tales of Suchita

Recently, my mother saw me charging my Kindle for the second time in a week and she said, “I preferred it when you were going to the library for books. At least that way, you’d take breaks in between.”

It made me laugh. Because now that instant gratification has become a thing with the Kindle, I cannot imagine how I waited 24 hours before being able to go to my library to pick up my next read!

For this week’s #BlogchatterBlogHop prompt, I’m going to talk about 2 LGBTQIA+ books I read and immediately wished I could re-read. What I loved about both books was at the core of them, they are about belongingness and finding your place in the wider scheme of things.

This is a story of 2 operatives Blue and Red who work for opposing teams. They make changes to the timelines, manipulating the threads so what their bosses want comes to pass. It is a cyclical book in many ways since it relates to time, going back and forth.

Blue and Red start off as enemies, thwarting each other, and leaving gleeful letters about their respective triumphs. Early on you know they are exactly matched and if one wins, the other has to lose. Through these letters, you get a glimpse of who Blue and Red are: what makes them tick, what’s their worldview. They start breaking rules for each other and soon, they fall in love. The quality of their letters change and the depth of their feelings and fear that one will betray the other because they are enemies at the end of the day is exquisite.

They do everything for each other even when they worry about betrayal because isn’t that what it means to love? Knowing your heart could break? I’m especially happy with how it ended.

I would recommend that you read this slowly. Apart from the letters, there is no plot as such and that can get frustrating. This is an easy book to hate but I’m glad I loved it.

This was my last read book and though it has been been about a week since I finished it, I have still not gathered my thoughts enough to talk about it coherently. This is the story about Keema, who is looking for a way to make his story and existence mean something. It is about Jun, who is looking for a way to step out of his father’s shadow. A father who forced him down a path of such violence Jun has no hope for redemption. There is also Moon, who left the sky because She was curious about the humans who worshiped her.

It is a love story too – as the end suggests.

The way this book is crafted, the language, the structure, the story – all of it is so beyond something I could imagine that I was like a child, sitting around a fire, waiting for the page to turn, as a wise old person read out the story to me.

This is one of those books that will go in the “Books I will Never Shut up About” list. Read this slowly too because savouring the world building is half the joy.

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Now comes my favourite question: any LGBTQIA+ books, movies or shows you’d like to recommend?

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This post is a part of Blogchatter Blog Hop.

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