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2 Cents Critic#58 - Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (with Ria and Valli of Queerily Ever After)Tune in as Ria and Valli (Queerily Ever After) hop onto 2CC for Pride Month 2022, during which queer content will be featured throughout the month of June. For the second episode, the spotlight is on Cemetery Boys, the 2020 YA contemporary paranormal novel by Aiden Thomas (Lost in the Never Woods, The Sunbearer Trials). The journey of self-acceptance that Yadriel, a 16-year-old trans Latinx boy who lives in a traditional brujx cemetery community in East L.A., goes on while also trying to help out Julian Diaz, a rambunctious and deceased (possibly even murdered) classmate whose spirit he accidentally summoned, provides...
2022-06-152h 14
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 10: Gender Queer Part 2Welcome back! Today is our second part of our two part series on Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe!
Here is a summary of the book:
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society...
2022-01-0750 min
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep. 9: Gender Queer Part 1Welcome back! Today is our first part of our two part series on Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe!
Here is a summary of the book:
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society...
2021-12-241h 44
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 8: They Both Die at the EndWelcome back everyone! Today we're discussing They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, with our guest host Alex!
Here's a summary:
Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.
On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today.
Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new fr...
2021-12-101h 19
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 7: I Wish You All the BestWelcome back everyone! Today we're discussing I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver.
Here's a summary:
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.
But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are...
2021-11-261h 20
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 6: Memory of LightWelcome back, everyone! Today we're discussing the book Memory of Light by Ruth Vanita.
Here's a summary:
Preparations for King George the Third's fiftieth birthday gala are in full swing in Lucknow. As poets and performers vie to be part of the show, Chapla Bai, a dazzling courtesan from Kashi, briefly enters this competitive world, and sweeps the poet Nafis Bai off her feet. An irresistible passion takes root, expanding and contracting like a wave of light. Over two summers, aided by Nafis's friends, the poets Insha and Rangin, and Sharad, himself in love with a man, they exchange letters...
2021-11-121h 40
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 5: Last Night at the Telegraph ClubWelcome back, everyone! Today we're discussing Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo!
Here is the summary:
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let...
2021-10-291h 18
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 4: Felix Ever AfterWelcome back to episode 4, where we read Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender!
Here is a summary of the book:
Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.
When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after...
2021-10-151h 03
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 3: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoToday we are discussing the book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid!
Here is a summary of the book:
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, M...
2021-10-011h 26
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 2: All Boys Aren't BlueWelcome back! Today we are discussing All Boys Aren't Blue by George M Johnson.
Here is a summary of the book:
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a...
2021-09-171h 06
Queerily Ever AfterS1 Ep 1: The Priory of the Orange TreeWelcome to our podcast! Today we are discussing the book The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon!
Here is a summary of the book:
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.
Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a w...
2021-09-031h 20
Queerily Ever AfterWelcome to Queerily Ever After!Hello, and welcome to Queerily Ever After! Want to learn a bit about us? Listen to our new trailer!
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2021-08-0202 min