Time to nominate the Queer Romance Club read for August. Give me your suggestions for the poll, which I will post this weekend.
New releases, old favourites, classic must-reads, series starters, award winners, feel-good fluff, mixed genres, anything’s good as long as it’s both queer and romantic 💕
What other titles do you think SHOULD HAVE been on Bowie’s book list?
We’re making a list of books we think could have made the list or books we wished had been on the list.
We'll be randomly selecting from this list for the second season of the #BowieBookClub Podcast.
3 people in my bookclub really enjoy reading erotica. To each their own, it’s simply not my thing. My question, & I don’t want to come across as condescending, are there any books of this genre that are well-written? I get there will be a lot of gratuitous stuff, but is that all there is to these books? Years ago, another bookclub I was in read the 1st book in the Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice (she wrote these under a different name) & I couldn’t finish it, I thought it was ridiculous.
This month on #BowieBookClub we read ‘Darkness at Noon’ by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting conclusion to the Russian books that Bowie included on his reading list.
Everything's fine, by Cecilia Rabess. He's white, rich, works in finance, has rich friends, votes for Trump. She's black, very smart, is doing ok but her career doesn't fly, has rich friends, mostly white. The book tells their story and it's all in the present tense, giving a feel of inevitability to it all. The story of how you can end up being in a relationship with someone who has very different views to yours. A story that is left incomplete, because how long can you go on telling yourself that Everything's Fine?
As someone who's being slowly finding herself, life's much better on the other side @bookstodon#CeciliaRabess#EverythingsFine#bookclub#books@kiarazard#bookwyrm@thestorygraph
Get your berets and espresso cups! This month on #BowieBookClub we read an art history class in a single book: Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto.
So, #bookstodon, here is my #goodreads challenge for this year, how is everyone else getting on? Why not friend me on goodreads? Also, any #bookclub on here? @bookstodon
Fridays are for dark chocolate peanut butter fudge. I stopped eating most sugar & processed stuff 6 yrs ago (I make this with stevia & 90% chocolate), so finding a dessert that I love so much was a big thing.
4 of us met last night for dinner, drinks, & discussion about Demon Copperhead. 3/4 loved it, one thought it too depressing to finish. I thought it was incredible & easily gave it 5 stars.
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles. Three young men and a child, good hearts and bad parents, in a non-inclusive society. The story is told by each character in turn, in a pleasant, neat writing that I really enjoyed. The ending felt both surprising and inevitable somehow. According to my bookclub friends, not as good as A Gentleman in Moscow, but I liked it. #TheLincolnHighway#AmorTowles#bookclub@bookstodon