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hermionesviolin) wrote2022-10-06 01:12 pm
hermionesviolin) wrote2022-10-06 01:12 pm
Medford Public Library LGBTQ+ Book Group 2022-2023 season
Medford Public Library LGBTQ+ Book Group's list of books for this season came out today. (In-person/Zoom hybrid from 7-8:30pm, 2nd Thursday of the month unless otherwise noted. hmu if you want in on any of them.)
It feels more wide-ranging than previous years? Like 3/9 authors are male (and 1 is non-binary). Also a surprising amount of historical fiction. And 2 memoirs and 1 "partly autobiographical" novel.
When I posted about this book club last year, I included publication dates, so I'm including that again.
It feels more wide-ranging than previous years? Like 3/9 authors are male (and 1 is non-binary). Also a surprising amount of historical fiction. And 2 memoirs and 1 "partly autobiographical" novel.
When I posted about this book club last year, I included publication dates, so I'm including that again.
October 13, 2022
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (classic/fiction) [first published October 11, 1928]Orlando the character begins as a British nobleman during the reign of Elizabeth I (late 1500s), lives for centuries without aging, turns into a woman at one point, has romantic/sexual relationships with men and women... definitely has some uncomfy racial stuff in moments (also talks about "gipsies," which term is considered pejorative by many Romani people) Virginia Woolf (a British woman) wrote this book for Vita Sackville-West, and one review says, "A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West"
November 3, 2022 (1st Thursday of the month)
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (fiction) [November 24, 2020]protagonist is a Syrian American trans boy in NYC -- I think author is similar? (definitely trans-masc, and seems to be Arab at least -- and Wiki at least used to call him "Syrian American")
December 8, 2022
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (fiction) [November 3, 2020]about 3 Nigerian women, by a Nigerian-Canadian woman
January 19, 2023 (3rd Thursday of the month)
¡Hola Papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons by John Paul Brammer (biography/essays) [June 8, 2021]biracial Chicano (Mexican American) man
February 9, 2023
Real Life by Brandon Taylor (fiction) [February 18, 2020]Wikipedia says, "the partly autobiographical book tells of the experiences of a gay, Black doctoral student in a predominantly White, Midwestern PhD program." [protagonist and "scientist turned novelist" author are both from Alabama.]
March 9, 2023
Matrix by Lauren Groff (fiction) [September 7, 2021]historical fiction by an American woman about Marie de France (a woman in late 12th-century England)
April 20, 2023 (3rd Thursday of the month)
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones (memoir) [October 8, 2019]black, gay man from the American South
May 11, 2023
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue (fiction) [April 1, 2014]historical fiction about women in Summer of 1876 San Francisco by an Irish woman
June 8, 2023
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (memoir/graphic novel) [May 28, 2019]e/em/eir-pronouns non-binary and asexual American
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