Jeffrey Davies
@jeffreyreads.bsky.social
Professional introvert. Writer with imposter syndrome. Unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. 📚💭💅🏻
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In a new feature for my site, I got to speak with Bill Pentland, Roseanne Barr’s first husband, about his memoir One Degree of Separation. 📚📺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/11/19/b...
Bill Pentland on 50 Riotous Years as Mr. Roseanne Barr
Image courtesy of the author It’s a story most of us know well: the consequences of overnight success. Two decades into the 21st century, established stars are far more likely to discuss the price …
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November 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
In a new feature for my site, I got to speak with Bill Pentland, Roseanne Barr’s first husband, about his memoir One Degree of Separation. 📚📺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/11/19/b...
Had the pleasure of getting to speak with @robbyreads.bsky.social about his new book in a new feature for my site 🥰📚 jeffreyreads.com/2025/10/06/r...
Robby Weber on Leading With Queer Joy in YA
Image courtesy of the author “There is nothing wrong with you, and I hope you won’t lose sleep over close-minded people. Plenty of us are out here doing what we can to ensure our stories are told a…
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October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Had the pleasure of getting to speak with @robbyreads.bsky.social about his new book in a new feature for my site 🥰📚 jeffreyreads.com/2025/10/06/r...
My latest roundup of the best books I read this summer, including six 5-star reads, is up now. 📚🌤️ jeffreyreads.com/2025/09/17/t...
The Best Books I Read This Summer
It’s everyone’s favorite time of year: when we like to pretend cozy season is upon us, when in reality, it’s still hot as balls during the day and chilly at night. Which, I suppose, signals at the …
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September 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My latest roundup of the best books I read this summer, including six 5-star reads, is up now. 📚🌤️ jeffreyreads.com/2025/09/17/t...
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My lovely friend @tuckershaw.bsky.social agreed to let me pick his brain about his latest novel Right Beside You and so much more in a new feature interview for my site. 🌈📚 jeffreyreads.com/2025/09/15/t...
Tucker Shaw on the Shared Sense of Pride in Gay YA
Image courtesy of the author “Grief flares up when you don’t expect it, and sometimes survivor’s guilt feels more like survivor’s fury, or worse, survivor’s shame. You hope your bomb doesn’t explod…
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September 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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My lovely friend @tuckershaw.bsky.social agreed to let me pick his brain about his latest novel Right Beside You and so much more in a new feature interview for my site. 🌈📚 jeffreyreads.com/2025/09/15/t...
Tucker Shaw on the Shared Sense of Pride in Gay YA
Image courtesy of the author “Grief flares up when you don’t expect it, and sometimes survivor’s guilt feels more like survivor’s fury, or worse, survivor’s shame. You hope your bomb doesn’t explod…
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September 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My lovely friend @tuckershaw.bsky.social agreed to let me pick his brain about his latest novel Right Beside You and so much more in a new feature interview for my site. 🌈📚 jeffreyreads.com/2025/09/15/t...
For the latest edition of Self-Analysis Addict, I wrote about #SnowWhite and why its umpteen controversies were not the real reason it tanked. 🍎💫 jeffreyreads.com/2025/09/01/s...
‘Snow White’ Was Never Bad, We’re Just Broken Inside
Image courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Self-Analysis Addict is an essay series examining the pop culture, books, and music that have shaped me as a person.It should come as a surprise to absolutely …
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September 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
For the latest edition of Self-Analysis Addict, I wrote about #SnowWhite and why its umpteen controversies were not the real reason it tanked. 🍎💫 jeffreyreads.com/2025/09/01/s...
ICYMI — Self-Analysis Addict is a new essay series nobody asked for in which I overanalyze pop culture and myself 🎨
The second edition is about how stressful, life-threatening medical dramas put me at ease. 🩺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/07/18/m...
The second edition is about how stressful, life-threatening medical dramas put me at ease. 🩺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/07/18/m...
Medical Dramas Make Me Feel at Home in My Body
Images courtesy of Shondaland and Warner Bros. Television Self-Analysis Addict is an essay series examining the pop culture, books, and music that have shaped me as a person.A few weeks ago, I fini…
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July 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
ICYMI — Self-Analysis Addict is a new essay series nobody asked for in which I overanalyze pop culture and myself 🎨
The second edition is about how stressful, life-threatening medical dramas put me at ease. 🩺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/07/18/m...
The second edition is about how stressful, life-threatening medical dramas put me at ease. 🩺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/07/18/m...
I put my skills as a Disney Adult™️ to the test and ranked all 10 animated films from the Disney Renaissance, the list I was born to write. 🍿🎞️ jeffreyreads.com/2025/07/16/e...
