Parker Goodreau

@parkergoodreau

they/them. writer, artist, theatre person. youth librarian/bookseller. lives off kidlit, comics, and spec fic. rep: @desir.ee at Looking Glass Lit

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Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· 14d

ok so. my total commute each day is almost two hours, during which i usually listen to audiobooks, and also a big chunk of this number is comics and children's books (though not picture books, i track those separately).

[image: screenshot of my storygraph challenges page.]
[text: 2026 Reading Goals
You have read 108 books this year.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· 19d

when your dad has possibly been replaced by a monster it's important to keep your evidence organized.

[text: They ended up at the library, going over Drew's notes on a borrowed laptop. “I caught him looking at my phone,” she explained, “so I started keeping everything on a dummy account here.”

Her record started on the day of the attack, with everything she had seen or heard from other coven members. Two days later, the color coding began, noting her observations about the Dailey impersonator in yellow and the results of her research in blue. There were citations. If things were any less dire, Mercer would have ruffled a hand over her cropped curls and called her a nerd.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· 21d

Has anyone done this yet?

[Image: the "if you are cold they are cold, bring pets inside" meme with an assemblage of Clipart plants with a sad face to represent Calyx.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· 22d

I've been checking the Newbury Comics near my Monday job for the past three weeks hoping they would get some Jax merchandise in stock, and at last, I am rewarded. Nonbinary flag in the back isn't meant to imply anything (except about me), that's just the best-lit spot in my room.

[Image: photo of my new Jax toy, a purple cartoon rabbit with a devious expression. ]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· 28d

happy nonbinary day, everyone! i'm an author/artist and i love to write genderqueer characters. i have a short story in the free WEREWOLVES VS. NATURE anthology: argylewerewolf.itch.io/wv08

[image: a chibi digital painting of a couple. the shorter is a dark-skinned young man with dreadlocks, red eyes, a skull ring, and a bi flag shirt. the taller is a white young person with pink eyeshadow, a lot of jewelry and tattoos, a nonbinary flag tanktop, and a queer flag cape.]

[image: a digital painting of two children and a giant fox sitting on a small dock over a lake. Mist holds a handkerchief to their bruised eye, while Rita wrings water out of her hat. They are smiling at each other.]

[image: a digitally drawn comic. in the top two panels, a teenage couple sit together; the girl hugs the other teen from behind, then leans in to kiss the back of their neck. in the bottom three panels, the couple are in a public bathroom, wearing different clothes. the girl approaches the other, who seems wary of her; she pulls on a lock of their hair.] [text: "I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend."]

[image: the cover of MXFORTUNE. a digital painting showing Flint and Mercer standing almost back to back, looking at each other distrustfully over their shoulders. Mercer holds a pale blue witchlight in his hand. Flint's fluffy hair hides one of their eyes, but the other is bright yellow with a slit pupil.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jul 3

apparently my idea of "moody bullshit" is just purple, lol, but here's a couple recentish samples!

[image: a digital illustration of a Jasper, a demon. One of his horns is broken, the wound going down the side of his face like a crack in stone. Abstract hands reach toward him in the background.]

[image: an ink drawing, colored digitally, of a vampire woman sitting on a fancy old chair with a fledgling vamping kneeling at her feet, leaning on her thigh. his bloody tears mix with the blood around his mouth. he looks down in horror at the corpse of a woman lying in front of them, her neck bitten.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jul 3

Aaaand last, grownups. TSFC: confirmed lesbian Alice! the silent movie stuff is neat. BS: great worldbuilding, Serapio's fascinating, queuing up the sequel now. HALS: very interesting playscript! gotta read more about these two. LOSERS: had my doubts but i love how obsessed with each other they are.

[image: cover of the book The Star from Calcutta: A Mystery of 1920s India by Sujata Massey. the illustration shows a woman posing with a bloody sword, her skirt swirling out around her. there's also a lounging tiger and a background image of two people walking toward an archway.]

[image: cover of the book Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. the cover evokes an eclipse, with a sliver of sunlight showing around dark circles, with a composite image of a crow emerging from the bottom half of a human face.]

