Mr. Acton wants to read The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans …
July’s book club title for Sonoma County Library’s Virtual Queer Book Club.
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Mr. Acton reviewed The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Guncle charms and heals
4 stars
Patrick could have easily turned in to a caricature of a gay white man, but each Guncle Rule pulls out more humanity and connection. The kids were well developed and acted appropriately for young children who are unexpectedly taken in by G.U.P. It’s sweet, sassy, emotional, and uplifting. Sometimes we need to get tossed out of our comfort zones to see what we haven’t lost and what we can gain.
Mr. Acton finished reading The Guncle by Steven Rowley
What a wonderful story about shared grief and reconnections.
Mr. Acton rated Albertalli Teen Novel #7: 4 stars
Mr. Acton rated The Death of Vivek Oji: 5 stars
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?
One afternoon, in a town …
Mr. Acton rated The Unlikely Pair: 4 stars
The Unlikely Pair by Jax Calder (Unlikely Dilemmas, #2)
What happens when you find yourself stranded in the wilderness with your political enemy?
Getting stranded in the freezing wilderness …
Mr. Acton rated You Should Be So Lucky: 5 stars
Mr. Acton rated We Could Be So Good: 4 stars
Mr. Acton rated Heartstopper, Volume 1: 5 stars
Alice Oseman: Heartstopper, Volume 1 (Paperback, 2019, Hodder Children's Books)
Heartstopper, Volume 1 by Alice Oseman (Heartstopper, Volume 1)
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've …
Mr. Acton reviewed Showmance by Chad Beguelin
A down-on-his-luck Broadway playwright is marooned in rural Illinois in this sharply funny queer rom-com
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4 stars
It’s a very sweet rom-com about second acts and second chances. It’s does what it says on the tin, but the characters are lovable. No it won’t challenge you, and <spoiler>most of the beats are pretty telegraphed</spoiler>. Still, it grabbed my heart on the end.
It’s a very sweet rom-com about second acts and second chances. It’s does what it says on the tin, but the characters are lovable. No it won’t challenge you, and <spoiler>most of the beats are pretty telegraphed</spoiler>. Still, it grabbed my heart on the end.
Mr. Acton rated Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen: 4 stars
Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K. J. Charles (The Doomsday Books, #1)
Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Charles
Abandoned by his father as a …
Mr. Acton rated The Catcher in the Rye: 5 stars
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New …
Mr. Acton reviewed Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
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5 stars
I just finished my first read through. I will proabably read it again before returning it. In this poetry collection Saeed Jones lets us follow him through a winding journey through grief for his mother, black and queer bodies, his own identity, culture being commodified without paying the original artists, the hidden identities of icons. I often hopped online to read the stories behind many of the poems, which were as fascinating as Saeed’s poems. Highly recommend.
I just finished my first read through. I will proabably read it again before returning it. In this poetry collection Saeed Jones lets us follow him through a winding journey through grief for his mother, black and queer bodies, his own identity, culture being commodified without paying the original artists, the hidden identities of icons. I often hopped online to read the stories behind many of the poems, which were as fascinating as Saeed’s poems. Highly recommend.