Queer book reviews and general nonsense
When I originally started blogging under the mantle of "History Will Say..." the intention was to write solely about Sapphic books, with maybe a few other hobbies thrown in here and there. I expanded to generally queer reads as I found I had lots of thoughts about other LGBTQ+ books to share. When I was still on Wordpress, I kept on theme pretty well and generally had around a dozen reads per…
As of this writing, there appears to be a problem with Cusdis and my comment box is not working. I don't know if this is on my end or not, but in the meantime please feel free to e-mail me via the link at the bottom of each post! For some reason, when large amounts of completely unrelated people with drastically varying interests collectively agree on a particular thing, the word bandwagon gets…
We need to bring back locking people in the stocks in the town square and pelting them with produce of questionable quality. I'm only just starting my apartment search and I'm already fed up with the trifling of the managers I'm dealing with. They're wasting my time, patience, and sanity, all three of which are already in remarkably short supply. Here's what's pissed me off this week: Advertising…
I recently deleted my Pinterest account and the app due to their refusal to make even the slightest attempt to curb AI slop, in spite of the issues with plagiarism and dangerous misinformation. I even more recently started taking the first steps toward finally moving out of this backwards-ass town, and even MORE recently received a tentative, informal offer from my employer to move to a remote…
The older I get, being thirty-hmhmhmhm at the moment, the less I find myself able or willing to expend my very limited pool of patience on other grown-ass adults who don't know how to behave in public. This is usually not a problem. If someone is blasting through their Tiktok feed with the volume turned all the way up in a public place, I can simply leave. If a person is not using their inside…
That title got you, didn't it? I'm going to do something that is a massive departure from my usual reviews, because something a little bit odd has been happening with my book choices lately. I'm noticing patterns . It started with a sudden apparent fascination with Carmilla reimaginings and adaptations. Between mid-2025 and now, I've read three different Carmilla-inspired sapphic novels and…
Along with many others over the past few years, I chose to separate myself from larger social media platforms; specifically Meta, TikTok, Xitter, and more recently Pinterest (does Pinterest count as social media?). TikTok got deleted the exact moment they published their big thank you to a certain spray-tanned clown for "saving" them from being shut down. Meta followed not long after due to the…
April has seen fit to offer mercy upon my wallet. This post may be a bit shorter than March's unruly assault on my bank account, but I'm no less excited for these titles! The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne by Summer N. England (April 7th) Clara Thorne is living out her happy ending as the magical gardener for the town of Moss when the Goddess chooses her for the important quest of growing a…
Jackson Alone by Jose Ando This post started out very differently. At first I was fairly critical of the writing style, unsure if it was due to poor writing or poor translation that it wasn't speaking to me, or perhaps a cultural difference that was evading me. Then, as I worked through my thoughts, an epiphany hit me like a comically large ACME anvil dropped from a great height. THAT'S THE…
March is a loooong list of WTRs, so let's jump right in! A Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens (March 3rd) In Regency London, famously rakish Miss Georgina Pace comes to the rescue of an innocent man targeted by a corrupt gambling house, and in her pursuit of justice, becomes entangled with the enigmatic Lady Mortimer. That cover has me drooling. Love a dyke who sits like it she means it. Sapphic…