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[99percentprocrastination]

#all my homies love tor dot com novellas #tordotcom #a psalm for the wild built #a spindle splintered #the haunting of tram car 015 #silver in the wood #untethered sky #binti #fireheart tiger #the past is red #upright women wanted #the ballad of black tom #spear #the empress of salt and fortune #all of these books I've read and recommend btw... though I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting #mp

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Takes on Westerns

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens (Traditional) Backwards to Oregon by Jae (Romance) Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (Dystopian) Cruel Angels Past Sundown by Hailey Piper (Horror) Crossing the Wide Forever by Missouri Vaun (Romance)

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#Backwards to Oregon #Claudia Cravens #Hailey Piper #Jae #Lucky Red #Missouri Vaun #Sarah Gailey #Upright Women Wanted

[sapphic-book-tournament]

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[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. They'll bring the fight to you.

Mod opinion: I've read it and it's fun, but a bit short for the world building it's trying to do. Would love a longer version though.

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[aliteratepenguin]

She had seen a man decide that she deserved to die, and she had killed him for it.

-Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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[trekkele]

Ok I've got my pesach books up to 3, +graphic novel, +nonfiction, which is probably enough. I really wanted another heyer tho

#weve got sci fi #historical apocalypse (?) #and #mystery urban fantasy #i think that's a nice mix #books are #the mimicking of known successes #upright women wanted #the angel of the crows #but 2/3 are hardback ugg #also monstress and because internet

[bi4bihankking]

Upright Women Wanted Summary:

“Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.”

Any Chuck Tingle Novel:

*gestures*

#upright women wanted #sarah gailey #chuck tingle #tingleverse #lgbt books #lgbt literature #queer books #queer literature #lgbtqia #poll

[enfinizatics]

finished reading another book this year and obv it’s queer!! western lesbians!!! really good but i wish it were longer, there’s so much potential to build this into sth bigger!!

#however i’m satisfied with how it ended #so the length of it is just my personal opinion #really enjoyed this novel #dystopian cowboy gays #sth i never knew i needed until i picked up this book #so so good #upright women wanted #queer books #lgbt books #lesbian books #wlw books #queer #lgbtq #lesbian #moira reads

[the-final-sentence]

The Librarians would make sure of it.

Sarah Gailey, from Upright Women Wanted

#lit #prose #submission #Upright Women Wanted #Sarah Gailey

[e-b-reads]

A fairly solid selection of the kinds of books I’m reading as the summer gets busier: rereads (e.g. Aunt Maria), quick reads (novellas/graphic novels), and fluff.

#this is in fact 4 of the 6 books i've read so far in June! #all together now #hope larson #the secret bridesmaid #katy birchall #aunt maria #diana wynne jones #upright women wanted #sarah gailey #eb's photos

[travelingviabooks]

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

Genre: Fiction, Dystopian, LGBTQIA+

Country: USA

Review:

I really loved the premise of this book, and despite that fact that I wished it had a little more world building, I feel that it was very well executed. It’s only downfall is that it just felt too short. I wanted more details. I had so many questions about that world that Esther lives in. I’d undoubtedly read a prequel or a sequel for this. Especially a sequel. I need more Cye in my life. Maybe even some more Amity.

Would I recommend this book?: Absolutely.

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[straydog733]

Reading Resolution: “Upright Women Wanted” by Sarah Gailey

29. Wild Card: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

List Progress: 21/30

Some books are just okay. A couple weeks after finishing Upright Women Wanted, the quirky Western novella by Sarah Gailey, I keep finding myself forgetting to write this review, as I have almost nothing to say about it. It feels like a book that has tried so hard to be appealing to a certain type of reader that it has sanded all of its edges off. I respect the work that goes into making and finishing any book, but there was just nothing that deeply lit my fire here.

In an alternate history Wild West, where lightly-sketched crises in the past sent America on a descent into fascism and tight government control, the Librarians are traveling women who go from settlement to settlement, sharing government-approved entertainment materials and propaganda. At least, that’s what they are on the surface, although the facade of respectability is so thin that it’s amazing the government hasn’t realized they are all rebels. When young Esther runs away from her town, fleeing an arranged marriage and the execution of her secret female lover, she sees the Librarians as the last option to live a societally-approved life, only to discover that seemingly every Librarian (or maybe just the ones she found?) are in fact queer radicals. They move unapproved materials and people across the desert landscape and are able to live their authentic lives out of the gaze of society.

There should be a sense of freedom and release when Esther joins the Librarians, but it somehow falls flat. The Librarians themselves are fairly stock stoics, and Esther’s potential love-interest is far too prickly to make Esther’s attraction make much sense, especially so close on the tail of her lover’s death. The novella starts after she runs away, so the reader does not get to experience any of her restricted life. And the Librarians never really try to hide their real nature from Esther, so there’s no sense of reveal and discovery.

There is a something to be said for Gailey centering women and queer people in the historically-macho Western genre, and there is little actively objectionable in Upright Women Wanted. But for a book that is supposed to ignite the passion of a wide horizon and an endless expanse, it ends up feeling pretty pedestrian.

Would I Recommend It: Not really, but not strongly opposed.

#straydog's reading resolution #upright women wanted #sarah gailey

[beckysbook5]

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey - Book Review!

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance…

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#Book review #Upright Women Wanted

[libraryofbaxobab]

April 13, 2023:

Pros:

They/she librarian

Wild west dystopia

State employees doing sedition against state censorship

Gunfights

Audiobook narrator does accents but not crazy voices

Cons:

Not very climactic

Half the characters are superfluous

6.5/10

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[geeklyinc]

Bookling: Upright Women Wanted

Bookling: Upright Women Wanted

We are joined by guest Bijaya (@ethnicninja) today to discuss Sarah Gailey’s novel Upright Women Wanted. This novel is a western set in a future theocratic Arizona and features badass gay women/nonbinary librarians. Yes, we have a type. Your hosts are Josh MacDougall (@FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (@OLaddieGirl), and Steph Kingston (@StephOKingston). Our art is by …

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[aseriesofvariousevents]

Upright Women Wanted

On paper, this is something I would’ve loved, filled with radical librarians and western adventure, but it ended up paling in comparison to its premise. The world felt like literally nothing and even though it was in some weird future where the country had apparently like fully regressed back to wagon days, it was just bland. The characters had some interesting dynamics, but even that felt unsuccessful. I’m not sure if it was just a matter of my expectations being too high since I’d liked Gailey’s work in the past, but this fell short in most ways.

Favorite Quote: He wanted to be a soldier for his country. He wanted a chance at a fight. He wanted a chance to die. 

Rating: ⭐⭐

Author: Sarah Gailey

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