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Cell Block Tango, the Thriller Novel: Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

July 10, 2024 by Susan

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Rose Wilding’s Speak of the Devil is a thriller with a simple premise: seven women (three of them queer) had very good reasons to murder Jamie Spellman, but only one of them left his decapitated head in an abandoned hotel room. Which was it?Read More

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A Sapphic Marriage of Convenience Manga: I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Kodama Naoko

January 9, 2024 by Lesbrarians

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Machi has been going along with what other people want for as long as she can remember, but she’s so sick of her parents nagging her to find a husband that she’s ready to marry someone they’d hate to spite them. She wasn’t expectingRead More

the cover of Alone In Space
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Susan reviews Alone in Space by Tillie Walden

February 15, 2023 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Alone in Space is a collection of short comics and standalone pieces by Tillie Walden. Some of the pieces have already been released as graphic novels, so they might be familiar to you already. “The End of Summer” A royal family and their servants lock themselves away toRead More

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Susan reviews Above All Things by Roslyn Sinclair

October 12, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Above All Things is the second part of Roslyn Sinclair’s Carlyle series. Vivian and Jules have committed to each other, and now they have to find a way to stay committed to each other during upheavals at work, family drama, and the small matter of Vivian’s pregnancy. ToRead More

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Susan reviews Truth and Measure by Roslyn Sinclair

April 16, 2022 by Lesbrarians

If you’ve been in the Devil Wears Prada fandom at any point since 2013, you might be familiar with Truth and Measure as Telanu’s 200k epic post-canon Andy/Miranda fic – featuring Miranda’s nasty divorce, her surprise pregnancy, and Andy weaving herself into the heart of Miranda’s life. Or, you might know Truth and Measure asRead More

the cover of The Elusive Mr Vanderbridge
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Susan reviews The Elusive Mr Vanderbridge by Cat Parra, Erica Chan, and Zora Gilbert

February 15, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Clement Vanderbridge is acting suspiciously; he’s a well-known architect in prohibition-era New York and famously teetotal, but disappears every Friday night only to turn up smelling of alcohol and cigarettes. Fortunately, Stella Argyle and Flora Fontaine are on the case – reporters working for rival newspapers, competing for the scoop. Or, to put it anotherRead More

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Susan reviews My Alcoholic Escape From Reality by Nagata Kabi

November 10, 2021 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Nagata Kabi is back with My Alcoholic Escape From Reality! The mangaka behind My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary returns with another memoir, this time about being hospitalised for acute pacreatis resulting from her alcoholism. My Alcoholic Escape From Reality feels a lot moreRead More

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Susan reviews The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

February 10, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Olivia Waite’s The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows is the latest in the Feminine Pursuits series, and just like last time, I’m in love. The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows explores family, the perceived legitimacy of relationships, and the hazards of marriage through the trial ofRead More

Eve and Eve by Nagashiro Rouge
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Susan reviews Eve and Eve by Nagashiro Rouge

February 5, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I believe the entire summary I gave of Eve and Eve on GoodReads was “This is the level of weird horniness I usually find in m/m manga and I almost respect it for that.” The actual summary is that Eve and Eve is Nagashiro Rouge’s single-creator anthology ofRead More

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Susan reviews The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

July 8, 2020 by Danika Ellis

Olivia Waite’s The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics is a historical romance that revolves around two queer women creating a space for themselves in art and science. Lucy Muchelney’s lover has just married someone else, and her brother is trying to get her to give up on astronomy; her only recourse is to fling herselfRead More

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