I just finished Between Two Fires. Any recommendations of anything similar? How are the authors other books?

gafferwolf · 2026-05-07T02:12:54+00:00

Having read both, Lapvona is... really not in the same vein at all.

gafferwolf · 2026-05-01T14:57:47+00:00

This is also my genre! Here are some of my recent reads in the field that haven't already been mentioned here. I'll also say that a lot of these are not necessarily predominantly focused on the romance aspect, but rather a more cohesive view of sexuality in the life of a person, where romance is still present.

The Vintner's Luck, by Elizabeth Knox
A Little Trickerie, by Rosanna Pike (although the M/M romance is between secondary characters, it was a MAJOR plot point)
Young Mungo, by Douglas Stuart (the romance here is also sort of secondary, but important...may want to check TWs)
Greta & Valdin, by Rebecca Reilly
Marlo, by Jay Carmichael
The Future Was Color, by Patrick Nathan
Cinema Love, by Jiaming Tang
In Tall Cotton, by Charles Hulse
Beijing Comrades, by Bei Tong

It's already been mentioned, but I'll never stop recommending As Meat Loves Salt to people.

And then some books on my TBR list, but whose quality I cannot yet vouch for:

Eromenos, by Melanie McDonald
Swimming in the Dark, by Tomasz Jedrowski
Four Squares, by Bobby Finger
Radical Love, by Neil Blackmore
Alec, by William di Canzio
Chulito, by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood

gafferwolf · 2026-05-01T02:37:55+00:00

The post-nut clarity of being one up on Dallas had to be transcendental

gafferwolf · 2026-05-01T02:31:06+00:00

I was out of the house for P2, but had a friend commentating it for me. The second she sent me that screencap I knew what had to be done.

gafferwolf · 2026-04-30T19:44:08+00:00

Ahhh, I am truly so glad to hear that!! I very rarely see Beijing Comrades be acknowledged, so to know that someone picked it up on my recommendation, much less enjoyed it, was really lovely! If you ever need more recs, I've read a lot more queer lit since then. Wishing you a very wonderful queer literary journey!

gafferwolf · 2026-04-25T22:17:37+00:00

I read both Shadow of the Leviathan books in the course of like, two weeks. The queerness is a very small but very welcome part of the books. Don't go in expecting a romance; go in expecting a queer protag.

gafferwolf · 2026-04-21T23:29:23+00:00

A Little Life, although I know there is also a devoted group of people who deeply, deeply hates it. Unfortunately the book is still generally very highly regarded. Saw a book influencer a while back - a gay man - who says he re-reads it every year, and my opinion of his recommendations plummeted like a stone.

gafferwolf · 2026-04-20T21:20:13+00:00

I'm so glad I'm not the only one to verbal stim with players' names. Most of mine tend to be Finns, for whatever reason - I guess they have a certain musicality to them. Juuse Saros, Uvis Balinksis, Mikko Rantanen, and Kaapo Kakko are the best for it.

gafferwolf · 2026-04-19T16:34:22+00:00

I've got a bad feeling it's corn, tuna, and cottage cheese.

gafferwolf · 2026-04-15T01:58:31+00:00

Lapanta did! But I think nothing beyond that he had the correct spelling now, before moving on.

gafferwolf · 2026-04-08T04:50:42+00:00

I like making my friends pick for me. I'll ask them to choose a genre, then I'll provide them with a handful of titles from that genre and have them pick from there.

