My #Transathon 2020 TBR!

Here is my TBR for #Transathon 2020, which is hosted by @transathon on Twitter. You can enter for giveaways by filling out this form. I'm indicating the books I want to read on audio with an (A). As usual, I'm selecting multiple options for each challenge, because I'm a mood reader and it makes it …

Alpha Recs: B

Last week, the wonderful Dahlia Adler did a thread on Twitter where she recommended five good books for each letter in the alphabet. She suggested I might do a similar set of recs, and that sounded like a lot of fun to me, so I have decided to do a weekly series of alphabet-based book recommendations. …

My Romance Book Bingo TBR!

I want to participate in a few year-long reading challenges in 2019 and the romance book bingo created by Maria Reads (#RomBkBingo) is one of them! I generally list 3-4 options for each, so I have choices. This helps me as both a mood reader and as someone whose disability flares impact their reading choices …

Book and Snack Pairing: Corner Store Chips

My plan for this Book and Snack Pairing post series is to taste snacks (two new and one old favorite) and pair them with romances (two recent first time reads and one old favorite). The romances reflect my reading habits, so they tend contemporary, and are a mix of pairings. I am marking the ones …

Best Reads in March 2018

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in March 2018. It definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance. I am marking the audiobooks with an (A), and there were a lot of them this month, more than usual, because my brain fog was especially bad, which has me leaning to audiobooks …

Fluffy Romance with Little to No Sex on the Page

I've gotten a couple requests recently for romances that are fluffy comfort reads with little to no sex on the page, so I thought I'd put together a quick recommendation post for this. Comfort reads are an individual thing, so I went with gathering things that I consider fluffy, which I loosely define as: not …

Review of My Dinner with Andrea

My Dinner with Andrea by Jen Durbent. Hybrid Ink. 2018. 3.75 stars Note: I would recommend that disabled readers be cautious in approaching this story (see review for details), and highly recommend that readers who are trauma survivors look at the content warnings. This is a riveting, intense novel that goes right for the throat. …

One Trans Response to “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds”

Note: This was originally posted at xanwest.wordpress.com in March 2016. About content: this post speaks openly (and in some detail) about trans oppression in queer communities (with a focus on the ways trans men are targeted), gender border wars, purging, and gender-based coercion and abuse in relationships. Most of that discussion is in the first …

Review of Handmade Holidays

Handmade Holidays by 'Nathan Burgoine. Ninestar Press. 2017. 4.5 stars I loved this queer Christmas story! It's got a romance element, but just as central is the chosen family aspect, and the creation of family traditions in queer chosen families. It gave me so many feels, of all different sorts. This story visits the same …

Fave Romances with Queer Disabled MCs

This post gives a rather long list of my favorite romances with queer disabled MCs. It definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but there is a smattering of fantasy, YA and historical romance too. I am grouping them by theme. Many could belong in more than one category. I link to reviews where I have written …