I was so close to beating Anna on things watched this month, but, once again, they came out on top. But between us, we watched a fair variety of things…I think.
But anyway. If you want to see what we’ve read and watched and loved (or not…), then this is the post for you! Also, if you’re wanting any rec lists in particular for next month, drop a comment and we’ll see what we can come up with.
(And Happy Easter, if you celebrate it!)
What we read
Anna
Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley (bi/pan mc, lesbian mc) – 5 π [review]
Cheer Up: Love and Pom-Poms by Crystal Frasier & Val Wise (half-white Latinx trans sapphic mc, lesbian mc, side nonbinary character, side Black characters, side brown characters) – 4 π tw transphobia, sexual harassment, fatphobia
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (Latinx/Mexican-American/Chicano gay mc, Vietnamese-American gay li, bi, gay, lesbian & pan characters) – 4 π tw past & present parental abuse, physical abuse (chapter 14 & 28), homophobia, outing, mc gets kicked out [review]
π₯ Penhallow Amid Passing Things by Iona Datt Sharma (wlw mcs) – 3 π
Malice by Heather Walter (lesbian mc & li) – 3.5 π tw past & present torture, lesbophobia, past suicides, blood, drugs [review]
How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby (sapphic mc with depression and anxiety, nonbinary li, side sapphic couple) – 4 π tw panic attacks [review]
Charlotte
Goal Lines & First Times by Eden Finley & Saxon James (bi mc, demi pan mc, gay & bi side characters) – 2 π
Bat Boy by Christina Lee (gay mcs, bi side character) – 3 π
Home Plate by Christina Lee (bi mcs) – 3.5 π cw homophobia, internalised homophobia
π₯ The Secret by May Archer (gay mc, bi mc) – 3 π
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (gay mc & side characters) – 4 π
π₯ The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K. J. Charles (gay mcs) – 5 π
The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth (lesbian mc, sapphic li) – 2.5 π
The Stone Prince by Fiona Patton (bi mcs) – 3 π
Like Water by Rebecca Podos (bi mc, genderqueer lesbian li) – 4 π
Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett (bi mc, gay mc) – 4 π cw attempted sexual assault
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (mixed race (white, Japanese, Afro-Caribbean) bi trans mc, mlm side character, lesbian side character, gay genderqueer side character) – 1 π cw panic attacks, misgendering
Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June (gay mc, Chinese American gay li, gay genderqueer side character, gay side character, Black side character, South Asian(?) side character) – 2.5 π cw vomiting, cheating [review]
In the Ravenous Dark by A. M. Strickland (pan mc, lesbian li, nonbinary side character, polyamory) – 2 π cw blood, gore [review]
Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (Jewish bi mc, Jewish Syrian American bi li, bi, gay & pan nonbinary side characters) – 2.5 π cw internalised homophobia, biphobia [review]
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould (lesbian mcs, bi Latino mc, gay mc) – 5 π cw murder, homophobia, homophobic violence, attempted drowning, child death [review]
Proud of Me by Sarah Hagger-Holt (Jewish lesbian mc, sapphic side characters, gay side character, nonbinary side character) – 3 π cw homophobia
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Malaysian lesbian mc) – 4 π cw violence, attempted rape [review]
Among Thieves by M. J. Kuhn (lesbian mc, sapphic mc) – 3.5 π cw violence, dismemberment [review]
Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve (trans mc, lesbian side character, bi Japanese American side character, Black gay side character, trans & nonbinary side characters) – 2.5 π [review] cw misgendering, deadnaming, outing, transphobic assault, lesbophobic slurs
