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    Book Club: August Read

    It’s time to make this official on our blog!! The choice did take us a while, because honestly, we had a lot of good candidates… But guys, we know what book our book club will be reading in August!!

    As per the poll on twitter, which you guys voted in for days, we chose a fantasy book. And as per our preferences & also a belief that a hype our books doesn’t just appear out of this air, it has to be created by readers – we chose to read an F/F book.

    First, though, let me remind you guys how we plan on doing this. We have a twitter account that we encourage you all to follow – Reads Rainbow Book Club. We’ll be using that to chat about the book, adding the hashtag #readarainbow. (Get it? Because it’s gay? Yeah, you get it.) At the end of August, we will post our reviews of the book & tell you what we plan on reading in September.

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    Buddy Read: Girl Made of Stars

    Week three of our little, proud project is upon us and this time we were reading a book with a bisexual protagonist. Cool fact about this book is that the MC actually uses the label, it shows up multiple times and there’s actual on page representation. Feels good, feels organic. (It’s also another book by Ashley Herring Blake where that happens!)

    That being said, if you count me and Anna individually, we’re currently going 1 in 4 for how good our buddy reads are. So, to say we’re really hoping the last book improves on that is an understatement…

    Read on to find out which one of us actually enjoyed this week’s book!

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    Buddy Read: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

    After the disaster that was our first buddy read, we are back again for take two! It was, you might say, an inauspicious start. Anna didn’t even pick up this book until Saturday morning (hence why the post is delayed until Sunday. Thanks for ruining my carefully organised schedule for this month, Anna). But now, we’re sorted, and ready to review!

    So, read on to find out if this week was better than the last!

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    Buddy Read: Of Fire and Stars

    We start off our buddy reads with Of Fire and Stars, and the L of LGBT in the form of a lesbian mc. This book has been on both our TBRs for a while, for a number of reasons. (By which I mean reasons we wanted to read it, not reasons why we waited until now. That’s just called having a way too long TBR.)

    It’s a fantasy! With an f/f romance! It’s ownvoices! Given our taste in books, we honestly thought we couldn’t ask for more!

    Read on to see if we were right.

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    Pride Month Buddy Reads

    Pride month is coming up and me and Anna have some really exciting stuff for you just to celebrate! Once the month gets underway, we’ll make a whole post about exactly what it is that we have planned, but first, throughout June we’re planning on doing a series of buddy reads. Four, to be exact, one for each week of the month (and also centered around L, G, B, and T! Though, technically our T is non-binary instead of trans – we put them all to vote so).

    The plan is to read the books and then make a discussion post for each, where we write small reviews and then ask you guys what you thought, as well. Because we want to open these buddy reads up to all of you! We want to celebrate and have fun together! You can pick any of the books to read and join in at any time. The dates for each week are what we’re kind of aiming for, but undoubtedly there’ll be some overspill.

    There were polls on twitter so you had a chance to decide what we will be reading next month. All the books we proposed are ownvoices ones, since you guys know how important that is to both of us. And your choices are as follows…