I rarely read YA novels (and when I do, it’s usually for work), but this one was pretty banging. I’m looking forward to the TV series!

Slovakia, November 2017 Reader 😉🥴🔞‼️ #bodieswithbooks #bodieswithbooksproject

Easy like Sunday morning 📚 #bodieswithbooks

Think what you want #monochromemonday #mcm #bodieswithbooks #bodieswithbooksproject

“The mind that can find little excitement in life is a dying one; the mind that cannot find something in the world that attracts it is dead, and the body housing it might as well be dead, for what are the uses of the five senses to a mind that takes no pleasure in them?”

"’We learn the classics for a reason…Because they are the best we have. The best of mankind.’ … ‘They are what, England's best? This is not England. This is not where English words shape the land. English doesn't hold us. Here, we hold it, and that means it cannot hold our best’."

Cold was the perfect book to read as the first snow falls. This mix of crime, mystery, and horror with elements of traditional Anishinaabe stories was unputdownable!

“‘When you ain't got somethin' it's a waste of time to try’n miss it is what I figure.’ ‘Feels good to miss things.’ ‘Oh yeah. Why would that be especially?’ ‘Well, it makes you know you're livin'. That you touched something. That something touched you.’”

Happy fcf! This hotel knows exactly what they’re doing placing a mirror there! I guess being in the gayborhood, they know their clientele 😂

Happy hump day! There are two asses in “assassin”, so here’s a 3rd to complete the title. This was such a fun novel! I can’t wait for the event with the author and translator tomorrow!

"Capitalism is the ultimate cause of climate breakdown.” Do your part and become a nudist: minimal laundry and no fast fashion. Also, staying home and masturbating means minimizing consumption 😜

“Were writers who embodied and illuminated their times eventually condemned by the more enlightened future they themselves helped bring into being?” Give Kiran Desai her 2nd Booker already! And if I have to wait another 19 years for her next book knowing it will be this spectacular, I will!

Happy long weekend! I don’t think I can get enough of Norwegian autofiction. Also, Martin Aitken might be my favourite Norwegian-to-English translator (even though Tiina Nunnally is pretty awesome as well!)

When I read The God of Small Things at 18, I thought it was the perfect novel, and it changed the way I engaged with literature. So whenever Arundhati Roy publishes a new book, it’s a literary event for me!

“The pair of them lie panting together, curled like commas, naked in the nest they've rolled in the high golden grass. They've never done it outside before but today is different - today is their last day.” I love a good opening (sentence) 😜. Happy fcf, everyone!

“Times are always strange. Art is always out of place. Always unnecessary when it's made. And later, when you look back, it's the only thing that mattered.”

There just aren’t enough gay novels exploring nonmonogamy out there! This would be the perfect pick for a naked bookclub meeting 😋

It’s a naked reading kind of Sunday morning.

This was so full of charm and whimsy it *almost* made me miss living in Montreal ☺️

“We should go where our instinct takes us, if no harm is involved. Instinct is spiritual…” Happy FCF, everyone! Only one to go, then I’ll be done with the Booker longlist!

I’m starting the week on a high. I may also be referring to the edible I will have later tonight. Despite everything, have a good week everyone!

I love translators so much

“One's sins took on meaning in the context of their moral universe, comprised of their loved ones, their idols, their rivals, their victims. Dante saw philosophers and politi-cians. Aeneas saw ghosts of warriors past. One was hurt most by what one knew.” This has nothing to do with current events.

Love this book! A.S. writes in beautiful and sensuous style of gay life in 80’s Wales, using words as a poet. It’s a love story and a sexy and arousing read! Thanks to @thenakedreader.bsky.social for the inspiration! #nakedbookclub #nakedreading

Happy FCF! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 😘 “Happiness looks small in your hands until you let it go and then you learn”

“Normality is the creepiest madness there is.”

It’s raining and feeling quite autumnal so what better than to read some classic crime in my boxers?

Day is over, time to chill

found the accompanying image, though not really for fcf. off-theme as it were

This book is great

“The wildness of lust, the ride and fall, pressed tight, forehead to forehead and the pulse and twitch of desire. They still wonder at it, in awe of mouths and tongues and stubble. One body mapped on the other, over and under a shifting landscape of muscle and hair” Was I edging as I read? Maybe 🤫

Mejor dicho, Beyond the Río Bravo. @bodieswithbooks.bsky.social #menreading #menwithbooks #readingissexy

Merci @davidgilson.bsky.social pour tes livres très excitants. J'adore Matou 😍 Thanks @davidgilson.bsky.social for you very exciting books. I love Matou 😍

“He spends a lot of the evening thinking about it…About the surprising new things his body wanted, and his inability to refuse it when it wanted them.”

Trying to beat the jet lag with the new Yokomizo. Also, I love getting new releases in the UK before they are available in Canada 😋

“...the history of everybody's 20s and 30s, after all, is one of the awareness of doors closing. At one age…it occurs to you that you'll never be a ballet dancer. At a later age, you think you'll never be this, never be that. You make your life around what you have left - what doors haven't closed.”

“My hands remembered the feel of their hair even now. My palms were stained with love as indelibly as with the fate foretold in their creases.” Got this lovely UK edition during my layover in London. Thanks everyone for the bookstore recs! Now I’ll try to get over my jet lag with some new books! 😋

I love my friend’s home gym 😋

Happy FCF! Also, hello Londoners! I’m going to be in London (UK, not Ontario 😛) next week for <24hrs and I want to visit some cute/good bookstores (despite how much I read on my iPad, I actually kinda hate it). Will definitely check out Gay’s the Word. Any suggestions for others in the area?

“…his body is no longer entirely his to control, and this loss of sovereignty is a kind of freedom.” Gotta love a novel that opens with a guy being fucked against a tree in a forest 🔥

"supernatural vengeance exists, for the person who tries to renounce his birthplace." Susan Choi has done it again! So far my favourite on the Booker longlist.

Charming #scs #softcocksaturday #nakedreading #girlsleuth @bigdickbookclub.bsky.social @horny4books.bsky.social @bodieswithbooks.bsky.social @thenakedreader.bsky.social

“Life leaves its mark upon those who dare to look at it head on, lucidly.”

Didn’t love the slow burn of this one, but I’m 3 down with 10 to go for the Booker long list! Let’s see if I can finish them before the end of summer! 🤓

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Nothing like a light read while getting over jet lag. Shame this was so disappointing compared to Strange Pictures 🤷‍♂️