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Five were Black and five were Asian, two were Latinx, plus 11 that were unable to be ID’d, most of which was fanfic. Now, I did read majority queer authors as always, but white and BIPOC were evenly split- like it’s half white and half everything else. Yes, there are loads of queer BIPOC books that are there for those who seek them out, but that can be difficult for the well-intentioned college student stuck with their ill-stocked college library. While I recognize that getting that info would be tricky unless the authors self-ID, it doesn’t address that the majority of “The Canon” is comprised of white allocishet men. Two major stats that Storygraph neglects are the gender and race/ethnicity of the authors. The “longer” books I liked were The Anthropocene Reviewed, Boyfriends (A queer polyam webcomic) and Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. So it really should be on the medium shelf… And I’m surprised this this is listed as a “short” book, but my absolute favourite of the Year was Never Let Me Go at a staggering 388 pages. My fave short books included No Exit by Sartre, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, Maurice by EM Forster and Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You by the wonderful and beautiful Misha Collins.
That averages to a book a week, which I’m pretty happy with considering my uni workload.Īll in all, I much prefer shorter books (obviously) because they’re less likely to drag on, and since I can finish them in a shorter amount of time, I’m less likely to forget what happens in between sit-downs. 75 comes from reading the bulk of The Secret History throughout the semester, but ultimately finished it on New Year’s Day. According to my notebook, I’ve read 51 books, GR thinks I’ve read 54, and Storygraph thinks I’ve read 34 books… I’m going to go with an official count of 51.75, since I don’t count DNFs in my notes, while also counting fanfics. My stats differ across various platforms, maybe because of DNFs, maybe because I’ve read fanfics that aren’t listed, maybe because I mismarked the date read on GR.
It’s the last week of winter break, and I’ve been feeling this itch to come back, to talk to people about books! I was your resident queer book blogger up until uni consumed all of my time. Hello, it’s been a while, and you likely don’t remember me.
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