I’m really upset at Amazon and Goodreads, which we all know is the same company, but they are marketing non-LGBTI+ books as LGBTI+ because, in the name of being diverse, they can earn more. The other issue, as you read in posts, I’m dealing with a reading slump and anxiety. To be honest, I think they are playing off each other, which is a disaster. It got slightly better since I read from a series I enjoy. Sam’s currently hosting WWW Wednesday from Taking On A World of Words.
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
Goodreads Blurb:
Waiting for the Call takes readers from the foothills of the Appalachians—where Jacqueline Taylor was brought up in a strict evangelical household—to contemporary Chicago, where she and her lesbian partner are raising a family. In a voice by turns comic and loving, Taylor recounts the amazing journey that took her in profoundly different directions from those she or her parents could have ever envisioned.
Taylor’s father was a Southern Baptist preacher, and she struggled to deal with his strictures as well as her mother’s manic-depressive episodes. After leaving for college, Taylor finds herself questioning her faith and identity, questions that continue to mount when—after two divorces, a doctoral degree, and her first kiss with a woman—she discovers her own lesbianism and begins a most untraditional family that grows to include two adopted children from Peru.
Even as she celebrates and cherishes this new family, Taylor insists on the possibility of maintaining a loving connection to her religious roots. While she and her partner search for the best way to explain adoption to their children and answer the inevitable question, “Which one is your mom?” they also seek out a church that will unite their love of family and their faith. Told in the great storytelling tradition of the American South, full of deep feeling and wry humor, Waiting for the Call engagingly demonstrates how one woman bridged the gulf between faith and sexual identity without abandoning her principles.
What did you recently finish reading?
Goodreads Blurb:
Lucía is on the autism spectrum and finds solace in her headphones, books, and origami.
But things begin to shift when she discovers a song in a playlist her best friend Derek shared with her. The voice of the mysterious singer known only as E gradually becomes an essential part of her daily routine.
But while Lucía clings to that unfamiliar voice, she meets Claire, an enigmatic girl who seems to hide more than she reveals. Between silences, anxiety, and half-truths, Lucía begins to wonder how well a person can ever truly know someone… and whether it’s possible to love someone without fully knowing them at all.
Goodreads Blurb:
Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret. Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely self-indulgent Sally Bowles. ‘