Drama-Lovers Book Club

 leafless7:

@Winter

I am currently checking review and prices of mentioned books. These books are totally new to me. If I decided to buy it. I will write my review here. Thanx.

Cool. Looking forward to it if you do ^^

But back to my own reading. 

Fed up with dramas (event known as "the slump"!) and not  finding any BLs worthy of watching, I went back to reading full time about 6 months ago. I was looking for some light fare and discovered a genre I never knew existed: M/M romances or western BL novels.

After a couple of duds (more about them some other time), I thought I'd hit the jackpot with Alexis Hill's books. They were smart and very very funny. But unfortunately, too much of a good thing, ruins the good thing. Or at least the impression I had of it. I loved the first two books I read but every subsequent one I found less funny and emptier, conforming to today's societal injunctions and downright boring! My saturation point had been reached very quickly: I read another four books of his, desperately looking for the buzz the first two gave me. No such luck!

This month I finished Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle and Digital Extremities by Adam Bassett. 

Bury Your Gays was a fun meta fiction piece. It was a little too idk... idk the word for it like I want to say cheesy but I dont think thats what I mean. Anyway it was good but maybe I think I wanted the worldbuilding of the enemies to be a bit stronger because they were a pretty interesting idea. It was funny talking about this book with my straight coworkers though because they def had like a little "what did you say?" when i mentioned the title. Made me realize that even people who know a lot about stories in general may not be familiar with one of the most infamous tropes I know, aka the "bury your gays" trope. 

Im back on my anthology game with Digital Extremeties. This time all the stories are by one author though. I liked most of the stories, though like all antholigies some stood out more than others. In particular theres one about digital diving into the web and its dissociative affects on people who do so which was pretty interesting. Its like what are the effects of literally putting your mind into the internet and leaving behind your body? The whole concepy for the book was pretty interesting though. Its like "ok cyberpunk is a thing, but the setting isnt a city. So what does it look like instead?" Thought that was pretty cool.