#gary lonesborough

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Day 3: JOMPBPC: Lgbtqia+ Pride

Some of my all time favourite lgbtqia+ books!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Good Young Men by Gary Lonesborough

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

QOTD: What’s the last book you read by an Indigenous author?

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Review below cut

Thank you Allen & Unwin for providing me with a copy of this one. All thoughts are my own.

While I did enjoy this, it took a while for anything to really click for me.

This story felt pretty directionless for the most part, in all honesty. The writing felt stilted and the characters didn’t feel like they were doing much or going on any real kind of personal journey. It was an easy read, but not super engaging.

Kallum and Jordy’s chapters felt very mundane every-day life which was fine but didn’t make me feel anything.

Dylan’s chapters in the last third of the book had more going for them. I really felt the emotion of the trial and how scared and sad and angry he was, and the final scene with the boys driving to Sydney to start the next chapter of their lives one man short really packed an emotional punch.

Overall a decent book but I did kinda expect more from this author telling a story like this.

[auslgbtqya]

Everything Under the Moon: Fairy tales in a queerer light Edited by Michael Earp and Illustrated by Kit Fox

(2023)

From the Publisher:

Some damsels don’t want to be rescued. Some curses don’t need to be broken. And some of the best happy ever afters won’t be found in storybooks.

Think you know fairy tales? Think again.

These twelve fairy tales have been spun through a queered lens to reflect our world in stories as old as time. From the furthest reaches of space and the darkest depths of the forest to the street just around the corner, this anthology will excite, challenge and move you.

Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in young adult fiction, Everything Under The Moon is an illuminating celebration of queer love and identity.

Lushly illustrated by up-and-coming talent Kit Fox, this collection includes stories by Michael Earp, Alison Evans, Helena Fox, Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, Will Kostakis, Jes Layton, Gary Lonesborough, Amber McBride, Abdi Nazemian, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Alexandra Villasante and Lili Wilkinson.

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Have you read Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough (2021)?

YES

NO

Voting ended onMay 6, 2024

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Round 1

Jackson- The Boy from the Mish

Suzette- Little and Lion

Chester Sibley- Holly and Oak

Wylan Van Eck- Six of Crows

Voting ended onMar 27, 2023

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (July 4th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Murder On A School Night by Kate Weston

Love & Resistance by Kara H.L. Chen

We Didn't Think it Through by Gary Lonesborough

Blind Spot by Robyn Dennison

New Sequels:

After Death (Blue Bloods #9) by Melissa de la Cruz

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Happy reading!

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

I took myself on a good ole fashioned bookstore crawl today in search of some recent Australian YA and found these beauties 👀

will definitely be giving a few of them a go next month now that I'm running Booklr Reads Australian again in August 😊

[samireads]

Hope you all had a happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Here is everything I read in June ✌🏻