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

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

What do you think of the latest VL drama? I am ready to smack Christian after watching that last clip (112)! Although the super-dramatic musical flourish at the end makes me laugh...

[tailoredshirt.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for using inappropriate icons on your journal without permission, but I couldn't help myself, it just fit.

I read the Bert and Ernie fic a few months ago and oh. my. god. So hilarious and why on earth did I find it...kind of hot?

Thanks for the book recs! I'm going to check those out.

[elanorofcastile.livejournal.com]

"Bert, we're thirty-eight years old. It's not a beard. And this isn't a nose, Bert. It's a penis."

I knew, then, that it could only get better, and it did... D: LOL

Also, I will definitely give a gander at some of those books, since I'm always on the lookout for something new to read.

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

I just so totally read Kirith Kirin as Kinrath. *fails*

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

I second the Lynn Flewelling rec, and add Mercedes Lackey (whose stories often feature gay and lesbian characters, especially in her Valdemar series), Sarah Waters' books (I'm currently reading Fingersmith) and Storyteller by Amy Thomson.

[oconel]

I read the third Nightrunner book and I enjoyed it, as you said I would! :D

lusiology recced me Megan Derr's (maderr) novels. You can read them online or buy the books. So far I've read "Embrace" (in her LJ), and I'm currently reading "Prisoner" which I'm enjoying even more than embrace.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Book recs: If you're not turned off by paranormals, I stronly recommend 'Without Reservations' by JL Langley, which features two wonderful young men (both werewolves!) coming to terms with the fact that they are meant to be mates. The characters are so warm and believable that I just wanted to hug them both!

[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*

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

wow

that fic is just

wow

*goes off to re-sort memories and opinions of sesame street*

[gala-apples.livejournal.com]

hey. i friended you because i've fangirled you and kalee for about 2 years, and when i was talking to lindsay at terminus there you were, and i said i loved seamus/dean, and you were like we should talk later but i didn't see you again.

anyway, the first gblt book i ever got was a book of short stories called "are you blue" and the title story was really good. (the others might be, i haven't read it in a long time).

target (kathleen jeffrie johnson) was really good. it's about a teen boy that gets raped and has problems dealing with the fact that he likes males, because he doesn't know if "the rape made him gay" a secondary charecter is also gay, and he's really interesting too. not to mention that my favourite charecter ends up being homophobic, and the first time you read that you're like WHAT, WHY, HOW? (ie, the charecters in this book evoke a strong emotional reaction)

dancing on my grave (adian chambers) is painful but great. i guess it's a bit out of date, originally published in 1986. but i really liked it, if you can like your heart being torn into bits.