Every Disney Renaissance Animated Film, Ranked
Images courtesy of Walt Disney Animation Studios A few months ago, I was dealing with a death in the family that threw everyone for a loop, causing everyday life to feel dysregulated for a bit. Wit…
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July 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I put my skills as a Disney Adult™️ to the test and ranked all 10 animated films from the Disney Renaissance, the list I was born to write. 🍿🎞️ jeffreyreads.com/2025/07/16/e...
Did you know that before she became the queen of angsty alt rock, Alanis was a failed Canadian pop star and her first two albums are almost impossible to find now? I wrote about it. 💿 spectrumculture.com/2025/06/30/r...
Rediscover: Alanis Morissette: Alanis - Spectrum Culture
To listen to Morissette’s earlier recordings is to discover a stark contrast to the Alanis Morissette the entire living world would come to revere just a few years later.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Did you know that before she became the queen of angsty alt rock, Alanis was a failed Canadian pop star and her first two albums are almost impossible to find now? I wrote about it. 💿 spectrumculture.com/2025/06/30/r...
Introducing Self-Analysis Addict, an essay series on my site examining the pop culture, books, and music that have shaped the trainwreck you know and love. 💖
The first edition is dedicated to #TheBradyBunch and how it taught me that gender is performative. 📺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/06/30/t...
The first edition is dedicated to #TheBradyBunch and how it taught me that gender is performative. 📺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/06/30/t...
‘The Brady Bunch’ Taught Me That Gender is a Performance
Image courtesy of CBS Television Distribution Self-Analysis Addict is an essay series examining the pop culture, books, and music that have shaped me as a person.To have known me between the ages o…
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June 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Introducing Self-Analysis Addict, an essay series on my site examining the pop culture, books, and music that have shaped the trainwreck you know and love. 💖
The first edition is dedicated to #TheBradyBunch and how it taught me that gender is performative. 📺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/06/30/t...
The first edition is dedicated to #TheBradyBunch and how it taught me that gender is performative. 📺 jeffreyreads.com/2025/06/30/t...
Hot take: Glee hasn’t aged as badly as everyone says. 💃🏻
I wrote something new for @huffpost.com about my journey rewatching Glee for the first time since it aired and how unexpectedly healing it was. 📺🌈 www.huffpost.com/entry/glee-r...
I wrote something new for @huffpost.com about my journey rewatching Glee for the first time since it aired and how unexpectedly healing it was. 📺🌈 www.huffpost.com/entry/glee-r...
'Glee' Made Me So Angry As A Teen. It Took Me Until Now To Realize Who I Was Really Mad At.
Though the Ryan Murphy series ended 10 years ago, I'm still learning lessons from it.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hot take: Glee hasn’t aged as badly as everyone says. 💃🏻
I wrote something new for @huffpost.com about my journey rewatching Glee for the first time since it aired and how unexpectedly healing it was. 📺🌈 www.huffpost.com/entry/glee-r...
I wrote something new for @huffpost.com about my journey rewatching Glee for the first time since it aired and how unexpectedly healing it was. 📺🌈 www.huffpost.com/entry/glee-r...
The lengthening of daylight each day is about to reach its peak… which means it’s about time for a new roundup of the best books I read this spring. 🌷📚 jeffreyreads.com/2025/06/18/t...
The Best Books I Read This Spring
It’s just about that time of year where the lengthening of daylight each day reaches its peak, which means it’s about time for a new edition of The Best Books I Read This Season. I’m thrilled to re…
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June 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The lengthening of daylight each day is about to reach its peak… which means it’s about time for a new roundup of the best books I read this spring. 🌷📚 jeffreyreads.com/2025/06/18/t...
On his first solo effort in 14 years, Joe Jonas is laid back and grown-up, but not afraid to confront himself. Read my review. spectrumculture.com/2025/06/03/j...
Joe Jonas: Music for People Who Believe in Love - Spectrum Culture
On his first solo effort in 14 years, Joe Jonas is laid back and grown-up, but not afraid to confront himself.
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June 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
On his first solo effort in 14 years, Joe Jonas is laid back and grown-up, but not afraid to confront himself. Read my review. spectrumculture.com/2025/06/03/j...
I got to write a piece for a series that CBC Arts is doing called Emerging Queer Voices. It’s about my double life as a daytime soap opera fan when I was a teenager. 🌈📺 www.cbc.ca/arts/emergin...
As a closeted gay teen, daytime soap operas helped me create myself | CBC Arts
Jeffrey Davies writes about how The Young and the Restless was a refuge for his young, restless self.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I got to write a piece for a series that CBC Arts is doing called Emerging Queer Voices. It’s about my double life as a daytime soap opera fan when I was a teenager. 🌈📺 www.cbc.ca/arts/emergin...
