Puddin’ (Dumplin’ #2) by Julie Murphy
I sort of feel like doorbells are as useless as landline telephones. I mean, if you’re going to come over, wouldn’t you just text me? And if you don’t have my number to text me, do I even want you coming over?
Dumplin’ (Dumplin’ #1) by Julie Murphy
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.
Starting from Scratch (Housemates #5) by Jay Northcote
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.
Keeping Long Island by Courtney Peppernell
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.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women (Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls #1) by Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo
This book had me smiling and close to happy tears on various occasions. It is wonderful to have such a compilation of female individuals’ stories in such plain language. Everyone should read about these wonderful people around the world who are willing to fight the system just to pursue their dreams.