b'READING CORNERA GOOD READBooks with queer content are coming out fast and furious these days, providing lots of reading options to avid bibliophiles and casual readers alike. Each issue of QBiz highlights new releases celebrating LGBTQ+ content and authors. See below for this issues picks from HarperCollins!RUNNING DOWN A DREAM: THE ROMANCE RECIPE A LOVE STORY TO MY FAMILYBy Ruby BarrettBy Candy Palmater A fiery restaurant owner falls for her enigmatic An often funny, sometimes shocking and alwayshead chef in this charming, emotional powerful memoir about chasing your dreamsromance from LGBTQ+ author Ruby Barrett.and loving yourself from the late Candy Palmater.Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, On the surface, success looks easy. But everyone has a storyincluding hiring a former reality-show finalist withabout the highs, the lows, the moments of doubt, thegood connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes turning point when you listen to your gut and tune out allthat Sophies skills and celebrity status would bring her the people saying no. Candy Palmater has had some terrificrestaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning successshes been on the radio, she starred in a new TVto wane.show after hosting her own for five seasons, and she wasSophie just wants to cook. She doesnt want to a regular co-host on a popular morning program. But sheconstantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-also made mistakes and experienced failures while runningwater reality TV career, she doesnt want to deal with down her dream, and she shared her story so you can beAmys take-charge personality, and she doesnt wantinspired to chase down your own. to think about what her attraction to her bossWhile you may not be a queer Mikmaw lawyer- might mean.turned-comic raised by bikers in rural New BrunswickThen, an opportunity: a new foodie TV show might like Palmater, you will learn what she found we all haveprovide the exposure they need. An uneasy truce is fine in common: the need to embrace our failures and believefor starters, but making their dreams come true means in ourselves. For more than two decades, Candy travelledmaking some personal and painful sacrifices. And the world, speaking about the power of kindness, love andsoon, theres more than just the restaurant at stake.self-acceptance, and her message is captured here in herRuby Barrett is a romance writer based in Ottawa, first book. So prepare to be amazed, entertained and evenCanada. When she isnt writing steamy romances a little shocked at Candy Palmaters story. But you shouldabout big feelings, she can be found at the gym, lifting also be ready to be inspired, to be reminded how to loveheavy things and battling toxic masculinity one gym yourself and to look at your own life differently. bro at a time.28| QBiz CANADA | Issue 22022'