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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 8866317" data-attributes="member: 99786">I've been reading the Amulet series of graphic novels. Enjoyable. I'm almost done through vol8, and will then wait with the rest of the world for the final volume...Also, I guess I'm pushing to get caught up to the present on Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley Sergeant Havers books. Next up is vol 5 (17 more to go!). The second murder mystery that featured a trans character this year. Both set in England. One written in probably 1990 (George's) and the portrayal is forgiveable. The other written during the pandemic, and the portrayal is completely awful - I won't be reading any more of that author's work. (I should have known based on their social media persona <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😭" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png" title="Loudly crying face&nbsp; &nbsp; :sob:" data-shortname=":sob:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> )Speaking of trans, this book Sexed Up is really eye-opening. It is contemplations written by someone who transitioned from man to woman, and how the world's perspective and treatment of them shifted. The goodreads description contains a lot of dog whistles for the left (proud card carrying member myself); but so far I have found the tone much more like musings and thoughts. I am expecting that it will also contain the conclusions that a smart person taking their own lived experiences and projecting them across modern Western/USican society and uncovering the dangers therein. We'll see. Enjoying so far 50 pps in.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58950971-sexed-up[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 8866317, member: 99786"] I've been reading the Amulet series of graphic novels. Enjoyable. I'm almost done through vol8, and will then wait with the rest of the world for the final volume... Also, I guess I'm pushing to get caught up to the present on Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley Sergeant Havers books. Next up is vol 5 (17 more to go!). The second murder mystery that featured a trans character this year. Both set in England. One written in probably 1990 (George's) and the portrayal is forgiveable. The other written during the pandemic, and the portrayal is completely awful - I won't be reading any more of that author's work. (I should have known based on their social media persona 😭 ) Speaking of trans, this book [I]Sexed Up[/I] is really eye-opening. It is contemplations written by someone who transitioned from man to woman, and how the world's perspective and treatment of them shifted. The goodreads description contains a lot of dog whistles for the left (proud card carrying member myself); but so far I have found the tone much more like musings and thoughts. I am expecting that it will also contain the conclusions that a smart person taking their own lived experiences and projecting them across modern Western/USican society and uncovering the dangers therein. We'll see. Enjoying so far 50 pps in. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58950971-sexed-up[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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