A Reading Blog

•Loremancy• seeking insight or knowledge through lore, prose, & plot

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Queer non-fiction books

This year my collection of queer non fiction has grown quite a bit, and I have a feeling it will continue to grow, since I have a few more books on my wishlist. Believe it or not many of the books on this pile are Italian, so there might no be an English translation (yet). Please do leave me some recs to add to this collection, because I want to see it grow!

Books from the pile in order from top to bottom:

Gender Is Over by Isa Borrelli

Queer As Folklore by Sacha Coward

Bi by Julia Shaw

Bisexuality In The Ancient World by Eva Cantarella

Rivoluzione Non Binaria by lou ms.femme

Questioni Di Un Certo Genere by Il Post

Life Isn't Binary by Alex Iantaffi and MJ Barker

Queer by Maya De Leo

Queer: A Graphic History by MJ Barker

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from the passenger seat

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Everyone at magic school picks on you for your creepy skeletal minions. One day a trio of bullies has you cornered. "What now, necromancer? There's no corpses or bones around to save you." You sigh, "Actually, I'm an osteomancer. The skeletons don't have to come from corpses."

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I've been doing a pretty dreadful job of keeping up with this reading blog. 😅

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Léon Étienne Tournes - Intimité (1901)

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black coffee, empty locket

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This book won my heart over the course of its pages. The start was slow (for me) and as I read and threads of story began to knit together my own curiosity grew, until eventually I didn't want to put the book down because I had become so thoroughly invested in each thread. Around the midsection of the book I remember thinking that it would probably end up somewhere around 4 stars, because even though I was enjoying it there were a few things here and there (primarily word choices) that had me pulled out of the story a bit too jarringly. However, by the time I reached the end I knew I couldn't rate it less than 5 stars. My overall experience of this book, the overall story it tells, the way I felt at the end—it's 5 stars from me.

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Books I have read so far this year:

Books I am currently reading:

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Currently reading 📖

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𝔹𝕦𝕣𝕪 𝕆𝕦𝕣 𝔹𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕚𝕕𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕚𝕝 – 𝕍.𝔼. 𝕊𝕔𝕙𝕨𝕒𝕓

[alt text: Bury my bones in the midnight soil, plant them shallow and water them deep, and in my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.]

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