Link Round Up: August 30 – September 16

a collage of 16 covers of the books mentioned in the links below, with the text “Lesbrary Links: Bi and Lesbian Books, August 30 - September 16

This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!

Batwoman Elegy   As I Descended by Robin Talley cover   Working It Out: A Lesbian Relationship Primer by Frances S. Fuchs   Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust cover   The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

Autostraddle posted The Ultimate Batwoman Comic Book Reading List and 8 Self-Help Books about Lesbian Relationships.

Book Riot posted 14 LGBT Retellings of Classics.

Lambda Literary posted New in September: Sarah Schulman, Gengoroh Tagame, Olivia Laing, and Eileen Myles.

LGBTQ Reads posted Queer SFF Novels for Under $5!

Ylva Publishing posted Is Lesbian Fiction Ageist? Where Are the Older Women in Lesbian Fiction?

Princess Princess Ever After cover   All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell cover   As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gilman cover   Against Memoir by Michelle Tea cover   Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn cover

Kate Christie posted Queer Mama Book Recs.

Michelle Tea on Archiving Queer History that Is Often Erased.

“10 Great Reads From the Feminist Lesbian Sci-Fi Boom of the 1970s” was posted at LitHub.

“The Journey and History of Yuri, Part 1” was posted at Rai’s Anime Blog.

“don’t blame readers [for not buying f/f romance]” was posted at the feminist librarian.

“A Reading List of Queer Romances in Historical Fiction” was posted at Electric Lit.

   Falling in Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson cover   Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life by Dianna Hunter cover   Pretend We Live Here by Genevieve Hudson cover   Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles was reviewed at The Rumpus.

Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson was reviewed at Black Lesbian Literary Collective.

Wild Mares by Dianna Hunter was reviewed at Autostraddle.

Pretend We Live Here by Genevieve Hudson was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

A Proper Cuppa Tea by K.G. MacGregor was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Tailor Made by Yolanda Wallace was reviewed at Lesbian Reading Room.

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