Literature and History Nerd

Personal Traits moodboard: Lesbian; ISFJ; Slytherin; flower/plant lover

Is it weird that I would totally volunteer in a funeral home if the opportunity arose? …Anyways, this was the queer book that came to my mind for this prompt. Excellent and original in every way — the protagonist, Ezra, is trans and queer, and he’s simply trying to work through his family drama while navigating romance in his family-run Jewish funeral home.

I’m currently obsessed with Ashley Herring Blake’s books! They are the perfect amount of drama, humor, sexy, and it’s not too sickeningly romantic. This series, in particular, has been very good. I just finished the second book and am looking to the next one.

This is a Pulitzer-prize winning queer book and I am embarrassed that I’ve not read it yet.

I think TJ Klune’s other novel, Under the Whispering Door, is probably a close second. Definitely makes me feel like home as well. No one does queer, found-family like Klune.

I was in high school when I read this book. I was still figuring out my sexuality at the time, but I knew I liked girls, so I remember looking specifically for wlw romance YA books. Julie Anne Peters was one of the popular queer YA novel writers in the 2000s.