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elevenses

elevenses@pasabo.ca

Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

Mostly (queer) fiction these days.

I read more when I was younger and most of the books here are still imports from several years ago (and many of those, especially the to-read shelf, were very random; the to-read shelf can basically be disregarded altogether). Younger-ish reads are still archived as handwritten lists in notebooks on my shelf.

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Sydney Smyth, Teddy Hamilton, Malcolm Young: When Harry Met Harry (AudiobookFormat, 2020, et al Creative) No rating

Beautifully tender and unforgettably funny, prepare to fall in love with this modern-day nod to …

Okay, I really haven't made it much farther right now since, in typical rom-com style, the second-hand embarassment (even though mild by most standards, I think!) is too much for me at the moment. Maybe in the future! I still have this marked open for now.

Everina Maxwell, Raphael Corkhill: Ocean's Echo (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Macmillan Audio) No rating

Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all …

Admittedly I am having trouble with this one, and I’m not sure why. Maybe I’d have done better with reading it rather than listening? It’s not that the story isn’t engaging, because it is! Maybe I just need more spoilers (I find that conventional book blurbs are often worse than useless for me). Well, we’ll see. I finally caved though, and started re-listening to one of my favourite stories via TTS (for the third? time now) while doing chores, rather than this, so…

Everina Maxwell, Raphael Corkhill: Ocean's Echo (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Macmillan Audio) No rating

Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all …

I read chapters 1-3 via ebook sometime last year, but I’m picking it back up as an audiobook so we’ll see how that goes. (I’m trying to find audiobooks to listen to, but I realize that I’m very picky.)