A few years ago, when I tried to do a post like this, I would get 8 or 9 books tops. And it's still early in 2021! New queer MG could absolutely be announced still.
It's wonderful to see how much more is being released, it really is.
And it makes me really happy to see how varied the books are! There's trans/nonbinary rep, and an ace book, and a book where the MC also has anxiety, and some fantasy book and non-contemporary genres and it's so exciting.
So, uh. Read my post please? XD
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Thanks to everyone the reception to this post also! I like to do this one every year, but it really does take a while to do, and I'm quite proud of it.
I really, really love middle grade literature and I think it does everything YA does and more while having to both work with a generally more sensitive audience and, honestly, a lot more gatekeeping and less support.
I always try to talk about queer middle grade during @queer_reads because it means a lot to me and we really don't talk about it enough, in my opinion.
I'm 28 years old and some of the times I feel most seen as a human being is reading middle grade novels, honestly.
It is like the weirdest of her books and nothing like any of the others of hers I read. The Strange Power was the other one I owned and also loved that. She was one of my favourite authors growing up.
Side note, the HELL is going on with this cover????
Things have been kind of done, and I have a snack and a drink, so are you ready for today's #LainaWatchesAnne thread???
#LainaWatchesAnne Last time, we discussed some of how Anne is seen in Japan in general, from the perspective of someone who googled a bunch of stuff but is by no means an expert.
And today, before getting into the actual episode, we have a little more backstory.
I mean, I'm a person who's broken a few toes walking into things/dropping things on my foot, but I'm incredibly clumsy.
Oh my god I just searched it and I slammed my foot into the bathtub super fucking hard on January 17th 2020. Like really badly bruised, thought I might need to tell the doctor.
SOMEHOW and honestly I don't know how because my adaptation choices have not gone in any order but "I want to talk about them" @fromankyra guessed correctly and we will be talking about the anime series today!
#LainaWatchesAnne Congratulations, you get a... whatever I promised in my tweet. Star sticker maybe?