Book cover image Love Hate ClickBait

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

8:00-9:30 pm ET (Eastern Time); 5 pm Pacific Time

Please RSVP for the Zoom link.  (Same as last month, if you attended before) 

1. Love, Hate and Clickbait by Liz Bowery (2022 - 309 pages - a quick read) - $3.99 Kindle
ISBN: 9780778311898

When a misleading photo of them goes viral, political consultant Thom Morgan and data analyst Clay Parker--sworn enemies working with a presidential candidate--are forced to fake a relationship to save the campaign, and soon the political turns personal.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK SELECTED BY BUZZFEED & THE NERD DAILY

"Quick-paced, sharp, and thoroughly entertaining. I couldn’t put it down!”—Helen Hoang

Shake some hands. Kiss some coworkers.

Cutthroat political consultant Thom Morgan is thriving, working on the governor of California’s presidential campaign. If only he didn’t have to deal with Clay Parker, the infuriatingly smug data analyst who gets under Thom’s skin like it’s his job. In the midst of one of their heated and very public arguments, a journalist snaps a photo, but the image makes it look like they’re kissing. As if that weren’t already worst-nightmare territory, the photo goes viral—and in a bid to secure the liberal vote, the governor asks them to lean into it. Hard.

Thom knows all about damage control—he practically invented it. Ever the professional, he’ll grin and bear this challenge as he does all others. But as the loyal staffers push the boundaries of “giving the people what they want,” the animosity between them blooms into something deeper and far more dangerous: desire. Soon their fake relationship is hurtling toward something very real, which could derail the campaign and cost them both their jobs…and their hearts.

 

 2. About Liz Bowery (Author):  

Liz Bowery writes love stories about terrible people. Her interests include politics, cheese, TV shows you can't stop watching even when it's 3 AM, and playing Among Us with friends. Like most romance writers, she is a lawyer, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her family. Love, Hate & Clickbait is her debut novel.

Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imani_Perry

3. Where to find the book: 

Google Books lets you read 66 pages for free on the web.  It also searches nearby libraries for copies. (You need to tell it your Zip Code). 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Love_Hate_Clickbait/RiwrEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Other sources: your library (including inter-library loan), retailers, Amazon Kindle edition is $3.99 [direct link] or use the free Kindle app on any device; book is available from all booksellers in every format).  

It also may be available to borrow (for free) on WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1304517630
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Alas it isn't available at OpenLibrary https://openlibrary.org/  or The Internet Archive https://archive.org/

Used book sellers include

Abe Books ($6.39 +$2 shipping): https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780778311898

Thriftbooks ($8.89): https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/cover-story_liz-bowery/28842999/item/#edition=59917797&idiq=54197734

Alibris Books (From $5.54 plus shipping. Join email list for $5 off your 1st order): 
https://www.alibris.com/Love-Hate-Clickbait-Liz-Bowery/book/51157810?matches=35  

4. *OPTIONAL RESOURCES* for the book and Liz Bowery, here:  

Imani Perry interview and reading on YouTube. (1 hour): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdW6EdzgOP8

Publisher's page about the book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/love-hate-clickbait-liz-bowery?variant=39628709462050 

5. Reviews

“Quick-paced, sharp, and thoroughly entertaining. I couldn’t put it down!”—Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author

“Bowery’s debut novel offers all of the electric, budding sexual tension that comes with fake dating.”—Kirkus 

–> ** INVITE ** ANY YALE ALUMNI to our discussion on November 17: 

NOTE: Our informal group doesn’t have any set “curriculum;” we discuss the books that members nominate and that we all vote for… but ongoing themes, connected to LGBTQ+ experience – sometimes including Yale – do emerge. At discussions, each of us can bring up ANY points we want. We welcome the widest range of opinions, in a lively collegial atmosphere – Boola Boola Redux! 

Yale GALA LGBTQ+ Book Club is a series of lively Zoom discussions of LGBTQ+ contemporary and classic novels, non-fiction, plays, and poetry. All alumni are welcome, of all orientations, genders, races, and points of view. We meet the third Thursday of every month at 8 pm ET via Zoom. 

