Matthew reads, I guess...

  So I went down to London in November for a couple of events, one of which was a little talk with Erik J Brown at the Common Press Bookshop, and that was where I found Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella while I was waiting for the event to start. The blurb says that Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, works double shifts at his waiter job, never cleans his apartment and gets black-out drunk with his restaurant comrades, Nik and Darby. He’s been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transition to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous slip-ups have caught the attention of Tyler, a Millennial were-entrepreneur determined to explore exponential growth strategies in the mythological wellness market. Tyler has got a plan and he wants Brian to be part of it, and weirdly his brand of self-help punditry actually encourages Brian to shape up and to stop accidentally marking out bad tipp...

  Today I’m talking about The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor, which I believe I got the same time I got the last two books I read. Also, I’m fairly certain that this is a middle grade book, so I’m definitely not the target audience, or have at least grown out of the target audience. That’s definitely something I kept in mind while reading. The blurb is a pretty short one, but it says that Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer in Oregon. But then he bumps into the intriguing and irresistible Evan. Just like that, his summer changes. Soon Jeremy and Evan are hanging out whenever they can, going on adventures and conjuring their own secret language. What starts out as friendship blooms into something neither boy is expecting, but something they have both been hoping for. So in the first chapter Jeremy has his 12 th birthday and gets a card from his uncle with a sexy woman on the front and homeboy (emphasis on boy) is embarrassed by it, but obviously ...