What ARE you READING? (2026) (1 Viewer)

What are we LOOKING FORWARD to girls? I'm anticipating the new DUGGIE STEWART, which is getting good reviews, and also bad reviews like this which count as good reviews to me

We don't need to flatten queer characters and only have them presented as heroic, but we do need to remember the political climate we are in and be cognizant of how we tell these stories. The book portrays a gay man as predatory, opportunistic, and with a notable lack of boundaries around sex -- yet never offers up a consequence or commentary about it.
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Yes darling HOW VERY UNREALISTIC :eyes:
 
Tree 🌳 said:
I am very excited for this.

On the subject of queer Scottish writers, has anyone read The Two Roberts by Damian Barr?

I liked You Will Be Safe Here and Maggie and Me.
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‘You will be safe here’ absolutely destroyed me. I’ve jus chosen it as my next queer book club read, just to share the trauma.

I too am looking forward to Douglas Stewart too.

I’ve got a few upcoming titles in my Amazon basket that I’m looking forward to
 
Duggie STUART, I mean STUART, just like MOIRA, who I always get wrong TOO

Do you think they might be RELATED :D
 
Anyways I am now reading THE HISTORY OF SOUND but I've only read the first story so far so WHO KNOWS HOW THAT'S GOING TO GO, no I haven't seen the fillum
 
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The new Patrick Gale.
 
Having just been on a HOLLYBOB I was able to start enjoying reading again.

Finished William Golding's Pincher Martin (after a year :eyes:). Really good, if a bit ENGLISH A-LEVEL and the academia can take me out of the writing sometimes as I start having palpitations and imagining me in an exam hall trying to put my feelings onto a page... (I guess the fact that it was an old copy of @Iguana 's complete with highlighting and annotations may not have helped this). But I loved it nonetheless. A very intelligent and unique way of writing.

I am now on Ian McEwen's Atonement and I'm genuinely a bit obsessed. The way he writes such an uncomfortable claustrophobic world jam packed with characters who you know everything (or maybe too much) about
 
jyxz said:
How are you finding it? I started but couldn't get into it.
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I'm enjoying it but then I guess I'm UNDISCERNING as I very very rarely find a book I don't get on with I'm looking at YOU PETER ACKROYD
 
GABRIEL'S MOON by WILLIAM BOYD

The library kept saying they had this but I could never find it - turns out it was filed under THRILLERS where I NEVER VENTURE :D
 
I'm about a third of the way into this and it's compelling

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Started 1984 again… somehow hits differently every time.
Not exactly a comfort read, but still hard to put down.
 
Quite enjoyed this. Another entry in the first gay teenage (unrequited) love genre. Not a lot happening but very evocative with beautiful prose.

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Agneeta said:
This goes down some paths, I was certainly not anticipating.
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Finished it, and loved it. And yes, after part one (the basic story of the death) it goes all over the place. Initially I wondered why I was being given such a huge amount of seemingly unrelated background stuff and history, but then it's all woven together.

I thought it was marvellous. I did think how it would make a great TV documentary, or a dramatisation of it, and then discovered that one of his previous works Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder And Memory in Northern Ireland was dramatised as Say Nothing for Disney+ in 2024, and starring Maxine Peake.
 
lolly said:
Finished it, and loved it. And yes, after part one (the basic story of the death) it goes all over the place. Initially I wondered why I was being given such a huge amount of seemingly unrelated background stuff and history, but then it's all woven together.

I thought it was marvellous. I did think how it would make a great TV documentary, or a dramatisation of it, and then discovered that one of his previous works Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder And Memory in Northern Ireland was dramatised as Say Nothing for Disney+ in 2024, and starring Maxine Peake.
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Just finished (the audiobook).

This was excellent, the sheer scope of research and sources was impressive, as was the scope of the actual story. I kept wondering who else coming into it.
 
I'm kind of not reading anything right now. I've entirely stopped reading fiction. I think the last thing I read (in the last 6 months) was City Boy by Edmund White. Help!
 
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