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🌈 Good morning and happy Wednesday, my bookish bats! You didn't think that tiny "queer books coming out this fall" guide was ALL there was, did you? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR this month. Happy reading!

❤️ A Vision of Air by Nicole Silver 🧡 Eli Over Easy by Phil Stamper 💛 How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve 💚 Kween by Vichet Chum 💙 The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson 💜 The B-Side of Daniel Garneau by David Kingston Yeh ❤️ Midnight Companion by Kit Barrie 🧡 Let the Waters Roars by Geonn Cannon 💛 Into the Glittering Dark by Kelley York 💙 When the Rain Begins to Burn by A.L. Davidson 💜 Been Outside by Amber Wendler & Shaz Zamore 🌈 The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

❤️ A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert 🧡 The Spells We Cast by Jason June 💛 Pluralities by Avi Silver 💚 Salt the Water by Candice Iloh 💙 Beholder by Ryan La Sala 💜 This Pact is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi ❤️ Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell 🧡 Menewood by Nicola Griffith 💛 Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout 💚 The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey 💙 Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson 💜 Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams

🌈 In the Form of a Question: the Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider ❤️ Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield 🧡 A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand 💛 Being Ace by Madeline Dyer 💚 Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer 💙 The Glass Scientists by S.H. Cotugno 💜 The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado ❤️ By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter 🧡 Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall 💛 Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender 💚 Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen 💙 The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

🌈 Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt ❤️ Family Meal by Bryan Washington 🧡 A Murder of Crows by Dharma Kelleher 💛 A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper 💚 Love at 350° by Lisa Peers 💙 Greasepaint by Hannah Levene 💜 The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels ❤️ Mate of Her Own by Elena Abbott 🧡 Mistletoe and Mishigas by M.A. Wardell 💛 Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend by Ben Kahn 💚 All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters 💙 If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie

❤️ Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Lillah Lawson and Lauren Emily Whalen 🧡 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 💛 It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer 💚 Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein 💙 These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs 💜 The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu ❤️ Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin 🧡 Mudflowers by Aley Waterman 💛 Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson 💚 Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot, trans. by Eva Apelqvist 💙 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake 💜 On the Same Page by Haley Cass

❤️ A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña 🧡 Art of the Chase by Jennifer Giacalone 💛 The Haunting of Adrian Yates by Markus Harwood-Jones 💚 The Sword: Xcian by Elle Arroyo 💙 The Complete Carlisle Series by Roslyn Sinclair 💜 300,000 Kisses by Sean Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall ❤️ Just a Pinch of Magic by Alechia Dow 🧡 Blackouts by Justin Torres 💛 Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros 💚 Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E.M. Roy 💙 Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queerer Light edited by Michael Earp ❤️ Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine

🧡 We Met in a Bar by Claire Forsythe 💛 Sweat Equity Aurora Rey 💚 Pumpkin Spice by Tagan Shepard 💙 The Misfit Mage & His Dashing Devil by M.N. Bennet 💜 Love and Other Risky Business by Sarah Brenton ❤️ Enough by Kimia Eslah 🧡 A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard 💛 Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot 💚 Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses by Maya Prasad 💙 Dragged to the Wedding by Andrew Grey 💜 Fox Snare by Yoon Ha Lee ❤️ Murder and Manon by Mia P. Manansala

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Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot

Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot, (translated by Eva Apelqvist), Levine Querido, c2021, 2023. 9781646142484 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover Genre:  Realistic fiction What did you like about the book? ‘Ante, 16, lives in Northern Sweden, a member of the Sami community who raise reindeer.  He is in love with his childhood friend Erik but afraid to…

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Swede Dreams || Eva Apelqvist || Students Across the Seven Seas || 224 pages ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 3 Genres: Young Adult / Romance / Travel

Synopsis: Swede escape! Calista Swanson has begun her study abroad semester in Stockholm, Sweden, and she couldn’t be happier! There’s finally some distance between her and the constant piano-playing of her annoying sister Suzanne. Calista and Suzanne are twins, but the only thing they have in common is their birth date. Suzanne is a focused and gifted pianist, but a social dud. Calista isn’t at all focused, but she always has her friends, and a boyfriend, by her side. And that goes for her time in Sweden, as well. Jonas, who’d been an exchange student at her high school in Wisconsin, lives in Stockholm. He’s the main reason Calista is studying in Sweden, and she knows he’ll be in tow as she explores everything Sweden has to offer, from visiting Swedish castles to learning more about the Viking era, to sampling treats from a smörgåsbord, to strolling the cobblestone streets of Stockholm’s Gamla Stan. Calista loves Sweden from the moment she arrives, but . . . why hasn’t Jonas called?

