it's a fiction teen book where the main girl character had gay moms and a gay sister. main character worked at a quirky trinket shop where she fell in love with her male co-worker... Owen?? idk. there was a chapter where gay marriage was legalized in America and they celebrated. cute. very rainbow rowell esque. I read it online so I can't really remember cover art or anything
Recently I was at a local branch of a large bookstore chain in my country looking for a copy of a book called "Muffin and tea" it's a very beautifully written book about 2 boys falling in love. I looked through the Young adult fiction section but couldn't find it until I saw that it was in a separate section labeled "Teen Girl Fiction." Now in this teen girl section there were almost all of the more popular books about gay boys that there are. Love Simon, Carry On, Call Me By Your Name stuff like that.
I did a little double take, had my inside "bruh..." moment but bought the book and left no questions asked.
I just think that it's uncool for them to market these books as only for girls. Especially since that would probably leave most gay kids feeling "like a "girl" if they bought it." (my gay friends words on the matter) It just feels to me like it's sending a wrong message.
I wouldn't be yelling at them or demanding anything I would just try to politely ask if they don't think that it's a bit unfortunate to put those books there instead of the regular Young Adult section and that having them in the girls section sends the wrong message.
Is it actually sending the wrong message? Am I overreacting? Is it just my inner disdain at the rabbid fangirl fanbase of gay relationships? WIBTA if I asked the employees if they can move those books to the YA section instead?
(Sorry if this isn't a right fit for the sub I am just unsure if this would really be an assholish thing to do)
Edit 1: The system they use for sorting books is the same as the one they use in their online store. It only states Young Adult fiction and does not separate it into Teen Girl section online and in other stores of this chain.
Edit 2: I would not be demanding that they change this if they have no power over that. At the end of the day it is their business and they will run it as they see fit. I simply wanted to ask if it would be possible to not market them at only in the girls section because of the message that sends. I only wish to point out the unfortunate wording and ask if it can't simply be also put in the regular YA section.
Edit 3: Amazon isn't part of the equation in my country. They barely ship anything here. They don't offer books in our language. This bookstore is part of the second largest chain of bookstores in the country and their profits are very high and stable each year.
I’m a writer and I want to know. All views welcome.
[Context: I’m a bi female writer and I have some gay male characters in my story. I try to write all my characters with research, empathy and respect - however, we all have our blind spots. So I’m keen to find out what you may feel is missing or less common as regards positive gay representation in fictional characters.]
Update: thanks so much for replies, really helpful. The biggest take away for me is writing real, complex, nuanced characters, who happen to be gay. I hope that’s a fair assessment.
There’s an irony I’m noticing also, that in trying too hard to be “inclusive”, you can sometimes perpetuate stereotypes. Much to consider.
I like to read, a lot. But it’s always the same cis male/female lovey dovey stuff. I’m trying to find something I can relate to. Preferably paper based books? But if online material is all we have, that’ll do too. I’m Jasper btw, nice to meet you guys!
me looking up the author: oh of course a tranny wrote this
This is a book, pretty sure for teens since I found it in that section as a kid in the library. It's about a girl written in first hand, I think it's diary or journal style. She writes about her parents physically abusing her and it's quite dark. I think there's mentions of self harm too. The book abruptly ends in the middle of one her entries I think or just ends with no real ending implying she died due to the physical abuse.
The ending just stuck with me for so long and I'm going crazy trying to remember.
All my Google searches just bring up articles of child abuse lol
I thought it was cut by Patricia Mccormick but turns out it's not
Pls help
I read a book, maybe even a series, from the mid 90’s about a group of teens with psychic powers recruited to be part of a team. The book(s) weren’t particularly long, but I remember liking the story. I am also open to suggestions for similar books either with psychic powers, or a team with a certain set of skills brought together to solve a problem. Thanks in advance.
I remember reading this book a couple of years ago and really liking it, so I’m going to try my luck on this sub.
This book I assume was probably published somewhere in the 2010s (maybe 2017 or something? I’m not very sure) and I think the cover has two girls on the front, because I recall trying to identify the girls.
I also remember a part in the book where both of them go to get their hair cut and the hairdresser asks if they would like to keep a lock of their hair (or maybe donate it?? that seems more likely) and either the friend without cancer or both of them say no.
At some point the girl with cancer died and the best friend finds a box in her room which had some importance to the both of them and she finds a lock of hair inside it (can’t remember whose) with a note.
I’m also pretty sure I found it in the M section of the library, but It’s not there anymore so it might have been shelved incorrectly.
Fingers crossed someone finds it!
Please recommend me something that will help me get out of comfort reading the Harry Potter series for the 11th time. I need something for adults.
I like romance novels but I gave the UnHoneymooners a go and the references to pop culture took me out of the story.
