Wrap-up: April 2022

Hope everyone had a good April, a month which I keep referring to as either March or May. As you can tell, Anna got back to watching more than me (& I feel I should mention they did read more than one book, it’s just the others were straight, in an unusual turn of events). But anyway, here’s what we read, watched and listened to!

What we read

Anna

Misrule by Heather Walter (lesbian mc & li, lesbian side characters) – 2.5 🌈 tw blood, violence, torture [review]

Charlotte

🔥 In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae (bi mcs, f/f, achillean side characters) – 5 🌈 [review]
Cold Reckoning by Russ Thomas (gay mc) – 4 🌈 [review]
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (gay mc) – 4 🌈 cw rape, mentions of self harm, suicidal ideation
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (Chinese American lesbian mc, Chinese American bi mc, f/f) – 2.5 🌈
When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando (Black gay mc) – 4 🌈 cw past parental abuse, violence, racial abuse & attack

Mamo, Volume 1 by Sas Milledge (Filipino sapphic mc, sapphic mc, f/f) – 3 🌈
The Belle and the Beard by Kate Canterbary (bi mc, pan mc, m/f) – 2.5 🌈
Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Ihara Saikaku (Japanese achillean mcs) – 3 🌈
Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale (gay mc) – 3 🌈
The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington (Black lesbian mc, lesbian mc) – 3 🌈 cw gore, cannibalism, mentions of rape, antiblack racism, torture, lesbophobia, violence

City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (gay character) – 4 🌈 cw violence, gore
All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes (trans mc, gay side characters) – 3 🌈 cw gore, violence, animal death, misgendering
Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee (Korean-coded nonbinary mc & side characters) – 3 🌈
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Chinese American lesbian mc, sapphic lis, gay side character, Venezuelan gay side character) – 2 🌈 cw racism, gore, self mutilation [review]
The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton (lesbian mc, lesbian side characters) – 3 🌈 cw sexual assault, revenge porn, lesbophobia, suicide

The Best Men by Sarina Bowen & Lauren Blakely (bi mc, gay mc, lesbian side character) – 2.5 🌈
Hazel Hill is Gonna Win This One by Maggie Horne (lesbian mc, sapphic side character) – 4 🌈 cw sexual harassment [review]
I Am the Ghost in Your House by Mar Romasco-Moore (bi/pan mc, Black lesbian li, f/f, lesbian, trans & nonbinary side characters) – 2 🌈 cw implied child sexual abuse, child neglect
Incandescent by Christina Lee (bi mc, Black bi mc, m/m, gay side character) – 1.5 🌈
Saint by Sierra Simone (bi mc with depression, Black gay li, m/m) – 4 🌈 cw suicidal ideation, past sexual abuse, past suicide

The Sea is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt (bi mc with a prosthesis) – 1 🌈 cw attempted suicide, suicidal ideation
Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan (lesbian mc, bi mc, f/f, gay, pan & trans side characters) – 2 🌈
Love, Hate & Clickbait by Liz Bowery (bi/pan mc, gay mc, m/m) – 2 🌈
Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden (bi mc, trans mc) – 2 🌈
Ask the Passengers by A. S. King (lesbian mc, lesbian li, f/f, gay & lesbian side characters) – 3 🌈

The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant (gay side characters) – 2 🌈
Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk (Black sapphic mc, Black bi li, f/f) – 2 🌈
Candidly Cline by Kathryn Ormsbee (lesbian mc, bi li, f/f) – 3 🌈
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson (sapphic mc, achillean side character) – 3 🌈

What we watched (and listened to)

Charlotte

Sister Boniface Mysteries (1.06) cr. Jude Tindall (gay character) – 2.5 🌈
Derry Girls (S3) cr. Lisa McGee (lesbian mc)
Russian Doll (S1-2) cr. Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne & Amy Poehler (Black bi mc, lesbian side character) – 4 🌈 cw blood, gore, death, suicide

Anna

Query (2020), dir. Sophie Kargman (bisexual mc, Black bisexual mc) – 4 🌈
Heart Shot (2022), dir. Marielle Woods (Korean cast, major side f/f relationship) – 3 🌈
Kiki and the MXfits (2018), dir. Natalia Leite (LGBT cast, predominantly Latinx cast, sapphic mc, trans character) – 4 🌈 tw transphobia
Anne+: The Film (2021), dir. Valerie Bisscheroux (Dutch LGBT cast, lesbian mc, lesbian poc li, nonbinary li) – 3 🌈