Ostensibly a charmingly personal encyclopedia about the fictional television show Little Blue, Hazel Jane Plante’s debut novel is an incandescent love letter to trans friendship. A tender TV-and-karaoke-soaked heartbreaker that delights in pop culture. By the end I was as smitten with Little Blue and its colorful characters as Vivian was, and I fell in love with Vivian …
When Darby visits his hometown to help his mom move, he’s transported back in time– in the literal sense– whenever he enters In Between Books, where he worked part-time in high school. What avenues of your life might change if you knew then what you know now, and what would you want to express to …
The Intermediaries is an invaluable history of the first modern gender and sexuality clinic, led by the gay and Jewish Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, during the inter-war period in Berlin. The book “charts the relationships between nascent sexual science, queer civil rights, and the fight against fascism.” An inspiring and absolutely necessary read for our times! — …
This is my all-time favorite graphic novel– it’s the perfect blend of funny, heartfelt, and subversive. I cannot recommend it enough. If you haven’t read it, you’re in for a treat! –Jess, Powell’s on Hawthorne, Portland, OR Last week, during Portland Book Week, booksellers, authors, illustrators, and publishing folk from around the country gathered in …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. It’s Pride Month, so let’s celebrate LGBTQ+ characters and authors on our list! Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid …
This is Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story, which is a lot of colons to swallow. We think one of those isn’t the title of the book that Reid submitted, but you know how they are with the meta-data these days. Anyway, Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story is the story of …
From USA Today June 21, 2024 Inside Charlie’s Queer Books, an unapologetically pink and joyful space in Seattle Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center diverse and new authors, connect readers to books in a personal …
This novel came into my life when I needed it most. Kimberly King Parsons was able to write something that balances the darkly hilarious and the deeply heart-wrenching aspects of life so incredibly adeptly. She subtly slips undeniable universal truths onto each page as her characters grapple along to the soundtrack of grief and complicated …
Consider me in love with Old Enough by Haley Jakobson. This is every bisexual dream girl’s dream book. Jakobson handles the main character’s past traumas, growing pains, and young adult anxieties with an abundance of care and grace. I love this book, and I want you to read it SO BAD! –Nell, Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, …
For my young adult fans, this is the *perfect* sapphic holiday rom-com. I appreciate that it features a Jewish protagonist and subverts the mainstream Christmas narrative. It is simply such a delightful read. Read if you love fish, paleontology, corgis, and enemies to lovers/forced proximity tropes. –Jeanette, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA Who says holiday romances …
