Libri LGBTQ+ nella mia TBR - Parte 4

Buongiorno a tutt*! Oggi vi accolgo con il quarto di questa serie di post. Potete trovare gli altri post QUI, QUI e QUI.

Ma, prima, alcuni annunci.

Annuncio 1: Per il gruppo di lettura, non avedo ricevuto risposte qui sul blog, ho deciso di organizzarlo su Litsy, dove mi trovate come thereadingpal. Stiamo decidendo il libro da leggere: il form si chiuderà il 26 Giugno, poi darò le due date in cui discuteremo il libro scelto sotto la traccia di alcune domande. La lettura inizierà dal 1 Luglio.

Annuncio 2: Dopo aver cominciato questa serie di post, ho deciso di intervistare alcun* autor* LGBTQ+ sul blog e farne una miniserie. Ergo, sei un* autor* LGBTQ+ che scrivere per un pubblico LGBTQ+? Contattami su Instagram,  Facebook o via mail se vuoi farti conoscere e vuoi un'intervista!

Ecco altri libri LGBTQ+ nella mia TBR.

Titolo: Perfect Pairing

Autore: Rachel Spangler

Casa Editrice: Bywater Books

Numero di pagine: 288

Prezzo: €8 (Kindle) / €13,59 (Cartaceo)

Link per l'acquisto: Amazon

 

Hal Orion is an accomplished chef and food truck owner. She loves her life, her longtime sous chef and best friend, and the food she shares with the residents of her beloved city of Buffalo. Her life is exactly how she wants it: no strings, no commitments, and no roots—just great grilled cheese and a whole lot of freedom on the side.

Quinn Banning is an investment banker, and the dividend she seeks is a resurgence of the once-great city of Buffalo. Putting together her next business venture, she recognizes Hal's talent and charm as necessary assets for success—her good looks don't hurt, either. But Hal's transient ways are in direct opposition to the stability Quinn craves. Relying on their shared love of Buffalo, Quinn makes Hal an offer she can't refuse—a restaurant under her own name, complete creative control, and secure financial backing. It's every chef's dream. But Hal utters the one word Quinn can't stand to hear, "No."

Will their physical attraction grow cold as they argue over their ideals, or will they find that the most distinctive ingredients often make for the perfect pairing?

 

 

Titolo: Cemetery Boys

Autore: Aiden Thomas

Casa Editrice: Mondadori

Numero di pagine: 399

Prezzo: €9,99 (Kindle) / €20 (Cartaceo)

Link per l'acquisto: Amazon

 

YADRIEL HA EVOCATO UNO SPIRITO, E ORA NON RIESCE PIÙ A LIBERARSENE.

Yadriel è un ragazzo trans, ma i suoi - una famiglia latinx molto tradizionalista - faticano ad accettarlo. Lui, però, è determinato a dimostrare loro di essere un vero brujo e con l'aiuto di Maritza, sua cugina­ nonché migliore amica, decide di celebrare da solo il rituale dei quinces, ritrovare il fantasma di suo cugino Miguel, morto assassinato, e liberarlo nell'aldilà.

Ma il fantasma che evoca è quello di Julian Diaz, il bello e dannato della scuola, il quale non ha alcuna intenzione di tornarsene buono buono tra i morti. Anzi è ben deciso a scoprire cosa gli è successo e a chiarire alcune questioni lasciate in sospeso. Yadriel, che d'altronde non ha molta scelta, accetta di aiutare Julian, in modo che entrambi possano ottenere ciò che desiderano. Solo che, più tempo passa con lui, meno ha voglia di lasciarlo andare...

Titolo: Heartstopper Vol. 2

Autore: Alice Oseman

Casa Editrice: Mondadori

Numero di pagine: 324

Prezzo: €10,99 (Kindle) / €17 (Cartaceo)

Link per l'acquisto: Amazon

 

Nick e Charlie sono grandi amici. Nick sa che Charlie è gay, e Charlie è sicuro che Nick non lo sia. Ma l'amore percorre strade inaspettate, e Nick scoprirà parecchie cose sui suoi amici, sulla sua famiglia e su se stesso. 

Titolo: Heckin' Lewd. Trans and Non Binary Erotica

Autore: Mx. Nillin Lore (curatore)

Casa Editrice: Bold Strokes Books

Numero di pagine: 204

Prezzo: €9,99 (Kindle) / €16,44 (Cartaceo)

Link per l'acquisto: Amazon

 

If you've been searching for smutty, fearless, gender diverse erotica written by affirming own-voices folks who get it, then this is the book you’ve been looking for! Packed with explicit stories from trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse writers, Heckin’ Lewd celebrates sexual nonconformity, queerness, nontraditional relationship structures, and unrestrained lust, pleasure, and kink.

