I am maybe in too many book clubs? 😂
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hermionesviolinLast Friday, Ari pointed out that we could keep doing bff book club even after finishing our initial book. So we have 2 pieces left in Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender by Joy Ladin (2024) and then are gonna have 8(?) essays in Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (2019). (We opted to continue doing anthologies, 1 piece/week.)
Two days ago, I finished The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara (2018) for local library LGBTQ+ book group tonight.
I didn't read All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson (2020) for climate change book club yesterday, but I would like to read it.
Today I finished reading Kyle Lukoff's new middle-grade novel A World Worth Saving -- which was due back at the library today and I thought wouldn't renew because I had been on a waitlist for it, but apparently there is no longer a waitlist.
I have not yet read Andrew Joseph White's 2022 YA novel Hell Followed With Us, which is in the same vein as A World Worth Saving and Camp Damascus. [A World Worth Saving and Hell Followed With Us are not book club books -- but speak to the struggle to fit in anything that isn't a book club book.]
Today I started reading Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (2015) by Laura Jane Grace for 24 March (Women's History Month) DEI book club.
I have not yet started reading The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste (2018) for March 30 feminist sff book club -- though it looks on the shorter side.
Queer sports journalist Frankie de la Cretaz does Out Of Your League Book Club, and the April book is Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates by Katie Barnes (2023), which I would like to do (though book club is only for paid subscribers and ugh, I don't wanna give more money to Substack because Nazis).
Also in April is:
[April 9 climate change book club] Hum by Helen Phillips -- speculative fiction
[April 17 LGBTQ+ library book group] Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
[April (Arab American Heritage Month) DEI book club] prob something Palestinian
And on and on it goes.
Two days ago, I finished The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara (2018) for local library LGBTQ+ book group tonight.
I didn't read All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson (2020) for climate change book club yesterday, but I would like to read it.
Today I finished reading Kyle Lukoff's new middle-grade novel A World Worth Saving -- which was due back at the library today and I thought wouldn't renew because I had been on a waitlist for it, but apparently there is no longer a waitlist.
I have not yet read Andrew Joseph White's 2022 YA novel Hell Followed With Us, which is in the same vein as A World Worth Saving and Camp Damascus. [A World Worth Saving and Hell Followed With Us are not book club books -- but speak to the struggle to fit in anything that isn't a book club book.]
Today I started reading Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (2015) by Laura Jane Grace for 24 March (Women's History Month) DEI book club.
I have not yet started reading The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste (2018) for March 30 feminist sff book club -- though it looks on the shorter side.
Queer sports journalist Frankie de la Cretaz does Out Of Your League Book Club, and the April book is Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates by Katie Barnes (2023), which I would like to do (though book club is only for paid subscribers and ugh, I don't wanna give more money to Substack because Nazis).
Also in April is:
[April 9 climate change book club] Hum by Helen Phillips -- speculative fiction
[April 17 LGBTQ+ library book group] Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
[April (Arab American Heritage Month) DEI book club] prob something Palestinian
And on and on it goes.