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Dec 2019:“be gay, do crimes, circulate books”is tor pandering to me April 2020:This is a short story that packs a punch. Gailey introduces us into this western world that is in a near-future America. The librarians operate to bring Approved Materials to different outposts, but they have other goals. This story follows the subversive, queer, antifascists librarians as they pick up a "package" to drop off elsewhere. Esther stows away in the librarians' cart with the hope of becoming a librarian. S...
Fight the State.Be a Librarian.I was immediately intrigued when I saw this on the back cover of Sarah Gailey’s lovely little novella, Upright Women Wanted, particularly as I myself work in a library. A quick glance told me that not only was this about librarians, but gay librarians fighting fascism in a western-setting dystopia. YUP, sign me up. Gailey surely knows their target market, which truly makes this book so blissfully fun and empowering. On the surface this is a quick dystopian romp ful...
“When there’s people around who we don’t trust, we let them think we’re the kinds of people who are allowed to exist.” Upright Women Wanted follows lead character Esther Augustus, daughter of a major ruler, as she runs away to join traveling librarians Bet, Leda, and Cye. In a post-apocalyptic Western society, people who don’t fit are a class all to themselves: some are hanged, like Esther’s old lover Beatriz. Some become librarians. This novella is an excellent exploration of the pol
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CW: (view spoiler)[Domestic violence, homophobia, gun violence, death (hide spoiler)]Well this just wasn't for me. It felt like a slice of life story that lacked character development and any depth. The writing was good and I loved the rep, it just didn't hold my interest.
Books have gotten a lot more diverse in the past ten years, or even just the past five years, and I love it. I’ve read more books with LGBT leads in the past year than I think I did in the combined 24 years before that. But only a few of those books have made me feel seen in the way that Upright Women Wanted made me feel seen. I’m sure most of you know what I mean, when you read something in a book that resonates with you so deeply because it’s exactly how you feel and you’ve never seen it writt...
This was a popular ARC in my office at the library, for obvious reasons! I really wanted to love the book (queer! subversive! librarians!) but it just didn't click for me. I think it's mainly that I, a humble ace, could not understand how the protagonist could go from mourning her best friend/lover (who was JUST executed) to eyeballing the hot enby trainee librarian in the space of a single day. Perhaps this seems perfectly normal to allosexuals and wouldn't bother other readers at all, but to m...
This is a different sort of book that doesn't fit neatly into any genre. It's a western set in a dystopian-future, an LGBQT+ romance, and an action adventure story complete with bandits, sheriffs, and old-fashioned shoot-em-up scenes. Sounds like a lot but lacks much of a plot. 5 stars for effort but overall, it fell far short of those 5 stars. A few chuckles and some kick-ass lesbian Librarians don't necessarily add up to an incredible story. 2.5 stars rounded up.
This was a super fun, very queer alternative future western novella. Esther is escaping her territory in grief over her BFF/GF being hung and being forced to get engaged to a terrible dude by her authoritarian father. She stows away in the Librarian's wagon. Their official story is they deliver "Approved Materials" but they are really radical queer spies on horseback who aren't afraid to use their rifles. Esther learns the ropes of life on the road and falls for the librarian's nonbinary apprent...