[image: cover of the play Heartlines: a Love Story by Sarah Waisvisz. the cover shows two side-by-side photos by Claude Cahun, one of Cahun and one of Marcel Moore, both posing with the same mirror.]

[image: cover of the book Losers: Part One by Harley Laroux. the image is one half of a purple heart surrounded by thorny vines, rendered in a kind of graphic tattoo-ish style. the page edges are purple with golden thorn vines.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jul 3

YA and GNs! 📚👍 MW: i'm a sucker for skateboard stories, loved this a lot! DLIBYH: reminded me of reading my forever fav @hannahmosk.bsky.social. messy, fun dynamics. TOS: great intros to lots of trans artists!! some really lovely vignettes. BLM: ugh, my emotions. obsessed with them.

[image: cover of the book Medicine Wheels by Byron Graves, author of Rez Ball. the tagline reads, "Ride, Crash, Rise." the illustration shows a Ojibwe teenager holding his skateboard, which has a medicine wheel on the underside. another medicine wheel, in a different orientation, appears in the background behind his head.]

[image: cover of the book Don't Let It Break Your Heart by Maggie Horne. the tagline reads, "She just met her dream girl. So did her ex-boyfriend." the illustration shows two teenages, one lying down while the other leans over to do her makeup. it is very reminiscent of the lesbian makeup meme. the colors are quite bisexual.]

[image: cover of the book The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics. the illustration shows three cartoon characters in the trans pride colors peeking out from under a trans flag umbrella at a rainbow in the sky. they are in a butterfly garden, with each butterfly sporting different pride flag colors.]

[image: cover of the manga BL Metamorphosis by Kaori Tsurutani. the illustration shows an elderly woman and a teenage girl sharing tea on the porch of a traditional Japanese house, looking out at the garden.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jul 3

queerness? in my middle grade? it's more likely than you think! 📚👍 IAONV: really captures the grindset problem, especially for kids this age. 💚 when Vico Ortiz reads to me WOF: i just love the characters. and the worldbuilding. and- PB: very sweet, would be a great read-aloud OO: 🧡 too relatable 🧡

[image: cover of the book It's All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango. the illustration shows a brown-skinned girl with two long braids, holding up a fencing rapier so the blade rests against her forehead.]

[image: cover of the book Wings of Fire: The Poison Jungle by Tui T. Sutherland. the illustration shows a green dragon surrounded by jungle plants.]

[image: cover of the book Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate. the illustration shows a gray cat with a scar over her eye curled around a little teddy bear with an upturned face, who looks directly at the viewer.]

[Image: cover of the graphic novel Opting Out by Maia Kobabe and Swati "Lucky" Srikumar. The illustration shows a smiling brown-skinned kid dumping out a backpack with a sword, an eye bead, and plants mixed in with the school supplies.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jul 3

it's been One Month, time for a reading update! PBs first 📚👍 PWTMAH: great variety of poems perfectly paired with really sweet illustration! TAT: love the concept stringing the haikus together, beautifully done. SS: neat folktale adaption! BATU: Lita is a local fav at my library. always lovely 💜🦄

[image: cover of the book The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems, selected by Paul B. Janeczko and illustrated by Richard Jones. the cover illustration shows an adorable, somewhat wary-looking hedgehog against a background of wild plants.]

[image: cover of the book Today and Today, haiku by Issa, pictures by G. Brian Karas. the illustration shows two children in a field, a white kite on the ground nearby.

[image: cover of the book Subira Subira by Tololwa M. Mollel, illustrated by Linda Saport. the illustration shows a Black girl and a lion on a hilltop, the moon shining down above them. the girl leans over the lion's head, preparing to pluck one of his whiskers.]

[image: cover of the book Beatrix and the Unicorn by Lita Judge. the illustration shows a girl in medieval servant's garb kneeling on a chair to look closely at a tapestry depicting a white unicorn. flowers in the tapestry grow beyond the frame of the illustration.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 23

Sometimes a comic is just. Hyper relatable. (I literally only came out to my mother because I'd been accepted to Lambda, lol. That "I want to be published" panel hit maybe too hard.) Thank you @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and @luckyscomix.bsky.social, I know this will mean so much to so many kids!