Who doesn’t love a comfy cozy romance but make it queer? Check out my latest for @bookriot.bsky.social. 🌈📚 bookriot.com/lgbtq-romanc...
6 LGBTQ+ Romantic Books Set in Small Towns
These queer small town romances break down heteronormative barriers while also being cozy, dependable, and comfortably predictable.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Who doesn’t love a comfy cozy romance but make it queer? Check out my latest for @bookriot.bsky.social. 🌈📚 bookriot.com/lgbtq-romanc...
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Novelist: It was a queer and sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and i didn't know what I was doing in New York.
Novelist: It was a queer and sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and i didn't know what I was doing in New York.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Novelist: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Novelist: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Novelist: It was a dark and stormy night—
Novelist: It was a dark and stormy night—
May 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Novelist: It was a queer and sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and i didn't know what I was doing in New York.
Novelist: It was a queer and sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and i didn't know what I was doing in New York.
I got to write about my beloved #OrphanBlack for @reactorsff.bsky.social and why it’s a show we should all still be watching in 2025! 🧬👇🏻
Orphan Black is a brilliant show about identity, autonomy, and fighting for yourself and others. @jeffreyreads.bsky.social explains why it's become his go-to comfort watch–right now, more than ever:
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Orphan Black Is My Ultimate Comfort Rewatch for Dark Times - Reactor
The joys and heartbreak of Clone Club resonate now more than ever...
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May 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I got to write about my beloved #OrphanBlack for @reactorsff.bsky.social and why it’s a show we should all still be watching in 2025! 🧬👇🏻
Happy pub day to my beautiful and talented friend @allielarkinwrites.bsky.social 🩵📚 Buy HOME OF THE AMERICAN CIRCUS from your favorite indie bookstore or request it from your local library! 🏡
May 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy pub day to my beautiful and talented friend @allielarkinwrites.bsky.social 🩵📚 Buy HOME OF THE AMERICAN CIRCUS from your favorite indie bookstore or request it from your local library! 🏡
Yes, my car is a time machine to the early ‘00s, thank you for asking 💿😌
May 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yes, my car is a time machine to the early ‘00s, thank you for asking 💿😌
Took myself vinyl shopping today as a treat for finishing the first draft of ✨ something ✨ and ended up spending $169 anyway 10/10 would recommend 💿✍🏻
May 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Took myself vinyl shopping today as a treat for finishing the first draft of ✨ something ✨ and ended up spending $169 anyway 10/10 would recommend 💿✍🏻
Find me a queer person WITHOUT a nerdy hobby… Check out my latest for @bookriot.bsky.social. 🤓📚 bookriot.com/6-queer-ya-b...
6 Queer YA Books About Nerdy Hobbies
These nerdy YA books see characters finding themselves through comics, cosplay competitions, and even a henna war.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Find me a queer person WITHOUT a nerdy hobby… Check out my latest for @bookriot.bsky.social. 🤓📚 bookriot.com/6-queer-ya-b...
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carving YIKES into the leather seats
Carrie Underwood will perform at Trump’s inauguration, Fox News reports.
She will perform ‘America the Beautiful.’
She will perform ‘America the Beautiful.’
January 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
carving YIKES into the leather seats
*in the theatre watching #Wicked while Jonathan Bailey is dancing on top of books*
Mom: Are you okay? They’re abusing the books
Me: When you’re as beautiful as him, you can do whatever you want to the books
Mom: Are you okay? They’re abusing the books
Me: When you’re as beautiful as him, you can do whatever you want to the books
November 28, 2024 at 4:56 PM
*in the theatre watching #Wicked while Jonathan Bailey is dancing on top of books*
Mom: Are you okay? They’re abusing the books
Me: When you’re as beautiful as him, you can do whatever you want to the books
Mom: Are you okay? They’re abusing the books
Me: When you’re as beautiful as him, you can do whatever you want to the books
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queer joy, sure, sure, but also queer ennui, queer failure, queer spite, queer rage, queer awkwardness, queer sleepiness, queer hate, queer disobedience, queer use of massage oils, queer punctuation,
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 AM
queer joy, sure, sure, but also queer ennui, queer failure, queer spite, queer rage, queer awkwardness, queer sleepiness, queer hate, queer disobedience, queer use of massage oils, queer punctuation,
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This is my bookstore, Phoenix Books in Montreal. Show her some love. 🖤
November 21, 2024 at 11:11 PM
This is my bookstore, Phoenix Books in Montreal. Show her some love. 🖤