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Rufus Wainwright recommended Debut by Bjork in Music (curated)

 
Debut by Bjork
Debut by Bjork
1993 | Rock
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"It's the same era, yeah. If anything, it demonstrates my eclectic nature, and also it illustrates an amazing period in music history. This album is still my favourite Bjork record, though I love a lot of things she does and I don't want to limit her to this one. It really illustrated the zeitgeist, especially if you were gay. There was a sophistication [to the gay scene] that wasn't being defined by the dance music scene – though maybe a little bit with the Pet Shop Boys. Bjork really brought the whole dance world, the clubbing world, up to this other more introspective level, and dealt with this strange life that everybody seemed to be living: on one hand it was really great and beautiful and passionate, but also very frightening, drug-induced and AIDS-related. She just became this kind of phantom for what everybody was really feeling."

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Difficult Women
Difficult Women
Roxane Gay | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
7.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book completely wreck me and validated my feelings, all at the same time. I can’t think of a woman that won’t relate to some of the garbage situations that the women in these book have to deal with, regardless of class, race, or sexual orientation.
Critic- The Shrinkette
Original Score- 5 out of 5

Read Review: https://theshrinkette.com/2017/01/12/arc-review-difficult-women-by-roxane-gay/
  
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Anna Steele (111 KP) rated We Are Okay in Books

Jun 13, 2018  
We Are Okay
We Are Okay
Nina Lacour | 2017 | Young Adult (YA)
9
7.4 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
Uplifting
Marin is lonely, she’s drowning in it. Her friend (maybe more) Mabel tries to save her from her loneliness. As the story goes alone we piece together a past Marin was unable to face. It was really interesting how inactive the actual sequence of events were, but it remained engaging through sporadically having flashbacks to Marin’s past.
Lovely story, kinda gay, depression and anxiety present and discussed.
  
History Is All You Left Me
History Is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
8
7.3 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
History isn’t everything
Adam Silvera is a really good author if you want a YA gay realistic fiction with a twist.
In this heartbreaking endeavor, the twist is that our main character is addressing the entire novel to his dead first love, using “you” throughout the “Today” sections to speak directly to him. Silvera plays with time and pieces together the mystery of Theo and Griff’s past beautifully.
  
Sawkill Girls
Sawkill Girls
Claire Legrand | 2018 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
7
7.7 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
3.5/5: A little over the top on the feminism scale. There were definitely things said to make it as though men have never added value in anyway. The representation of an asexual character and a gay character was great it helped to advance the plot but not be the main focus. I was not a fan of the ending it seemed rushed and not quite explained enough.