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Jun. 21st, 2020 09:25 amLast week's work week started with strategizing on Sunday and didn't end until 3 a.m. Saturday, with distance choir and chores and a weird foot cramp in the mix, so I was not surprised when brain and body noped out of my plans in favor of binge-reading, starting with a revisit of Jackie Lau's Pregnant by the Playboy (which did at least nudge me into a couple of Mandarin Duolingo lessons), followed by her Big Surprise for Valentine's Day (whose Chinese-Canadian heroine works for the Stratford Festival). Early on, she's at a bar with a dancer and a costume designer . . .
After that, it was on to the Rebekah Weatherspoon books in my library queue, including Rafe (mouthy women and inked cookie-baking nanny on a Ducati), Xeni (hex-throwing side character from Rafe gets it on with bisexual cook who plays seventeen instruments, including jazz bagpipes) and Better off Red (vampire lesbian sorority with Asian president). And then Megan Matthews's Boys of RDA series.
In the family-appropriate stack, there's been Yuyi Morales's Dreamers (Nashville Public Library's 2020 citywide read) and Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares, a paragraph book by Frank Murphy and illustrator Richard Walz. The latter features a squirrel wearing a tricorn hat on almost every spread -- and the final item in the Author's Note mentions that Franklin "really did have a pet squirrel named Skugg."
A white dude in a trucker hat approached their table. It was clear who his eyes were on: Gloria.
“You Japanese or Chinese?”
“I’m Canadian, you punk,” Gloria said.
“Hey. All I did was ask you a question. Can I buy you a drink?”
“Nah, I got a girlfriend.” The guy smirked. “And she owns a boxing gym, so I’d watch it if I were you.”
The guy eventually returned to his table of dude-bros at the front of the bar.
“Bet he has some kind of strange Asian fetish.” Gloria shook her head. “Probably thought I’d be sweet and submissive.”
“Pretty sure you’re right,” Amber agreed.
“I love being able to truthfully say that my girlfriend owns a boxing gym. I’ll keep saying it even after we break up.”
After that, it was on to the Rebekah Weatherspoon books in my library queue, including Rafe (mouthy women and inked cookie-baking nanny on a Ducati), Xeni (hex-throwing side character from Rafe gets it on with bisexual cook who plays seventeen instruments, including jazz bagpipes) and Better off Red (vampire lesbian sorority with Asian president). And then Megan Matthews's Boys of RDA series.
In the family-appropriate stack, there's been Yuyi Morales's Dreamers (Nashville Public Library's 2020 citywide read) and Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares, a paragraph book by Frank Murphy and illustrator Richard Walz. The latter features a squirrel wearing a tricorn hat on almost every spread -- and the final item in the Author's Note mentions that Franklin "really did have a pet squirrel named Skugg."
