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AmyStrange

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22. I just got the new book, Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith, and...
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:59 PM
Sep 2020

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I know that's a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, and that a lot of people here don't like her, because they think she's transphobic, but I believe she's just uncomfortable with the idea, and so am I.

I don't hate them or anything even close to that. It's just that I've lived my whole life with certain gender expectations, and it's hard to think otherwise, but that's my problem, not theirs.

To be perfectly honest, I wish I'd been born a woman, because most men just suck, including myself.

Anyway, I finished the Lisbeth Salander trilogy, and now I'm gonna read this new book.
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Killing Bridezilla SheltieLover Sep 2020 #1
Yeah, hermetic Sep 2020 #6
I wish her well, also, of course! SheltieLover Sep 2020 #18
I am reading murielm99 Sep 2020 #2
I hear that hermetic Sep 2020 #7
A really oldie referred by a friend, "The Nine Taylors" by Dorothy Sayers. TexasProgresive Sep 2020 #3
Love Dorothy Sayers hermetic Sep 2020 #9
I read the new J.D.Robb. and Melissa .McShane Book of Destiny. Srkdqltr Sep 2020 #4
Oh, it is that hermetic Sep 2020 #10
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #5
Does sound good hermetic Sep 2020 #11
I found my copy of the plague by camdus last week Midnightwalk Sep 2020 #8
I have that hermetic Sep 2020 #12
Same fiction I read every week... AZ8theist Sep 2020 #13
Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb japple Sep 2020 #14
What an amazing find! hermetic Sep 2020 #15
"Blood on Snow" by Jo Nesbo The King of Prussia Sep 2020 #16
Sorry to hear that hermetic Sep 2020 #17
I love his Harry Hole series... AmyStrange Sep 2020 #23
New mysteries SheltieLover Sep 2020 #19
Great news! hermetic Sep 2020 #20
Yw! SheltieLover Sep 2020 #21
I just got the new book, Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith, and... AmyStrange Sep 2020 #22
Did you read the earlier ones? hermetic Sep 2020 #24
I own and have read all them, except... AmyStrange Sep 2020 #25
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