A Few Recs

[wook77]

I've been promising links to a few of my favourite GLBT books.

The first is Kirith Kirin. I reviewed it before and it maintains a very high spot on my favourite book list. A small caveat - I would not read the continuation of the series. It devolves into a weird world that I didn't enjoy.

Lynn Flewelling. No, srsly. She has two series - Nightrunner series feature a gay couple as the two main heroes. Every book (but the last one which I hated) is well written. I have high hopes for the next book as the author took the concrit and worked on the issues and promised to improve the issues. So give this series a try.

The second series is Tamir Trilogy features a transgendered heroine. It's a fantastic concept and it's fairly well executed. I quite like this series.

So there are some of my favourite books. Do you have any recommendations?

Finally, a few more fandom things - I've been promising a link to this story - Why Sex Ed Should Stay in Schools - it's a Sesame Street slash story and omg. The lulz. I talked about this at Terminus a lot. I've talked about this story in chats and on vacation and just go read it. It's seriously amazingly crackalicious.

Verbotene Liebe playlist. Srsly awesome in a semi-poorly-acted German and subtitled sort of way.

Comments

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

*g* I was going to say about how I love Lynn Flewellings stuff and that Mercedes Lackey is fantastic but it looks like my girl already did. The storyteller was an amazing book but I can't think about it without crying.

I'd also add "Boys Like Us" and "Sweetheart" by Peter McGehee and the third book "labour of love" written by his partner Douglas Wilson after Peter passed away. They are by no means light and fluffy. They're written about gay life in the time of AIDS. Sort of whimsical but very moving.
I don't know how easy they are to get hold of though as we picked up the set second hand in a second hand book shop in Sydney.

I was also going to recommend Peter by Kate Walker but on Google books they have a fair bit of the story up and it's no where near as well written as I thought it was. It's written for kids/young adults. Recommended for 13 year olds and up. I read it when I was 10. I loved it but then I think it was the only book written for kids that talked about gay issues in any way at all. It's also written by an Australian Author who lived in the same area I do so I loved the feel of it, it felt true to where I was. It won about 8 r 9 awards but I think it was only really known about at our school because you weren't allowed to borrow it from our school library unless you were 12 and had a not from your parents. I think we were lucky we had it at school at all. Most didn't. I just borrowed it from the local library with no problems *g*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I'n not such a fan of Mercedes Lackey but god I love Lynn Flewelling.

I'll have to check out those books. The local library looks to have them so I'll definitely have to request them.

I'll also look up Peter, as well. I've been reading some books that aren't the best written stories nor are they completely to my taste but I'm enjoying them nonetheless (if that makes any sense in my contradictory manner).

I don't remember any books about being gay in my schools growing up. I grew up in a very small town in the middle of south central PA that was very narrowminded and bigoted so I'm quite certain that was exactly the reason why I didn't even get teh concept of "gay" until high school when I moved to a larger town and met a very good friend of mine that happened to be gay. I remember the way that he laughed at me as i was all o.O but.... and then we bonded over that and his coming out and the way that I was all o.O over my own sexuality and stuffs. I think he made it easier for me to question and wonder and "decide". (again, if that makes sense)

But anyway - all that ramble and aside-edness to say that I'm definitely planning on checking those books out. <3