Last
week was the first meeting for the Read Harder Rochester book group! We had
four whole people show up! Whoott!!
This
month’s categories up for discussion were: A Book about War and A LGBTQ Romance.
This post is about the latter.
An interesting
point that came up doing the discussion about this category is that all members
agreed that it would be important, moving forward, to choose books in the “diversity”
categories that were written by authors from the under-represented group. Not all of our books this time reflect this approach and the readers could tell that an "insider" voice would probably have been better.
What I Read:
For
this category, I chose More Happy than Not by Adam Silvera. I
really liked this book and still have high hopes for reviewing it, so I won't
say too much about it here. But, it's about a boy who has a girlfriend, but
also feelings, and then BOOOOOMM! WHUUTT!? Exactly. I would also
recommend When the Moon Was Ours for this category.
Two
important things: First, I don't think this counts as romance so I don't
consider this task complete. However, this book does count for the YA written
by an LGBTQ author (confirmation pending!) AND for the debut novel tasks. I
don't intend to double dip but if I must, I will! Second, when I googled
"More Happy than Not fan art" this picture of Emma Swan from Once
Upon a Time came up. I don't know what that is about but I approve. [pic links
to source on Pinterest.]
What Other
People Read/ Recommended:
Kelly
read If I Was Your Girl. This book about a trans woman depicts a trans model on
it, which is great but I can't get over how thin she is. This may be because of
the teens I work with who have disordered eating behaviors. Or maybe
because I'm fat. I don't know. The book is reportedly a great read.
Sarah
read Hold Me by Courtney Milan, The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles, and
Bad Idea by Damon Suede, who gets points for having an awesome last name
and a cute Goodreads bio. Bad Idea sounds super cheesy and I have added it to
my TBR list.
Kristi
(and then two other people) read Tipping the Velvet by Sara Waters and
author known to all of us.
See my other Read Harder Roc posts:
I didn't get to read Bad Idea and Hold Me yet, but they're both on my e-book hold list with NYPL. I can't wait because yeah, The Magpie Lord probably would've been better if it had actually been written by a gay man, and it had a pretty solid non-romance plot so I'm not actually counting that task complete yet either.
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