tender curiosity

🏳️‍🌈 COLOURFUL STACK 🏳️‍🌈

QOTD: What’s a book you love with a colourful spine?

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Rules: make a poll with 10 of your favourite shows, they can be just 10 shows you loved watching or your top 10 TV shows of all time, and have your followers choose their favourite, then tag 10 people.

I was tagged by: @hypnotisedfireflies and @justwantedaccess! Thank you both. <3

I went on quite a journey with this one - at first I forgot every single programme I've ever watched, and then I had a list of over 20 great ones. With difficulty, I managed to narrow them down to ten.

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Father Material by Alexis Hall

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This book 😭 this series 😭

I am so emotional. I absolutely loved the direction this book went. I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone but it was just perfect to me. I loved all the complications that arose, the unexpected role reversal, the things both Luc and Oliver had to face about themselves all these years later.

I loved Jaz a lot. She was such a wonderful addition to this universe. As was Spud.

I loved that every single side character got growth and page time and were a part of things while acknowledging that growing up and building separate lives means you’re not there for everything anymore.

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We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

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This was such a beautiful, powerful, emotional coming of age story. I really loved the way it handled generational trauma, the way none of these characters were perfect, the incredibly difficult, complicated, painful, wonderful dynamics at play.

This book is heavy. There’s a lot of social commentary around the harsh reality of living in certain places as Black and/or queer people.

But there’s light here too. Renny’s, the Perfect Spot, Kisabee Island.

🏳️‍🌈 RAINBOW STACK 🏳️‍🌈

QOTD: What’s your fave colour and a book in that colour?

You didn’t think I’d do pride month without a rainbow stack, did you? This is the first of a few 😂 Happy pride, everyone 💕💕

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🏳️‍🌈 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY 🏳️‍🌈

The Open Era by Edward Schmit

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QOTD: What was your last 5 star read?

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Thank you so much to Penguin Australia for sending me a copy of this one. All thoughts are my own.

Tennis romance is absolutely having a moment this year and this book was no exception. It was brilliant!

I loved the complexities of Austin as a character. He was flawed and imperfect and all those moments when I wanted to shake some sense into him just made me love him all the more. The mental health representation in particular and Austin’s stubbornness about certain things that might help him felt incredibly real and relatable no matter how frustrating he could be. All the characters in this book are complex and layered and it was really brilliantly done.