I also like fantasy or sci fi stuff but sometimes too much world building makes it hard to get into it.
Basically please rec me anything that will get me out of reading the Hunger Games again and into the realm of books that I won’t be embarrassed to admit I’m reading when my coworkers ask. Thank you!
Edit: I’m getting so many great suggestions so I thought I’d mention I’m only really interested in fantasy/sci-fi if it has a good romance plot. My favourite trope is enemies to lovers (cliche I know) or forbidden romances etc.
Also since I’m getting a lot of comments about it, just pointing out that I’m not embarrassed to be reading YA. I’m just hoping to branch out a bit. I will most definitely continue to comfort read my old favourites.
I believe in the about section, the author wrote about doing follow ups, so unless cancelled the book was the first in a set of books. The book was in english. When i first read it it was fairly age appropriate, meant for young teen/adults
I read this book somewhere between 2008-2014, and if i recall it had come out sometime not too far off from this general time frame, though it may have come out a bit sooner.
The book was fiction, the plot that i can recall was that there was a boy that was trying to uncover the truth behind his friend, who had either died or gone missing. The book was I believe a bit of a young adult mystery/horror type genre to it. The only notable characters i recall were the boy, who we followed through the story, the friend whom at the end we discovered was dead, and the killer, who I do not have a full description of but i know wore a trench coat or a long jacket type outfit. The book I recall was hardback, and as for the main cover I never saw it, but it came with a plastic sleeve that was red, and had the figure of the antagonist, silhouetted out.
I believe in the about section, the author wrote about doing follow ups, so unless cancelled the book was the first in a set of books. The book was in English. When i first read it it was fairly age appropriate, meant for young teen/adults. I received my copy from the school book fair at the time, it was new at the time.
Apologies if this is a bit of a non conclusive one, I shave very vague memories of it, but I owned and subsequently lost a copy of it, and was always curious how the remainder of the story went if the author continued it on.
I remember a couple elements of this book. There were at least two different perspectives the author would switch between. One of them was of a brash student wreaking havoc in the school, and a more timid, nerdy student following him around, trying to go along with it. The other was of a few students stuck in a bathroom. One of them had a giant SLR camera (I think he named the camera “tank”) that he used to take pictures while they were stuck, much to the annoyance of the others. I also think one of the kids stuck in the bathroom had a learning disability. I don’t remember much of the plot; mostly just those two settings.
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Young adult fiction about a child accompanying grandparent(s?) who are near their deathbed, on a pilgrimage to the South to die. Broader setting is an empire with multiple villages, possibly some conflicts going on amongst the rulers. All citizens expected to make the pilgrimage to the South coast when near their deathbed, often with a young grandchild for company. The child and their grandparent make their way there via lines of caravans prone to attack (??). Only the elderly are admitted into the gated facility by the sea, to be put on individual boats, sent out and put to sleep/death. Child usually returns home alone. I think the protagonist instead slips into the facility and sails out to sea at the end, but I might be imagining things.
Read in middle school around 2010 from a public library, book should be 21st-century.
SOLVED: The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson (thanks to dondeestalalechuga). Looking back, seems like this book is frequently requested about once every year!
Hi guys, looking for a “science fiction” series I read as a young teenager.
There are at least 7 books in the series and it’s a story of a young guy you goes between worlds/different realities. That’s the most I can remember but the book covers always had the young man in the cover in one corner looking STRaIGHT ahead. His face took up most of the cover usually
As the series progressed he got older on each book cover.
Bit intense a title, but trying to track down something my partner read years ago and can remember very few other details about.
Was read in a high school library, around 2004-2008. English, cover may have been red. Was part of a series he thinks, possible a trilogy.
i dont know if this is the right place to ask, but what are some common/main tropes in vampire fiction romance novels or whatever? like twilight or vampire diaries?
A children's/young adult fiction book series where kids visit a fictionalised version of an Italian city (I think Rome but possibly Venice?) in their dreams. The city is divided up into 12 sections that match the zodiac symbols, and I remember the myth of Romulus and Remus being important.
There's a whole series, but I think the main character in the first book is a boy. From memory he is terminally ill and visits the city while he is in a coma. I think he ends up dying and gets to live in the magical city for ever.
The front cover design involved constellations and the zodiac symbols, I think.
I used to borrow these books from my local library when I was a kid (early 2000s, Australia). Would love to find them again! Any help is appreciated.
I don't remember much about it but the younger one broke his leg or something pretty early on and he and the older one start to get to know each other and the older one is a bike boy thingy. Like a person that does newspapers. Apologies if this doesn't make sense. Anyways. The older one gets mad for some reason and so they fall out. Something happens. The older one's mom doesn't accept him. He moves in with the younger one. The younger ones parents fully accept it. The younger one's mom does a little room makeover. And they end up happy. One of the first sentences is the younger one seeing the older one biking around and appreciating his ass/legs.
