Film & TV I Think About A Lot » The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) dir. Desiree Akhavan
Is part of the reason why you watch those Tandy Campbell videos 'cause she's kind of hot, huh? We shouldn't encourage each other's homosexual attractions.
I just finished reading Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth and mannnn am I impressed. It's been a while since I read a contemporary book where the writing quality was THAT good. It made me so excited to go do some more writing myself!
Made the mistake of looking in the book's tag here on Tumblr, though, and... oof. It's half TERFs criticizing the book for using the "slur" "queer", and half people who hate one of the characters because she had a prickly personality and was a realistic, complex person with trauma. Funny how male characters can be total assholes and people still gush over them, but a female character is slightly awkward and unfriendly and it's like "I hate her sooooo much omg she's the worst character of all time I want her to suffer" (I wish I were exaggerating. but. I am not)
Anyway. It's a very good book :D Some of the best-written female characters I have ever seen, and so much queerness, I am happy.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Voting ended onJul 5, 2025
Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.
But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both.
Then Coley Taylor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship—one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to 'fix' her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self—even if she's not exactly sure who that is.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and unforgettable literary debut about discovering who you are and finding the courage to live life according to your own rules.
Setting: Montana, early 1990s
Coming of age, rural literature, 1990s, young adult
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Endorsement from submitter #1: "In an alternate London, boys born with violet eyes become Speakers, mediums who can communicate with the dead, and girls born with violet eyes become their wives. 16-year-old Silas Bell is desperate to avoid becoming another man's wife, but his attempts end with him institutionalised and diagnosed with 'Veil Sickness', a disorder turning violet-eyed girls mad. When the ghosts of former patients appear to beg him for help, he must solve the mystery of what, exactly, happens to everyone society throws away."
Endorsement from submitter #2: "T4T and autistic representation"
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing.
After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its rotten guts to the world—as long as the school doesn’t break him first.
Setting: Victorian London, 1883
Horror, historical fiction, gothic, fantasy, paranormal, Victorian, 1880s, young adult
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