[Image: photo of part of page 48 of Opting Out. The illustrations show Saachi reading a book about puberty. The last shown line of the book is: "what defines your gender expression? What makes you feel seen?" Saachi's dialogue follows: "Ugh, I don't know! What if I don't want to be seen? I want people to read my words, but not look at me. Is that a gender?"]

[Image: photo of page 245 of Opting Out. Saachi takes a poem from her notebook, considers it, and goes to give it to her family. Her dialogue reads: "I hope they don't hate it. I hope they don't misunderstand... Was this a terrible idea? (pause) I want to be published. Alicia said it was good. The magazine accepted it! Too late to turn back now."]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 22

i write lots of not-so-good parents, but actually all the MCs in HANDS ON MISERY have great dads. some of 'em are even alive! jasper is my favorite, despite his flaw of being biologically impelled to kill people. he would absolutely burn the world for flint, but luckily they're a good influence.

[image: digital drawing for Pride of Flint and Jasper. Flint has brown skin and dark, short hair; they're wearing clothes with the asexual and agender flag colors. Jasper has gold skin and eyes, a lot of blond hair, and horns; he's wearing a collar with a gay flag heart pendant and a shirt that reads "I heart my trans kid"]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 7

a little then-and-now fan art of one of my favorite villains of all time, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of a very formative #webcomic. truly this was the trans representation i craved in my youth: a murderous gay zombie.

[image: a digital drawing of Owen Wright from Maggot Boy. he is a zombie kid with bright red hair and dual-toned skin where the bottom half of his face and part of his hand have been replaced. he's wearing a leg brace and has one chipped front tooth. the words "Parker Jones did nothing wrong" are written in blood on the wall behind him, with a smiley face in one of the 'O's. he looks very annoyed and he's got a tiny word balloon that says, "Prick."]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 6

here's some art of my artists! #queerwriterschat

[image: digital drawing of a fat woman in overalls painting a large canvas; she reaches up over her head with a paint brush. she is painting a fat nude woman facing away from the viewer, posed as if she is dancing.]

[image: a pen-and-pencil drawing of two characters from MXFORTUNE. Quinn stands with xir arm protectively wrapped around Orion's shoulders. Orion is wearing a tarp as a cape. Quinn wears a sheer crop top with a print of upside-down crosses; xe has a number of tattoos and lots of jewelry.]

[image: a digital illustration of a woman standing in front of a collection of art supplies.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 6

the great thing about online epistolary is getting to come up with all the silly usernames, lol. also, speculating about who will survive is such a joy of being in fandom for an ongoing series. #queerwriterschat

[image: screencap of a word document. the writing is formatted as an online conversation between two people.]
[text: Cool_As_The_Hells
Totally understandable. I really like the new piece! That’s exactly how I pictured Farah’s mother. Their relationship got super interesting in the last book, but I haven’t seen anyone else draw her yet. I think a lot of our fan artists aren’t confident enough to draw older characters, all they know how to do is three variations on “hot & young.”
3FaithInFarah3
lol, maybe so. Thanks. I really loved the development of Shira, but I’m worried she’s gonna get killed off.
Cool_As_The_Hells
Oh damn, you think so? That would be brutal. Did I miss the foreshadowing on that one?
3FaithInFarah3
No, it’s more of a suspicion. I told the author how much I liked her and she gave me this pitying look.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 2

aaaand finally, problematic horny jail. HOI: cool worldbuilding, neat fucked up dynamics. AHLNO: i love this so much, there's something wrong with me. just all-in immediately. TH&HWCS: *really* dark hero, but also funny. i'm here for the delicious angst. HT: mafia romance with a disabled heroine!

[image: cover of the book Heir of Illusion, a Verran Isles Novel, by Madeline Taylor. tagline: "She is not the pet they tamed. She is the beast they let inside." the illustration shows two snakes twined over a frame of gold filigree overgrown with red ivy, and a couple splatters of blood.]

[image: cover of the book A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole. the illustration shows a woman with long tendrils of hair floating around her, a dark-haired man holding her from behind.]

[image: cover of the danmei The Husky & His White Cat Shizun Volume 1 by Rou Bao Bu Shi Rou. the illustration shows two beautiful Chinese men in the middle of a very aesthetic fight. one wields a sword, the other a golden willow branch whip.]

