Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, performed by L.A. Theatre Works
- Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works, 2016
- Genre: Play
- Format: Audiobook
- Length: 1h 51m
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
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How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
- Genre: Young Adult, LGBTQ+
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 336 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
In short, this book is about wounded characters doing their best to heal each other with love. Ashley captures every possible emotion for the readers to experience: we get annoyed at how incompetent Maggie is, astonished by Grace’s unrequited love for her mother, compassionate towards the recovering Eva, warmed by Luca’s forever-loving family, etc.
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Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Dumplin’ (Dumplin’ #1) by Julie Murphy
- Publisher: Balzer + Bray, 2015
- Genre: Young Adult
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 384 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)
If you go in there and you decide that this isn’t for you, then you never have to go back. But you owe yourself the chance, you hear me?
The message this book tried to convey is clear enough, but the details of the plot are not. Some of the conversations were slightly unnatural and the sense of time was a bit weird. The characters would change subjects without proper pauses and a several-minute drive would be over in a 10-sentence talk. I was left in confusion.
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Starting from Scratch by Jay Northcote
Starting from Scratch (Housemates #5) by Jay Northcote
- Publisher: Jaybird Press, 2017
- Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 196 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
accurate trans portrayal, hot sex, awesome people
Most people were obsessed with genitals. Gay guys were all about the dick and straight guys were all about tits and pussy. It was something you took for granted, a fact of life, until you realised you were trans and then suddenly began to see gender through a totally different lens. Definitions of masculinity and femininity became more flexible, less rigid, and not so focused on body parts.
This is my first attempt to read a sort-of-erotic M/M romance fiction, and also a first novel with a trans lead.
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Keeping Long Island by Courtney Peppernell
Keeping Long Island by Courtney Peppernell
- Publisher: Pepper Books, 2017
- Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 268 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
Wow.
This book deserves so much more attention! I finished it in less than a day and was left feeling very, very loved. It was written in a similar format as The Perks of Being a Wallflower was, as both protagonists dealt with mental health issues by writing letters to strangers, but that is not to say that these books were at all alike in contents.