![]() ![]() (The perception that all or most queer books are romance that I encounter, especially from folks who are either bookish but don’t know much about queer books or queer people who don’t have a lot of book knowledge, is definitely based on some truth. For one, I love a good romance sub-plot in every other genre I enjoy, which is almost of all them: YA, fantasy, science fiction, etc.Īnd since I read probably about 75% LGBTQ books, it maybe sounds quite weird that I’m saying I’ve never read a romance novel. It’s actually quite strange that I had never read a proper romance novel until this year. I wanted to try this both as a way to broaden my reading horizons and discover some great new books and also because I’m a public librarian and I wanted to at least have some basic and perfunctory knowledge of the massively popular genre that is romance novels. In 2018 I decided to tackle the only other major genre I had never dove into until now: romance. With the success of my first “try a new genre” reading project a few years ago-I read some mystery novels for the first time in 2016 and wrote about the experience for Book Riot-I thought I should try it again. ![]() Find her on Twitter: Litsy: CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian, Goodreads: CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian, and Facebook: Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian. She also writes a monthly column on Autostraddle recommending queer books called Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian. ![]() She runs the website Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, where you can find reviews of LGBTQ+ Canadian books. Topics and activities dear to her heart include cats, bisexuality, libraries, queer (Canadian) literature, and drinking tea. Known in some internet circles as Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, Casey Stepaniuk is a writer and librarian who holds an MA in English literature and an MLIS. ![]()
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