[image: cover of the book His Tesoro, from the Empire of Royals series by Emilia Rossi. the image features a very diamond-heavy tiara superimposed over what looks like a hydrangea bush with an extremely dark filter on it, with gold sparkles abounding.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 2

🎶one of these things is not like the others...🎶 HAIGTFD: great audiobook, love these kids, can't wait to talk about it at book club. PFK: married in vegas / toxic family shenanigans, pretty fun! MCHAS: this one's just silly, in a good way. THOHH: i got so scared i had to spoil the ending, lol.

[image: cover of the book Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar. the illustration shows two Bengali teenage girls hesitantly reaching toward each other, one looking at their hands, the other looking away.]

image: cover of the book Playing for Keeps by Lainey Davis. the illustration shows a man and woman lying in front of a hockey goal but the ice is pink for some reason. they're holding each other at a bit of a distance, but almost kissing.]

image: cover of the manga My Coworker Has a Secret by Mushiro. the illustration shows a man and a woman, facing each other but looking toward the viewer, each putting a "shh"ing finger against the other's lips.]

[image: cover of the book The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. the photo shows a big old house at a dutch angle with bare tree branches spreading across the frame. there's a very menacing filter on the photo, rendering the sky a golden yellow and the house orange, with dark shadows.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 2

more kidlit, not about death! 📚👍 AOAKF: a little dated, but very cute! i'm gonna read the rest. TMM: the love of creativity really shines in this. great poetry, ofc! PA: somehow never read the novels? so fun, adorable art! CMHANL: the diary format is really cool, great illustration, baby sapphics!

[image: cover of the book All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. the illustration shows five girls of various ages, all in matching dresses and aprons, holding books and smiling.]

[image: cover of the book The Mighty Macy by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kitt Thomas. the illustration shows a smiling Black girl who seems to be dancing in from of a backdrop of books and musical notes.]

[image: cover of the graphic novel Princess Academy by Shannon Hale and Victoria Ying. the illustration shows a girl with reddish braids, hugging a book to her chest. there is a grand house behind her, with mountain peaks in the distance.]

image: cover of the graphic novel Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dåsnes, translated by Matt Bagguley. the illustration shows a girl with headphones on walking down a path, with small groups of kids in the background, some of them seeming to look at her.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 2

next up, MGs about death! a genre unto itself. 📚👍 ATBITS: love a book that makes me cry in the car. DM: ugh, my heart. trans kids and cryptids are everything. TUFODF: make me feel emotions about mushrooms, why not. FL: classic girl-and-her-dog/grieving-family-finds-healing wholesomeness.

[image: cover of the book All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson. the illustration is done in a painterly collage style, with a Black girl looking into the distance against a backdrop of purple buildings and blue sky. the John Newbery Medal is stuck in the corner.]

[image: cover of the book Dear Mothman by Robin Gow. tagline: "The only one who understands might not even exist." the illustration shows a boy sitting in the grass writing in a journal, with a fuzzy red-eyed mothman appearing above him.]

image: cover of the book The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman. the illustration shows a fox wearing a monocle and coat, carrying a basket of mushroom. His whiskers and ear are bent. the Newbery Honor medal is stuck in the top corner.]

[image: cover of the book Finding Lost by Holly Goldberg Sloan. the illustration shows a girl sitting on a dock overlooking a river and bridge. she holds a little white dog in one arm. the "O" in "Lost" has a compass rose in it.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Jun 2

Time for a nice long reading update! PBs first 📚👍 TMOAM: very sweet, accessible text with informative backmatter. AC: relating a little too hard, as my new cat constantly runs away from me. sigh. TB: in this house we stan Mr. dePaola! SATBB: so cute, so creative, love how the fable's retold.

[image: cover of the picture book The Mother of a Movement: Jeanne Manford, Ally, Activist, and Co-Founder of PFLAG, written by Rob Sanders, illustrated by Sam Kalda. the illustration shows Jeanne Manford at a gay rights march, holding a sign and smiling, with her son and other marchers behind her.]

[image: cover of the picture book Arthur's Cat by Johan Leynaud, translated by Sarah Ardizzone. the illustration shows a simple drawing of a cat sitting up in a cat bed, with decorative elements surrounding the central image, including a food bowl and brushes.]

