out For..."

Alison Bechdel is a truly wonderful writer and cartoonist. I read Fun Home a while back, and was extremely impressed with her story telling.

More recently I picked up Are You My Mother? and The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For . Bechdel is hilarious.

I just read The Other Side of Paradise and it was quite good. It's the coming of age & coming out story of a young woman in Jamaica.

right now i'm reading . I love this trilogy. Then I'm going to read . And if I have time

I'm reading

I'm about 200 pages into . Just finished and going to start this weekend.

Also reading the poem anthologies , and

Alejandra Pizarnik *swoons*

Oh, and I finished earlier this month. What a beautiful, elegiac novel.

Re-reading Pantomime at the moment. Good bi and intersex stuff in here. :)

I'm currently reading Blood of Tyrants and enjoying it. Book before that was Openly Straight, which other reviewers here loved; I see it's on the YA Lambda list, I hope Two Boys Kissing wins. I loved that one.

Jan, I'm eager to read Pantomime.

I'm about 50 pages into Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

Hope you enjoy Pantomime, Julia!

Just finished The Bank Manager and the Bum by Darren Sant.

Just started The Illuminatus Trilogy, book I: The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. 6% in and it's pretty trippy so far. Haven't the faintest idea what's going on, yet I'm enjoying it.

Just finished The Cool Part of His Pillow

Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm reading The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst and loving it so far! It is turning into one of those books that I can start reading and it becomes an absolute treat. I love the writing style and the story so far. I really like the main character too.

Two stand-outs this month.

, which left me quite speechless. I suppose it could be called a journey through sorrow, a journey from chatter to silence, perhaps a love-of-your-life story when it happens at way past the speed limit. But it is beautiful. The cadence, the play with words just as much as the story itself.

is a gem. It's a novel about desperation in a variety of forms, but wickedly funny. And by wickedly funny, I mean one step shy of schadenfreude. However desperate Kearney's characters become, they never lose their humanity. It's heartbreaking, but with a hilarity and affection that somehow makes it OK. By the end, I found myself thinking that sometimes the only response to catastrophe is to say "Well, shit happens, let's have another beer."

Jade wrote: "I'm reading The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst and loving it so far! It is turning into one of those books that I can start reading and it becomes an absolute tr..."

It's a wonderful book, isn't it?

There's a BBC adaptation, too. It totally shows how unfairly the protagonist was treated by the family.

I'm about to start &