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The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
fast-paced
5.0
I am actually so surprised at how charmed I was by this. I hate most celebrity memoirs because they feel like cash grabs, but this was ACTUALLY funny and moving. I often wonder as a queer + non-binary person how many people from history I admire would hate my ass, which is a question tackled here, and was actually really sweet. Also so fun to see Benjamin Lay in here, what a fucking icon LMAOOOO
Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J. Tuli
Nadir is a red flag and a half omgggggg. Like this is the kind of relationship we should be warning against?????
Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli
Very much a Throne of Glass rip off. Also if I have to read one more story about a girl with a "well over 6ft tall" Fae boyfriend I STG
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
2.5
Not as good as the first prequel. It felt really rushed. Also kind of disappointing that Collins finally ran out of songs and just started quoting Edgar Allan Poe poems?? Where did that come from lol. Also kind of seemed like just a parade of Easter eggs.
Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer by Dylan Mulvaney
A memoir from someone really rich and white who had every privilege in her transition. There's nothing new or particularly interesting in here. I don't want to give it a bad review cause I feel like most people who have are just transphobes being assholes but really, it isn't any good.
Roberta Cowell's Story by Roberta Cowell
The insistence on her being intersex is interesting, especially since it is nearly impossible she was--she had two children, as she admits. It seems she really believes this about herself, though I guess she could not have said anything else because only intersex people could have their documents changed. She didn't have to throw other trans people under the bus either--Christine Jorgenson, for instance, was to her a freak, but because she was "intersex," her transition was perfectly okay. And women who do not pass are "men" in her book. Her ideas of womanhood are also very rooted in the time period: that women are bad drivers, so after her transition, of course she got worse at driving (even despite having been a professional race car driver). Interesting to read, but must be taken with a grain of salt. She isn't a reliable narrator about her own life.