[image: cover of the picture book Tony's Bread by Tomie dePaola. the illustration shows Tony, a fat man in a chef's hat and apron, holding a loaf of bread on a paddle. his daughter, looking unhappy, peeks from the window above his shop.]

[image: cover of the picture book Simon and the Better Bone by Corey R. Tabor. the illustration shows a brown dog with a bone in his mouth, bowing to look into a pool where he can see his reflection. he's wagging his tail.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 30

last but not least, romances ❤️ LRPD: too adorable! perfect for Rachel Reid hangover. NCTM: dracula's actually sexy, maybe. (no.) DTBPF: library buddy loaned me this series, it is bonkers from start to finish. HTFIIS: new KJ Charles!! waiting for the house of cards to fall was deliciously painful

image: cover of the book Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey. illustration of a white guy in a hockey uniform and a Black guy in figure skates sitting on a bench; a service dog lies on the floor underneath. tagline: "Sometimes love is a slow burn, sometimes it's a dumpster fire."]

[image: cover of the book The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish Volume 4, by Xue Shan Fei Hu. illustration of two Chinese men in traditional, heavily ornamented clothes, sitting on a dock by a pond.]

[image: cover of the book How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles. illustration of two gentlemen in old-fashioned clothes, one in a bright green coat, the other in bright blue. they stand back-to-back with their hands clasped. the background is reminiscent of floral wallpaper. tagline: "Step 1: Don't fall in love."]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 30

real life (/adjacent)! WNITF: cool fictionalization of a heartening story. unfortunately very timely. read banned books!! FMW: i don't read many memoirs but i'm glad i did this one. deeply humanizing. TLB: libraries are wild, man. fascinating, both the fire and the wider LAPL history.

[image: cover of the graphic novel Wake Now in the Fire: a Story of Censorship, Action, Love, and Hope by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo. cover is split into two panels; above, a crowd of protesters shout and hold signs, while below, a girl lies in front of several stacks of books, reading.]

[image: cover of the memoir Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai. Malala, a young Pakistani woman dressed in pink, faces the viewer with her chin propped on her knuckles. the backdrop is a lovely painted scene of mountains and and flowers.]

[image: cover of the book The Library Book by Susan Orlean. evokes classic minimalist cloth covers, plain orangey-red with a double stripe gold border and gold lettering. a small golden flame separates the title text from the author.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 30

comics corner! 📚👍 TSHD: teen library started me on this. upsetting and fascinating. i'm obsessed. INBETWEENS: this is gonna be such great inspiration to young artists! CH: awesome worldbuilding! love the community focus. MGD: scratches the magical girl itch perfectly, love Shade.

[image: cover of the manga The Summer Hikaru Died Volume 1 by Mokumokurin. simple blue background with a Japanese teenage boy with white hair, wearing a school uniform and backpack. he's holding up a peace sign and smiling, but it's kind of a weird smile.]

[image: cover of the graphic novel Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks. two teenage girls are lying on the floor, surrounded by sheets of paper with sketches of little creatures, some of which are coming off the paper as if alive. One of the girls is drawing, the other holding up a bound sheath of paper and smiling. tagline: "Two artists. One dream. No idea what comes next."]

[image: cover of the graphic novel Clock Hands by Marieke Najkamp and Sylvia Bi. a glowing clock face floats above a medieval-Italian-looking cityscape. three kids stand or sit on the bottom lip of the clock, smiling.]

image: cover of the manga Magical Girl Dandelion Volume 1 by Kaeru Mizuho. a girl with yellow hair and a determined expressions wields a sparkly magical umbrella, while a gray shadowy figure looms over her, smirking.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 30

MG/YA time! 📚👍 HM: love this. funny, heartfelt, and relatable. WoF: once again, read like 4 in row, can't get the next until hoopla borrows renew in May, suffering. no spoilers but i LOVE [redacted], can't wait to see what they do about him OWSL: a beautiful gut punch. 2nd person POV's pretty neat!