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (Taiwanese cast, lesbian mc, lesbian side characters, gay side character, bi side characters) – 3 π cw internalised homophobia, self harm, suicidal ideation, heroin addiction
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz JΔdrowski (gay mc, gay side character) – 3 π cw period typical homophobia
Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura (Japanese American lesbian mc, Japanese American lesbian li, Taiwanese American sapphic li, Black bi side character, Japanese American gay side character, Filipino American gay side character) – 4 π [review] cw homophobia
Headstrong by Eden Finley (gay mc, bi mc) – 3 π
Star Eater by Kerstin Hall (bi mc, bi side character, sapphic side characters, gay side character) – 2.5 π cw gore, cannibalism, violence, implied rape [review]
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (lesbian mcs, gay(?) mc) – 2.5 π cw self harm, abortion, gore, suicide attempt
Sweethand by N. G. Peltier (Trinidadian cast, bi mc, lesbian & gay side characters) – 3 π [review]
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain (lesbian mc, bi side character, gay mc) – 1 π cw period typical racism, descriptions of surgery, gore, domestic violence, miscarriage, suicide
Malice by Heather Walter (lesbian mcs) – 2.5 π cw past torture, lesbophobia, past suicides [review]
What we watched (and listened to)
Charlotte
Anne+ (S1) dir. Valerie Bisscheroux (lesbian mc, bi, gay, lesbian & nonbinary side characters, Black lesbian side character) – 4 π
Midsomer Murders (20×01) cr. Caroline Graham (Black gay character)
Out on Strike (1993) dir. Jacquie Lawrence (documentary) – 3 π
Pixie (2020) dir. Barnaby Thompson (Black bi mc, bi mc) – 5 π cw violence, blood, guns (and π₯ )
Anna
Moxie (2021), dir. Amy Poehler (trans character) – 3 π
Shiva Baby (2020), dir. Emma Seligman (Jewish bi mc, Jewish sapphic character) – 4 π
Feel Good (2020-2021; S1), cr. Mae Martin and Joe Hampson (lesbian nonbinary mc with drug addiction, sapphic li, brown side lesbian character) – 4.5 π tw drugs, blood, vomitting, homophobia, internalised homophobia
Trigonometry (2020-; S1), cr. Duncan Macmillan & Effie Woods (Black Brazilian-British bi mc, French-British bi mc, polyam m/f/f relationship, sapphic character) – 4 π
Genera+ion (2021; S1), dir. Zelda Barnz & Daniel Barnz (Black gay mcs, Latina lesbian mc, bi male mc, bi female mc, sapphic character, gay characters) – 2.5 π tw homophobia, biphobia, teenage pregnancy
On the blog
- Our March book of the month.
- Interviews with Allison Saft & Harry F. Rey.
- A guest post from Anya Leigh Josephs.
- Rec lists for high fantasy (part two), new adult protags in films/TV, books with less than 400 Goodreads ratings (part three), found family and songs from February.
- ARC reviews (and mixes!) for Sweet & Bitter Magic and The Unbroken.
- All of April’s releases.
On other blogs
- Dahlia @ LGBTQReads revealed the covers for I Kissed a Girl, Lies With Man and Tonight We Rule the World, and featured a conversation between Sonia Hartl and Auriane Desombre,
- Lili @ Utopia State of Mind featured a Q&A with Morgan Rogers.
- Jess @ A Lesbian and Her Laptop wrote a post on the meaning of the label ‘sapphic’.
- CW @ The Quiet Pond interviewed Alyssa Cole.
- Fadwa @ Word Wonders interviewed N. G. Peltier.
So, how was March? What did you read and watch?
4 Comments
Bell ~ Rhymes With Paradeabelle
You both continue to amaze me at how PRODUCTIVE you are!!! Happy Easter to you too! (if you celebrate it of course)
readsrainbow
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Birdie @ Birdie's booktopia
Omg I’m so excited to see you rated The Dead and The Dark five stars! It sounds incredible and I can’t WAIT to read it! I’m a bit scared for Malice and In the ravenous dark now though…I was really anticipating them haha! Great post!!
readsrainbow
tdatd was amazing!! malice & itrd were definitely me things, so i wouldn’t worry about them tbh! i’m sure you’ll like them better than i did π
– charlotte