To register, please email natasha@yalegalaevents.org with the subject line, “Yale GALA LGBTQ+ Book Club: Liz Bowery's Love, Hate and Click Bait -- or simply Book Club

 
More Info: 

SOME BOOKS TO CONSIDER FOR FUTURE DISCUSSIONS

We are NOT limited to the below recommendations but see what you think of these diverse titles. Nominate any LGBTQ+ book that interests you, contemporary or classic, whether a work of FICTION (novel, story collection), NON-FICTION (history, biography, memoir, essay collection), PLAY (or musical), or POETRY; there doesn’t need to be a Yale connection. Mention your choice, at a discussion, and I’ll add it to the following list for future group emails. We periodically, live at the beginning of discussions, take nominations and then vote as a group.

For our UPCOMING OPEN DATES (‘Third Thursdays’) – in the next couple of months, we need to select books for: September XX, October YY and November ZZ.  If you’re looking for some ideas, here are major LGBTQ+ book ‘best lists’ and award winners (Lambda Literary, Publishing Triangle, Stonewall Awards, more). NEW!  BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) LGBTQ+ literature with links to external BIPOC sites. You’re not limited to those websites. PLEASE NOTE: new titles take a few months to become widely available in libraries. Here are members’ recommendations.

• AMAN recommends: (FICTION) Delicious Foods by James Hannaham;  Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu;  The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.;  The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer.  (NON-FICTION) Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P Carl;  Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay and Love, Hait and Click Bait by Liz Bower. 
• ANN recommends: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village memoir by Samuel R. Delany
• BRUCE recommends: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin;  The Gallery by John Horne Burns (1947); Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick
• CHIP recommends: Poetry of Emily Dickinson (list of Dickinson’s most openly lesbian poems)
• JIM recommends: The Bell by Iris Murdoch;  The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde;  Julian [last ‘pagan’ Roman emperor] by Gore Vidal;  Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James M. Saslow (includes hundreds of art photos; winner of two Lambda Literary Awards) – THANKS to Prof. Saslow, Pictures and Passions is briefly FREE to download complete (use the basic “Download PDF” link; 59 MB).
• MARY ANNE recommends: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
• TASH recommends: Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry. There is also a PBS documentary :) 
• CAROLYN recommends: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl b Andrea Lawlor and XX by Carolina Robertis
• What would YOU – including new members – like our group to discuss? Nominate ANY LGBTQ+ book that interests you! I’ll add your recommendations here.

BOOKS WE’VE DISCUSSED (Complete List):

• October 2022: Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry (Yale '94).  (2018) - 250 pages. PBG movie is Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
• September 2022: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor (2017)
• May and June 2022: Maurice, by EM Forster (1913 - published 1971 with a happy ending)
• April 2022: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
• March 2022: Ain't I a Woman, by bell hooks
• February 2022 – Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim’s “Musical Thriller”
• January 2022 – Song in a Weary Throat, Pauli Murray’s memoir. (Movie available)
• December 2021 – Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s novel
• November 2021 – Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart’s novel
• October 2021 – Fa**ots, Larry Kramer’s satirical first novel
• September 2021 – The Sparsholt Affair, Alan Hollinghurst’s novel
• August 2021 – The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith’s thriller novel
• July 2021 – Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Paul Monette’s memoir
• June 2021 – Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s novel
• May 2021 – The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s play, inspired by E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End
• April 2021 – The Heart’s Invisible Furies, John Boyne’s novel
• March 2021 – Native Country of the Heart, a Memoir, by Cherríe Moraga
• February 2021 – Leaves of Grass (1855 first version), Walt Whitman’s poetry
• January 2021 – The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s novel
• December 2020 – Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman’s novel [no meetings in October or November]
• September 2020 – The Gods of Tango, Carolina de Robertis’s novel [no meeting in August]
• July 2020 – Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta’s novel
• June 2020 (our first discussion) – Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde’s autobiographical novel (“biomythography”)

 More info: http://www.yalegala.org/article.html?aid=713