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iamshadow21:

IT’S SO PRETTY!!!!

[A paperback copy of The Miseducation of Cameron Post with the rainbow flag stripe coloured page edges]

swagjjun said: :0 where can I get this

re: cameronpost – amazon has it, but i got mine from ebay. look for a listing with a pic that shows the rainbow edge, because it shares an isbn with a non coloured edition, isbn = 9780141389165.

This was the listing I bought from: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/The-Miseducation-of-Cameron-Post-by-Emily-M-Danforth/113149513707?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Amazon listing: https://www.amazon.com/Miseducation-Cameron-Post-EMILY-DANFORTH/dp/0141389168/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1542695020&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=9780141389165

Hi! So I just finished reading Not Your Villain and I am so, so excited for book 3. Is there a set release date yet? I need to know when to start stalking my library / Amazon! 😊

authorcblee:

Hello! Thank you so much for sending me a message! I’m very excited that you’re excited. There is not a set release date yet but I will definitely post about it as soon as I know!

In the meantime, did you know there’s 10k of deleted and extended scenes available for Not Your Villain that you can download? Check it out! 🙂

The Miseducation of Cameron Post Review

I got to see this at a theatre today, and it was really, really good. If you can get to see it, you should. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to, because I didn’t know if ANY cinemas in Australia would be showing it, but there are three cinemas in my state (two in Sydney, one in Newcastle) showing limited screenings, and I went to the closest. The story is tight (limiting the story to the camp with occasional flashbacks was the right way to go), the actors are FANTASTIC, and the cinematography is beautiful. It’s a very honest adaptation. Even though there are small differences, tonally, it feels the same as the book, and it’s a lot closer to the source material than, say, Love, Simon is to Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

I also said to my partner that it shows that you can make two movies with different tones about the same subject matter and still have them be a true account, comparing this to But I’m a Cheerleader. Both show the white supremacy and racism in this kind of therapy. Both show that it’s a fake science, with faith twisted up like a pretzel to justify it. Both show that it’s a system that singles out and crushes those who can’t pass as gender conforming. Both show the threat of ostracisation unless the kids submit to assimilation. Both show that the only way to win the game is to nope out all together, because that is the only way to survive something’s that meant to destroy you. I highly recommend watching both, anyhow, if you’re interested in the subject matter.

Happy birthday to me!

The Upside of Unrequited and Leah on the Offbeat were presents from @lefaym. Carry On, Autoboyography and The Edge of the Abyss were from mum (bought by me as second hand and remainders). And the last eight Classic Library books were my present to myself. Low res picks because my laptop has died against and the tablet has a terrible camera.

Well, that went… badly

I got a free-to-review queer ebook, set in a summer camp for disabled kids. (The MC and LI were staff, not kids.)

I had to nope-out by halfway, after pervasive, persistent ableism.

(Oh, and one reference to the Gestapo, when the parents were seeing their disabled kids off. I guess the author doesn’t know – or doesn’t care – that the Nazis used disabled kids as their test subjects for the Final Solution. Thousands of them.)

Please, writers. Disabled and neurodivergent people don’t need you to labour every other page how much of an inconvenience we are, how ‘quirky’ our mannerisms are, how emotionally exhausting we are, how disgusting our bodily functions, how annoying our routines and dietary and sensory needs are. How we’re sucking the life from our families like vampires.

You never have to tell us. You never let us forget.

(No, I’m not going to name-drop the author or the book. I just need to vent.)

EDIT: I will add that this wasn’t just a ‘ugh, won’t read any more’ situation. This book gave me a severe anxiety spiral requiring a long hot bath with a Lush bath bomb, a valium, and I’ve been sitting here rocking most of the day, something I generally only do when my anxiety is most severe. I very, very rarely leave a book unfinished, but this was a ‘for my own safety’ situation. Ableism is toxic, y’all. Get a sensitivity reader. Not a professional, not a family member, but an actual disabled person who feels comfortable enough to call out your bullshit.

EDIT 2: The author contacted me and was really respectful and thankful for my review, so, guys, THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT when a marginalised person has genuine concrit of your thing, when you have asked for an-honest-review-for-free-book. Even if you don’t 100% agree with the reviewer, it costs you nothing to respect the feedback and the position of the reviewer as an expert in their own experience.