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Happy International Lesbian Day! Here's some super brief book recs to celebrate

Books dealing with love, loss, longing and abandonment

This is How You Lose The Time War is a short but beautifully written epistolary novel between two agents on opposite sides of a time war as they slowly fall in love.

Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most beautifully written debuts I've ever read about a woman whose wife comes home wrong after they thought she'd died at sea and how it feels to grieve the loss of someone who's still in your home.

Lucky Red is a western novel about a young girl working in a brothel who meets her first female gunslinger and falls head over heels for her, and the consequences that come with loving dangerous people.

Body horror galore

Camp Damascus is about a young woman living in a super conservative christian town built around the worlds most successful conversion camp and the horrors that are uncovered there when praying the gay away fails.

To Be Devoured is about a woman whose fascination with the local vultures turns into obsession and the urge to know what carrion tastes like overtakes her life and leads her down stranger and stranger paths.

Chlorine is about a girl whose entire life revolves around being a competitive swimmer, and how abuse, neglect, and obsession with being the best takes its toll on the young women caught up in these destructive cycles.

Flawed character studies

Big Swiss is about a woman who has a kitchen floor reset in her 40s, moves away and starts a new life as a transcriber for a sex therapist and becomes obsessed with one of his clients before inserting herself into this poor woman's life.

The Seep is a speculative sci-fi set in a future where there's been a quiet alien invasion that has given people the ability to make almost any changes to their own bodies and what that world feels like to someone who doesn't want to partake.

Milk Fed is about a woman in therapy who feels cut off from almost everything until she meets another woman who triggers in her a melding of sex, hunger, and religion and where that takes her. Huge trigger warnings for ED content. It gets tough, y'all.

Fantastical wlw books

Bitterthorn is an amalgamation of fairytales retold as a slow burn sapphic love story between a sad young girl from a cursed land and the evil witch who takes her as a companion in the latest of the generational sacrifices made to appease her.

All the Bad Apples may be set in contemporary Ireland but it is a fairytale following a young girl as she travels across the country looking for a sister she refuses to believe is dead and the people she meets along the way.

Gideon the Ninth needs no introduction on this site but for the sake of formatting - lesbian necromancers in space who find themselves in an isolated murder mystery plot. It's not a romance but it is a love story and this series will change your life if you let it.

Translated novels

Boulder is a short character study following a free spirited woman when she accidentally settles down with the woman she loves and how love and resentment can take up the same space in your chest when life doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would.

Notes of a Crocodile is a cult classic coming of age story about queer teens in Taipei in the 1980s. It was written in the 90s so please keep that in mind if you choose to read it.

Paradise Rot is about an international student studying in Australia and her growing obsession with her housemate as they share a space that allows no privacy. I've never read anything that feels stickier.

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Top ten books of the year, with five runners-up:

Lord Jim at Home (Dinah Brooke)

Boulder (Eva Baltasar Sardà)

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir (Lamya H.)

Collected Works: A Novel (Lydia Sandgren)

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster (Mirinae Lee)

All Down Darkness Wide (Sean Hewitt)

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Claire Dederer)

I Am Not Your Eve (Devika Ponnambalam)

The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni)

Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (Kwame Edwin Otu)

We All Loved Cowboys (Carol Bensimon)

Voroshilovgrad (Serhiy Zhadan)

The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe (Martyn Rady)

Confidence (Rafael Frumkin)

How We Fight For Our Lives (Saeed Jones)

And resolutions for 2024:

Don’t fly Spirit

Do a quarterly social media follows clean-up

Fix and repaint the entryway stuff + front door

Make a quilt top

Knit a round lace shawl

Today I finished knitting and pieced together a sweater; it did not turn out very well. It's the third one I've finished and I am not getting better at them? It's the journey and not the destination, etc. Next I'm going to knit a pair of mitts, I have better luck with those.

Unofficial resolution to write weird porn again in 2k24. We'll see how it goes.

[kidrat]

hi eddie i am at ur sleepover and i brought snacks -> 🍿🍩🍕 :D how about. top three doctor who episodes + top three books you've read in the last year?

Hi! Yippee I am throwing a popcorn kernel at ur head playfully. Can I say heaven sent. Basic I KNOW but. But. Also world enough and time/ the doctor falls. Also I love the doctor dances. Sorry to everyone who wanted me to name some deep cuts lol

Best books: Jeff Vandermeer’s hummingbird salamander is SO good please please read it everyone. Unlikeable middle aged woman protagonist… ecoterrorism…. Beautiful prose… literally it’s perfect speculative fiction, it’s not really scifi but it’s not like. Straight fiction. For sure.

Um I am gonna mention Brainwyrms by Allison rumfit. MASSIVE trigger warnings for csa, transphobia, extreme body horror, specifically body horror involving genitals. But I did read it in one day…. One day I was *at work*, like I devoured this thing on my COMMUTE. Also I’m a sicko and love extreme horror

Ok in lieu of a third book I’m doing a lightning round. Those two are just the first two off the top of my head anyway. Ok: the lathe of heaven, the trees (Percival Everett), the last white man, lonely castle in the mirror, boulder (eve baltasar)

#ty! sorry this was a weirdly structured answer #<3 #asks