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whilereadingandwalking · 10 months

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First, a quick spoiler: this book is groundbreaking because it was a YA novel featuring two queer girls who get a happy ending. I know, I'm sorry to spoil it, but it's vital. In our age of blossoming queer YA contemporary, it's important to see why Annie on My Mind was so important, and so controversial, given a past where the only gay books permitted were those with unhappy endings.

In this book by Nancy Garden, two girls from across New York City meet at the Met and begin to have feelings that they don't, at first, understand. And when they are caught, their academic careers, friendships, and family relationships are all put at stake. This novel is simple, and to those who grew up with all kinds of queer novels around, it might feel outdated. It reads as historical fiction, with the sheer shockwave the adults in the book feel at finding lesbianism in their elite school. But there's nothing wrong with that, and it's a great book about a time when queerness was ok if it was just experimenting, or secret, or hidden, and where two girls are determined not to let go of each other, no matter the cost. A really good, quick read about coming-of-age queer and finding acceptance within yourself.

Content warnings for outing, homophobia, lesbophobia, ableism.

#annie on my mind #nancy garden #queer books #sapphic books #lesbian books #queer ya #my book reviews

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amarrymeinbostonwriter · 1 year

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Looking for a good read about or by sapphic women or gay/bi men?

Look no further! I gave all these books 4 or 5 stars when I read them.

Lesbian and bisexual women (subject and author):

Two or three things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison (lesbian memoir)

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (graphic novel, lesbian memoir)

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donahue (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabi Rivera (ya contemporary, lesbian mc)

Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (historic fiction, butch/femme wlw)

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden (ya lesbian classic)

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (historic fiction, lesbian classic)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney (graphic novel, memoir- even though it’s mainly about bipolar disorder mostly she is bisexual and it’s mentioned in the novel)

Lesbian or Bisexual Woman author (not necessarily an LGBT subject):

Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own all by Virginia Woolf (bisexual author)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (bisexual author)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (lesbian author)

The Yellow Wallpaper (and other stories) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (bisexual author)

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn (bisexual author)

Passing by Nella Larsen (bisexual author)

Transgender Topics:

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion (LGBT history- only concerns relationships between historic AFAB couples and AFAB people who lived as men for many reasons- wider career opportunities and being able to marry a woman were the two most common reasons cited across all stories chronicled)

Gay Men and Bisexual Men (subject and/or author):

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (historic fiction, Greek Myths)

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (gay author, essays on race in America)

Boy meets Boy by David Leviathan (ya contemporary mlm romance)

If We were Villains by M. L. Rio (ya, dark academia, mystery)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (historic fiction, bisexual mlm, ya) The two sequels also have more lgbt characters.

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queer-book-character-tournament · 1 year

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Book names + authors under the cut

Annie Kenyon/Liza Winthrop- Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden

Marshall Seo/Benedikt Montagov- These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Rosemary Harper/Sissix Seshkethet- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Jack/August- The Wicker King by K Ancrum

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lgbtqreads · 6 months

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 1 year

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JOMP BPC - May 8th - Oldest Favourite

it still blows me away that Annie on My Mind, a sweet wlw romance where things end reasonably happily, was published in the 1980s 💖

#annie on my mind #nancy garden #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #lgbt books #lesbian #wlw reads

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quotation--marks · 8 months

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It is important! I wanted to shout; it was as if she’d suddenly betrayed me - the one person on the board I’d really trusted and who I thought I had understood. I knew she was trying to be fair to everyone, not just to me, but, oh, God, I wanted to stand up and shout: No one had any influence on us! Ms. Stevenson and Ms. Widmer had nothing to do with it. What we did, we did on our own; we love each other! Can’t anyone understand that? Please - can’t someone? We love each other - just us - by ourselves.

Nancy Garden, Annie on my Mind

#annie on my mind #nancy garden #1982 #1980s #20th century #american literature #cw homophobia #queue pierce my soul

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lesserknowncryptids · 7 months

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Today's lesser known cryptid is: My Sister, the Vampire

#cryptids #vampire #nancy garden #book #lesser known cryptids

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bi4bihankking · 3 months

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Annie on My Mind Summary:

This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.

This is How You Lose the Time War Summary:

Two agents of the time war keep leaving extremely intricate letters to each other and it gets to the point where it’s like wow! This is somehow WAY more intimate than sex!

#annie on my mind #nancy garden #this is how you lose the time war #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #lgbt books #lgbt literature #queer books #queer literature #lgbtqia #poll

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qbdatabase · 4 months

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Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden From the moment Liza Winthrop meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she knows there is something special between them. But Liza never knew falling in love could be so wonderful . . . or so confusing. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress or check it out for free from the Queer Liberation Library!

#Annie on My Mind #Nancy Garden #bookblr #daily book #FF romance #lesbian #queer rep #wlw #award winner #female protagonist #lgbtqia #queer books #Queer Liberation Library #romance #YA books

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runningoutofbooks · 9 months

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Reading Annie on My Mind for the first time ever.

Why couldn’t this book have found me ten years ago?

#annie on my mind #nancy garden

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desdasiwrites · 2 years

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The first day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

– Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

#book quote of the day #nancy garden #annie on my mind #book recommendations #wlw #lesbian #this book us available in braille

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monriatitans · 11 months

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PRIDE MONTH QUOTE 6 OF 6 Thursday, June 8, 2023

There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male. - Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

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