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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I finished Deronda for the book club and am picking up some LGBTQIA reads for Pride (Happy Pride to those inclined!).
I'm starting with Emma Donoghue's Frog Music. I got it from the library, so it won't make any dent in my TBR, but it started well, so I am glad I reserved it.
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I finished
Frog Music, and alas, it was not a good start to my Pride month reading. I am old enough now to have no patience with STILL burying my gays.
Up next is Nghi Vo's
The Chosen and the Beautiful. My wife read the entire thing over the course of one day and loved it. So I have much higher hopes here. This is from Goodreads:
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Nghi Vo’s debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon [The Great Gatsby] as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.
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