My mother is an avid reader. She’s probably forgotten more books than I’ve ever read, even though she passed her love of reading on to me.

SO READY FOR THIS.

Helicopter parenting is bad and you can’t shelter them from bad stuff in the world too much but I feel like “I don’t want my children interacting with a known serial killer” is a fairly reasonable request?

I’m cool with that, I’m angry too— IMO anyone who isn’t angry in our current climate is too insulated from reality to be cool.

Many of the guys of metal and big hair bands were always conservative pricks. I have a friend who’s worked at the Rainbow Room for many years and attested to that fact. There are also a lot of brain cells missing from prolonged drug abuse. She said Lemmy was always a sweetheart though!

I have not read The Witching Hour in novel form but, based on her other novels that I have read (the early Lestat and one Mummy), I would guess that there is a fair chance that Ms. Rice included at least one LGBT character.

The Skye O’Malley books are fire. Read every book in that series when I was a teenager. Subsequently acquired a bajillion different words for penis; manroot is still my favourite.

I’d like to nominate Tipping The Velvet. I mean c’mon you gotta have some queer stuff here.

HALT. A jaguar on a leash? I fear I must insist upon this being a contender.

I am very...excited by this post.

Just for you, I voted for The Thorn Birds.

I...what?

What about the greatest romance book of all time, Pounded in My Butt By My Book, “Pounded in the Butt By My Own Butt”?

Why on earth do the “rebellious” musicians always turn conservative nutter when they get old?

Generally because becoming successful means they’re adding “rich” to the already one-two punch of “white guy.”

Why on earth do the “rebellious” musicians always turn conservative nutter when they get old? It’s just weird.