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1 year ago

Reseña: Paris Dellaincourt is about to crumble, Alexis Hall

Resea: Paris Dellaincourt Is About To Crumble, Alexis Hall

Mi reseña original en Twitter:

Siento que leo tantos libros gay para compensar los años en que no los conocía o no me animaba a interesarme por ellos Sobre este, me copó el formato (cada cap es un ep del reality de cocina). Los personajes se repiten un poco a los de Bf./Husband Material del mismo autor so :/

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No tengo mucho más que opinar, es una historia bastante directa, con una trama que momentáneamente se desvía del romance hacia un problema de salud mental. Es exactamente como leer un reality: no te enorgullece mucho pero te sirve como tema de conversación con muchas otras personas que también lo leyeron/vieron.

Admito que los personajes que Alexis Hall creo, al menos en las etiquetas que les pone esta vez, rompen un poco algunos moldes o preconcepciones que uno puede tener sobre personas religiosas o sobre personas de clase social alta o media alta. La personalidad de los personajes es sin embargo muy similar a la de los de Boyfriend/Husband Material, solo cambia el nombre y el trasfondo cultural.

5/10.

Mis otras lecturas del 2023.


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1 year ago

Reseña: This is How you Lose the Time War, Amar El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Resea: This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amar El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Mi reseña original en Twitter:

Lo leí a ciegas y fui recibido por una gran historia de Ciencia Ficción (por una ganadora y un nominado al Hugo, brújula de mi gusto) Yendo a detalles [SPOILERS] amé el estilo epistolar, reitero lo que dije de Dick y las ideas en CF, los personajes son hermosos también

Comentarios adicionales:

Bueno, también cedí a la viral recomendación de Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood en Twitter, pero no era consciente al momento de leerlo porqué tanta gente lo estaba recomendando, solo me llamó la atención ver a tantas personas al mismo tiempo hablando del libro.

La historia me encantó, y logra combinar excelentemente una trama de dos bandos enfrentados en una lucha por el control de la historia a través de distintas hebras del tiempo, con una historia particular de amor shakespereano:

a través del tiempo, escena de la acción, dos bandos de rango y calidad renuevan viejos odios con pasión y manchan con la sangre de otros la historia. De la entraña fatal de estos rivales nacieron dos amantes malhadadas...

Red y Blue, lentamente, empiezan a profesar un amor a la distancia por la otra, frustrando y respondiendo los planes de la otra con precisión y creatividad en esta extraña tarea que les encomendaron: guiar las mareas del tiempo para controlar el resultado de la historia a través de aleteos de mariposa y huracanes de guerra.

Voy a necesariamente citar el fragmento más hermoso y repetido de este libro:

"I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you"

Es especialmente bella esa frase en el contexto de la historia: Red y Blue jamás se encuentran cara a cara, jamás se hablan directamente salvo a través de cartas meticulosa y dolorosamente escritas a lo largo de años, entretejidas en el lienzo del universo, sutilmente en detalles solo perceptibles para ellas.

El personaje de Seeker, cada vez más perceptible cuanto más cerca del final del libro, es lo que termina de cerrar la lógica del libro para darse cuenta que todo estaba planeado desde el principio.

9/10.

Mis otras lecturas del 2023.


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2 years ago
Book Review | Midnight Feast

Book Review | Midnight Feast

Author: Martina Evans

Cover Art: Ben Warner

Publication date: September 3, 1996

Genre: Catholic school fiction, coming of age

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Midnight Feast is the dark and funny story of love in a convent boarding school. When sixteen year-old Grace arrives at Mayo, she immediately falls for the mercurial and glamorously thin Colette MacSweeney. She soon finds herself descending with Colette into life-threatening anorexia, entangled in the dysfunction that seethes below the surface of Colette’s family.

Midnight Feast is Martina Evans' first novel and even before its publication it won a Betty Task Award and was optioned for a film - which unfortunately never happened because this is such a masterpiece of a book.

This is the story of a 16 year old girl named Grace Jones when she's put in a Catholic boarding school in Ireland. And during her time in the school she meets Colette, a very problematic girl since she induces Grace into thinking that she is fat and that she should want to be as skinny as herself. Both get as skinny as a corpse and are diagnosed with anorexia. They also create a strange relationship - it's so weird I'm not even able to explain to you what it is.

I loved this book. Everything about it is fantastic. The plot is intriguing enough to get you addicted, and the words chosen to report the action and to describe the details are perfect. While reading I became so disgusted by anorexia and what it does to you that I insisted in eating well and regularly so that won't end up like them.

This is also a great book to spread awareness about eating disorders. I recommend it to young girls and boys who are entering secondary school since it is a time in your life in which you tend to follow everything that your friends do and you become really insecure about yourself.

As to the cover, it is just beautiful. I tried to find the name of the painting, but I couldn't. All I found was the name of the artist.

To conclude, this is a fantastic book and you should read it ;))


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6 months ago
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!

Here are some books I found with non binary bi MCs to celebrate the occasion 💖

Books listed

💕I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver 💕 Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley 💕 Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco 💕 Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender 💕 The Oracle Stone by Talli L. Morgan 💕 The Savior's Rise by Talli L. Morgan 💕 The Scandalous Letters of V and J by Felicia Davin 💕 The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta


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5 months ago

forever floored by folks who refuse to read anything not tradpub when it comes to queer books cause let me tell you there is so much in indie or smaller publishers being written that would blow your socks off AND theyre not beholden to censorship of tradpub as they try to "keep things nice for their image" (which is ironic considering the kinds of cishet romances that get put out)

Forever Floored By Folks Who Refuse To Read Anything Not Tradpub When It Comes To Queer Books Cause Let
Forever Floored By Folks Who Refuse To Read Anything Not Tradpub When It Comes To Queer Books Cause Let
Forever Floored By Folks Who Refuse To Read Anything Not Tradpub When It Comes To Queer Books Cause Let
Forever Floored By Folks Who Refuse To Read Anything Not Tradpub When It Comes To Queer Books Cause Let
Forever Floored By Folks Who Refuse To Read Anything Not Tradpub When It Comes To Queer Books Cause Let
Forever Floored By Folks Who Refuse To Read Anything Not Tradpub When It Comes To Queer Books Cause Let

here are some queer indie books that ive been reading that yall should check out


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