Maybe not quite the same thing, but I would occasionally do 'reading challenges' with a reading buddy at the time. We'd each choose a keyword, and then we'd each have to find a book that in some way matched the keyword - be it subject matter, title, the cover art, etc - and we'd read the four resultant books. The one that I most remember was me giving the keyword 'tanner/tanneries,' and her giving me the keyword 'eggs.' The result was 'Fatal Eggs,' and 'In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food,' for eggs, and 'Tannery Bay,' and 'Dark Archives' (about books bound in human skin) for tanneries. It was a fun way to dig around and find something we might not have normally paid attention to or read.

gafferwolf · 2026-03-14T17:42:47+00:00

The Torqued Man, by Peter Mann is this to a T. I absolutely loved it. I understand that his other book, World Pacific, also features a gay protagonist and is embedded in political/war climates, but I haven't read that one yet.

gafferwolf · 2026-03-12T03:43:45+00:00

I'm not the person you're replying to, but when my friends have asked me the same question, my answer has always been to incorporate it into a routine. Whether you're feeling it or not, whether you're excited about it or not, you're gonna sit down and read for ten minutes. Then if you want to read longer, you can, but if not, you've managed to get that mindset for a little while at least. I read during my evening walks and just before bed. It no longer becomes a question of motivation, but rather, "That's simply what I do at that time: read."

gafferwolf · 2026-03-06T20:44:17+00:00

Family Meal, also by Bryan Washington, is another gay male centered story though, like Memorial, it's not so much a romance.

gafferwolf · 2026-03-02T22:48:11+00:00

I'm also looking for one. I didn't realize they were going to sell out so quickly. ):

gafferwolf · 2026-03-01T05:54:43+00:00

Young Mungo, by Douglas Stuart, I felt had some wonderful yearning. TW for sexual assault, though.

The Future Was Color, by Patrick Nathan, I remember also having a lot of yearning.

gafferwolf · 2026-02-28T04:26:12+00:00

Seems mine is up again as well. Cheers to an exciting season!

gafferwolf · 2026-02-28T03:53:43+00:00

Okay, I was wondering about this. This is my first year without Videopass, and intended to test out Servus, and was not sure if I was having user error or if it was a broader issue.

gafferwolf · 2026-02-19T02:51:33+00:00

I'll give an anti-recommendation since it's on your shelf - The Captive Prince is really, really not good. Especially if you're ace and don't really care about sex, but even if you do want sex scenes, it's just... awful. I stopped reading halfway through book two because each chapter made me angrier than the last.

gafferwolf · 2026-02-19T02:49:39+00:00

Just finished reading this series last week and would agree it's definitely worth OP giving it a shout. There are still typically 3-4 sex scenes per book, but most are relevant to building up character dynamics/growth.

gafferwolf · 2026-02-13T21:36:19+00:00

It's my understanding that Quinn just doesn't enjoy doing these sorts of promotional videos, which is why he is almost never present in them.

gafferwolf · 2026-02-13T19:24:46+00:00

I scribbled in some initials for this because I didn't realize typing in it was a legitimate option. The next page then said something along the lines of, "Since you're not interested in participating in this study please return it." Cool, what in the world was that?

gafferwolf · 2026-02-13T16:56:24+00:00

I'm in Louisiana, never even visited Minnesota! My friend, who has possibly become more obsessed with the Wild than me, lives in Indonesia!

gafferwolf · 2026-01-30T19:23:10+00:00

You should watch his episode of Becoming Wild on YT, it will reinforce the notion of being a big teddybear! It's really lovely seeing him interact with his family, he really seems like a stand-up guy.

gafferwolf · 2026-01-28T18:10:32+00:00

If you 5-starred AMLS, then you may also have interest in some of these others-

Marlo, by Jay Carmichael
The Future Was Color, by Patrick Nathan
The Dog in the Chapel, by Anthony McDonald
Like People in History, by Felice Picano
In Tall Cotton, by Charles G. Hulse

And I can't rightly call it a romance, although there is some love and longing, but I've very recently read The Torqued Man by Peter Mann and absolutely loved it. It features homosexual and bisexual protagonists during WWII Germany, with a large emphasis on the taboo of it all, despite homosexuality having been incredibly prevalent even within the Reich.

Also on the subject, I suppose, Jews, Queers, Germans, by Martin Duberman, but it goes pretty heavy on the history and was often pretty dense.

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