Wrap-up: July 2022

I don’t know about you, but July seems to have sped by for me. We’re already into August and from there, it’s basically the end of 2022. Time, what a thing. In an unexpected turn of events, neither of us watched or listened to anything gay this month. I say “unexpected”, but this is probably more so for Anna than me. But anyway, August sounds like the perfect month for correcting that! And we did read a whole lot besides.

What we read

Anna

Contract Season by Cait Nary (gay mcs, aro side character) – 5 🌈
Boyfriends For Now by Imogen Markwell-Tweed (gay mcs, lesbian side character) – 2 🌈
Książka o przyjaźni by Maciej Marcisz (gay mc) – 4 🌈 tw suicide, toxic relationships
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon (sapphic poet) – 4 🌈
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, trans. Tina A. Kover (Iranian cast, sapphic mc, Dutch lesbian li, gay side character) – 4 🌈 tw blood, gore, murder, homophobia, discussion of homophobic violence

Charlotte

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (lesbian mcs) – 3 🌈 cw child abuse, institutional abuse
Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu (sapphic mcs) – 2 🌈 cw homophobia, ableism, anti Roma racism, rape, incest [review]
The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven (bi/pan mc, lesbian mc) – 3 🌈 cw sexual harassment, animal death, self harm [review]
Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard (bi mc with anxiety, British Iranian Spanish lesbian li) – 3 🌈 [review] cw mentions of attempted suicide, biphobia
Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald (bi mc, sapphic li, gay side character) – 2.5 🌈 cw adult-minor relationship, gore, violence [review]

Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper (gay mc, bi li, sapphic side character) – 3 🌈
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin (bi/pan mc) – 3 🌈 cw terminal illness
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali (gay mc, gay li, Latinx nonbinary side character, sapphic side character) – 3 🌈 cw homophobia, racism, microaggressions
feeld by Jos Charles (poetry) – 2 🌈
Space Struck by Paige Lewis (poetry) – 3 🌈

Contract Season by Cait Nary (gay mcs) – 4 🌈 [review]
Into the Broken Lands by Tanya Huff (gay mc, gay li, bi mc, bi side character) – 4 🌈 [review]
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (lesbian mc, lesbian li) – 1 🌈 cw forced institutionalisation, institutional abuse, mentions of past rape, mentions of child sexual abuse
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (sapphic mc, nonbinary side characters) – 3 🌈 cw lesbophobic slurs
An Ancient Peace by Tanya Huff (bi mcs, gay mcs, nonbinary side characters) – 3 🌈

Spell Heaven and Other Stories by Toni Mirosevich (lesbian mcs) – 5 🌈
The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson (genderfluid character, sapphic side character) – 4 🌈
Panic Response by John McCullough (poetry) – 4 🌈
Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans (achillean mc, bi/pan mc) – 4 🌈 [review]
The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson (bi mc, sapphic li) – 3 🌈

El final de todos los agostos by Alfonso Casas (achillean mc) – 3 🌈
A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair (bi mc) – 1 🌈 cw self harm, implied abuse, alcohol abuse, sexual harassment, suicidal ideation, torture, violence [review]
Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell (gay mcs, sapphic side character, nonbinary side characters, trans side character) – 2 🌈 [review to come]
Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang (Taiwanese lesbian cast) – 3 🌈 cw gore [review]
The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri (Indian lesbian mcs) – 4 🌈 [review]

Angels in America by Tony Kushner (Jewish gay mcs) – 2.5 🌈 cw homophobia, racism, homophobic & racial slurs
Top Ten by Katie Cotugno (bi mc, lesbian li) – 3 🌈