finished in ONE DAY it was that good. about queer love and loss in the South, sparse prose but with a ton of beautiful descriptions on food and sex. shifting perspectives throughout make you see every side of conflicting situations and feel heartbroken and hopeful for everybody by the last page
Mar 21, 2024

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omg LOVED this one still makes my heart ache
Mar 24, 2024
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if you've recently lost someone i'd highly recommend this book❤️‍🩹 it's about loss, love, friendship and being queer🫖🍵♥️🧺🧸🎐
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I just finished reading “I will greet the sun again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani. Such a beautiful layered book about a young queer iranian boy growing up in LA with his family In the 90’s/00’s. Some of the reviews say it’s devastating and beautiful. It really is. I left it with knots in my stomach and a real want for freedom. What are some of your recommendations?
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i read this on new years day and january second and every time i picked it up i stopped crying. i was crying a lot those two days so i knew i was on to something special. more fiction should also be recipe books because all of the characters have to eat something sometime.
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the comfort in the ebb and flow, the cyclical nature of it all
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i love that our seemingly high-tech phones still cannot do the job of capturing the moon‘s ethereal essence. it’s so humbling and vulnerable to attempt to take a photo of her and have it come out all ugly and orb-like. it’s literally none of ur business to see what she looks like anytime apart from the present moment! (and please don’t tell me if samsung or google pixel have invented technology to do a better job of this. it wouldn’t sit right with me… like trying to sneakily undress a woman without her consent when she has explicitly stated she’d rather remain demurely clothed and mysterious)
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it's like.... kind of insane that we (not me, of course) made the internet to be any other way. imagine if the real world were algorithmic... how kooky would that be?? you'd only ever talk to people who've already gotten a thumbs up from 10,000 other people that they're cool and worthy of being heard and it would be super weird and parasocial bc everybody else would be trying to get their attention too. and maybe you'd only be able to see people like in that episode of Black Mirror w Jon Hamm where some ppl are crystal clear in color and others are blurred out and grey and inaccessible to you. well, that's what an algorithmic internet feels like!!!! and it's terrible! i like being able to post on here whenever a thought softly lands in my head and know whoever happens to refresh their page or hop onto the app when i hit SHARE will be able to see it right away... it's the beauty of your words being seen at the right time with no filters or algorithms shoving u into a corner.....and being able to see others in the same way <3
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