[image: cover of the book Hail Mariam by Huda Al-Marashi. an Iraqi girl in a school uniform holds her textbooks and makes a wry expression. she is standing in front of a stained-glass window, with blue repeating patterns on the walls around it.Tagline: "The only Muslim girl in her Catholic school. Send prayers."]

[image: cover for the book Wings of Fire: Moon Rising by Tui T. Sutherland. a dark dragon with light scales by her eyes and under her wings flied through an open-air cavern surrounded by trees and stalagmites, two crescent moons visible in the sky above.]

[image: cover of the book Wings of Fire: Talons of Power by Tui T. Sutherland. a dragon covered in glowing bioluminescent markings splashes up out of the sea, mouth open.]

[image: cover of the book One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram. the title appears on a torn piece of paper, half typed and half hand-written. behind the paper scrap, the letter "F" is scrawled many times in overlapping orange and red.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 30

time for a reading roundup! strap in, i've read a lot of great books. PBs first! 📚👍 ZFE: love the multicultural community, so cool! DEE: @liantomato.bsky.social is too funny, idk what to tell you RUTHIE: the goofiest looking dog, i love him DON'T TRUST FISH: hilarious. perfect. don't trust fish.

[image: cover of the picture book Zamzam for Everyone: Sharing Water at Hajj, words by Razeena Omar Gutta, art by Bassent Dawoud. a smiling, brown-skinned hijabi girl holds a large purple water bottle in the foreground while a diverse crowd walks around the Kaaba behind her.]

[image: cover of the picture book Don't Eat Eustace by Lian Cho. a bear licks his lips while holding a colorful, worried-looking fish in a big stockpot. a lighthouse shines behind them, and the border around the central image includes cutlery, fishing poles, a quilt, and a heron and shark in the corners.]

[image: cover of the picture book Ruthie by Esmé Shapiro. a white thing that is ostensibly a dog smiles at the viewer, a big golden crown sitting askew on the big poof of fur on top of his head.]

[image: cover of the picture book Don't Trust Fish, written by Neil Sharpson, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat. the cover is very simple, taken up by the title text in large, bold all-caps. one green, listless looking fish sits between the words "trust" and "fish."]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 1

these last two i haven't quite finished yet, but i'm enjoying them both so much that i wanted to give them a shout. SAPLING CAGE has some of the coolest witches i've seen in a while, and FINE is pretty darn fascinating. thus we close another #transrightsreadathon, and i'm off to do my donating.

[image: cover of the book The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy. the illustration shows a skull inside an ornate silver cage with plants sprouting all around it.]

[image: cover of Fine: a Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing. the illustration shows a diverse crowd of people all around Rhea, who holds a notebook and pencil, looking unsure.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 1

a much lighter pick for #transrightsreadathon, wonderfully fun and silly. it's giving KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE energy, about which i never complain. i read this to fit my romance book club theme, secret identities, but i wasn't expecting to be so charmed by the MC and his lovely, quirky friend group.

[image: cover of the book And They Were Roommates by Page Powars. the illustrations shows two teenagers in school uniform, one pulling the other closer by his tie.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 1

next for #transrightsreadathon is a magical dark academia full of twists and turns. really neat body-swapping concept, and of course i love the ragtag criminal found family.

[image: cover of the novel Queen of Faces by Petra Lord. tagline: "A pawn dies. A queen rises." the illustration shows the bottom half of a face with a castle growing out of it, a small figure of a girl in a doorway at the bottom of the castle. the face is surrounded by waves and flowing hair, on which sits a butterfly. the illustration is blue and gold against a black, starry background.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 1

another #transrightsreadathon that'd been on my list awhile! my first McLemore, actually, which is kinda wild. the descriptions in this are so artistic, loved the way the magical realism tied into the characters' emotional journeys. also, always excited when @vico-ortiz.bsky.social is narrating.

[image: cover of the novel Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore. the illustration shows two Latinx teenagers standing chest-deep in a colorful lake with butterflies landing on them.]

Parker Goodreau@parkergoodreau· Apr 1

before #tdov is over, it's time for a #transrightsreadathon roundup! i've been meaning to read OLD WOUNDS forever, and it totally lived up to expectations. love the weird tension between the MCs and the complexity of their bond, love the horror movie tropes, love the mystery creature.