#31pageslater

[safirefire]

would anybody be interested in a tumblr book club? I have a list of books I want to read and discuss and we could vote on which one per month and then pick a day and post our thoughts using an agreed upon hashtag?

[lexsreadingcorner]

Choose what book WE will be reading for book club in August. (see description before voting)

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

The Accidentals: Stories by Guadalupe Nettel

Drinking From Graveyard Wells: Stories by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

This Strange Way of Dying: Stories** by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

Voting ended onJun 3

Before voting, please understand that we're voting AS PARTICIPANTS for what we want to read together. This is not a passive poll. If you vote, please plan on participating. Even if you don't finish the book. Anyone is welcome to join. We'll be posting about the book and having discussions on August 31st.

We're keeping it short(er) in August with some short story collections!

** This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire, and the Fantastic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Full title wouldn't fit.

@safirefire @lady-shikibu

[lady-shikibu]

"But when I'd believed I was a god, that godhood had formed most of my identity. My gender and sexuality were always ancillary to my divinity."

/-Blue Skinned Gods, SJ Sindu p.439

Kind of a weird one to relate to, given the god of it all, but I was a kid who grew up with a whole lot going on that made adults really not pressure me (or really pay attention to me) about doing or being properly gender expressive and sexually social. I never had think about it, and no one pressured me about it. I figured it out in my own time.

It was really nice, actually, to not make my sexuality or gender--or the fight to express either as I chose--the center of my identity. Would recommend.

[safirefire]

What should we read for book club July 31st?

The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Artemis by Andy Weir

Voting ended onMay 24

#31pageslater - book club on every month with a 31st read our pick then post using this hashtag [x]

@lexsreadingcorner

[safirefire]

Blue Skinned Gods spoilers

From the beginning of the book I thought Kalki’s skin was dyed blue or he had a blood disorder and then as soon as I read that he bled black I knew it was methemoglobinemia and felt so vindicated at the reveal

Also fuck his mom for going along with that insane lie. What happened to her was obviously terrible but everything leading up to that could have been prevented. Actually going off of that the thing that boiled my blood the most was when Kalki’s dad named that she had depression while letting her believe that she wasn’t enough of a believer and that explained all her misery. That was the most shocking reveal to me actually, that he was a doctor in America before all this. He knew everything he was peddling was snake oil but he wanted the power anyway. Kalki’s and his mom’s situations really reminded me of everything Tara Westover talked about in her Memoir, Educated, for some reason. The way her Mormon dad (and mom) used religion to exert control over their families and all the guilt that came with doing something wrong while questioning faith. It was a very interesting and at times deeply upsetting book.

Also at the end when they ordered lo mein or whatever and picked all the peanuts out my dumb ass was like they could’ve just asked the restaurant for no nuts before I realized what they were doing.

Anyway thanks @lexsreadingcorner for this pick!

[safirefire]

before I started the book I searched the blue skinned gods tag to see if anyone was talking about it and I couldn’t find any posts but I did see Hindus arguing that Krishna is depicted as blue not because he was dark skinned and he was actually fair skinned and they didn’t even see how colorist that was it’s so infuriating. The intersection of colorism and castism and racism is something I wish Hindus thought of more

[safirefire]

What book should we read for our first book club?

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Trilogy by Jon Fosse

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Voting ended onFeb 13

Hi everyone I'm excited to kickstart our bimonthly-ish book club. I've been wanting to read more Nobel/critically acclaimed authors so here are my options. Once the poll closes we'll read whichever book has the most votes then on the next month with a 31st (March) we'll post our thoughts using the tag #31pageslater. Then @lexsreadingcorner will make a poll for the next one and we'll repeat!

Please feel free to participate even if you don't finish the book this is just supposed to be for fun.

Edit: I left out Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler by mistake so if that is your vote please comment

[safirefire]

#31pageslater

Starting our book club pick early so I actually finish this one.

On every month with a 31st we post about our book club pick. Join us (me and @lexsreadingcorner) in May for Blue Skinned Gods.