 

 

 

Titolo: Crush

Autore: L. Dreamer

Casa Editrice: Self

Numero di pagine: 232

Prezzo: €5,60 (Kindle) / €16,94 (Cartaceo)

Link per l'acquisto: Amazon

 

Mia Torwood moves from San Francisco to the central coast of California when her husband Tom buys a winery. She is resistant at first but learns to appreciate the slower pace of life and the beauty of the land. During their very first harvest, Tom dies of a heart attack. During a meeting with their financial planner, Mia learns her husband made some bad investments and the winery is her only asset. She must also find another vineyard manager because their present one, Jose, wants to retire.

Cal Sanders is a transgender man who helps run his family's winery in the central valley of California. He wants out of his small town because of the transphobia and harassment he has experienced since coming out as trans. He just wants to grow grapes and make great wine as the man he's always seen himself to be. So, he answers an ad looking for a vineyard manager and meets Mia Torwood. Cal makes an impression on Mia during their interview. He's the only man who treats her like she's the owner of the winery, not Jose. She offers him the job the next day

As Cal settles in, he butts heads with the head winemaker, Samuel, who thinks the promotion to vineyard manager should have gone to him. He also has his eye on Mia. He challenges Cal at every turn, especially when Cal proposes turning the vineyard into a biodynamic farm with goats, chickens, and supplemental crops. It infuriates Samuel that Mia spends time with Cal. Things come to a head when Samuel corners Mia and tries to convince her that Cal is trying to seduce the winery out from under her. She calls him into her office the next day and fires him. He is escorted off the premises and makes threats to both Cal and the winery.

While all this is going on, Cal finds a box of letters in the attic of the apartment he lives in on the property. Both he and Mia join in on unraveling the mystery of the letters sent from a woman named Anne during World War II to one of the original winery owner's daughters, Patty. It leads them to Patty's granddaughter, who lets Cal and Mia read Patty's journals. The journals, they find, chronicle an extraordinary love story that brings Mia and Cal closer as they learn not everything was as it seemed on the winery decades ago.

Things take a harrowing turn when Cal wakes to a fire right under his apartment in the harvesting equipment room. He escapes with his life and some important files from Mia's office on the other side of his apartment. Mia is moved by his act of selflessness. He moves in with Mia temporarily as the building is repaired.

As the season winds down and grape harvesting begins, Cal and Mia finally acknowledge to themselves that their connection has grown and evolved. With the help of her friend Lloyd, Mia decides to have a conversation with Cal. Though she isn't quite ready for a relationship, she wants to be honest about how she feels. He too admits his feelings for her.

As Mia plans the winery's grape stomping festival, the culminating event that brings the growing season to an end, she considers what a future with Cal would look like. She rereads Patty's journals and weighs the risks and rewards of opening her heart up to love and possibility one more time.

Titolo: Tomorrow will be different

Autore: Sarah McBride

Casa Editrice: Crown

Numero di pagine: 304

Prezzo: €8,04 (Kindle) / €15, 67 (Cartaceo)

Link per l'acquisto: Amazon

 

Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out—not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president. She’d known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but it wasn’t until the Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized just how much impact her story could have on the country.

Four years later, McBride was one of the nation’s most prominent transgender activists, walking the halls of the White House, advocating inclusive legislation, and addressing the country in the midst of a heated presidential election. She had also found her first love and future husband, Andy, a trans man and fellow activist, who complemented her in every way . . . until cancer tragically intervened.

Informative, heartbreaking, and profoundly empowering, Tomorrow Will Be Different is McBride’s story of love and loss and a powerful entry point into the LGBTQ community’s battle for equal rights and what it means to be openly transgender. From issues like bathroom access to health care to gender in America, McBride weaves the important political and cultural milestones into a personal journey that will open hearts and change minds.

As McBride urges: “We must never be a country that says there’s only one way to love, only one way to look, and only one way to live.”

The fight for equality and freedom has only just begun.

 

 

Titolo: On being different. What it means to be a Homosexual

Autore: Merle Miller

Casa Editrice: Penguin Classics

Numero di pagine: 96

Prezzo: €8,77 (Kindle) / €15, 55 (Cartaceo)

Link per l'acquisto: Amazon

 

The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage

Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times Magazine entitled “What It Means To Be a Homosexual” in response to a homophobic article published in Harper’s Magazine. Described as “the most widely read and discussed essay of the decade,” it carried the seed that would blossom into On Being Different—one of the earliest memoirs to affirm the importance of coming out.