Now we’re through the quick reviews and the kindle offers, I thought I’d do this week’s Recommendsday with some fiction picks for Pride month. And it turns out, I’ve already read and recommended a lot so narrowing the field down was the tricky bit – but I’ve given it a good go.
Now a lot of the stuff I’ve read the most recently has been romance – and I’ve told you about loads of them already. But that’s not going to stop me from reminding you about some of my favourites. So there’s Alexis Hall’s Boyfriend Material, K J Charles’s Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen and the Bright Falls Series. And of course it’s just a few weeks since Cat Sebastian’s You Should Be So Lucky was Book of the Week.
Talking of recent books of the week – there’s Mona of the Manor and in fact the whole of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series. I struggle a lot with comps for these because they’re just so wonderful and the early ones uniquely capture the moment that they were written in – San Francisco in the mid-1970s. But another book that captures the moment that it was written in is Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin – a fictionalised version of the author’s time in Berlin in the dying days of the Weimar Republic. Written a couple of years after his return, it was published in 1939. If you’ve read many/any books set in 1930s Berlin then this is worth a read even if only to see how it was seen at the time.
I’m hopping around a bit, but I’m going back to YA for a second – as well as Heartstopper, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (which has a sequel) Red, White and Royal Blue, Our Own Private Universe and The Gravity of Us, there is What if it’s Us which I haven’t read yet, but which comes highly recommended by my friend Tom.
And that’s all I’ve got today – but have a great Wednesday!
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