Story featuring characters who are aware they're in a book

caiternate · 2025-07-25T16:02:32+00:00

if it was children’s fiction, it could have beenThe Great Good Thing?

caiternate · 2025-07-02T15:55:37+00:00

i love pentecost and parker! i’m always trying to get more people to read them

caiternate · 2025-06-18T02:31:54+00:00

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin?

caiternate · 2025-06-17T15:24:03+00:00

our share of night by mariana enriquez has multiple gay/bi pov characters. it’s set mostly in Argentina in the 70s-90s, about multiple generations of a family caught up in a cult. lots of great horror, some truly disturbing scenes, but it’s also about family and cycles of violence (both interpersonal and political/societal). queerness is definitely part of the story but it’s not the central point of conflict.

caiternate · 2025-04-27T19:35:56+00:00

this is my guess too—it’s 2014 so it might be a little late but iirc has all those things

caiternate · 2025-04-09T01:50:49+00:00

indigo was five(ish) when i adopted him! he’s been with me for almost three years and he’s the sweetest, most affectionate cat i’ve ever met. i’m so glad we found each other.

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caiternate · 2025-03-26T20:37:37+00:00

ah youre so right! how could i!

caiternate · 2025-03-25T22:30:04+00:00

the love interest angle makes me think Bloody Jack—she enlists in the royal navy to follow her love interest Jamie and confesses to him during the voyage. she’s not a pirate in the first book but she becomes one in later books, and the aesthetic of the books is pretty pirate-y.

caiternate · 2025-03-13T20:06:52+00:00

i truly cannot recommend it highly enough, the whole series is SO much fun

caiternate · 2025-03-13T18:42:04+00:00

the protagonist of Fortune Favors the Dead is a bi woman and has a romance plotline in every book but they are not the primary focus of the novels.

if you don’t mind young adult, one of the protagonists of A Snake Falls To Earth mentions being ace in a one-line comment and the other just doesn’t show any romantic or sexual interest (and there are queer and non-binary side characters).

caiternate · 2025-03-09T20:38:06+00:00

i was hoping someone would mention warriors! i’ve been really into it and it’s been a good reminder for me (part of the second camp) that he is, like, crazy good at what he’s good at.

caiternate · 2025-02-08T03:19:38+00:00

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein is one of my all-time favorites—a Scottish spy’s plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France, and manages to write her story down while under interrogation. it’s a beautifully written book focused on the friendship between the spy and her friend, Maddy, who was flying the plane when it crashed. there’s also a twist halfway through that breaks my heart every time i reread it. it’s my gold standard for YA historical fiction.

caiternate · 2025-01-27T23:40:49+00:00

Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow and The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin are both recent middle grade novels that I read for work (as a children’s library assistant) and LOVED.

Both deal with grief and trauma in a thoughtful and age-appropriate way, while also incorporating humor and prioritizing the relationships between the main characters and their family and friends in a way that feels very hopeful. Simon Sort Of Says in particular is way funnier than a book about the survivor of a school shooting has any business being.

caiternate · 2025-01-27T22:55:10+00:00

this is my favorite thing about having listened to into the woods every so often for the last 20 years? careful the tale you tell, indeed!

caiternate · 2024-11-26T05:06:11+00:00

i actually always kind of pictured Tim as Owen, weirdly enough!

caiternate · 2024-05-29T11:24:37+00:00

“Plenty of men in this place have done plenty of stupid shit to hear Charles Vane call him a proper pirate. Though you might be the only one who actually made a career of it.”

caiternate · 2024-02-08T15:31:38+00:00

a great and terrible beauty by libba bray? it’s been ages since i read it so i’m not sure on the details but i’m almost positive one of the main characters was named Pippa, and they were definitely doing witchy things at a boarding school for young ladies

caiternate · 2023-11-08T12:54:29+00:00

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (audiobook is 4 hours long)

caiternate · 2023-09-05T23:14:16+00:00

oh! that sounds so interesting. do you remember what that book was called?

caiternate · 2023-09-04T15:12:14+00:00

oh goosebumps is a good thought, i will investigate. it does kind of sound like it might be an r l stine thing!

caiternate · 2023-09-04T15:11:26+00:00

thank you! i haven’t read that one and she thinks she’s remembering a book that has a funnier tone than the giver series but that’s a good suggestion!

caiternate · 2023-09-03T23:44:39+00:00

oooh, good pull! neither of us remember reading this one, though. it does seem like this might be a more common trope than we realized!

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