Showing posts with label lgbt reading challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lgbt reading challenge. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 December 2014

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LGBT Reading Challenge: End of Year Survey

Cayce of Fighting Dreamer has created a mini-survey for the LGBT Reading Challenge as the year is drawing to a close. So here are my answers about the LGBTQ YA novels I've read this year, and those I'm hoping to read in 2015.

LGBT YA Reading Challenge1. Number of YA LGBT books you have read in 2014:

18. There are still a few weeks left to go before the end of this year, but I don't think there will be any more LGBTQ YA novels read. But I think 18 is pretty good, considering before last year, I hadn't really read any. You can see a list of all the LGBTQ YA novels I've read this year on my Reading Challenges page.

2. Top 3 YA LGBT you read this year:

Hmm. I really want to say the first three books of The Rain Wild Chronicles by Robin Hobb (The Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons), but they're not technically YA. I feel there's strong crossover appeal for the stories, considering there are a group of teenagers who are major characters, but for the most part, the LGBTQ element of the story is an adult one, so I'm not sure this would count for this question? In which case I will say:
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Friday, 28 March 2014

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LGBT Reading Challenge Discussion: LGBT YA Covers

This week I signed up to the LGBT Reading Challenge, hosted by Cayce of Fighting Dreamer. One of the cool things about this challenge is there are discussion topics each month, and March's discussion is on LGBT YA covers.

I don't pay any more particular attention to LGBTQ covers than I do for covers of other books. I don't necessarily need a cover of an LGBTQ book to shout out, "This is an LGBTQ book!" I don't think it's particularly necessary for the cover - or title, for that matter - to differentiate from other books by saying it's an LGBTQ novel (unless people are specifically looking for LGBTQ novels, in which case... I don't know.).

Of the LGBTQ novels I've read, here are my favourite covers - because they're all eye-catching! (Golden Boy is published as an adult book, but it's about a teenager, so I consider it cross over, and I'm including it.)

Coda by Emma Trevayne

Coda by Emma Trevayne
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