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The podcast is Books That Burn because the original idea was "books that burn you", discussing fictional depictions of trauma. It's also an intentional reminder of the pile of burning books, you know the photo I mean, the one from WWII. It's a pile of books about queerness, gender, and sexuality. Just in case you don't know, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld.  It was a resource for gay, intersex, and transgender people, both of knowledge and medical help. It also helped the community with addiction treatment and contraception. It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway. But they were trying to make queer people's lives better, and they were a community resource at a time when people really needed it. Which is all the time, we always need these accesses. And the Nazis burned the whole library. It took days, they had to drag the books ou
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August Updates (2024)

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons).

You may ask, if I haven’t been reviewing for the last month or so, what have I been up to?

I’ve been re-reading the Inheritance series by A.K. Faulkner and the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire in order to draft a five-part essay series on various aspects of long book series.

The first of those essays is now available to everyone, and the second is available for Patrons.

I’m also helping to judge an indie writing contest, which has meant reading a lot of things I’m not yet allowed to talk about, all of which made it harder to actually review anything. I’m working on getting back up to speed, but reviews may be sparse for a bit.

News and Events

I track upcoming book releases by authors we've previously covered on a shareable google calendar.

I don’t have any releases of note for August, so here’s a head start on next month!

Notable SEPTEMBER Releases:

  • Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (September 3rd)

  • A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

Recent Reviews

SIGILS OF SPRING by A.K. Faulkner, book 7 of Inheritance is Fantasy/Romance, with queer character(s), marketed as Adult. Quentin has a stalker, a "ghost hunter" who is determined to discover Quentin's secret at any cost. Apparently, not even kidnapping is off the table. Told in Third Person with Dual POVs.

Current Reads

I’m currently re-reading PAGE OF TRICKS in order to get the timeline for a playlist.

Songs and Playlists

Sometimes I make book playlists, either chronological or character-vibes. You can find all of those here.

This fortnight’s featured playlist is: A chronological, chapter-by-chapter playlist for HELL FOLLOWED WITH US by Andrew Joseph White.

In Case You Missed It

This time last year I read the first of the Demon King’s Gardener books, “In Which a Demon King Does Not Have a Romantic Interest in his Human Gardener” by Aurora Lee Thornton.

Pluggables and Podcast News

As for the podcast, hopefully you're enjoying our most recent episode. If you'd like to receive episodes early, as well as bonus content, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Patrons receive this newsletter one week early, as well as a list of upcoming podcast episodes and even more planned reviews.

Patrons at any level receive the booklist with our planned episodes for up to three months at a time.

Thanks for reading, the next roundup will be in two weeks!

-Robin

Co-host of Books That Burn

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