Shelley Parker-Chan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Shelley Parker-Chan

RT @MacmillanAus: It's a formidable book stack today with all these incredible new releases! 🖥 Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty 🌬 An…

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Don’t know why I waited so long to get to this one (curse of the mood reader), but @natasha_pulley’s The Kingdoms is PHENOMENAL. Bittersweet timey-wimey goodness that’ll punch you in the heart, perfectly paced reveals, slow-burn gay romance, & brilliant (bloody) historical detail https://t.co/3ktqC4TLaS

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Fun fact: Madam Zhang in SWBTS was partially inspired by the badass female pirate Ching Shih. If you want MORE Ching Shih-inspired content, then @cblee_cblee’s forthcoming YA adventure A Clash of Steel will be for you. It has ✨sapphic! ✨Chinese! ✨pirates!! https://t.co/ZVQdjmRnpY https://t.co/XziwC55OOr

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Congratulations to @ryka_aoki, for Light From Uncommon Stars, and Rivers Solomon for Sorrowland, who jointly won the @OtherwiseAward for stories that explore and expand our understanding of gender! So well deserved. https://t.co/r2FbJ75HJl

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@elysejohnbooks @BRTDbookshop just off the top of my head, some references: Cleanness (Gospodar, also in the Kink anthology) by Garth Greenwell Flawless, Elise Hu Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong The Hero’s Body, William Giraldi (source of the attached quote) Iron Widow, Xiran Zhao Tribute, Tenacious D https://t.co/rd0MsdEcl6

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RT @Zoomer: Zoomer's best July #novels include a long-lost manuscript from #JohnOliverKillens, Vanessa Riley's 'Island Queen' and a queer r…

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also if you like She Who Became the Sun and Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory, I can predict you’re gonna love @claudia_cravens’ Lucky Red. It’s not SFF, but it feels like what I love most about our genre: a queer, subversive, character-driven page-turner that made me SCREAM https://t.co/HFceUlim58

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Nb: I made a misattribution in my speech! It was Ortega y Gasset who said, “A hero is one who wants to be himself.” But in William Giraldi’s The Hero’s Body (a fantastic work on bodies, masculinity, grief), he crucially adds: “Or rather, one who has no choice but to be himself.”

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@visyap I don’t actually use this one much, because I’m a Recipe Follower who just wants to be told what to do, but if you want to build understanding and skills for improvisational cooking, Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is good (does also have recipes)

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I love Olivia Dade, I love All the Feels (sequel to the wonderful Spoiler Alert, which is creeping up there as one of my most re-visited comfort reads), and trust me: you will WANT this preorder bonus 👀 https://t.co/HVZKXSPetb

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