Finished: May 3rd, 2018.

Progress: 8 / 50. 16% complete.

My Rating: ★★★★☆. [4/5]

My Review: [Under the read more - NOT SPOILER FREE]

Well I finished this like a week ago, and I’m only just now getting to write the review. Eeesh. Pre-move-in stuff apparently takes a lot of time.

But anyway. It’s been a while since I’ve read one of these Students Across the Seven Seas books, and despite the kiddish cover art and cover blurb, I forgot how much I enjoy them! They show real respect to the country each book is about, making points to destroy stereotypes and backing everything up with a lot of very real facts and research. That much is awesome, and I respect that! It makes the character’s experience as an exchange student that much more real.

I do have some criticisms though, primarily (and basically only) with how the story was delivered. So many of the characters were conveniently unabashed history nerds, none of whom had any trouble recollecting information and always spouted off perfect facts in textbook form. I appreciate the opportunity to learn about Swedish culture and history, but this is such a cliché way to do it that it put a small damper on the whole experience. A lot of the dialogue outside of the random facts felt particularly forced and unrealistic, too – especially the emails. So much of that just felt awkward, like “that’s not how people interact with each other” levels of awkward. And also, as cute as it was, I don’t know why every girl in every one of these books always needs to fall in love with a local boy. Like – always. Without fail. It’s not a bad plot point, as long as it’s not incredibly overused and doesn’t clash with the character’s personality, which in this case, it may have. Most of Calista’s entire reasoning for traveling to Sweden in the first place was to visit her Swedish then-boyfriend, who turned out to be an entire garbage can of trash, didn’t even show up to see her at any point, and finally wrote her a one-sentence email breaking it off with her. I don’t know if she’d’ve been too keen on falling for anyone else after that. I might be wrong – falling for Hakkan DID happen several months later, and that is enough time to feel better. But, at least a little bit, still.

Also, she seemed to get over Jonas pretty fast, for how obsessed she was over him in the beginning. Not that I’m complaining – she had one day of hurt, then went straight to pissed off, and didn’t spend much time at all afterwards thinking about him, instead delving headfirst into discovering and learning everything about Sweden. You go girl, he doesn’t deserve your time or your pain. But it still seemed a little unreasonably fast, for someone who had so much trouble figuring out what she wanted for the entire rest of the book.

Also also, I do have to acknowledge that this seemed to be a highly romanticized version of a semester spent studying abroad. Literally NOTHING BAD HAPPENED. The only things that might count – Jonas dumped Calista through email, Cal lost her map to school on her morning commute on her first day, and Moa actively disdained Cal throughout the entire story, which silently turned into a sort of quiet respect right at the end. THAT’S IT. No host family issues, no friend issues, no real boy issues, no stranger issues, no culture clash issues (she went from struggling with Swedish to being very good at it in about a chapter and it never impacted her school performance at all).. just about everything went about as perfectly as it could possibly go. While I appreciate and did truly enjoy the feel-good fuzzies of it, it still felt incredibly unrealistic and I’m just left thinking “there is no way anything would ever go that smoothly.”

BUT. REGARDLESS. I still mostly enjoyed the book. I recognize the flaws and the faults and I acknowledge them all, and they’re enough to dock a star from my final rating. But I STILL liked reading it, I’ll still recommend the series to anyone else who likes this sort of travel story, and I’ll still make it a point to finish all the others I haven’t read yet.

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Written By: Eva Apelqvist Narrated By: Jennifer Van Dyck Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) Date: March 2018 Duration: 4 hours 48 minutes

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Swede Dreams || Eva Apelqvist || Students Across the Seven Seas || 224 pages ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 3 Genres: Young Adult / Romance / Travel

Synopsis: Swede escape! Calista Swanson has begun her study abroad semester in Stockholm, Sweden, and she couldn’t be happier! There’s finally some distance between her and the constant piano-playing of her annoying sister Suzanne. Calista and Suzanne are twins, but the only thing they have in common is their birth date. Suzanne is a focused and gifted pianist, but a social dud. Calista isn’t at all focused, but she always has her friends, and a boyfriend, by her side. And that goes for her time in Sweden, as well. Jonas, who’d been an exchange student at her high school in Wisconsin, lives in Stockholm. He’s the main reason Calista is studying in Sweden, and she knows he’ll be in tow as she explores everything Sweden has to offer, from visiting Swedish castles to learning more about the Viking era, to sampling treats from a smörgåsbord, to strolling the cobblestone streets of Stockholm’s Gamla Stan. Calista loves Sweden from the moment she arrives, but . . . why hasn’t Jonas called?

Started: April 23rd, 2018.

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