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Posted 2016-04-30 9:28 AM (#13416 - in reply to #12247)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Hi everyone! Well we're about a third of the way through the year and we have 19 participants. Congrats to the couple of folks who have finished their challenges already. I'm about 3/4 of the way through mine. One book that stands out for me is Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo. It's a Finnish work that was really creative. It reminded me of how I felt reading The Golum and the Jinni last year. Great prose, great characters, and a very different love story. I also wanted to note I've some very old works, like "An Anglo-American Alliance" which io9 hailed as the first ever lesbian SF novel. It might also be considered a transgender SF novel as well. It's very dated and has some racially offensive language and illustrations, but was still an interesting read from an historical standpoint. I'm currently reading Carmilla, which is hailed as the first lesbian vamire novel. I'm still in the middle of it and it is pretty creepy. We'll see how that one stands up.

I hope everyone is enjoying the books they've picked for the challenge. Remember we have the LGBTQ list to choose books from. I also find it helpful to look at what other people are reading for inspiration on what to read. Feel free to post here and let us know how you're doing.

Edited by spoltz 2016-04-30 9:29 AM

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