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questionSapphic book recs for a teen around 15 years old?
I have a second cousin who's about 15. We don't know each other very well. Her family has recently moved closer, so I'll be seeing her and her siblings more often. I'd like to get them all something for Christmas. The rest are young enough that it's pretty easy, but it's a bit harder for the almost-15-year-old. I do know that she likes to read. Within the past couple years she's pretty much totally abandoned femininity, and when I visited them last month, there was a little rainbow flag in her room, and she kept staring at me and my girlfriend with a weird little look on her face. Anyway, for these and some other reasons, I suspect she may be interested in girls. I want to get her a lightly sapphic book, but I'm drawing a blank. Obviously, it shouldn't have TRA nonsense, and I'd prefer there was some depth besides romance, and preferably not too sexual since she does have younger siblings. She also didn't grow up speaking English, though she's pretty good now, so if it's a couple years 'younger', I think that's okay.
Any suggestions? I was obsessed with gay YA romances around that age, but it was basically all gay boys, and most of them were pretty heavy on proto-TRA themes. Even then, I did try to find books about women, but none of them stuck with me enough that I'd remember them.
So far there's two books on my list: Leah on the Offbeat (haven't read this one, but I loved Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda by the same author) Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (I feel like one of the characters is gay? This might just be a figment of my imagination. Been years since I've read it)
Please help!
So beautiful and perfect-looking.
Thank you! I am happy that at least some of the hyacinths weren't completely destroyed.
Some of our hyacinths were destroyed by mice, but some survived. Also, I put the flair "I grew it", but actually it was my partner who grew it. In our family when it comes to plants- my partner does all the planting and potting, I only do the watering.
I love hyacinths!!
Me too! I especially love that you can first buy already blooming one in a tiny pot and then after the flower dies put the bulb into the soil
i'm wondering if planting mint as a deterrent could be helpful for next year -- i know rats hate it, mice may be similar. absolutely beautiful colour.
Yeah, people have recommend that under my previous post - so we definitely gonna try that. Although, I have read comments under someone's post about rabbits and somebody said that mint is very invasive. So I guess, we'll have to do some more research on that.
It is very true mint is invasive--we've struggled for years to keep it under control.
it can be invasive, you're right. that's something i worry about in my garden as i live somewhere with a huge weed/feral plant problem, but i didn't think about it when i suggested it. i grow spearmint -- when it doesn't get a lot of water and isn't pruned it does die off and seems to contain itself to about a 1 metre area. however i do live in quite arid conditions. otherwise putting it in pots and monitoring it closely could be an idea. :)
Hyacinths are lovely ☺️ Too bad with the mice :/ we also have a mouse problem in our kitchen garden, and the cats just aren't helping... So, next step is traps with seeds. I don't know what else to do.