Mr. Acton rated The Thirty Names of Night: 5 stars

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name …
I read primarily queer books. I love everything from basic mlm romances to classic literature to contemporary fiction. I’m slowly trying to add more non-fiction and challenging subject matter, but I don’t need any additional dystopia in my life. My spice tolerance fluctuates, so sometimes I want all the spice and sometimes I can skim over it.
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Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name …
I’ve got four days to read this for the book club.
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.

What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?
One afternoon, in a town …

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the wilderness with your political enemy?
Getting stranded in the freezing wilderness …

Alice Oseman: Heartstopper, Volume 1 (Paperback, 2019, Hodder Children's Books)
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've …
A down-on-his-luck Broadway playwright is marooned in rural Illinois in this sharply funny queer rom-com
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.

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Charles
Abandoned by his father as a …