Not necessarily a trans topic but I'm curious if any of you guys do the same thing that I do, I'm starved for open gays in fiction lol
biological age?
MC is a HS girl who into a running sport (don't remember which one) but ends up spraining(or she broke it idk) her leg(foot?) and LI (her pov called him dumb, druggy, bad boy i also think she called him a slut) ask her to pee in his drug test cup for him. She did but the test show it was a girl who pee not a dude but he never told who did it(also another girl took the blame) apparently somewhere they retested the love interest in school and he a genius(his parents sue the school said something like that if their kid was doing all this bad stuff because he wasn't being challenged in school) and is doing better then her(she was in honors/AP classes?) there also a scene that she gets her period(i think she mention that due to her running she stop getting her period) and she wearing white shorts and she running again This is all i remember in the first book
IN the second book i remember a scene where she enter her love interest home to talk to him mother and she stops and stares at their armchair remembering that she had sex on it when the parents were gone
in the last book there is a scene where she realize he wasn't a bad boy but he was a nerd/geek. She wants to get back together again. She really toxic person the whole series was mostly done in her perspective.
I think there were 4 - 7 books maybe??I Just need to know that this was a real and not a fever dream that i had when i was 15 btw it was in my high school library been looking for years thank you
hi - this is probably vague, I don't know when it was published but I would have read it about 2011/2012 time?
it was a second/third book in a series (which I hadn't fully read), I remember there was a girl or young woman and a snobby older guy who looked after her. the front cover was white with I think a dark circle with the different building silhouettes, maybe characters etc sticking out in the centre?
it was about an old-fashioned city that would be one city by day and another by night - like the walls/buildings/houses would shift at certain times, I think one was impoverished and the other rich and immoral or something. the girl managed to sneakily switch between the two to do something, but I can't think what she was doing.
Heck I think that was in the book. I read it back in middle school and was kind of shocked at how sad it was. I'm pretty sure that was the premise, the main character was a loner, kind small and lanky maybe with glasses. The bully (or fellow loner) was kind of a big girl who was mean and not well liked. From what I remember she had a little brother/sister who was actually her child because she'd been raped. I think a fire happened at her house and the child got stuck and died. I thought the title of the book was something along the lines of "Burned" but I can't find the exact book.
Anybody have an idea? Thanks!
My 15F daughter is looking for non-fiction books, but isn't sure what she wants. Are there any sort of humor or general interest books that a wide audience that age would enjoy (probably YA, but lighter adult books would also be ok)? She has a high reading level but a short attention span, anxiety, and trouble focusing, so it would need to be fairly engaging and not anxiety-provoking.
I don't read much non-fiction so I'm not sure where to start looking. She loved the Magnus Archives and Night Vale podcasts and *hates* movies that involve high school hijinks.
Thank you!
Read this book when I was 10 and I remember being absolutely taken with it. But I can’t, for the life of me, remember the title or the plot. But I do remember the cover page- it was half the face of a girl with really distinct blue-green eyes. She has brown hair. Also, strangely, the word ‘RUN’ comes to mind when I think about this book. I don’t think it’s the title because I’ve searched on Google and nothing I’m looking for appears. Does anyone happen to know what book I’m talking about? Please take me out of this pit of frustration. :’)
(p.s. I read this in 2013/2014)
Hi there! I'm still very new to the gay scene and have only had a few hookups - I mean: only one of those hookups involved kissing and anal - so there's a lot that I don't know about physical intimacy and I'm eager to learn more about safe gay sex. I currently own this 2004 book called Ultimate Gay Sex by Michael Thomas Ford, which has introduced me to things like frottage and the anal turning position, but this text is apparently regarded to be dated and superficial. Are there any contemporary and modern non-fiction books about sex that are relevant and useful in the age of PrEP etc? Thanks! :)
Ever since being exposed SciCosmic aka CosmicSoulstorm now goes by the name HellsAtrium. HellsAtrium, HellsApostle, HellsAlmighty, TheHellsApostle, TheHellsAlmighty etc is behind the one man "troll group" known as The Gay Atheist Asshole Association. For over 15 years, he has been on the internet hoping to destroy religion with his lame ass trolling. He's a 38 year old man with no life and who lives in her parent's basement. Recently he has taken to uploading gay porn of himself getting fucked by his enemies, people who humiliated on the internet years ago and got him banned numerous times across different sites. Back a few years ago, he was permanently banned from Upload Stars/Chillspot (formally Upload Society) after a user named Pokejh caused him to have a mental breakdown whereupon he raged at the site's admin, David, leading to his permanent IP ban. He uploads lots of gay porn and has gay cummy sex in his fantasies with his online enemies.
